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__label__cc	0.512506	0.487494	Home Sections Motors The All new Volvo XC60 The All new Volvo XC60 A beautiful, luxurious SUV in an affordable range. Motorcity BSC, the sole distributor of Volvo in the Kingdom of Bahrain, launched the all-new Volvo XC60 at an event held at the Capital Club in Manama. The new car is a major upgrade from the highly successful previous model, which in the nine years since its launch, has sold nearly a million units globally, and today represents around 30% of Volvo’s total global sales. The all-new XC60, which was revealed at the Geneva Motor Show, banks on Volvo’s heritage of designing stylish and dynamic SUVs, with an exterior sculpted with subtle, timeless elegance and a masterful interior of well-resolved architecture, beautiful materials and the very latest technology. The interior has the airy, crisp, blond-wood feel that gives the car a tastefully luxurious quality. Outside, a long bonnet, muscular wheel arches, and short overhangs create a sense of refined strength. The net effect is a sleeker profile. Some of the most notable improvements include a state-of-the-art infotainment system and more legroom for rear-seat passengers. This is a car that’s built for comfort and it shows, this is a very comfortable car to drive. Turbo and Supercharged The five-passenger compact SUV is offered in three main trim levels: Momentum, Inscription, and R-Design, which are further differentiated by two engine choices: T5 and T6. T5 is powered by a turbocharged four-cylinder engine that produces 254 horsepower, while the T6 receives a supercharger in addition to the turbocharger for a power increase to 320 hp. Even the base model–Momentum is well-equipped. It includes leather, a panoramic sunroof and LED taillights and headlights. The R-Design boasts of sports seats upholstered in leather and micro-suede, metal mesh interior trim, a gloss-black grille and matte silver mirror caps and window trim. The top spec model–Inscription has a hands free tailgate, driftwood interior trim and more exterior chrome. With a turbocharged and supercharged engine, the XC60 offers performance equivalent to six and even eight-cylinder powerhouses. Tech Superior The gamut of technology helps drivers navigate the world with ease and confidence. The new safety features include an updated City Safety technology with steering support which guides your car to avoid obstacles, a newly added Oncoming Lane Mitigation system that ensures drivers don’t wander out of their lane, and an optional Blind Spot Information System which will alert you if there is something in the driver’s blind spot. In addition, you can control the XC60 from your phone with Volvo On-Call, wherever you are in the world. You can also check fuel levels, lock and unlock your car and pre-heat or cool the cabin. It’s the easy way to stay in control. The XC60 is a car where many small but important details have been considered, and there have been serious attempts to do those little details right. The overall package is a very well-crafted and capable vehicle, well-suited for the job it will do and the people it will serve. For more information on the Volvo XC60, visit Motorcity Sitra, call 17736222 or search volvoxc60 Previous articleOPINION: Trump builds a friendship with Kuwait that helps America Next articleVision 2030: Why Saudi Arabia’s reform changes make investors nervous bribin	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526784
__label__cc	0.600538	0.399462	TRIUMPH & TRIBULATION IN THE SCORCHING BARCELONA HEAT ‘Blistering’ was the word of the weekend for GWS Motorsport, as the team set a scorching pace at the searingly hot 24H Barcelona, only for sweltering temperatures to impact their race performance. The 5-strong team of principal Glenn Sherwood, Jamie Stanley, Adam Knight, Adam Balon and new recruit Ben Clucas were on top form at the start of the weekend, steering the Hankook-backed Lotus Evora GT4 to SP3 class pole. That impressive form continued into race day, with Stanley building a commanding lead over the rest of the SP3 field when he took the first stint of the 24-hour race. In fact, Stanley edged such a gap that he was able to hand over the car to Knight after 95 minutes and the team still emerge in front. Even in the early part of the race, sweltering conditions were causing problems for several cars on the grid, with many drivers claiming the 24H Barcelona to be the hottest race they have ever contested. The rising mercury also began to impact GWS Motorsport's Evora. The temperature soared so high in the first few hours that it affected some of the car’s electrical fuses, which led to the fuel pump fuse blowing and the car stopping out on track. While the team was able to repair the problem and get going again, the time it took to be towed back to the garage and sort the issue cost them several laps. To add to the challenge, the Evora’s fuel pump fuse malfunctioned for a second time not long after it re-started, dropping GWS Motorsport 12 laps off the SP3 class lead. Undeterred, the team set about bringing this gap down, with Clucas driving a storming first stint to bring the Evora back in touch with the front of the field. He then handed over to Balon, who continued to reel in the other SP3 class cars. As dusk fell, Stanley took the helm again for his second stint, bringing the Evora back up to 6th, feeling confident that GWS Motorsport could still challenge for a podium. However, this ambition was not to be, as after eight hours of racing in the burning Barcelona heat, a snapped drive shaft caused considerable damage to the car – most notably punching a hole in the gearbox – which brought the team’s bid for victory to an early close. “We went to Barcelona with the intention to win and we had the pace to do it, so it’s a shame the heat and its related technical problems got in our way,” concluded Stanley. “We’ve got a lot to be positive about though, in terms of the pace we set in the early part of the weekend and the performance we know we’re capable of achieving.” “In motorsport you have to take the rough with the smooth, so we’re remaining pragmatic about this weekend’s result,” added Sherwood. “The team did a fantastic job in extreme heat.” “You never quite know what’s going to happen in a 24-hour race and Barcelona wasn’t our day. I’d like to thank Hankook for their support, and the pace we had in practice and qualifying really gives me confidence about the results we can achieve going forward.”	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526785
__label__cc	0.737979	0.262021	First Year & Common Reading Get recommended reads, deals, and more from Hachette Go See the Principal True Tales from the School Trenches by Gerry Brooks From an elementary school principal and popular YouTube personality, inspiration and humor for educators to tackle the challenges they face day-in and day-out Gerry Brooks is an elementary school principal turned YouTube celebrity who entertains K-12 teachers, administrators, and parents across the country. He tells jokes with the kind of mocking humor that gets a laugh, yet can be safely shared in school. After all, even great schools have bad days — when lesson plans fall through, disgruntled parents complain, kids throw temper tantrums because they have to use the same spoon for their applesauce and mashed potatoes, and of course, dealing with…The Horror! The Horror!…dreaded assessments. Ranging from practical topics like social media use in the classroom and parent-teacher conferences to more lighthearted sections such as “Pickup and Dropoff: An Exercise in Humanity” and “School Supplies: Yes, We Really Need All That Stuff,” Go See the Principal offers comic relief, inspiration, and advice to those who need it the most. Genre: Nonfiction / Education / Administration / Elementary & Secondary On Sale: April 30th 2019 Excerpt from Go See the Principal: True Tales from the School Trenches TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA: A Double-Edged Sword I hate social media. I know. I know exactly what you’re thinking: how hypocritical. And it is. Social media has been a tremendous blessing in my life. Without it, I wouldn’t have this platform. I wouldn’t have been able to meet and hear from so many great educators and to express my support of educational issues. However, I can’t ignore how detrimental social media can be to a teacher, classroom, grade level, and school. Social media needs to be used correctly and it also needs to be monitored regularly—for kids and for teachers. Here’s one example of when social media + schools can be positive: anytime you can use it to quickly communicate with school parents. We use newsletters, Facebook, websites, school apps, and mass calling systems to get the word out about fundraisers, theme days, athletic events, and days off. However, a variety of communication methods is key—not every parent has a computer or smartphone, which is why we don’t want to rely solely on, say, Facebook. Many teachers do have Facebook pages for their classrooms, which can be a fantastic way to share photos and stories from the school day, but the school needs to monitor those pages closely. There’s nothing wrong with a post captioned “Here was our class party” or “Here’s a child who dressed up as Harriet Tubman who did such a good job on her book report.” But you need parent permission to post pictures of their kids online. Also, keeping that Facebook page means the added responsibility of monitoring comments, which may be more responsibility than overworked teachers need. Otherwise, anytime a parent complains on Facebook, he or she is now complaining to all 25 parents. You may have two or three jump on the bandwagon and the teacher feels absolutely horrible. A post as simple as, “Gosh, there was a lot of homework tonight” can open the door to other complaints from parents. And as we all know, when you’re behind a computer it’s easy to misread statements as negative. It’s kind of like driving: when you’re in the car, you’re more apt to be negative about other drivers than you would if you were face to face with that person. On social media, there’s always one parent who will chime in with something negative. I highly suggest if you have a social media page for your classroom that you shut off comments or set the page so comments need to be approved before publishing. I have called parents about negative Facebook posts. I’m careful not to dress them down or demand that they delete their posts, but instead to say, “I’m so sorry we’ve put you in the position where you feel like you can’t come directly to us. If you have a concern, please come to me.” This always works—I don’t aim to make them feel bad, but I can tell they’re thinking, “Why in the world didn’t I just call the school?” or, more likely, “Why didn’t I just keep that to myself?” I find that parents will say that they were frustrated with the situation and didn’t realize how negative it sounded. They just thought they were talking to their friends and didn’t think of how the school or the teacher would take the comment. Ninety-nine percent of our parents want positive relationships with one another and the school because they see the need to work together. There’s always going to be that 1 percent who will rip you apart, but the bottom line is you will never change that person. Sometimes you just need to let it go. A major frustration with social media is when it involves parents who listened to their children and took them at their word rather than following up with the teacher when something might sound unreasonable or silly. I had a parent post on Facebook, “How stupid is it that the school has a new rule that kids can’t run on the playground during recess. Isn’t that what recess is for?” This caused several other jerky parents (that’s right, I said it) to chime in with what they considered to be stupid rules. I called the mother and asked where in the world she got that information and she explained that her daughter told her they weren’t allowed to run on the playground. I explained that the students were welcome to run on the playground except in the mulch area (this is the area where we ground our playground equipment) because it’s often congested with students and there are lots of poles and pieces of equipment they can run into if they aren’t paying attention or trip over while running. The parent completely understood the need for that rule when I spoke to her, but unfortunately, she caused a negative situation by assuming the information her child gave her was true, even though it was ridiculous. There are times, of course, when teachers don’t think social media through well—like when they friend parents, which gives the parents access to their lives in a way that might not be so smart. Sometimes a teacher will call in sick and then parents see a photo of her at a concert or basketball game and ask us, “Why is she gone, yet on Facebook, we see she’s somewhere else today?” (The bigger lesson here, of course, isn’t just about teachers friending parents online, but also common sense and honesty.) We’ve also had issues when teachers post pictures of parents that they’re dating, which isn’t wise in several ways. It’s unprofessional to date your classroom parent. Obviously, that’s your personal life, but when you post on social media for the world to see that you’re in a relationship with Billy’s mom and Billy wins a science fair, parents will say, “Billy’s getting special treatment because Mr. Smith is dating his mom.” Parents need to be more alert than anybody when it comes to technology and social media. I’m leery when kids get phones at a young age—I see children as young as second grade texting their friends. A lot of parents feel their kids need a phone because they want to know where their children are after school, but just know that when you give child a smartphone, you’re opening him up to social media. You may say, “My child will never do this or that with her phone,” but children are smart, and they will do whatever they want to do when it comes to social media if they’ve got a smartphone. However, I understand that social media is a form of socialization for kids. That’s how they communicate right now. Keep in mind that their group text, Snapchat, or Instagram is their version of hanging out at the drive-in or whatever you did at their age. My advice? Prolong your child’s phone-free life for as long as possible. I went through this with my brother and sister-in-law. They were stressing because my sixth-grade nephew wanted a phone. A part of me thought, “Yes, he should have one for socialization,” but another part of me was like, “Oh my gosh, you’re opening up a real can of worms.” And we saw it right away—suddenly, he’s a kid who’s got his phone at the dinner table and who’s upstairs in his room on his phone rather than down with the family. His parents did a great job of saying, “You can use your phone during these hours.” Monitor the phone, and know what apps are on there. Yes, it’s good to give kids a sense of privacy, but you absolutely need to know what YouTube channels they visit and what apps they use because there are people who use social media to prey on children—even if it’s not in a sexual way. I’ve had kids at school bring in their parents’ credit cards and buy swords and shields in online games, who get around filters to inappropriate sites. It’s just the nature of how intelligent children are, the things they think they can get away with, and the things they actually do get away with. I probably understand this stuff more than most principals and parents. I’ve taken down more than one video after realizing I’d uploaded some content that made people mad. One of the most popular videos I ever posted was called “Teacher Bumper Numbers,” which made fun of those 26.2 bumper stickers people put on their cars after they run marathons. The video suggested bumper sticker numbers for teachers, like how many minutes we get for lunch and how many minutes we get for the bathroom. The very last one was 4,162, representing the number of times people have said to me, “You get your summers off.” That video got picked up by a jogging influencer who has millions of viewers, and then it went through media outlets like Diply. Many comments from noneducators were rude, saying, for example, “You get paid plenty,” “You do get paid to not work over the summer,” “You knew what you were getting into,” and “Teachers make a lot more than mechanics.” It didn’t bother me, but it started to bother the teachers, and I didn’t want that, so I took it off Facebook—and I’ve taken other videos down for less. People will say, “That’s ridiculous, you took it down for one or two parents.” Well, I know what it’s like to be a parent and I wouldn’t want to feel offended by something my principal posted—unless it’s a humorous video about parents who never turn in a field trip form all year. If you’re offended by that, turn in your flipping field trip form. Before I put up a video, I screen it for several people like my best friend or teachers who might say, “Wow, that’s not going to go over well,” or “You know, you need to think about that.” I’m not afraid to put controversial stuff up, especially if it has to do with a lack of support for teachers, but I don’t want an argument between teachers and parents or teachers and noneducators. I also just don’t have time to monitor every one of the 3,000 comments I’ll get on a video, so if they’re heated, it’s just not worth it. When I put a new one up, I will usually spend about an hour monitoring the content to make sure it’s not too controversial, but that’s it. I don’t have much time to interact with the commenters because if you speak with one viewer, you have to speak with them all. My personal focus on social media is to put out videos, support teachers, and try to be funny. It’s not to monitor comments, comment back, or email. I understand how much time I have to put in as a principal and I don’t let social media in any way, shape, or form get in the way of that job.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526787
__label__wiki	0.902591	0.902591	• Food Hypersensitivity • Hypersensitivity • Anaphylaxis Immune-Targeted Treatment Might Help Prevent Peanut Allergy Crises MONDAY, April 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Allergic reactions to peanuts can be incredibly dangerous, causing the throat to close, the chest to tighten, and throw a person into life-threatening anaphylactic shock. But researchers now believe they've found a way to head off that immune reaction by blocking the antibodies that cause it. There appear to be two specific allergens in peanut proteins that produce the most violent reaction from the immune system, according to the study. A medication created to block the immune system from recognizing those allergens appeared to eliminate allergic reaction to peanuts in laboratory blood tests, researchers reported. "Antibodies will interact with our inhibitors, and our inhibitors will not trigger the allergic reaction, it will just block the antibodies," explained senior researcher Basar Bilgicer. He's an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering with the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. It has yet to be tested in human clinical trials, but the drug could be a step up from medications like the EpiPen and antihistamines, which only subdue symptoms once the reaction has started, Bilgicer said. Food allergies occur when a person's immune system recognizes the food as a potential threat to the body and overreacts in response. Science has started to examine how immune antibodies interact with food to produce these reactions, Bilgicer explained. In this case, Bilgicer and his research team took blood from 16 patients who are allergic to peanuts and started testing their antibodies to find which peanut allergens create the worst immune response. The researchers identified two allergens that appear to be the main culprits, and then created a drug that would attach to the parts of a person's allergy-specific antibodies that interact with peanuts. The new medication blocked allergic response in the blood of 14 of the 16 patients, researchers reported. "It's very specific and only blocks those antibodies that are responsible for the allergic reaction," Bilgicer said. "It doesn't interfere with any other immune system responses." The drug they've created could wind up as a pill or monthly injection people would take to ward off their peanut allergy, Bilgicer said. It also could be used to help patients receiving immunotherapy, which involves exposing them to small amounts of peanuts to gradually reduce their immune response. "Some patients are so allergic they are not eligible for undergoing immunotherapy," Bilgicer said. "Potentially, this could be used in combination with immunotherapy to desensitize those patients and get rid of the allergic condition for good." The study was published April 8 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Allergy experts called the new research "exciting." "Something like this, which seems to be going to where the problem occurs at the level of the recognition of the allergen, is an exciting thing," said Dr. Punita Ponda. She's assistant chief of allergy and immunology at Northwell Health in Great Neck, N.Y. But right now this has only been tested in the lab, and Ponda said the complexity of the human immune system could create unpredictable problems in clinical trials. For example, the immune system contains many redundancies, so blocking these specific immune receptors might cause the immune system to become more sensitive to other antigens in peanuts, Ponda said. "We have to wait and see," Ponda said. "I think what I'm saying is, it's exciting but let's not count our chickens before they're hatched." Dr. Edwin Kim, an assistant professor of medicine with the University of North Carolina, said he's curious how this approach might be used to help people with multiple food allergies. He's also interested in how the immune system would respond to such a therapy long-term. "Say you can successfully treat for a year," Kim said. "Is there some sort of feedback mechanism or something that tells the immune system, OK, look, nothing's happening, you can dial yourself down, and get a lasting effect that way? That would be pretty exciting to see." Bilgicer said his team is now looking for funding that would allow them to pursue clinical trials. The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology has more about food allergies. SOURCES: Basar Bilgicer, Ph.D., associate professor, chemical and bimolecular engineering, University of Notre Dame, Indiana; Punita Ponda, M.D., assistant chief, allergy and immunology, Northwell Health, Great Neck, N.Y.; Edwin Kim, M.D., assistant professor, medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; April 8, 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Therapeutics	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526792
__label__cc	0.650131	0.349869	Home Lessons Singing and Playing: "Dust My Broom" Singing and Playing: “Dust My Broom” Welcome to the Guitar Crash Course(2:51) Buying Your First Acoustic Buying Your First Electric Names of Parts Fretting Your First Notes How to Play a Bass Line Intro and Performance: “Dust My Broom” Intro and Performance: “Midnight Special” Intro and Performance: “Can the Circle Be Unbroken?” Bass Line: “Dust My Broom” Bass Line: “Midnight Special” Bass Line: “Can the Circle Be Unbroken?” How to Practice Playing Chords How To Read Chord Diagrams First Chords: A, D, and E Chord Playing Tips Practicing Chords: “Dust My Broom” Practicing Chords: “Midnight Special” Practicing Chords: “Can the Circle Be Unbroken?” Using a Pick How to Strum Strumming Pattern for “Dust My Broom” Strumming Pattern for “Midnight Special” Strumming Pattern for “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” Making Chord Changes While Strumming Changing Chords in “Dust My Broom” Changing Chords in “Midnight Special” Changing Chords in “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” Jam Video: Strumming “Dust My Broom” Jam Video: Strumming “Midnight Special” Jam Video: Strumming “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” Singing and Playing How to Multitask Using a Capo Singing and Playing: “Midnight Special” Singing and Playing: “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” Conclusion and Where Next? Jam Track Player All Slow Tracks All Full-Speed Tracks "Dust My Broom" Chart with Arrows - Printable PDF I. Finding a Good Key Robert Johnson originally recorded Dust My Broom in the key of E, but I changed the key of the song to the key of A for this course, so that the chords were a little easier, and so that the guys could more easily sing the high notes. Let’s check out where the low and high notes are in the song to see if you can hit them comfortably. The lowest note is an “A2”, which is found on the open 5th string of the guitar. You sing it on the word “broom” in the line, “I believe I’ll dust my broom.” Women, most of you are not going to be able to hit this, I’m afraid. But try singing it with me. The highest note is a “D4”, found on the 2nd string, 3rd fret. You sing it on the word “up” in the line, “I’m gonna call up China.” Guys, you’re going to need to put some oomph into it to hit this one. Try it with me. Singing Higher, Option 1: Go Up an Octave Pretty much everyone should be able to hit that high note, but women, a lot of you are not going to be able to hit the A2. But do not fear! The quickest and easiest way to fix this is to jump up a whole octave. This will get you singing the song a little higher than the Robert Johnson version. It sounds like this--bear with me, this is right at the top of my range: This would put your low note at A3, which is on the 3rd string, 2nd fret. And your high note is now a D5 on the 1st string, 10th fret--This takes us guys to the stratosphere with AC/DC and Rush and Aerosmith, but a lot of women are comfortable hitting that note. Singing Higher, Option 2: Capo Up So what if you’ve got a Goldilocks voice--the A2 is too low, but the D5 is too high. In that case, slap the capo on. Now this will mean that you can’t play along with my backing tracks--it’ll sound awful--so you may want to muddle through in the original key until you don’t need the backing tracks any longer. But once you’re ready, you should really find a good key for your voice. Here’s how you use the capo to do that. Start at Capo 1, and try playing those original low and high notes, but now relative to the capo instead of the nut. So play the open 5th string and try singing that, and 2nd string, 3rd fret (which is actually the 4th fret now, but it’s 3 frets up from the capo). Keep doing this, moving up fret by fret, until you find notes you can hit comfortably. II. Learn the Vocal Part Well Your next step is to learn the vocal part well by listening to the Jam Track several times, and once you’ve got it in your ear, try singing along. You’ll be surprised by how tricky it is to know when to come in, but the best way to learn these things is just to listen to the song a ton. And by a ton, I mean, if you’d never heard the song before taking this course, listen to it at least five times? Maybe ten? Play it in your car driving to school or work, or on your headphones when you’re waiting for the bus. I know, listening to me sing that much--pure torture, but it’ll be worth it, if it doesn’t kill you. 8o III. One Strum Per Measure, Slowly OK, now we’ll practice strumming just on Beat 1, called the Downbeat, while we sing. The downbeat is like landmark or milemarker that helps you navigate the rhythm of the singing. If you don’t know where that beat falls in relation to the singing, you’re lost. So we’re going to practice finding them, while eliminating pretty much everything else--We’re going to play slowly, and no busy strumming--just a single downstrum on the downbeat. You’ll see I’ve put red arrows on the chord chart where the downbeats fall. When there’s a chord change, the chord is actually located right over the lyrics where the downbeat falls, so instead of putting an arrow right over the chord name, I kept things more legible by angling them in from the side. There’s a link to the chart below, so print it out if you like. I’m going to play through the whole song. Follow along with me. Did you notice that all the vocal lines started before the chord change, and most of them ended right before a downbeat too? This is one of the big challenges of learning to strum and sing--vocal lines tend to be squirrely. They avoid the downbeat. It’d be so much easier if it went: “I believe, I believe I’ll go back home.” But if Robert Johnson had sung it like that, people probably would have told him, “Yeah, you should go home.” So feel free to rewind and sing along with me some more. Up next, we’ll strum once per beat instead of once per measure. [Pause Screen] IV. One Strum Per Beat, Slowly Now we’re going to add some difficulty--you’re going to be strumming downstrums once per beat instead of once per measure. This is gonna clarify the rhythm of the vocal line at a finer resolution--you’re going to see where every beat falls in relation to the singing. But we’ll keep a slow tempo, which will hopefully make those chord changes more manageable. Here we go. V. Full strum pattern, Slowly Now let’s bring in the full strum pattern. Remember this thing? D U D U D U D U w/Swing Feel Now accenting the backbeat might be a little much right now. If that’s the case, don’t sweat it, you can bring it in later. But I’ll accent, so that we don’t sound like March of the German Robots. ARE YOU READY?! VI. Full strum pattern to tempo Keep working on that until you’re ready to play at full tempo. When you are, you can just use one of the jam tracks provided. There are several jam track options, depending on whether you want to play and sing along with me, which is easier, or do it yourself, which is harder but probably more fun once you’re up for it. Have fun! How's it going? Are you loving the lesson? Confused? Have a suggestion? I'd love to hear from you. Please prove you're human and not a spam-robot (no offense)	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526794
__label__cc	0.736914	0.263086	The Heineken Story Back in 1873 a young entrepreneur named Gerard Heineken discovered a passion for brewing. So he purchased a piece of land in what is now the centre of Amsterdam, built a brewery and set about perfecting the recipe that would soon become Holland’s first ‘premium’ lager beer. Word quickly spread and the name Heineken, stamped onto every single bottle, became a national symbol of quality. Over the next 140 years his brewery expanded and Gerard’s children and grandchildren explored new worlds, but the name on the bottle always remained the same. Today, four generations later, they’re still passionate about brewing a truly premium beer. After all, when your family name is at stake, you care a little more. At the heart of Heineken’s success lie pure, natural ingredients: malted barley, water, hops and a small but significant extra called A-Yeast. Heineken’s unique A-Yeast is responsible for the rich balanced taste and subtle fruity notes that have distinguished every single Heineken since the 19th century. Over the years our master brewers continued to perfect their craft. We learned that fermenting our beer in horizontal tanks instead of the industry-standard vertical creates the perfect pressure for our A-Yeast. That’s what gives each Heineken its characteristic balanced, rich taste. We also learned that it takes 28 days to brew a beautiful golden-yellow beer. Sure, that’s much longer than average, but we prefer patience above compromising on quality. It’s been 140 years since Heineken has been able to call itself a microbrewer. And while we’re proud that 25 million Heineken’s are served each day across 192 countries, we’ve never forgotten that the quality is measured not in the size of your brand but in the purity of your beer. Even as we continue to open up to new worlds, Gerard’s uncompromised drive for quality and perfection still lives on in the Heineken family. Cheers!	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526795
__label__wiki	0.975943	0.975943	The Latest: Long poll lines delay Kansas election results WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) - The Latest on primaries in Missouri, Kansas, Michigan and Washington state and a congressional special election in Ohio (all times local): A Kansas official says long lines at polling places delayed election results in the state's most populous county as Gov. Jeff Colyer and Secretary of State Kris Kobach were locked in a tight race for the Republican nomination for governor. State elections director Bryan Caskey said Tuesday night that some polling places in Johnson County in the suburbs of Kansas City remained open until about 8 p.m. to accommodate people who were in line to vote when polls officially closed at 7 p.m. He says that led local officials to delay reporting their first results, from votes cast in advance. Johnson County has nearly 408,000 registered voters, or almost 23 percent of the state's total of 1.8 million. A black Ferguson city councilman leads longtime St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch in a contest some see as a referendum on McCulloch's handling of the investigation into Michael Brown's death. With the vote counted from nearly 90 percent of precincts, the county reported Wesley Bell leading the 67-year-old McCulloch by a 55 percent to 45 percent margin in Tuesday's Democratic primary. No Republicans are running for prosecutor. McCulloch, who is white, is seeking an eighth term. Bell is a 43-year-old attorney and former municipal judge and prosecutor. He was elected councilman in 2015 as protests raged over Brown's death. Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, died Aug. 9, 2014, in a street confrontation with white officer Darren Wilson. A St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict Wilson, who later resigned. Some critics accused McCulloch of skewing the investiga Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, died Aug. 9, 2014, in a street confrontation with white officer Darren Wilson. A St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict Wilson, who later resigned. Some critics accused McCulloch of skewing the investigation in favor of the officer. Democrat Danny O'Connor is trying to rally his supporters as he's locked in a close race with Republican Troy Balderson in Ohio's congressional special election. O'Connor says, "We're not stopping now." The candidates were locked in a razor-thin contest Tuesday night. There were at least 3,367 provisional ballots left to be reviewed. That's enough for O'Connor to potentially pick up enough votes to force a recount. The Associated Press does not declare winners in races subject to an automatic recount. Balderson, meanwhile, was celebrating, saying he's ready to get to work in Congress. He says, "America is on the right path and we're going to keep it going that way." The winner takes the seat previously held by Republican Pat Tiberi, who resigned in January to take another job. President Donald Trump is already taking credit for helping elect his favored candidate in a special House election in Ohio, though the race is too close to call. In a tweet Tuesday night, Trump declared "a great victory" for Republican Troy Balderson over Democrat Danny O'Connor. While Balderson has a slight lead, the race is close enough that there could be a mandatory recount. There are also at least 3,367 provisional ballots left to be reviewed. Trump says Balderson had been far behind in early voting before he hosted a rally for the candidate Saturday night in the suburban Columbus district. The president says that after his speech "there was a big turn for the better." Trump offered another prediction - that Balderson will "win BIG" in November's general election. Republican Susan Hutchison has gained a top-two finish in Washington state's primary to advance to the November general election. The former television newscaster and GOP state party chairwoman was finishing second in the voting in Tuesday's contest. Under Washington's primary system, the top two vote-getters go on to November, regardless of party. Hutchison is the former state Republican Party chairwoman. She is making a longshot bid to oust the Democratic incumbent, Sen. Maria Cantwell, who is seeking a fourth term. Sen. Maria Cantwell has advanced to the November ballot in Washington's primary election. The Democrat seeking her fourth term easily outpaced all other candidates. Under Washington's primary system, the top two vote-getters go on to November, regardless of party. Cantwell is Washington's junior senator and the ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Cantwell will likely face Republican Susan Hutchison in November. Hutchison is the former state Republican Party chairwoman. The last special election of the year for the U.S. House is too close to call. With election officials in Ohio done counting Tuesday night, Republican Troy Balderson has a slight lead over Democrat Danny O'Connor in the special election in the state's 12th Congressional District. But there are at least 3,367 provisional ballots left to be reviewed. That's enough for O'Connor to potentially pick up enough votes to force a mandatory recount. The Associated Press does not declare winners in races that go to an automatic recount. The race in suburban Columbus was one of the most-watched contests in Tuesday's primaries as O'Connor tried to pick up a seat long held by Republicans. The deadline has passed for turning in primary ballots in Washington, a vote-by-mail state. The contest getting the most attention is a U.S. House seat Democrats hope to capture in November for the first time since the district east of Seattle was created in 1980. Voters began receiving their state primary ballots in the mail weeks ago, and Tuesday was the last day to get them in or postmarked for mail delivery. In some of the more competitive races, results may not be known for days as most counties will update vote counts only once a day. In Washington's 8th District, Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert is retiring after more than a decade. Republican Dino Rossi, a former state senator, is expected to advance along with one of three Democrats. Missouri voters have rejected a right-to-work law banning mandatory union fees in workplace contracts. The vote Tuesday marked a major victory for unions, which poured millions of dollars into a campaign to defeat Proposition A. The right-to-work law originally was enacted in 2017 by Missouri's Republican-led Legislature and governor. But it never took effect, because unions gathered enough petition signatures to force a public referendum on it. Unions argued the measure would have led to lower wages, while business groups claimed it could have led to more jobs. Economic studies showed mixed and sometimes conflicting results. Twenty-seven other states have similar laws against compulsory union fees, including five Republican-led states that have acted since 2012 - Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Kentucky. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (KOH'-bahk) and Gov. Jeff Colyer are locked in a close Republican primary race for governor. Colyer and Kobach topped a seven-candidate GOP field in Tuesday's election. President Donald Trump tweeted a full endorsement of Kobach on Monday. Kobach is nationally known for advocating tough policies on illegal immigration and strict voter identification laws. He served as vice chairman of Trump's now-disbanded commission on election fraud after advising Trump's 2016 campaign and the White House. Colyer had endorsements from Kansas political icon Bob Dole and the National Rifle Association in his quest to remain in office after becoming governor in January. In the Democratic primary, state Sen. Laura Kelly of Topeka held a lead over former Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer and ex-Kansas Agriculture Secretary Joshua Svaty. A veteran Kansas legislator has won the Democratic primary for governor after stressing her Statehouse experience and fending off questions about her voting record. State Sen. Laura Kelly of Topeka defeated former Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, former Kansas Agriculture Secretary Joshua Svaty and two other candidates Tuesday. The 68-year-old Kelly has served 14 years in the Senate and is the top Democrat on the budget committee. She stressed those credentials in running and suggested that she was best able to fix problems created by Republican policies. She faced criticism from Svaty and Brewer for votes she made in representing a GOP-leaning district for looser gun laws and for some of the nation's toughest voter identification requirements. But she also had the backing of former two-term Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Detroit-area businessman and Iraq War veteran John James has won the Republican nomination to run against Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow this fall. James is a political newcomer endorsed by President Donald Trump. He defeated Sandy Pensler in Tuesday's primary. Stabenow is seeking a fourth Senate term and has easily fended off past challengers, but Trump's narrow 2016 victory in Michigan has the GOP hopeful it can flip the seat. The 37-year-old James is an executive at his family's automotive logistics companies and a West Point graduate who flew helicopters during the Iraq War. He is Michigan's first black Republican nominee for a major statewide office in more than three decades, but he has said he only wants to be assessed on his character. Gretchen Whitmer has won the Democratic nomination for Michigan governor, besting two competitors to advance to the November race to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. Whitmer, a former legislative leader, defeated chemical-testing businessman Shri Thanedar (shree TAN'-eh-dahr) and ex-Detroit health director Abdul El-Sayed in Tuesday's primary. She will face Attorney General Bill Schuette (SHOOT'-ee), who defeated Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, state Sen. Patrick Colbeck and Dr. Jim Hines in the GOP primary. Whitmer was considered the favorite because of her political experience and broad support from organized labor and other key groups. El-Sayed especially courted the party's more liberal, pro-Bernie Sanders wing, as did Thanedar, who spent millions of dollars of his own money on his campaign. The Michigan governorship is a top target for the Democratic Party. U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall has won the Republican primary in the sprawling rural 1st District of western and central Kansas. He advances to a November matchup against Democrat Alan LaPolice of Clyde in the heavily Republican agricultural district. Marshall, a Great Bend physician, first gained national attention in 2016 for knocking off then Rep. Tim Huelskamp in the Republican primary for the seat. Democrats did not have a candidate in 2016, but LaPolice launched a long-shot bid as an independent. LaPolice, an educator, is taking another shot at it this year running as a Democrat. While the district strongly supported President Donald Trump in 2016, some worry tougher immigration policies make it harder to fill agricultural jobs. Marshall wants to couple border-security measures with changes in visas for guest farm workers. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley has won the Republican nomination in one of the nation's most hotly contested Senate races. Voters on Tuesday picked Hawley as expected over 10 other GOP challengers in the race for Democrat Claire McCaskill's seat. He was the only candidate to have previously won a statewide election and had considerably more money than the other Republicans in the field. He's backed by President Donald Trump. Republicans are eyeing the now-Democratic seat as a prime pickup opportunity in a state Trump won by nearly 19 points. A McCaskill-Hawley matchup is expected to be one of the nation's top showdowns. McCaskill is running as a moderate in the red state. Hawley is campaigning largely on support for Trump. He is attempting to paint his rival as a liberal obstructionist. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri has won the Democratic primary in her campaign for a third term. Voters picked McCaskill on Tuesday as expected over six other Democratic challengers. Republicans are eyeing the Democratic seat in a state that President Donald Trump won by nearly 19 points in 2016. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley was favored in an 11-candidate Republican primary for the right to face McCaskill in November. A McCaskill-Hawley matchup is expected to be one of the most hotly contested races in the nation. McCaskill is running as a moderate in the red state. Hawley is campaigning largely on support for Trump and is attempting to paint his rival as a liberal obstructionist. State Attorney General Bill Schuette (SHOOT'-ee) has won the Republican nomination for Michigan governor, defeating three other candidates vying to succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Rick Snyder. Schuette beat Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, state Sen. Patrick Colbeck and Dr. Jim Hines on Tuesday. Democrats running were former legislative leader Gretchen Whitmer, ex-Detroit health director Abdul El-Sayed and entrepreneur Shri Thanedar. Schuette, a former congressman, state lawmaker and appellate judge, was endorsed by President Donald Trump. He says he would cut the state income tax, like Trump reduced federal taxes. The Michigan governorship is a top target for the Democratic Party, which is eager to make gains in the Midwest, where Republicans have dominated state governments and which helped President Donald Trump take the White House in 2016. Polls have closed in Kansas and Michigan primary elections that are testing anew President Donald Trump's political clout. Tuesday's races, like dozens before them, are pitting the strength of Trump's fiery supporters against the Democratic Party's anti-Trump resistance. The results will help determine the political landscape before the GOP defends its congressional majorities across the nation. One of the top races is in Kansas, where Secretary of State Kris Kobach (KOH'-bahk) is trying to unseat Gov. Jeff Colyer. Should Kobach win the primary, some Republican operatives fear he could lose the governor's seat to Democrats this fall. In Michigan, three mainstream Democrats are among those vying for a chance at retiring Republican Rep. Dave Trott's seat. The field includes Fayrouz Saad (fay-ROOZ' sahd), who would be the first Muslim woman in Congress. Democrat Danny O'Connor has jumped out to a significant lead over Republican Troy Balderson in early returns in Ohio's congressional special election. Voters on Tuesday were choosing between Balderson, a state senator, and O'Connor, the Franklin County recorder, to complete the term of a Republican who retired in January. The race is a test of voter sentiment before the general election in November, when Balderson and O'Connor will battle again for the full two-year term. President Donald Trump campaigned for Balderson, arguing Republicans need to control Congress and casting the midterms as a referendum on himself. A Balderson victory would buoy Republicans concerned about how Trump might be playing in political battleground states. An O'Connor win would elate Democrats hoping for a Trump backlash. Polls have closed in Missouri and are beginning to close in parts of Kansas and Michigan on a night of primary elections. Tuesday's races, like dozens before them, pitted the strength of President Donald Trump's fiery supporters against the Democratic Party's anti-Trump resistance. The results will help determine the political landscape - and Trump's standing within his own party - just three months before the GOP defends its House and Senate majorities across the nation. One of the top races of the night is in Kansas, where Secretary of State Kris Kobach (KOH'-bahk) was trying to unseat Gov. Jeff Colyer. Kobach has been backed by the president. Should the polarizing Kobach win the primary, some Republican operatives fear he could lose the governor's seat to Democrats this fall. The polls have closed in Ohio, where a Republican state senator backed by President Donald Trump is competing with a Democratic county official in a special election for an open U.S. House seat long held by the GOP. Voters Tuesday were choosing between Sen. Troy Balderson and Franklin County Recorder Danny O'Connor to complete the term of a Republican who retired in January. The race is a test of voter sentiment before the general election in November, when Balderson and O'Connor will battle again for the full two-year term. Trump campaigned for Balderson, arguing Republicans need to control Congress and casting the midterms as a referendum on himself. A St. Louis County election official blames a "comedy of errors" for some voters being turned away in one Missouri town. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that turnout in the St. Louis region for Tuesday's primary election was brisk, with about 35 percent of registered voters going to the polls. But there were sporadic problems, most notably at Holman Elementary School in Berkeley. Democratic elections director Eric Fey says a Republican poll worker had to leave because of a family emergency. The other two went to lunch, apparently got lost and didn't return. It was unclear how many people were turned away during the 45 minutes it took to get additional Republican poll workers to the polling place. Elsewhere in St. Louis County, some poll workers mistakenly gave voters nonpartisan ballots that included only issues, not party primary races. Battleground Ohio is deciding the year's final special election, a congressional faceoff that tests anew President Donald Trump's political clout and the appeal of his signature tax cuts. Seventy-one-year-old retiree Gregg Schirra voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Democrat Danny O'Connor on Tuesday in Westerville. He says, "We gave Trump a fair chance and now it's time to get the legislature working and get back on track." At Delaware Township Hall north of Columbus, 71-year-old retiree Katheryn Terry voted for Republican Troy Balderson, saying she felt the 31-year-old O'Connor was just too young and she wasn't happy with anything about his candidacy. She says: "I'm trying to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, and so I'm trying to be as supportive as I can, because things have turned around." How Dating Has Changed Since You Were in High School Gallery 20 holiday etiquette rules you should stick to this season 37 Ways to Save Money at Walt Disney World Health and safety tips you learned in school that are totally bogus 25 Childhood Desserts You Forgot Existed FILE - In this May 30, 2018, file photo, Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer, right, answers a question from reporters as Lt. Gov. Tracey Mann, left, listens during a news conference in Topeka, Kan. Colyer and immigration hardliner Kris Kobach were virtually tied atop a seven-candidate field with nearly two-thirds of the precincts counted in the primary, late Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File) - The Associated Press FILE - In this July 26, 2017 photo, Ferguson city council member Wesley Bell speaks during the dedication of a new community empowerment center in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File) - The Associated Press Danny O'Connor, the Franklin County recorder, speaks during an election night watch party at the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Westerville, Ohio. O'Connor ran against Republican Troy Balderson in a special election race for Ohio's 12th District after the retirement of Pat Tiberi who served as the U.S. Representative from 2001-2018 in the reliably Republican district.(AP Photo/John Minchillo) - The Associated Press Troy Balderson, Republican candidate for Ohio's 12th Congressional District, greets a crowd of supporters during an election night party Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Newark, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete) - The Associated Press A voter places her ballot into a drop box Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Seattle. Washington voters will decide which candidates advance to the November ballot in 10 congressional races, a U.S. Senate seat and dozens of legislative contests in the state's primary election Tuesday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) - The Associated Press Republican Troy Balderson, a candidate for Ohio's 12th District, stands in the parking lot of a voting precinct at Genoa Baptist Church, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Westerville, Ohio. Balderson, is fighting off a strong challenge from Democrat Danny O'Connor, 31-year-old county official, in a congressional district held by the Republican Party for more than three decades. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) - The Associated Press Danny O'Connor, the Franklin County recorder, speaks during an election night watch party at the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Westerville, Ohio. O'Connor ran against Republican Troy Balderson in a special election race for Ohio's 12th District after the retirement of Pat Tiberi who served as the U.S. Representative from 2001-2018 in the reliably Republican district. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) - The Associated Press FILE - In this Tuesday, July 31, 2018, file photo, people opposing Proposition A listen to a speaker during a rally in Kansas City, Mo. Missouri votes Tuesday, Aug. 7 on a so-called right-to-work law, a voter referendum seeking to ban compulsory union fees in all private-sector workplaces. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) - The Associated Press Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach voted Tuesday morning, Aug. 7, 2018, at the Lecompton City Hall. Kobach is running for his party's nomination for governor. (Thad Allton/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP) - The Associated Press Kansas state Sen. Laura Kelly, D-Topeka, speaks to reporters outside her home polling place after voting in the Democratic primary, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Topeka, Kan. Kelly stressed her 14-year career as a legislator in running for the Democratic nomination for governor. (AP Photo/John Hanna) - The Associated Press Michigan U.S. Senate candidate John James gives a thumbs up after casting his ballot on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018 at Orchard United Methodist Church in Farmington Hills, Mich. (Max Ortiz/Detroit News via AP) - The Associated Press Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer walks on Livernois Ave. as she tours the area with Mayor Mike Duggan, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) - The Associated Press Voters cast their ballots among an array of electronic voting machines in a polling station at the Noor Islamic Cultural Center, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Dublin, Ohio. Two-term state Sen. Troy Balderson, is fighting off a strong challenge from Democrat Danny O'Connor, a 31-year-old county official, in a congressional district held by the Republican Party for more than three decades. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) - The Associated Press FILE - In this May 25, 2018, file photo, Missouri Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley takes questions from the media after touring an ethanol plant in Macon, Mo. Hawley is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in the November election. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File) - The Associated Press U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill speaks to a group of supporters at her Columbia Democratic Party headquarters in Columbia, Mo., on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. (Hunter Dyke/Columbia Daily Tribune via AP) - The Associated Press Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and his family greet supporter Jim Barrett before the polls close on primary election day, Tuesday, Aug 7, 2018, in Midland, Mich. Schuette's post-election event is being held at Dow Diamond, the home of Midland's minor league baseball team. (Dale G. Young/Detroit News via AP) - The Associated Press Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach votes Tuesday morning, Aug. 7th, 2018, at the Lecompton City Hall. Kobach is running for his party's nomination for governor. (Thad Allton/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP) - The Associated Press Democrat Danny O'Connor, the Franklin County recorder, hugs a supper at his campaign headquarters, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Columbus. The script for Ohio's special election is perhaps familiar: An experienced Trump loyalist, two-term state Sen. Troy Balderson, is fighting off a strong challenge from a fresh-faced Democrat, 31-year-old county official Danny O'Connor, in a congressional district held by the Republican Party for more than three decades. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) - The Associated Press Republican Troy Balderson, a candidate for Ohio's 12th District, joins volunteers at a phone bank in Westerville, Ohio, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, a day ahead of a special election for the congressional seat. Balderson, a two-term Republican state senator, is working to retain GOP control of the 12th District. He faces Democrat Danny O'Connor, the Franklin County recorder, whose fundraising outpaced Balderson's during the most recent reporting period by nearly four times. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth) - The Associated Press Democratic congressional candidate Danny O'Connor speaks to Roger Tackett, 71, of Clark County, Ohio, during a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, ahead of Tuesday's special election. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth) - The Associated Press The Latest: Rep. 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__label__wiki	0.556034	0.556034	HHS.gov Office for Human Research Protections About OHRP Regulations, Policy, & Posting Compliance & Reporting Register IRBs & Obtain FWAs SACHRP Committee HHS Home > OHRP > Education & Outreach > Luminaries Lecture Series > Karen Lebacqz About Research Participationhas sub items, About Research Participation Protecting Research Volunteers Upcoming Educational Events Revised Common Rulehas sub items, Revised Common Rule Online Educationhas sub items, Online Education Mini-Tutorials Exploratory Workshophas sub items, Exploratory Workshop 2018 Exploratory Workshop Luminaries Lecture Series Human Research Protection Program Resources Educational Collaboration with OHRPhas sub items, Educational Collaboration with OHRP Research Community Forums (RCFs) Education & Outreach Archived Materials Karen Lebacqz Oral History of the Belmont Report and the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research Karen Lebacqz, Ph.D. Robert Gordon Sproul Professor of Theological Ethics (Emeritus) Belmont Oral History Project Interviewer: LeRoy B. Walters, Ph.D., Professor of Christian Ethics and Professor of Philosophy, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. MS. LEBACQZ: I am Karen Lebacqz. I was a Commissioner on a National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. I am Robert Gordon Sproul Professor of Theological Ethics Emeritus now, at Pacific School of Religion in the Graduate Theological Union. INTERVIEWER: It's been some time since the Belmont Conference and you and I both had the privilege of being at the Belmont Retreat Center for that conference. It's hard to remember a lot of details, but I'm wondering whether you recall how we came to the idea of three principles of beneficence justice in respect for persons? MS. LEBACQZ: I don't remember this specific conference as well as I remember the work that led up to it. And, I think, my memory would be, that these three principles emerged out of our ongoing work. That when we struggled with research on children, we looked carefully at issues around beneficence and non-maleficence. When we struggled with research on prisoners. One of the big issues that emerged was about justice and how you can take a vulnerable population, such as prisoners, and ensure that they are treated fairly given the total institution in which they reside. So, I think the three principles came in part out of the kinds of issues that we had been struggling with as we looked at research on the fetus, research on children, research on prisoners and the other specific populations. Do you mind if I just sort of take off on some of these questions? INTERVIEWER: No, I don't. MS. LEBACQZ: Okay. INTERVIEWER: One of the three Belmont's principles is respect for persons. And, I believe that you Al Johnson may have had something to do with the inclusion of that principle. Could you say a bit more about your work on respect for persons. MS. LEBACQZ: In my way of thinking, the principle of respect for persons is absolutely crucial. And, it is the number one principle. And, it needs to be framed in the language of respect for persons. My memory is that we did struggle at Belmont over what to name this principle. And, I suspect that it was Al Johnson, and perhaps several others and I, who argued that we should use the language respect for persons. Part of the reason for that is that we had a history of some research that was very disrespectful of persons. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, some of the early work that had been done on birth control using women from other countries who were never given an opportunity to consent. Did not know that they were participating in research. So, we wanted a principle that would require that people be from the outset, respectful of all the subjects who would be participating in research. In subsequent years the principle respect for persons became in the work of Beauchamp and Childress. Their very famous book on principles for biomedical ethics. That principal became a principal of respect for autonomy. And, it's my personal view that that is unfortunate. That respect for persons is broader than respect for autonomy. Autonomy, the capacity to make ones own decisions is surely an important part of what it means to be a person. But, it is not the only part. Children are persons even though they are not autonomous. So, the principle of respect for persons needs to include dimensions outside of autonomy. And, I would argue for the integrity of the language that the National Commission used, and I think it is the better language. INTERVIEWER: There was a book published in 1970 called, Respect for Persons, by Downey and Telfer. Did you use that book in your own teaching or had you read that book as you entered into the Commission Deliberations? MS. LEBACQZ: Yes, Al Johnson and I had teamed taught a course in ethical theory. And, we used Downey and Telfer's book, Respect for Persons, as one of the text for that class. The book is really an effort to spell out what a continuum perspective on ethics requires. And, it is quite strong on an understanding of what respect for persons means. And, in my view, sees that as going beyond simple respect for autonomy. Though many people do take comps ethics to be rooted in the concept of autonomy. INTERVIEWER: The Commission came up with three principles and you've now had more than 25 years to think about whether three is the right number. Can you think of other principles that you would like to add to the three in light of your thinking in the mean time? MS. LEBACQZ: If I could go back and do it over again, would I do some things differently? Probably. Though, I think what we did at the time was good for its time. Would I add principles? I don't know if I would add principles so much as I would try to spell out better than we did the inner meaning of the three principles that we had. For example, I really do believe that respect for persons needs to include a kind of subprincipal of respect for a persons community, respect for the embeddediness of people in their cultures, and so there are ways of getting respect for culture into the principle of respect for persons. That's one that I would like to see either added or at least elaborated. Similarly, we talked about justice and we talked about it primarily in the language of equal treatment and protection of the vulnerable. A language that we did not use in those days but that that has become very prominent since and very important to me, is the language of oppression. I think there is a difference between populations who are simply vulnerable and populations who are oppressed. And, justice requires rectification of oppression and that might set some structures differently than the way that we did so many years ago. So, if I were doing it over again, I would not deny any of the principles that we used, but I would want them extended and expanded. And, I might have additional principles that I would want to lift up as well. I believe that human life is relational at its core. And, perhaps a principle of covenant or promise keeping would also have been an important part of respect for persons, or maybe even an additional principle. INTERVIEWER: In your own work since your time on the National Commission, the principle of justice has played a very prominent role. Justice between genders, justice in ones ethnic groups, justice between the first world and the third world, are the ways in which you would like to see then the notion of justice enriched. MS. LEBACQZ: Absolutely. When the Commission did its work, I think we were perhaps on the forefront of identifying justice as an important principle. But, even in the Belmont meetings and in our struggles with the Belmont document, we were never able to spell out fully what justice would require. A good bit of my own work since then has been grappling with this difficult principle of justice and trying to determine what it does require. And, as I've already indicated, I would see a crucial question today as the question of oppression. In part of what was so disturbing about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study is that it was not only a study that was done without the informed consent of people, that alone would be bad enough, but it was a study that was done on an oppressed group of people who were taken advantage of because of their oppression. And, that kind of exploitation is absolutely anathema. So, justice requires not simply treating people equally, we could treat everybody equally and still be oppressing all of them. Justice requires attention to power issues, how to redress the power in balances in life. Some of my own work on justice has involved looking at what it means to acknowledge that we have made mistakes, or done things that are wrong, and that we need to rectify those. What is reparative justice, for example. So, from my perspective, the Commission really did a great service to the field of bioethics by lifting up the principle of justice. But, we did not give a full enough account of what justice would require. And, there is a great deal more work that needs to be done on that. INTERVIEWER: Well, let's move from Belmont back to the beginning in the early months of the Commission's work. The fetal research topic was the first one on the agenda. How did you experience your work with the Commission beginning with the first meeting? I mean, what was it like to come into the room with this group of people, and you probably only knew a few of the people in the room, and how did you experience the work on the fetal research report? MS. LEBACQZ: I was very young and very naive, and I honestly did not know what I was getting into when I agreed to serve on this Commission. My memory of those first months was feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of the task that we had been set. Very grateful for the wisdom of the group in choosing Ken Ryan to be our chair. And, enormously grateful to the Commissioners as a whole for the respect that they had for each other and for me as very young and relatively unseasoned person in the field of ethics. I have several early memories that are very strong. One was how difficult it was for us to talk to each other in those first meetings. We were giving four months in which to come to a conclusion on what has to be one of the most difficult topics ever. It remains a controversial topic with a current controversy around stem cell research. In those days it was not stem cells but research on embryos and fetus's. Certainly one of the most controversial and divisive of our topics. And, I remember that it took us almost four months to develop a common language so that when the scientist talked, the rest of us understood what they were saying. And, when the lawyers, talked the ethicist understood what they were saying. And, I still remember that Al Johnson and I as the ethicist on the Commission would say something on the order of, that's not a morally relevant difference. And, after about three months of this, I forget who it was, but I think maybe one of the scientist, finally thumped his fist down on the table and said, you keep using this phrase, morally relevant, and I don't know what it means. So, just finding a common language and being able to understand each other at the beginning was very difficult. We were diverse in terms of our academic fields. While most of us were academicians, and in that sense, maybe not very diverse, we were certainly diverse politically and in terms of our faith, traditions, and our convictions about the fetus and the standing of the fetus. So, trying to come to common ground was not easy in those early months. I do remember one of my strongest memories of the Commissions work overall, was how quickly Pat King, who was one of our lawyers on the Commission, Pat King and I would hear a comment and both of our hands would go up at the same time. And, Ken would call on one or the other of us. And, we would look at each other as if to say, do you want to answer this one or shall I answer this one. And, so often we were trying to make the same point in spite of the fact that her legal language and my language coming out of the field of ethics were slightly different. So, I really felt early on that I had a good colleague in Pat King. That she understood what I was trying to say, and that if I had difficulty getting others to hear it, she was able to step in and say it again in a different language that maybe others could really appreciate it. So, I have memories of both the difficulty of coming to common ground and the difficulty of talking with each other. But, also of the great respect of Commissioners for each other, of our efforts to assist each other, and particularly for me, having come into it relatively unseasoned, a tremendous gratitude to my fellow Commissioner's for the respect that they showed to me. INTERVIEWER: Do you feel a sense of general satisfaction about the fetal research report when you look back on it even though it had to be put together so quickly? MS. LEBACQZ: It was our first report and it was not, I don't believe, our most controversial report interestingly enough. One of the things that we did that made a difference to our work was to bring in a number of scientist very quickly to talk to us about fetal development. So, that we were trying to do our ethical work based on as careful scientific knowledge as we could attain as lay people. So, I think that set an important precedent for the work that we did overall. Am I satisfied with the report? Given the constraints under which we worked, I would say yes. Would I do some things differently today, yes. I think we know some things today perhaps we did not know then. I have since learned, for example, about the zona pellucida which I did not understand or know anything about in those days. The question of whether that very early embryo is simply a collection of cells being held together in a kind of sac if you will, or whether it is already an integrated organism. That could make a significant difference for how one goes about doing ethics for early embryos. And, I did not know anything about that in those days. So, perhaps I would do some things differently. But, overall I was pleased that given our differences on the Commission, given the constraints of time and the difficulty of learning a common language, we were able to come to a report that was amazingly united I think under the constraints. INTERVIEWER: How important do you think it was that the Secretary at that time of Health, Education and Welfare had to respond in some way within a 180 days after a report and recommendations were submitted? MS. LEBACQZ: Terribly important. Subsequent commissions or counsels on bioethics have often been simply advisory. And, the problem with being an advisory, Bobby, is nobody has to take your advice. You can promulgate good ideas, but if there is no structure that requires that they be taken seriously, they can simply be ignored. The difference in part for the National Commission on which I had the privilege to serve, was this law that brought us into being that required that what we proposed had to become rules and regulations unless there was good reason not to promulgate it. The Secretary of then DHEW was given a specified amount of time in which to publish our recommendations and seek responses. And, then if the Secretary departed from what we recommended, the Secretary had to explain why. So, throughout the process there was a kind of bite about our recommendations. They either had to be turned into law, or there had to be good reason that they weren't turned into law. And, those reasons had to be communicated publicly in a way that was widely accessible to everyone. And, I think the public reasoning process was terribly important part of our process, both in terms of how we went about trying to formulate our recommendations, and also in terms of what then happened with the recommendations. INTERVIEWER: As you look at all of the reports that the Commission produced, is there one or are there two that stand out in your mind as the best work that you ever did? MS. LEBACQZ: I think my favorite of all the Commission's Reports would have to be the report on prisoners. First of all it was for me, a tremendously important learning experience. The Commission went into a number of prisons. We went into minimum security and maximum security prisons. And, it was, I confess, the first time that I had ever set foot inside a prison. We interviewed prisoners. We heard their stories. We saw the research quarters where research was being done on prisoners. And, on one occasion we went to Jackson State Prison, which is maximum security, and the Commission was absolutely determined that we would be able to hear from prisoners without them being put at any risk. So, we insisted that it be only these prisoners, who most of whom were in for murder. They were either life long prisoners, or had many, many years to go before they would be paroled. We insisted that in the room there would be only the prisoners and the members of the National Commission. No guards allowed in the room. I'm amazed in retrospect that we were able to accomplish this. But, I will tell you truthfully, it was one of my most life changing experiences. As I sat and heard prisoners talk to us about their stories, why they were there, they admitted freely they had murdered someone, or done armed robbery, or whatever it was that had brought them there. And, then we talked with them about the research unit. It was the only time in that entire day that I felt safe. The rest of the time we walked around the prison grounds with guards with guns trained on us. The only time all day that I felt safe was when I was outnumbered by a whole bunch of convicted murderers and hard-timed felons. I had day mares, not just nightmares, but day mares for months afterward. Visions would come back to me of how horrible the conditions were for the prisoners there. So, we were determined that these people who live in a total institution where they have very little control over anything, should be treated with great respect if they are to be subjects of research. Many people thought we should simply ban all research in prisons. But, the prisoners themselves said, the research unit is the best place to be in the prison, that's the place where we get treated as though we are human beings. So, instead of banning research, what we tried to do was set requirements so that in order for research to be done in a prison, there could not be such terrible conditions in the prison that being part of the research project became what we called an undue inducement. If it's that much better in the research unit, then prisoners will want to get into it no matter what the risk of the research might be. So, we tried to not only keep the risks minimal, but also make sure that the conditions in the prison itself would be such that there would not be undue inducement for people to participate in research. I think that was one of our most important recommendations. The understanding that coercion is not just about somebody holding a knife to you and saying you have to do this, but there can be something coercive about making an environment so good compared to what the person normally lives in, that they really cannot easily make an informed decision about what they're doing. So, for me the report on prisoners, is my favorite of our reports because of the ground that I think we broke in that report, but also because of the experiences that we had in order to do the report. And, I could talk for hours about those memories for me are very, very strong memories. Everyone of the prisons that we visited I can walk right back into the corridors in that prison in my mind those memories are so strong. INTERVIEWER: It's ironic that the recommendations of the report on research involving prisoners were never translated into regulations. That's a loop hole in the current oversight system. Are you disappointed that that didn't happen? MS. LEBACQZ: Yes, very. And shortly after the National Commission had come to a close, several of us were invited to go to a prison on behalf of a drug company that was doing some research there. We were invited to go and tell them whether we thought they could ethically conduct their research. Quite frankly, if the recommendations on prisoners had been promulgated, it would have been very clear that they could not do the research that they were doing. Not because the drug company was doing anything wrong. Its research was very low risk, but the conditions in the prison did not meet the minimum standards that we had laid out so clearly in our report. INTERVIEWER: Research involving children continues to be a very important and much discussed issue. As you look back on the report about research involving children, what do you see as its strength and weaknesses? MS. LEBACQZ: I said earlier that ironically I did not think the report on research on the fetus was our most controversial topic. I think our most controversial topic was the report on research on children. We had the most difficulty in some ways coming to agreement on that report. And, so, one of the things that we did there and elsewhere was to reach a point where we said, we are not going to agree on this. Let's make sure that minority voices can be heard. And, to put out a report that included the majority report and then several different minority voices. But, of the things that we did within the report that are important, I think for me the notion that children beyond a certain age need to assent to research even if they are not old enough to give an informed consent. Saying, if they are old enough to understand that they are participating in research, and why they are being asked to do that, then they should have to assent to it. They should have some right of refusal. For me, that would be another part of the respect for persons. Children are not autonomous. They can't give a fully informed consent, but they should be respected enough to be given the chance to say, no, not necessarily to medical treatment. But, when you're talking about research, you're not talking about medical treatment, per se. You're talking about the kinds of things that are done in order to allow us to gather data. And, I think children beyond a certain age should have the right to say no to that. INTERVIEWER: Let's look at the other side of the picture and that is which of the reports was the most disappointing to you, or where do you feel the Commission did the least thorough job? MS. LEBACQZ: One of the places where I think in general we were weak, was that our model for almost all of our work was biomedical research. We were a Commission that was supposed to look at both biomedical and behavioral research. But, through almost all of our reports, we used the biomedical model as our primary model. So, I would say that we were weak at the point of really looking at some of the very important kinds of issues that come up when you do behavioral research, or when you're simply interviewing human subjects about things. Are there particular vulnerabilities for people who come out of populations that don't have a concept or a history of informed consent. For example, I have subsequently served on the Human Subjects Committee at the University of California Berkeley main campus. Most of the research that is done on that campus does not involve any biomedical interventions. It is largely faculty and graduate students who want to interview people or set up focus groups for discussion about issues such as drug use or whatnot. When you ask people to talk about their drug use, and you are in fact asking them to share information that could potentially put them at risk, we really did not deal with a number of those kinds of issues. And, I think there are still significant questions like that for which much more ethical analysis is probably needed. INTERVIEWER: Did you feel that right from the start the Commission was totally independent of influence by NIH or the Department of Health Education and Welfare, or do you feel that as if the Commissioners and the staff had to fight for your independence early on and establish your independence? MS. LEBACQZ: For the most part I think that from the very beginning we were quite independent. I do remember at several early meetings where staff had taken some of our discussion and attempted to develop rules and regulations or to develop a report based on the discussion. And, they brought it back to us and we got angry and said, you are promulgating your own ideas. You are not reflecting the conversation of the Commissioner's. So, I think very early on, although in general we were very grateful to our staff, relied on them heavily, and thought they were wonderful overall. I think very early on we established a pattern of saying, the work that gets done here will be the work of these Commissioner's, not the work of anybody else. And, we resisted any suggestion that we needed to capitulate to what current practices were in any of the government departments. We really saw ourselves as having been given a charge and a commission and taking responsibility for trying to do that charge and that commission. INTERVIEWER: As I recall there was even somewhat of a change in the staff in those early years, precisely in order to achieve greater independence, for example, from NIH influence. MS. LEBACQZ: Yes, that is true. And, we were lucky always to have some folks from NIH or other departments of the government who came and sat through our meetings as observers. And, were sometimes very helpful to us behind the scenes, giving us reflections on what they had observed as they listened to us. But, they were, I'm thinking for example, of Natalie Redick, who at that time was in the Office for Protection from Research Risk, I believe it was called at that time. Who came, I believe, to every single one of our meetings. And, was a very thoughtful observer, but did not attempt to intrude or to sway the voices of Commissioner's. We would have been a hard group to sway. We argued enough with each other that there wasn't a whole lot of time for other people to have a whole lot in put. Except for the times when we deliberately set up for public in put and we did hold public hearings, and we asked some pretty tough questions of the people who came and testified before us. I still remember one man on his way out looking at me and saying, you're a lawyer, aren't you? And, he didn't quite believe it when I said, no, I'm not. I think it was because of the kinds of questions that we put to everybody. INTERVIEWER: The Commission met often once a month and then the staff was working in between the meetings, but after your recommendations went forward, there had to be some people in the trenches in the federal government who would translate your recommendations into regulations. I'm thinking, for example, of Charles McCarthy, in the Office for Protection From Research Risk. And, I guess my question is, how important do you think it was that there were long term government officials there who did their level best to translate your recommendations into new regulations? MS. LEBACQZ: It was probably more important than I realized at the time. At the time, I would have to say that I was so focused on the enormous task that had been set before the Commission itself, that I did not pay as much attention as perhaps I should have to the hard work that went on behind the scenes from people who had to take our ideas and turn them into the kinds of rules and regulations that lay things out clearly enough for IRB's to be able to follow what is being required. Certainly, I think all of us felt a debt to people like, Charles McCarthy, who did that kind of work. But, at the time I was always focused on the task that we had been given because they were so enormous. We met once a month. I used to call it my 48 hour red eye special. Would fly from California, usually overnight after teaching all day, sit through two days of meetings, and then got on an airplane and fly back to California arriving back late on the second day. I started drinking coffee when I was a member of the National Commission. I had never drunk coffee before in my life. Not even when I was in college. But, by mid-afternoon on the second day I would be so tired that I finally turned to caffeine to keep myself awake because all of us were doing it as an extra job over and above a full time teaching job. At least I was never given any time off for the work that I did with the Commission. We met for a formal meeting once a month. But, when we were doing our reports on different population groups, such as people who were institutionalized in mental institutions, or prisoners or children, we also did a number of field trips. And, there were many months that I was on the road two weekends out of the month doing the work of the National Commission, either the official meeting or the site visit. So, it was very, very demanding and my energy was going into reading all the background materials that we collected. All the experts who wrote papers for us on different topics to try to help educate us about the kinds of research that were being done on children, for example. INTERVIEWER: At that time there was not electronic mail and I don't think there were even fax machines. So, I guess all of the work of the National Commission had to be done through mailings of paper documents, is that correct? MS. LEBACQZ: Huge dockets we would receive every month before the meeting. Usually a--a few days before the meeting we would receive a huge packet of materials. It might be as much as a 100 or even 200 pages. We were expected to read all of it. Fortunately for me, the plane trip from California back to Washington, D.C. was usually about a six hour flight. And, I would get on the plane and read non stop until I got to the other end. So, yes, you are right. I certainly had no email and no fax machine in those days. And, our work was conducted by what we now call snail mail. And, there was a lot of material to digest in between meetings. And, then it was hard on the staff as well because they met with us over a weekend. So, normally the days that they were supposed to have off, they would need to be working. And, then in theory they should take several days off to make up for that time, but in practice, if they were going to take what we did, and turn it around, and get a draft back to us so that we would have a week to read it and digest it before returning for the next meeting, they pretty much just had to turn around and keep working non stop. It was non-stop hard work for all of us those four years of the life of the National Commission. INTERVIEWER: In terms of your own academic career, would you say that your work on the National Commission sat an agenda for your work subsequent to going off the Commission, or did you move onto other topics since that time that sort of complement the focus of the Commission? MS. LEBACQZ: The National Commission really did two things for my career. First, because I was very young and not well known in the field of bioethics, serving on that Commission catapulted me into the public eye very quickly in a way that I think otherwise would have probably taken at least ten years for me to achieve. And, it also gave me connections with people in medical schools and universities that I might not otherwise have had as I have spent my entire professional career with just a couple of exceptions, several leaves of absence, but the bulk of my teaching has been at a small religiously oriented school that would not normally be the venue from which you would think someone does bioethics. So, serving on the Commission was a tremendous boost to my career and to giving me a public presence that I might not otherwise have had. With regard to the subject matter, I would say that for a few years after the National Commission, I continued to be very active in doing work on ethical issues around human subjects research. But, one of the things that happened to me after the promulgation of both the Belmont Report, and especially the Beauchamp-Childress Volume on Principles for Biomedical Ethics, is that the field of bioethics seemed to me to become captured by this idea that there are a few basic principles and that the way to do bioethics is to take any subject matter or any case study and simply take these principles and apply it. After about ten years, I became quite disillusioned with that approach to the field of bioethics. And, I withdrew from that field a bit. I was, after all, teaching in a school where most of my students are going on either to be clergy, or to teach in the field of religious studies, and so I began to do a lot of work on clergy ethics and on professional ethics more broadly. Not losing the importance of the principles and the work of the Commission, but shifting direction a little bit into a different field. I finally came back with some energy into the field of bioethics when I saw that the field itself had begun to expand the ways that we do bioethics, and not simply be captured by principles, but begin to look at ethnography and the importance of trying to understand a community from the inside out in order to ask what is ethically acceptable for that community, or look at virtue theory. So, that we look not simply at what we should do, but ask questions about who we are supposed to be. So, with the expansion of the field of bioethics that really began in the mid to late 1980's, I began to feel that there was room in the field for some new and creative endeavors, and particularly, with the Human Genome Project and the importance of some issues in genetics, I moved back into the field of bioethics and put more of my energy back in that field. INTERVIEWER: Would you say that you've always been a feminist theologian, or a feminist ethicist, that you were a feminist at the time of your work on the Commission and you've continued that accent in your work? MS. LEBACQZ: I remember the precise day that I became a feminist. It involved a xerox machine at which I was standing doing some xeroxing of materials for my class. And, one of the trustee's of my institution came in, saw me standing there, presumed based on my gender that I was a secretary, and handed me a stack of things with the request that I xerox them. That got me to thinking about stereotypes and how we pigeon-hole people and presumptions are made about women and who we are in the world. So, I would say yes, I was a feminist from early on from the early 1970's and certainly before the time of the National Commission. I do think, however, that the work of the Commission does not reflect a particularly feminist vent. For example, partly because it was not in the law that brought us into being, but perhaps partly a fault to be laid at the feet of the Commission. We never stopped to ask whether women were a particularly vulnerable population. Whether there needed to be any special rules or regulations for research on women. So, although I was a feminist and I am fairly sure that Pat King was a feminist at that point, partly because there were only three women on the Commission, and I would say that our colleagues by and large were not at that time feminist. Though, I think many of them may have become since that time, I hope so, but partly because of that and partly because of the specific tasks that were laid before us in law. We did not focus on some issues that I would today hope that we focus on taking a feminist perspective on research on human subjects. INTERVIEWER: And, final question, since the National Commission there have been several other Commissions and Boards that have had similar roles. There's currently a President's Counsel on Bioethics. I wonder if you would mind comparing the work of this early Commission with the work of subsequent groups. MS. LEBACQZ: My feeling is that the National Commission so many years ago was important and successful in a way that subsequent Commissions have not quite managed to be. And, I'm not sure why. I wish I knew. It may be partly because the law that brought us into being did require that our recommendations be promulgated, or if not, good reasons be given for why not. Whereas other Commissions have been advisory and published their reports, but the reports did not have any bite built into them. It may be partly attribute to Ken Ryan who was a superb chair. Who, very early on, I think, made some very wise decisions about how to get public input into the work of the Commission without that public input obstructing the work of the Commission. It may have been that we were, at that time, naive, all of us, we were new at this game, there had not been other Commissions. And, so we just did our work as carefully and seriously as we could. And, we we weren't so captured by some of the politicization that I think has happened since then. I think it is truly a tragedy that the most recent President's Counsel on Bioethics lost two members whose terms expired and they were not renewed. And, there is at least some evidence that that was a deliberate political decision because of the positions that they took. I don't think that would ever have had happened on our Commission. We were very different politically. We had to battle it out with each other. And, so there was a diversity built in and no effort to surround or overcome that diversity by imposing a particular political view. I worry that these bioethic commissions are increasingly considered useless or are marginalized by people in the field of bioethics because they have become viewed as instruments for political purposes. And, I don't think that the National Commission was viewed that way. Certainly the class=WordSection2> National Bioethic Advisory Commission did a lot of important work. Promulgated some important reports, and they have entered into the discourse of people who do bioethics. But, how much impact they have had on the actual practice of bioethics is not clear to me. Whereas it is very clear to me that the National Commission's legacy of impact on practice in the field of Human Subjects Research has been enormous and extensive over time. If I may add one concluding comment. INTERVIEWER: Yes. MS. LEBACQZ: I really would want to stress that I consider it a privilege that I was invited to serve on that Commission. It was long and hard work, and quite frankly, took a toll in some ways on the remainder of my work. It was difficult for me to publish my own things as a young scholar because the work of the Commission was so demanding. And, it was very hard to have a personal life at all when you're on the road at least two weekends out of every month for this particular task. And, at least one other weekend usually went into reading all the materials that we needed to read. So, it took away from some personal agendas and goals, but it was a tremendous experience. And, I had excellent colleagues and wonderful connections that I retain to this day from some of the people who either were on the Commission or served as consultants on the Commission. I was lucky. INTERVIEWER: It is quite remarkable that the personal contacts have remained and that there is going to be a reunion of so many of the former Commissioner's. That there was a reunion in Milwaukee earlier this year. MS. LEBACQZ: Yeah. INTERVIEWER: So, that is a wonderful tribute to the cohesiveness of the group. MS. LEBACQZ: Yes, and we have made no deliberate effort to stay in touch over the years. And, in fact, some of us had lost contact for some time. But, then we rediscovered each other in one context or another. Pat King and I, for example, had not seen each other probably in almost 20 years when we found ourselves working together on a group that had been set up by the Hastings Center. And, as soon as we saw each other it was just like old days. Our hands would go up at the same time, and we would look at each other, which of us is going to answer this question. And it really was just like reliving the Commission all over again. It was wonderful. So, thank you Leroy. 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__label__wiki	0.841102	0.841102	The Fannie And Freddie Fiasco by Richard A. Epstein futureatlas.com On April 15, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hear a high stakes appeal from the hedge funds Perry Capital and Fairholme Capital related to the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. At issue in the case is the legality of an amendment made by the government in August 2012 to the original 2008 bailout. That Third Amendment, as it’s called, has caused a major violation of shareholder rights. (Full disclosure: I have worked as an advisor for a number institutional investors involved in this case and have also written a comprehensive account of all aspects of this complex litigation.) To recap the history, both Fannie and Freddie—which are government sponsored entities, or GSEs—were under extreme stress in the fall of 2008, and in order to shore up their finances, they entered into a Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (SPSPA) with the United States Treasury. Under the SPSPA, Treasury agreed to contribute up to a combined $200 billion in cash to both companies in exchange for a senior-preferred stock that carried a 10 percent dividend. Eventually, Treasury lent about $188 billion per year, which carried a hefty $18.8 billion annual dividend payout. Under the SPSPA, both Fannie and Freddie were given the unlimited option to defer payment of the interest, which was then added to principal as an “in-kind” obligation, at a 12 percent interest rate. Unlike many private corporate bailout plans, this deferment did not call for any loss of control by Fannie and Freddie. Treasury thus held a new senior-preferred stock. The old private-preferred shareholders now held junior-preferred stock. The negotiation over SPSPA took place in a tense financial environment. In the summer of 2008, with crisis in the air, Congress passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA), which implemented two new statutory programs. First, it authorized Treasury on a temporary basis through the end of 2009 to extend temporary assistance the GSEs to help them through this rough financial patch. HERA implicitly assumed that Treasury would be dealing at arm’s length with the directors of a private corporation, which explains why it had a statutory obligation “to protect the taxpayer” as it sought to stabilize financial markets and “to prevent disruptions to the availability of mortgage finance.” Second, HERA authorized the newly minted Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to place any impaired corporation into a conservatorship under its control “to preserve and conserve the assets” of the corporation in conservatorship, and to manage its operations until it returned to health, at which point the conservatorship would end, and the business would return to private ownership. The existing shareholders, not the Treasury, are the only persons to whom that duty is owed. Unfortunately, the drafters of HERA did not anticipate the potent interaction between these two provisions for the GSEs. Both actions took place together, so that one federal agency ended up negotiating with a second. At this point, without the institutional shield that a private board of directors would have supplied to its preferred and common shareholders, the federal government was on both sides of the SPSPA. To make matters worse, the then head of FHFA was Edward Demarco who had previously served as a high-ranking Treasury official. In ordinary corporate settings, having friendly parties on the opposite sides of a deal looks like a slam-dunk breach of the fiduciary duty of undivided loyalty that FHFA owed to the then-existing preferred and common shareholders of the GSE. Indeed, under HERA, the directors of any covered corporation had the right to refuse any deal that Treasury offered to them. With an independent board, Treasury should protect taxpayer interests. Indeed, if both sides do their job, the bailout should be a win/win transaction. The conflict of interest took a more ominous turn with the adoption of the Third Amendment between FHFA and Treasury nearly four years later. At that time, the market had quieted down, and the GSEs were making timely dividend payments on Treasury’s preferred stock. Nonetheless, FHFA and Treasury ripped up the old agreement, and substituted in its place a new deal that created a “net worth sweep” whereby all of the funds received by the GSEs were paid over to Treasury as a dividend, even in amounts far in excess of the original 10 percent dividend. The consequences have been huge. Without the Third Amendment, virtually all the senior-preferred stock would have been redeemed. With the Third Amendment, about $128 billion that could have been used to redeem the preferred shares has been reclassified as a dividend payment, rather than a return of capital. FHFA has argued that this one-sided renegotiation really worked for the benefit of the GSEs junior-preferred and common shareholders because it stopped a destructive cycle in which the GSEs would continually have to borrow more money from Treasury in order to make its dividend payments. Not so. That argument rests on an odd factual predicate, given that the GSEs had always made timely dividend payments. It also rests on an equally odd legal premise that ignores the 12 percent in kind option to defer immediate cash dividend payments. The gist of the government’s argument therefore is this: by relieving the GSEs of the obligation to pay dividends when they are broke, Treasury gets all the cash when the companies are solvent. The bottom line is that the government wins on the upside and loses nothing on the downside. The transaction here is, for all intents and purposes, indistinguishable from a decision by FHFA to transfer title of the junior-preferred and the common to Treasury without consideration. How else can one describe FHFA’s simple declaration, as conservator, that all value associated with the junior-preferred and common shareholders ends up in Treasury’s hands with nothing whatsoever in return. To be sure, this deal is artfully structured so that the junior-preferred and common shareholders retain their legal title to the shares. But that title is stripped of all of its economic significance. Normally, ownership of shares carries with it voting rights. But once FHFA took over, the shareholders were stripped of their right to remove hostile directors. Normally shares carry with them both dividend and liquidation rights. But here the dividends were paid to the senior-preferred shareholders (i.e. Treasury) to whom FHFA owed no fiduciary duty, and they so rigged the transaction that junior-preferred and common shareholders would get nothing if the government ever decided to liquidate their interest. In effect the transaction leaves the GSEs' ordinary shareholders in limbo. It is just as the lawyers for Perry Capital and Fairholme Capital describe it: a de facto nationalization of private wealth in blatant breach of FHFA’s fiduciary duty, as aided and abetted by Treasury. To make matters worse, this entire transaction took place after 2010, when Treasury’s temporary bailout authority ran out. Redoing this deal from top-to-bottom in a one-sided way is not a simple modification of the original SPSPA that benefits both parties. It is a new deal entered into by the government and for the government. It was therefore utterly astounding that Judge Royce Lamberth in the District Court granted the government’s motion for summary judgment on September 30, 2014, without allowing any discovery about the underlying facts. The only way in which that outcome was possible was to interpose a variety of dubious procedural defenses that let him duck the obvious conclusion that no fiduciary should ever be able to wipe out the interests of its beneficiaries. The key to understanding how this took place is to note that litigating against the federal government is always an uphill battle in federal court. Even the most rock-solid case that GSE shareholders bring against the government has at best a 50 percent chance of winning, so heavy is the government’s thumb of the scales of justice. To see why, just ask the question of what would happen if the deal between FHFA and Treasury had been put together by two private parties, one a trustee and another a preferred stock investor, whose conduct was subject to regulation under either the federal securities acts or state corporate law. There is no doubt that this artful transaction would have subjected both parties to serious civil and criminal sanctions because of the deviation from accepted norms of corporate transactions. But once two branches of the federal government are involved, all sorts of procedural obstacles intercede. Thus in Perry Capital, the FHFA brief first argues that the private shareholders of the GSE do not have standing to bring this case because Section 4617(f) of HERA provides that “no court may take any action to restrain or affect the exercise of powers or functions of the Agency as conservator.” That provision makes perfectly good sense in the common situation where FHFA is entering into deals with third parties over the management and disposition of the assets, given that pesky lawsuits could make it difficult for FHFA to discharge its duties as conservator. But this provision, as Michael Krimminger of Investors Unite noted in his brief, is lifted verbatim from the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, where it was never construed to block a suit that the beneficiaries under the conservatorship could bring against the conservator. In situations such as this, where FHFA has no intention to protect the private GSE shareholders, then no matter how broad its powers, it necessarily steps outside its role of conservator and should be subject to suit for its alleged derelictions. To let the statute insulate a conservator from suit undermines its specific statutory obligations. By overlooking the grossest breach of duty, FHFA’s reading necessarily deprives these shareholders of the minimum due process protections for their property. It also takes private assets and converts them to government use. Both of these are per se constitutional violations of the Due Process and Takings Clauses. No statute should receive so grotesque an interpretation as the government puts on this one. FHFA then backs up its initial claim for total judicial immunity by pointing to Section 4617(b)(2)(A)(i) of HERA, which provides that FHFA shall “as conservator or receiver, and by operation of law, immediately succeed to—(i) all rights, title, powers and privileges of the regulated entity, and of any stockholder, officer, or director of such regulated entity”—the entities here being the GSEs. The government reads the 2012 decision in Kellmer v. Raines as containing this simple injunction: “Read the statute; read the statute; (3) read the statute.” But literalism over the word “all” is no substitute for a more systematic statutory analysis, which asks whether this reading guts the fiduciary duties imposed in the same statute. Kellmer involved a suit brought against Franklin Raines, the former head of Fannie Mae, for his breach of fiduciary duties to the corporation. At this point there is no conflict of interest between the shareholders and FHFA, so that the case only stands for the proposition that FHFA gets to control these suits. But it is a leap to read this statute to insulate FHFA from all charges of breach of fiduciary duty, brought by individual shareholders on behalf of the corporation. As with the previous section, this grotesque outcome converts FHFA from a conservator to an outright owner and is utterly inconsistent with the purpose of the statute. Context matters. Sound statutory interpretation always requires the implication of principled exceptions to bring the operation of the statute in line with its stated objectives. The D.C. Circuit will soon have the opportunity to redress the grievous errors made by Judge Lamberth and to decide that government conservators, like private conservators, cannot loot the corporations whose shareholders they are sworn to protect. 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__label__wiki	0.634246	0.634246	CELEBRITIES & PERFORMERS Voice of Miguel on Disney/Pixar animated feature film COCO McDonald’s Dream Discovery Zone Anthony Gonzalez will be performing and signing autographs Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 Daniel Tiger & Princess Presto Presented by PBS, roaming/taking pics in SABIC Super Science Zone on BOTH days. Sunday on stage at 12:30 & 5:00 Presented by SABIC on the SABIC Super Stage in Sam Houston Park COWABUNGA! Photos with Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael & Donatello 11:30, 1:00, 3:00, 4:30 Ronald McDonald Along with Grimace, Hamburglar & Birdie McDonald’s Dream Discovery Zone – Sam Houston Park Saturday Meet & Greet – 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 4:30 Sunday Meet & Greet – 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30 Jurassic Extreme Walking Dinosaurs on SABIC stage performing and taking photos: 11:00 & 1:30 2020 CELEBRITIES & PERFORMERS COMING SOON ••••••••••••••••••••••• 2019 CELEBRITIES & PERFORMERS The McDonald’s Houston Children’s Festival, a registered family festival charity established in 1988, to serve as the vehicle to educate the public about child abuse and the mission of Child Advocates. © 2020 McDonald's Houston Children's Festival 2020 Festival Schedule Ticket & Festival FAQ	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526808
__label__wiki	0.871607	0.871607	Beverly Hills Housewife Kyle Richards Will Never Be Friends With Brandi Glanville Again Lindsay Cronin Beverly Hills reality star Kyle Richards has had a rough season on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Not only has the boutique owner dealt with her and her sister Kim’s strained relationship, she’s also been caught in a number of heated debates with Brandi Glanville. Following a physical altercation at the Beverly Hills home of Eileen Davidson, Richards and Glanville came face-to-face at Richards’ gay mixer. Although the two women clearly had issues to deal with, Kim chose to invite Glanville to the bash in hopes of them reconciling. Instead, they got into yet another fight and Glanville left the bash early, with Kim in tow. After leaving the mixer, as the Inquisitr reported, Glanville and Kim chatted together at Glanville’s home, where the mother of two encouraged Kim to distance herself from Richards, and claimed Richards had been manipulating Kim for years. “It’s unhealthy. The point is, you can distance yourself from her. You can make her have respect for you,” Glanville told Kim in the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills‘ Bravo clip. Months after the scene was filmed, in a March 12 interview with E! News, Richards confirmed she and her Real Housewives of Beverly Hills co-star, Glanville, would not be giving their friendship another shot. “I’m the kind of person where I get over everything. I not only forgive, I forget. At this point in my life, it’s too much negativity, and it’s very toxic for me. I know that to be friends with her, it’s just setting myself up to be attacked again. I’m making a conscious decision to keep away because life’s complicated enough.” The Beverly Hills co-stars have had a dramatic relationship since season two, when Glanville joined the show in a recurring role. At the time, the Richards sisters went head-to-head with Glanville after she claimed Kim was using drugs in a bathroom at the Beverly Hills home of former cast member Dana Wilkey. “I never imagined it would be like this, ever, when I signed on to do this show. Never in my life. It’s just so difficult to navigate through my relationship with my sister in front of the cameras. We’ve always had a complicated relationship. It’s one thing when we’re alone, but with the cameras there, and millions of people seeing it and all the sudden weighing in, it’s difficult.” The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on Bravo. [Photo via Facebook]	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526809
__label__wiki	0.868948	0.868948	AL Player Analysis - August 26, 2018 Danny Jansen (C-TOR) went 2-3 with a pair of doubles and two runs scored against the Phillies on Saturday. Over 26 big-league at-bats, the 23 year-old backstop is now hitting .385 with five doubles, a home run, three RBI, and five runs scored. That's obviously a tiny sample size, but Jansen enjoyed a fine 2017 season in which he ascended from High-A to Triple-A before acquitting himself well again over 360 Triple-A at-bats this season, hitting .275 with 12 homers, 58 RBI, and 5 stolen bases. He has excellent plate discipline and contact skills, as evidenced by his 12.2% walk rate and 13.6% strikeout rate in Triple-A this season; last year, he actually walked more often than he struck out in both Double-A (10.5% walk rate and 9% strikeout rate over 210 plate appearances) and Triple-A (14.1% walk rate and 9% strikeout rate over 78 plate appearances). If you could use help at C, why not pick him up to see how he finishes out the season? Miguel Andujar (3B-NYY) went a combined 4-9 with a home run, four RBI, and two runs scored in Saturday's doubleheader against the Orioles. The rookie is now batting a robust .300 with 21 home runs and 70 RBI on the campaign, and has been raking since the All-Star break. Entering Saturday's action, he was batting .341 with 8 homers and 27 RBI across 126 at-bats. Although Andujar had hit for average in the minors, the power display (.225 ISO going into Saturday) has been a pleasant surprise; he had never hit more than 16 longballs in a season, although that was last year across Double-A and Triple-A. If there is one part of Andujar's game to knock, it's his disinterest in taking walks, as evidenced by a 4% walk rate. It will be interesting to see what he does down the stretch in 2018 and how high he goes in drafts next season; he sure looks like he could be a cornerstone of the Yankees offense for years to come. Mike Fiers (SP-OAK) continued to thrive with the Athletics on Saturday, tossing 5.2 innings in which he allowed one run on five hits and two walks while striking out seven Twins batters. Since joining Oakland earlier this month, he's enjoyed four stellar outings in which he's allowed just four runs on 16 hits and three walks while striking out 28 over 24 innings of work. The overall stat line for the 33 year-old Fiers in 2018 is impressive, as he now boasts a 3.15 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, and 1.83 BB/9. However, fantasy owners should proceed with caution, as his 85.1% strand rate (75.6% career) and .273 BABIP allowed (.291 career) factor into a 4.45 xFIP and 4.26 SIERA. Considering that he gives up plenty of longballs, as evidenced by his 1.45 HR/9 (1.37 career), it's a minor miracle that he's stranded so many runners. The 37.9% hard-hit rate that he's surrendered to opposing batters is his highest since 2013, and his 43.5% flyball rate allowed surpasses his career clip of 39.1%. I'd definitely be wary of some regression toward the mean going forward, although making half of his starts in Oakland can help mitigate some of his flaws. Corey Kluber (SP-CLE) got beat up by the hapless Royals on Saturday, lasting only 5.1 innings in which he surrendered five earned runs on nine hits and two walks while striking out six. Although Kluber has been good this season - as evidenced by his 2.91 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 3.20 xFIP, and 3.33 SIERA - he hasn't been nearly as dominant as in seasons past. While his BB/9 remains elite at 1.25 (1.89 career), his K/9 is down to 8.62 (9.72 career) while he's giving up hard contact at a career-high 36.2% clip and that's contributed to an uptick in homers allowed (1.10 HR/9 in 2018, 0.88 career). His velocity is slightly down across the board in 2018, and he is throwing his trademark curveball less (22.5% this season, 27.4% last season) while tossing more cutters (29.2% this season, 23.7% last). At 32, Kluber may very well be starting to slow down, so it will be interesting to see how he continues to evolve as a pitcher. Barring a return to his 2017 form down the stretch, it's tough to imagine Kluber being a top-three SP option again in 2019 - although he should still be in the top 10. Lucas Giolito (SP-CWS) looked sharp against the Tigers, as he tossed seven innings in which he allowed just one earned run on three hits and a walk while whiffing six. It's been a terrible season for the former top prospect, as he now has a 5.85 ERA and 1.44 WHIP on the year - his 5.57 xFIP and 5.50 SIERA confirm that he's been just about that bad. His K/9 sits at 6.41 while his BB/9 is 4.67, and he's given up homers at a 1.43 HR/9 clip. But he might just be starting to figure things out, as his K/9 before the All-Star break was just 5.49 while he's raised it to 8.91 since. Meanwhile, his BB/9 has tumbled from 5.23 to 3.67, and he's cut his HR/9 from 1.48 to 1.31 from the first to the second half of the season. Accordingly, his xFIP during the second half sat at 4.06 entering play on Saturday (well below his 6.23 xFIP from before the All-Star break. If he continues to make strides down the stretch in 2018, he could be a nice value pick late in next year's drafts. This is just a small sample our daily analysis, join our member area for over 80 daily player updates sent to your inbox every morning and track your team online. Click here for details: https://www.insiderbaseball.com/baseballsample.htm Click here to register: http://www.fantistics.com/salesbaseball.php3 Adam Hodge @https://www.twitter.com/arhodge013 Adam Hodge (@arhodge013) has been playing fantasy baseball for twenty years. He learned that the game is a cruel mistress early on, as he drafted a young Adrian Beltre season after season before giving up on him just before he finally broke out in 2004. A true fantasy baseball junkie, he has won championships in a variety of formats, including rotisserie and head-to-head leagues that have had standard "snake" drafts as well as auction drafts. Adam is a die-hard Cleveland Indians fan who enjoys taking in major and minor league games alike. He lives in Toledo, OH, with his wife and baby girl, where he is a professor of history. NL Player Analysis- August 25, 2018	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526810
__label__wiki	0.591685	0.591685	Apple Inc. (AAPL) vs Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NOK): A Turnaround Story You Shouldn’t Miss Published on April 11, 2013 at 12:59 pm by The Motley Fool in News Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK), one of the most popular names in the smartphone industry, has lost much of its market share in recent years, mainly because of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)‘s iOS and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)‘s Android platforms. After finally ditching its Symbian operating system, which just wasn’t a smartphone type OS, Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) finally partnered with Microsoft for its line of Lumia smartphones. Since then, Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) hasn’t improved much, and the company’s shares are down nearly 30% in just 3 months. Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) struggled with its first generation of Lumia smartphones, mainly because it didn’t have time for further development as the lineup was released soon after the partnership. Its been a long time now, and with its latest offerings, Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK)’s smartphones do look better than before. However, competition is as fierce as ever, with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s latest iPhone, Samsung’s Galaxy S4 and Research in Motion LTD (NASDAQ:BBRY)‘s latest BlackBerry 10 smartphones. With a market cap of over $12.2 billion, Nokia is currently trading between $3.2 and $3.4. After jumping to the $4.6 mark in January, Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK)’s share price has been falling, which is probably because of Research in Motion LTD (NASDAQ:BBRY)’s BB10 event and the launch of Samsung’s latest Galaxy smartphone. Nokia does have a reputation of paying out dividends. However, after its latest earnings report, it cancelled its dividend in order to strengthen its cash flow position. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), on the other hand, is currently trading between $422 to $427 with a market cap of just under $400 billion. Even though some investors believe that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is a leading company in the tech sector, the company is currently facing hard times, declining sharply since September last year. Current position and analysis While some might say Nokia’s Q4 sales of 4.4 million Lumia smartphones were impressive, it’s still a big disappointment. The holiday period does boost sales of most manufacturers; however, Nokia’s sales have not been impressive at all compared to Samsung’s double-digit sales in the same period. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), on the other hand, shipped around 52 million iPhones in Q4, which some still consider as weak. Compared to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Nokia’s Lumia sales have been quite poor. That being said, Nokia still believes that sales were exceptional as the company exceeded its target for the period. While the Lumia is last year’s phone, it will be competing with BlackBerry’s Z10, which hit the U.S. last month. Basically, Nokia finds itself in a similar position as BlackBerry, as both companies have lost significant market share and are trying to get back on track. Both the companies are competing against the Apple’s iPhones and all the Android smartphones, where Samsung’s S3 and S4 have a major market share. In order for Nokia to boost sales of existing and upcoming smartphones, the market for Windows OS smartphones needs to go up. The table above (source: Kantar Wordpanel) shows that the Windows phone market share went up by around 2% in the U.S., while the market share of iOS and BlackBerry fell. Windows OS is now third in the market, as BlackBerry’s market share fell significantly due to the delay in the release of the Z10. However, in terms of global company market share, Nokia has a share of 4.9% while BlackBerry’s current share is around 4.6%. Future growth and expectations Even after a sluggish performance coming into 2013, Nokia expects to get a double-digit share of the market by 2014. There is no doubt that Nokia is taking the marketing element very seriously as it has a massive $1 billion marketing budget. Apple, being one of the biggest companies in the world, spent $1 billion on advertisement for the iPhone and the iPad combined. Vesa Jutila, Nokia’s Lumia marketing head, recently said that the company will have a two digit market share. He also said that the company is on the right track towards becoming the leader in smartphones once again. Apple Inc. (AAPL): Three Ways The Company Can Blow Your Mind at WWDC 2013 Understanding Apple Inc. (AAPL): Are New Health Apps Coming? Tech News: Apple Inc. (AAPL), Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), Research In Motion... Apple Inc. (AAPL) Conducting a Refresh of Its Apple Stores? Really? Apple Inc. (AAPL): Should It Buy Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)? Apple Inc. (AAPL), Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY), Nokia Corporation (ADR) (... Apple NASDAQ:AAPL Nokia Nokia vs. Apple NYSE:NOK	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526811
__label__cc	0.516126	0.483874	Published on Intellectual Takeout (https://www.intellectualtakeout.org) \| Jessica Hooten Wilson \| December 21, 2018 Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels “I choose novels that let me turn my brain off,” a student confessed to me. My immediate response was to chastise her, “You did not receive a brain so that it could be turned off.” However, that evening I found myself streaming an old sitcom episode while washing dishes instead of listening to the dozen Audible choices on my phone. Have we all succumbed to this way of being where we choose the easiest form of entertainment instead of the more challenging but fulfilling option of engaging literature? When I was an undergraduate, Internet was only available via an Ethernet cable in the wall; downloading movies was not a thing. We still watched VHS. The obvious pastime was reading novels. I would shuffle up to my top bunk in my dorm with a book in hand and stay up all night reading for fun. I usually chose whatever books were being assigned in someone else’s class. I scoured the university bookstore and made lists from classes that I wasn’t taking. Jack London used to do this as well, so I’m in good company. If a professor ever cited a novel in class, I wrote it down. If an upper-level student made a suggestion, I bought that book from the local half-priced store. My nightstand was a stockpile of novels, and not a single one of them turned off my brain. They all lit me from within, made me think over weighty and deep issues, and usually introduced me to mysteries beyond my immediate experience. Best of all, I found these novels entertaining. It was a real struggle to decide between staying in and reading or saying yes to my friends and going out at night. So what were these books that tempted me to lose sleep and miss parties? Most of them could be called “philosophical” or “metaphysical” novels, though I would not have known them as such at the time. I’m not talking about novels in which authors set out to create their own philosophies. These books may need to be read and grappled with (because sometimes pain is the best instructor), but I won’t recommend them. For instance, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead epitomizes such a novel, which downplays charity as always self-serving and exalts the Emersonian self-sufficient individual. I fell quickly in love with this book as a fifteen-year-old girl, but all it took was a healthy dose of G.K. Chesterton to cure me of the Rand syndrome. What I mean by philosophical novels are ones that ask the big, ultimate questions: Who am I? What is truth? Is there a God? What is wrong with the world? Out of the hundreds of titles that I could choose from, here are three must-reads: First, Albert Camus’s The Stranger [1]. From French Algeria to the American coasts, young men carried this novel folded in their back pockets, relying on it the way their elders had relied on the Bible. The novel is existentialist in the tradition of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and influenced Walker Percy’s later National Book Award–winning novel The Moviegoer (so after you read The Stranger, pick up Dostoevsky’s and Percy’s books next!). Written in a concise and pointed style, The Stranger recounts Monsieur Meursault’s travails following the death of his mother, which occurs in the first line of the book, “Mother died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know.” The antiheroic, first-person narrator strikes readers as unfeeling, his main crime, according to the society that judges him in the story. Yet he does feel, only his feelings are based on empirical reality: heat bothers him; he is motivated by cigarettes; he enjoys sex and dislikes pain. Abstract realities such as familial bonds, love, and professional calling mean nothing to him. Midway through the narrative, Meursault murders an Arab on a beach (inspiring The Cure’s first hit, “Killing an Arab,” [2] in 1978) because the sun was in his eyes. As Meursault’s execution looms before him, readers question who is at fault—Meursault or the society that purges outsiders, or strangers, from among them. That Hideous Strength In a completely different vein, C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength [3] is a metaphysical novel in which the action occurs on two planes—here on earth and in the heavenly realms. The book is the finale to a sci-fi trilogy beginning with Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra but it can stand alone and often enters into conversation with other English dystopias that warned against the political ills of communism or fascism or sheer anarchy—think Animal Farm, Brave New World, Oryx and Crake, A Clockwork Orange, and The Children of Men. More panoramic in scale than The Stranger, Lewis’s novel features warring ideologies. On one side is the grotesque severed head of a criminal as the ideal of progressives who want to make the human being into little more than a mind. The alternative is a community of love, sacrifice, and goodness. Lewis presents the dangers of the “inner ring” and our temptation to lose ourselves for the sake of personal ambition. Against what one character calls “goodness in the abstract,” which produces “the fatal idea of something standardized—some common kind of life to which all nations ought to progress,” That Hideous Strength uplifts the virtue of particular persons enacting grace toward one another. Also, you may look forward to an unsettling cameo by the wizard Merlin. The River Why Thankfully, no one has tried to make either The Stranger or That Hideous Strength into a film. It is a tell of a philosophical novel that it will fail on screen, for the strength of the book lies in its ideas, the dialogue, and the inner workings of characters’ minds. When reduced to plot, philosophical novels lack luster, which is what happened to my third suggested text, The River Why [4], in 2010. The book has had a cult following for more than thirty years and is a bildungsroman like The Alchemist and Life of Pi, where many worldviews are engaged. Its protagonist, Augustine “Gus the Fish” Orviston, dedicates his life to fishing and so moves out to a cabin by the river, as Thoreau does in Walden. Fishing becomes a metaphor for life in the novel, as Gus tries to determine how to live. He is a newly minted high school graduate with a dedication to a hobby that seems obsessive and obscures his nature as a human being, even from himself. Through education by a neighbor named Titus, Gus learns how to fish “for happiness, for consolation, for a way of comprehending the death of an Abe, the why in the Tamanawis, the beauty of an Eddy.” Ultimately, Gus discovers not only how to live but why. Literary people talk a lot about the power of books to increase readers’ empathy, about the need to engage another’s way of thinking about the world to question preconceptions. Even more so in 2018. In a culture in which algorithms control the content we consume—what movies to watch, what goods to buy, what news to listen to—the choice to read a book whose philosophy opposes our own and questions our sacred assumptions is nothing short of revolutionary. This article has been republished with the permission of the Intercollegiate Review [5]. [Image credit: Flickr, [6] CC BY-SA 2.0] [7] Source URL: https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/three-dangerous-philosophical-novels [1] https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Albert-Camus/dp/0679720200 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0WjDiaxUX0 [3] https://www.amazon.com/That-hideous-strength-fairy-tale-grownups/dp/B0006XEIRM/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536774856&sr=1-3&keywords=that+hideous+strength+by+c.s.+lewis [4] https://www.amazon.com/River-Why-David-James-Duncan/dp/031626122X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536774890&sr=1-1&keywords=the+river+why+by+david+james+duncan [5] https://home.isi.org/philosophical-novels [6] https://www.flickr.com/photos/83633410@N07/7658272558 [7] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526813
__label__wiki	0.989919	0.989919	03/09/2012 08:57 am ET Updated May 09, 2012 'The Counselor': Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman And Jeremy Renner May Join Ridley Scott's Next The last time Javier Bardem played a part envisioned by famed author Cormac McCarthy, he won an Academy Award. Will lightning strike twice? That's the hope for Ridley Scott, who is talking with the "No Country for Old Men" star about playing the villain in "The Counselor," an original script from McCarthy. Before you start fitting Bardem for a page-boy wig, note that Jeremy Renner is also in discussions for the role, according to Twitch. McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author behind "The Road" and "No Country," makes his screenwriting debut with "The Counselor," which follows a successful lawyer (Michael Fassbender, already cast) who takes a detour into the drug world for a fast buck. Bad idea. When first reporting about McCarthy's script, Deadline.com's Mike Fleming wrote that it was one of "McCarthy's most disturbing and powerful works." Bardem and Renner aren't the only big stars vying for a role; Twitch also reports that Natalie Portman is Scott's choice for the female lead in the piece, Fassbender's onscreen wife. Portman hasn't made a film since winning an Oscar and having a child last year. Scott has often, rightfully, been accused of piling up projects that never coalesce into actual films, but "The Counselor" seems like a sure thing; the film is expected to start shooting in May. Get tentatively excited, friend-o! [via Twitch] Natalie Portman Movies Ridley Scott Jeremy Renner Javier Bardem	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526815
__label__wiki	0.760099	0.760099	Study Shows Steep Decline in Tooth Loss, Increase in Socioeconomic Disparities Thursday, August 21, 2014 0 0 Alexandria, Va., USA – The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) have published a paper titled “Projections of U.S. Edentulism Prevalence Following Five Decades of Decline.” This study, by lead researcher Gary Slade, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, follows edentulism (tooth loss) over the last hundred years and highlights the numbers of people losing teeth and requiring dentures. It is published in the OnlineFirst portion of the IADR/AADR Journal of Dental Research (JDR). Jessica Y. Lee Joins the JDR as an Associate Editor Alexandria, Va., USA – The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) are pleased to announce that Jessica Y. Lee has been selected to become an associate editor of the IADR/AADR Journal of Dental Research (JDR). She will begin her term in September 2014. Kesavalu Lakshmyya - August 2014 Kesavalu Lakshmyya, B.V.Sc., M.Sc., S.C.C., is an associate professor at the University of Florida, College of Dentistry, Department of Periodontology. Prior to joining the University of Florida faculty, he was an associate research professor at the University of Kentucky, Department of Oral Health Science, Center for Oral Health Research. He earned his B.V.Sc. in veterinary medicine and surgery from Madras University, Chennia, India, in 1971; his S.C.C. in advanced statistics from the Institute of Agricultural Research Statistics, New Delhi, India, in 1975; and his M.Sc. in medical microbiology from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in 1979. Additionally, he was a post-doc fellow at the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver and at the University of Texas at San Antonio Health and Science Center, where he worked on a National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research project under his research mentors Jeffrey Ebersole and Stanley Holt. IADR/AADR Announce the JDR’s 2014 Scientific Impact Factor Friday, August 01, 2014 0 0 Alexandria, Va., USA – Today, the International and American Associations for Dental Research announced that the Journal of Dental Research (JDR) ranks #2 in the Two-Year Impact Factor rankings with a rating of 4.144, which is an increase from 3.826. In the Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine category, the Journal ranked #1 in Article Influence of the 82 journals in this category. This news comes from the new 2014 Scientific Impact Factor (SIF) rankings, published by the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The SIF is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. The Impact Factor helps to evaluate a journal’s relative importance, especially when compared with others in the same field.R/AADR) have published a paper titled “Rare Bone Diseases and Their Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Manifestations.” The complete review by researchers Sunday O. Akintoye, Andrea B. Burke, Alison M. Boyce, Michael Collins, Brian L. Foster, Rachel I. Gafni, Janice S. Lee, Mary Scott Ramnitz, Martha J. Somerman and J. Timothy Wright is published in the OnlineFirst portion of the IADR/AADR Journal of Dental Research (JDR).	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526817
__label__wiki	0.613256	0.613256	Bud G. DeSylva Producer Composer Writer Theatre Owner/Operator Lyricist Source Material B.G. DeSylva Buddy DeSylva Buddy Gard DeSylva George Gard DeSylva [Birthname] Henderson-DeSylva-Brown Nice Work If You Can Get It (Apr 24, 2012 - Jun 15, 2013) Additional lyrics by Buddy DeSylva One Mo' Time (Mar 06, 2002 - Mar 24, 2002) Featuring songs by B.G. DeSylva MusicalRevueOriginal Fosse (Jan 14, 1999 - Aug 25, 2001) Featuring songs with lyrics by B.G. DeSylva MusicalRevue DanceOriginal Big Deal (Apr 10, 1986 - Jun 08, 1986) MusicalDanceOriginal Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood (Jan 23, 1986 - Feb 02, 1986) Featuring songs with lyrics by Buddy DeSylva My One And Only (May 01, 1983 - Mar 03, 1985) Good News (Dec 23, 1974 - Jan 04, 1975) Music by B.G. DeSylva Book by B.G. DeSylva Lyrics by B.G. DeSylva MusicalComedyRevival Mr. Wonderful (Mar 22, 1956 - Feb 23, 1957) Featuring songs by Buddy DeSylva Panama Hattie (Oct 30, 1940 - Jan 03, 1942) Produced by B.G. DeSylva Louisiana Purchase (May 28, 1940 - Jun 14, 1941) Based on a story by B.G. DeSylva Du Barry Was a Lady (Dec 06, 1939 - Dec 12, 1940) Take a Chance (Nov 26, 1932 - Jul 01, 1933) Theatre Leased by B.G. DeSylva Flying High (Mar 03, 1930 - Jan 03, 1931) George White's Scandals [1929] (Sep 23, 1929 - Feb 08, 1930) Follow Thru (Jan 09, 1929 - Dec 21, 1929) Three Cheers (Oct 15, 1928 - Apr 13, 1929) Hold Everything (Oct 10, 1928 - Oct 05, 1929) George White's Scandals [1928] (Jul 02, 1928 - Jan 19, 1929) Excess Baggage (Dec 26, 1927 - Jun 30, 1928) PlayComedy Play with musicOriginal Artists and Models [1927] (Nov 15, 1927 - Mar 24, 1928) Manhattan Mary (Sep 26, 1927 - May 12, 1928) Good News (Sep 06, 1927 - Jan 05, 1929) Queen High (Sep 08, 1926 - Jul 23, 1927) George White's Scandals [1926] (Jun 14, 1926 - Jun 18, 1927) Captain Jinks (Sep 08, 1925 - Jan 30, 1926) MusicalRomantic ComedyOriginal Big Boy (Aug 24, 1925 - Dec 1925) Lyrics by Bud G. DeSylva Gay Paree [1925] (Aug 18, 1925 - Jan 30, 1926) George White's Scandals [1925] (Jun 22, 1925 - Nov 14, 1925) Tell Me More (Apr 13, 1925 - Jul 11, 1925) Big Boy (Jan 07, 1925 - Mar 14, 1925) George White's Scandals [1924] (Jun 30, 1924 - Dec 13, 1924) Sweet Little Devil (Jan 21, 1924 - May 03, 1924) Lyrics by Buddy DeSylva Nifties of 1923 (Sep 25, 1923 - Nov 03, 1923) Sally (Sep 17, 1923 - Oct 06, 1923) Additional lyrics by B.G. DeSylva Little Miss Bluebeard (Aug 28, 1923 - Jan 26, 1924) Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 [Summer Edition] (Jun 25, 1923 - Sep 15, 1923) The Yankee Princess (Oct 02, 1922 - Dec 09, 1922) Orange Blossoms (Sep 19, 1922 - Dec 09, 1922) George White's Scandals [1922] (Aug 28, 1922 - Nov 11, 1922) The French Doll (Feb 20, 1922 - Jun 03, 1922) Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 (Jun 21, 1921 - Oct 01, 1921) The Broadway Whirl (Jun 08, 1921 - Aug 20, 1921) Sally (Dec 21, 1920 - Apr 22, 1922) Lyrics for "Look For the Silver Lining" by B.G. DeSylva The Greenwich Village Follies of 1920 (Aug 30, 1920 - Mar 05, 1921) Morris Gest's "Midnight Whirl" (Dec 27, 1919 - Mar 13, 1920) Sketches by Buddy DeSylva La, La, Lucille (May 26, 1919 - Oct 11, 1919) MusicalFarceOriginal Good Morning, Judge (Feb 06, 1919 - Jun 06, 1919) MusicalOriginal Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 (Jun 18, 1918 - Closing date unknown) Featuring songs with lyrics by Bud G. DeSylva Follow the Girl (Mar 02, 1918 - Mar 23, 1918) Sinbad (Feb 14, 1918 - Mar 29, 1919) Dirty Dancing (Aug 21, 2014 - Jun 25, 2017) Fosse (Sep 14, 1999 - Feb 17, 2002) My One And Only (Mar 08, 1985 - Apr 20, 1986) Good News (Dec 15, 1973 - Oct 20, 1974) Words & Music by B.G. DeSylva Search where Bud G. DeSylva and	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526818
__label__wiki	0.9676	0.9676	Lists of Senior Officers and Civilian Officials of the US Navy Commander First Fleet Bogan, Gerald Francis The Navy Department Library Naval Air Force, US Atlantic Fleet Naval Air Force, US Pacific Fleet Amphibious Force, US Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Force, US Pacific Fleet Atlantic Command, Commander in Chief US Commander Sixth Fleet Fifth Fleet Commanders Commander in Chief US Allied Forces Southern Europe List of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installation and Environment) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) Office of Naval Material Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research Development and Acquisition) Bureau of Aeronautics Bureau of Equipment and Recruitment Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Bureau of Naval Personnel Bureau of Ships Bureau of Steam Engineering Bureau of Supplies and Accounts Bureau of Yards and Docks Chief of Chaplains Terms for the Chiefs of Naval Operations Commander in Chief US Naval Forces Europe Commander, Naval Education and Training Command. Commander Seventh Fleet Commanders, Naval Legal Service Command Director of Naval Reserve Directors of Naval Intelligence District Commanders First Naval District Andrews, Philip Benson, Roy Stanley Deyo, Morton Lyndholm De Steiguer, Louis Rudolph Gherardi, Walter Rockwell Hough, Henry Hughes McCrea, John L Rumble, Richard Edwards Sieglaff, William B Snackenberg, John Arthur Tarrant, William T. Thebaud, Leo Hewlett Wellings, Joseph H. Wiley, Henry Ariosto Wylie, Jr. Joseph Caldwell Third Naval District Fourth Naval District Fifth Naval District Sixth Naval District Ninth Naval District Tenth Naval District Eleventh Naval District Twelfth Naval District Thirteenth Naval District Fourteenth Naval District Fifteenth Naval District Seventeenth Naval District Gray Eagles Japan, Commander US Naval Forces Judge Advocate General of the Navy Naval Electronic Systems Command Headquarters Office of Information Under Secretary of the Navy Vice Chief of Naval Operations Washington Navy Yard, Commandants World War I 1917-1918 Image (gif, jpg, tiff) Gerald Francis Bogan 27 July 1894 - 8 June 1973 PDF Version [1.8MB] Gerald Francis Bogan was born in Mackinac Island, Michigan, on July 27, 1894, son of James H. and Katherine Nash Bogan. He attended Lane Technical High School in Chicago before his appointment to the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, which he entered from the Ninth District of Illinois, on June 15, 1912. While a Midshipman he played class football and participated in boxing, and won his letter as a member of Crew. Graduated and commissioned Ensign on June 3, 1916, he received temporary promotion to Lieutenant, both grades, during World War I, and subsequently advanced to the rank of Rear Admiral to date from December 7, 1942. On December 28, 1945, he was appointed Vice Admiral, to date from February 2, 1946, and was transferred to the Retired List of the US Navy in that rank on February 1, 1950. After graduation from the Naval Academy in June 1916, he was assigned to USS Vermont. The following October he reported for duty as Instructor of enlisted men at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes. Detached in March 1917, shortly prior to the United States' entry into World War I, he joined USS Birmingham, in which he served as Watch and Gunnery Officer while that cruiser was employed on escort of convoy duty in European waters throughout the war period. In January 1919, after the Armistice, he was transferred to USS Stribling, operating in Mediterranean and Adriatic waters and a year later he joined USS Hopewell to serve until May 1920 as Engineer Officer and later Executive Officer. He served next as Executive Officer of USS Broome, operating in the European and Asiatic areas, and in January 1922 became Commanding Officer of the US Naval Radio Station, Russian Island, Vladivostok, Siberia. He returned that station to the Soviet forces after its decommissioning. Returning to the Naval Academy in March 1923, he served as an instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Physics until May 1924 when he was ordered to the Naval Training Station, Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia. After brief duty there he reported in August to the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, where he had flight training and was designated Naval Aviator on March 16, 1925. He then was ordered to Honolulu, TH, to join Fighting Squadron ONE, based on the aircraft carrier Langley, and served for a year as Executive Officer of that squadron, and in command from September 1926 until July 1928. For two years he served as Commanding Officer of Squadron ONE and Wing Commander of Landplanes at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, and from June 1930 until July 1931 commanded Fighting Squadron 3, based on USS Lexington, later USS Langley. That squadron won the aircraft efficiency award for excellence in bombing and gunnery with an annual merit 50% higher than the second place squadron. He next served as Commander Fighting Squadron ONE, of USS Saratoga, and in June 1932 was detached for shore duty as Flight Test Officer at the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, DC. In June 1934 he rejoined the Lexington, in which he served as Assistant Air Officer until June 1935, and as Air Officer for a year thereafter. He again had a tour of duty at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, this time as Superintendent of Aviation Training until May 1937, and as Executive Officer until June 1938. He then joined USS Yorktown, in which he served for a year each as Navigator and Executive Officer. In August 1940 he reported for duty in connection with the establishment of the Naval Air Station at Miami, Florida, and commanded that station from its commissioning through the early months of World War II until October 1942. He then took command of the USS Saratoga, which had been damaged in August 1942 and returned to Pearl Harbor for repairs. That carrier operated in the South Pacific in support of Guadalcanal capture and extension of advance bases in the Solomon Islands. Detached on June 15, 1943, he then served until October 10, as Commander Naval Air, TENTH Fleet, under Admiral Ernest J. King, USN. The TENTH Fleet had no ships of its own but drew on air and surface forces of the Atlantic Fleet to combat the submarine menace. On October 14, 1943, he was designated Commander Fleet Air, Norfolk, Virginia, and on January 18, 1944, became Commander Carrier Division 25. Four months later he was transferred to command of Carrier Division 11, and on February 5, 1945, was again transferred to command of Carrier Division 4. Following the Saipan operation, he became Commander Task Group 38.2 and served as a Task Group Commander in Task Force 58/38 until the end of the war. For outstanding service in those commands during widespread operations in the Pacific Area, he was awarded the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Service Medal, Gold Star in lieu of the Second Distinguished Service Medal, and the Navy Cross. The citations follow, in order of action for which received: Legion of Merit: "For exceptionally meritorious conduct...as Commander of a Carrier Air Support Group engaged in operations for the capture of the Japanese-held Southern Marianas Islands during the period 14 June to 1 August 1944. By his understanding initiative, and outstanding ability, he conducted well-coordinated bombing and strafing missions, anti-submarine and combat air patrols in support of the amphibious landings in this theatre. His escort carriers were well organized and excellently handled their many aggressive missions contributed materially to the success of the operations..." Navy Cross: "For extraordinary heroism as Commander Task Group 38.2, during operations against enemy Japanese forces, November 25, 1944. When all the carriers under his command were damaged by enemy aerial attack, including two bomb hits on his own Flagship, Rear Admiral Bogan continued to fight his forces so vigorously that eight enemy aircraft were shot down by his ship's gunfire, and the remaining enemy aircraft driven away. By his courage and leadership, he contributed directly to the success of our forces in this area..." Distinguished Service Medal: "For exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in a duty of great responsibility while serving as Commander of a Task Group assigned to duty with the Second Carrier Task Force, Pacific Fleet, from 30 October 1944 to 25 January 1945. Under his direction his Task Group completed highly successful operations against enemy aircraft, shipping and land installations in the Philippine Islands, Formosa, the Nansei Shoto Islands and the Coast of Indo-China. His ability to organize, direct and inspire the forces under his command to their maximum effort resulted in devastating damage being inflicted on the enemy..." Gold Star in lieu of Second Distinguished Service Medal: "...As Commander Task Group 38.3, from July 1 to September 2, 1945...Rear Admiral Bogan pressed home devastating attacks on the home land of Japan in coordination with other task groups, directing destructive strikes against aircraft and supporting industries, installations and transportation facilities and concentrations of naval vessels at Yokosuka, Kure and Kobe. Under repeated aerial attacks delivered by the desperate Japanese, he maintained a high standard of fighting efficiency in all his gallant ships and employed brilliant defensive tactics in repulsing the fanatic enemy. (His) fearless leadership and his expert tactical control of the carriers, battleships, cruisers and destroyers in Task Group 38.3 were vital factors in the infliction of extensive damage on the enemy and in the completion of hazardous missions Without damage to his own ships..." In September 1945, following the capitulation of the Japanese the preceding August, Admiral Bogan returned to the United States and in October assumed command of Fleet Air, Alameda (California). On February 2, 1946 he became Commander Air Force, Atlantic Fleet, With the accompanying rank of Vice Admiral. Orders of July 1948 relieved him of that command and designated him Commander FIRST Task Fleet. He assumed command on January 8, 1949, and remained in that command until his retirement became effective on February 1, 1950. In addition to the Navy Cross, Distinguished Service Medal with Gold Star, the Legion of Merit, Vice Admiral Bogan has the Presidential Unit Citation with four stars; the Navy Expeditionary Medal (Siberia, 1922); the Victory Medal, Escort Clasp; the American Defense Service Medal, Fleet Clasp; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with operation stars; American Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; and Philippine Liberation Ribbon, with one star. Published: Thu Dec 21 09:47:29 EST 2017	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526821
__label__cc	0.719775	0.280225	At the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, we are the keepers not only of facts and objects, but also of stories – and it’s part of our mission to share those stories with you. The purpose of this blog is to share the stories of our history, artifacts, volunteers, staff and more. Be sure to check this space for updates, and follow us on social media to learn even more about who we are and what we do across the state of Indiana. Don't miss an update. Subscribe to topics that interest you, and we'll let you know when we publish blogs in those categories. Director of collections has eye for more than artifacts Traci Cromwell designs, creates her own clothes By Hannah Kiefer Those who know Traci Cromwell – the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites’ Director of Collections – have likely noticed one thing: She’s always wearing dresses or outfits you’ve never seen anywhere else. As it turns out, that’s because you haven’t seen them anywhere before. In her spare time, Traci creates just about all of her own clothing – from vintage-style dresses to skirts with zany patterns. Sewing didn’t always come easily to Traci. “I had taken Home Economics in middle school and hated sewing during those classes. For so many decades, I thought sewing wasn’t for me,” she said. “However, in my mid-40s I realized I could not find the styles of dresses I liked to wear. That issue led my husband to buy me a sewing machine.” Traci said she also hoped sewing could help her with her stress, and so she accepted the challenge and dove in headfirst, despite her misgivings from when she was younger. Within a matter of months, she’d fallen in love with the craft. For her, sewing was definitely more of a learning process than natural talent. “I am not a natural at sewing,” she said. “It’s taken three years for me to get to where I am currently with still so much more to learn.” To help, Traci watches YouTube videos occasionally, but for the most part she is self-taught. Despite her unease about sewing, she wanted to be a fashion designer from a young age, and she thinks that contributes to how quickly she learned. “I think the knowledge I got from looking at Vogue magazine growing up and really examining clothes I loved in detail helped me a great deal when I sat down to sew for myself,” she said. Traci’s favorite items to sew are dresses in a style reminiscent of the 1950s or 60s. She chooses fun prints for fabrics that tend to include dogs, cats or other animals. Bright colors mixed with bold prints have become her style of choice. One of her favorite pieces is the first dress she made. She didn’t use a pattern – she just went for it. “It’s made of an awesome Star Wars fabric from SpoonFlower that I still adore,” she said. “I made this dress to wear during the Star Wars exhibit here at the museum. Whenever I see it or wear it, the dress brings back so many fun, happy memories surrounding that experience.” Although currently Traci sews primarily for herself, she hopes in the future to try making dresses for other people who would enjoy them. “I’m getting maxed out in my closet at home, so I probably need to either stop making dresses for myself – not going to happen – or sell or give away some I just don’t wear anymore,” she said. As far as what Traci thinks other people considering sewing should know, she said much of the outcome starts with the machine you’re using. “Buy a good quality sewing machine,” she said. “The difference is huge in what a good sewing machine can do for ease of getting good results.” Her final advice? “Find something you like to wear or have in your home, and then make one for yourself,” she said. Posted by Kelsey Kotnik at 7:30 AM « Indiana’s new state insect has roots in New Harmony Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites to adjust hours and close on Mondays starting June 1 »	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526824
__label__wiki	0.742523	0.742523	Meets the second Wednesday of each month at 6 to 7 p.m. Supports patients and families affected by brain injuries, including strokes. Breast Cancer Support Groups 724.357.8081 Indiana Breast Cancer Support Group Meets the 4th Thursday of each month, 6 to 8 p.m. IRMC M. Dorcas Clark, MD, Women’s Imaging Center Library Room Individualized Breast Cancer Counseling Sessions Personalized Counseling with IRMC Nurse Navigator Schedule by calling: 724.357.8081 IRMC M. Dorcas Clark, MD, Women’s Imaging Center Diabetes Support Group—Adult Meets on a regular basis. Please call 724.357.7164 for more information. Families Affected by Mental Illness Support Group Meets the third Monday of each month at 10 a.m. in IRMC Private Dining Room #1. Insulin Pump Support Group Meets the last Wednesday of every other month in February, April, June, August, October and December. Ostomy Support Group Meets the first Wednesday of February, May, August and November, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in PDR #1. RTS Bereavement Services Pregnancy Loss Support Group Meets the third Thursday in May and December, 7 to 9 p.m. in PDR #2. Parent support group for parents and families experiencing pregnancy loss from miscarriage, tubal pregnancy, stillbirth and newborn death. VNA, Family Hospital & Palliative Care Bereavement Support Group Meets the third Tuesday of every month, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tom Spiker, Bereavement Coordinator This Week in Health e-newsletter Receive the latest health news in your inbox every Friday.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526825
__label__cc	0.606907	0.393093	Home Intermodal First intermodal train connecting Romania to Poland First intermodal train connecting Romania to Poland 20 July 2018 Intermodal GOPET Trans has launched a new intermodal railway train service, able to transport cargo across multiple Eastern European states. The new train, set to run once per week in each direction, departs from the Oradea Terminal (Romania), going through Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland, all the way to the Spedcont Container Terminal in the Polish city of Łódź. This journey will take place each Wednesday. The return run will take place each Friday, following the same route. The train will run for more than 1,000 km, passing through four border checkpoints, ultimately linking Romania and Poland, two of the most prominent markets of the Central and Eastern European regions. This is only a temporary schedule, considering GOPET plans to increase the frequency to two trains in each direction, starting in September. Furthermore, the company hopes to reach 40 wagons for each train, by the end of 2018. The current fleet of wagons includes Pallet Wide High Cube Containers, with operations handled smoothly at each end of the map. This new connection opens up trade possibilities with the Scandinavian states, thanks to the existing rail line from Łódź to Gdynia. As for the Balkan states, customers are able to use the train service running from the Curtici border city in Romania, to Stara Zagora (Bulgaria), via Rousse. Planning this route was a challenge for the GOPET team, seeing as a much shorter path could have been used through the Slovakian Tatra Mountains, if only a railway would have been traversing them. previous Shipping sector is improving next Big money for Montenegro businesses	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526829
__label__wiki	0.781022	0.781022	30 May – 13 June 2020 Subscribe TT COMEDY CLUB The new look TT Comedy Club on Saturday 6th June is an undoubted highlight of the fortnight’s festivities. This year’s entertainment will come courtesy of not one, but THREE of the UK’s freshest and most exciting comedians, with reigning Taskmaster champion Ed Gamble [Live at the Apollo / Mock the Week / Hypothetical / Man Down] headlining a night packed with serious comic talent. The TT Comedy Club also boasts the first appearance on the Island by Ahir Shah (Live at the Apollo / Mash Report). Twice nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Ahir is quickly becoming famous for his sharp observations and worldly-wise commentary. But that’s not all! Similar in format to BBC’s flagship comedy show, Live at the Apollo, the night will also be hosted by the exciting breakthrough talent that is Pierre Novellie (Mock the Week / Mash Report). Starting out with a stint in the famous Cambridge Footlights, Pierre (who has Manx links) will bring his hilarious offbeat presence to a night that promises perfect Saturday night entertainment. Ed Gamble is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He has appeared on some of the UK’s most popular TV Shows including Live at The Apollo, Mock the Week, The Russell Howard Hour, Royal Variety, Taskmaster, Hypothetical, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, Man Down, and a short film he can’t remember the name of where he killed a man from The Bill with a spade. Ed’s star has continued to rise in 2019, enjoying a sell-out national tour that was twice extended due to extraordinary demand. 2019 also saw the release of his first stand-up special – available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in 200 countries and territories worldwide. Ed also recently secured the title of Taskmaster Champion as he saw off competition from Jo Brand, David Baddiel and many others. He is also the co-host of the hugely successful Off Menu podcast, with James Acaster, which returned to no.1 in the iTunes charts earlier this year with its second series. AHIR SHAH Known for his signature blend of philosophical inquiry, political vigour, and sharp gags, Ahir Shah is one of the freshest and fastest-rising comedians of his generation. Nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards two years running, Ahir’s last show was performed to packed houses and critical acclaim before embarking on a sold-out run in London’s West End as well as a UK wide national tour. He has also performed internationally at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe and Just for Laughs Montreal, as well as having toured in continental Europe and India. Ahir has performed stand-up on The Now Show (Radio 4), Stand Up Central (Comedy Central), Live At The Apollo (BBC 2) and The Mash Report (BBC 2) for which he is also a regular writer. Outside of stand-up, Ahir has written and starred in the short films Ahir Shah’s Summer (Sky) and Ahir Shah’s Life Lessons (BBC Three). Other credits include Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC 2), Have I Got News For You (BBC 1), Catastrophe (Channel 4), Campus (Channel 4), Newsnight (BBC 2) and The Daily Politics (BBC 2). PIERRE NOVELLIE Described as a ‘major talent’ by The Guardian, Pierre Novellie is one of the best up-and-coming comedians in the UK today. Since debuting with the Cambridge Footlights in 2012, Pierre has picked up numerous awards and nominations as well as critical acclaim for his hilariously offbeat shows at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival. Pierre’s writing credits include Mock The Week (BBC 2), Newszoids (ITV) and Adam Buxton’s Shed of Christmas, while his TV credits include The Mash Report (BBC 2), Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live (BBC Three), Outsiders (Channel 4) and The Joke Thieves (BBC Three) opposite Marcus Brigstocke. Tickets for the TT Comedy Club are priced at just £25 and after last year’s truly hilarious show with ‘Strictly’ favourite, Chris Ramsey, the message is grab yours while you can! Reserve your tickets today	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526832
__label__cc	0.566324	0.433676	Selfies now five times more deadly than shark attacks shares 1.1k YOU ARE more likely to die trying to take a selfie than you are to be killed by a shark. That’s according to newly-published statistics from India’s Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, which has shone a light on the alarming amount of fatalities reported involving people attempting to take pictures of themselves. Data gleaned from October 2011 running through to November 2017 shows that at least 259 people across the world died taking selfies. By contrast, just 40 people were killed by sharks over the same time period. Fatal incidents involving drowning, falling or vehicular-based collision were all commonly found to have occurred as a result of selfie-taking. More than half of the reported deaths occurred in India, where 159 died. This high figure was attributed to the country’s high proportion of people under the age of 30 and the fact the practice is particularly trendy in the region. Image: TOurism Ireland The study called for the introduction of ‘no selfie zones’ in busy tourist areas close to bodies of water, tall buildings or mountain ranges. Similar plans have already been floated in Ireland, following a spate of selfie-related deaths. One proposal is calling for the installation of ‘selfie seats’ along the Cliffs of Moher following a series of tragic accidents. Back in January Trinity College Dublin student Anand Goel fell to his death at the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare while attempting to take a picture of himself more than 600 feet above sea level. See More: Cliffs Of Moher, Selfie Cliffs of Moher crowned Ireland’s most iconic landmark By: Jack Beresford - 2 months ago Woman rescued after falling onto narrow ledge 180m above sea in Co Clare Doonbeg tourism bookings 'soaring by 30%' after visit by US President Donald Trump By: Aidan Lonergan - 7 months ago	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526833
__label__cc	0.723107	0.276893	Study in Latvia Education system in Latvia Cost of living in Latvia Tuition Fees Latvia Work and study in Latvia Many of the graduate jobs can be found in Latvia. The international students may work for at least 20 hours per week on a part time basis. The main industries for working in Latvia are wood products, processed foods, textiles, processed metals, electronics and synthetic fibers. Many universities in Latvia give internships to the students. The placements begin in the summer and last from about four weeks to one year. The professional internships in technology, management, education and development are available from six weeks to 18 weeks. You may search for varied placements in Latvia on the various placement zones. There are many international companies that provide internships in Latvia. There are some companies that make an effort to make the future of the students secure in Latvia. The students may get an offer letter from the university or college. To work part time is allowed in Latvia. The students may work for 20 hours per week in Latvia. One may also work for forty hours per week in Latvia during vacations and holidays. Latvia has got an enormous potential with respect to providing of the jobs. To work and study in Latvia for international students has its own challenges and one can prosper a lot while working in Latvia. You may contact us to know more about the prospect of work and study in Latvia.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526835
__label__wiki	0.866182	0.866182	Home » OSHA chief selection: Going to Plan B OSHA chief selection: Going to Plan B With word from Washington that former lead contenders for the top OSHA slot, the AFL-CIO’s Peg Seminario and former NIOSH Director Dr. John Howard are out of the running, and industrial hygienist Hamid Arabzadeh is facing mounting labor opposition, who else might make the OSHA short list? An intriguing name was brought to our attention by a Washington source in late March: Kathryn O’Leary Higgins. Since 2006, Kitty Higgins has worked directly in the safety field as a member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). In 2008, she was described in a Culver City, Calif., online newspaper article about a Los Angeles commuter-freight train crash that killed 25 people as “sassy” and known to sometimes have “difficulty keeping her boiling Irish temper tucked beneath her collar… (she is) a lady very conscious of her status as an outspoken Democrat.” Higgins has extensive experience in the Department of Labor. She served as deputy secretary of the Department of Labor (July 1997-May 1999), chief of staff to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich (January 1993-February 1995), and began her career in government in 1969 as a manpower specialist with the Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. “I’ve made a dozen calls about her, and the verdict is unanimous: Few people know Washington as well, and how to maneuver in it,” Reich wrote in his 1997 memoir, “Locked in the Cabinet.” “Her annual St. Patrick’s Day party is a Washington fixture. Another Irish pol, she loves the game of politics. She’s also interested in the substance. She’s devoted most of her adult life to the cause of helping working people make something more of their lives.” Another name that surfaced recently is Mark Briggs, campus risk manager at the University of Illinois. Briggs joined the university’s Division of Public Safety in 2000, coming to the job with experience in risk management consulting and the insurance industries. Briggs owned a safety and risk management consultancy full-time for seven years, after having worked in the insurance industry for 11 years. He is a graduate of the health sciences/safety program at Illinois State University and has earned professional designations of Associate in Risk Management and Certified Safety Professional. He is an active member of several national associations, including the University Risk Management and Insurance Association, the Risk and Insurance Management Society, and the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE). In a 2003 video released by ASSE to commemorate Labor Day, the group said its members were responding to the changing face of workplace safety following 9/11. “We’ve entered a whole new phase,” Briggs said in the video. “We are more focused now on emergency planning, trying to plan for contingencies that were not on our radar screen before.” One source tells us state OSHA program administrators are being looked at by the search committee. Peter DeLucca, recently retired head of the respected Oregon OSHA program, has been one name mentioned. Several sources tell us Charles Jeffress would be interested in returning to his old job as OSHA chief now that Seminario is no longer in the picture. He could be a compromise candidate. As once source told us, “Perhaps the best you can hope for is lukewarm support from business and labor (since they will almost never agree on anything OSHA-related).” Sources say other names that have surfaced since the November election do not appear to have much traction, such as Dr. Michael Silverstein (clinical professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health, and former director of policy for OSHA from1993 to 1995), Frank Mirer (former head of the United Auto Workers safety and health department, now professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the Hunter School of Urban Public Health in New York City), Jordan Barab (senior policy advsior for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor), and David Michaels (professor at George Washington University and assistant secretary of energy for environment, safety, and health under President Clinton). Remember this, though: seasoned OSHA-watchers in Washington say never rule out a surprise selection. Hilda Solis was not on anyone’s watch list for the Secretary of Labor job. When it comes to Washington chatter, the age-old adage still holds: “Those that know ain’t saying, and those that are saying don’t know.” OSHA chief: "Guidelines only way to go" OSHA chief selection: 10 little, 9 little, 8 little Indians...	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526836
__label__wiki	0.641856	0.641856	Home » Blogs » Thought Leadership » Running into market barriers: OSHA Version 3.0 Dave Johnson is the industry's longest-tenured editor, with 31+ years experience leading ISHN. Dave has conducted state-of-the-industry White Paper reader surveys since 1983. He launched the industry's first magazine web site in 1995, and the For Distributors Only business supplement also in 1995. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in magazine journalism from Ohio University.Contact Dave at johnsond@bnpmedia.com. Running into market barriers: OSHA Version 3.0 KEYWORDS administration / health / regulatory / safety If a new generation comes about every 20 years or so, we’ve now seen two generations at the controls of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or Versions 1.0 and 2.0. Version 3.0 has been on the market since 2008, when the third generation of OSHA hands took command of the agency. OSHA was signed into law by President Nixon at the end of 1969, and Version 1.0 began functioning in 1970. OSHA Version 1.0 was the workhorse between1970 and 1990. Critics called its ramped-up inspection programming trivial and/or out of touch. OSHA of course had a lot of catching up to do when it first opened its doors. OSHA Version 1.0 included a raft of “no brainer” rules and regs: Benzene. Vinyl chloride. Cotton dust. Machine guarding. Use of PPE. Unions were happy, business trade associations outraged, and a good many people made a nice profit selling PPE to first-time users while OSHA Version 1.0 was out running in the marketplace. OSHA Version 1.0 was updated in the 1980s with the landmark hazard communication rule, a stricter noise exposure standard, and after Bhopal, the process safety management rule in 1992. The activist image associated with OSHA Version 1.0 concluded, in hindsight, with the confined space rule issued after 16 years in 1993. A Republican appointee, OSHA chief Jerry Scannell, ironically pushed for an expanded OSHA Version 2.0 with the support of Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole between 1988-1992. OSHA Version 2.0 featured forays by OSHA into regulating motor vehicle safety and smoking in the workplace. Both features of OSHA Version 2.0 were extremely controversial in the marketplace due to their perceived broad intrusiveness, and never got beyond proposals. OSHA Version 2.0 had its run from 1990 to 2010. The Democratic Clinton administration, again with some irony here, tried engineer a “reinvention” program in OSHA Version 2.0, with various “customer friendly” bells and whistles. Now unions were outraged and business groups skeptical, prodded to be ever-suspicious by labor law attorneys and other profiteers of the more angry features of OSHA Version 1.0. In 2001 President George W. Bush streamlined OSHA 2.0 by stripping it of most complicated programming, regarding a set of ergonomics rules, From 2000 to 2008 OSHA Version 2.0 was indeed a stripped-down model. There were very few new regulatory features. Version 2.0 came with a much better OSHA website, and much more programming geared at generating alliances, partnerships and promoting the Voluntary Protection Program. In 2008 the Obama administration unveiled OSHA Version 3.0. At first look it seemed very retro, harkening back to the Version 1.0 programming of “the cop is back on the beat.” The alliance and VPP programming of Version 2.0 were trimmed way back. There were worries, unfounded it turned out, that the VPP would be discontinued in Version 3.0. Selling OSHA Version 3.0 has been tough going on Capitol Hill and on Main Street. Version 3.0 had some expansive regulatory programming, highlighted by an injury and illness prevention program feature that appears costly and complicated at a time many businesses are simply trying to survive the rocky economy. In 2012 and beyond, look for OSHA Version 3.0 to build on its wildly popular website; an absolute treasure trove of safety and health information. Other features of Version 3.0: OSHA sponsored “how to” webinars and podcasts; many more YouTube OSHA produced videos; and OSHA mobile apps for iPad-type devices and smartphones. Future versions of OSHA will like continue to focus on customer-friendly information technology, provided it can get the budget dollars for it. The small stores on Main Street love to access OSHA’s information resources. Future versions will continue to offer sturdy enforcement programming for “bad actors” and “serial violators,” training components, and a stripped-down regulatory feature that will be activated to go live when a Democrat sits in the White House and the economy is growing, not shrinking. In addition to the personal hardship and loss... No one will know the answer to this... Bad drivers don't have to ruin your day... Healthcare workers face a number of serious safety... In my experience, truck drivers are treated with...	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526837
__label__wiki	0.794954	0.794954	IBM Australia boss David La Rose replaced by Katrina Troughton By Brendon Foye on Jul 26, 2019 3:37PM David La Rose off stateside after two years in the top job. IBM’s Australia and New Zealand managing director David La Rose has vacated the role after being promoted to a global position in the US. La Rose was appointed to the leadership role in 2017 after a near 28-year career with IBM. He’ll relocate to the US for his new role as general manager of IBM’s partner ecosystem, reporting to North America chairman Tom Rosamilia. Replacing La Rose is another 28-year IBM veteran Katrina Troughton, who was most recently general manager of sales based in Sydney. Troughton’s career includes roles with IBM in Australia, New Zealand, China and the US, including leadership of the New Zealand business from 2004 to 2009. Originally hailing from New Zealand, Troughton’s resume also includes positions such as vice president for enterprise and commercial sales for Asia-Pacific, where she’s credited with revitalising the region’s skills agenda, and global vice president for IBM’s Smarter Workforce Solutions working to reform end-to-end offerings and the go-to-market strategy to drive SaaS and services solutions. “There is an incredibly diverse and talented team at IBM A/NZ, and I look forward to continuing the work done to date in leading business and cultural transformation at IBM,” Troughton said. “I have a great sense of pride in taking on this role and continuing to build on the trust and confidence our clients have in IBM to help them drive innovation and digital reinvention.” IBM's 2019 has been a mixed bag thus far. This week, the Australian arm scooped a $95.5 million deal with the Department of Defence to design a new SAP-based ERP system. The global systems integrator has also struggled with its cloud platform's stability, suffering multiple outages in 2019. david la rose ibm katrina troughton training & development By Brendon Foye Macquarie Uni debuts IBM's AI classroom curriculum Canberra Uni's mainframe scholarships off to a crunchy start Facebook targets UK growth with 1000 hires this year	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526840
__label__wiki	0.707053	0.707053	Jewish Independent Where different views on Israel and Judaism are welcome. Events calendar Jan. 17 to Feb. 2, 2020 עניין בחדשות A roundup of news in Canada and further afield, in Hebrew. From the JI Celebrating the Holidays The Daily Snooze Cartoons by Jacob Samuel Help the JI and JMABC fill in the gaps in our archives. Organizations, Etc. Other News Sources & Blogs Subscribe / donate JI Chai Celebration [email protected]! video טיסת שבע חמש שתיים – חלק א’ Opera urges “never forget” Searching for a safe harbour Last Cabaret almost sold out Let’s be more Jewish Cohen’s clay defies gravity Victoria hosts Klondike Artistic responses Making hydrogen from sunlight Tips for inclusivity A time to learn who we are BRCAinBC’s inaugural event Funds for Jewish studies Police incident at shul Extremes and elections Jacob Samuel records album It’s a Wonderful Life in music Be in on the joke in AI Alice’s wonder and silliness Classes on being a DJ Annual civil courage tribute O My God at Emanu-El Inspired through story, song Many milestones for Wosk in 2019 Tweets by @JewishIndie Alison Snowden and David Fine's Oscar-nominee Animal Behaviour Vancouver Jewish community's Public Speaking Contest, a short film Kosher foods are branching out From kimchi to cast iron, more than 300 new products were on display at this year’s Kosher Fest. (photo by Dave Gordon) At Kosherfest this year, there were such traditional Jewish staples as gefilte fish, matzot, bagels and cured meats. But cauliflower pizza crusts, organic tequila, vegan cheeses, kimchi and date-seed coffee were among 300 new products on display. The two-day event in New Jersey was the 31st annual convention. It showed that kosher food does not necessarily hail from countries with large Jewish populations. In the hopes of grabbing a slice of the market, exhibitors came from around the world, including from South Korea, Australia, Italy, Brazil, Mexico and the Netherlands. From Pakistan, Adnan Pirzada, the general manager of Dewan Sugar Mills, was exhibiting kosher-certified ethanol for companies to use in beverages and mouthwashes. Currently, they export to 30 countries and are seeking U.S. consumers. The certification is new to the 15-year old company, which produces 125,000 litres of ethanol a day. “We wanted to tell people that there’s nothing not kosher that ever comes in contact with what we make,” he said, noting that “sometimes, non-kosher ingredients can be in foods and people not know it.” An example of that came from Dakshin Thilina, the director of Nexpo Conversion, makers of kosher dried coconut milk powder and coconut oil in Sri Lanka. Nexpo supplies an Australian ice cream manufacturer and an organic chocolate manufacturer, and hopes to find U.S. distribution. “There are three big players in Sri Lanka [in the coconut industry] and they all use sodium caseinate, an animal-based product, and that makes it non-kosher,” he said. “So, now, with vegan, organic and other aspects that make these popular, we needed to enter the market in a different way. We cut out the sodium caseinate and went with a pure organic powder. Without that component, it’s essentially lactose-free – the allergies people suffer from due to milk-based products is out and, because it’s non-dairy, kosher Jews can use it anytime, alongside meat.” In Dubai, kosher catering is a one-woman show, and she was at Kosherfest. Elli Kriel, a South African expat of seven years who lives in Dubai, began her company recently. “I was producing kosher food for our family and people started reaching out to me,” she said. “Travelers in particular, moving through the city, needed kosher food. I used to invite them to eat in our home, but I realized, as more and more people began reaching out, I was in a good position to offer kosher catering.” She said Elli’s Kosher Kitchen’s launch was bolstered by the United Arab Emirates’ Year of Tolerance, announced in February, “a government initiative promoting the idea of diversity within the UAE and the tolerance for all religions and races.” It was then, she added, that the Jewish community was formally recognized and, “at that moment, I thought it was perfect to step forward.” There are about 150 people in the Jewish community, with tourists receiving food each day, she said. Not everything exhibited at Kosherfest was a food product. (photo by Dave Gordon) Kosherfest attracted about 6,000 attendees this fall, some 800 more than last year. With 360 exhibitors, roughly 300 products on the floor had been introduced within the last 12 months, said organizers. A recent Quartz article elaborated that it is “fairly astounding that more than 40% of the country’s [United States’] new packaged food and beverage products in 2014 are labeled as being kosher, while it was on only 27% of packaged foods in 2009.” Explanations for this include the public’s desire for assurance that a product does not include certain allergens, or traces of allergens, such as shellfish. Or an assurance that a product is vegetarian or vegan, as in the example of Oreo cookies, that once contained lard, prior to the producers’ switch to kosher. Another example of food that contains ingredients that may surprise some consumers is cheese. Most cheeses contain enzymes and rennet (animal-derived), but the Sheese line uses coconut oil, palm oil and other vegan replacements. Hailing from Scotland’s Isle of Bute, the “cheese” is lactose-free, vegan, kosher, cholesterol-free and gluten-free, appealing to various dietary needs. In light of bug infestations in dozens of supermarket vegetables and the challenge of washing them thoroughly so as not to ingest these non-kosher critters, Boston-based Fresh Box Farms came to Kosherfest with a solution. They’re growing and selling leafy greens that are hydroponically grown in a triple-sealed environment, using no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides. “It’s free of any pests. And we don’t wash our product, and the consumer doesn’t need to either,” said Jacqueline Hynes, senior marketing officer. An online essay by Star-K, a kosher certification agency in Maryland, noted that some “35 million non-Jewish consumers of kosher products” buy them because of health and food safety concerns, “as a trustworthy means of ensuring that these criteria are being addressed.” Food production companies, it says, are increasing their lines of certified products, due to “more general cultural anxiety about industrialization of the food supply.” Menachem Lubinsky, chief executive officer of Lubicom, the organizer of the event, said kosher foods today appeal to a “more health-conscious consumer. Now, it’s become almost fashionable to have vegan or gluten-free, so why not kosher? They don’t want any customer to be left out.” By 2025, the kosher industry will reach some $25 billion US in sales a year, according to the Jerusalem Post. Not everything exhibited at Kosherfest was a food product. One company sold kosher cast-iron cookware. Isaac Salem, president of New York-based IKO Imports, said their cookware differentiates itself from other such products, as its non-stick “seasoning” is created with a proprietary plant-derived oil base, rather than the typical animal fat, “which obviously can come from non-kosher sources.” He said their cookware holds up against competitors, and appeals to vegans, as well. Consumers who keep kosher will also be able to enjoy something they’ve never had before. Promised Land Beverage Company’s Exodus Hopped Cider does not contain any leavened products or grains; rather, it has fermented apples and hops, add could double as a kind of beer. “Now you can have beer at the seder,” said Yoni Schwartz, company president, “something unimaginable in the past.” Dave Gordon is a Toronto-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in more than 100 publications around the world. Format ImagePosted on December 6, 2019 December 3, 2019 Author Dave GordonCategories WorldTags food, Judaism, kashrut, Kosherfest Serve up a gift of food Daniella Silver, author of the Silver Platter cookbook series, has recently come out with Variations: Simple and Delicious Dishes. Two Ways (Artscroll Shaar Press). In The Silver Platter: Simple to Spectacular, Silver offered recipes with basic ingredients, inviting readers to experiment. In The Silver Platter, Simple Elegance, she focused on recipes with a little more creative flair in presentation and attention to detail. In Variations, she shares with readers versatile recipes that can be served at least two different ways. In the new cookbook, the basic recipe is on the left-hand page, with a note whether it is dairy, meat or pareve or any combination; if it is gluten-free, if it freezes well and the number of servings. The amounts are regular and metric. On the right-hand page is the variation. Both pages have colour photographs. In the book as a whole, there are 251 recipes and 273 photographs. Variations’ 10 sections are appetizers (like Deli Egg Rolls and Dill Pickle Football Wings), soups (including Vegetarian Vegetable Quinoa Soup and Dinner Steak Soup), salads (such as Panko-Topped Kale Salad and Pretty Brussels Sprouts Salad), fish (French Fried Onion Salmon and No-Mayo Avocado Tuna Salad, for example), chicken (Old-Fashioned BBQ Chicken and Potato Latke Schnitzel, among others), meat (like Brisket Ends and Overnight Shabbos Corned Beef), dairy (Crustless Baby Red Potato Quiche, Baked Broccoli Tots, etc.), grain sides (such as Crispy Garlic Couscous and Fresh Orzo Salad), vegetable sides (like “Everything Bagel” Asparagus and Maple-Glazed Japanese Sweet Potatoes) and desserts (among which are Low-Fat Ginger Biscotti and Olive Oil Salted Raspberry Brownies). There are a lot of creative ideas for experienced cooks and great new ideas for all cooks to explore. On her website (daniellasilvercooks.com), Silver says, “I wrote Variations because I felt it’s time to change things up. I want readers to get creative with the foods they prepare by understanding that a recipe can be versatile in preparation or presentation.” As a food writer and cookbook author, I caught a couple of small but obvious technicalities. When Silver suggests a choice of two ingredients – honey or silan, soy sauce or tamari, for example – she does not mention both possibilities in her instructions for the variation. When she suggests using a prepared pan, she is inconsistent in indicating in her instructions what preparing the pan means – vegetable spray, flour, etc. She is also inconsistent in telling the reader to preheat the oven as an initial step. Lastly, in the prime recipe, she uses numbers in the instructions; in the variations, she does not. Numbering all of the recipes would have made it easier for cooks, and I have done so below. Here are two recipes with their variations. RUSTIC SHEET PAN CHICKEN meat, gluten-free, freezes well, yields 4-6 servings 1 3 lb chicken, cut into eighths 4 peeled, trimmed carrots, cut in half crosswise then lengthwise 1 19 oz can chickpeas, rinsed and drained 1 cup dried fruit (raisins, apricots, prunes) 2 tbsp extra light olive oil 3 tbsp pure maple syrup or honey Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Trim and discard excess fat from chicken. Arrange chicken, skin side up, in a single layer on prepared pan. Scatter carrots, chickpeas and dried fruit around chicken. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, onion powder, garlic powder and paprika. Drizzle with oil or maple syrup; toss to coat. Bake, uncovered, for 50-60 minutes, or until chicken juices run clear when pierced with a fork. Variation: Rustic Couscous for a meatless main, omit the chicken Cook 1 1/2 cups couscous according to package directions. Toss carrots, chickpeas and dried fruit on prepared baking sheet with spices, oil and maple syrup or honey. Bake, uncovered, at 375°F for 40 minutes or until golden. Place couscous onto a large serving platter, top with roasted veggies and dried fruit. ROSE PETAL APPLE TART pareve, gluten-free option, yields 10 servings 1 1/2 cups flour (or gluten-free flour) 1 1/2 tbsp vinegar 5-6 thinly sliced apples Preheat oven to 375°F. Lightly coat a 9- or 10-inch flan pan or pie plate with nonstick cooking spray. In a large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, oil and vinegar. Mix to make a soft dough. Press dough evenly against bottom and sides of prepared pan. In a medium bowl, combine sliced apples with brown sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice; gently mix well. Starting at the outer edge of pan, place apple slices slightly on an angle to form a circle, making sure to overlap the apples. Repeat with additional rows, working your way toward centre. Place additional apples in any gaps (apples should be tightly packed). Pour on any remaining liquid in apple bowl. Variation: Apple Crisps Peel, core and cut apples into large chunks. Place in large bowl; mix with brown sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice. Place in individual ramekins. Bake, uncovered, for 25-30 minutes. Serve either the principle or variation dish hot or at room temperature. Sybil Kaplan is a journalist, lecturer, book reviewer and food writer in Jerusalem. She created and leads the weekly English-language Shuk Walks in Machane Yehuda, she has compiled and edited nine kosher cookbooks, and is the author of Witness to History: Ten Years as a Woman Journalist in Israel. Format ImagePosted on November 29, 2019 November 27, 2019 Author Sybil KaplanCategories BooksTags cookbook, Daniella Silver, food, recipes, Silver Platter Rosh Hashanah’s many foods At a Sephardi Rosh Hashanah seder, one of blessings, over leeks (or cabbage) is the request, may “our enemies be destroyed.” (photo from Wikimedia) Food customs differ among Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews. For example, whereas Ashkenazim dip apple in honey at Rosh Hashanah, some Sephardim traditionally serve mansanada, an apple compote, as an appetizer or dessert, according to The World of Jewish Desserts by Gil Marks, z”l. Just as gefilte fish became a classic dish for Ashkenazi Jews, baked sheep’s head became a Rosh Hashanah symbol for many Sephardi Jews, dating back to the Middle Ages. Some groups serve sheep brains or tongue or a fish with head, probably for the same reasons, for fruitfulness and prosperity and wishes for the New Year of knowledge or leadership. The Talmud mentions the foods to be eaten on Rosh Hashanah as fenugreek, leeks, beets, dates and gourds, although various Jewish communities interpret these differently. According to Rabbi Robert Sternberg, in The Sephardic Kitchen, Sephardi Jews have a special ceremony called the Yehi Ratsones (Hebrew for “May it be Thy will”), where each food is blessed. There are foods that symbolically recognize God’s sovereignty and our hope He will hear our pleas for a good and prosperous year. The Hebrew word for gourds is kara, which sounds like both the word for “read/proclaim” and the word for “tear.” When we eat the gourd or pumpkin, there are two possible Yehi Ratzons that can be said. The first one goes: “May it be your will, Hashem, that our merits be read/proclaimed before you.” The other is that the decree of our sentence should be torn up. The second food mentioned is fenugreek, or rubia, which sounds like yirbu, the Hebrew word for “increase.” Therefore, we say a Yehi Ratzon that contains the request, may “our merits increase.” The word for the third food, leeks or cabbage, is karsi, krusha or kruv, which sounds like kares, or the Aramaic word karti, to cut off or destroy. The Yehi Ratzon asks, may “our enemies be destroyed.” The fourth food, beets or beet greens, silka or selek, sounds like siluk, meaning removal, or she’yistalqu, to be removed, or the Aramaic word silki. The Yehi Ratzon requests that “our adversaries be removed.” The last food is dates, tamri or tamar, which sounds like the Hebrew word sheyitamu and the Aramaic word tamri, to consume. Hence, we say a Yehi Ratzon that asks, may “our enemies be consumed.” For many Jewish cultures, the fish head is a symbol on the Rosh Hashanah table. (image from chabad.org) All of these foods, which grow rapidly, are also symbols of fertility, abundance and prosperity. Among other items that might be on a Sephardi table at Rosh Hashanah, Sternberg includes baked apples dipped in honey or baked as a compote with a special syrup; dates, which were among the seven species found in Israel; pomegranates, which have many seeds, or black-eyed peas, to represent our hoped-for merits; rodanchas, a pastry filled with pumpkin whose spiral shape symbolizes the unending cycle of life; and a fish head, symbolizing a wish to be the head in life, a leader, and not the tail. The main course might feature stuffed vegetables, symbolizing a year full of blessings and prosperity. Some communities ban sharp, bitter or black foods for Rosh Hashanah, such as black olives, eggplant, chocolate or coffee. In The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews, Edda Servi Machlin, z”l, who grew up in Pitigliano, Tuscany, explains that her father held a seder for Rosh Hashanah around the theme of growth, prosperity and sweetness. On the seder plate were a round challah, a boiled rooster’s head, fish such as anchovies, boiled beets, figs and pomegranates. In the centre was a dried, round, sourdough cake with an impression of her father’s right palm and fingers, and fennel weed growing on each side. The foods were then blessed – “May we grow and multiply like fish in the ocean, like the seeds of a pomegranate, like the leavening, grain and fennel of the bread. May the year be sweet like beets and figs.” The meal consisted of soup, fish, salad, chicken and fruit. Italian Jews also often serve at Rosh Hashanah desserts made with honey and nuts; stick or diamond-shaped cookies; strufali, cookies made of fried dough balls in honey; or ceciarchiata, cookies that resemble chickpeas and are made from bits of dough like the Ashkenazi teiglach. A Greek cookbook writer from Ioannina (Yahnina) wrote that the people of her area made koliva, a thick porridge of wheat berries flavoured with cloves, cinnamon, walnuts and honey for eating on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. According to Marks in The World of Jewish Desserts, wheat berries are unprocessed whole wheat with the outer husk removed, leaving a nutty flavour and chewy texture. Jews of Yahnina also ate kaltsoounakia, a half-moon-shaped cake stuffed with ground walnuts, honey, cinnamon and cloves. For the main course, dishes in Yahnina were influenced by the Turkish occupation and included stuffed tomatoes, stuffed squash and stuffed vine leaves – filled with lamb, rice and parsley, as well as okra stewed with chicken. Instead of honey cake, Greek Jews might have baklava for Rosh Hashanah dessert. (photo from Wikimedia) Other Jews of Greece have different customs. Nicholas Stavroulakis, author of Cookbook of the Jews of Greece, writes that some people soak apples in honey or eat quince or rose petals cooked in syrup as the New Year sweet. Fish is often the main course and, in place of honey cake for dessert, Greek Jews use almonds or pumpkin in making turnovers, as a symbol of abundance. Other desserts include semolina cake in syrup, pastry triangles filled with nuts or dried fruit, or baklava. Among Jews of Syria, sugar or honey is substituted for salt at the table, and many families do not serve any dishes that are sour. For the second night Shehechiyanu blessing, the fruit used may be quince, prickly pear, star fruit or figs. Instead of, or in addition to, dipping apples in honey, Jews of Syria often dip dates in honey. Many Jews from Muslim countries also eat autumn foods cooked with sugar and cinnamon; the food names contain a symbolic allusion to prayers in Aramaic and, through alliteration, are recited over the vegetables and fruits. Syrian Jews use the same prayers but over different vegetables: leek, Swiss chard, squash, black-eyed peas, pomegranate and the head of an animal. This idea of wanting people to be smart, as symbolized by the head or brain, is observed by Jews of Tunisia in their serving of a cake made with chicken and calves brains. Moroccan Jews take sesame seeds, warm them in the oven and eat them with apple dipped in honey to symbolize that Jews should be fruitful and multiply like the seeds and have the sweet year. They also eat the pomegranate because of its alleged 613 seeds, which symbolize the 613 mitzvot. Moroccan Jews identify the seven autumnal foods as pumpkin, zucchini, turnip, leek, onion, quince and Chinese celery, and sprinkle these with sugar and cinnamon to eat at the beginning of the meal. Some Moroccan Jews also serve cooked lamb head as an appetizer for Rosh Hashanah. Other lamb dishes served might be lamb with prunes and almonds or lamb intestines filled with rice, meat and tomato, seasoned with cinnamon and cardamom. Another popular dish served by Moroccans for Rosh Hashanah is couscous, the traditional North African grain, or farina. It is steamed above a stew made with meat or chicken, chickpeas, pumpkin, carrots, cinnamon and raisins. Baked fish with the head, made with tomatoes and garlic, tongue with olives, or meat and rice rolled in Swiss chard are other Moroccan New Year’s dishes. Two soups that may be served are vegetable soup with pastels, a meat-filled turnover similar to kreplach, and potakhe de potiron, a yellow, split-pea and pumpkin soup. The evening may be completed with honey-dipped “cigars,” filled with ground almonds and traditional hot mint tea. “Cigars” are traditional for Moroccan events and can be made sweet or savoury. The sweet version is a slim roll of Phyllo pastry filled with almonds, pistachio nuts or walnuts, baked or deep fried and sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar. Savoury cigars may be filled with cheese, chicken, meat, potatoes or tuna. For Rosh Hashanah, Jews of Egypt make loubia, a black-eyed pea stew with lamb or veal, to symbolize fertility. Jews of Iraq cook apples with water and sugar like applesauce, as a symbol of a sweet New Year. Some also prepare a special, pale-green bottle-shaped squash, which they eat with whole apple jam and sugar. They also make the blessings over leek, squash, dates, pomegranate and peas and place the head of a lamb on their Rosh Hashanah table. Yemenite Jews, who do not consider themselves Ashkenazi or Sephardi, dip dates in honey instead of apples; others mix sesame seeds and anise seeds with powdered sugar and dip dates in this mixture. They also eat the beet, leek, pomegranate and pumpkin, as well as a salted fish head. The main meal for Yemenites would be a soup made of chicken or meat, carrots, potatoes and the spice hawaj (a combination of black pepper, cumin, coriander and turmeric). Meat stew, cooked chicken, rice, dried fruit and nuts complete the meal. Whatever your family’s origins, why not try something from another Jewish culture this Rosh Hashanah? Format ImagePosted on September 20, 2019 September 17, 2019 Author Sybil KaplanCategories Celebrating the HolidaysTags culture, food, Rosh Hashanah, Sephardi Grab a ferry, head to Buzzy’s The Hungry Jew, one of the signature sandwiches at Buzzy’s Luncheonette. (photo by Adam Bogoch) My friend, Adam Bogoch, pitched it as the “Smoked Meat Story.” Soon after that email, he would write his own review, for narcity.com, titled, “This smoked meat sandwich on Salt Spring Island in B.C. will actually change your life.” His friend and colleague, Howard Busgang, had opened a deli on the island, and not only did I need to meet Busgang, but I needed to get on a ferry and taste The Hungry Jew, one of the signature sandwiches at Buzzy’s Luncheonette. Between the Independent’s annual summer publishing hiatus and the High Holidays, it was November before Adam and I headed to Salt Spring. The travel ran like clockwork and we were pulling up to 122-149 Fulford Ganges Rd. right in time for lunch. We shared a Hungry Jew – a Montreal smoked meat sandwich with homemade horseradish sauce, coleslaw and, I kid you not, two latkes – and the Rabinowitz, Buzzy’s take on a Reuben. They were both incredibly good, and the only reason I’ve waited this long to share the news is because I wanted to wait until better weather, when people would be more likely to take a day or weekend getaway. Howard Busgang serves customers rugelach on a sunny November afternoon. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) Even in winter, Buzzy’s was busy. Having arrived at prime feeding time, it was hard to get Busgang to sit down and, as we talked, he was constantly distracted – in a good way – by customers. “Tell me, I’ll get you another sandwich before you go,” he said as he finally was able to join me at a table outside for the interview. Born and raised in Montreal, stand-up comedy took Busgang first to Toronto and then to Los Angeles, where he met his wife, Melanie Weaver, and where he lived for 28 years, before returning to Canada. “She’s Jewish-adjacent,” joked Busgang. “She was working for a rabbi when I met her.” The two met on a blind date, he said, brought together by a Jewish comic who knew both of them. When he started in comedy in the early 1980s, Busgang said, “There were not a lot of comics around. It wasn’t like today where every second person does stand-up, so it wasn’t that OK a profession,” as far as his parents were concerned. “It was kind of an oddity, like maybe he’ll grow out of this kind of thing.” Busgang attended Jewish high school, then went to McGill University before heading to Toronto. “You know where I started?” he said. “United Synagogue Youth, USY, that’s where I started. I was emceeing all their events and that led me to go professional.” He recalled the first time he performed at amateur night in Toronto. “They packed the place with all these people from USY who knew me. It was packed, and it was great.” Howard Busgang, left, and Adam Bogoch prepare sandwiches. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) So great, he said, that he was put into regular comedy shows right away, “which wasn’t so easy, by the way, because it wasn’t my friends anymore in the audience.” When he was a stand-up comedian, Busgang did a lot of Jewish material. “I was a very Jewish comic,” he said. In Los Angeles, he moved from stand-up to comedy writing. “I just was a little tired of the road,” he said, and performing caused him some anxiety. “Listen, I had a respectable career, I did well, but I would constantly punish myself by asking, why am I doing this? But I think I do that with everything. I do that with this place [Buzzy’s], I do that as a writer.” As Busgang was in the middle of saying he might just be a miserable guy, he was called back into the deli to help make a sandwich. Weaver took his place. Her recollection was that a woman from the synagogue set up that first date. “I was the only non-Jew in the whole place,” she said. However, Weaver was raised Jewishly, with her family observing some of the holidays, hosting seders, for example, and she taught at a Jewish camp. Born and raised in New York, she moved to Los Angeles some 30 years ago. She and Busgang have been married for about half that time. “Howard had this property on Salt Spring our entire marriage,” she said. “And so, our entire marriage, I kept hearing ‘Salt Spring,’ ‘Salt Spring,’ and all I kept seeing was this property tax bill every month. I was, like, how good could it be? Then the elections and everything started to happen in the U.S. and it just got bad. We took a trip up here in September [2016], I fell in love and then we came in July [2017].” A blended family, the couple has three daughters: Alexandra, 30, in Toronto; Emma, 20, in Seattle; and Hannah, 10, who was dividing her attention between helping in the deli and playing with a local dog while her mother was being interviewed. Neither Busgang nor Weaver had any restaurant experience before opening Buzzy’s. “It’s funny,” she said. “The night before we were open, we had to learn the cash and I was almost in tears.” The ignorance was a kind of blessing, she said. “I don’t think we knew what could go wrong, so ignorance was bliss, in this case.” Their first day, there were lineups out the door. “We got thrown into it, which was great,” she said. “I think if we had opened in the winter, when it was slow, it would have been a different experience.” Busgang’s love of cooking seemed to have come out of nowhere, said Weaver. “And then he started to smoke his own meat. So, we had that in our back pocket.” But the couple still wasn’t planning on opening a restaurant, until the location became available. “It was basherte,” she said. In addition to Busgang’s meat-smoking skills, Weaver’s desire for a good tuna sandwich was a motivation. “So, again, why not open a deli? Not the brightest of ideas, but it worked out.” Howard Busgang’s father called him Buzzy, hence the deli’s name. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) And it’s hard work. There is only one staff member. Busgang smokes meat “around the clock,” said Weaver. “It’s like having a newborn. It’s a lot of work but the rewards – it’s a community, we’ve become part of a community and it means so much. My daughter gets to work the cash register. It’s crazy. We still can’t believe we have keys to this place.” She said, “If we did anything right, it’s that we didn’t focus on the tourists, we focused on our people, and so we have a lot of loyalty here. I think people also come here [because] there’s a lot of cursing, a lot of bad behaviour, you can come here and just laugh, and that’s what we want. Come here, have a laugh, I’ll make you eat, you have to finish your plate or you go to your room. That was our business plan – make the community happy, hopefully make a few bucks.” Since they opened, the menu has seen some additions; in particular, matzah ball soup and tomato soup. “We don’t want to get too big. We just want to stay like someone’s kitchen,” she said. And the island has been very welcoming. “Someone knew that we want to make our own pickles, so they’re going to grow us cucumbers,” said Weaver as one example. “The love here,” she said, “it’s insane.” Hannah, who had checked in a couple of times with her mother, joined the interview. In addition to sometimes working the cash, she delivers food to the Saturday market and to the bar a few doors down from the deli. “That’s another thing,” said Weaver, “it’s a family joint.” School runs four days a week and, while Hannah enjoys helping out, she was still getting used to living on the island. When she’s not working or at school, she’s probably at soccer or horseback riding; she had just received a paddleboard for her birthday. Though she has a couple of sandwiches named after her, her favourite is the grilled cheese. “A lot of what we’re doing here has to do with taking the power back in our lives,” said Busgang, when he returned to the table. “It has to do with being in showbiz all those years and feeling like you had no control over anything and feeling like you’re handing over all the power to other people to validate you…. I was tired of it.” Buzzy’s opened on June 22 last year. “Whereas, in show business, nobody wants to help you, in this business, I have so many people who want to help me.” One of those people was William Kaminski, owner of Phat Deli in Vancouver, who Busgang described as a mentor. “We’re not perfect but we’re figuring it out,” said Busgang. The smoked meat he has got down to a science. “We’re open till four o’clock and then I have to get my brisket ready for the next day, so I have to bathe the brisket,” he said. “We cure it for eight days – dry cure – and then I have to take the salt out, so we bathe it. I’m bathing a brisket right now and sometimes I sing to it. It’s very sweet. After I bathe it, then I put some rub on it and then I’ll take it home and we’ll smoke it for seven-and-a-half hours. And then it goes in the steamer for two, three hours.” Finding rye bread was one of the early challenges. “I knew I was in a special place,” he said, “because people would come by with bread and say, ‘Try this bread.’ They’d constantly come in and say, ‘What are you going to do about the bread?’ It became like a cause célèbre, the bread. It took me three months, and I got someone here on the island to make me an organic rye bread.” Barb Slater makes the bread; Shigusa Saito, the knishes. Saito is now also “making a dark chocolate babka to die for,” wrote Busgang in a follow-up email. “If you’re not already dead, she’s also making us New York cheesecake, our soon-to-be-famous potato knishes, and rugelach.” Meanwhile, Busgang – whose credits include having been a head Just for Laughs-gala writer, creating the award-winning sitcom The Tournament and writing for TV series Boy Meets World and Good Advice, among many others – is still writing, still pitching shows. Earlier that afternoon, he was slicing meat while plugged into his phone, listening to a meeting in which a producer was trying to put a deal together. Weaver popped out to say that Busgang often has to go next door to finish his calls because the meat in the charger of his cellphone prevents his phone from charging. “There’s meat everywhere,” she said. The November sunset as seen from the ferry, en route home. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) A couple of relatively new customers stopped to say hello to Busgang and Weaver. They said they were slowly adding Buzzy’s to their list of usual places to eat. And, said Busgang and Weaver, local Jews have discovered, by going to Buzzy’s and meeting fellow Jews, that there actually is a Jewish community on the island. “We’re blessed to have this,” said Busgang. As he explained the deli’s name – his father called him Buzzy – Hannah returned, offering him a taste of a new salad dressing she had created. “Daddy, just try it.” “Interesting,” he said, “I like it.” “It’s gross,” she corrected him. Three generations seemed present in that moment. As the interview came to an end, Busgang asked, “Do you want some rugelach? I gotta keep feeding you.” Buzzy’s is open Monday to Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Find them at facebook.com/buzzysluncheonette and then head to bcferries.com and start planning your trip. Format ImagePosted on March 22, 2019 March 24, 2019 Author Cynthia RamsayCategories TravelTags Buzzy's, deli, entrepreneur, food, Howard Busgang, Melanie Weaver, restaurant, Salt Spring Island, smoked meat A visit to Jewish Portland Nessim Menashe, born on the Isle of Rhodes in 1887, came to Portland in 1909. By 1914, he had established a shoe repair shop in northwest Portland, which he operated until 1921. (photo from Oregon Jewish Museum and Centre for Holocaust Education, OJM 03274) Reading the history of the Oregon Jewish community can feel like reading B.C. Jewish history in a carnival mirror. Everything is familiar but just a little out of place. Since the sister communities of Vancouver and Portland share both common history and common concerns about the future, there is much we can learn from each other. This is one reason why the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia is excited to be hosting a trip to Portland in late May. The three-day, two-night trip will take participants to historic sites and Jewish restaurants, and introduce them to engaging locals. Travelers will eat at Aviv, Lefty’s Café, Katchka, and Kenny & Zuke’s Deli. They will visit the Oregon Holocaust Memorial, Oregon Jewish Museum, Powell’s Bookstore, Beth Israel Historic Synagogue, Portland Art Museum, Oregon Historical Society Museum, Portland Rose Garden and Portland’s South End Jewish neighbourhood. They will also enjoy a curator-guided tour of the Oregon Jewish Museum. As in British Columbia, it was the gold rush that attracted the first Jews to Oregon. German-born Jacob Goldsmith and Lewis May opened a general store in Portland in 1849 and helped found the Masonic Temple the following year. The community’s growth kept pace with the rapidly growing city and, in 1858, the Reform congregation Beth Israel was established. Jews had a disproportionate presence among the merchant class, with one-third of the 146 merchants on record in 1860 being Jewish. They worked in the industries of clothing, tobacco, furniture and wholesale. Just 328 kilometres north, the Jewish population of Victoria followed a similar trajectory. The earliest arrivals stepped off boats arriving from San Francisco in 1858. They, too, established careers primarily as merchants and, in 1863, opened Congregation Emanu-El, which continues to operate today. In the 1870s, Jewish merchants began placing their bets on the future of a small encampment on the Fraser River, going by the name of Granville. These bets paid off when Granville became Vancouver in 1886, the terminus of the intercontinental railway. The Jewish populations of Portland and Vancouver have grown dramatically over the decades since, with new arrivals from all corners of the world making their contributions. In both locations, community organizations blossomed early on, providing essential social and cultural services. Today, the Jewish population of Portland, at 50,000, is roughly double that of Metro Vancouver, thanks largely to a wave of young American Jews who were drawn to Portland in the wake of the 2008 market crash. To learn more about the Oregon Jewish community and to experience it firsthand, join the JMABC-led trip, which departs by chartered bus on Monday, May 27, and returns Wednesday, May 29. For more information and registration, visit jewishmuseum.ca/program/portland-jewish-history-tour. The deadline to register is March 31. Format ImagePosted on March 8, 2019 March 6, 2019 Author Jewish Museum and Archives of British ColumbiaCategories TravelTags culture, food, history, Jewish museum, Judaism, Portland Meet new or favourite writers The Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival starts this Saturday night (Feb. 9) with Joshua Cohen, author of Moving Kings and ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. It continues for five literary-filled days at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, and here’s a sampling of books you might want to add to your reading list, and authors you might like to meet. Set in 1920, in the fictional shtetl of Golikhovke during the Russian civil war, Judgment, by David Bergelson (1884-1952), is a melancholic novel about humanity in a time of uncertainty, where different political factions are warring, each under their own ultimately meaningless banner; neighbours cannot trust one another, let alone strangers; and justice is meted out randomly by a cruel, indifferent force. Stationed in an also fictitious abandoned monastery called Kamino-Balke, near Golikhovke, the sickly Bolshevik Filipov is in control of the area along the Ukraine-Poland border. There are smugglers who travel across the border for commercial reasons and Socialist Revolutionaries who travel across it in preparation for an uprising against the Bolsheviks. Jews and non-Jews live together in relative tolerance but political loyalties, ethnic ties and differing ideas of morality ensure a constant tension. All live in fear of being captured by one of Filipov’s agents, as guilt of a crime does not need to be proven for a person to be beaten, imprisoned and/or shot. What makes this novel beautiful is Bergelson’s prose. Imaginative metaphors: “Large, invisible hands merrily picked up whole heaps of snow and just as merrily released them.” Animated objects: “… the coat lay there bent over, dejected, as if it had made a long, pointless, idiotic journey” and “The cannons’ muzzles – black, fat and eyeless – stared longingly in the direction of the forests around Moshne….” Humour: “Stone fences suited the inhabitants of Yanovo, for all of them were as stubborn as their stone fences: stone upon stone.” And empathy, in this case, for the undercover agent Yokhelzon, whose “eyes (which inspected everything, people said) had already taken in the horror of death – they winked joyfully, so that the horror would not show afterward.” As should be obvious, Harriet Murav and Sasha Senderovich have done a masterful job of translating Judgment from Yiddish to English. They also provide a fascinating introduction to the novel, its historical context, the author and his other works (Bergelson was executed in 1952, on Stalin’s orders), the book’s title, form, themes and use of language. Senderovich will be at the book festival on Feb. 10, 3:30 p.m. Michèle Smolkin’s novel Silence, je tombe is a witty, philosophical novel that explores how people can become isolated from one another, including themselves. Told from the perspectives of a few protagonists, readers will likely relate to many of the feelings expressed. The novel starts with a pregnant Tania, as she, her husband Paul and their toddler Margot are making the drive to their new home in “Manhattan, Kansas, The Little Apple,” from Vancouver. Tania’s disenchantment is obvious and she expresses her anger towards her husband – who, as a professor of philosophy, couldn’t find a job elsewhere – with vicious (and very funny) sarcasm, mostly in her thoughts, but aloud, as well. She had imagined a different life for herself – living in New York, the Big Apple, for one thing; and certainly not in the Bible Belt. As a Francophone Jew, she anticipates that fitting in might be a problem. As the book progresses, we get to know Tania, Paul and a disturbed man named Kevin, plus a couple of other minor but important characters. Through them, we contemplate love, what attracts people to one another and what forces them apart, what happiness is, what actions might be unforgivable, how our childhoods influence our adulthoods, and, of course, the inadequacy of words for certain situations, and understanding why, sometimes, silence is the only possible response. Smolkin’s talk – the book festival’s first-ever French-language event – will take place Feb. 10, 5 p.m. (Note: Festival program shows incorrect time.) A River Could Be a Tree is, thankfully, not the memoir of a person who goes from believing fanatically in one religion to being swept away as unquestioningly into another, though it might seem like it would be, given some aspects of the press material. “How does a woman who grew up in rural Indiana in a fundamentalist Christian cult end up a practising Jew in New York?” asks part of the blurb on the book flap. Well, for starters, Angela Himsel seems to always have been an inquisitive person, and never an avid follower of Herbert Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God. She was an obedient child, but is still struggling with understanding how her parents believed so much in the church doctrine that they didn’t give her sister the care that might have prevented her death at a young age. A River Could Be a Tree is a measured, often humourous, always intelligent memoir. Himsel starts with a prologue that gives readers a very large hint as to what led her to ultimately convert to Judaism: she and her boyfriend Selig were, “just once … careless about birth control.” But the journey to that point is long and more complicated, and Himsel takes readers through it with the benefit of hindsight, hard-won insights and a writing style that is serious, honest but unsentimental, and filled with initially unexpected levity. As but one example, a mere three paragraphs into Chapter 1, in which Himsel talks about her parents’ religious heritage, Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism, she writes about Martin Luther, that, at age 41, he “married a nun, a woman he had helped smuggle out of a convent in a herring barrel. While irrelevant to Luther’s religious beliefs, a nun in a herring barrel is always worth mentioning.” And A River Could Be a Tree is well worth reading. Himsel will speak at the book festival on Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m. There is so much information in Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship With Food by Rachel Herz. And a refreshing aspect of the book is that it’s not written from a dogmatic, all-knowing viewpoint. Herz acknowledges that sometimes studies come to different conclusions, sometimes scientific progress means that what was once thought true is disproven, and that different people will experience food, exercise and other things differently. Readers looking for certainty might be disappointed, but those wanting to learn will learn a lot. Who doesn’t want to know, for example, why tomato juice is one of the most popular drink orders on planes? Does sugar really help the medicine go down, so to speak, i.e. reduce the effects of pain? And why can buying ethically branded or organic products make us less charitable? But Why You Eat What You Eat is more than an amalgamation of trivia. Herz has compiled a very readable and relatively comprehensive resource that will, as the title promises, help explain why we eat what we eat; how all of our senses – taste, smell, sight, touch and hearing – affect how we experience food. And knowing these things just might make us feel better about ourselves, and make choices that would serve us better. Herz will be at the book festival on Feb. 13, 6 p.m. Format ImagePosted on February 8, 2019 February 7, 2019 Author Cynthia RamsayCategories BooksTags Angela Himsel, Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival, David Bergelson, fiction, food, French, memoir, Michèle Smolkin, non-fiction, Rachel Herz, science, translation, Yiddish Gourmet anything but lazy Susan Mendelson, founder of the Lazy Gourmet, shares a little about herself and her business at the launch of this year’s The Scribe. (photo by Kenneth I. Swartz) One of Vancouver’s most successful food industry professionals shared her story recently, helping to launch this year’s edition of The Scribe, the journal of the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia. The topic of the 2018 issue is food, covering restaurants and related sectors from the early days of the community up to destinations that are still operating today. Susan Mendelson, best known around town as founder of the Lazy Gourmet, brought her thespian side to the audience at the Western Front Nov. 28, eliciting laughter as she guided the packed hall on a tour through her remarkable career. “My mother’s mother, Grandma Faye, was a large influence in my life,” Mendelson said. An extraordinary baker and cook renowned in her small Jewish community of Quebec City, Grandma Faye took it as a challenge to keep a deep freezer filled with baking for when friends dropped by or to be ready for a tea party. As a child, Mendelson loved to cook and bake. When the Six Day War broke out in Israel, in 1967, the family rallied to raise funds to send to Israel. Young Susan planned a bake sale in their backyard. She made all of her favourite squares and cookies and the neighbours snapped them up. Mendelson’s mother only told her years later that the cost of the ingredients was on par with what was raised that day. Thankfully, Mendelson told the audience, that wasn’t a harbinger of things to come. Mendelson came to Vancouver to study at the University of British Columbia and gravitated to the theatre department. Her theatre professor, Larry Lillo, became a close friend. He broke the news to Mendelson that she would never be a great actress … though he really loved her cheesecake. After third year, Mendelson took a break from school and worked in a group home for troubled teens. There, she met Deborah Roitberg, with whom she made the food for the kids in the group home. An instant friendship developed. After traveling to Europe and Israel, Mendelson thought she would return to school and pursue social work. Around that time, Lillo had founded Tamahnous Theatre, an experimental ensemble that was becoming the resident company at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. He hired Mendelson as house manager, which allowed her to go to school during the day and work at the Cultch, as the institution is familiarly known, at night. But the salary didn’t cover her expenses, so she began to make cheesecake to sell at intermission, later adding carrot cake and Nanaimo bars to her repertoire – “when the curtain came down at intermission, the lobby was stormed by people pushing in line to make sure that they got their piece of the cake.” Anne Petrie of CBC radio’s afternoon show called Mendelson, having heard about the cheesecake phenomenon, and asked her to come on the program. “I told her that I was putting myself through university with the recipe, but that I would come onto her show to tell her listeners how to make chocolate cheesecake, a recipe that my friend Miriam Gropper had given me,” Mendelson said. Her cheeky attitude was a hit with audiences, and she was asked back. She returned for Valentine’s Day, talking about aphrodisiacs. Soon she had a regular radio gig paying $25 per appearance. Mendelson’s boss at the Cultch started asking her to cater opening night parties. Wedding catering followed and then Mendelson was given the responsibility of catering to all the performers at the first iteration of the Vancouver Children’s Festival. She and Roitberg discussed opening a take-out food business. “Our concept was that people would bring in their casserole dishes and platters and we would fill them with our food and they would take them home and pretend that they had made them themselves,” she said. “We would call ourselves the Lazy Gourmet, in honour of our customers who wanted gourmet food but were too lazy to make it themselves.” Over the years, Mendelson had shared scores of recipes with radio listeners and some asked her to put them in book form. Mama Never Cooked Like This sold out and went into reprints; it was picked up by an American publisher. To coincide with the publication of her second book, which was written for children and titled Let me in the Kitchen, the producer of the Children’s Festival, Chris Wootten, asked Mendelson to produce her own show. The best part of that experience, Mendelson recalled, was that a single dad in the audience brought his 7-year-old son and they bought the cookbook and made recipes from it. “Six years later, I met those two,” she said. “And, seven years later, I married the dad and became stepmother to the most wonderful young teen. I was so happy that Jack and Soleil had experienced that show and that in some way we shared that amazing experience of my life.” TV appearances followed and Mendelson was asked to write a souvenir cookbook for Expo 86. But the trajectory was not entirely positive. After expanding the Lazy Gourmet from one store to three, the company began losing money. They eventually abandoned two of the storefronts and Roitberg left the business to raise a family. Soon after the birth of daughter Mira, Mendelson was invited to cater a new event that was coming to Vancouver: the Molson Indy Vancouver. “If you thought that the Children’s Festival wore me out … you can’t even imagine what that event did to me physically,” she said. “But, of course, I loved it and, by the last few years of the race, which took place on Labour Day weekend – Jack will tell you that it was our anniversary weekend that we didn’t celebrate for nine years – we were also catering the Abbotsford Airshow, which took place two weeks beforehand and, two weeks before that, we catered the Skins Game at Predator Ridge in the Okanagan.” In addition to hard work, Mendelson credits her success to hiring people who she says are smarter and more talented than herself. A couple of years ago, she gave shares in the company to two long-term team members and moved into a part-time role. The company continues to expand, including a lifecycle catering department. “We call it womb-to-tomb catering,” she said, citing baby-namings, britot milah, b’nai mitzvah, weddings and funerals, as well as personal events. More recently, Mendelson took on catering the lunches at Vancouver Talmud Torah. The Scribe launch also included words from Cynthia Ramsay, editor and publisher of the Independent, who has also, for the past nine years, edited The Scribe. “When I started the job, the journal was a mix of academic essays and community-related history,” Ramsay said. “But it soon changed to become a means by which the museum could highlight its collection; the oral histories, photographs and other artifacts that it houses on the community’s behalf. We’ve done issues on the Jewish Western Bulletin, the Jewish Independent’s predecessor; on the furniture industry; scrap metal dealers; the clothing industry; on some of the community pioneers who are buried in our cemeteries all around the province; and, this year, of course, our issue is on the food and service industry.” She credited museum staff Alysa Routtenberg, Marcy Babins and Michael Schwartz, and the publications committee, which this year included Routtenberg, Perry Seidelman, Gary Averbach, Debby Freiman, Fred Swartz and Ronnie Tessler. The JI’s production manager, Josie Tonio McCarthy, does the layout for the journals. Seidelman, president of the JMABC, urged audience members not to throw out photographs or documents. “Give them to us,” he said. Format ImagePosted on December 14, 2018 December 12, 2018 Author Pat JohnsonCategories BooksTags food, history, Jewish museum, Lazy Gourmet, Scribe, Susan Mendelson Sweet birthday party for kids Jordana Saks gets great joy from baking. (photo from Saks of Sweets) “I love baking, because it’s a fun activity that allows me to be creative. More importantly, there is nothing more fulfilling than the wide-eyed smiles I see on other faces when they enjoy something that I have baked.” Jordana Saks’ love of baking inspired her to create Saks of Sweets, which plans and leads kids’ birthday parties. “What better way to celebrate a birthday than with friends while baking, decorating and eventually eating the delicious cookies?” she asks on the business’s website. Born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ont., Saks studied cognitive science at McGill University in Montreal, before heading to San Francisco for a year. She arrived in Vancouver about 18 months ago, and has been in love with the city ever since. Recalling her early sweet baking impressions, Saks said, “I started baking as young as 6 years old. My mom and aunt inspired me to bake, and taught me the tricks of the trade. When the eggs in my aunt’s fridge were past the expiry date, she used to call me over to practise the art of cracking an egg. “Every year at Chanukah, for the family party, my aunt and I would make cookies and spend hours decorating them with unique designs. In addition to this tradition, we baked at least one new recipe each month. Still, to this day, when I visit home, we get together for a baking day – trying new recipes and recreating past ones.” When Saks was studying at McGill, she used baking as a stress reliever, leaving her and her roommate with an abundance of baked goods. “To prevent ourselves from eating an entire cake or a couple dozen cookies, I started an Instagram account called Saks of Sweets, where I could share when and what I was baking,” said Saks. “My friends would comment on what they wanted to try. I would find out where they were studying on campus and would deliver the goods, until nothing was left of that batch.” When she moved to Vancouver, Saks recalls listening to a podcast called Side Hustle School, with Chris Guillebeau. “The entrepreneurial wheels in my brain were turning,” she said. “I was thinking about my passions and how I could channel those into a business. And, combined with my love for baking is my love for working with children. I’ve had many experiences working with kids and have enjoyed every one of them. After sitting down for an hour at a coffee shop and thinking about how to combine these two passions, the idea for Saks of Sweets quickly emerged.” Saks of Sweets provides in-house baking birthday parties. Saks’ clients have loved the parties because, as parents, they do not need to stress or worry about anything except for inviting the children. The rest of the planning is in the hands of Saks of Sweets and Saks leads every party, along with one helper. “We set up the individual baking stations, and the children will learn to roll out the Saks of Sweets shortbread cookie dough,” said Saks. “They will then choose from a wide variety of cookie cutters to create their cookies. “While the cookies are in the oven, the children will decorate and personalize their baking aprons. Lastly, they will have a wide range of icing colours and sprinkles to decorate their unique creations. As an extra bonus, the take-home box for the cookies and the personalized aprons double as a loot bag.” Prospective clients only need to provide a table for the rolling and decorating, and a working oven for the baking. Some parents like to provide a meal for the children, like ordering in pizza. Saks of Sweets brings the party to your children. (photo from Saks of Sweets) For those not wanting to have the party in their own home, Saks of Sweets partners with the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, so that people can rent the centre’s party room for the birthday celebration. “Right now, I am doing cookie cutting and decorating, but I’d like to move more into baking other delicious things, such as cakes, cupcakes, pies and more,” said Saks. “This expansion will happen soon, when the time is right. “When I started this business, my hope was to channel my passions into throwing a creative birthday party that makes both the children and parents happy. I wasn’t overly concerned about the business scalability or strategy, because I didn’t want to get bogged down in the details or dissuade myself from taking that first step. “From that perspective, my hopes have been met. Each party has been extremely well received by the parents, and the children are always smiling. My only new hope is that I can throw these more often.” Saks of Sweets is Vancouver’s only in-house baking birthday party. The business concept is all about convenience. It is meant to be stress-free for parents, so they can also enjoy their child’s party. Saks of Sweets can accommodate most dietary restrictions or allergies and works with clients to tailor the party to any needs or wishes. “For example, in the past, I’ve had to ensure all ingredients are kosher … and I can do parties for families that are kosher,” said Saks. “Furthermore, the ingredients and the cookies are all nut-free. However, they may contain traces of nuts, due to baking utensils that may have touched nuts in the past.” The cost for a Saks of Sweets party for 10 to 12 children is $300, and each additional child after 12 is $22. For more information, visit saksofsweets.ca. Rebeca Kuropatwa is a Winnipeg freelance writer. Format ImagePosted on July 13, 2018 July 11, 2018 Author Rebeca KuropatwaCategories LocalTags baking, business, children, food, JCC, Jordana Saks Chef at Limmud buffet Susan Barocas is one of 40 presenters at the April 14-15 “buffet for the mind.” (photo from Susan Barocas) Among the many presenters at this weekend’s Limmud Vancouver is Susan Barocas, writer and filmmaker, Sephardi chef and expert on the history of Sephardi cooking. Barocas, who was former president Barack Obama’s guest chef for White House seders, will give two presentations at this year’s Limmud. On April 14, 7:30 p.m., she will speak on Tastes Across the Centuries: The Enduring Influence of the Foods of Spain’s Medieval Jews. On April 15, 10:50 a.m., she will speak on The Long and Short of Noodles, a history of noodles from ancient China to the modern day. Barocas lives and works in Washington, D.C., where she is an active and well-known foodie. She is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Lilith and Moment, and is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier, a philanthropic organization of women leaders in the food, beverage and hospitality industries. She was the project director of D.C.’s Jewish Food Experience. Limmud Vancouver spoke with Barocas about her unusual career and interests. LV: In Vancouver, you are speaking about classical Sephardi cuisine. Can you give us a little preview? SB: I am really looking forward to talking about the food of the Jews of medieval Spain, putting it into historical context. Food played quite an important role in the Inquisition. (Hint: it goes way beyond pork!) Then, I will talk about what happened to the food of those original Sephardim and the surprising influences they have on contemporary Jewish and other cuisines. Of course, I’ll be sharing recipes, too. LV: Can you tell us more about your heritage and its influence on your career? SB: I grew up in a mixed household – Sephardic and Ashkenazic. On one side, my grandparents were from Russia-Poland and, on the other, from the Ottoman Empire, what is now Turkey and Macedonia, descended from Jews expelled from Spain in the Inquisition. My father and mother both cooked, so we ate both cuisines – tongue, borsht, gefilte fish and shmaltz, as well as lentils, feta and olives, baklava and stuffed grape leaves. Over the years, I have become more and more drawn to my Sephardic heritage. It is something of a mission for me to share my view that Jewish food really is international cuisine. To think of it otherwise is to miss out on so much of Jewish culture and cuisine. LV: You describe yourself as a home cook without formal training, and yet you’ve built a very successful professional career. How did your career develop? SB: I’ve been cooking since I was a very young child. My first career was in nonprofit public relations. Whenever I would do a special event, food definitely got extra attention from me. When I moved to D.C. in 1993, I worked for food guru Joan Nathan for a few years. My second career included writing and producing documentary and organizational films; raising my son; and teaching a course called In Grandmother’s Kitchen at a local Hebrew high school. Next, I ran the Washington, D.C., Jewish federation’s Jewish Food Experience project. Now I am well into my third career, as a food writer, chef, caterer and teacher. LV: How does the Jewish Food Experience bring people together? SB: The Jewish Food Experience is an innovative project of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. It includes an award-winning website, jewishfoodexperience.com. The goals of JFE are to use food and culture to build Jewish identity and community, particularly with certain target audiences that research showed had the greatest needs – young professionals, families with young children and interfaith couples and families. The project has become very successful with the website and programs, bringing people together and closer to their Jewish identity in many different ways. LV: What is your most memorable Jewish meal? SB: My most memorable Jewish meal would have to be the seders in the Obama White House, where I served as guest chef for three years. Over time, I was able to bring some of my Sephardic food to the table, so to speak, along with the Ashkenazic dishes. Even though I was working and didn’t actually sit down to eat the meal, I still get goosebumps remembering the pleasure the president and first lady expressed about the food, and also hearing from the next room President Obama’s voice booming out “We Shall Overcome” during the seder. Elizabeth Nicholls is a volunteer with Limmud Vancouver. Chef Susan Barocas is one of 40 presenters at the April 14-15 “buffet for the mind.” To register and for the full schedule, visit limmudvancouver.ca. The fee for the conference is $75, which includes a kosher dairy lunch. Onsite babysitting is available, along with special programming for children and teens. All sessions will be held at Congregation Beth Israel. Format ImagePosted on April 13, 2018 April 11, 2018 Author Elizabeth NichollsCategories LocalTags education, food, Limmud Vancouver, Obama, Sephardi, Susan Barocas Too much food wasted Millions more could be fed by the same resources if our diets changed. (photo from wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il) About a third of the food produced for human consumption is estimated to be lost or wasted globally. But the biggest waste, which is not even included in this estimate, may be through dietary choices that result in the squandering of environmental resources. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and their colleagues have found a novel way to define and quantify this second type of wastage. The scientists have called it “opportunity food loss,” a term inspired by the “opportunity cost” concept in economics, which refers to the cost of choosing a particular alternative over better options. Opportunity food loss stems from using agricultural land to produce animal-based food instead of nutritionally comparable plant-based alternatives. The researchers report that, in the United States alone, avoiding opportunity food loss – that is, replacing all animal-based items with edible crops for human consumption – would add enough food to feed 350 million additional people, or more than the total U.S. population, with the same land resources. “Our analysis has shown that favouring a plant-based diet can potentially yield more food than eliminating all the conventionally defined causes of food loss,” said lead author Dr. Alon Shepon, who worked in the lab of Prof. Ron Milo in the plant and environmental sciences department. The Weizmann researchers collaborated with Prof. Gidon Eshel of Bard College and Dr. Elad Noor of ETZ Zürich. The scientists compared the resources needed to produce five major categories of animal-based food – beef, pork, dairy, poultry and eggs – with the resources required to grow edible crops of similar nutritional value in terms of protein, calories and micronutrients. They found that plant-based replacements could produce two- to 20-fold more protein per acre. The most dramatic results were obtained for beef. The researchers compared it with a mix of crops – soya, potatoes, cane sugar, peanuts and garlic – that deliver a similar nutritional profile when taken together in the right proportions. The land area that could produce 100 grams of protein from these crops would yield only four grams of edible protein from beef. In other words, using agricultural land for producing beef instead of replacement crops results in an opportunity food loss of 96 grams – that is, a loss of 96% – per unit of land. This means that the potential gain from diverting agricultural land from beef to plant-based foods for human consumption would be enormous. The estimated losses from failing to replace other animal-based foods with nutritionally similar crops were also huge: 90% for pork, 75% for dairy, 50% for poultry and 40% for eggs – higher than all conventional food losses combined. “Opportunity food loss must be taken into account if we want to make dietary choices enhancing global food security,” said Milo. Milo’s research is supported by the Mary and Tom Beck Canadian Centre for Alternative Energy Research, which he heads; the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program; Dana and Yossie Hollander; and the Larson Charitable Foundation. Milo is the incumbent of the Charles and Louise Gartner Professorial Chair. For more on the research being conducted at the Weizmann Institute, visit wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il. Format ImagePosted on April 13, 2018 April 11, 2018 Author Weizmann InstituteCategories IsraelTags Alon Shepon, food, Israel, science, Weizmann Institute	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526842
__label__cc	0.500459	0.499541	A Trip to India and the Teachings of Samaghama As Western civilization deepens into the study of psychology, inherent similarities between it and eastern traditions are surfacing. In the field of expressive arts therapy this is particularly true. The emphasis on somatics parallels many of the precepts found in the ancient practices of yoga and meditation. A team of holistic counseling students from JFKU, led by core faculty member Dr. Jacob Kaminker and world renowned expressive arts therapist Kate Donahue, traveled to India to further explore this connection. There they teamed up with Bangalore-based expressive arts therapy group SMArT to create SAMAGHAMA, a two-week residential workshop for the students. “They’re license track therapists who are looking to bring a mind body spirit approach to therapy,” says Dr. Kaminker of the students. “I think they found it [the workshop] to be inspiring and also very challenging in a good and growthful way.” Diving into the curriculum, the students explored the Indian expressive arts, along with yoga, experiential energy work and meditation – journaling as they went. They even ventured out into the city for internship experience, giving workshops in expressive arts therapy to local children. “Partially it was a cross-cultural conversation,” says Dr. Kaminker. “Looking at similarities and differences in the perspective from here and there.” One major takeaway was the importance of yoga in holistic therapy. An ancient and venerated practice, yoga has long been associated with full body health in that part of the world. Though it has undoubtedly gained a foothold in the States, it has only recently begun to be looked at as a viable tool in holistic counseling. “I personally came away with a much deeper understanding of yoga as a wrap around holistic philosophy and how it supports and integrates with Western psychology,” says Dr. Kaminker. Integration was central to the mission of the group, and they were able to come away with a new, more expansive perspective on holistic counseling. In addition, the team established a relationship with SMArT, ensuring that future JFKU students would be able to experience the same workshop. “It was a strong collaboration and we’ll have an ongoing relationship with them for sure,” says Dr. Kaminker. “The idea is that this will be a trip that repeats and we’ll have other trips. We’ll be doing this trip to India again and continuing to develop it, but we’ll be doing a trip every year and we’ll have other trips that we’ll be taking to other places.” Holistic counseling has much to gain from a worldly perspective. JFKU sends its students to the four corners of the globe in the hope that they will continue to innovate and push the discipline forward. The students benefit from the expanded worldview and updated perspective on holistic counseling, the field of psychology benefits from the addition of further enlightened practitioners, and John F. Kennedy University gets to continue being one of the foremost suppliers of forward thinkers and change makers in the world today.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526843
__label__wiki	0.802232	0.802232	Prospective Students & Fellows Center for Prevention of Youth Violence Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse Wendy Klag Center for Autism & Developmental Disabilities Center on Aging & Health Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy Research Related Faculty Resources for Loss Joseph Gallo, MD, MPH Tamar Mendelson, PhD Associate Professor Learn More Renee Johnson, PhD Director, DDET Training Program Associate Professor Learn More Elizabeth Stuart, PhD Brion Maher, PhD, MS Trang Nguyen, PhD Assistant Scientist Learn More Rashelle Musci, PhD Assistant Professor Learn More Judith Bass, PhD Department Videos Visit DMH on Follow DMH on Home > Departments > Mental Health > Centers & Programs > Suicide Prevention Suicide Prevention Workgroup American Association of Suicidology Grant Yourself Life National Alliance for Mental Illness In 1967, the Johns Hopkins Medical School received the National Institute of Mental Health’s first major grant specifically to establish a formal two-year Fellowship Program in Suicidology. The pioneering program was created in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (at the time the School of Hygiene and Public Health) and other Hopkins Graduate Schools and designed to bring together and prepare postgraduates from diverse disciplines for leadership in treating, teaching, researching and developing policy toward preventing suicide. At that time there were approximately 21,000 suicides per year in the United States. By 2015 the number of suicides in the United States had more than doubled; and the number of suicides world-wide hovers around 1,000,000 annually. Both the World Health Association and the U.S. Surgeon General have made clear that suicide is preventable. Over the past 50 years, researchers and clinicians at Johns Hopkins have continued to develop community, hospital-based, and applied programs of prevention targeting children and adults. These include screening and educational initiatives, studies of the biological underpinnings of suicide, epidemiological surveys of at-risk groups, and most importantly the training of young researchers planning to launch into this important field. Suicide, as a preventable outcome, is associated with many other public health challenges currently under study at Johns Hopkins, such as gun violence (60% of gun deaths are suicides), mental illness including substance abuse (substance dependence is one of the greatest risk factors for suicide), and trauma. Similarly, the paths to suicide prevention come from many directions and are driven by a diverse group of specialists. To date, however, these specialists have worked in individual silos of effort. We believe it is time to reconstitute an interdisciplinary and collaborative community of scholars and practitioners from the Johns Hopkins community to lead the effort to prevent as many deaths by suicide as possible and to help build brighter futures for those who lead lives of despair. To that end we are formalizing a relaunch of the suicide workgroup at Johns Hopkins in order to offer collaboration, mentorship, and opportunities to contribute to this lifesaving work. To establish and forward a collaborative multidisciplinary effort to advance our understanding of suicide and suicide prevention toward the saving of lives, as well as to be a national resource and provide leadership in public health approaches to suicide prevention. To join together researchers, clinicians, and policy scholars in sociology, psychiatry, psychology, nursing, economics, neuroscience, epigenetics, public health, public policy, forensics, education, epidemiology and other disciplines and consumers (patients and loss survivors), all invested in suicide prevention. To conduct research and pursue public policy that translate into evidence-based clinical practice, prevention programming, and legislative efforts to save lives. To train research scientists to pursue a prioritized research agenda addressing life-saving interventions and understandings of suicide; to train clinical practitioners in evidence-based interventions; to train mental health and public health scholars in efforts to advance public policy toward life-saving programs. To use research as a vehicle for advancing suicide prevention. If you are interested in collaborating, learning, or contributing, we would like to talk. Here we provide information about our programs and resources for the community and survivors of suicide loss.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526844
__label__wiki	0.52572	0.52572	Sister Helen Prejean On Witnessing Executions: 'I Couldn't Let Them Die Alone' By Terry Gross • Aug 12, 2019 Sister Helen Prejean has written a new memoir called River of Fire, detailing her spiritual life before her activism against the death penalty. Michael Lionstar / Random House Originally published on August 16, 2019 8:16 am Sister Helen Prejean is best known for her 1993 memoir, Dead Man Walking, about her role as a spiritual adviser to a convicted killer on death row. The story was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. Prejean has accompanied six prisoners to their executions and has been at the forefront of activism against the death penalty. "In [their] last moments, I was amazed that they're walking," she says. "'Sister, pray that God holds my legs up as I walk.' They take steps. I read scripture to them. ... All I knew was: I couldn't let them die alone." Her new memoir, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey, tells the story of her life leading up to her awakening to social justice movements in the 1980s. She entered the convent in 1957, joining the Congregation of St. Joseph in Baton Rouge, La. She remembers a strict regimen guided by canonical law, where questioning of superiors was forbidden. "It was called 'blind obedience,' and by being obedient, that was how you got holy," Prejean says. "You gave up self-will, and in the process, as I experienced it, you also began to give up a lot of thinking — critical thinking — because you knew what you had to do was conform in the end to whatever was being asked of you." Just a few years later, beginning in 1962, her life was opened up by the reforms of Vatican II — the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. Suddenly she and the other nuns were allowed to discuss books, talk to each other freely, and choose their own ministry. Her book ends with her letter to Pope Francis, in which she shares her concern about the way the church excludes women. "How do you love your Church and raise the questions?" she says. "You do that because you do love your Church! ... You keep the dialogue going! Interview Highlights On becoming involved in social justice in her 40s There were two main things driving that. One was: I was really in a spiritual cocoon. We had young girls coming over to the motherhouse for retreats. I really did think that the way you change the world was: You pray and God takes care of the big problems of the world. And I'd say things like, "I'm apolitical. I'm spiritual. I'm above that." And so this is just one rift — these tensions and dialogues and debates were going on about everything. One of them was ... now that Vatican II is open to the needs and sufferings of the world, what is our mission going to be? Before, it had always been determined by an institutional structure: You would teach in this school, you will be in this hospital. Now, we as a community of sisters are beginning to determine it for ourselves. So we had sisters going over to Latin America and beginning to be in Nicaragua and El Salvador in those countries, and coming back and [saying], "Do you know what's happening to the people? There are these death squads. There are dictators. There are these people being disappeared and tortured." They were bringing into our meetings the suffering of what was going on in those countries, and then the journey began. So I came back to New Orleans ... and I would begin to volunteer with the novices taking the bus and going into the inner city, to the St. Thomas housing projects, and beginning to volunteer at a place called Hope House. On accompanying six men on death row to their executions Of course I'm on the outside of them, but in a way I'm on the inside of them too, because I've gotten to know them. ... [They] cannot help but anticipate and imagine their death, which is coming. It's predetermined, and they all have the same nightmare: "The guards come in for me. It's my time, and I'm kicking, struggling, 'No, no!' and they're trying to drag me out of my cell, and then I wake up and it's a dream." ... They shared that with me and their inner anguish. On what she tries to convey to people as they die All the words have been spoken. In my faithfulness to them and in visiting them, they know my love and care for them, and that I believe in their dignity. It's all presence then. It's just pure presence. Like when you're at the death of anyone, you're not making long speeches ... there's nothing to say. You look at my face. I'll be the face of Christ for you. It's pure presence and that's what it is. On women in the church being restricted from priesthood and participating in policy changes Women can't preach in the Catholic Church. Women cannot read the Gospel at Mass. A young little pimply teenager who happens to be a boy could read the Gospel. - Sister Helen Prejean Women can't preach in the Catholic Church. Women cannot read the Gospel at Mass. A young little pimply teenager who happens to be a boy could read the Gospel. You've got to be male. [There are a] million ways it plays out that women somehow cannot fully image Christ. It was what I said in the letter [to Pope Francis], was that women need to be in on those decision-making councils when policies are being decided in the church, because the presence of women — our consciousness, our empathy, what we bring to the table — is really important for the dialogue. And if men in the church are always only talking to other men at the top decision-making levels, and that's the curia in Rome, that's the bishops when they meet — it's always all males. And ... if we don't have full dialogue with women represented ... we are never going to be able to embody what the gospel of Jesus is about. On how witnessing death changed her feelings about her own death In watching people actually go to their death, I've seen how they summoned their courage to make the walk. They're very afraid, but they do it. I've watched Mama, Daddy, [my sister] Mary Ann. ... My sister, she was always brave. When we were doing tomboy things like jumping from a limb to catch a rope swing, I'm the last one on the branch, and she's going, "Jump! Don't be such a sissy!" So the words that came up inside me after she had died — because she was gone then, I couldn't hear her voice physically — was: "Sis, death comes for everybody. I did it. It's going to happen to you too. Don't be a sissy! I had what it took. God brought me through it, and you'll have what you need to and it strengthens me." Sam Briger and Thea Chaloner produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Molly Seavy-Nesper and Patrick Jarenwattananon adapted it for the Web. Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Sister Helen Prejean, has written a new spiritual memoir. You may know her as the author of the earlier memoir, "Dead Man Walking," about how she became an activist against the death penalty. In 1982, she became a spiritual adviser to a convicted killer on death row. She's since accompanied six people to their execution. "Dead Man Walking" was adapted into a 1995 film starring Susan Sarandon, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Helen Prejean. In Sister Helen's new memoir "River Of Fire," she tells the story of her spiritual journey and her awakening to social justice movements. She entered the convent in 1957, joining the Congregation of St. Joseph. Just a few years later, beginning in 1962, her life was opened up by the reforms of Vatican II, the 21st Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. It wasn't until the '80s that she started to see her role as being with the poor and imprisoned. Her book ends with her letter to Pope Francis, which she personally delivered to him, in which she shares her concern about the wound she believes infects every aspect of church life - the way the church treats women. Sister Helen Prejean, welcome back to FRESH AIR. You had not planned to be a social activist nun. You hadn't planned on being an anti-death penalty activist. What did you imagine being a nun would be like when you joined the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph at age 18? HELEN PREJEAN: Well, it was what the holy rule said and what convent life was like before Vatican II. You joined the religious life to seek a spiritual life of perfection, of union with God, love of neighbor, which it was semi-cloistered. You never ate with laypeople where you taught at the school. It was a daily regimen of prayers, a lot of vocal prayers, the rosary, litanies. But precious in the day were two half-hour periods of silence where you could have meditation. And so it was under this strict thing of canon law for all religious women which had come out in 1949, strict thing of the way that you got to holiness was by obedience to superiors. So no questioning. It was called blind obedience. And by being obedient, that was how you got holy. You gave up self-will. And in the process, as I experienced it, you also began to give up a lot of thinking, critical thinking, because you knew what you had to do was conform in the end to whatever was being asked of you. And that is what I entered into. I wanted to be a mystic. GROSS: So did you feel that blind obedience and a lack of critical thinking were leading you closer to the mystical state that you wanted to be in, that you imagined being a nun would lead you closer to? PREJEAN: I just want to tell you I tried hard. I really did. But what I began to experience, just existentially inside myself, was I was giving up critical thinking. It was whatever Mother says has got to be what it is. And then you just follow the rule. GROSS: Mother superior, not your mother. PREJEAN: Yeah. No, Mother superior is right. In religious life, you call superiors mother. And I began to find that it was kind of a quietism. It was kind of - well, I'm praying, but I wasn't intellectually stirred. And I began to find it very confining. Luckily, I wasn't in it that long, like, just five years, before Vatican II happened in the church and opened up doors of inquiry, exploration and relating to the world. GROSS: So... PREJEAN: Yeah. GROSS: ...You're talking about how nuns were treated. Now compare nuns to priests. You write that in the spiritual manuals of the day before Vatican II, that topping the list of womanly virtues was obedience, submission and resignation. So that's what you were supposed to practice. What about people who - like, men who were becoming priests? Was there an emphasis for them on obedience, submission and resignation? PREJEAN: They had to give obedience to a bishop, but they were much more freewheeling. And they didn't make a vow of poverty, so they had money if their family had money. They could have cars. They could have a boat. They could have a condominium. It was just like they were much more freewheeling. And they would make decisions and act out of them. But their life was not in community the way ours was as sisters. I found them often very lonely. And, I mean, I even heard that in some rectories, you had your individual salt and pepper shaker by your place. And loneliness is not good for people. I don't think you can make it in the Christian life - I don't think you can make it in human life without a community of people to share with. So that was a downside for them. They were also trained in the early days - like I talk about my pastor, Paul Raymond Moore, when I was the director of religious ed in a parish in New Orleans, he never ever looked into my eyes. He had been trained never to look into the eyes of a woman. And I also learned that the way priests would shake hands with a woman is they'd take your hand, and then they would, like, bend your hand with the wrist outward, so you couldn't come in close. Less, God forbid, they got a bosomly hug. GROSS: Let's talk about what you had to wear before Vatican II. What was it like wearing the habit? How did it feel? Did you feel like it was separating you from the world or just giving you a kind of uniform that told the world who you were and that got respect? PREJEAN: Well, in a Catholic context - and you got to know that during this time, the religious women, religious orders were the ones that made the Catholic institutions run - the whole educational system and hospitals. So in a Catholic context, people were used to the habit. They saw it as a object of respect, and traditional Catholics found it very hard when we took the habit off. But the habit - because you got to get this, Terry, it was three and a half yards of black wool serge wrapped around your body, everything covered. You not only had long, flowing sleeves, but you had what was called undersleeves. You not only had a long, black flowing veil, but you had a under-veil. And you had what was called a cornette around your neck and three other pieces of cloth on your head, so that you were - let's just say - you were covered. In fact, one of our sisters one time, she was in this material store cloth. And she was standing there, and she felt somebody pulling on her veil. And she turned around to this surprised lady who thought she was a bolt of material. PREJEAN: (Laughter). PREJEAN: Well, in the way she was, how you going to know she's not a bolt of material? With all that black, that's all you saw. GROSS: And New Orleans is hot and humid. PREJEAN: Oh, God. You want to - I mean, we had a funny sister, Sister Gert. And she got on the bus one day. One of the ladies on the bus in New Orleans - it's July. And the lady said, oh, look at those sisters. They always look as crisp and fresh as daisies. And Gert leans over and whispers to the sister next to her, kid, what is that rolling down my leg? You sweat. You were in a puddle. It was really, really hot. But you know what? It's interesting how you adapt to things. So you expect it to be hot. You moved into that. And so in the summer, you were hot. GROSS: Has the burqa ever seemed similar to you... PREJEAN: Absolutely. GROSS: ...To the habit? PREJEAN: You know what? I think of that, Terry. I - when I'm in an airport and I see people in burqas, I go, we were like that. We were covered head to toe, too, with a veil over our heads. I think of it a lot. GROSS: And what does that say to you both about burqas and about habits? PREJEAN: Well, that they're very, very similar, and they come out of a religious tradition and the way women, to be modest, were covered. I also see there can be great respect in wearing the burqa because if it's coming from the inner religious motives of devotion, people can dress any kind of way they want. GROSS: Let me reintroduce you here. If you're just joining us, my guest is Sister Helen Prejean. And she's written a new spiritual memoir that's called "River Of Fire." We'll talk more after we take a short break. This is FRESH AIR. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. And if you're just joining us, my guest is Sister Helen Prejean. She's written a new spiritual memoir called "River Of Fire," and she's best known for her work with people on death row, her work opposing the death penalty. She was dramatized in the film "Dead Man Walking," in which she was portrayed by Susan Sarandon. You entered the convent when you were in your late teens. This was just a few years before Vatican II, which initiated really groundbreaking reforms in the Catholic Church. And you write that the new insights of Vatican II helped you get your selfhood back after your futile attempts to relinquish it because part of what you were taught as a novitiate was to, as we were talking about, be obedient, be submissive and kind of turn off your critical thinking, which is, in a way, a denial of the actionable self. GROSS: But also, as you point out in the book, you were too young to really know yourself. I mean, like, you didn't really fully know what your self was. So what was it like to be able to assert yourself and remain a nun after Vatican II? And what were some of the ways you were able early on to assert yourself that - in ways that you couldn't before? PREJEAN: I just want to say you said when I was a novitiate. It's not - the novitiate is the place. GROSS: Oh. PREJEAN: I was a novice. GROSS: Novice. Yes, right. Thank you. PREJEAN: No, a lot of people do that. GROSS: Right. PREJEAN: A lot of people do it. OK, so waking up to self. Well, first of all, you would have to have permission. During the days of blind obedience, mother would have to approve any book you read. So you're doing this reading, and of course, we are free to read. And we are free to talk to each other. Before, we were always in a time of silence. You didn't talk to each other except at recreation. So we'd meet in these little huddles. Did you look at this book? Did you read this book? And we're sharing the books with each other. It was just a wonderful time of freedom. So first of all, what are you're reading, intellectually how you challenged. The other thing is that you could be a self by having the freedom to write letters and receive mail without mother reading your mail. I mean, when I look back on that, it couldn't have been more restrictive. You'd write a letter. You'd put it on Mother's desk, and she would check it. She would read it. My sister Mary Ann was really funny. She'd write to me. She knew Mother Normie (ph), our novice mistress, was reading the mail. So she'd be telling me news, and then she'd say hi, Mother Normie. I know you're reading this. I hope you have a good day. So anyway, you can just see to - for intellectual freedom. And then the other thing was being able to choose or growing into what your service would be, what your ministry would be. GROSS: You mean as opposed to being assigned it? PREJEAN: Absolutely being assigned it. I mean, by assigned it, I mean we all go into chapel. We're all quiet. Oh, God, help me. I'm about to be assigned. I don't no where. And then you'd hear silence in the chapel and the soft pad of shoes. And then by your pew would be a sister who would hand you a little white slip of paper. Dear Sister Louis Augustine - that was my name in religion then - it is the will of God for you to go to St. Francis Cabrini to teach in middle school. Boom. Some of our sisters who wanted to be nurses, they would get the little slip of paper. You're assigned to teaching, or if you wanted to teach, and you were a nurse. It was just moving pieces around on a chess board because blind obedience was supposed to cover everything. GROSS: So Vatican II is a turning point in many ways. And one very profound turning point is that it basically said the church can change. GROSS: Things don't have to remain the same forever. And, you know, it points to reading the signs of the times. PREJEAN: Right. GROSS: And do you feel like the church is still open to that, is still open to change? PREJEAN: Yes, so when you use those words, the church, you're not talking about a monolithic body. And you're not mainly talking about the hierarchy. The church, as Vatican II said, is the people. So you have people's experience bubbling up all over the place. So you have people going to the border right now to be with the asylum seekers and the ones separated from their children. That's speaking. And then what happens is as people awaken and as your heart is moved, as we're moved by compassion by the suffering, then we are moved to action. And that bubbles up. So there are all these little bubbles coming up all over the Catholic Church. GROSS: Another thing regarding Vatican II, you say at last we got to reclaim our humanness, all of it, including our physical selves, our bodies, our desires, even our sexuality. I was surprised to see sexuality... PREJEAN: Of course you were. GROSS: ...In that sentence. PREJEAN: Of course you were. The only... GROSS: Coming from a nun, yeah. PREJEAN: Well, of course sexuality. You know, sexuality is present in us in a lot of ways. It's not just having genital sex with people. Sexuality is part of our being, so the sexuality... GROSS: But I always thought that's a part of the being you were supposed to suppress if you were a nun. PREJEAN: Well, acting out of sexuality where you made a vow of celibacy, and here you are having affairs and having sex, that's not integral. That's not transparent. That's not true. But so of course, when - we never talked about sexuality. Everything was sublimate, sublimate, sublimate, which means you just offered to God. But sexuality is our body. It's our self. It's part of who we are. So the challenge of celibacy is - it's not not to love anyone or not to love in friendship. But you know that one of the levees around your river is that you will not go into full sexual expression with someone. And one of the reasons for that is because it's so self-absorbing. And it closes you off because if you're in a sexual relationship with somebody, in that intimate a relationship, that's priority in your life. And you cannot simultaneously in your life be open to a whole lot of people. That's the challenge of celibacy, but not to live the shriveled-up life where you're not close to anybody. GROSS: So you met a priest when you were in your 20s, and you were at the time studying together. And he fell in love with you, and I think you fell in love with him. But of course, you wanted to observe the vow of chastity. And you write that this relationship was an example of what was being called the third way. Would you describe what the third way was? PREJEAN: Sure. And if you remember my description - that we would live our vows, but we would be close as man and woman as friends. And then I say in the book, if you think that sounds tricky and confusing, that's because it is. GROSS: (Laughter). PREJEAN: So of course (laughter), when - sister said freedom and priests, and you'd be going away to study, as happened with me when I went to London, Ontario. It was a school of religious education, and you had priests and nuns, a few laypeople going to school together. And that's how I met - William's not his real name. I wanted to protect him. He has died, and I want to make sure that I protected him in every way. That - and he was so attractive. He was handsome. He had a great mind. And we were immediately drawn to each other. But then we are going over to Dennis' (ph) house, who had a piano. And there was beer and wine and hard liquor. And so we're sipping our drinks, and we're singing songs around the piano. And some of them were love songs like "Somewhere, My Love, There Will Be Songs To Sing" (ph), the theme from "Zhivago" (ph), which had come out around that time. And the next thing you know, you're looking at each other. And you're going, oh, my God. And that attraction was there, the sexual attraction. You couldn't help it. So then there's that discernment again in prayer. What's going on here? What's going on here? So I was - I knew my soul, and I knew that I was not on a path that I'm going to fall in love with somebody and marry them. I was clear about that. I wanted to be able to live a lifestyle that I could be wide in the number of people or the way I could reach out to people in love and service. That is a gift of the sisterhood, by the way, that you are free after Vatican II to do work you want to do. And you can follow your deepest desires and your gifts as a sell. GROSS: Well, a problem in the relationship too was that he started drinking a lot, too much. And that - you found that very troubling, and you broke off the relationship. Do you think he wanted to marry you and leave the priesthood and have you leave... GROSS: ...The order? PREJEAN: No, that was clear. And especially when we're together, and he'd be coming on strong to me. I mean, sometimes - thank God I was physically fit. I mean, when he was drinking, it was not pleasant at all. Then he'd be so apologetic. And I didn't know how alcohol worked. But he was so apologetic. And he'd say - my - he would call me Lou (ph). My name was Louis Augustine. We dropped all the men's names after Vatican II, became our baptismal name ourselves. Oh, Lou, I'm so sorry. You know I want you to be free to be who you want to be. And then he'd be so contrite that I thought it would never happen again. I didn't know how alcohol worked. I also began to see how terribly lonely he was in the priesthood. It is one of my concerns for priests, that so many of them are lonely because they don't have the same kind of community. GROSS: So you eventually broke off your relationship with Will because he wanted to get married. You did not. He wanted to have a sexual relationship. You wanted to keep your vow of celibacy. So you broke it off and eventually became friends. I'm wondering if you - when I say eventually became friends, I mean you started your relationship on different terms. PREJEAN: Absolutely, yeah. GROSS: I'm wondering if you think it was very helpful to you as a nun to have experienced that relationship with Will because it taught you something about relationships, something... GROSS: ...You could bring into the world and understand the world around you better, the world that you are serving. PREJEAN: Absolutely. And I'm going to tell you what Will gave me, the relationship, was great confidence in myself as a woman and as being attractive. And I relate to men all over the place now that I'm doing my work. I love the company of men. And Will taught me that. GROSS: My guest is Sister Helen Prejean. Her new memoir is called "River Of Fire." After we take a break, we'll talk about how she became an activist for social justice. And John Powers will review a new documentary that won prizes at Sundance. It's about a beekeeper in Macedonia. John says it's a specific story, but it makes us feel its universal importance. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's get back to my interview with Sister Helen Prejean. She's written a new spiritual memoir called "River Of Fire." Her earlier memoir "Dead Man Walking" was about her work with death row inmates and her activism opposing the death penalty. It was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name. Susan Sarandon won an Oscar for her portrayal of Sister Helen. Sister Helen entered the convent in 1957, joining the congregation of St. Joseph. You describe a rift in your community between the sisters who wanted to emphasize social justice and the sisters who wanted to focus on spiritual issues, and you started off in the spiritual camp. Why were you in the spiritual camp and not the social justice camp, which you eventually crossed over into? PREJEAN: Yeah, there were two main things driving that. One was I was really, like, in a spiritual cocoon. We had young girls coming over the motherhouse for retreats. I really did think that the way you changed the world is you pray and God takes care of the big problems of the world. And I'd say things like, I'm apolitical, or I'm spiritual; I'm above that. And so this isn't just one rift; these tensions and dialogues and debates were going on about everything. One of them was, what is - now that Vatican II has opened us to the needs and sufferings of the world, what is our mission going to be? Before, it had always been determined an institutional structure - you will teach in this school, you will be in this hospital. Now we, as a community of sisters, are beginning to determine it for ourselves. So we had sisters going over to Latin America and beginning to be in Nicaragua and El Salvador and those countries. And coming back and say, do you know what's happening to the people? There are these death squads. There are these dictators. There are these people being disappeared and tortured. They are bringing into our meetings the suffering of what was going on in those countries. And then the journey began. So I came back to New Orleans. I was still at Joseph House at our novitiate, and I would begin to volunteer with the novices, taking the bus and going into the inner city to the St. Thomas housing projects and beginning to volunteer at a place called Hope House. GROSS: So after you started doing work in the housing project, that eventually led to your work on death row, with people living on death row. PREJEAN: Yeah, big surprise. GROSS: And you've done a lot of work on behalf of opposing executions. Last month Attorney General William Barr announced that the federal government will resume the execution of death row inmates. The last federal execution was in 2003. I imagine this was a pretty discouraging announcement for you. PREJEAN: But expected. When you have, as the president of the United States, a man who took out full-page ads in New York newspapers presuming that the young black boys and Hispanic boys of the Central Park Five were guilty of attacking this jogger in Central Park, when he presumes their guilt - they've since been exonerated. He's the president. He's appointed William Barr, the attorney general. And what I've seen with the way the death penalty works in states and the way it works in the federal government, it is up to individual attorney generals or prosecutors whether or not they will prosecute for the death penalty or not. So these are all people that have received the death sentence. So what they want to do is they want to hasten their executions. But the arbitrariness in which the federal system is applied is the same as the state. And when you look at the people that have been executed in the federal system, you see that every one of them was poor, and many of them were minorities, even more so than in the state system. In the state system, where you see race is in the victim. That's when you kill white people, overwhelmingly. That's when you get the death penalty. But the same arbitrariness and capriciousness, like right now we're really getting clear about, that they are 2% of prosecutors in different counties in this nation - they all have the same ground rules - 2% that are accountable for over 50% of all the people sentenced to death. Because it's up to individual discretion, with the federal death penalty, you could have the prosecutors in Manhattan that never went for the federal death penalty. But a state like Louisiana, where you have a federal person who's from the state and has the culture of the Deep South, you saw more federal death penalties being sought. So it's no different. So we were expecting this to come. I've been talking to federal prosecutors. And of course, Trump's administration, in a number of things, seems to think that he gives a fiat and it all begins to happen. But there is an appeals process in place in the federal system. And I've been talking to the lawyers, and they're hoping they can stay this, that these people will not be executed. GROSS: You've accompanied six people to their execution. You've witnessed those executions. Do you have any sense of what the men whose executions you've witnessed experienced in the last minutes of their lives and experienced as they were being executed? Is there anything you could read by watching them, about what that must be like and how much - how long it takes, how much suffering is involved? PREJEAN: Of course, I'm on the outside of them, but in a way, I'm on the inside of them, too, because I've gotten to know them. Conscious, imaginative (ph) being sentenced to death cannot help but anticipate and imagine their death, which is coming. It's predetermined. And they all have the same nightmare. The guards are coming for me. It's my time, and I'm kicking. I'm struggling. No, no. And they trying to drag me out of my cell. And then I wake up, and it's not - it's a dream. I look around my cell. I've known - they shared that with me and the inner anguish. In the last moments, I was amazed that they are walking. Sister, pray that God holds my legs up as I walk. They take steps. I read scripture to them hoping the words - can you hear words when you have this white forest fire of, these are my last moments on earth? Now I'm going through this door. Now they're strapping me in. All I knew was I couldn't let them die alone. GROSS: So you tried to be within eye contact of the men who you've accompanied on their execution. PREJEAN: Yes, yes. GROSS: And the prison guards enable you to be in a position where the man being executed can see you? PREJEAN: Well, it varies. In Louisiana, you're there with the witnesses. If you see Susan Sarandon in the movie - I mean, we worked on every line and scene of this movie. And you see her putting her hand out toward him so she could stand out in the witnesses. He could see where I was. That's just what happened. And he looked at me, and I knew then he had seen my face. He knew I was there - one person in that crowd of people that believed in his dignity and did not want to see him die, that love there at the end. But like, when I was with Joseph O'Dell in Virginia, they actually let me come in and be with him. He was strapped down, waiting for the lethal injection. He let me be there with him and put my hand on his shoulder and pray with him. The warden said, look. Don't make the prayer too long, OK? We need this to be over. It's so unbelievable what's happening. You can't take it in. I've been integrating it all these years. I don't know that I have it yet - that that happened. GROSS: So when you're with somebody as they're being executed or when you're in the place for witnesses, what are you trying to communicate with them? Like, after the point where they can actually hear you reading the scripture, are you trying to send out some kind of emotion to them, some kind of - like, what are you trying to just exude, if that's the right word? PREJEAN: All the words have been spoken. GROSS: Yeah. PREJEAN: In my faithfulness to them and in visiting them, they know my love and care for them and that I believe in their dignity. It's all presence then. PREJEAN: It's just pure presence like when you're at the death of anyone. You're not making long speeches. It's - there's nothing to say. You look at my face. I'll be the face of Christ for you. It's pure presence, and that's what it is. GROSS: Let me reintroduce you here. If you're just joining us, my guest is Sister Helen Prejean, and she's written a new spiritual memoir that's called "River Of Fire." We'll talk more after we take a short break. This is FRESH AIR. (SOUNDBITE OF WES MONTGOMERY'S "FOUR ON SIX") GROSS: This is FRESH AIR, and if you're just joining us, my guest is Sister Helen Prejean. She's written a new spiritual memoir called "River Of Fire," and she's best known for her work with people on death row, her work opposing the death penalty. She was dramatized in the film "Dead Man Walking," in which she was portrayed by Susan Sarandon. At the end of the book, you publish a letter that you wrote to Pope Francis, and you made a very stirring argument on behalf of more equality for nuns and... PREJEAN: For women in the church not just nuns. GROSS: Yeah, for women in the church, including nuns - and one of your arguments is, how can men really understand the world if women aren't their equals? And that applies to nuns and priests. And you also write about how you can preach in Protestant churches but not in your own. You can give sermons in Protestant churches against the death penalty. And even though the pope opposes the death penalty, you can't give the same sermon in your own Catholic Church. PREJEAN: Women can't preach in the Catholic Church. Women cannot read the gospel at mass. A young little pimply teenager who happens to be a boy could read the gospel. You got to be male. And seeing the million ways it plays out that women somehow cannot fully image Christ - it was - what I said in the letter was that women need to be in on those decision-making councils when policies are being decided in the church because the presence of women - our consciousness, our empathy, what we bring to the table - is really important for the dialogue. And if men in the church are always only talking to other men at the top decision-making levels - and that's the curia in Rome. That's the bishops when they meet. It's always all males. And that - if we don't have full dialogue with women represented - that's the fullness of human beings - we are never going to be able to embody what the gospel of Jesus is about. GROSS: Didn't Pope Francis recently affirm that one thing that was not going to change was women being restricted from becoming priests? PREJEAN: Yes, he has said that. He has made statements on that. GROSS: So you still think it's going to change eventually, but not in the near future, I guess. PREJEAN: Yeah, just because that life moves in the spirit in the church. Look how long it took - 1,600 years to change the teaching of the Catholic Church on the death penalty to unequivocal opposition. So women - it's going to change because it has to, because it's so against the gospel of Jesus to simply say because someone is a man or a woman, one can fully represent Christ and so represent him at the altar and the other one can't. PREJEAN: I mean, the more women are educated, the more people are educated, they're going to question that. Now, how do you love your church and raise the questions? You do that because you do love your church. It's why I carried on dialogue with the church for over 30 years about the death penalty question. You keep the dialogue going. You keep raising the questions, and people's experience keeps bubbling up. So here's a parish. There's a young girl that wants to be an altar server, and there's a traditionalist priest that says, no. Girls can't. And so here we go. The bubbles are rising in the pot. GROSS: At the end of your book, you write that you are now 80. Your parents died when they were 81. Your older sister is dead. And you write, death seems to be such a crapshoot. Either it's everything - union and love with all that is - or it's nothing - disintegration into a puny pile of chemicals. How has your understanding of death changed in all the years that you've been a nun? PREJEAN: Well, in watching people actually go to their death, I've seen how they summon their courage to make the walk. They're very afraid, but they do it. They do it. I've watched Mama, Daddy, Mary Anne. It's - Mary Anne and I were really close. And, in fact, after Mary Ann died... GROSS: Your sister. PREJEAN: Yeah, my sister. She was always the brave one. Like, when we were doing tomboy things like jumping from a limb to catch a rope swing, I'm the last one on the branch. And she's going, Helen, jump. Don't be such a sissy. So the words that came up inside me after she had died - because she was gone then, I couldn't hear her voice physically - was, sis, death comes for everybody. I did it. It's going to happen to you, too. Don't be a sissy. I had what it took. God brought me through it. And you can - you'll have what you need, too. And it strengthens me. GROSS: Do you believe in a literal heaven and hell? PREJEAN: What do you mean by literal? GROSS: That there actually is a heaven, and that some people would be dispatched to heaven, and some people will be scorched eternally in hell. PREJEAN: I do not believe that if we say God is a loving and merciful God that God puts people in this frying pan and zaps them in fire for all eternity, plunges them into an eternal pain. What kind of God is that? It's a mystery, of course. But I know that it cannot be the imposition of eternal pain, at least it doesn't jibe with anything I know about the God, the Abba that Jesus taught us, and that God is merciful. What does it mean to say God's merciful? You can keep people in a frying pan in hell for all eternity. Heaven, a little imagination here, what if heaven - what if Mary Ann is right here by my side, but I can't see her? Mom and Daddy, all those - it's called the communion of saints in the Catholic Church. Not that it's a literal place, of course, but what if they have crossed over a threshold in which they have moved into a way of being that is somehow connected in love with everything, and maybe that is the heart of what it all means. GROSS: Are there any parts of life that you regret having missed out on because of the vows that you took when you became a nun and the life that you've dedicated yourself to? It's been such a rich life in so many ways, but there are some things that you actually were pledged to deny yourself. PREJEAN: You know, I was such an impetuous, spontaneous person, I guess in a way, immature, not rounded out in relationships, like, with men and - so it's been a slow process to awaken to the deepest dimension of the gospel, to do justice, to be in solidarity with poor people. So I have a feeling being in that kind of cocoon of protection and a limited environment in which I lived and moved and had my being might have been good for me. I think I did it exactly as I should have done it. I don't regret anything. GROSS: Sister Helen Prejean, it's been such a pleasure to talk with you. Thank you so much. PREJEAN: Terry, I love hearing that voice come on the radio. It's been a joy. Thank you so much for getting this book out because it's really important we get religion right because God, you know, religion is used in so many ways to hurt people, especially Christianity. GROSS: Do you feel like you're seeing that right now? PREJEAN: I'll give one example - Jeff Sessions, before him, Justice Scalia, quoting Romans 13, that if anything is the law in the United States, we obey civil authority because it has the authority of God. And Justice Scalia quoted that to justify the death penalty. And Jeff Sessions just quoted that because it's the law for people to enter the country illegally, so you can separate children from their parents. And he brought in divine authority to sanction it. And that is really, really harmful. It is so opposite to the compassion and mercy and love that Jesus taught us that it just - I can't tell you what it does to see that happening over and over again by these people who claimed Christianity and then quote even the words of Jesus sometimes to hurt people, to disrespect them and to claim that the suffering we're causing of separating children from their parents is really God's will because it's legal. And I quote Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk - I still make retreat with the Trappist monks at Gethsemani - who said when the world ends, it'll be legal. GROSS: (Laughter) Sister Helen, thank you so much. PREJEAN: Thank you, Terry. GROSS: Sister Helen Prejean's new memoir is called "River Of Fire." After we take a short break, our critic-at-large John Powers will review a new documentary about a beekeeper in Macedonia whose world changes when strangers move in nearby. This is FRESH AIR. (SOUNDBITE OF AARON PARKS' "SMALL PLANET") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526847
__label__wiki	0.775511	0.775511	News - International Rwanda Ready to Acquire Latest Ebola Vaccine byDan Ngabonziza August 20, 2019 at 7:33 pm 0 Rwanda says it is ready to buy the new anti-Ebola vaccine released by the World Health Organisation (WHO), as long as it is out on the market. The country, which borders with Ebola-prone Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the Western borders of Rusizi and Rubavu districts, has been stepping up efforts to contain the killer outbreak from crossing over after claiming a number of people. Yesterday, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the new vaccine unveiled is 97% more than effective and can treat patients at 90% rate. “We now have an Ebola vaccine that is more than 97% effective and treatments that are more than 90% effective if used early enough. Ebola is preventable and treatable. We need to make sure everyone in the affected area knows that,” he said without naming the name of the vaccine. Rwanda has already vaccinated over 3000 health providers and people in high-risk zones this year, according to Dr Sabin Nsanzimana, the Director-General of Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC). The targeted beneficiaries of the vaccine are front liners and people living in risk zones, Dr Nsanzimana told KT Press. “We have already vaccinated all front liners including healthcare providers and people living in parts of the country that connect to Ebola prone neighbours,” he said, adding that the Ministry plans to extend the exercise. “There is a plan to continue vaccinating people who are at high risk as the epidemic continue to be a threat to our border, so vaccination is one of the prevention tools that the country has prioritized especially to healthcare providers near the epidemic zone. We have plans to extend that program. We have vaccinated over 3000 now,” he said. Currently, Rwanda uses rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine which is believed to be 70% effective against the Ebola virus. To access the vaccine, Rwanda worked jointly with its partners and the vaccination exercise has been conducted free of charge, according to DR Nsanzimana. “We worked with different partners especially the World Health Organisation and the vaccination was conducted free of charge. It was done through government funds and those provided by our partners,” he said. In December 2016, a study found the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine to be 70% effective against the Ebola virus, making it the first proven vaccine against the disease. Dr Nsanzimana said that the government is ready to procure the new vaccine once it is out on the market. “We are ready to have the new vaccine, but it will first have approval before countries can have it if they have this kind of risks,” he said. For the past years, Ebola has been regarded untreatable until researchers came up with a new vaccine, according to Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum – the brain behind curative treatment for Ebola that has a 90% survival rate. “Not long ago there was no treatment for Ebola, neither preventative nor curative. Now there is both,” Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe said, thanking WHO for “opening the door” for his research. Since the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda has never experienced any case. @deave204	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526849
__label__wiki	0.814608	0.814608	Kalyani hospital creates milestone in health sector A state hospital in Kalyani - Gandhi Memorial Hospital has recently created a milestone in the health sector. This hospital has conducted 12 pacemaker implants in patients within a span of 24 hours. This happens to be the first time that a government hospital has performed such a series of crucial operations in such a short span of time. Sources reported that there was a demand for pacemakers for the last few days, but there was no supply so there was a queue of patients in the hospital who required to undergo the operation as soon as the pacemakers were available. Dr Chandan Mishra headed the team of doctors conducting this series of operations and he said that this was not an attempt to create a history, but it took place in the flow, as a part of the process. Dr Mishra said, Creating a record was never on our mind. We tried to ensure that pacemakers got implanted in the maximum number of patients possible, as there had been a long queue. The queue got bigger as there was no supply of pacemakers to the hospital for the past few days. We took an attempt to cover the maximum number of patients and we successfully carried out implants in 12 of them. After carrying out the surgeries, we found that a new world record has been created All the patients who have been operated are reported to be in stable condition and are making a quick recovery.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526850
__label__wiki	0.776695	0.776695	THE OUTDOOR TRUST Inspiring an active and connected family of nations Commonwealth Walkway The Malta Commonwealth Walkway, in the capital Valletta, celebrates the important Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting held in Malta in November 2015. Malta has a long and rich history, dating back to the Phoenicians in 800 BC. In 600 BC the Greek traders arrived and in AD 60, there was the famous shipwreck of St Paul. The Arabs took over in 870, and in 1500 the Knights arrived. Valletta itself was founded by Jean Parisot de Vallette in 1566, following the first great Siege of 1565 in which the Maltese resisted invasion by the Turks. The French ousted the Knights in 1798 and in 1800 the British removed the French. In 1815 British possession was confirmed by Treaty. The island has always been close to Great Britain. Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV, started the vogue for the British to come here for their health, when she came for a prolonged stay in 1838. Many members of the British Royal Family have been stationed here with the Royal Navy, including Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (Queen Victoria’s second son), Prince Louis of Battenberg, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In recent years Malta has been to the forefront in conflicts and turmoil. Because it was strategically placed between Italy and Africa, Malta has always been an important seaport. In the Second World War it underwent the Great Siege. Sir Winston Churchill wrote: “The heroic defence of Malta in 1942 formed the keystone of the prolonged struggle for the maintenance of our position in Egypt and the Middle East.” By the end of 1942 over 3,000 Maltese civilians had been killed or injured. So impressed was King George VI by the way the Maltese defended their island against ceaseless bombing raids that, in a unique gesture, he bestowed the George Cross on the island “to bear witness to a heroism and devotion that will long be famous in history”. When The Duke of Edinburgh was stationed in Malta after the war, Princess Elizabeth spent many months on the island as a naval officer’s wife. She has later said that Malta is the only place in the Commonwealth, other than Great Britain, that she can consider as home. As part of the Commonwealth tour, in May 1954, The Queen unveiled the RAF memorial at Floriana. The Queen has visited it several times since, paying a State Visit in 1967, opening the Santa Maria Bell in 1992, and celebrating her Diamond Wedding here on 20 November 1997. She returned to Malta to preside over the opening ceremonies of CHOGM in 2005 and 2015. In 1964, Malta achieved Independence, and ten years later severed its connections to the British crown, while remaining part of the Commonwealth. In 1979 Valletta was declared a World Heritage Site, containing some 320 historic monuments within 55 hectares. In 2012 Valletta was chosen as European Capital of Culture for 2018. Many thanks to photographer Henry Zammit Cordina for sharing so many great photos with us. Download the leaflets here THE OUTDOOR TRUST 24 Moorend Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL53 0HD, United Kingdom E: info@outdoortrust.com Tel: +44 (0) 7801 334 915 © 2018 The Outdoor Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales (1148702) and a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales (8130120).	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526854
__label__wiki	0.581272	0.581272	Nick Abbot Re-evaluating Boris 19 August 2017, 20:59 \| Updated: 19 August 2017, 21:04 Boris Johnson's tenure as Mayor of London was notable for the amount of time that his self-promotion coincided with his promotion of the city he was representing. He flew from zip wires, stuffed himself into a kiddy's go-cart, rode bicycles with Arnold Schwarzenegger, slammed an innocent ten year old into the ground in a “friendly” rugby game, gurned with Chinese dragons, did the Mo-bot and appeared on the television more often than Fiona Bruce. You could say that he was spreading the name of London to the world but the world knew about London already. More likely he was spreading the name of Boris Johnson. Apart from his vaunting ambition, cleverly cloaked in that bumbling dip-stick act he has perfected, Boris became known for his Grand Projects, or as they are known in France: Grands Projets. It was French President François Mitterrand who instituted an architectural programme to build modern monuments to delight Parisians in the 1980's. His achievements include the Louvre Pyramid and the Grand Arche de la Defense. The buildings and renovations were mostly controversial at the time of construction but have become well loved by residents and tourists alike. Boris wanted to make his mark in the same vein. What is the point of being the Mayor if you can't do something grand and visionary? The most recent of those plans was the building of a garden bridge over the River Thames. It was to be on a stretch of the river that was already well served by crossings but getting from one side to the other was not the point. The bridge was to be a destination, not a method of linking banks. The world's hottest designer was brought in to imagine the scheme. Thomas Heatherwick was the man behind the Olympic cauldron for the London Games. His vision was for a fully planted, traffic-free retreat from the city, right in the heart of the West-End. A place to linger and enjoy some of the great urban views of the world. The idea has been scrapped by the new mayor Sadiq Khan, citing cost overruns and high maintenance expenses. This seems a shame. It also makes little sense that something so life-enhancing for the people and visitors to London should be shelved due to money considerations when we think nothing of blowing £167bn on submarine-based weapons of mass destruction. We have no cash when it comes to improving life but the cheque book is open when it comes to funding the ability to extinguish it. Boris is currently being criticised for many of the things he tried during his tenure as Mayor. The replacement for the iconic Routemaster bus came in for much sniping when it had teething problems with air-conditioning and cost more than the double-deckers that are the alternative. They were a Thomas Heatherwick project as well, and are the only buses designed so far that come close to being as pleasing on the eye as the old ones they are replacing. That is the problem with making things that look good – they are usually more expensive than those that don't. Those buses were cancelled by the new Mayor of London as well. Now we can look forward to ever more of those unlovely red boxes that are cheaper but have no art to their design at all. The most ambitious of Boris' plans was to close Heathrow Airport and site a new airport for London to the East of the city. Putting it there, in a place only frequented by passing birds and the odd newt, would mean that 650 planes a day would not have to fly over one of the most populated places on earth, with all the pollution and noise and danger that entails. That was cancelled on cost grounds too. When the richest woman in the land wants repairs to one of her palaces, no amount of money is too much. When Londoners would like a good night's sleep and would prefer not to die an early death from breathing foul air, then nothing can be done. Boris Johnson may be a carefully dishevelled galumphing great buffoon with an artfully created cartoon personality but he was right about the airport and he was right about the buses and he was right about the bridge. It is a shame that the greatest city in the world, in the fifth richest country on earth can't find the money to improve the lives of its citizens. All of those things would have happened in more enlightened places run by more determined and resourceful people. For his part, the current mayor, Sadiq Khan, has instituted a scheme to charge Londoners for only one ticket if they take two bus trips within the same hour. All that after only 15 months in charge.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526859
__label__wiki	0.762546	0.762546	A Prince Who Would Not Stay Dead His name was Dmitri, and he was hereditary Grand-Prince of all the Russias, being the son of Ivan the Terrible, and only surviving brother of Feodor, the childless successor of that blood-thirsty czar. He was carefully killed in the presence of witnesses, during his boyhood, and duly buried, with honors appropriate to his station in life; so that if Dmitri had been an ordinary mortal, or even an ordinary prince, there would have been no story of his life to tell, except the brief tragedy of his taking off. He was no ordinary prince, however, and so the trifling incident of his death during childhood had as little to do with his career as had one or two other episodes of a like nature in the history of his later life. He was born to rule Russia, and was not at all disposed to excuse himself from the performance of the duty Providence had thus imposed upon him, by pleading the two or three thorough killings to which he was subjected. The story, as preserved in authentic history, is a very interesting one, and may perhaps bear repeating here. The reader may find all the facts in any reputable history of Russia, or of the houses of Rurik and Romanoff. In his jealousy of the absolute power he wielded, Ivan the Terrible had made constant war upon his nobility--killing them, or driving them away, and in every way possible destroying whatever share of influence they possessed in the state. When he died, leaving as his successor Feodor, a weak prince, of uncertain temper and infirm intellect, the nobility--naturally enough--hoped to regain their ancient influence in the state, and might have accomplished their purpose without difficulty if their measures to that end had been taken concertedly; but, jealous as they were of the privileges of their class, they were even more tenacious of their individual and family pretensions. They quarrelled among themselves, in short, and, while they were quarrelling, a bold and ambitious man, Boris Godunof, who happened to be the czar's brother-in-law, conceived the project of becoming prime-minister and actual ruler of the empire. Indeed, his ambition extended even further than this. Not content with governing Russia in the name of Feodor, he set covetous eyes upon the purple itself, and was resolved to become czar in name as well as in fact. But this was a delicate and difficult task, and could by accomplished only at great risk and by great patience. Boris was a man of undoubted genius, extreme shrewdness, unlimited ambition, and remarkable personal courage; and difficult and dangerous as his task was, he seems never to have faltered in his purpose from the instant of its conception to the time of its execution. Knowing the power of money in state affairs, he took care to accumulate a vast sum in his own private coffers, as a first step. He conciliated the common people in a hundred ways--by wise legislation, by the reformation of abuses which pressed hardly upon them, and sometimes by the oppression of the nobles in the interest of the lower classes. He was not long in making himself altogether the most popular man in Russia. He removed, by death or banishment, those whom he could not conciliate, together with all other persons whom he thought likely to prove obstacles in the way of his grand purpose. In short, a very brief time sufficed him for the winning of a popularity which, in any country but Russia, would have been sufficient for his need. But Boris knew his Russians well. He knew that loyalty to the line of Rurik was the strongest feeling in their breasts, after that of devotion to their creed--of which, indeed, it formed a chief part. It was their fixed belief in the divine right of the legitimate princes of the House of Rurik to reign, that had kept them patient, even under the rigors of Ivan's rule; and Boris knew well enough that no usurper, however strongly intrenched in their affections he might be, could hope to win those superstitiously loyal people to his support against any prince of the right line, however brutal, unjust, and despotic that prince might be. He knew, in brief, that so long as any descendant of Rurik should live, no other man could hope to seat himself upon the Muscovite throne. Feodor had no children, but he had one brother, the lad Dmitri, who would be his successor in the natural course of events. His existence was sure to prove an effectual bar to all Boris's hopes; and so it was necessary to get him out of the way before the scheme should be ripe for execution. To accomplish this, the wily minister sent Dmitri and his mother to the distant town of Uglitch, and there, by his orders, the young prince was murdered, in the presence of his nurse and six other people, and buried from his mother's residence. This was in 1591. The lad's death was announced, of course. Indeed, it was known to nearly everybody in Uglitch, the tocsin having been sounded, and the population having gathered around the murdered boy, where they put to death a good many who were suspected of complicity with the murderers. But in publishing it abroad in Russia, Boris deemed it prudent to attribute it, some say to a fever, others to an accidental fall upon a knife with which the boy had been playing; and lest the people of Uglitch should embarrass the minister by insisting upon a different diagnosis of the boy's last illness, that prudent official put a great many of them to death, cut the tongues out of others' heads, and banished the rest to Siberia--laying the town in ashes. He spared the lad's mother, but shut her up in a convent. Dmitri was now out of the way, or, rather, he would have been if he had had an ordinary capacity for staying comfortably killed; and Boris redoubled his efforts to prepare the way for his own elevation to the throne, as Feodor's successor, when that prince should chance to let the sceptre fall from his grasp. To secure the influence of the Church in his behalf, he bought of a Greek bishop the right to appoint the successor of the patriarch (a sort of Greek Church pope); and that office presently becoming vacant, he appointed a creature of his own as head of the Church. He succeeded in winning the favor of the inferior nobility, who were very numerous, and made himself strong in many other ways. Boris was a fellow of infinite good-luck; and so it fell out that, at the precise moment when all his plans were complete, the Czar Feodor obligingly died. So opportunely did this event happen, that grave historians have been inclined to suspect Boris of having procured it in some way; but of this there is no positive evidence. Feodor dead, there was no heir to the throne. With him ended the line of Rurik, which alone the Russians recognized as legitimately entitled to rule the empire; and now a new czar must be chosen. The nobles quarrelled, of course. They agreed in thinking that one of their order should be elevated to the throne; but they could by no means agree which one it should be. Each resented the pretensions of all the others, and it speedily became manifest that the patriarch's nomination, upon whomsoever it might fall, would turn the scale and elect a czar. The patriarch was Boris's own creature, appointed for the sole purpose of forwarding that minister's plans; and he promptly nominated Boris to the vacant throne. The election was a prearranged affair; and presently Boris was waited upon--in the convent to which he had retired with the declared purpose of leading a monastic life in future--and informed of his selection by the people as Czar of all the Russias. He modestly declined, of course; and, equally of course, his modesty only made the people the more clamorous. After some weeks of petty dalliance Boris finally allowed himself to be persuaded, and was crowned czar, in due form, in the year 1598. He was not long in discovering that his position was insecure, and incapable of being made safe. Whatever policy he might adopt--and he was disposed, it appears, to govern wisely and well--was sure to displease some of his subjects; and in the hands of a hostile faction, his want of hereditary claim upon the throne was a powerful weapon. What he had seized by crime he must keep by tyranny and violence, and a three years' famine added greatly to his embarrassments. Whatever he did excited discontent; and to make his wretchedness complete, he fancied himself haunted by the ghost of the murdered Dmitri. There were symptoms of mutiny everywhere, which daily threatened to culminate in open revolt. It needed only a match to fire the mine. In 1603, when matters were at their worst, there appeared in Poland a young man claimed to be the murdered Dmitri. His story was that, by means of an adroit substitution, another boy had been killed in his place; that he had escaped; and he claimed the throne of the Ruriks. He strongly resembled the prince he claimed to be, and his identity seemed to be established, also, by other evidence than mere personal resemblance. There was no "strawberry mark on his left arm," but both he and the dead prince, if, indeed, they were two distinct persons, had a wart on the forehead, and another under the right eye, and in both one arm was slightly longer than the other. The pretender, or real prince, as the case may be, had also a valuable jewel which had belonged to Dmitri; and so he was not long in winning credence for his story, both in Poland and in Russia. Boris gave out that the young man was the monk Otrafief, who had appeared in the army as his advocate and emissary; and some historians--Karamsin and Bell among the number--have accepted this theory; but a careful comparison of dates seems to contradict it. Whoever the man was, he was an able and accomplished diplomatist as well as a singularly bold warrior; and he succeeded presently in winning the recognition of Sigismund, King of Poland, and putting himself at the head of an army with which he invaded Russia. He had privately abjured the Greek faith, and undertaken to convert Russia into a Catholic power; and, in addition to the many other favors promised the Poles, he had engaged to marry Marina, the daughter of a Polish nobleman. During the autumn of the year 1604, this new Dmitri began his invasion at the head of a small army made up of Poles and Don Cossacks. On his march his force was swelled by accessions, and a number of towns declared in his favor. Boris sent an army four times as great as his own, to destroy him; and battle was joined on the last day of December. Dmitri's case seemed utterly hopeless; but he was both able and brave. He fought with the resolution and courage of a hero, the skill of a consummate tactician, and the fury of a demon. And in spite of the terrible odds against him, he won a great victory. In a military way, its results were neutralized by the withdrawal of his Poles, and by some other circumstances which forbade his pushing forward towards the capital; but the moral effect was altogether in his favor. The superstitious Russians saw in his marvellous success a miracle, and accepted it as proof positive that this was the true prince, to oppose whom was sacrilege. By dint of great energy Boris was able to maintain the war till the time of his own death, which happened during the spring of 1605. His son Feodor was crowned as his successor; but a few weeks later he was deposed and strangled, and the new Dmitri came to the throne. For a time his wisdom as a statesman promised to equal his skill and courage as a soldier, but his manifest preference for Poles to Russians soon created jealousy; and imagining that he could overcome prejudices by violent measures, as easily as he had conquered a throne, he spared no pains to insult the Russian national feeling. He appointed only Poles to high office, and lavished upon foreigners so much attention as to breed discontent in his own capital. His apostasy from the Greek to the Roman faith, also, was suspected, and the clergy became his implacable enemies. The disaffection grew daily, and the efforts Dmitri made to overawe his enemies only exasperated them. Finally, on the occasion of his marriage with Marina, the Polish princess--which was celebrated with great pomp by a throng of Polish soldiers and others, invited to Moscow for the purpose--a mob, headed by Shuiski, or Schnisky--for the name is spelled in both of these and half a dozen other ways--stormed the palace, butchered the Poles, and impaled Dmitri on a spear. To leave no doubt of his death this time, they kept his body transfixed with the spear, in front of the palace, for three days, that the people might wreak their vengeance upon the dead czar by insulting his corpse. Schnisky profited by his victory, and while the blood of the populace was still hot was chosen czar, as successor of the impostor he had overthrown. His popularity was short-lived, however. His fellows among the nobles resented his elevation above themselves, and ere long the desire for his removal was as unanimous as his election had been. This seemed a good time for the doubly dead Dmitri to come to life again; and so it was presently rumored that after all he had not been killed; that the corpse the people had spat upon and insulted was not his; that he was alive, in Poland, and ready to claim his own. This report was industriously circulated by the nobles; but as the people had not yet forgotten their hatred for the usurper, he was permitted to lie down in his grave again. To prevent his coming to life for a third time, the dead czar's remains were disinterred and burned. The ashes were collected and fired from a piece of artillery, and it was supposed that further resurrection on his part was impossible. But, as we have seen, Dmitri had a most astonishing genius for coming to life after being thoroughly killed; and presently he appeared again in Poland. This time, history says, he was either a Russian schoolmaster or a Polish Jew; but however that may be, certain it is that he so closely resembled the other two Dmitri's in personal appearance, even to the two warts and unequally long arms, that he imposed on everybody around him with his story. Even the Princess Marina accepted him, and actually lived with him as his wife. He was able, without much difficulty, to interest the King of Poland in his behalf, and to secure a declaration of war by that potentate against Czar Schnisky. He invaded Russia, won battles, captured Smolensko, invested Moscow, and finally entered the city. About this time Dmitri appeared in several other places, but only one of him was in Moscow at the head of a victorious army; and in behalf of this particular one Schnisky resigned his crown and retired to a monastery, whence he was soon removed to a dungeon. At this juncture the King of Poland, having plans of his own for the union of Russia and his own kingdom, withdrew his countenance from Dmitri; and that prince retired from the business of governing, and devoted himself for the rest of his life to the less honorable, but perhaps equally lucrative, profession of highway robbery. He was again killed after awhile, this time by a Don Cossack. But even this public killing had small effect. A dozen or more new Dmitri's appeared, claiming the throne; and some of them, says the historian Bell, "actually touched the sceptre for a moment, but only to recoil in fear from the dangerous object of their insane ambition." After awhile, having found the task an unprofitable one, perhaps, Dmitri seems to have made up his mind to stay dead; but in due course a race of his sons sprang up quite as mysteriously, if not quite as persistently, to pester the Russians, and peace came to them only through the elevation of the Romanoffs to the imperial throne. Connected as they were by ties of blood with the race of Rurik, they brought legitimacy to the rescue of a land long torn by faction. The loyalty of the people to sovereigns whose right to rule was derived from Rurik, gave the dynasty a strength sufficient to maintain itself; and after a little while Peter the Great taught his Russians civilization, and a new era in Russian history was begun. Return to Strange Stories. Return to Home Page. Why Read? Letter Sounds Dick And Jane Failed Full-Length Stories Don't need our full program? Like to teach your children to read yourself? Click Here! Copyright 2020 by Glenn and Diane Davis, All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526860
__label__wiki	0.8533	0.8533	Special Laois GAA award for a Laois secondary school A Laois school has been awarded a special prize for its outstanding sporting achievements. Scoil Chríost Rí girls secondary school in Portlaoise has been announced to receive a Special Achievement Award, in the 2019 Laois GAA Awards. The winners were announced this morning Tuesday November 19. The school's football team this year won the South Leinster, Leinster and All Ireland Senior Football finals. The award ceremony will take place on November 29 in the Midlands Park Hotel. The school has welcomed the news. "Wonderful news coming into the school today. A fantastic achievement by the girls and their coaches who have worked so hard over the years to get to the level they are at," the school said. For full list of the winners see our Sports story here.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526864
__label__wiki	0.524342	0.524342	President’s daughter to write book By Josh Getlin Jenna Bush, daughter of President Bush, will write “Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope,” drawing on her experiences as a UNICEF worker in Central America, HarperCollins announced Tuesday. Her book, to be published this fall, will tell the story of a 17-year-old single mother with HIV. The sale of the book, which had drawn keen interest from several publishers, was brokered by Washington, D.C., attorney Robert B. Barnett. Bush, 24, has been an intern with UNICEF’s Educational Policy Dept. in Latin America since the fall of 2006, and has traveled to Panama, Paraguay and Argentina. She is currently teaching at a shelter in Panama. HarperCollins said that a portion of the proceeds would be contributed to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, to benefit children living in the Caribbean and Latin America. In a statement, Bush said, “It is my hope to motivate young Americans to increase their awareness of young people around the world.”	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526865
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__label__wiki	0.722282	0.722282	National Institute Of Education AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO. BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows: [6th August Short title and date of operation. 1. This Act may be cited as the National Institute of Education Act, No. 28 of 1985, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may appoint by Order published in the Gazette. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION Establishment of the National Institute of Education. (1) There shall be established an Institute which shall be called the National Institute of Education (hereinafter referred to as the” Institute “) . (2) The Institute shall, by the name assigned to it by subsection (1), be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in such name. Objects of the Institute. 3. The objects of the Institute shall be to promote the development of education and in particular to (a) advise the Minister regarding plans, programmes and activities for the development of education in Sri Lanka; (b) provide and promote post-graduate education in the several specialities of education; (c) conduct and promote studies on the education system including its performance, goals, structures, content and methodology and on the social, economic and other aspects of education; (d) initiate and promote innovative practices in the education system including adaptation of technology for educational purposes; (e) provide for the development of professional and general competence of personnel in the education system; (f) make available to the Government and other approved organizations, specialist services in education; (g) carry out education development programmes approved by the Minister ; and (h) co-ordinate with other institutions having similar objectives. Powers of the Institute. 4. The Institute shall have the following powers: (a) to acquire and hold, any property, movable or immovable and to sell, lease, mortgage, exchange or otherwise dispose of the same: Provided, however, that no immovable property of the Institute shall be sold without the prior approval in writing, of the Minister; (b) to open and maintain, current, savings and deposit accounts, in any bank or banks; (c) to accept grants or donations, from persons or bodies of persons, in or outside Sri Lanka; (d) to enter into and perform all such contracts as may be necessary for the exercise of its powers, or the performance of its duties; (e) to invest any moneys belonging to the Institute including any unapplied income, in any security in which. under the provisions of section 20 of the Trusts Ordinance (Chapter 87) or of any other written law, it is lawful to invest trust moneys, or, to invest any such moneys in the purchase of immovable property in Sri Lanka or vary such investments, or to place in fixed deposit in any bank, any portion of such moneys not required for immediate expenditure; (f) to initiate, promote, conduct and co-ordinate research. surveys and investigations in relation to any aspect of the development of the education ; (g) to conduct training courses and teaching programmes for teachers and other personnel in the education system and award degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions to persons who have successfully completed such courses and programmes and have passed the prescribed examinations; (h) to make grants, to any person or a team of persons or any recognized institute or institutions, for a specific research project or projects related to education; (i) to establish, equip and maintain centres for the purposes of study and training; (j) to erect, equip and maintain, for the purposes of the Institute, libraries and laboratories and to provide other services necessary for research and studies in education; (k) to enter into agreements for co-operation with educational or other institutions, whether in Sri Lanka or abroad, having objects wholly or partly similar to those of the Institute, for the exchange of personnel and students and generally for such purposes as may be conducive to their common objects; (1) to levy fees or charges for any service rendered by the Institute; (m) to make rules in respect of the management of the affairs of the Institute; and (n) to do all such other acts or things which in the opinion of the Institute are necessary for, or conducive or incidental to, the attainment of its objects. Academic powers of the Institute. 5. Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred upon it by section 4, the Institute shall exercise, perform and discharge the following academic powers, functions and duties : (i) to prescribe by rule, the examinations and other conditions leading to the award of degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions of the Institute, which are recognized as teaching qualifications under this Act; (ii) to register students of affiliated colleges and teachers for the examinations referred to in subparagraph (i) ; (iii) to hold, subject to the provisions of section 10(3), examinations for the purposes of ascertaining the persons who have reached the standards, prescribed by rule, for the award of the degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions referred to in sub-paragraph (i) ; (i) to provide for post-graduate instructions, training and research in the several specialities of education; (ii) to prescribe by rule, the examinations and conditions leading to the award of post-graduate degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions of the Institute; (iii) to register personnel in the education system to follow courses of study or programmes leading to the award of the post-graduate degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) ; (iv) to hold, subject to the provisions of section 10 (3), examinations for the purposes of ascertaining persons who have reached the standards, prescribed by rule, for the award of the post-graduate degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) ; (c) to grant and confer, degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions to, and on, persons who have passed the examinations of the Institute and fulfilled the other conditions prescribed by rule; (d) to recognize the examinations passed, and periods of learning or study pursued, by persons seeking admission to, or by students of, the Institute, at Universities or places of learning, having regard to the standard of such examinations and the duration of the courses of study pursued at such Universities or places of learning, and to withdraw such recognition at any time, having regard to the same considerations ; (e) to institute Professorships and other academic posts as may be required for the purposes of the Institute ; (f) to institute and award scholarships, medals and other prizes ; and (g) to register, with the approval of the Minister, Colleges of Education and similar institutions of teacher education as affiliated colleges and to pre scribe by rule, the conditions for such registration. Administration of Institute vested in Council. (1) The administration, management and control of -the affairs of the Institute shall be vested in the Council of the Institute (hereinafter referred to as the” Council “) . (2) The Council shall, for the purpose of administering the affairs of the Institute, exercise, discharge and perform, the powers, functions and duties conferred, assigned or imposed, on or to, the Institute by this Act. (3) It shall be the duty of the Council to prepare, in accordance with regulations made in that behalf, a three year plan of work, the annual plan and programme and the annual budget and shall submit such plans and programmes for approval by the Minister. Constitution of the Council (1) The Council shall consist of the following: (a) Ex officio members, namely (i) the Secretary to the Ministry of Minister in charge of the subject of Education who shall be the Chairman (hereinafter referred to as “the Chairman”) ; (ii) The Director-General of the Institute; and (b) the following other members, namely (i) a representative of the Ministry of the Minister in-charge of the subject of Higher Education appointed by the Minister; (ii) a representative of the Ministry of the Minister in-charge of the subject of Finance appointed by the Minister; and (iii) eight other persons appointed by the Minister from among persons with experience in the field of education. (2) A person shall be disqualified from being appointed or from continuing, as a member of the Council, if he is, or becomes, a Member of Parliament. (3) Every Member of the Council appointed under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) shall vacate office as such member (a) if he is removed from office by the Minister; or (b) if he resigns his office by letter addressed to the Minister. (a) Where a member of the Council appointed under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) dies or resigns or is removed from office, the Minister may appoint another person to be a member in place of the member who dies, resigns or is removed from office. (b) Any member of the Council appointed under paragraph (a) of this subsection, shall, unless he earlier resigns or vacates his office by death or removal, hold office for the unexpired part of the term of office of the member whom he succeeds. (5) Where a member of the Council appointed under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) is, by reason of illness or other infirmity or absence from Sri Lanka, temporarily unable to perform the duties of his office, the Minister may appoint another person to act in his place. (6) Subject to the provisions of subsection (9) every member appointed under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) shall, unless he vacates office earlier by death, resignation or removal, hold office for a period of four years from the date of his appointment to such office. (7) Every ex officio member of the Council shall hold office as log as he holds the post by virtue of which he is a member of the Council. (8) One-half of the members of the Council appointed under paragraph (b) (ill) of subsection (1) shall retire every second year. (9) For the purpose of securing that one-half of the members of the Council appointed under paragraph (b) (iii) of subsection (1) shall retire every second year, the term of office of four of the members first appointed to the Council so specified by the Minister shall terminate at the expiry of a period of two years from the date of appointment. (10) Any member who vacates his office otherwise than by removal from office under subsection (3) shall be eligible for re-appointment. (11) The members of the Council may he paid such remuneration as may be determined by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister in-charge of the subject of Finance. Seal of the Institute. 8. The seal of the Institute (a) shall be in the custody of such persons as the Council may from time to time determine; (b) may be altered in such manner as may be determined by the Council; and (c) shall not be affixed to any document except with the sanction of the Council and in the presence of a member of the Council who shall sign the document in token of his presence. Meeting of the Council (1) The Chairman or in his absence the Director-General of the Institute shall preside at meetings of the Council. In the absence of both the Chairman and the Director-General, a member elected by the members present shall preside at such meetings. (2) The quorum for any meeting shall not be less than four members of the Council. (3) All questions for decision at any meeting of the Council shall be decided by the vote of a majority of the members present. In the case of an equality of votes, the Chairman or any other member presiding at any meeting of the Council shall, in addition to his own vote, have a casting vote. (4) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the Council may regulate its own procedure in regard to its meetings and the transaction of business at such meetings. (5) No act or decision or proceeding of the Council shall be invalidated by reason only of the existence of a vacancy among its members or any defect in the appointment of a member thereof. Academic Affairs Board. (1) There shall be an Academic Affairs Board of the Institute (hereinafter referred to as the” Board “). (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board shall be responsible for the academic affairs of the Institute. (3) The Board shall be responsible for the conduct of examinations held by the Institute in accordance with the rules made in that behalf, and shall recommend to the Council, persons who, having passed the prescribed examinations and having satisfied other prescribed conditions, are eligible for the award of degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions of the Institute. (4) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred on it by subsection (3), the Board shall exercise, perform and discharge, the following powers, duties and functions: (a) to advise the Council on all academic matters; (b) to consider and report on any matter referred to it by the Council ; (c) to make recommendations and reports to the Council on matters connected with courses of study, teaching programme or programmes and examinations, conducted or held, by the Institute; (d) to recommend to the Council, the requirements to be imposed for the admission of students to courses of study, teaching programme or, programmes and examinations conducted or held by the Institute; (e) to draft rules relating to courses of study, teaching programme or, programmes and examinations conducted by the Institute and submit such drafts to the Council; (f) to recommend to the Council, names of persons suitable for appointment as examiners at examinations held by the Institute; (g) to recommend to the Council, the institution, abolition or suspension, of Professorships and other academic grades; (h) to recommend to the Council, conditions for the award of scholarships, medals and other prizes; (i) to recommend to the Council the award of exhibitions and other prizes to such persons who twelve fulfilled the conditions approved by the Council, for the award of such scholarships, medals and prizes; and (j) to appoint with the permission of the Council, committees which may include persons other than the members of the Board. (5) No decision in relation to any matter referred to in subsection (3) or (4) shall be made by the Council or any officer to whom any power, duty or function in relation to such matter has been delegated, unless the Board has been given an opportunity of recording and transmitting to the Council its recommendations in regard to such matter. Where the decision of the Council or such officer in regard to any such matter is contrary to the recommendation of the Board, the Council or such officer shall record its or his reasons for not following the recommendations of the Board. APPOINTMENT OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE INSTITUTE AND STAFF OF THE INSTITUTE Appointment of the Director-General of the Institute. (1) The Minister may appoint to the staff of the Institute, a Director-General (hereinafter referred to as “the Director-General”) who shall be the principal executive officer and principal academic officer of the Institute. (2) The Director-General appointed under subsection (1) shall, unless he vacates office earlier by death, resignation, or removal, hold office for a period of four years from the date of his appointment. (3) The Director-General shall. subject to the general direction of the Council, be charged with the administration of the affairs of the Institute and the control of the staff of the Institute. He shall also be responsible for the execution of all the decisions of the Council. (4) The Director-General shall submit for the consideration of the Council, policies and measures considered by him to be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the objectives of the Institute. (5) The Director-General shall exercise or perform such powers or duties as may be delegated to him by the Council. (6) The Director-General shall be entitled to be present, speak and vote at any meeting of any Board or other body established by. or under, this Act. (7) The Minister may in writing remove the Director. General from office (a) if he becomes permanently incapable of performing his duties; or (b) if he has done an act. or a thing which in the opinion of the Minister is of a fraudulent or illegal character or is manifestly opposed to the objectives of the Institute; or (c) if he acts contrary to the national policy. (8) The office of the Director-General shall become vacant. upon the death, removal from office under subsection (7) or resignation by letter in that behalf addressed to the Minister, of the holder of that office. (9) Unless removed from office under subsection (7), any person who has been appointed as Director-General shall be eligible for re-appointment as Director-General. (10) If any vacancy occurs in the office of the Director-General. the Minister may appoint a member of the Council to perform the duties of the office of Director-General until aft appointment is made under subsection (1). (11) The Director-General shall be the accounting officer of the Institute. (12) The Director-General may, with the approval of the Council, whenever he considers it necessary to do so, delegate to any officer or other member of the staff any power, function or duty delegated to him by the Council Staff of the Institution. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and any regulations made by the Minister, the Council shall have the power to appoint the staff of the Institute. (2) Every appointment to the staff of the Institute shall be made by the Council in accordance with the scheme of recruitment and procedures for appointment prescribed by regulations. (3) Subject to the provisions of this Act and any regulations made by the Minister, the Council shall determine the terms and conditions of the service of the staff of the Institute including wages, salary or other remuneration. (4) The staff of the Institute shall be subject to the disciplinary control, including power of dismissal, of the Council. The Council may make rules in regard to matters of discipline. (5) The Council may establish and regulate provident funds and schemes for the benefit of the staff of the Institute and may make contributions to any such fund or scheme. Service to the Institute deemed to be service to the Government for the purposes of certain contracts. 13. Where the Institute employs any person who has entered into a contract with the Government by which he has agreed to serve the Government for a specified period, any period of service to the Institute by that person shall be regarded as service to the Government for the purpose of discharging the obligations of such contract. Appointment of public officers to the staff of the Institute. (1) At the request of the Council any officer in the public service serving in the Ministry of the Minister may, with the consent of the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister given with the concurrence of the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of Public Administration, and of the officer, be temporarily appointed to the staff of the Institute for such period as may be determined by the Institute with like consent or with like consent be permanently appointed to such staff. (2) At the request of the Council, any officer in the public service other than an officer referred to in subsection (1) may, with the consent of that officer and of the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of Public Administration, be temporarily appointed to the staff of the Institute for such period as may be determined by the Council with like consent, or with like consent be permanently appointed to such staff. (3) Where any officer in the public service is temporarily appointed to the staff of the Institute, the provisions of . section 13 (2) of the Transport Board Law, No. 19 of 1978, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to and in relation to, him. (4) Where any officer in the public service is permanently appointed to the staff of the Institute, the provisions of section 13 (3) of the Transport Board Law, No. 19 of 1978, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to, and in relation to, him. Appointment of public officers to the staff of the Institute. (5) At the request of the Council, an officer, or servant of any Higher Educational Institution established under the Universities Act, No. 16 of 1978, may, with the consent of that officer or servant, the University Grants Commission and the principal executive officer of that Higher Educational Institution, be temporarily appointed to the staff of the Institute for such period as may be determined by the Council with like consent, or with like consent. be permanently appointed to such staff. Delegation of powers of the council to the Director-General or any Committee of Council (1) The Council may delegate to the Director-General or any Committee of the Council, any of its powers, duties or functions. (2) The Director-General to whom or any Committee to which, any power, duty or function has been delegated under subsection (1) shall exercise, perform and discharge such power, duty or function subject to the directions of the Council. Initial capital of the Institute. (1) The initial capital of the Institute shall be such sums as may be granted to the Institute for that purpose by resolution of Parliament. (2) The capital of the Institute may be increased from time to time by such amounts as may be authorized by any Appropriation Act or by any resolution of Parliament. Fund of the Institute. (1) The Institute shall have its own fund (2) There shall be credited to the fund of the Institute (a) all such sums of money as may be voted from time to time by Parliament for the use. of the Institute; (b) all such sums of money as may be received by the Institute in the exercise, discharge and performance of its powers, functions and duties; and (c) all such sums of money as may be received by the Institute by way of loans, donations, gifts or grants from any source whatsoever, whether in or out side Sri Lanka. (3) There shall be paid out of fund of the Institute (a) all such sums of money as are required to defray any expenditure incurred by the Institute in the exercise, discharge and performance of its powers, duties and functions under this Act; and (b) all such sums of money as are required to be paid out of such fund, by or under, this Act. Financial year of the Institute. 18. The financial year of the Institute shall be the calendar year. Audit of Accounts. 19. The provisions of Article 154 of the Constitution relating to the auditing of accounts of a public corporation shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to, and in relation to the Institute. Certain provisions of the Finance Act No. 88 of 1971 to apply. 20. Unless otherwise specially provided for by this Act the provision of Part II of the Finance Act, No. 38 of 1971, shall mutatis mutandis, apply to, and in relation to, the financial control and accounts of the Institute. Powers of Minister in relation to the Council. (1) The Minister may, from time to time, give such general directions in writing to the Council as to the exercise of the powers, and the performance of the duties (other than the exercise of any power or the performance of any duty referred to in section 10 (3) or section 10 (4) of the Institute and the Council shall give effect to such directions. (2) The Minister may, from time to time, order all or any of the activities of the Institute to be investigated and reported on by such person or persons as he may specify, and upon such order being made, the Council shall afford all such facilities and furnish all such information as may be necessary to carry out such order. (3) The Minister may, having regard to the standards prescribed for the award of any degree, diploma or other academic qualification of the Institute, by order in writing, recognize such degree, diploma or other qualification as a teaching qualification. The Minister may, having regard to the same considerations, cancel any order of recognition made under this subsection. (4) The Minister may approve the three year plan of work, the annual plan and programme and the annual budget submitted to him by the Council, with or without amendments. Certain provisions of Universities Act, No. 16 of 1978 not to apply. 22. The provisions of section 128 of the Universities Act No. 16 of 1978 shall not apply to and in relation to, the Institute. State Property movable and immovable to be made available to the Institute. (1) The Minister may by Order published in the Gazette, transfer to the Institute such movable property of the Ministry of the Minister as is required for the purposes of the Institute and any movable property so transferred shall, with effect from the date of the Order, vest in and be the property of the Institute. (2) Any State land or any State building may, subject to such conditions as may be determined by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for the time being in charge of the subject of State lands, be made available for the use of, or be alienated to, the Institute for any purpose of the institute including use as a residence for any officer or servant of the Institute. (3) All transfers of the land to the Institute shall be exempted from any tax or stamp duty. Council to submit a report of its activities. 24. The Council shall, be-fore the expiry of a period of she months after the closure of each financial year of the Institute, transit a report giving a full account of the activities of the Institute during that year to the Minister who shall cause copies thereof to be tabled in Parliament. The Institute deemed to be a scheduled institution within the meaning of the Bribery Act. 25. The Institute shall be deemed to be a scheduled institution within the meaning of the Bribery Act, and the provisions of that Act shall be construed accordingly. Members and Employees of the Institute deemed to be public servants. 26. All members, officers and servants of the Institute shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning and for the purposes of the Penal Code. Protection of action taken under this Act. (1) No suit or prosecution shall lie (a) against the Institute for any act which in good faith is done or purported to be done by it under this Act; (b) any member of the Council, officer, servant or agent of the Institute for any act which in good faith is done or purported to be done by him under this Act or on the direction of the Council. (2) Any expense incurred by any such person as is referred to in subsection (1) in any suit or prosecution brought against him before any court in respect of any Act which is done by him under this Act or on the direction of the Council shall, if the court holds that the act was done in good faith, be paid out of the fund of the Institute. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister may make regulations for, and in respect of, all or any of the following matters: (a) the terms and conditions of service, including remuneration, of the staff of the Institute; (b) the scheme of recruitment and procedure for appointment to the staff of the Institute; (c) the composition and the conduct of the affairs of the Board; (d) the form of the three year plan of work, the annual plan and programme and the annual budget of the Institute, the manner in which such plan of work, annual plan and programme and budget is to be prepared; and (e) such other matters required by this Act to be prescribed or in respect of which regulations are authorized by this Act to be made. (2) Every regulation made by the Minister shall be published in the Gazette and shall come into operation on the date of such publication or on such later date as may be specified in the regulation. (3) Every regulation shall as soon as convenient after publication in the Gazette, be brought before Parliament for approval. Any regulation which is not so approved shall be deemed to be rescinded as from the date of its disapproval, but without prejudice to anything done thereunder. (4) Notification of the date on which any regulation made by the Minister is so deemed to be rescinded, shall be published in the Gazette.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526867
__label__wiki	0.921344	0.921344	Ellen DeGeneris Ellen is getting sued by a street artist for copyright infringement. He has a good case. The two designs sure do look similar. Ellen’s super-gay episode included a rainbow unicorn, a drag queen & Matt Bomer The episode was so gay it didn’t even make sense, but it didn’t have to. Ellen DeGeneres reveals details of sexual assault “I’m angry at myself because, you know, I didn’t, I was too weak to stand up to [him], I was 15 or 16.” Now she’s speaking up to help other young victims. Ellen’s show got signed for 3 more years & she used ‘Game of Thrones’ to announce it She has done 3000 episodes so far. “I don’t remember them but I’m told it was enjoyable.” Ellen Degeneres promises to officiate Cory Booker & Rosario Dawson’s White House wedding if he wins Ellen shook hands on a deal to go to the White House to preside over the power couple’s wedding. Ellen DeGeneres talked about LGBTQ issues with Ellen Page & their contrast is striking The two women are from different generations, but both faces of the movement for LGBTQ equality. Ellen & Kevin Hart are getting torn apart on Twitter for their Jussie Smollett tweets “This is why someone’s jokes about beating their gay son were never funny.” She wasn’t supportive of her gay son. But a little help from Ellen left her in tears. She was very afraid about discrimination and hatred that her son would face in their small town – and she didn’t want to tell her father. Why Lily Tomlin chose not to come out on the cover of Time Magazine in 1975 Years before Ellen DeGeneres famously came out on the magazine’s cover, Lily Tomlin faced the same decision. Here’s why she didn’t do it. Ellen ‘forgives’ defiant Kevin Hart’s homophobia & says he should host the Oscars Hart’s angry at people who brought up his old tweets, but Ellen told him not to listen to the “haters” angry he advocated for beating gay kids.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526868
__label__wiki	0.883439	0.883439	Americana Artist Lottie Launches Campaign For Upcoming Album March 16, 2017 17:28 It's been two and a half years since Alabama native and our good friend, Lottie, released her six-song debut EP, Leaving the Labyrinth, to the music world. With all of Leaving's dramatic, sweeping strings, haunting ballads, and undeniably heavy subject matter, fans of Lottie's first album might conclude that her sophomore release, still yet to be named, would be something of the very same cloth. But it's in the assumption of sameness where listeners of Lottie's past work would, understandably, be mistaken. Sadly poetic, beautiful, and apropos of rainy days and silver screen drama as Leaving the Labyrinth may have been, Lottie's new work couldn't be more different. That's because her upcoming full length, twelve-song LP is coming from a new, and completely opposite, perspective than Leaving did; it's a view from the other side. "Where my last release was melancholy," Lottie writes to us from her home in Nashville, Tennessee, "this new one is triumphant. Where the last record showed the view from the trenches, this next record shows what happened when I finally made it out. Where Leaving emanated Alison Krauss, Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell, this new work speaks more to the styles of Margo Price, Susan Tedeschi and Bonnie Raitt, with just a splash of those beautifully sad hues that colored my last release." Anything remotely close to a musical combination of such heavy-hitting names as those three sounds like nothing short of an absolute win in our opinion, and we can't wait to hear the final results, come fall. Lottie is currently working on raising the funds necessary to record and manufacture this anxiously awaited new record, which she dubs "Soul-Americana" in genre, and plans to start production in early May, with an estimated album release date of late October, 2017. Lottie's crowdfunding campaign, which ends at midnight on Monday, April 10th, can be found on IndieGoGo using the link https://igg.me/at/Lottie. There you can watch the campaign promotional video, preorder the new album, find out more about the project and about Lottie, purchase a variety of limited edition, IndieGoGo-exclusive fan packages, and make a charitable donation to this worthwhile cause and deserving artist. Go check out Lottie! Watch Lottie's crowdfunding campaign teaser here: Watch Lottie perform "I Preferred The Lie" at The Basement in Nashville, TN here: Americana Artist Lottie Launches Campaign For Upcoming Album Posted on 16 Mar 17:28	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526873
__label__wiki	0.938975	0.938975	Gabriel Iglesias: Beyond The Fluffy World Tour - Go Big or Go Home SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 \| 8:00PM Location: The Hall at Live! Showtime: 8:00pm Tickets: Starting at $34.50 Gabriel Iglesias is the youngest of six children, raised by a single mother in Long Beach, CA. It was during his childhood that he developed a strong sense of humor to deal with the obstacles he faced. In 1997, he set out to hone his comedicskills, and performed stand-up anywhere he could find an audience; including biker bars and hole-in-the-wall joints. Gabriel’s stand-up comedy is a mixture of storytelling, parodies, characters and sound effects that bring his personal experiences to life. His unique and animated comedy style has made him popular among fans of all ages. Iglesias is one of America's most successful stand-up comedians performing to sold-out concerts around the world. He is also one of the most watched comedians on YouTube with over 412,000,000 views and has over 15 million fans across social media. In 2018, Gabe was included in The Hollywood Reporter’s “Top 40 Comedy Players” issue alongside comedy giants Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Lorne Michaels. The comedian has also had the distinct honor of being one of the few to headline and sell-out Madison Square Garden in New York, Staples Center in Los Angeles and Sydney Opera House in Australia. Iglesias is currently on his world tour, Beyond The Fluffy. Iglesias is the star and executive producer of Mr. Iglesias , the multi-cam, Netflix original comedy series, now streaming globally. Iglesias plays a good-natured public high school teacher who works at his alma mater. He takes on teaching gifted but misfit kids to not only save them from being “counseled out” by a bully bureaucrat Assistant Principal, but also to help them unlock their full potential. The series has been picked up for an addition 12 episodes to be released on Netflix in 2020. In addition to the Netflix comedy series, Iglesias penned a deal with Netflix to release his next two stand-up comedy specials for the streaming service. The first, titled One Show Fits All , was filmed in front of a sold-out audience at the Toyota Center in Houston and debuted in January 2019. His third special for the streaming service will tape sometime in 2020, both of these specials are follow-ups to his highly successful 2016 special, I’m Sorry For What I Said When I Was Hungry. Feature film credits include co-starring roles in Magic Mike , Magic Mike XXL and A Haunted House 2 . Gabriel’s voice has been heard in many animated films, most recently STXfilm’s Ugly Dolls. In 2017 Iglesias voiced the role of “Head Clerk” in Pixar’s Academy Award nominated animated film Coco . He also voiced “Rufus the Dog” in Sony’s Golden Globe nominated animated holiday film The Star and “Cuatro” in Fox 20th Century Film’s Academy Award nominated animated film Ferdinand . Gabriel is one of a handful of comedians with a theatrically released stand-up concert comedy film, The Fluffy Movie. On the small screen, Fluffy’s Food Adventures, a non-scripted comedic docu-follow series completed a 3 season run on FUSE TV in 2017. Gabriel was a recurring guest star on the ABC sitcom Cristela . He guest-starred in an episode of ABC’s hit comedy Modern Family. Comedy Central aired Iglesias’ hit series Stand-Up Revolution for 3 seasons. Comedy Central also aired Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy in an unprecedented two-night comedy special to over 15 million viewers. The special was a follow-up to his previous DVD specials, Hot & Fluffy and I’m Not Fat...I’m Fluffy , which have sold millions of copies. In late 2016, Iglesias released his 6th one-hour comedy special, I’m Sorry For What I Said When I Was Hungry on Netflix worldwide. He filmed the special at the Allstate Arena in Chicago to 2 sold-out shows with a total of 20,000 fans in attendance. This event is 18+	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526874
__label__wiki	0.687649	0.687649	> Body Corp. > The Unit Titles Act The Unit Titles Act 2010 came into force on the 20th of June 2011. The new Act places greater responsibilities on Bodies Corporate, Chairpersons and Committees. The Act places obligations on the bodies corporate to ensure compliance. There are seven key areas of responsibility. 1. Financial Management The body corporate must hold a general account and a long term maintenance fund although it can opt out of the long term maintenance fund if a special resolution is passed. The body corporate cannot use funds out of its long term maintenance fund (if it establishes one) for its general operating expenses. Long term maintenance spending must be approved by a special resolution if any one item is more than 10% of the specified amount for that item. The Act requires bodies corporate to have accurate financial records for all the funds that it manages and requires audit/external review to take place within two months of financial year end. (unless a special resolution is passed opting out of doing this) 2. Governance and Meetings Regardless of their size all bodies corporate must have a Chairperson. It is the Chairpersons responsibility to call meetings and there are specified processes for doing this. There are a range of motions which will be presented at an AGM and these must be sent in advance of any AGM. Examples of the types of motions decided upon at an AGM could include; The appointment of a Chairperson and Committee, approval of financial reports, approval of budgets, establishment or non-establishment of certain funds of the body corporate, operation of bank accounts, fixed levy date, audit of accounts, debt collection, insurance, long term maintenance plan. Bodies of 10 units or more must establish a committee (unless a special resolution is passed opting out of having this), this is not a requirement for bodies corporates of 9 units or less. 3. Long Term Maintenance Planning All bodies corporate must establish a long term maintenance plan that must cover a period of at least 10 years. The purpose of the long term maintenance plan is to identify the future maintenance requirements and estimated costs involved. 4. Disclosure Requirements When a property within a body corporate is being sold there is a multiple step process which consists of a pre-contract disclosure statement, pre settlement disclosure statement and may even include an additional disclosure statement. The Regulations highlight the importance of these disclosures and the legal risk to bodies corporate if they are not done correctly and in a timely manner. During the sale and purchase of a property, a purchaser can request additional information at any time and there are strict timeframes for compliance. The seller needs to ensure that any inaccuracies or change of information during the process is disclosed to the purchaser. While the Regulations provide a guide to what needs to be captured in the three part process, there are inherent gaps for owners in self-managed bodies corporate. For example, in the pre-contract disclosure statement, there is a requirement for bodies corporate having to write explanations about unit titled property ownership. 5. Absentee Owners Absent owners must now appoint a person in New Zealand to act as agent if they have a leased or licensed property and if they are absent for more than three consecutive weeks. This is reflected in the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 with the amendments that came into force in the later part of 2010 where investors must have a representative managing their property if they are away for more than 21 consecutive days. Owner's must supply to the body corporate the agent's name, address for service and contact details. Any person appointed as an agent including under the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 has the power to enforce the body corporate operational rules. 6. Owner's Details Owners must notify any change in details of the information held by the body corporate. This is a welcome change and will help resolve situations where owners move and do not notify the body corporate of their whereabouts. 7. Body Corporate Operational Rules The default rules are set out in Schedule 1 of the Regulations. These rules only highlight basic aspects of the operations of a body corporate. Most large developments have comprehensive rules that go into greater detail than just dealing with rubbish in the common areas, creating undue noise, parking requirements or interference with reasonable use or enjoyment of the common property. If a body corporate does not amend its body corporate rules the default rules will then apply. Beerescourt Claudelands Dinsdale Enderley Fairview Downs Frankton Greenhill Park Hamilton Central Hamilton Lake Harrowfield Maeroa Nawton Other - Morrinsville Other - Otorohanga Other - Waikato Other - Waipa Pukete Rotokauri Rototuna Rototuna North Temple View Whitiora Property Type House Townhouse Apartment Unit Cottage Other Home & Income Studio Duplex Block of units Section Self-Detached Villa Multi Unit Bungalow Retirement Flat Price From $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 $400,000 $450,000 $500,000 $550,000 $600,000 $650,000 $700,000 $750,000 $800,000 $850,000 $900,000 $950,000 $1,000,000 $1,100,000 $1,200,000 $1,300,000 $1,400,000 $1,500,000 $1,600,000 $1,700,000 $1,800,000 $1,900,000 $2,000,000+ Price To $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 $400,000 $450,000 $500,000 $550,000 $600,000 $650,000 $700,000 $750,000 $800,000 $850,000 $900,000 $950,000 $1,000,000 $1,100,000 $1,200,000 $1,300,000 $1,400,000 $1,500,000 $1,600,000 $1,700,000 $1,800,000 $1,900,000 $2,000,000 Bedrooms from 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bedrooms to 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bathrooms 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 6+ Hamilton City Central Hamilton West Ngaruawahia Western Heights Property Type Apartment Flat House Studio Townhouse Unit Other Price From $50 $75 $100 $125 $150 $175 $200 $225 $250 $275 $300 $325 $350 $375 $400 $425 $450 $475 $500 $600 $700 $800+ Price To $50 $75 $100 $125 $150 $175 $200 $225 $250 $275 $300 $325 $350 $375 $400 $425 $450 $475 $500 $600 $700 $800 Other - South Waikato Property Type Bare Land Subdivision Mixed Livestock Lifestyle with Dwelling Other Lifestyle Farm Farmlet Dairy Cropping Horticulture Lifestyle Acreage Semi-Rural Lifestyle Bare Land Price From $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 $400,000 $450,000 $500,000 $550,000 $600,000 $650,000 $700,000 $750,000 $800,000 $850,000 $900,000 $950,000 $1 million $1.1 million $1.2 million $1.3 million $1.4 million $1.5 million $1.6 million $1.7 million $1.8 million $1.9 million $2 million $2.5 million $3 million $3.5 million $4 million $4.5 million $5 million $5.5 million $6 million $6.5 million $7.5 million $7 million $8 million $8.5 million $9 million $9.5 million $10 million $10+ million Price To $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 $400,000 $450,000 $500,000 $550,000 $600,000 $650,000 $700,000 $750,000 $800,000 $850,000 $900,000 $950,000 $1 million $1.1 million $1.2 million $1.3 million $1.4 million $1.5 million $1.6 million $1.7 million $1.8 million $1.9 million $2 million $2.5 million $3 million $3.5 million $4 million $4.5 million $5 million $5.5 million $6 million $6.5 million $7.5 million $7 million $8 million $8.5 million $9 million $9.5 million $10 million Land From 1 ha 3 ha 5 ha 8 ha 15 ha+ Land To 1 ha 3 ha 5 ha 8 ha 15 ha+ Hotel Motel Leisure Office Premises Retail Premises Burbush Te Rapa Park Price From $5,000 $10,000 $25,000 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 $400,000 $450,000 $500,000 $550,000 $600,000 $650,000 $700,000 $750,000 $800,000 $850,000 $900,000 $950,000 $1,000,000 $1,100,000 $1,200,000 $1,300,000 $1,400,000 $1,500,000 $1,600,000 $1,700,000 $1,800,000 $1,900,000 $2,000,000+ Price To $5,000 $10,000 $25,000 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 $400,000 $450,000 $500,000 $550,000 $600,000 $650,000 $700,000 $750,000 $800,000 $850,000 $900,000 $950,000 $1,000,000 $1,100,000 $1,200,000 $1,300,000 $1,400,000 $1,500,000 $1,600,000 $1,700,000 $1,800,000 $1,900,000 $2,000,000 Land From 50 m2 100 m2 200 m2 300 m2 500 m2 750 m2 1,000 m2 2,000 m2 5,000 m2 7,500 m2 10,000+ m2 Land To 50 m2 100 m2 200 m2 300 m2 500 m2 750 m2 1,000 m2 2,000 m2 5,000 m2 7,500 m2 10,000+ m2 Floor From 50 m2 100 m2 200 m2 300 m2 500 m2 750 m2 1000 m2 2000 m2 5000 m2 7500 m2 10000+ m2 Floor To 50 m2 100 m2 200 m2 300 m2 500 m2 750 m2 1000 m2 2000 m2 5000 m2 7500 m2 10000 m2 Age Care Facilities Retail - Non Food Transport and Automotive Dairy and Superette Services and Professional Hotels, Motels, Lodges, B and B Retail - Food and Beverages	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526875
__label__wiki	0.646842	0.646842	UN Selects 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist [incl. Joel Brinkley and Richard Falk] Hudson New York (Hudson Institute) https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/14592/un-selects-9-11-conspiracy-theorist-incl-joel Stanford University journalism professor and former New York Times foreign policy correspondent Joel Brinkley has written a commendable article in the San Francisco Chronicle questioning Princeton University professor emeritus of international law Richard Falk's role as special representative of the U.N. Human Rights Council. Falk is charged with investigating alleged Israeli human rights abuses against the Palestinians or, in other words, drumming up false charges against Israel on behalf of a "human rights council" that includes the Organization of the Islamic Conference, among other unsavory participants. As Brinkley puts it: [Ed: The full text of "Joel Brinkley: Right on Falk, Wrong on Academia" follows]	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526878
__label__wiki	0.785087	0.785087	These moms south of Seattle are tackling asthma, starting in preschools Eilís O'Neill Feb 20, 2019 When Gabriela Avendaño’s daughter was about to start kindergarten, she took her to the doctor for a cough that wouldn’t go away. The doctor told her: “Your daughter doesn’t have a cold; she has asthma,” Avendaño said, speaking in Spanish. The doctor gave Avendaño an inhaler and other medications, which Avendaño brought to the nurse’s office at her daughter’s school in Tacoma, Washington. “It really surprised me to find that the shelves of the nurse’s office were full of medications like my daughter’s,” Avendaño said. “I said, ‘Oh, so this is a very normal problem, here.’” About one in 12 children in the U.S. has asthma, and nearly that many adults, according to the CDC. Asthma’s an expensive problem: It can lead to emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and missed work and school. The CDC estimates that the average medical cost for a person with asthma is about $3,300 per year. That’s not counting the cost of missed school or work. People with asthma can reduce their risk of asthma attacks by taking their medication and by getting rid of dust, mold, and other things that trigger asthma. When Avendaño learned that, she began thinking about what she could do to help tackle the problem of asthma in the Latino community in the Tacoma area. One way to start addressing the problem is to look at daycare centers, according to Sally Findley, a public health researcher at Columbia University. “Children in daycare centers spend a lot of time there,” she explained, “so, all of that time, they’re being exposed to whatever triggers are still in the daycare center.” And, Findley added, daycare providers want to have clean spaces but don’t always know how. “The same kinds of asthma triggers that exist in homes also exist in daycare centers,” said Findley. “You can find cockroaches. You can find mold. Blankies and bears could be the home for dust mites.” Findley said some cleaning agents, like chlorine, can also trigger asthma. Armed with this information, Avendaño and nine other moms from the Tacoma area decided to tackle the problem of asthma triggers in daycares. They started by visiting small, unlicensed daycare centers and surveying their conditions. “One of the daycares I visited was really small, and the windows were always closed,” said Elsa Trujilio, one of the moms. “At the end of the survey, we said, ‘Look, you have to open the windows every day for at least half an hour, and the cleaning products you use are also very important.’ They hadn’t known these things. I think our advice helped.” Araceli Martínez takes care of four young kids in her trailer home in a park southeast of Tacoma. She charges three dollars an hour per child. Araceli Martínez runs a small daycare southeast of Tacoma. She says she learned a lot about how to reduce asthma triggers from a group of moms working to prevent asthma attacks and hospitalizations in their community. Eilís O’Neill for Marketplace Martínez said that when she first started running her daycare, she didn’t know much about what could trigger an asthma attack. “I used to use aromatic candles and a lot of Clorox,” she said. “I’d empty the whole jug to make things really clean.” The group of moms taught her a lot about how to keep her house free of asthma triggers, Martínez said. “You should wash sheets and stuffed animals regularly, because they gather a lot of dust,” she said. “It’s better to use organic cleaning products, and, if you use Clorox, measure small amounts.” Public health researchers in New York and Florida have taken similar steps to train daycare providers, finding they could reduce asthma hospitalizations among toddlers. The moms in Tacoma say they hope their local public health departments will start their own program of asthma inspections and related education for daycare providers.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526880
__label__wiki	0.87947	0.87947	Foxconn Chief: US-China Dispute Over Tech, Not Trade The CEO of Taiwan's Foxconn, which assembles Apple iPhones and other products for tech companies, said Wednesday that Washington's dispute with China is over technology rather than trade. Kelvin Chan, AP Business Writer Workers cut a giant cake to celebrate Taiwan-based contract manufacturing giant Foxconn's 30th anniversary of its first investment in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province Wednesday, June 6, 2018. Image credit: AP Photo/Kelvin Chan Terry Gou's comments at an event celebrating the anniversary of Foxconn's first investment in mainland China follow Beijing's threat to scrap trade deals with Washington if President Trump's tariff hike on Chinese technology products goes ahead. "This is not a trade conflict but rather a competition and comparison of technology," said Gou in a video shown in the event. Foxconn Technology Group, also known as Hon Hai President Industry Co., is the world's biggest contract manufacturer of smartphones, computers and other technology products and is trying to develop its own brands. Gou said he planned to take part in a groundbreaking ceremony at the end of June for a $10 billion factory that Foxconn is set to build in Wisconsin, but he and other executives said nothing else about the company's plans there or other initiatives outside China. The White House renewed its threat last week to impose 25 percent tariffs on Chinese technology-related goods in response to complaints Beijing steals or pressures foreign companies to hand over technology. It is due to release a list of products on June 15. The Chinese government warned Sunday it would scrap deals to narrow its trade surplus with the United States by purchasing more American soybeans and other goods if Trump's tariffs went ahead. In the video, Gou said the "U.S. is significantly ahead of China" in areas such as jet engines and semiconductors. "If China is to catch up, allow me to speak frankly, it must be in the areas of manufacturing technology, design and manufacturing technology," he said. "They are the real economy." Foxconn is trying to develop beyond its roots as a low-cost assembler of products and become an advanced manufacturer and bigger player in the global supply chain. The company says its Wisconsin factory will make liquid crystal display panels for use in computers, TVs and self-driving cars.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526882
__label__wiki	0.771493	0.771493	Home » Barnes Distribution Sales Up 16% in 2006 Barnes Distribution Sales Up 16% in 2006 Barnes Group Inc. announced 2006 sales of $1.3 billion, up 14% from $1.1 billion in 2005. Profit was $73.8 million, up 54% from the year before. Sales for the fourth quarter were $328.8 million, up 19% from the prior-year period. Income was $18.5 million, up 83%. All three of Barnes' business units recorded double-digit sales growth in the fourth quarter. Full year 2006 sales at Barnes Distribution were $526.9 million, up 16% from $453.8 million in 2005. Fourth quarter 2006 sales at Barnes Distribution were $141.6 million, up 26% from the same period last year. Driving the fourth quarter 2006 sales growth were broad-based increases in Barnes Distribution North America, including double-digit increases in Corporate and Tier II accounts, and gains in Europe and the Raymond division. Barnes Distribution Europe's fourth quarter sales were positively impacted by $20.8 million from the second quarter acquisition of KENT. Fourth quarter 2006 sales at Associated Spring were $110.9 million, up 10%, from $101.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2005. Included in this sales increase were $7.2 million from the recently acquired Heinz Hänggi GmbH and a $2.6 million favorable impact from foreign exchange. End market sales continued to benefit from strong momentum in telecommunications and heavy duty truck. Associated Spring's sales within the transportation and industrial markets were essentially flat, excluding the Heinz Hänggi acquisition. For all of 2006, sales at Associated Spring were $445.9 million, up 6% from $422.4 million in 2005. Fourth quarter 2006 sales at Barnes Aerospace were $78.8 million, up 23% from $64.2 million in the comparable 2005 quarter as original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and aftermarket sales increased 10% and 58%, respectively. Barnes Aerospace generated orders of $113.7 million in the fourth quarter, up 46% from $77.7 million in the same period last year. Commercial OEM orders were $58.4 million and military orders were $26.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2006. Order backlog was $403.0 million, up 10% from September 30, 2006. For all of 2006, sales at Barnes Aerospace were $296.9 million, up 26% from $235.4 million for the full year 2005. Industrial Distribution Barnes Group Red Man Pipe & Supply Acquires Midfield Supply Motion Industries Earns John Deere ‘Partner-Level Supplier' Status Investor Makes Bid for Kaman Family Stock Barnes Distribution Sales Up 19% in 3Q Barnes Distribution Sales Jump 11% in 2Q Modern Distribution Management Volume 36, Issue 16 - 08/25/2006 The Path to Distribution Growth Has Changed The Flaws in Using Gross Margin as a Business Performance Benchmark The Threat of Distributor Disintermediation Will Amazon’s One-Day Shipping Kill the Distribution Industry? How One Distributor Killed Its Sales Titles and Grew Sales Faster Subscribe to MDM Update Newsletter Your best source for news and trends in the wholesale distribution industry Make 2020 Your Best Year—Sales Models that Outperform Sales GPS 2020: Live Event in Chicago More Webcasts & Conferences	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526883
__label__wiki	0.898906	0.898906	MILTON TO CARRY BEIJING TORCH Michael Milton will carry the Olympic flame when it comes to Canberra on Thursday 24 April. As one of two Olympic Torch Bearers chosen by the Canberra community, Michael was part of the celebrations to mark the Chinese New Year in Canberra. It will be Milton's third experience of carrying the Olympic flame (he was part of the Athens and the Sydney Games torch relays) but says the highlight will always be carrying the Paralympic flame at the Sydney 2000 Opening Ceremony. 'I was the second last bearer. Louise Savauge took the flame from me and lit the torch. I will never forget the feeling of being in that stadium with 10,000 people cheering and screaming. It was a proud moment to have the Paralympic Games on home soil,' explained Milton. Milton's wife Penni is also involved in the torch relay as part of a 500-strong choir that will accompany the torch on its Canberra journey.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526890
__label__cc	0.538353	0.461647	With high Appalachian ridges, winding rivers , crystal blue coastline and forested lowlands, Alabama is a natural wonderland. The state is fortunate to have many excellent parks that allow the public to take in the great beauty that surrounds us. Cheaha Resort State Park At 2,407 feet above sea level, the Cheaha Mountain is the highest point in the entire state. The park provides grand views of the Talladega National Forest, which surrounds the 2,799-acres of the park itself. Over 80 campsites, 10 cabins and a number of trails are available for outdoor enthusiasts. The Bald Rock Group/Conference Lodge was originally built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1939, and is a popular site for weddings, business meetings, and family gatherings. A full-service restaurant on the side of Cheaha Mountain serves regional cuisine to compliment the stunning view. cheahastpark.com Vulcan Park (Birmingham) Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and forge, was chosen as a symbol for the city of Birmingham prior to the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. The 56-foot cast iron stature (the world's largest) overlooks the city atop a 124-foot pedestal on Red Mountain. Recently restored to it's original state, the statue and adjoining observation tower are the centerpiece of Vulcan Park. The park hosts many outdoor events throughout the year, and the view of the city is unparalleled. www.vulcanpark.org Chewacla State Park Chewacla's facilities include 696 scenic acres for hiking, camping, and picnicking. Their 26-acre lake allows for boating, swimming and fishing. Conveniently located south of Auburn off I-85, Chewacla offers a convenient getaway. www.alapark.com/parks/park.cfm?parkid=14 Frank Jackson State Park For those who love fishing, this 2050-acre park serves as the premier fishing destination with its 1000-acre stream-fed lake. Lake Jackson is great for swimming, and the park includes shoreline picnic areas, lakefront camping sites with cable TV hookups, and a modern bathhouse. Just east of Gulf Shores city limits lies Gulf State Park: more than 6,000 acres of lake, wooded trails, and white sand beaches. The showcase of the park is its 2 mile stretch of beach along the Gulf Coast, but the park also includes a 900-acre lake, an 18-hole public golf course, tennis courts, hundreds of campsites and a nature center. The park also has 20 modern cabins in two different sizes, some of which feature lakeside locations. Cathedral Caverns The gaping entrance to Cathedral Caverns stretches 126 feet wide and 25 feet high. The inside of the caverns are even more impressive, with towering columns of stalagmites and incredible rock formations throughout the underground canyon. The cavern is open for tours year round, and maintains a 60-degree temperature that makes visits comfortable no matter how cold the weather outside is. www.alapark.com/parks/park.cfm?parkid=2	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526891
__label__cc	0.65811	0.34189	Ana Veciana-Suarez: It’s hard to avoid giving unsolicited advice to adult children Columns, Top Stories By Ana Veciana-Suarez - Tribune News Service “Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.” — British philosopher Bernard Williams I’ve noticed that conversations with my children have devolved into a pattern that looks like something I don’t want. It could very well be my fault. I don’t always engage the brain before I open my mouth. We’ll be yapping on the phone, me nodding and uh-huhing and my kids recounting some dilemma that’s bugging them. It may be related to work. Or their kids. Or the news, almost anything at all. Then as soon as they’re finished, I automatically launch into mom mode. Seems like I can’t help it, either. It’s my default setting. You should… You need to consider… Have you thought of… If I were you, I’d… That one word usually stops me in my tracks. The tone is replete with frustration and annoyance — and just enough hurt to make me balk. The meaning is obvious, too, and it speaks volumes, as in: Stop it! Enough! I am the queen of unsolicited advice. The land I rule, however, has limited boundaries. I don’t spout wise instructions to my friends unless asked and only on occasion to The Hubby, who has very selective hearing. But when I get one of my adult kids on the line, I’m transformed into a guru, an oracle, the expert on everything and anything. Which obviously I’m not. Sure, I know why I do it. The psychobabble I’ve read underscores what I already suspect. I want to stay relevant. I want to be part of their lives. Most of all, I want to prevent them from making mistakes that seem so obvious to me. But they, the grown-up kids, simply want a listening ear and an open heart. I’m hardly alone in this. Over lunch the other day, a friend confided that her son rarely listened to anything she said. Like talking to a wall, she added. “I tell him and tell him and he doesn’t do anything I suggest. Then he wonders why the very thing I warned him about happens.” Oh, I know the feeling. I know all too well that deflating sense that comes when proffered help and well-meaning suggestions are unwelcome or, at the very least, taken not in the way they were intended. But I’m also learning — very slowly, I’ll admit, and with intensive remedial help — that talking at is not the same as talking with. Giving advice to children is rife with potential miscues. Where we see ourselves sharing the wisdom of our years, they instead cringe at the overbearing parent who hasn’t come to terms with the fact that they’re adults with thoughts and preferences of their own. More than a dozen years ago, at the cusp of grandparenthood, I was told something I should’ve inscribed forever in my heart. When visiting new parents, a veteran grandmother told me, “You show up and you shut up.” Same concept could be applied to those precious times when an adult child invites you into his life. Reality is this: They’re not looking for tips or pointers. They may not even want an immediate solution to a thorny problem. What they’re hoping for is a safe place to vent with a person who loves and supports them no matter what. We’re coming up on a new year, a new decade, a symbolic turning of the calendar page that gives us the opportunity to refine our behaviors and tweak our lives. So I’ve assigned myself the goal of slaying the unsolicited advice dragon. No easy task for parents like me who honestly think they’re being helpful, not intrusive. But I’m determined, I’m strong. I’m carrying the Show-up Sword and wearing the Mouth-Shut Shield. I’m ready to accept that experience is the best teacher of all. Better than advice and more powerful than examples and parables. Better, yes, than Mom. https://www.limaohio.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2020/01/web1_SUAREZ_ANA_VECIANA.jpg By Ana Veciana-Suarez Ana Veciana-Suarez writes about family and social issues. Email her at avecianasuarez@gmail.com or visit her website anavecianasuarez.com. Follow @AnaVeciana. Hi! A visitor to our site felt the following article might be of interest to you: Ana Veciana-Suarez: It’s hard to avoid giving unsolicited advice to adult children. Here is a link to that story: https://www.limaohio.com/top-stories/390629/ana-veciana-suarez-its-hard-to-avoid-giving-unsolicited-advice-to-adult-children	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526894
__label__wiki	0.729377	0.729377	Securing the third of the four remaining West African lion populations Natalie Ingle Grantee The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) ↗ Type Protected area support Grant Amount $250,000 The West African lion is listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List. There are only four known populations of the West African lion, found in: Niokolo-Koba National Park in Senegal; the W-Arly-Pendjari (WAP) protected area complex in Benin/Burkina Faso and Niger; Yankari National Park in Nigeria; and Kainji Lake National Park in Nigeria. The Lion Recovery Fund has already provided support to the Niokolo-Koba and WAP areas and is now reviewing a proposal from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to assist their work in Yankari National Park. WCS is working to support the law enforcement efforts of the authorities in Yankari to tackle threats such as poaching of prey for bushmeat and incursion of livestock within the park. In the future, the LRF will also seek avenues to provide support to Kainji Lake National Park. Update: Subsequent to issuing the first grant, it was clear that ungulate populations in the park were increasing, but that the small remaining lion population appears not to be. Thus a second grant was issued in 2019 to allow for close monitoring and protection of the lion population to help mitigate against any lion-specific threats.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526896
__label__wiki	0.913655	0.913655	What Are The Inventions Of Alexander Graham Bell admin May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019 Comments Off on What Are The Inventions Of Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell was a great American inventor and scientist. He is best known for. June 2, 1875, Bell proves that telephones work. Watson happens to. Photo: Alexander Graham Bell and a group of school children Most Americans know Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but few are aware that the central interest of his life was deaf. Oct 1, 2007. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, he and associate Charles Sumner Taiter invented the Graphophone. Bell. Bell's next invention was the photophone, which allowed sound to travel on a beam of light. Bell also invented the audiometer, used to detect hearing problems. That heirloom dates to three years after Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone in 1876. 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Bunsen accepted a professorship A mere four years after patenting the telephone, inventor Alexander Graham Bell was already looking for ways to improve on his new technology. Specifically, he wanted to go wireless. Functionally, Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) is best remembered as the inventor of the telephone, but, like his contemporary Thomas Edison, Bell had incredibly. Alexander Graham Bell was patented for inventing "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically". But when the same invention was used by the Bell Telephone. Free Essay: Alexander Graham Bell: A Short Biography Upon hearing the name Alexander Graham Bell, we remember the inventor of the telephone. However, What Exact Day Did Marie Curie Came To Tamerica What looked like a rising tide of social problems a generation ago has come to look more like a fundamental breakdown. Lise Meitner, Irène Joliot-Curie, and Marie Curie herself. 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__label__wiki	0.613394	0.613394	Showing 2101 - 2110 of 2,173 results. Order by: Millennium Commission Accounts 1999-2000 Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today reported to Parliament on the 1999-2000 account of the Millennium Commission, without qualifying his audit opinion on those accounts. The full text of his report is attached. The Millennium Dome “Building and opening the Millennium Dome on the very short timescale required was a tremendous achievement. But the New Millennium Experience Company has experienced severe financial difficulties this year and has required considerable additional lottery funding. “The main cause of these difficulties is the failure to achieve the visitor numbers and income required. The targets were highly ambitious and inherently risky leading to a significant degree of financial exposure on the project. In addition, the task of managing the project has been complicated by the complex organisational arrangements put in place from the outset, and by the failure to establish sufficiently robust financial management.” Audit of Assumptions for the Pre-Budget 2000 Report Sector(s): Central Finance and Treasury Ministry of Defence: Training New Pilots “The shortage of trained pilots is a cause of concern and on the Department’s own projections is likely to continue for some time even if targets are met for training new pilots. The Department should look at possibilities for making existing arrangements for training pilots, already drawn together to a good degree in the Training Group Defence Agency, more coherent and take forward the recommendations set out in this report” Sector(s): National security Department of Trade and Industry: The Acquisition of German Parcel “The Department of Trade and Industry has supported the Post Office’s acquisition of German Parcel in a way that helps to reinforce commercial disciplines. This was a pathfinder transaction and there are lessons for other departments with a responsibility for overseeing acquisitions.” Sector(s): Business and enterprise The Cancellation of the Benefits Payment Card project “There may be a temptation to think that the Payment Card project failed solely because it was large and complex or because it was a pioneer PFI project. This was not the case. Various factors contributed to the project’s failure and their effects are difficult to disentangle. Important reasons were divided control, insufficient time for specifying the requirement and piloting, and that a shared, open approach to risk management was not achieved.” Our examination found that: The report highlights key lessons on risk management, the procurement of complex IT systems, and procurement by more than one purchaser, including: In March 2000 the Treasury PFI taskforce issued new guidance on PFI contracts for Information Technology. In May 2000 the Cabinet Office published recommendations for improving the way in which the government approaches and manages major Information Technology projects. Had this guidance existed and been applied in the case of this project, it may have substantially reduced the risk of it failing, or alternatively have led to the project not proceeding in the way it did. Sector(s): Welfare, Pensions and Employment Supporting Innovation: Managing Risk in Government Departments “This report aims to stimulate and encourage good practice in risk management. There are inevitable risks associated with new ways of working as departments strive to improve and modernise the delivery of public services for the benefit of citizens and businesses. Properly managed, risk taking and innovation can lead to improved value for money for taxpayers.” Sector(s): Education and skills, Government, efficiency and transparency NHS (Scotland) Summarised Accounts 1998-99 Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to Parliament today on the Summarised Accounts of the National Health Service in Scotland for 1998-99. The report describes the findings of the appointed auditors of the individual health bodies, discusses developments in accounting and financial control, considers the financial performance of the NHS in … Read more Sector(s): Devolved Administrations, Health and social care Action to Improve Passenger Rail Services Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that the Shadow Strategic Rail Authority (SSRA) and its predecessor organisation, the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising (OPRAF), had taken action where possible to remedy underperformance by passenger train operators but that the present franchise arrangements could be improved to secure better performance. … Read more Sector(s): Infrastructure, Regulation, consumers and competition, Transport «1...208209210211212213214215216217218»	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526906
__label__wiki	0.502843	0.502843	Tennessee Supreme Court Holds Statute Of Frauds Applies To Settlement Agreement In a recent opinion in a real estate litigation case which originated in Murfreesboro, the Supreme Court of Tennessee examined the Tennessee statute of frauds and made two significant rulings about its application. The case involved a settlement agreement which was made after a breach of contract suit had been filed to settle that suit. The plaintiff (“Buyer”) and the defendant (“Seller”) entered into a real estate contract. The Buyer paid the Seller $10,000.00 in earnest money. After the real estate contract was entered into and the earnest money paid, the Buyer discovered that the Seller had conveyed one-half of her interest in the property at issue to her niece (“Niece”). The Buyer sued the Seller and her Niece for breach of contract, fraud, and negligent and intentional misrepresentation. Seller filed a cross claim against Niece alleging that the Seller’s transfer of her one-half interest in the property to Niece was the result of undue influence and requesting that the transfer be set aside. Seller refunded to Buyer its $10,000.00, and Buyer and Seller settled. Thus, the only parties left just before trial were Niece and her aunt, Seller. The day before trial, the attorney for Seller (aunt) sent an email to the attorney for Niece confirming the settlement reached between Seller and Niece. The email confirmed that Niece would deed her interest in the “property” back to Seller (aunt) as part of the settlement. The email did not specifically describe the property. The attorney for Niece sent a reply email confirming the settlement terms. After the email settlement was reached, Niece reneged on the agreement. Niece’s attorney withdrew from representing her, and Niece obtained a new attorney. Seller (aunt) filed a motion requesting that the trial court enforce the settlement agreement reached between Seller’s attorney and Niece’s prior attorney. Niece argued against the motion. Niece argued that the settlement agreement was not enforceable because it was not evidenced by a writing signed by Niece, as required by the Tennessee statute of frauds. The trial court (the Rutherford County Chancery Court) held that the settlement agreement was enforceable. Niece appealed to the Tennessee Court of Appeals. That court affirmed the decision of the trial court on the grounds that the Tennessee statute of frauds does not apply to a settlement agreement just because its terms require the transfer of land. The Supreme Court of Tennessee affirmed the decision of the trial court and appeals court that the settlement agreement was enforceable, but disagreed with the appeals court that the settlement agreement which had been reached in the case was not subject to the Tennessee statute of frauds. It held that, even though the agreement was a settlement agreement, as opposed to a conventional contract for the sale or transfer of real estate, nevertheless, it was subject to the statute of frauds. The Supreme Court pointed out that the operative term in the section of the Tennessee statute of frauds which deals with property states that the statute applies to “any contract for the sale of lands.” While anyone unfamiliar with the case law interpreting that phrase might believe that the statute of frauds should apply only to real estate sales contracts, that is far from the case. As pointed out by the Supreme Court, “sale” is construed, in Tennessee, to include any “alienation” of real property, including even a gift of real property. The next question before the Supreme Court was whether or not the settlement agreement complied with the statute of frauds. To be enforceable under the Tennessee statute of frauds, (1) the agreement had to be memorialized by some writing or writings which contained the essential terms of the contract; and (2) the writing had to be signed by the “party to be charged.” The Supreme Court made a couple of points about the statute of frauds that are important. First, that statute does not require that an agreement be in a single document in order to comply with the statute. For years, Tennessee courts have held that, if multiple writings connected to the agreement collectively contain the essential terms of the agreement, that fact is sufficient to satisfy the statute of frauds. The Supreme Court held that, although the email of the attorney for the Niece only described the property by using the word “property,” that fact was of no consequence since the cross claim filed against the Niece by the Seller set forth a legal description of the property at issue. The second point the Supreme Court made about the Tennessee statute of frauds is that an electronic signature can satisfy the statute. In the case before it, the Supreme Court held that the email signature of the attorney for the Niece was a sufficient signature. In reaching this conclusion, the Supreme Court relied on the provisions of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (the “UETA”) which was enacted in Tennessee in 2001. Under the UETA, generally, where the law requires a signature, an electronic signature is sufficient. Posted in: Business Litigation and Real Estate Litigation	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526907
__label__wiki	0.755731	0.755731	Joseph Lawrence Naiman, M.D. Contact the submitter Joseph Lawrence Naiman (Laurie) was born in Toronto, Canada, the youngest son of Max and Ida Naiman. He attended Harbord Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, earning his medical degree in 1956. He trained in pediatric hematology-oncology at Boston Children’s Hospital (Harvard Medical School). He then moved to Philadelphia, working at the University of Pennsylvania before being appointed professor of pediatrics at Temple University School of Medicine and chief of hematology-oncology at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. He became known for his dedication to research and teaching and for his compassionate clinical care. His proudest accomplishment was the development of a family support program for children with leukemia and cancer. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Ronald MacDonald House Charities. In 1984 Laurie moved to California where he served as medical director of the Northern California Region of the American Red Cross Blood Services and as clinical professor of pediatrics, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine. Laurie received numerous professional honors and authored more than 70 medical publications, most notably three editions of the textbook Hematologic Problems of the Newborn with co-author Frank A. Oski, MD. Always an active photographer, he was a member of the Palo Alto Camera Club. He developed the club’s first website and was elected as the club’s president. Laurie was inspired by club members and, in turn, mentored and inspired others. His work received a number of awards, including two first-place awards in contests sponsored by the Palo Alto Weekly (2002 and 2019). Laurie was predeceased in death by his sister, Renee Goodis (Norman), and brother, Arnold Naiman. He is survived by his wife, Judy Palmer; children Matthew (Yuriko), Jonathan (Sabine), Michael, and Jill Naiman; grandchildren Misha, Jacob, and Benjamin Naiman; a sister-in-law, Annette Naiman; his former wife, Temmy Siegel Acton; and nieces and nephews Sandy, Elaine, Glorianne, Michael, Lyle, and their children. Laurie also enjoyed cooking, hiking, exploring Death Valley, and visiting family. He is fondly remembered for his keen sense of humor and generous spirit. A Celebration of Life will be held by the Palo Alto Camera Club at the Palo Alto Art Center on September 22, 2019, from 2 - 4 pm. Donations in his memory may be made to the Let Them Hear Foundation, the Palo Alto Camera Club, and the Pathways Hospice program. 0 photos Upload a photo 2 entries Submit a remembrance From Terence O'Heany MD Laurie will always be remembered by the class of University of Toronto Meds 5T6. He was our Website Master who kept our class informed about about all members of the class as time passed. He was a true Mensch in his Pediatric Oncology field and used ... A Celebration of Life will be held by the Palo Alto Camera Club at the Palo Alto Art Center on September 22, 2019, from 2 - 4 pm. Donations in his memory may be made to the Let Them Hear Foundation, the Palo Alto Camera Club, and the Pathways Hospice program. Let Them Hear Foundation —> http://letthemhear.org Palo Alto Camera Club —> https://www.pacamera.com Pathways Hospice —> https://www.pathwayshealth.org About this site Contact us	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526908
__label__wiki	0.828813	0.828813	He's Graduating with a Bachelor's Degree...and He's ONLY 9! Gentleman & Adventurer We're about to have the world's youngest electrical engineer...and he's not even old enough to go on a date yet. This is Laurent Simon...and he is only 9 years old -- and with an IQ of at least 145. Now while most of you are like "so...?", Laurent is also graduating from Eindhoven University of Technology (a Dutch University) with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering by the end of this year. If that didn't make you feel bad enough, here's another point that'll make you even more impressed... He's completing the 3-year course in just 9 months! Aren't you wondering how this boy's mind is wired? His mum, Lydia, works as an office manager and his dad, Alexander, is a dentist. Currently Laurent is working on his final year project - about a brain-connected electrical chip. It's impressive cause most kids at his age would either be growing a bean in a cup or building an erupting volcano sculpture. "I want to study medicine, and do a PhD and make artificial organs," says the child genius. He has also been branded as "simply extraordinary" by his lecturers in the University, and also hyper intelligent. However, Laurent ain't a nerd like you'd imagine -- hovering over books and the internet like a typical young Sheldon Cooper. Instead, you'd typically find Laurent slumming over a gaming controller playing Fortnite and Mindcraft -- while watching Netflix on the side. "I'm quite lazy," he says, also adding that unlike the other young geniuses that you've read about, Laurent isn't even into stuff like chess. What's next for this boy genius? Well, Laurent is looking to further his education at the States... "...because the weather is good there," he laughed. Oh, he's also looking to work on a side project, developing artificial organs in the future (notably toward artificial hearts, as his grandparents have heart conditions). We just wish him all the best.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526909
__label__wiki	0.798194	0.798194	MyKFCExperience KFC Survey at www.mykfcexperience.com While watching Sanju remember some truths hidden by Hirani and Sanjay Dutt Posted on December 30, 2019 by mykfcexperience Sanju, a biopic on Sanjay Dutt’s life, is breaking the box office success records. In the first week, the film’s earnings have crossed 100 crores. But people are getting different reactions to this film directed by Rajkumar Hirani, on the one hand people are talking about Ranbir Kapoor’s brilliant performance, on the other hand some people believe that Sanjay Dutt’s life and crimes are covered To put this film has been produced, in which an attempt is being made to improve public image by applying crores of rupees. Sanjay’s involvement in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts has blown the head of the media. It is as if Sanjay stood in the dock because the media was behind him, not because he had a suspicious relationship with the underworld and kept AK guns and grenades in his house! As a writer of a book by researching Sanjay Dutt, I would like to say that I was more frustrated by the way the case was deviated and made lighter, seeing that many important characters and events in Sanjay’s life have been disappeared from the film. Here I am mentioning many such important things, on whose behalf this film takes a blind eye. 1: Sanjay’s first encounter with the law Sanjay was not confronted with the law for the first time in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. In 1982, he was caught in a shootout at his home on Pali Hill for the first time. What does the book say? May 22, 1982 was a summer night. Most residents of the elite Pali Hill were fast asleep. There was darkness in the number 58 bungalow near St. Anne’s Church. But the turmoil was hidden behind the peace seen from above. Suddenly, this neighborhood was awakened by the sounds of firing and glass shattering. Sanjay Dutt was walking in the air waving his rifle of .22 bore and staring in the premises of his bungalow. In a few minutes, anxious neighbors and anxious passersby came out and they were trying to peek inside. It seemed that the young man was not in control, he could not understand anything and he seemed to be a little nervous. After that he started crying. He began to climb the barbed wire fence with bare hands due to his shaking body. Regardless of the blood flowing from his hand, Sanjay’s scream was echoing in the air: ‘Why are you all afraid of me? I am not a drug addict. I have given up drugs! ”It was becoming evident that Tina Accountant was going to leave her life like this, still bothering her. It was gradually clear what had happened: Sanjay, who was addicted to alcohol and was in a sorrow of heartbreak, had fired indiscriminately in the air in his bungalow. Some windows of the bungalow were broken by bullets and the glass of his car was shattered. After this whole incident, Sanjay probably came to notice how irresponsible he has done, and many people are watching him. He ran back to his house and locked himself in the room. When the police came and searched the house, Sanjay could not be found anywhere. Later he admitted that a friend had secretly taken him away. Sanjay was alone at home at the time of this firing incident. Sunil Dutt had gone to America in connection with the shooting and had taken both daughters with him. Kumar Gaurav was also going to America. In fact, the same evening, Sanjay Dutt went to the airport to release Kumar Gaurav, when he got the news that the shooting of Tina’s film Sautan was over. The entire team of the film had returned by shooting in Singapore. But Tina did not even call Sanjay. When Sanjay reached home and took out the liquor for himself, he was agitated that Tina did not call him. There was a breakup between them but Sanjay did not want to accept it. He said, “The shooting is over and all the people have returned. But where is it? I love him I will never live without him. ‘ 2: Sanjay’s first wife Richa Sharma and first child Trishala The film tries to show Sanju Sanjay as a big-hearted family man but Sanjay was not always like this. The film says that he had more than 350 affairs, but forgets to mention his first wife Richa Sharma. When Richa was battling cancer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Sanjay had an affair with another big star heroine of that era. Was Madhuri worried about Sanjay getting married? She belonged to a conservative family and her image in the media was very clear. As the Star and Style story pointed out, she feared losing confidence in the public that she was about to marry a man who was the husband of a woman who had cancer, and that man because of her Was leaving his wife. But Madhuri’s secretary Rakesh Nath’s wife and screenwriter Reema Rakesh Nath said, “I don’t think Madhuri’s personal decision should come in the way of her career for Sanjay.” Look at Hema and Dharmendraji. Hema Malini maintained her dignity despite marrying a married man. ‘ But Richa’s sister Anna did not intend to leave Madhuri like that. In the same interview of Cine Blitz, Anna said, ‘Is Madhuri so inhuman? I mean Madhuri can find any man. How can he trust such a man Is he who treated his wife like this? … I know that they are good friends because Sanjay called them from our house. And he also talks about his sister and brother here. But we never thought that this man’s affair is with Madhuri. We are very open minded. We have always given Sanjay full space. ‘ Richa hoped that everything would be alright between her and Sanjay, but the news came that Sanjay filed a divorce application in early 1993. Richa became furious. ‘What mistake have I made? I do not understand what he wants in his life. A pretty girl who is slim? I think that’s why he fell in love with Madhuri … Sanjay was a very good boyfriend. But the story was different as a husband. ‘ 3: Sanjay’s sisters and his bitter relationship with Manyata There is no doubt that Sanjay’s sisters Namrata and Priya have played an important role in Sanjay’s life since he was an addict and in jail. Despite such closeness, his relationship with his sisters deteriorated when he came close to recognition. But there is not even a dialogue on this aspect in the film. Sunil Dutt came to know about a small clinic in Mumbai and Sanjay was admitted there. There he had electrode therapy (placing electric electrode in the forehead of the patient), which was very painful, and had no effect. When the treatment proved ineffective, Sanjay was taken to Breach Candy Hospital from there. He recounts an incident in the hospital which looks funny from above but also reveals how helpless he had become. Every night, one of his sisters had to stay with him in the hospital so that when Sanjay gets drunk, he can help him to bear his pain. Sanjay says- ‘Priya used to study in school then … I started having hallucinations. I thought she was ‘Gurkha’. I said, “Hey Gurkha! Aye Gorkha! ”Priya got scared but did not want to murmur. She started expressing it as if she was really Gurkha. He said, “Yes Saab, speak! What to do, Saab? ”I said,“ Bring me charas. ”She said,“ Charas is not there, I have a bidi. What does bidi ask for? ” Remembering that incident, what Sanjay said later was true, ‘Not only was I sick, but the whole family was sick with me.’ Ever since Manyata came into Sanjay’s life, she was the cause of a quarrel in the Dutt family. But perhaps the biggest quarrel between Sanjay and his sisters occurred when Sanjay tried to contest the Lok Sabha elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket in 2009 (eventually he could not stand the election due to his legal troubles). After that, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh got Sanjay included in the Samajwadi Party. 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__label__wiki	0.653721	0.653721	Title: South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice: Raising the Voices of Girls Journal: Corrections Today Magazine Volume:68 Issue:7 Dated:December 2006 Pages:24-28 Author(s): Susan Alford Date Published: December 2006 Publisher: http://www.aca.org Type: Program/Project Description Annotation: This article describes the improvements the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) has made to its female inmate programming. Abstract: In 2002, the South Carolina governor appointed Judge William Byars to head the DJJ and gave him two priorities: (1) end the 13-year Federal litigation concerning conditions in agency facilities; and (2) end the practice of warehousing children. Not only was the new director able to negotiate a satisfactory end to the Federal lawsuit within 1 year, he also ushered in a complete overhaul of DJJ services for female offenders. Previously housed in a physically inadequate facility, the girls were relocated to the Willow Lane campus where they were separated by sight and sound from the male juvenile offenders. The new female facility, which has 64 beds, boasts a school building, a gymnasium, recreation fields, and well-appointed visiting areas. DJJ also committed itself to completely overhauling the way female juvenile justice was approached and an in-depth examination of everything in the girls’ facility was undertaken, from staffing, to classification, to treatment services, to education. Staff members and female inmates were included in the re-assessments. Some of the changes implemented included more normative clothing for the girls (and the boys), special units for disruptive girls, decreased use of lock-up for girls, and an array of treatment and counseling programs aimed at the needs of girls, such as substance abuse treatment and sexual abuse counseling. One of the key ingredients to the success of the DJJ’s evolution has been its partnership with Clemson University, which pledged in a 2003 memorandum of agreement to help with innovative programming for the Youth Development Center at Camp Long, which provides programming for both boys and girls. Future plans include the 2007 opening of the fully furnished and staffed Girls Transition Home. Exhibits Main Term(s): Female inmates; Female juvenile delinquents; Juvenile correctional reform Index Term(s): Gender issues; Juvenile correctional programs; Juvenile detention; South Carolina	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526916
__label__wiki	0.925718	0.925718	Former Nelson teacher and prolific writer Eric Wilson worked with Cedar Street productions on the upcoming stage adaptation of his book Murder on the Canadian Capitol to host world premiere of Murder on the Canadian Adaptation of former Trafalgar teacher Eric Wilson's novel will star Tucker Bingham as Tom Austen. Partway through the process of adapting Eric Wilson’s 1976 novel Murder on the Canadian for the Capitol stage, Cedar Street productions’ Jeff Forst received a copy of the script with some tweaks and adjustments from an earlier draft. Wilson was soliciting his feedback. “The ink was fresh on it, basically, and I was like ‘Eric Wilson is asking me questions about his material? This is surreal’,” said Forst, who is a long-time Wilson fan. “These are books I read as a teen, when I was roughly the same age my son is now.” Which works out nicely, because Forst has cast his son Evan in one of the youth roles alongside his friend Tucker Bingham, who will play the kid detective Tom Austen. The two spend much of the play bickering while Austen tries to solve the case. “I’m a kid from Winnipeg who wants to be a detective,” said Bingham. “We’re on this train having a good time and suddenly this lady, Catherine Sinclar, is dead. Then it’s about us trying to figure out what happened.” Evan plays an abrasive sidekick named Dietmar Oban, and he told the Star he relishes the opportunity to play such an unlikable character. “I’m just kind of rude to everybody. It’s fun when you can be someone you’re not. You can be someone completely different than how you are actually, so in this play I’m a complete asshole.” Forst said Wilson’s show has a universal appeal, and captures a nostalgic part of childhood. “My brother is a teacher and he’s always loved the books. He was teaching them at his school when he heard from Eric, who had Googled Nelson Youth Theatre. It all came together.” While Wilson worked away on the script, Forst met with him to talk through the logistics of telling the story onstage. One issue, for instance, was trying to figure out how to establish the train setting. And he knew the success of the show would hinge on the cast, and as it turned out he didn’t have to look far to find them. Both boys are Shakespeare veterans. “Tucker and Evan, the two of them have worked together extensively and they have a real nice rapport. Once I got them I thought ‘hang on, we can do real justice to this’. When Eric sees it, we want him to be happy.” Bingham stars in every scene, and carries much of the show, but he let the Star in a little secret: he’s written script prompts into his detective notebook, just in case. “Tucker loves detectives, like Dr. Who and Sherlock Holmes, so as soon as this role came up he jumped on it,” said Forst. “He’s got a great presence on stage, people are going to love it.” Initially the plan was to cast the show with youth actors, but he ultimately decided to go age-appropriate for each role, enlisting local stars such as Sydney Black (who plays the murder victim), Darren Fuss, Eli Geddis and others. And they’re wearing some pretty wacky stuff. “If people have lived through the ‘70s, this will be a throwback for them,” said Evan. “I mean, you wouldn’t see too many people wearing this shirt these days. It feels like Bollywood on a shirt,” he said, with a laugh. Bingham’s mother Kyla Hurst, who did the costumes for the show, also stars as a character called The Cookie Woman. “Kyla getting to be in the play and doing the costumes is fun because she really loved the books beforehand, and she’s so excited because Eric Wilson is actually coming to the show,” said Forst. Wilson will be in the audience opening night with his wife Flo. He will then do a subsequent reading at Otter Books on October 25 at 11 a.m. Forst said those who have read the book may be surprised by some of the changes. “There’s a few wrinkles in there for people who already know the story, in this case a few different characters survive who don’t in the book.” This is the second Nelson theatre mystery production, after Lucas’ Myers’ recent show Campground. Forst said that came about by coincidence. “We found out about Lucas’ show while we were rehearsing and though ‘what are the odds of two murder mysteries developing independently of each other’. Then we just embraced it.” Murder on the Canadian will be at the Capitol at 8 p.m. on Oct. 22, 23 and 24. It is suitable for all ages. Watch out for an upcoming interview with Murder on the Canadian author Eric Wilson, coming soon. Nelson student on visiting performers: ‘I associate them with joy’ Eric Wilson marks 40 years of murder Councillor resigns in Revelstoke after colleagues approved 67% raise Council approved a 134 per cent raise for the mayor of Revelstoke	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526918
__label__wiki	0.762314	0.762314	Get FREE Home Insurance Quotes Home Insurance Made Easy Home Insurance Online Home Insurance Riders Your Home Insurance Rate Compare Home Insurance Quotes Tips on How to Prepare for Flooding No one likes to think about natural disasters, but when the spring thaw comes, it's time to prepare your home for flood and hurricane seasons. The fact that you've never had a flood in your community doesn't mean it won't eventually happen. Typically, there's a 30-day waiting period before a flood insurance policy for your home takes effect, so the time to prepare is before waters rise. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says 90 percent of major natural disasters in the U.S. involve flooding. One of the lessons of Superstorm Sandy is that areas with low to moderate risks of flooding can experience major water damage during a storm. "The main reason to get flood insurance is your standard homeowner's policy will not cover a flood-related loss," says Michael Barry, a spokesman for the nonprofit Insurance Information Institute. "That was something that too many people learned after Sandy hit in the Northeast." It's important to ask your insurance agent about the need to supplement your homeowner's policy or renter's policy with flood insurance, he says. Coverage is available from FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and through some private insurers. The NFIP provides coverage for up to $250,000 for home structures. Homeowners and renters can buy coverage of up to $100,000 for personal possessions. Usually, NFIP policies can be purchased from agents who sell home insurance. Additional or "excess" flood insurance is available from private insurers for property owners who need protection above NFIP's limits, or for those whose communities don't take part in the federal program. According to FEMA, nearly 22,000 U.S. communities participate in NFIP and more than 2,100 don't. You can determine your flood risk by visiting FloodSmart.gov. Don't count on federal disaster aid Many people mistakenly believe that the federal government automatically will step in with aid, if a home is destroyed or seriously damaged in a natural disaster, says Tully Lehman, a spokesman for the nonprofit Insurance Information Network of California. If you aren't in a declared federal disaster zone, he says, you could be on your own hook for the repair bills. Even if you do receive disaster assistance, it likely will be through a loan that must be repaid with interest. Unlike disaster loans, flood insurance claims don't need to be repaid. Barry says not everyone can afford flood insurance, which costs an average of $600 a year. Residents in moderate- and low-risk areas may be eligible for cheaper policies, however. "Not everyone has the disposable income to buy maximum coverage limits, but you should at least explore the possibility," Barry says. Rebecca Byrom, owner of a San Diego insurance agency that specializes in flood coverage, says many people in high-risk areas buy flood insurance only because their mortgage lenders require it. W. Richard Burr, a public claims adjuster in Pennsylvania, says flood insurance isn't for everyone. You've got to weigh the risks, he says. If the chance of flooding is very low where you live, flood insurance is a waste of money, Burr says. James Whittle, assistant general counsel and chief claims counsel of the American Insurance Association trade group, disagrees. He says it's important to recognize that even areas where risks are small can be devastated by floods. "People learn the hard way," Whittle says. Tips for surviving a flood Here are some flood survival tips from FEMA: Avoid living in a floodplain, unless your home has been elevated and reinforced against flooding. If you live where flooding is likely, elevate your furnace, water heater and electric panels to keep them above the waterline. To avoid damage to important papers and household items, store them on the highest level of your home. If you have a basement, seal the walls with waterproofing. Consider installing backflow valves to prevent water from backing up into drains and toilets. Buy plywood, sandbags, plastic sheeting and lumber for water-related emergencies. If a flood occurs, pack important items, including medication, in case you need to evacuate. Editor's Note: This is an updated version of a story originally published on May 2, 2015. Get Home Insurance Quotes Now	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526919
__label__wiki	0.574811	0.574811	A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation with Zara Houshmand ,Neuroscience By inviting the Dalai Lama and leading researchers in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience to join in conversation, the Mind & Life Institute set the stage for a fascinating exploration of the healing potential of the human mind. The Mind's Own Physician presents in its entirety the thirteenth Mind and Life dialogue, a discussion addressing a range of vital questions concerning the science and clinical applications of meditation: How do meditative practices influence pain and human suffering? What role does the brain play in emotional well-being and health? To what extent can our minds actually influence physical disease? Are there important synergies here for transforming health care, and for understanding our own evolutionary limitations as a species? Edited by world-renowned researchers Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard J. Davidson, this book presents this remarkably dynamic interchange along with intriguing research findings that shed light on the nature of the mind, its capacity to refine itself through training, and its role in physical and emotional health. Jon Kabat-Zinn (Editor) Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of... Read more Books by Jon Kabat-Zinn Richard J. Davidson (Editor) Books by Richard J. Davidson Zara Houshmand (Contributing Writer) Books by Zara Houshmand “The Mind’s Own Physician is a journey of understanding, in which an integrative dialogue unfolds between the spiritual leaders of contemplative meditation and scientists at the forefront of mind-body medicine. This transformative conversation provides valuable insight into how meditative practices can balance the mind with effects on the body, as well as, potential benefits for human health. This blending of contemplative traditions with Western science opens a mindful awareness that has the empowering capacity to fully engage people in their health, and more broadly, in the well-being of our societies.” —Michael R. Irwin, MD, Cousins Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles “The Mind’s Own Physician offers us a precious portal into the seminal conversations that gave birth to the nascent field of contemplative neuroscience. The issues digested, debated, and ignited in its pages will serve as a road map and inspiration for my students and their students over the coming decades.” —Amishi P. Jha, PhD, contemplative neuroscientist, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Miami “If you want to see how to build bridges between the deepest wisdom of the heart and the highest standards of contemporary neuroscience, look no further. This series of meetings between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Western scientists and meditation teachers will prove to be epoch-changing, and this book shows why. Here, you will find interior and exterior empiricism in exquisite dialogue. Drink it all in. The brilliance of the participants shines through on every page.” —Mark Williams, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford, Director, Oxford Mindfulness Centre “Can meditation improve your health? This question is just the starting point for a series of innovative exchanges across different ways of knowing among first-ranked clinicians, scientists, Buddhist teachers, and the Dalai Lama. Thoughtful, rigorous, and surprising by turns, this dialogue reminds all of us who care about the effects of the mind on health just how much more thinking remains to be done.” —Anne Harrington, PhD, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, author of The Cure Within “Our thoughts can seem too real, giving our imaginings about tomorrow the power to create chronic stress and unhealthy changes in our bodies. Our sense of self can seem too fixed, creating a cage where our habitual worries can run in depressing circles. In the moment that we recognize our thoughts as thoughts and our habits as habits, new and liberating possibilities emerge for the way we live our lives. Contemplative traditions such as Buddhism have long seen the transformative power of that simple moment of recognition, and more recently, clinicians in various domains have discovered the potential that this contemplative insight offers for the treatment of chronic stress, depression, and other especially modern maladies. Yet the potential of interventions based on contemplative approaches has only begun to emerge. The full realization of that potential requires a careful, critical, and honest dialogue among contemplatives and scientists so as to allow research and clinical practices to develop effectively. This remarkable book provides a fresh and clear record of such a dialogue. Informative and highly accessible, The Mind’s Own Physician is a groundbreaking moment in the development of contemplative science.” —John D. Dunne, Associate Professor of Religion, Emory University “A must-read for anyone interested in understanding how Buddhist contemplative traditions and Western scientific traditions can work together to uncover the complexities of the human mind. Mind and Life has done it again: engaged a group of distinguished contemplative scholars, clinicians, and scientists in a lively, productive, and inspiring dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama that furthers our understanding of meditation and its potential to heal.” —Jeanne Tsai, Associate Professor of Psychology, Stanford University, Director, Stanford Culture and Emotion Laboratory “This book marks a milestone in the emerging field of contemplative sciences. Within its pages, you can relive a seminal 2005 Mind and Life conference that brought together world-famous neuroscientists, clinicians, and contemplative scholars in a dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This groundbreaking work explores the development of scientifically based tools and programs aimed at creating more balanced and healthy lives. How does stress evolve? What does it do to our minds and bodies? How can we use ancient mindfulness and meditative practices in our everyday, modern lives and also in clinical settings to reduce stress and cultivate healthier minds? This book is a must for everyone who is interested in making this world a more human place.” —Tania Singer, PhD, Director, Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany “Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard Davidson bring together an internationally acclaimed cast of neuroscientists and scholars for a stimulating dialogue with the Dalai Lama. They weave a rich tapestry of information on how meditation can be useful for a wide variety of conditions, ranging from depression and stress to anxiety and psoriasis. In easy-to-understand, conversational style, the experts lay out how the mind’s powerful healing effects can be harnessed in ways that are becoming increasingly illuminated by scientific discoveries.” —Stuart J. Eisendrath, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, Director of the UCSF Depression Center “It is most befitting that this wonderful book, composed from Mind and Life dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, would appear after the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Accompanied by greatly increasing psychophysiological stress, anxiety, and depression, the post-9/11 decade has yielded an auspicious upsurge of rigorous scientific and clinical research on mindfulness meditation and other systematic methods of mental training that may help transcend the pain and suffering caused by such harmful afflictions. The Mind’s Own Physician highlights these exciting advances through a series of insightful discussions between His Holiness and a diverse group of stellar contemplative scholars, scientists, and physicians who are leaders in the field of integrative mind-body-brain medicine. Everyone who wishes to cultivate a sound body and sane, healthy mind in these turbulent times will welcome the publication of these inspiring conversations.” —David E. Meyer, PhD, Clyde H. Coombs, and J. E. Keith Smith Professor of Mathematical Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Michigan “The Mind’s Own Physician brings you straight into the heart of a remarkable interchange between His Holiness the Dalai Lama, renowned contemplative teachers from Buddhist and Christian traditions, and world leaders in neuroscience, psychiatry, stress physiology, and clinical medicine. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard Davidson guide the reader through an authentic chronicle of a landmark meeting of extraordinary minds as it unfolds through a series of crystalline presentations and probing dialogues about the nature of mind, meditation, and brain function. These dialogues provide the foundation for discussion on the biological effects of chronic stress, treatment and relapse prevention in depression, and the historical and evolutionary roots of Western medicine’s struggle to understand and care for the whole person. The highly accessible and rich treatment of each of these areas is fascinating to read. The constant presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s deeply engaged attention, teaching, and critical ear reverberates throughout. The participants’ common commitment to fostering the conditions necessary for human flourishing through intercultural and interdisciplinary inquiry is truly inspiring. In capturing this arc of information and intent, The Mind’s Own Physician becomes an essential treatment of one of the most hopeful directions in thought alive today: the human capacity to ease our suffering through introspective insight and our growing scientific investigation into how this may occur.” —Clifford Saron, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, University of California, Davis Center for Mind and Brain “A fascinating book exploring two contrasting views of the human mind. The scholarly discussions between His Holiness and leading scientists provide deep insights into how ancient Buddhist teachings and modern science can inform each other, and potentially transform Western clinical practices.” —Sara Lazar, PhD, Associate in Psychology, Psychiatric Neuroscience Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School “It is extremely exciting to read what emerges from the dialogues between the leading experts in the scientific investigation of contemplative practice who present their excellent scientific work and the profound wisdom of contemplative teachers. This is a wonderful book that takes us right into the heart of these inspiring and engaging conversations by exploring profound and essential questions about how we can enhance human potential by cultivating positive human qualities.” —Britta Hölzel, PhD, Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Giessen University, Germany “The Mind’s Own Physician is a remarkable accomplishment. It tells the compelling story of how the scientific study of meditation has created a new way of understanding the relationship between body and mind and between science and spirituality. Edited by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard Davidson, two individuals who have almost single-handedly brought mindfulness into Western culture, it documents a dialogue between the Dalai Lama and a gathering of researchers, scholars, and clinicians who are blazing new pathways in the science of meditation. The discussion highlights how the neuroscience of meditation is enriching our understanding of human potential. This is a deeply hopeful book. It details how many of the qualities most urgently needed in our world today can be intentionally cultivated in practical, concrete ways that make a real difference. Compassion, wisdom, insight, and emotional balance are not lucky accidents; they are biological capabilities that can be strengthened. The Mind’s Own Physician is essential reading for anyone who wants to learn about the ancient tradition of meditation, the promise that it holds for our time, and the essential goodness of the human spirit.” —Michael J. Baime, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Founder and Director, Penn Program for Mindfulness “Besides engaging easily with the contemplative, clinical, and scientific contributions to this volume, the reader experiences the remarkable interaction of contributors from diverse traditions. Common assumptions become apparent, constructs in one discipline spark insights in another, broad inter-disciplinary understandings subsume disciplinary understandings. Over the course of the exchange, it becomes apparent that a new culture is emerging with the potential to fundamentally reshape how we understand ourselves and interact with one another.” —Lawrence W. Barsalou, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology, Emory University “The Mind’s Own Physician lets us eavesdrop on a fascinating conversation at the frontier of science and spirituality, medicine and meditation. Anyone who cares about well-being and health will find both news and wisdom here.” —Daniel Goleman, PhD, author of The Brain and Emotional Intelligence The Upward Spiral Alex Korb Transforming ADHD Greg Crosby and Tonya K Lippert Grieving Mindfully Sameet M. Kumar The Chemistry of Joy Workbook Henry Emmons The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness Beth Ann Mulligan The Buddha's Way of Happiness Thomas Bien Kirk D. Strosahl and Patricia J. Robinson Barbara Ann Kipfer The Buddha and the Borderline Kiera Van Gelder Rebekah Younger Rewire Your Anxious Brain for Teens Debra Kissen, Ashley D. Kendall, Michelle Lozano and Micah Ioffe Healing the Angry Brain Ronald Potter-Efron The User's Guide to the Human Mind Shawn T. Smith The Upward Spiral Workbook Living with Your Heart Wide Open Steve Flowers and Bob Stahl Cheryl Fraser Rewire Your Anxious Brain Catherine M Pittman and Elizabeth M Karle The Memory Workbook Michael Kohn and Douglas J. Mason The Stress-Proof Brain Melanie Greenberg	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526921
__label__wiki	0.719326	0.719326	New structure for HIV-1 viral shell proposed The matrix shell of the HIV-1 virus may have a different shape than previously thought, and a newly proposed model has significant implications for understanding how the virus functions, according to a new study by University of Alberta scientists. The research suggests that the HIV-1 virus is housed within a spherical matrix shell. When it infects a healthy cell, the shell fuses to the outside of the target cell and then releases the viral capsid inside where it attacks the cell. Our new proposed structure for the HIV-1 virus has a very peculiar shape, almost like petals of a flower. A better structural knowledge of the matrix shell may help us understand the fusing and infection process." Sean Graves, instructor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and co-author on the study A New Discovery about MAIT Cells Sheds Light on Early-Phase HIV Infection Discovery of mechanism by which Zika virus enters brain cells HIV 'hotspots' do not necessarily fuel the epidemic Graves is also coordinator of the Decima Robinson Support Centre, providing support to more than 1000 undergraduate students each term. The research shows that the previous model used to describe the structure of the HIV-1 matrix shell was mathematically impossible and provides a viable alternative. While it is too early to anticipate whether the model will translate into new treatment for HIV, the research will help scientists to better understand and make predictions about the behavior of the HIV-1 virus. Around the world, nearly 38 million people suffer from HIV or AIDS. "Our contribution uses mathematical principles to help guide the scientific community in the right direction," added Marcelo Marcet-Palacios, adjunct professor of medicine in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and co-author. "If our model is correct, then we can begin investigating ways we could block or interrupt the mechanism of viral entry. For example, by using a medication that could cross-link the 'petals' of the structure together to prevent the opening of the particle and thus stopping entry of the viral genome into the host cell." The model is available to anyone, anywhere in the world online. This research is the result of the work of an interdisciplinary team from the fields of biology, mathematics and computing science. One such collaborator is Weijie Sun, Faculty of Science alumnus and a former student of Graves'. "This collaboration made it possible to come up with a new model consistent with previously observed evidence and allowed us to develop a computer program freely accessible online that other scientists around the world can use to recreate our work and further develop this new model," said Sun. "It is incredible what can be achieved in science when experts from different disciplines get together and collaborate." Sun, W., et al. (2019) Mathematical determination of the HIV-1 matrix shell structure and its impact on the biology of HIV-1. PLOS ONE. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224965. Posted in: Molecular & Structural Biology Tags: AIDS, Capsid, Cell, Dentistry, Genome, HIV, HIV-1, Medicine, Research, Virus FSU discovery could open the door to new treatment options for HIV, hepatitis B Study delineates the dynamic MAIT cell response during acute HIV infection New HIV infections among gay and bisexual men in the UK fall by 71 percent Single dose of antibody-based treatment can beat HIV in newborn babies Woman from Chinese city Wuhan lands in Bangkok with mysterious Corona virus infection Experts say source of newly identified virus in China must be found Smoking dormant HIV virus out into the open to develop a cure Scientists reverse HIV latency, take major scientific step toward curative therapies Oldest African DNA on record shines light on the deep human past New Yorkers are being treated sooner after HIV infection, study shows	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526923
__label__wiki	0.93975	0.93975	Boy wants to wear skirt New Jersey - A male high school student can wear a skirt to school after the American Civil Liberties Union reached an agreement with school officials. The ACLU announced the deal on Tuesday. It will allow a Hasbrouck Heights School senior to wear a skirt to protest the school's no-shorts policy. The district's dress code bans shorts between October 1 and April 15, but allows skirts, a policy 17-year-old Michael Coviello believes is discriminatory. "I'm happy to be able to wear skirts again to bring attention to the fact that the ban on shorts doesn't make sense," Coviello said in a statement. The Hasbrouck Heights superintendent, Joseph C Luongo, did not return telephone messages left on Tuesday seeking comment. Coviello first wore a costume-style dress but high school officials told him to go home and change. The district's superintendent then advised the Coviello to purchase everyday dresses and skirts at a retail store, which Coviello did, the ACLU said. But after a few days, he was sent home with a note from his principal saying if he wore a dress, kilt or skirt, he could no longer attend school.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526924
__label__wiki	0.909703	0.909703	Of Monsters and Men and Jake Bugg Rock the World's Only Whiskey and Music Festival in an Irish Distillery Jun 21, 2013, 05:42 ET Bushmills Live: International indie artists take to the stage at age-old distillery BUSHMILLS, Ireland, June 21, 2013 /CNW/ - Global stars including Of Monsters and Men and Jake Bugg, together with friends Foy Vance, Willy Mason and Iain Archer, gave electrifying performances last night at Bushmills Live - the festival of handcrafted whiskey and music which took place among the barrels at the Old Bushmills Distillery. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130621/622694-a ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130621/622694-b ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130621/622694-c ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130621/622694-d ) The intimate two-day festival on Ireland's north coast was attended by just 500 music and whiskey fans from around the world, including attendees from countries spanning from the USA to Bulgaria and Portugal to Russia. Artists more used to playing to crowds of hundreds of thousands, such as Of Monsters and Men and Jake Bugg, performed a series of small gigs in centuries-old buildings at the Old Bushmills Distillery, where the art of whiskey-making has been practiced for generations. Of Monsters and Men's Ragnar Þórhallsson said: "Last night was unlike any other gig we've played before. We have performed in many venues in cities all around the world, but this one, in a whiskey distillery, was something very special. The atmosphere was great and we loved it. We would be honoured to play here again." Jake Bugg added: "I've played many gigs but never thought I'd be playing in a whiskey distillery and it was pretty cool. Good to see my mate Iain Archer - happy birthday." These global superstars were joined by emerging indie artists Bear's Den and Sons and Lovers, together with David C Clements and VerseChorusVerse, recipients of the inaugural Bushmills Live Legacy Fund. This is a trust of £20,000 set up by Bushmills™ Irish Whiskey and Third Bar, an artist development company run by last year's headliner, Snow Patrol's lead singer, Gary Lightbody and Davy Matchett, curators of the fund. Master Distiller at the Old Bushmills Distillery, Colum Egan, said: "This was an incredible night for Bushmills Irish Whiskey and for music lovers. Last night, we welcomed both globally-established artists and emerging talent to our home on Ireland's north coast. Their music, like our whiskey, represents the very best in hand craftsmanship. He added: "It was fantastic to see so many friends come to the distillery, enjoy the music and of course share a glass of Bushmills." For further photographs go to Facebook: http://facebook.com/bushmills1608 Twitter: @BushmillsGlobal Hashtag: #BushmillsLive Tickets to Bushmills Live were not available for sale but were won via a competition on Facebook. To find out more, visit http://facebook.com/bushmills1608. BUSHMILLS LIVE ARTIST INFORMATION About Of Monsters and Men http://www.ofmonstersandmen.com/ About Jake Bugg http://www.jakebugg.com About Willy Mason http://www.willymason.net/ About Bear's Den http://www.musicglue.com/bearsdenmusic/ About Iain Archer http://www.iainarcher.co.uk/modules/news/ About Foy Vance http://www.foyvance.com/ About Sons and Lovers http://www.sons-and-lovers.com/ About David C Clements: http://davidcclements.bandcamp.com/ ABOUT VERSECHORUSVERSE http://soundcloud.com/vcvtony ABOUT BUSHMILLS IRISH WHISKEY With a heritage rooted in authenticity and quality, Bushmills Irish Whiskey is produced, aged and bottled at Ireland's oldest working Whiskey distillery in the village of Bushmills in County Antrim on the far north coast of Ireland. The Old Bushmills Distillery uses 100% malt barley to make triple distilled malt whiskey, which is what creates the rich, mellow and distinct flavour that is the house style. The Bushmills portfolio includes: Bushmills Irish Whiskey; Black Bush, Bushmills 10 Year Old Single Malt, Bushmills 16 Year Old Single Malt, Bushmills 21 Year Old Single Malt, Bushmills 1608 and now Bushmills Irish Honey. BUSHMILLS LIVE VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjyzNFGuRmo To launch the festival, Bushmills commissioned some artisans to make a 3D art installation that depicts the Bushmills Live poster using materials inspired by the handcrafted whiskey and music at the heart of the festival. The master craftsmen who cemented their friendship when creating the stage set for a hugely popular American television epic that was filmed in Belfast - used 254 casks, 250 bottle tops, 30 bottles of whiskey, five metres of AMP wiring and four guitars to handcraft the 10ft by 16ft installation artwork. ABOUT DIAGEO Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine categories. These brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, JεB, Buchanan's, Windsor and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Tanqueray and Guinness. Diageo is a global company, with its products sold in more than 180 countries around the world. The company is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange (DEO) and the London Stock Exchange (DGE). For more information about Diageo, its people, brands, and performance, visit http://www.diageo.com. For Diageo's global resource that promotes responsible drinking through the sharing of best practice tools, information and initiatives, visit http://www.DRINKiQ.com. Celebrating life, every day, everywhere. SOURCE: Bushmills Irish Whiskey Claire Lorimer, [email protected], +44-289039-5512	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526928
__label__cc	0.574464	0.425536	Home Bronx Permits Filed for 668 East Fordham Road in Belmont, The Bronx 6:30 am on December 30, 2019 By Vanessa Londono Permits have been filed for an 11-story mixed-use building at 668 East Fordham Road in Belmont, The Bronx. Located at the corner of Cambreleng Avenue and East Fordham Road, the lot is near the Fordham MetroNorth station and the Fordham Road subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. Shahin Daneshvar under the Shadi Development LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications. Park Haven Apartments Now In Progress at 345 St. Ann’s Avenue in Mott Haven, The Bronx 7:00 am on December 15, 2019 By Sebastian Morris Construction has started on Park Haven Apartments, a new mixed-income apartment complex in Mott Haven, The Bronx. Located at the corner of East 142nd Street and St. Ann’s Avenue, the ten-story building includes 178 residential units, a ground-level grocery store, and community facilities. Renderings Revealed for Approved Residential Building at 1526 Sedgwick Avenue in Morris Heights, The Bronx 7:30 am on November 21, 2019 By Sebastian Morris Permits for a new eight-story residential building in the Morris Heights section of The Bronx were recently approved by the New York City Department of Buildings. Located at 1526 Sedgwick Avenue, the 85-foot-tall structure is designed by J Frankl Associates and will yield 32,980 square feet with 26,800 square feet dedicated to residential use. Phase One of ‘Peninsula’ Breaks Ground in Hunts Point, The Bronx 7:30 am on November 9, 2019 By Sebastian Morris Developers and city officials recently celebrated the commencement of construction at Peninsula, a five-acre mixed-use complex in The Bronx. Located in Hunts Point, the project includes a complete transformation and conversion of the defunct Spofford Juvenile Detention Center. Two Buildings Top Out at La Central’s Sprawling Development in Melrose, The Bronx 7:30 am on September 25, 2019 By Sebastian Morris Construction has topped out on two buildings within La Central, a 1.1-million-square-foot development in the South Bronx. Designed in collaboration by MHG Architects, FXCollaborative, and Future Green Studio, the new structures represent the second phase of La Central’s three-phase masterplan. Second Farms Affordable Housing Development Nears Topping Out at 1932 Bryant Avenue in The Bronx 7:00 am on July 21, 2019 By Sebastian Morris Construction is close to topping out at Second Farms, a new 15-story affordable housing development at 1932 Bryant Avenue in the West Farms neighborhood of The Bronx. With ardent support from local officials and community members, the project is part of a major redevelopment plan from the Archdiocese of New York City to modernize and reinvigorate West Farms, including the creation of up to 2,000 affordable and low-income housing properties. 6:30 am on May 23, 2019 By Vanessa Londono Permits have been filed for an eight-story residential building at 3631 Johnson Avenue in Spuyten Duyvil, The Bronx. Located between West 236th Street and Oxford Avenue, the interior lot is closest to the 238th subway station, serviced by the 1 train. Danny Lau under the Great Gold Summit LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications. Permits Filed for 1432 Vyse Avenue in Charlotte Gardens, The Bronx Permits have been filed for a four-story apartment building at 1432 Vyse Avenue in Charlotte Gardens, The Bronx. Located between Jennings Street and Freeman Street, the interior lot is two blocks north of the Freeman Street subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Jakov Saric under the 1432 Vyse Avenue LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications. Permits Filed for 3401 3rd Avenue in Morrisania, The Bronx 6:30 am on May 5, 2019 By Vanessa Londono Permits have been filed for a ten-story affordable housing building at 3401 3rd Avenue, between East 166th Street and East 167th Street in Morrisania, The Bronx. Comunilife, a non-profit organization that provides housing to homeless adults struggling with HIV/AIDS, serious mental and behavioral health issues, and other chronic medical conditions, is listed as the owner behind the applications. Permits Filed for 831 Forest Avenue in Melrose, The Bronx 6:30 am on April 26, 2019 By Vanessa Londono Permits have been filed for a four-story apartment building at 831 Forest Avenue in Melrose, The Bronx. Located between East 158th Street and East 160th Street, the interior lot is three blocks west of the Prospect Avenue subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Kambiz Yaghoobian under the Forest LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications. Fetching more...	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526929
__label__wiki	0.751588	0.751588	Home » Collection » Duveneck, Frank Frank Duveneck Artist Bibliography Frank Duveneck was born Frank Decker on October 9, 1848, in Covington, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. His parents were German immigrants; in 1849 his father died, and the following year his mother married a businessman named Joseph Duveneck. The artist legally adopted his stepfather's name when he married in 1886, but he had been known as Frank Duveneck since the time of his mother's remarriage. Duveneck began painting in his early teens and he was employed as an assistant to Wilhelm Lamprecht (1838-after 1901), a successful German-born decorator. In 1869, the twenty-one-year-old Duveneck went to Munich, intending to continue his study of church decoration. However, he soon became interested in becoming an easel painter and in 1870 enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied under Alexander Strähuber (1814-1882) and Wilhelm Diez (1839-1907). Duveneck quickly distinguished himself, winning a prize in 1872 that entitled him to the use of a studio of his own. Some of his best works, including the well-known Whistling Boy (1872, Cincinnati Art Museum), date from this period. They are painted in a vigorous style that reflects the influence of Wilhelm Leibl (1844-1900), who was the leader of a group of young German realists strongly influenced by the Frenchman Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). Duveneck was also interested in the Old Masters, especially the Dutch and Flemish painters of the seventeenth century. His early style, with its generally dark colors and expressive brushwork, was a melding of contemporary German practice with Old Master techniques. In 1873, Duveneck returned to Cincinnati and, in the following year, held a small exhibition there of portraits he had painted in Germany. His greatest early success came, however, in Boston in 1875, when an exhibition of his works created a sensation, largely due to the vitality and spontaneity of his painting style. Although encouraged to settle in Boston and paint portraits on commission, Duveneck decided to return to Europe. He set up a studio in Munich and began to develop a substantial reputation among the many Americans studying in the city. Following a trip to Venice in 1877, Duveneck started his own painting school in Munich, which soon attracted numerous artists. His pupils, including such artists as Theodore Wendel (1859-1932), John White Alexander (1856-1915), and John H. Twachtman (1853-1902), came to be known as the "Duveneck Boys." An amusing and informative description of them and their high-spirited activities is found in William Dean Howells' 1886 novel, Indian Summer. Howells had come to know the "Duveneck Boys" in Florence, where their teacher had taken them in 1879. During the next two years, Duveneck and his students remained in Italy, spending the winters in Florence and the summers in Venice. In 1880 Duveneck was elected to the Society of American Artists. Around this time he became interested in etching through his pupil Otto Bacher (1856-1909). His works in this medium are much like those of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), whom Duveneck knew in Venice, and were even thought by some who saw them at a London exhibition in 1881 to be the work of Whistler himself. After 1880, Duveneck's painting style changed, perhaps in response to Italian light and subject matter, and he began using lighter colors and less somber lighting effects. Duveneck married one of his students, Elizabeth Boott, in 1886 and the couple lived outside Florence until 1888. His wife died unexpectedly in 1888 in Paris, and the artist returned to Cincinnati the following year. He taught painting classes there and in Chicago and New York. During the 1890s, Duveneck made frequent visits to Europe. From 1890 on he taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, becoming a regular faculty member in 1900. During the early years of the twentieth century he won many prizes and served on numerous exhibition juries. He was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1905 and made a full member the following year. In 1915 an entire room of his works was shown to great acclaim at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, and he was awarded a Special Gold Medal of Honor. Before his death in Cincinnati on January 2, 1919, the artist donated a large and important group of his works to the Cincinnati Art Museum, which remains the center for Duveneck studies. [This is an edited version of the artist's biography published in the NGA Systematic Catalogue] Heerman, Norbert. Exhibition of the Work of Frank Duveneck. Exh. cat. Cincinnati Art Museum, 1936. Heerman, Norbert. Frank Duveneck. Boston and New York, 1918. Booth, Billy Ray. "A Survey of Portraiture and Figure Paintings by Frank Duveneck." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1970. Duveneck, Josephine W. Frank Duveneck; Painter-Teacher. San Francisco, 1970. Neuhaus, Robert. Unsuspected Genius: The Art and Life of Frank Duveneck. San Francisco, 1987. Quick, Michael. An American Painter Abroad: Frank Duveneck's European Years. Exh. cat. Cincinnati Art Museum, 1987. Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. 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__label__cc	0.744374	0.255626	Home » Exhibitions » Past » 1992 » Käthe Kollwitz May 3 – August 16, 1992 East Building, Mezzanine, Northeast This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery. Overview: 102 drawings and prints and 5 sculptures were loaned from public and private collections. The exhibition was organized as part of the "Tribute to Germany," a Washington-area cultural festival coordinated by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In conjunction with Käthe Kollwitz, on weekends during May and June the Gallery presented lectures and a film series focusing on German expressionist films of the 1920s, and a documentary on the life of Kollwitz. This exhibition was on view concurrently with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, also a part of the "Tribute to Germany" festival. Organization: Dr. Elizabeth Prelinger, assistant professor of fine arts, Georgetown University, was curator in consultation with Judith Brodie, assistant curator of prints and drawings at the National Gallery of Art. Sponsor: The "Tribute to Germany" was supported by Robert Bosch GmbH, Daimler-Benz, The Deutsche Bank Group, Mannesmann AG, Miles Inc., Siemens, Thyssen AG, and the Federal Republic of Germany. Lufthansa German Airlines provided transportation. Additional support was provided by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Attendance: 108,726 Catalog: Käthe Kollwitz, by Elizabeth Prelinger with essays by Alessandra Comini and Hildegard Bachert. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1992. Image: Käthe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait as a Young Woman, c. 1900, pastel on laid paper, Gift of Robert and Chris Petteys, 1995.56.1 Kollwitz, Käthe , 1867 - 1945 exhibition catalog Download a free PDF of the exhibition catalog (PDF 54.04MB)	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526931
__label__wiki	0.671529	0.671529	Home » Press Office » 2015 » The Jolly Flatboatmen George Caleb Bingham's Great American Masterpiece, The Jolly Flatboatmen, is Acquired by the National Gallery of Art, Washington George Caleb Bingham, American (1811 – 1879), The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1846 oil on canvas, 96.8 x 123.2 cm (38 1/8 x 48 1/2 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Patrons’ Permanent Fund. 2015.18.1 Washington, DC—George Caleb Bingham's masterpiece, The Jolly Flatboatmen (1846)—considered one of the greatest American genre paintings ever made—has entered the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Known as "the Missouri artist," Bingham was fascinated with American frontier life and is particularly well known for his paintings of trappers and boatmen along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. The purchase of the painting from the collection of the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation was made possible by the Gallery's Patrons' Permanent Fund. The Jolly Flatboatmen is currently on tour in the exhibition Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, which began last October at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. The exhibition closed at the Saint Louis Art Museum on May 17, and travels to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from June 17 through September 20. The Jolly Flatboatmen will go on view in the National Gallery of Art's West Building in October 2015. "The Jolly Flatboatmen is among the first distinctly American paintings that capture the allure of Western expansion during the mid-19th century," said Earl A. Powell, III, director, National Gallery of Art. "The American masterpiece has had a regular presence at the Gallery since 1956, thanks to the generosity of its past owners, the Pell family and Richard Manoogian. It joins two other outstanding paintings—Mississippi Boatman (1850) and Cottage Scenery (1845)—and two works on paper by Bingham in the Gallery's collection." The painting was also featured in two exhibitions: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection at the National Gallery of Art in 1989, which traveled to San Francisco, New York, and Detroit, and George Caleb Bingham at the Saint Louis Museum of Art and the Gallery in 1990. Born in Virginia in 1811 and raised in Missouri, Bingham began his career as a portrait painter and was largely self-taught. It was not until about 1845 that he began painting his most notable works—genre scenes featuring a wide range of colorful characters that lived and worked on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. These lively compositions remain among the most important portrayals of life at the gateway to the Western frontier. In The Jolly Flatboatmen, Bingham placed his central dancing figure at the apex of a triangular composition. On either side of the dancer, a fiddler plays a tune while another boatman keeps time on a frying pan and the rest of the men lounge on the deck as the boat floats downriver. In the foreground, Bingham included several remarkable still-life elements: a shirt drying in the sun, a coonskin, and a coiled rope. By 1846, when Bingham completed this painting, flatboats were quickly being replaced by steam-powered vessels that could haul freight at significantly faster speeds. The American Art Union, based in New York City, was instrumental in Bingham's artistic career. This organization provided artists not only exhibition space, but also helped to disseminate their art to a broader public. In 1846, the Union purchased The Jolly Flatboatmen and included the work in its annual raffle. The painting was awarded to Benjamin van Schaick, a grocer living in New York. Bingham's spirited river scene became wildly popular through the circulation of printed reproductions, including 10,000 engravings published by the American Art Union in 1847, followed by an additional run of 8,000 from the same plate, published about 1860. Hoping to profit from the original painting's popularity, Bingham completed two additional versions on the theme. The first, Jolly Flatboatmen in Port (1857), now at the Saint Louis Art Museum, repeats the triangular composition with additional figures. The second version, The Jolly Flatboatmen (1877–78), currently in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, is a smaller painting with just seven figures. However, the original composition of The Jolly Flatboatmen remains Bingham's best-known work. After disappearing from view for more than a century, The Jolly Flatboatmen was purchased by William Pell sometime prior to 1954 when it was exhibited at the Saint Louis Art Museum. It remained in the collection of the Pell family and the Pell Family Trust until Richard A. Manoogian purchased the painting in 1986. National Gallery of Art's American Paintings Collection Today the National Gallery of Art's collection of some 1,400 American paintings from the 18th to the early 20th centuries represents the largest holding of any school in the Gallery and is among the top collections in the country. It includes works by nearly every important figure in American painting and many of these artists' greatest masterpieces, from John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark (1778), Rembrandt Peale's Rubens Peale with a Geranium (1801), and Thomas Cole's four-part allegory, The Voyage of Life (1842), to George Inness's The Lackawanna Valley (c. 1856), Winslow Homer's Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) (1873–1876), and George Bellows's Both Members of This Club (1909). The collection also includes George Catlin's Indian paintings, donated by Paul Mellon, and American folk art from the collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. Both gifts total more than 600 paintings, representing more than one-third of the American paintings collection. The recent acquisition of some 226 works from the collection of the former Corcoran Gallery of Art has further enhanced the Gallery's holdings, with outstanding works such as Albert Bierstadt's The Last of the Buffalo (1888), Frederic Edwin Church's Niagara (1857), and Edward Hopper's Ground Swell (1939), plus important works by African Americans, including Aaron Douglas's Into Bondage (1936), genre paintings, and the Gallery's first work by Cecilia Beaux. Order Press Images National Gallery of Art Announces Historic Acquisition of More Than 6,000 Works of Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Laurie Tylec	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526932
__label__wiki	0.547167	0.547167	Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Trial Begins Monday: How He Went From ‘America’s Dad’ to Defendant On Monday, entertainer Bill Cosby will walk into a Norristown, Pennsylvania, courtroom to face trial for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple employee Andrea Constand in January 2004. Whether he walks out a convicted man or an exonerated one is uncertain, experts say. It’s also an open question whether he can resume his career, as he’s publicly said he’d like to do after the trial. On the trial’s first day, actress Keshia Knight Pulliam, who played his daughter Rudy on The Cosby Show, and Johnny Taylor, president of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, will be there to support him, according to Andrew Wyatt, Cosby’s spokesman. Actress Phylicia Rashad is expected to attend as well, Wyatt says. Their appearances are all part of a public relations blitz Cosby has been on in recent weeks. CLICK FOR MORE thecosbyfiles Bill Cosby Criminal Case	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526933
__label__cc	0.702481	0.297519	Standard Search - Authors, Titles and Imprints HOWARD, Philip. The Scriptural History of the Earth and of Mankind, compared with the cosmogonies, chronologies, and original traditions of ancient nations; an exact and review of several modern systems… London: Printed for R. Faulder…1797 4to, pp. vi, (ii), 602, 1 leaf (errata). Half-title (”Thoughts on the Structure of this Globe”). Contemporary tree calf, gilt borders on sides, spine gilt in compartments and with red morocco label (very slightly worn at head), inner gilt dentelles with Greek key pattern, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Le Gendre Pierce Starkie. A lovely copy. FIRST EDITION. Written at a pivotal point in the history of geology, after the publication of Hutton’s Theory of the Earth (1795) but before Playfair’s Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), that is, at a time when no theory had been generally accepted and Biblical theories were still widely current, Howard’s substantial book is a review of some current theories and the exposition of his own. The theories that he reviews are those of Bailly, Buffon, Wallerius and Hutton, in fact this is the first book to discuss Hutton’s fuller theory. His own theory, while based on science, is Mosaical and is intended to be perfectly consistent with the scriptures. Howard’s theory of geology is one of nineteen reviewed Accum (A system of theoretical and practical chemistry, 1807), who devotes an entire page to it. Howard (d. 1810) was of the prominent Roman Catholic family of Howards from Corby Castle in Yorkshire. This work grew out of two letters which he published in French occasioned by a difference of opinion relative to the causes of the formation of mountains between him and his friend the Marquis de Montegny. Unsure of some of these terms? Click here to download a copy of Carter & Barker, ABC for Book Collectors (2006), which has full explanations. Website Built and Managed by Two Blue Toucans Website Built and Managed by Two Blue Toucans	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526934
__label__wiki	0.682511	0.682511	Meet Kelly Schulze ’09, Olivet College’s right hand in the art world Aug 14, 2015 \| OC at Work Olivet College recently had the opportunity to chat with Kelly about her Olivet experience – and how it helped prepare her for the opportunity of a lifetime. Who: Kelly Schulze, 27, is from Kalamazoo. She graduated from Olivet College in 2009 and holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and anthropology from Olivet. Schulze worked as a conservation intern at Historic Royal Palaces and Plowden & Smith Conservation in London, and earned her master’s degree in objects conservation from University College London before joining the staff of the Cincinnati Art Museum in 2014. She has since been working in the museum’s conservation department. What: Schulze and the Cincinnati Art Museum have teamed up to restore and re-install “The Vine,” a bronze statue created by Philadelphia-born artist Harriet Whitney Frishmuth. The sculpture was kept outside in the museum’s Alice Bimel Courtyard, where it was then damaged by wind and rain. Where and When: The Cincinnati Art Museum hosted a public display of Schulze at work from July 7-31. Why: Schulze credits her courses and professors at Olivet for preparing her for the field of conservation. While attending graduate school, Schulze realized conservation “is a mixture of chemistry, archaeology and art.” Describe your role in restoring the famous sculpture, “The Vine”: “This is one of my favorite sculptures at the museum. We have another by Frishmuth on display in our courtyard, and we have a few more in storage in need of conservation. With the exception of ‘The Vine,’ which is life-size, the other sculptures are smaller but all are female nudes modeled after dancers.” How do you prepare for such a restoration? How does one restore and revive a statute worn by nature’s elements? “‘The Vine’ was last treated in 2003, but due to her problematic surface she was in need of conservation again. My stages of treatment were to clear loose corrosion, remove old wax coatings, patinate, if necessary, and re-wax. The wax coatings had been applied to protect the surface from snow and rain, but she had very thick coatings that were obscuring some of the surface detail, so I wanted to remove it to get good documentation of her unaltered surface. I did a lot of testing for cleaning, wax removal, and patination before treatment began, which was a big part of the process. I really had to decide what I should remove, what I shouldn’t remove, research conservation of similar sculptures and talk to other conservation professionals. The treatment ended up taking three weeks, and I didn’t need to repatinate. It went really well. I think she looks great now!” How did Olivet College help prepare you for the art world? “Susanne Lewis, Ph.D., (associate professor of chemistry) helped me do an independent study focusing on the chemistry of conservation, and Cynthia Noyes, J.D., (professor of sociology/anthropology) helped me get a field-archaeology internship. The collaboration between the two departments was really helpful. The experience I got through Olivet helped me get accepted into the graduate course at University College London. The faculty at Olivet are really great. I am positive I wouldn’t be where I am now without the dedication of Susanne and Cynthia; they were really invested in helping me succeed.” What are others saying about Schulze? We also had the chance to speak to Museum Chief Conservator Serena Urry, who worked on the overall treatment for the sculpture. She decided to have the restoration take place outside. It seems you had a bigger idea for showcasing the work Schulze had been doing on “The Vine.” Could you tell us about that? “I decided that we should invite the public to observe the conservation and provide conservation information, since it was going to be done in public view,” Urry said. “Our public is always interested in our work at the museum. Other issues were making sure Kelly had supplied her project well, with the appropriate solvents and materials, with appropriate safety equipment (and sunscreen!), etc. She handled many of the scaffolding issues herself as it was being set up, with the help of our carpentry and installation staff.” In addition to her current conservation work, what will Schulze be doing at the museum in the future? “As assistant conservator of objects, and as the sole objects conservator at the museum, Kelly is responsible for sculpture conservation, and that includes our outdoor sculptures,” Urry continued. “She also maintains the sculptures, with annual or biannual cleaning and waxing. That will now include continued maintenance of ‘The Vine.’” To see more images of “The Vine” and Schulze at work, visit http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526940
__label__wiki	0.815722	0.815722	US Travel Group Omega World Travel to Promote Bahrain A world-renowned US travel group yesterday pledged to promote Bahrain as a tourism, conference and business destination. Omega World Travel, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, will undertake the promotion through its Bahrain office and its 200 offices around the world. Bahrain is an exciting place, which is in the centre of a growing area, said Omega president and chief executive officer Gloria Bohan, who is on a business visit. "My first visit to Bahrain was in 1974 to meet a friend who worked for the US Embassy," she told the GDN. "A country which had not developed its infrastructure then is now one of the world's most developed countries. "Bahrain International Circuit, Bahrain International Exhibition Centre and other conference facilities are among the factors which can attract international tourists and companies to Bahrain." Omega, which registered sales worth $1.3 billion (BD491m), handled more than three million airline customers last year. "Many of them are corporate customers and business leaders who can be encouraged to look at Bahrain and benefit from its progressive policies aimed at attractive foreign direct investment," said Ms Bohan, who is accompanied by managing director Goran Gligorovic. They are expected to meet Crown Prince and BDF Commander-in-Chief Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa today. Specialised travel agents are still in great demand around the world despite an increase in online bookings, said Mr Gligorovic. "Unmanaged travel results in 30 percent more unnecessary spending than managed travel," he noted. "Travel agents should now take up the role of consultants, who can help corporate clients and VIP travel, complicated international travel, and quality control." Omega, which was established by Ms Bohan in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1972, is now the third largest travel agency in the US and is the largest travel agency founded, operated and majority-owned by a woman. The company has more than 150 branches in the US, six in Japan and offices in the UK, Germany, Bahrain, Kuwait. It is in the process of opening an outlet in Qatar. Ms Bohan was named Travel Agent of the Year in 2004 by the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA). "Omega's business is driven by technology, and this commitment has resulted in the creation of a new company within the Omega group - TravTech.com," said Ms Bohan. "We have now diversified our operations with cruise services and into the most sophisticated areas like space tourism and zero gravity travel.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526942
__label__wiki	0.656864	0.656864	Senate debates What are Senate debates? Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill 2005 [2006] In Committee See the whole debate « Previous speaker Next speaker » Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this \| Hansard source The Greens oppose schedules 2 and 3 in the following terms: (1) Schedule 2, item 5, page 26 (lines 11 to 25), TO BE OPPOSED. (2) Schedule 3, item 3, page 31 (line 30) to page 32 (line 13), TO BE OPPOSED. This effectively opposes the relevant parts of the legislation that allow the defence forces to be called out. I will quote from proposed section 51G: Restriction on certain utilisation of Defence Force In utilising the Defence Force— that is, the Prime Minister utilising the Defence Force— in accordance with section 51D, the Chief of the Defence Force must not stop or restrict any protest, dissent, assembly or industrial action, except where there is a reasonable likelihood of the death of, or serious injury to, persons or serious damage to property. If you condense that down to just property, the Chief of the Defence Force, acting on the direction of the Prime Minister, can intervene on a protest by Australians where he or she thinks there is a reasonable chance of serious damage to property. In other words, the Prime Minister can have the Chief of the Defence Force send troops into action against Australians who are protesting on any account. There is no big protest in Australia, there is no great civil protest in this country—not the Vietnam moratoriums, not the Franklin or other great conservation stoushes, not dissent on the wharves, even though there is explicit apparent exclusion for industrial disputation in this legislation—that has not involved what could be perceived by the Prime Minister or the head of Defence of the day as a serious threat to property, whether you are looking at the riots in Launceston against the railway fares to Deloraine in the 1870s or recent opposition to industrial law, which saw the breaking of the doors at the front of this building. The provisions in here are for the Prime Minister—and, indeed, the Treasurer of the day, if the Prime Minister is away—to call out the troops against Australians without the say-so of the state government involved, overriding section 119 of the Constitution. This is inherently dangerous legislation and it is not necessary. Surely the caveat that the state Premier or the state executive involved has to give assent is a very sensible one. That is why it is in the Constitution. Undoubtedly that was negotiated because the states explicitly did not want legislation where the Commonwealth—which took the power to have defence forces when the states’ defence forces were dissolved at the time of Federation—had the power to intervene in the states with troops against Australians, without the authority of the state government, without, indeed, the request of the state government. But here we are today riding roughshod over that very sensible balance of power, that check on federal executive power written into the Constitution—or attempting to, because the Constitution is not changed by the law of this country. But what I think is extraordinary here today is that both the big parties—the coalition and the Labor Party—are prepared to try to legislate against that constitutional check in defence of Australians. It is the right of all Australians to protest and it is the right of the defence forces never to be called out against Australians except in the most extraordinary circumstances, and there is a check put in there that the state executive has to request it before it can happen. That is swept aside by the Labor Party supporting the coalition in this legislation. And, presumably because the two big parties agree to it, there is very little conjecture in the press, and the public out there does not know this legislation is passing the parliament in this way today. Here we have it: if the Treasurer or the Prime Minister think that there is a serious threat to property from a protest somewhere in Australia they can call out troops. They do not have to see whether the police in that state are able to handle the situation first. They may consult with the Premier but do not have to take any notice. They may consult with the state executive but do not have to do anything more than that. This legislation is not needed. Let me stress here again: were you to accept that all the powers given to the defence forces in this legislation could be necessary in some terrorist situation in our country in the coming months or years, you would have to question why it is not wise to stick with the constitutional provision that the state executive involved should give assent or call for the use of troops under those circumstances. If COAG has agreed to it, that does not change my argument one bit. I think the political system—the two-big-party system—is letting down the Australian people here today. The opposition is failing in its duty to protect the fundamental right of Australians to not have the defence forces brought out against them on the pretext that there is an inherent threat to property. There does not have to be damage to property, according to this legislation; it just has to be that the Prime Minister or the head of the Defence Force perceives that there could be. I explained earlier how that is exactly the situation that arose in the Franklin campaign, and it would be exactly the same situation that you could point to in a hundred other circumstances in this nation’s history where citizens have protested to improve the future of the country but the Prime Minister of the day may not have agreed. The effect of these amendments is to empower the submission to the Senate by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission that I mentioned earlier, that this legislation impermissibly widens the circumstances in which the defence forces are authorised to use lethal force to kill Australians. We must remember here that the Nuremberg trials’ dismissal of the ‘I was carrying out orders’ defence is overturned by this legislation. So, if a Defence Force member or members do kill Australians in a protest situation, they can plead that they were taking orders. We are not debating that. There will be no debate here. It is just accepted by the opposition that we should write that into law. It is quite extraordinary that that is happening. On behalf of the Greens, I object wholeheartedly, fundamentally and very deeply to what is happening with the passage of this piece of legislation. I think that if Australian citizens knew about this, many, many Australians, who are proud of our defence forces, would not want them to be able to be used politically against fellow Australian citizens. I can tell you, Mr Temporary Chairman, we all know that people in the defence forces do not want to be put in that situation either, and nor should they be—that is why we have police forces. But here the defence forces can be used as a police force against Australian people for a political reason, and could claim to be legal because this legislation says so. There is no inherent extra protection against terrorism in the extraordinary extra powers this legislation gives to the Prime Minister to deploy the defence forces. Those extra powers, including the right to kill to defend property from a threat to violence—not real violence but a threat to violence—go way beyond the pale. That is why the Greens amendment, while it does not remove all the offence of this bill, is essential to at least qualify it.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526943
__label__cc	0.504273	0.495727	Industry awards and natural justice Much excitement elsewhere about two UK music industry award bashes this week. The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards are run 'in association with BBC Radio 3', while the Classical Brit Awards are 'supported by Classic FM radio and its sister publication Classic FM Magazine'. Both events allow the great and good of the music industry to indulge their passion for self-congratulation and rubber chicken while boosting radio audiences. One of the categories for the BBC supported RPS Awards is 'Creative Communication', which includes books. That great composer, musicologist and BBC producer Robert Simpson, whose Ninth Symphony features on the CD seen above, wrote a very important book in 1980. The Proms & Natural Justice was highly critical of the BBC's music programming policies. It was an influential book that was admired by many, including long-time BBC employee Sir Adrian Boult, who provided the foreword. Let's imagine for a moment that Robert Simpson's book had been published in 2009. Would anyone like to speculate on its chances of being nominated for an RPS award? Those Simpsons are cult classics. My Hyperion CD of Robert Simpson's Ninth Symphony was bought at retail price. Any copyrighted material on these pages is included as "fair use", for the purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s). Report errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk Posted by Pliable at Friday, May 15, 2009 Labels: BBC Radio 3, classic fm, classical brits, robert simpson, royal philharmonic society awards, sir adrian boult Pliable said... To help understand the various hidden agendas it is probably worth pointing out that the publisher of Classic FM magazine also publishes Gramophone.http://www.haymarket.com/sector/classical_music/default.aspx In view of what is going on in Parliament right now it is worth quoting these words from the BBC website - The Freedom of Information Act does not apply to the BBC in the way it does to almost all public authorities in one significant respect. The Act recognises the different position of the BBC, as well as the other public service broadcasters covered by the Act (Channel 4, S4C and the Gaelic Media Service) by providing that it covers information "held for purposes other than those of journalism, art or literature". This means that the Act does not apply to material held for the purposes of creating the BBC's output (TV, radio, online etc), or material which supports and is closely associated with these creative activities.http://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/publication_scheme/excluded.shtml An African-American in Moscow Strange but true - Beethoven retired to Saudi Arabia So let's talk about keyboard skills in China Philippa Schuyler - genius or genetic experiment? Classical music's biggest problem is that no one cares New Overgrown Path posts can be received via RSS/email. Simply enter your address below Top Posts Last 12 Months Classical music is not connecting with its rewired audience From Persia with love Classic Rock reinvented The Berlin Philharmonic's darkest hour Search On An Overgrown Path Top Posts All Time Classical musician's brave journey from Mozart to Morisco Jonathan Harvey on the record Aaron Copland's McCarthy Hearing	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526947
__label__cc	0.630506	0.369494	Romanticism (1) Ceramics and Pottery (1) Textiles and Embroidery x Nineteenth-Century Art x Debschitz, Wilhelm von A. Ziffer (b Görlitz, Feb 21, 1871; d Lüneburg, March 10, 1948). German designer, painter, teacher and theorist. A self-taught artist, he made several study trips to Italy and the Tyrol. In painting he found inspiration in late German Romanticism, before turning to the English Arts and Crafts Movement. His designs were exhibited in 1899 at the exhibition of the Bayerische Kunstgewerbeverein (Munich, Glaspal.) and in 1901 at the first Ausstellung für Kunst im Handwerk in Munich. In 1902 he founded the Lehr- und Versuch-Atelier für Angewandte und Freie Kunst with the Swiss artist Hermann Obrist, developing a modern co-educational teaching system based on reformist pedagogy and popular psychology. In preliminary courses, classes and workshops, a broad practical training was offered primarily in arts and crafts. This precursor of the Bauhaus encouraged contact with dealers and collectors and was widely accoladed. When Obrist resigned from the school in 1904, Debschitz founded the Ateliers und Werkstätten für Angewandte Kunst and the Keramischen Werkstätten production centres attached to the school. In ... Dresser, Christopher Rosamond Allwood (b Glasgow, July 4, 1834; d Mulhouse, Alsace, Nov 24, 1904). Scottish designer, Botanist and writer. He trained at the Government School of Design, Somerset House, London, between 1847 and 1854, during which time he was strongly influenced by the design reform efforts of Henry Cole, Richard Redgrave and Owen Jones. In 1854 he began to lecture at the school on botany and in 1856 supplied a plate illustrating the ‘geometrical arrangement of flowers’ for Jones’s Grammar of Ornament. In 1857 he presented a series of lectures at the Royal Institution entitled ‘On the Relationship of Science to Ornamental Art’, which he followed up in a series of 11 articles in the Art Journal (1857–8) on the similar subject of ‘Botany as Adapted to the Arts and Art-Manufacture’. His first three books were on botanical subjects, and in 1860 he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Jena for his research in this area. Following the International Exhibition of ...	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526948
__label__wiki	0.581433	0.581433	In This Article Isabella d’Este Patronage, Collecting, Studiolo Correspondence and Network Relations with Writers and Artists Employee and Court Relations Contemporary Literary References Fictional Treatments Deanna Shemek Isabella d’Este (b. 1474–d. 1539) was the eldest child of Ercole I d’Este (b. 1431–d. 1505), second duke of Ferrara, and Duchess Eleonora d’Aragona (b. 1450–d. 1493). Raised in luxury and privilege, she was educated by humanists in a city that boasted an exceptionally refined court culture and one of Europe’s greatest universities. In 1490 she married Francesco II Gonzaga (b. 1466–d. 1519), Marchese of Mantua, and entered that city in triumph as its new princess. As Marchesa, she displayed extraordinary skills in management, diplomacy, and Politics, often counseling her husband and at times assuming the reins of government. All of Isabella and Francesco’s six children attained important positions among the European elite (See Family Relations). She is mainly remembered for her achievements not as a ruler, however, but as a collector of art and antiquities and the first woman in Europe to fashion a personalized gallery space in which to display her acquisitions. She called these rooms her studiolo and grotta, or her camerini. Her apartments also housed an impressive book collection, the musical instruments she was adept at playing, and other luxury items she collected (See Patronage, Collecting, Studiolo and Exhibition Catalogues). Her portraitists include Andrea Mantegna, Francesco Francia, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, and Rubens. A woman of tremendous energies and intelligence, Isabella cultivated relationships with many writers and composers of her time. She also devoted notable attention to fashion, travel, gardening, food production and exchange, and the keeping of animals. Given her wide range of interests, her keen intelligence, and her extraordinarily active public profile, Isabella d’Este has often been regarded as a female version of the period’s “Renaissance men.” Her multifaceted life is recorded most visibly in the archive of her correspondence, now housed in the Archivio di Stato di Mantova (ASMn), where many thousands of her letters survive along with a wealth of official documents related to her court. Isabella d’Este’s art collections now reside in museums around the world, chief among these the Paris Louvre and the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum. Reference resources on Isabella d’Este refer overwhelmingly to the ASMn, although documents from her childhood are also housed in the Archivio di Stato di Modena (ASMo). The Gonzagas were unusual in that they transcribed much of their outgoing correspondence in copybooks (copialettere), filing it systematically along with incoming letters and important state documents. The ASMn is, therefore, an essential and extraordinarily powerful research tool for all primary scholarship on Isabella d’Este, as well as on many who came into contact with her through familial, patronage, and political relations. The relevant print guide to the ASMn is Luzio 1922, while Lorenzoni 1979 gives an excellent, synthetic overview of all Isabellian materials in the ASMn. The online IDEA: Isabella d’Este Archive enables virtual access to a growing body of materials associated with Isabella, both archival and secondary; many of these are in English. Este 2017 gives readers of English access to a large selection of Isabella’s correspondence, covering every aspect of her life. Tamalio 1999 is a comprehensive, international bibliography of scholarship focused on the Gonzagas. Brown and Lorenzoni 1982 and Brown, et al. 2002 (cited under Patronage, Collecting, Studiolo) contain transcriptions of letters regarding specific aspects of Isabella’s collecting. Campbell 2006 supplies an English translation of one important part of Stivini 2003, the inventory of Isabella’s possessions made shortly after her death. Tamalio 2004 is a concise encyclopedia article in Italian, while James 2009 serves a similar function for readers of English. Campbell, Stephen. “Appendix One. The Library of the Studiolo.” In The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d’Este. By Stephen Campbell, 270–279. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. Alphabetically organized collation, translated into English, of two inventories of the books held in Isabella’s studiolo. There follows an Italian transcription of one of these inventories. Este, Isabella d’. Selected Letters. Edited and translated by Deanna Shemek. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2017. A total of 830 full-text, annotated letters by Isabella d’Este. Includes glossary of more than 1,000 names, genealogical charts, analytical indexes, and biographical introductions to each decade. Essential. IDEA: Isabella d’Este Archive. Online resource in English and Italian for study of the Italian Renaissance through the figure of Isabella d’Este. Interactive projects include IDEA Documents, IDEA Music, and IDEA Ceramics, as well as informational pages about various aspects of Isabella’s life and times. James, Carolyn. “Isabella d’Este.” In The Literary Encyclopedia. Edited by Jo Ann Cavallo. New York: Literary Dictionary, 2009. Brief and accessible, this essay makes a fine starting point for English speakers wishing to investigate the life and significance of Isabella d’Este. Available only to users affiliated with paying institutional subscribers. Lorenzoni, Anna Maria. “Contributo allo studio delle fonti isabelliane dell’Archivio di Stato di Mantova.” Atti e Memorie dell’Accademia Virgiliana di Mantova 47 (1979): 97–135. An indispensable starting point for beginning archival research on Isabella d’Este. Locates and identifies relevant content in the ASMn, including helpful guidance regarding the many types of sources within the Archive. Luzio, Alessandro, ed. L’Archivio Gonzaga di Mantova. Vol. 2, La corrispondenza familiare, amministrativa e diplomatica. Verona, Italy: A. Mondadori, 1922. Catalogue of holdings in the Archivio di Stato di Mantova. Preceded by historical-analytical essay. An essential guide to primary research on Isabella d’Este written by the early-20th-century director of the ASMn. Partially available online. Anastatic reprint in 1993 (Mantua, Italy: Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana). Stivini, Odoardo. Le Collezioni Gonzaga: L’inventario dei beni del 1540–1542. Edited by Daniela Ferrari. Milan: Silvana, 2003. Essential for scholars interested in domestic life at court as well as those concerned with the history of collecting. Comprehensively edited and furnished with a glossary of terms, it contains the inventory of Gonzaga belongings that was made one year after Isabella’s death. Organized by rooms in each palace. Includes lists of Isabella’s books, furniture, clothing, linens, and much more. Tamalio, Raffaele. La Memoria dei Gonzaga: Repertorio bibliografico gonzaghesco, 1473–1999. Biblioteca della Bibliografia Italiana 158. Florence: Olschki, 1999. A total of 3,860 entries organized chronologically by date of publication cover studies of the main and cadet branches of the Gonzaga family. Eighty-six of these concern Isabella d’Este. Includes name and topic indexes. Tamalio, Raffaele. “Isabella d’Este, marchesa di Mantova.” In Dizionario biografico degli Italiani. Vol. 62. Edited by Raffaele Romanelli, 2004. Substantial and reliable entry in a principal reference work on figures of Italian history.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526949
__label__wiki	0.808539	0.808539	McCarthy: 'I still feel good about our football team' Coach talks about Seattle game, new practice regimen and more in annual Q&A McCarthy: 'I still feel good about our football team' Coach talks about Seattle game, new practice regimen and more in annual Q&A Check out this story on packersnews.com: http://pck.rs/1tP8neH Pete Dougherty, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 5:10 p.m. CT Sept. 13, 2014 \| Updated 8:21 p.m. CT Sept. 13, 2014 Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy looks on during the Sept. 4 game against the Seattle Seahawks at CenturyLink Field in Seattle.(Photo: Evan Siegle/Press-Gazette Media) After the Green Bay Packers' preseason finale against the Kansas City Chiefs two weeks ago, coach Mike McCarthy said this was the best he's felt about his team coming out of training camp in his nine seasons as coach. The Packers then went out to Seattle to play the defending Super Bowl champion Seahawks in last week's NFL Thursday night opener and were beaten badly, 36-16. So had McCarthy badly misjudged his team's preparedness? What went wrong? "After the game in Seattle you reflect back," McCarthy said in an extended one-on-one interview with Press-Gazette Media on Friday. "The quality of practice was where it needed to be. I thought the preseason games we got better each week, that's what I always look for. So I don't question that part of it." McCarthy, as he had the day after the game, said one of the team's main problems was the slow communication from the sideline to the players, especially on defense. The Packers had practiced functioning in noise regularly in camp, but those issues in the din at CenturyLink Field ended up limiting their personnel and scheme changes in the second half. "I felt really good about our team going into it, and I still feel good about our football team," McCarthy said. "There are things we didn't do well in the game, obviously they're correctable. But I think the things we did as far as communication and the way that went was so out of character for us. Our game management, our boundary communication, I always thought that was a real strength of how we operate. We weren't in sync." Before the opener each season, McCarthy conducts one-on-one interviews with several local media outlets. This year he postponed them until Week 2 because the Packers played early in the opening week. On Friday, Press-Gazette Media interviewed McCarthy in his office for about 30 minutes. Following is the bulk of the transcript of that conversation. Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy during training camp practice at Ray Nitschke Field in July. (Photo: H. Marc Larson/Press-Gazette Media) Why did you think your team was so far along by the end of camp? McCarthy: Because our quality of work this camp was probably our best. Just the grades of the practices. The mental errors were way down compared to prior years. You have to give the CRIC (i.e., the team's new conditioning, rehab and instruction center located adjacent to the locker room) and the veteran players and the coaching staff credit for that. There was just a lot of statistical characters that pointed to that. Here's something for you. Every year we have a montage video we show the night before the first game. Basically it's the preseason highlights. (Team video director) Chris Kirby does the highlight tape. When we were building it up for the day-of-the-game meeting, he goes, 'Mike, we've never had this many highlights. I can't get all these into the video.' I said, 'Hell, make it longer.' There's another (piece of evidence). That tells you something. Now I'm not saying I'm going to hang my hat on it, 'OK, we have more video highlights than we've ever had, we're going to kick's Seattle's (butt).' That's not the point. But it kind of reinforced what you felt about your team. When you talk about communication problems in Seattle, are you talking about in coaches' and designated player's headsets? McCarthy: Yeah, just the speed of it. To me, communication is from the starting point to the ending point. The ending point is to make sure everybody gets (the call) and how they get it, the timing of it. It just has to flow. We didn't get into a real rhythm there defensively. Our second half start on offense probably was more something else. We've addressed it, we've been accountable for it. It's not an excuse. It will be better, it needs to be better, and it always has been better. I was disappointed because I felt we were ready for the environment, let alone the (Seahawks) football team. With your new practice schedule in camp set up to avoid injuries, do you think you were on the practice field less than other teams? Was that a factor in the loss at Seattle? McCarthy: I don't compare notes. Not to be egotistical. You have a general idea of what other people do, you get enough information. It gives you a check and balance. We have a nine-year history here now of how many reps we practiced. My concern has always been, are we practicing enough now compared to the old days? The quality of practice in this new training regimen is higher. How we're stressing the team out during the course of practice is segmented better, so it's healthier. But as far as the time on the field is less — I wouldn't be able to do that if I didn't have the CRIC. See the CRIC is a huge asset for teaching. You (used to) go down (to the practice field) and have a 24-play or 36-play walkthrough and then go into practice. That now goes in the CRIC. Now you're on the practice field 20, 30 minutes less. That's one of the biggest changes. You can spend more time on the audio-visual, the film. It gives more time to be creative with your teaching, and less time on the field. ... At the end of the day you have to get your work done. We're going to get this much work done (he holds his hands about a foot apart). Now how we do it is what's most important. It really starts in the offseason. In the offseason program you were able to get so much done, now you're not. To me, training camp is so much more important than it's ever been, and you have less time. I've always felt the offseason program is where you can gain an advantage in advancing your team. That's where we've been limited. That's the new world we're in. Over the summer you hired Adam Korzun as team nutritionist. Has he made a difference yet? “It’s like everything in this business, you can’t teach ’em everything in the first year, but you know something? Let’s try. The old adage that you have to learn to be a pro. Well, we have to teach ’em to be a pro.” McCarthy: I think you'll see those over the long term. That's something after the season we'll look back. The difference you'll see, you won't see it in the older guys. Aaron Rodgers had a great analogy after a couple weeks in this. He goes, 'What you're doing is awesome, because in hindsight, it takes you three, four, five years to really learn your body and really get accustomed to pro football.' Unfortunately, some guys don't have three or four or five years. So we're now making it mandatory to do it for everybody from Day One. It's mandatory that you have to get soft-tissue activation treatments. Before it was always there but you did it after your meetings or after you were done on Fridays. The more experienced guys were in tune with that. Now we're teaching it from Day One. It's like everything in this business, you can't teach 'em everything in the first year, but you know something? Let's try. The old adage that you have to learn to be a pro. Well, we have to teach 'em to be a pro. And there's certain things you have to mandate." You changed the daily practice schedule (moving much of the jog-through work to the end of practice) and made a somewhat radical change in the the regular-season practice week (flip-flopping Fridays and Saturdays). Why this year? Why not last year? McCarthy: They talked about the (football facility) expansion years ago. Then we went into the recession and they didn't do it. Then we did it here — we got in there last Thanksgiving. This facility has had a lot to do with my openness to change. Change to change, I've never been built that way. I'm not going to change just because someone else had success doing it. We're going to look at it, and that's the responsibility of our medical, training staff. They need to be on the forefront. Those guys take trips every offseason, they do research and development. We're very aware what's out there in other sports. (Strength and conditioning coach) Mark Lovat has had strong relationships in Australia for years. You have to do it that way. We were the first to do some things. It's because we felt strong about it. Some of the things other people do, we don't agree with. But they've got some great ideas, we've looked into them and said, 'Hey, we're using them.' It's been evident just the way our building is changing. It's going to change some more this offseason, there's some more construction going on down there. Some of the practice changes were to reduce injuries after a seeming epidemic over the last few seasons. Last year in camp your players combined to miss more than 300 practices because of injuries. This year it was 164, or about half. Do you think the changes worked? McCarthy: Well, we practiced less. We had two less practices this year if my numbers are right, because we started (camp) late and had to play the early game. We gave up the first preseason game because of the construction out here (on Oneida Street). Tennessee had control of it and wanted to play on Saturday. If we'd have had that first (preseason) game, we'd have been playing Thursday night just to get all the practice in. That's the other reason I went to the Family Night practice (rather than scrimmage), it just doesn't flow. You have to get all your installs in, that's all part of it. I think hydration is a big part of (injury prevention). To be honest we only had one heat practice, so things kind of fell nice for us this year. I thought it was a pretty seamless training camp as far as the environment. You eliminated Friday practice and moved it to a shorter version on Saturday. What do the players do on Fridays now? McCarthy: There will be a lifting segment, there will be a meeting segment, then there will be a CRIC segment for offense, defense and special teams. Then from 12:30, we call it the STAY program — soft tissue activation. At 12:30 the STAY program kicks in. It's an hour and a half, two hours. There's a menu of things they're mandated to go through. Massages, you name it. It's a different world down there. I can't even walk through there sometimes. I just can't believe I'm in a pro football facility. Coach Mike McCarthy of the Green Bay Packers yells out to the officials during the third quarter of the season opener against the Seattle Seahawks at Century Link Field in Seattle. (Photo: Getty Images) You're winless in your last six games combined against San Francisco and Seattle, the top two teams in the NFC the last two seasons. Both have premier defenses and fast, athletic quarterbacks who run the read option. Is there something about those matchups that is especially difficult for your team? McCarthy: No. 1, I don't know if there's ever been a dynamic football team that didn't have a great defense. I still believe defense wins championships. Our best defensive year here was 2010, and we know the result there. In '07 it was a good football team, that was a very strong defense. The common thread there is you're talking about two teams that have been in the top, what, three in defense the last couple years? There are a lot of teams that probably have that type of record against them. The read option is part of the trends in football. It's a trend for some teams. I think San Francisco caught us big time (with the read option) in that playoff game (in the '12 season). We didn't handle it very well, we didn't respond to it very well. Speaking of defense, yours has been rebuilding since 2011, and this year you added some 4-3 elements to Dom Capers' 3-4 scheme. How is that change going and what did you think of it in the loss to Seattle? (The Seahawks scored 36 points and had 398 yards in total offense.) McCarthy: A little bit of (the problem last week) has been the product of not running (the 4-3) in the preseason (games). It's that risk you take. We all do it, sometimes more than others. Offensively you try not to show something, then you go out in the first game and think it's going to be great, and it's not game-ready. That's the balance you have to find. I think that was a little bit of our issue. To me, we're using schemes that we feel best utilizes our players' skills, and we're going to continue to do that. I feel great about the approach we're taking defensively. Would you have been better off using the 4-3 in the preseason games even though that would have meant showing it to your regular-season opponents? Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy. (Photo: File/Getty Images) McCarthy: You can make that argument, yeah. The issue more than the execution was we were late getting the communication in. Our issue in that package was more about the communication, it wasn't really the scheme or the technique. If we tackle well, we're probably not even talking about it now. Earlier in your time with the Packers, you changed offensive skill personnel after almost every play. With the no-huddle you're mostly running now there's not much substituting. Why is that on balance good for your team? McCarthy: You're giving up personnel variation for speed and tempo. (It's) because of our quarterback and the maturity of our players. It gives us more attempts at the plate, it gives us more opportunities. And it's keeping our best personnel on the field more. Are you still calling plays in the no-huddle or is Aaron Rodgers doing most of that? McCarthy: I'm still calling the plays, but it's really how things are formatted. He has the toughest job. He has the biggest responsibility because of what goes on at the line of scrimmage. Why are you willing to cede all that responsibility to him? McCarthy: Because he's excellent at it. This is something we've been developing in the last three or four years. He's excellent at it. Real strength of his. How is your relationship with him, and how has that evolved in the last few years? McCarthy: It's good. It's amazing how time flies by. We have a meeting every Thursday afternoon. It's whatever percentage professional and the other personal. It's interesting the conversations about our personal lives, how much it changes from five or six years ago. We have a great relationship. Life changes. My life's changed, his life has changed. He's a very interesting young man. He's very blessed and he has a big heart. He does a lot of things for a lot of people. I'm very proud of him. General manager Ted Thompson recently signed a contract extension believed to run through the 2018 season. Your contracts always have been negotiated to match in years. Is your contract extension finished, or are you close? McCarthy: Business affairs are always — I never really talk about other people's, and I'm not going to talk about mine, either. When those type of things are going on during the season, they're challenging. I have nothing to report. History shows that the records of top NFL coaches, including all-time greats such as Don Shula and George Halas, decline after they've been with a team for 10 to 12 years. You're in your ninth season. What do you make of that, and is there a shelf life for a coach with one team? McCarthy: I think the theory of a shelf life is something you have to look at. But I think it's like anything, you have to look at the specifics. There's also a study about percentage of wins after a coach wins the Super Bowl. It usually goes (down). Our winning percentage here (since winning the Super Bowl in the '10 season) has gone up. You have to look at the program. We haven't stayed the same. We've been creative. Innovative. We have a lot of consistencies and strengths and resources that can continue to grow. I just feel that as long as we can continue to grow, we're going to be very successful here. You're 50 years old, can you see coaching into your 60s? “I love coaching. I’ll probably always coach. I feel sorry for my two younger daughters, because they’re probably going to end up having me as their coach in something.” McCarthy: Heck, yeah. I love it. I love coaching. I'll probably always coach. I feel sorry for my two younger daughters, because they're probably going to end up having me as their coach in something. I love coaching. I love Green Bay. I love the Packers. But what also makes this place so special is the people. There's nothing like this place. The people you walk in and see every day, it's priceless. You have to win, and I hope to be winning here for a long time. Ever talk to Ted about being more active in free agency? McCarthy: You have to remember, I'm in there, I'm part of the (decision-making) process, too, so I understand what goes on. Why things happen and they don't happen. I'm very comfortable with our personnel. I love our team. What do you think of the Packers retiring Brett Favre's number next year? McCarthy: I think it's awesome. It's well-deserved. I'm glad we're finally doing it. Just communicating with him, it's going to be great to get him back up here. It's a day everybody is looking forward to. Have you talked to him since he was here the first week of camp in '08? McCarthy: Yeah, we've been in communication. McCarthy: I don't want to get into that, that's personal. He's doing great. Looks great. He's a triathlete now. I think so. I know Deanna is, and he's pretty active with it. — pdougher@pressgazettemedia.com and follow him on Twitter @PeteDougherty.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526950
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__label__wiki	0.780823	0.780823	A Reporter’s Search for the Truth About Cluster-Munition Deaths https://nyti.ms/33SeaIB John Ismay in Iraq in a field hit by BLU-97s.Credit...via John Ismay By John Ismay At War is a newsletter about the experiences and costs of war. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every Friday. Have you ever heard a story that you just can’t shake? Something that bothered you to no end until you looked up everything you could find about it? That happened to me in the summer of 2003, during my first week of training at the Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal school in Florida. We were learning that if we studied hard and paid attention, we could very likely defuze most any weapon in the world given the right equipment — with one notable exception: the BLU-97 bomblet. These submunitions, which look like bright yellow tallboy cans of beer, gave our instructor pause. Like other models, they were released hundreds at a time from individual cluster bombs and failed to explode about 20 percent of the time when they hit the ground in combat conditions. But unlike other bomblets, the BLU-97’s fuse was so sensitive that the only safe thing to do with a “dud,” or a bomblet that failed to explode when it hit the ground, was to blow it up in place without touching it. “We call these things the engineer killers,” he said. “Back in Desert Storm, a bunch of Army engineers got killed messing with these things.” He didn’t elaborate. Two years later, I was going through advanced training at China Lake, Calif., and the small bomb-disposal detachment there warned us of the dangers present on base by showing us photos of a civilian scrap-metal hunter killed by a BLU-97 after sneaking onto a bombing range. A couple of years later, in Iraq, I dealt with the bloody aftermath of old BLU-97s that exploded years after they were dropped. In 2009, I witnessed the Navy attack an apparent terrorist training camp in Yemen with BLU-97s dropped from special Tomahawk missiles. The attack reportedly killed 55 people, including 14 women and 21 children. Then the military tried to deny it, perhaps not realizing that duds would be left behind, definitively pointing to American involvement. In my mind, these bomblets were hot garbage that caused more problems than they solved. Several years later, right after I graduated from journalism school, I decided I needed to find a research project to occupy my time and use the new skills I’d just learned. I figured I’d go back to what I knew: bombs. Specifically, this one little bomblet, which had caused so much suffering around the world. After I moved to Los Angeles, I finally figured out who that scrapper was and retraced his last moves before he sneaked onto the bombing range. In Irvine, I sat down with a retired engineer who worked on the BLU-97 in the late 1970s and tried to download everything he could remember about how the weapon was developed. And somewhere along the way, I found a decades-old Army War College paper online that said that on Feb. 26, 1991, the 27th Engineer Battalion’s Alpha Company lost seven soldiers at the As Salman airfield in southern Iraq when a pile of BLU-97s exploded. I had my first solid clue that my old instructor was onto something. Something really bad happened in 1991, and the Army’s official histories of Desert Storm didn’t breathe a word of it. Going through the National Archives’s casualty database, I quickly found those seven soldiers’ names. The more I dug, the more names I found of other troops with suspicious or unclear causes of death. Eventually, I had a story. Rather, I had a lot of stories. And this week, At War published two of them. The first is a deep dive into the history of cluster munitions and an exploration of what happened at As Salman. The second is about the BLU-97’s likely first victims: two civilians at the Army ammunition plant in Parsons, Kan., who died when one of the bomblets being assembled exploded on a hot July day about a year before Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, in 1990. A lot has been written about civilian victims of America’s cluster munitions in places like Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia, but precious little has addressed the fratricide they’ve caused among American troops. These deaths often occur in relatively small numbers, spread out in both space and time. Put them together, and you see a pattern of deaths that seems to undercut the Pentagon’s own rationale for keeping these weapons around. Finding the names of American troops who were killed or wounded by unexploded cluster weapons from World War II to the present is incredibly hard, and they are often not recorded as such in official reports. If you know someone who you think was killed or wounded by dud bomblets either at home or abroad, please send me an email. There’s a lot more to report. John Ismay is a staff writer who covers armed conflict for The New York Times Magazine. He can be reached at john.ismay@nytimes.com. The Latest Stories From At War Behind the Numbers: 300 That’s the approximate number of ISIS fighters remaining in Afghanistan, according to one Western official, a precipitous drop from the nearly 3,000 members of the Islamic State who were estimated to be in the country earlier this year. After years of military offensives from both American and Afghan forces, plus, more recently, assistance from the Taliban, local officials revealed that the ISIS stronghold in eastern Afghanistan had recently collapsed, with inroads having been made primarily in Nangarhar Province, once considered an ISIS haven. Nevertheless, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan and Gen. Austin Miller, who commands American and NATO forces in the area, were hesitant to declare outright victory, noting the mobility of ISIS forces and their capacity for recruitment in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. As recently as October, ISIS was still wreaking havoc in the region, taking credit for a suicide bombing at a mosque that killed more than 70 people. Read the full Times report here. — Jake Nevins, Times Magazine editorial fellow We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please email thoughts and suggestions to atwar@nytimes.com. Or invite someone to subscribe through this link. 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__label__wiki	0.78759	0.78759	Politics\|Trump Threatens Iranian Cultural Sites, and Warns of Sanctions on Iraq https://nyti.ms/2FlYmDQ Trump Threatens Iranian Cultural Sites, and Warns of Sanctions on Iraq The president threatened Iran over potential retaliation for the death of a top general, and Iraq over the potential expulsion of United States troops. “They’re allowed to kill our people. They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. They’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people,” President Trump said Sunday aboard Air Force One. “And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn’t work that way.”Credit...Eric Thayer for The New York Times Published Jan. 5, 2020 Updated Jan. 7, 2020 WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday evening doubled down on his claim that he would target Iranian cultural sites if Iran retaliated for the targeted killing of one of its top generals, and threatened “very big sanctions” on Iraq if American troops are forced to leave the country. Aboard Air Force One on his way back from his holiday trip to Florida, Mr. Trump reiterated to reporters the spirit of a Twitter post on Saturday, when he said the United States government had identified 52 sites for retaliation against Iran if there were a response to Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani’s death. Some, he tweeted, were of “cultural” significance. Such a move could be considered a war crime under international laws, but Mr. Trump said Sunday that he was undeterred. “They’re allowed to kill our people. They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. They’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people,” the president said. “And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn’t work that way.” The remarks came just hours after the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, walked back Mr. Trump’s tweets and said that whatever was done in any military engagement with Iran would be within the bounds of the law. Mr. Trump also sounded fatalistic about the possibility of an Iranian escalation. “If it happens, it happens,” he said. “If they do anything, there will be major retaliation” Listen to ‘The Daily’: The Assassination of General Qassim Suleimani We piece together the events leading up to the killing of one of the most powerful operatives in the Middle East, a strike that has been called an act of war. Hosted by Michael Barbaro, produced by Alexandra Leigh Young and Rachel Quester, and edited by Lisa Tobin Today: From Iraq to Washington, consequences are mounting after the United States assassinated Iranian General Qassim Suleimani. Helene Cooper on why President Trump chose to do it. It’s Monday, January 6. Helene, what do we know about what led up to this extraordinary decision by the U.S. to take out General Suleimani? helene cooper Well, from what we’ve been able to piece together over the past few days, all of this started on December 27. And just into Fox, an American contractor was just killed in northern Iraq in a rocket attack, and several U.S. troops were also injured. When an Iranian-backed Shiite militia group launched an attack in Iraq that ended up killing an American contractor. This is just the latest in a spate of similar rocket attacks, but it’s the first time that we’re actually seeing U.S. casualties. Right after this happened, the Pentagon drew up the perennial list of options that the Defense Department is always keeping for the president to respond and decide what he’s going to do in order to respond to the attack. General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper both flew to Mar-a-Lago, where President Trump was spending the holidays, and met with him, presenting him this list of how do you respond to what the administration immediately determined was an Iranian-backed attack. One option included striking Iranian ships. Another option was striking, perhaps, a missile site or two, or looking for a way to launch airstrikes against the Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq that had started this. Also on the list was one extreme option, which was to launch an attack, which would really be a targeted assassination, actually, of General Qassim Suleimani, who is the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Quds Force, and it’s basically Iran’s very muscular, yet covert, arm of the Iranian military. He’s, in essence, the most senior military commander in Iran. This is something that the Defense Department often does, is they will put an extreme option on the table because they will always give all options to the president, but it’s almost their way of nudging the president toward an option that they prefer, right? If you put something that is viewed as a little bit crazy out there, then you get him to do what you want. President Trump, at the time, did not choose the nuclear option. archived recording (mike pompeo) What we did was take a decisive response that makes clear what President Trump has said for months and months and months, which is that we will not stand for the Islamic Republic of Iran to take actions that put American men and women in jeopardy. He went for, let’s launch an attack on the Shiite militia group that launched the attack that killed the American contractor. The Pentagon says it carried out military strikes in Iraq and Syria, targeting a militia group. A spokesman for the group says U.S. airstrikes killed at least 25 of their fighters and hurt more than 50 others. This happened in Iraq and Syria yesterday. So the president, in the end, chooses a pretty measured kind of tit-for-tat response. We were attacked by missiles, so we will attack with missiles. Exactly, and we’ll attack who attacked us. archived recording (mark esper) I would add that, in our discussion today with the president, we discussed with him other options that are available, and I would note also that we will take additional actions as necessary to ensure that we act in our own self-defense, and we deter further bad behavior from militia groups or from Iran. So then, a couple of days later, President Trump is still at Mar-a-Lago, and he’s watching TV. He’s still angry about the initial Shiite militia attack that killed the American contractor, but now he’s seeing, on TV, all of these video images of Iranian-backed protesters attacking the American Embassy in Baghdad. A chaotic scene as protesters stormed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad today, scaling the walls, forcing the gates, and setting fires inside the heavily guarded compound while diplomats were trapped inside. Some protesters were chanting, “Death to America.” [CHANTING] And one of the first things that come to his mind is Benghazi and the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi in 2011 that led to the death of four Americans, including the ambassador to Libya. Which was an attack of protesters — — on an American, essentially, embassy-like building. How would you have handled that, if you were watching, in real time, Americans under fire at the American Consulate, and an ambassador under fire? Well, it would have never taken place, because I think — President Trump, during his campaign, and for years after the initial attack in Benghazi, really went after Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, for not doing enough to prevent that. And this had been a rallying cry during his 2016 campaign, so this was a pretty big deal for him. Horribly handled. A horrible leadership. She’s a horrible leader. So he’s watching, now, these attacks that are happening under his own watch, and he’s thinking about Benghazi, according to his aides that we talked to. He’s also thinking about the 1979 attack on the American Embassy in Iran that led to the hostage crisis. He’s getting more and more angry, according to his aides, and then he calls for his menu of options again, and this time, he picks the extreme option. And so this is the moment when the president calls for the strike on Suleimani, this top general. That’s right. Pentagon officials and administration officials were very surprised, because it’s one thing to give an option to a president. It’s another thing for him to actually do it. They had put that option on the menu for President Trump, not thinking that he would take it, and now he has taken it. So the Defense Department went into action. This is something that the American Defense Department, quite tragically, almost, is very good at doing. We know how to kill people, and we have been tracking, for more than a decade, almost two decades, Qassim Suleimani. So intelligence-wise, we had intelligence reports that he would be flying into Baghdad International Airport that night. There was some question now, as the military is setting up, just sort of the mechanics of how this strike is going to be conducted. The Pentagon had determined that, if he was met, for instance, by Iraqi officials who were friendly towards the United States, they would not go ahead with the strike. If he was not, they would. When General Suleimani’s plane landed, he was met by the head of one of Iraq’s Iranian-backed Shia militias, who was viewed by the United States as somebody who — I think the phrase they used was a “clean party,” meaning it’s O.K. to kill him. It’s kind of a weird way of saying it. So a clean party means somebody we don’t mind killing? Exactly. Exactly. And so they authorized the strike and blew up the two-car convoy as it was leaving Baghdad International Airport. In a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East, a U.S. airstrike has killed Iran’s most important military commander. This was a swift, precise military strike that has huge, unpredictable and possibly long-term consequences. So help us to understand the significance of this decision by the president. Why was this ever an option given to him, even if it was the most extreme option? And why do we think he chose it? It’s hard to explain why President Trump chose to take this option. I think many of us don’t understand it ourselves. The administration will tell you that he’s a very bad guy, and there’s no denying that. The administration will also tell you that he’s responsible for the death of hundreds of American troops. That is true as well. The issue, though — that has been true for years and years, as American troops have battled some Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq, and both Presidents Bush and Obama made the decision not to kill Suleimani because he was a general with the Iranian military, and the United States traditionally does not go around assassinating military generals. The last time we did this was in 1943 during World War II, when we took out a Japanese admiral. Iran is a sovereign state. Assassinating one of their officials is pretty much almost the same thing as assassinating the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or a high-ranking American official, and then own up to it and take credit for it. It’s just not something that is normally often done in broad daylight. But we should also remember that, just a month ago, President Trump authorized the killing of Baghdadi that ISIS had, and he got a lot of very good and deserved credit for that. The administration now, today, will try to make the equivalent that General Suleimani is the same as Baghdadi, that he’s a terrorist, and he has certainly been behind many proxy terrorist acts by Iranian-backed groups in Yemen, in Lebanon, in Iraq and in Syria. So that has been increasing in recent months as the United States has choked off Iran economically. We’re following multiple breaking stories, including Iran’s seizure of at least one oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz today, and there are now conflicting reports about whether a second tanker was seized. Iran is clearly messaging that they hold cards here, but as this continues to go on, what will Iran continue to do? Well, you know, Brianna, I think it’s important that we understand what’s motivating Iran right now. Look, since the United States pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, and the administration imposed new sanctions on Iran, those sanctions have absolutely crippled Iran’s economy. That led the Iranian regime to start, as a lot of people at the Pentagon say, acting out, and you saw an increase in attacks from Iran, which has been punching out because it was being punched. And that is one of the reasons that the administration has now given for why this strike was taken. The other big reason, though, leads back to this, which is that the administration is saying that Suleimani was planning additional, even more high-profile attacks on the United States and on American interests and assets in the region, and that this was eminent. We could see that he was continuing down this path, that there were in fact plots that he was working on that were aimed directly at significant harm to American interests throughout the region, not just in Iraq. You know, you’re hearing that from General Milley, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. You heard that on Sunday from Secretary of State Pompeo. We would’ve been culpably negligent had we not taken this action. The American people would have said that we weren’t doing the right thing to protect and defend American lives. Which is the argument that Suleimani was about to launch another imminent attack on American interests. Helene, of all the rationales that we’ve heard from the Trump administration, this seems to be the most important in terms of explaining why we would do this now, take out Suleimani. But of course, the U.S. has a very complicated history of using potential threats to American interests as a rationale for actions overseas, especially in the Middle East. So what does your reporting show about how we should be thinking about this explanation of an imminent attack? That’s such an interesting and key question, how we should be thinking about the administration rationale for this attack. Do we believe them, or do we not? Our reporting shows that it depends on where you stand. There is no question that General Suleimani has planned, and was continuing to plan, attacks against the United States through these groups, but that’s been going on for more than 15 years. So the question then becomes, why now? The administration says there was something imminent and big that was about to happen, and they appear to be basing that on intelligence reports that they’ve received about General Suleimani’s travels in the last few days leading up to the attack that took his life. But these same intel sources also say that he had been asked by Ayatollah Khamenei, who’s the supreme leader of Iran, to come back to Iran, that Khomeini had not authorized anything. He had requested permission, and he was not given it, and he was told to come back to Iran. So that then belies the whole question of “imminent.” Does it become something that is happening in two days, or something that hasn’t even been approved yet? So what the administration, then, will have to answer to the American people, if this leads to war, which it might, is whether or not this assassination was worth it. Helene, what has been the response in the Middle East in the days since the U.S. killed Suleimani? The response since the U.S. killed Suleimani in the Middle East has been huge. [YELLING AND CHANTING] In Iran, where protesters had, two weeks ago, been protesting against the regime, they had now united, apparently, behind the regime, and had turned their ire on the United States. You’re seeing these familiar views of American flags being burned in the streets. [PROTESTORS SPEAKING] This massive outpouring of mourners. It’s certainly ramped up the anti-American sentiment in Iran. [MOURNING PRAYER] Meanwhile, in Baghdad, you’re seeing similar outpourings of grief, but that’s been accompanied by the Iraqi Parliament voting unanimously this morning to expel the United States from Iraq. They didn’t put forth a timeline for withdrawal, so there’s still some wiggle room there. But particularly the Shiites and the Iraqi government are very, very angry at the United States right now. You have to understand that Iraq is made up of three very distinct groups — Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds — but it is predominantly Shiite. Iran is Shiite as well, and the Iraqi government is very close to Iran. The Shiites in Iraq are particularly close to General Suleimani and view him, in many ways, as one of their own. They’re also upset, though, because this was a targeted killing in their country. So in much the same way that if something like this happened in the United States, the United States government would be upset. That’s another reason why the Iraqi government is so angry. Helene, can Iraq and its legislature do that? Can they kick the U.S. troops out of the country? They can. Iraq can say, you are no longer welcome. Remember, we are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government, ostensibly to fight the Islamic State. That battle is largely over. So yes, the Iraqi government can kick the United States military out of Iraq. Whether they do or not, whether this is posturing, I don’t know yet. Every couple of hours, you see something else. Right after the Iraqi Parliament voted, we saw the Pentagon announced that it was suspending the anti-ISIS coalition effort in Iraq. There are 4,000 American troops who’ve been there, and that the troops who are in Iraq will be focused on protecting the American citizens who are still in the country, but who are being advised to leave as soon as possible. It’s like 2013 all over again, when the Obama administration ended combat and pulled troops out of Iraq. And you saw the rise of ISIS because once the United States is gone and out of the country, these other factions are given more room to maneuver and more room to thrive. And so you can see how these events could lead to a resurgence of ISIS if the ground becomes clear for them to move around more freely. And wasn’t Suleimani also leading an Iranian militia that was an enemy of ISIS? Yes, there was a de facto cooperation between Suleimani and the United States in the fight against ISIS. They were both opposed to ISIS, and they were both fighting ISIS on the same turf. Right, which would have made, in a very narrow and complicated way, Suleimani an ally in our fight against ISIS, even though he’s our enemy in many other respects. He was an ally in our fight against ISIS. That is correct. Helene, the ripple effects of all this are very complicated, but I wonder if there’s a simple way of thinking about this, which is that after all these months of provocation and response between the U.S. and Iran, that President Trump felt it was time for the U.S. to remind Iran that, at the end of the day, we are the military superpower, and our advantages over them are extraordinary and represent the kind of deterrent that means, whatever Iran’s ultimate response to this is, it will not be all that severe — that, in a sense, we just called Iran’s bluff. That would work if we hadn’t started this to begin with by pulling out of the Iranian nuclear deal, which was signed in 2015 under the Obama administration, and which was hated by President Trump and many Republicans. I have been in business a long time. I know deal-making, and let me tell you, this deal is catastrophic for America, for Israel, and for the whole of the Middle East. They viewed it as too weak, and said that it gave Iran rewards, as it did, by lifting sanctions for stopping their uranium enrichment, but did not address Iran’s misbehavior, and this is the General Suleimani-type misbehavior, in other areas. The problem here is fundamental. We’ve rewarded the world’s leading state sponsor of terror with $150 billion, and we received absolutely nothing in return. When we pulled out of the nuclear deal, we reimposed sanctions on Iran, and put even stiffer sanctions on the country. We started to punish companies and basically told the world, you either do business with Iran, or you do business with America. And of course, most of the world chose America. That had the result of completely putting a strangle on the Iranian economy, and that is kind of what has led to the Iranian regime then starting escalating attacks against the United States, because this is a hard-line regime, and they clearly believe that if they’re hurting, they’re going to pull the United States down into the mud with them. But doesn’t it still stand to reason that if that is the situation that we are in, in a post-nuclear deal world, where Iran decides that the only way that it can operate is with attacks through militias that it organizes against the U.S., that taking out a person like Suleimani is a reasonable option, given our superiority over Iran? We have nuclear weapons. They do not. We have superpower military capabilities. They do not. That doesn’t leave them with a whole lot of options. Does it? Back in the ‘80s, there was this tanker war, where Iran, Iraq and the U.S. were all going after each other. And they made the Persian Gulf an impossible place, and the price of oil went way up. And it ended up with the United States, by mistake, shooting down an Iranian passenger jet. And Iran made a lot of noise after that happened, and then they quieted down. So there is precedent for that, but I think it’s easily as much of a chance that they don’t quiet. Iran has a whole lot of options to make us hurt. Certainly, the United States is much better equipped, but unless we’re actually suggesting that we’re going to drop a nuclear bomb on downtown Tehran, it’s never that easy once you get into a conventional war. So we went to war in Iraq, which lasted years, and which we are still seeing some of the consequences from. A war with Iran would be so much worse than any kind of war with Iraq. They’re way more sophisticated than Iraq ever was. They have the ability to make it hurt. So the question can be phrased as, is the United States willing to give up the blood and treasure it would take to subdue Iran? Which of course, it could, but it’s going to cost us something. So are we willing to pay that fee? Helene, thank you. Thank you for talking to us on a Sunday. Thank you. For everything. We appreciate it. All right, bye-bye. On Sunday, Iran’s leaders and their allies began to openly discuss plans for retaliation against the United States, saying that they would target America’s military bases and its soldiers. In an interview with CNN, a high-level adviser to Iran’s supreme leader said, quote, “The only thing that can end this period of war is for the Americans to receive a blow that is equal to the blow that they have inflicted.” On Twitter, President Trump warned Iran against such a response, writing, quote, “They attacked us, & we hit back. If they attack again, which I would strongly advise them not to do, we will hit them harder than they have ever been hit before!” Here’s what else you need to know today. archived recording (elizabeth warren) Look, it was a targeted attack on a government official, a high-ranking military official for the government of Iran, and what it’s done has moved this country closer to war. We are not safer today than we were before Donald Trump acted. In interviews on Sunday, the leading Democratic candidates for president, including Senator Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, on CNN, challenged the Trump administration’s rationale for killing General Suleimani and predicted that it could backfire on the U.S. archived recording (pete buttigieg) Now, let’s be clear, Qassim Suleimani was a bad figure. He has American blood on his hands. None of us should shed a tear for his death. But just because he deserved it doesn’t mean it was the right strategic move. This is about consequences. In a statement, former Vice President Joe Biden said that the president, quote, “just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox,” and Senator Bernie Sanders, at a campaign stop, accused the president of violating his campaign pledge. archived recording (bernie sanders) Trump promised to end endless wars. Tragically, his actions now put us on the path to another war, potentially one that could be even worse than before. And Australia’s government said that it would deploy the country’s military to fight a set of catastrophic fires that have already burned more than 12 million acres, an area larger than Switzerland, killed at least 24 people, and killed or injured hundreds of millions of animals. The Times reports that the fires are now so large and hot that they are creating their own weather patterns, further fueling the blazes. That’s it for “The Daily.” I’m Michael Barbaro. See you tomorrow. As the president spoke, six advisers crowded to the side of Mr. Trump’s desk in the cabin, near the doorway: Robert O’Brien, his national security adviser; Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser; Ivanka Trump, his daughter and senior adviser; Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff; Hogan Gidley, a deputy press secretary; and Dan Scavino, the White House social media director. The president had a football game on the television affixed to the wall. Mr. Trump also vowed to impose sanctions on Iraq if a move to evict American military personnel from the country takes place, a possibility heightened by the Iraqi Parliament’s passage Sunday of a measure to expel foreign troops in response to the killing of General Suleimani. That strike took place in Iraq, in a move that officials saw as violating the country’s sovereignty. “We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there,” Mr. Trump said of Iraq. “It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time. We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it.” Mr. Trump then escalated his language, saying: “If they do ask us to leave, if we don’t do it in a very friendly basis, we will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame.” “If there’s any hostility, that they do anything we think is inappropriate, we are going to put sanctions on Iraq, very big sanctions on Iraq,” Mr. Trump added. In making his warning, the president was threatening sanctions on a country for forcing out American troops whom he himself had pledged to bring home during his 2016 presidential campaign. The threat also underscored the growing fallout from the president’s decision regarding General Suleimani. The president said in tweets and in a statement on Friday about the strike that General Suleimani’s “reign of terror” was over, and he spoke about the hundreds of deaths for which the commander was responsible. Officials have said the United States was retaliating against Iran, first for the death of an American contractor, and then for attacks at the American Embassy in Iraq led by pro-Iranian forces. Officials have also said they had intelligence that General Suleimani was involved in planning “imminent” attacks on American interests in other countries, a statement that some government officials have questioned. Mr. Trump told reporters that he might discuss making some of the intelligence available to a skeptical public nearly 17 years after the war in Iraq began on the basis of intelligence that proved not to be credible. Mr. Trump also insisted he had been personally tracking General Suleimani for about 18 months. “He was leading his country down a very bad, dangerous path,” he said.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526956
__label__wiki	0.7643	0.7643	Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black jazz writers tell their story pt2 Posted on June 12, 2009 by The Independent Ear Modern Music Man JOHN MURPH John Murph has channeled his voracious appetite for modern music — particular that which falls into the creative contemporary category. In his case that includes an encyclopedic sensibility when it comes to modern jazz, the leading edge of hip hop, trip hop, drum ‘n bass, electronica, house, broken beat and assorted other flavors, often in collaborations of the same. He’s coupled those interests with a writing skilll that makes great sense, and become one of the more astute observers of his 30-something generation. You can find Murph primarily on the web at The Root, Liberal Muse and in hard copy in The Washington Post, DownBeat, JazzTimes, and Jazzwise magazines. It has been a personal pleasure to observe Murph’s growth as a writer. When Suzan Jenkins, then of the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, sent a young Mississippi State University grad over to the old National Jazz Service Organization office for a chat, during which he certified his deep interest in writing about jazz, Murph soon joined the NJSO staff. At that time our staff also included associate director Sara Picillo (now Sara Donnelly) the architect of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation’s brilliant new Jazz.NEXT funding initiative (www.midatlanticarts.org), and WPFW’s inimitable show host Myrrh Cauthen (some of you may remember her from years of running IAJE conference concert venues). From NJSO Murph went on to develop the web site content of National Public Radio, then BET. All the while he was growing his jazz and modern music writing craft and a prodigious record collection and appetite for the music. In addition to being a keen commentator on the scene Murph is also a programmer on WPFW in DC, host of Wednesday Late Night Jazz, where he is just as likely to spin some newly minted Brits, Germans or Norwegians who use jazz as a launching pad towards new expressions as he is Stacy Dillard, Sean Jones, Jose James or some other young stalwarts. John Murph is the second contributor to our Ain’t But a Few of Us series of observations from black jazz writers on the state of their art & craft. What motivated you to write about serious music? I started writing about music in college at Mississippi State University for the school newspaper The Reflector. Growing up, I came up with a lot of my family members either listening to music and/or reading about it — whether it was newspapers, comic books, trash novels, etc. During my second year in college I was still an accounting major, but it was music and writing that I truly loved and that eventually captured my true spirit. Still, while in college I didn’t see music journalism as a viable career because there weren’t many models there. And writers for say, The Rolling Stone, Spin!, and Musician seemed galaxies away. Luckily, I got a paid internship at the Smithsonian, working with the Duke Ellington Collection in the American History’s archives center. I did two consecutive summer internships there, which opened the doors wider for me to pursue music journalism. When you started on this quest were you aware of the dearth of African Americans writing about this music? Seriously, at the beginning I didn’t. When I arrived in Washington, DC, first interning at the Smithsonian then working in arts administration at the National Jazz Service Organization and the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, I had African-American mentors such as Willard Jenkins, Anthony Brown, and Reuben Jackson. I also befriended other African-American writers such as Eugene Holley Jr., Wayne Self, Bill Brower, and [the ancestor] Tom Terrell. And I was reading a lot of stuff by Greg Tate, Stanley Crouch, and Nelson George. Perhaps the first thing I noticed when I started writing nationally about serious music was the age gap. I always felt like a kid in the groups of jazz journalists. It wasn’t until I started writing for The Washington City Paper, The Washington Blade, JazzTimes, and DownBeat, and attending events such as the International Association of Jazz Educators conferences that I began realizing that I was indeed a "fly boy in the buttermilk." It really hit me when I worked at National Public Radio. Why do you suppose that’s still such a glaring disparity — where you have a significant number of black musicians making serious music but so few black media commentators? Wow, that’s such a loaded question with so many answers and perspectives that could very well serve as a collegiate sociology course. When it comes to African-American music and culture, it always seemed as if our community was much better at creating than documenting, especially after the civil rights era. For some reason, anything vaguely related to the past seems too passe for many African Americans to pay attention to on a regular basis. So when it comes to serious music with a long legacy (e.g. jazz, blues and increasingly R&B), a lot of that gets ingnored for what’s currently popular (e.g. hip hop) and that attitude filters in the black media. You can’t ignore the lack of coverage of serious music in black media — Ebony, Jet, O, Essence — all of which have the potential of not only giving black music journalists more writing opportunities, but also of cultivating a more erudite audience for serious music. For anyone breaking into music journalism, the task can prove daunting — especially when it becomes more about "who you know" than "what you know." For writers of color that can prove even more challenging if white editors and publishers see little value of having a multicultural writing staff beyond tokenism. Do you think that disparity contributes to how the music is covered, including why some musicians may be elevated over others and whether that has anything to do with the lack of cultural diversity among the music writer fraternity? Indeed I do. Take for instance the coverage of jazz singers nowadays. If you looked at retail outlets such as Amazon.com, Borders and Starbucks, the epitome of a jazz singer now is a white female. How the media (print, film, radio, internet) covers jazz and more importantly, who they will cover feeds into that perception. And this is nothing against Diana Krall, Jane Monheit, Madeleine Peyroux, and Norah Jones, but it seems incredibly difficult for both emerging and established black American singers to make the same rapid inroads in terms of getting coverage not only from mainstream glossy magazines but also in the main jazz publications such as JazzTimes and DownBeat. I find it incredible that Carla Cook is often cited as one of the best and natural jazz singers of our generation, and she’s yet to land a major feature story in JazzTimes and DownBeat. (That she hasn’t released a new disc in years is clearly noted.) When Jose James released his splendid debut, The Dreamer last year, it was somewhat sad that I had to make special note of his race and the fact that it’s been a while since a young African-American male singer had emerged in comparison to say, Jamie Cullum and Peter Cincotti. And in my opinion, despite critical albeit underground acclaim, he’s yet to receive the same, timely amount of ink as his white counterparts. You can also argue the same in regards to some instrumentalists. When the Bad Plus and again, Jamie Cullum. first hit they graced the covers of JazzTimes and DownBeat. Robert Glasper, Stefon Harris, JD Allen — not so much. A decade ago, heavy-hitters such as pianist Rodney Kendrick and guitarist Jean–Paul Bourelly hardly got any ink beyond the "CD review" in comparison to say, Brad Mehldau and Bill Frisell. I remember a rumor circulating that Rodney’s personality was "too urban" or something of the like to get a major feature story. John Murph asks: Why not Rodney Kendrick in the prints? Then there’s the whole idea of what is deemed more artistically valid when it comes to jazz artists incorporating contemporary pop music. I notice a certain disdain when some black jazz artists channel R&B, funk, and hip-hop, while their white contemporaries get kudos for giving makeovers to the likes of Radiohead, Nick Drake, and Bjork. Do you ever get the sense that the way and tone of how serious music is covered has anything to do with who’s covering it? Yes and no. I think there’s a tendency by writers of all creed of trying to make "serious music" appear "smarter" than it needs to be. Brad McKee, one of my best editors of all time from The Washington City Paper told me this: "Jazz is already smart. You don’t need to make it sound any smarter. Just be smart." It took me a while to really get to that. But the main takeaway I gathered from that is that oftentimes we forget to put the human element and a bona fide narrative arc when writing feature stories on "serious musicians", especially if their music is deemed "avant-garde." When I was writing about Andrew Hill, one of the cliches I always tried to avoid was "He talks the same way he plays the piano", equating a speech impediment with his distinctive approach to improvisation. Indeed, the ploy is great when trying to portray a distinctive musician as more "artistically exotic" than he/she needs to be, but it can also marginalize the artist as well. I think it’s always beneficial for journalists who write a lot for niche magazines, such as JazzTimes and DownBeat,to challenge him/herself with writing for a mainstream, less-informed audience without sacrificing what makes the musician great, but also portraying that artist as a well-rounded person. You’ve not only written about jazz but also quite extensively on hip hop, drum n’ bass, house, electronica, and other modern music. Where do you see intersections between these forms? I see the intersections happening in terms of "points of reference" from musicians’ and music listeners standpoint. From checking out electronica (house, broken, drum-n-bass) and hip hop, I noticed a number of jazz artists (e.g. Marc Cary, Robert Mitchell, Taurus Mateen, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Roy Ayers, Roy Hargrove, Robert Glasper, Derrick Hodge…) playing on those cuts. Some would argue that they were doing it for the money (which is a valid point). But oftentimes, these musicians saw something of artistic value [that attracted them] to play those non-jazz genres. Also, many people listen to a variety of musics. I grew up in the ’70s with a healthy diet of R&B and funk, but I also heard country, blues and jazz. So hearing Willie Nelson, Z.Z. Hill, and Return to Forever was hardly any different from me hearing Bill Withers, Parliament Funkadelic, and Millie Jackson. It was only until I was in colege that I realized that Santana was considered rock, then later Latin-rock. Since Santana was on Columbia, as were Earth, Wind & Fire and Weather Report, and their music all had a distinctive Afro-Latin tinge ever so often, I associated them together, thinking that they were all black music — for better or worse. Then you can link the improvisational nature — particularly when it comes to rhythm — between jazz and hip-hop, drum-n-bass, and broken beat as well as them all being rooted in the African musical Diaspora. Which musicians do you hear most successfully addressing those intersections in their music? From a hip-hop perspective, I would look at how the late J Dilla had a profound influence on artists such as Robert Glasper, Stacy Dillard, Jaleel Shaw, Nicholas Payton, Roy Hargrove, Jeremy Pelt… But he’s not the only influential hip-hop artist on jazz. There’s the WuTang Clan (check out Steve Lehman’s new disc), Q-Tip, the Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Dr. Dre, Madlib, Pete Rock, Jazzy Jeff, Mos Def — these hip-hop legends and many more — have had a significant influence on many post-Motown bop artists. And we can talk for eons on how many jazz samples filtered through hip-hop during this golden period. West London’s broken beat scene (I.G. Culture, Mark de-Clive Lowe, Kaidi Tatham, 4hero, etc.) is also of note, especially when you hear how its sonic imprint is rooted in electric jazz-funk (Roy Ayers, Herbie Hancock, Patrice Rushen, Chick Corea, Fela, Tom Browne, Donald Byrd, Sun Ra, the Mizell Brothers, Charles Stepney, Eddie Henderson) and how they influence the music of some of today’s renegades such as Leo Tardin, Soweto Kinch, and Robert Mitchell. From a house music perspective you can look at the works of Jazzanova, Masters at Work, Carl Craig, King Britt, Moodymann… and immediately hear the jazz influences. If you were pressed to list several musicians who may be somewhat bubbling under the surface or just about to break through as far as wider spread public consciousness, who might they be and why? Again, I have to mention Jose James because not only is he a remarkable jazz singer, he’s a jazz singer of the hip-hop generation. He’s not gunning after the same sepia-toned aesthetic as many of his other contemporaries. And he’s built a lot of cult following from outside the jazz world by singing on albums by Jazzanova and Nicola Conte, and having noteworthy remixes of several songs from his disc. Yet James still managed to make a head-turning appearance on Chico Hamilton’s latest disc. Lately I’ve been impressed by saxophonist Stacy Dillard and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire. I’m always checking out the Black British jazz scene too, particularly saxophonists Denys Baptiste, pianist Robert Mitchell, and singer Eska. I love how they’re willing to incorporate their Caribbean, African, and European heritage into their takes on modern jazz. Given your radio programming activities and your writing you obviously have your finger on the pulse of a lot of what’s being released. As we close in on the second half of 2009 what for you have been the most intriguing records released so far this year? Right now, I’ve been spending a lot of time listening to Stacy Dillard’s new disc, One [Smalls Records]. I’ve also discovered a new modern classical composer, Joseph C. Phillips, Jr. who incorporates a lot of jazz on his new disc, Vissapana [LABEL?]. Phillips happens to be African-American (yeah, another long discussion). Steve Lehman’s new disc Travaukm Transformation, and Flow is on heavy rotation as is Kneebody’s intriguing makeover of Charles Ives’ music. Since you just recently returned from covering the Cape Town Jazz Festival, what observations do you have on the music scene in South Africa? It’s obvious that there’s a deep, valid tradition of jazz in South Africa. But it also seems as if many South African artists feel as if they need to play smooth jazz to get heard or recorded. I think South Africa’s jazz scene needs a figure like Wynton Marsalis and Courtney Pine to both educate its audience on its jazz history and jazz history worldwide and to inspire its South African musicians to dig deeper than the commercial whims of the mainstream. John Murph in Soweto This entry was posted in That's What They Heard. Bookmark the permalink. ← The Sampling Game: Bonding the Generations DE Jazz Fest move to summer is a winner → 12 Responses to Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black jazz writers tell their story pt2 Kevin Le Gendre says: I wholly endorse everything John says, especially his point about mainstream black press not giving the space to jazz that it could. The Voice newspaper in the UK – who I freelanced for – took more or less the same standpoint and yes, it is really holding us back when it could be moving us forward. But Murph is an excellent writer with a very insightful view of the music, and most importantly, its history, so if anyone is gonna keep representing right and exact it’s him. I am reading with interest the ongoing series Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black jazz writers tell their story but must confess that after the Spellman and Murph interviews, I do not think you are any closer to answering the question of what accounts for the dearth of black jazz critics. But I would posit an even more fundamental question, especially after reading the Murph interview: Is it really consequential that there are relatively so few blacks in the field, particularly when they offer nothing beyond the amateurism of white jazz enthusiasts that sadly passes for jazz criticism in this country? I submit that the sort of fare about jazz that appears in The Washington Post, DownBeat, JazzTimes, and Jazzwise cannot be mistaken for serious criticism, which is distinguished by its intellectual rigor and incisive analysis. John Murph says: Thanks for reading the interview. I’m not sure what publications that you are reading that offer more incisive analysis of the music other than JazzWise, Down Beat, JazzTimes and Down Beat. I’m quite they’re out there. But please enlighten us. As for “intellectual rigor,” please define what that means to you. As a journalist, my job is to tell a story. In the mainstream please, that task is to write a story, hopefully with a captivating narrative that would enlighten both the jazz expert and novice on any given topic or musician. If you’re defining “intellectual rigor” as writing a lot about music theory and throwing around a lot of music terminology then you’re correct; I don’t do it too often. The reason why is that I often compare jazz to sausage. Many people love eating sausage, but most people aren’t interested in the “ins and outs” of how it’s actually made. In fact, it might even turn them off. Regarding the dearth of black jazz critics. One can do an entire thesis paper on that subject. And even better, the dearth of black music critics and/or black journalists working in the mainstream media. That’s why organizations such as the National Black Journalists Association is so vital. I wasn’t asked for solutions. I answered the questions based upon my observation and experiences. But if you indeed have that more analysis and solutions regarding the dearth of black journalists, please share them. We all could use your help. felix contreras says: Willard, I’m eagerly awaiting the rest of the interviews. AB and Murph’s conversations illuminate at the issue much better than the IAJE thing we did a while back. -Felix Hi Don’t you think the best way of reducing boundaries is not to segregate music by colour at all. As in the wise words words of Jay-thttp://www.roc4life.com/profiles/blogs/jayz-tweets-a-message-from-hov there is no black music and no white music see more at above link. Brian Lockett says: One chief problem with your idea of “not to segregating music by colour at all” is that, the majority of the time, it is typically white people who bring idea up. It’s a convenient escape from current insensitivity that still remain from longstanding past injustices. It undermines the aspect of some things pertaining to race which cannot be ignored. It’s idealistic, but not very practical. People who would benefit the most from such would be the ones who stand to gain the most from it. White people. Such would cause things such as a failure to distinguish a black musician doing black music, as opposed to, say, when you get a case like an Iggy Azalea, doing all she can to pretend to be a black American woman with all of the benefit of being a white Aussie woman–even crossing over to lanes of disrespect to do so. I suspect Jay-Z is merely saying this, because much of his global audience is white now, he works with white artists, and it looks good to say these sort of things. You’re talking about a man who sang “Niggas in Paris”…while actually in Paris, enjoying French kids chanting along the lyrics. He’s a businessman, not a voice of cultural conscience. He’s certainly not a sufficient arbiter of music here. I do get that there’s a sense about music that can be universal, and every black person I know will give Bobby Caldwell his due as the guy we all thought was black. But still, there IS black music and white music, in the sense that it is chiefly because we are black and you are white that black American music was born. Our total histories resulted gospel, jazz, soul, dance, hip-hop and everything else accountable in the black American experience, commonly admired and often appropriated by white America and Europe. It’s always been the history of black American culture to undergo appropriation and cultural gentrification, and it still happens today. White American people (and Brits from afar) have never had any kind of struggle which they afflicted on black society, which has brought about so many forms of music the way such is the identity of black Americans and revolutionized music. But it gets taken, where white society reaps the highest benefit from black culture–not black people. It’s amazing that the Beatles first got more global herald doing Little Richard’s style of music (poorly), more than Little Richard himself. Let’s face it: Color is a primary reason much of human culture exists–music being no exception. The first difference about our cultures is how we look. How we act towards other based on it, however, is a matter of personal character. But regardless, “color” has played a major continual impact on the world of how culture gets shaped, how it gets admired, and sadly, how it gets disrespected. When white explorers visited feudal-era Japan, it changed Japanese culture, losing an integral part of their own traditions in favor for more Eurocentric ideas, eventually resulting to where traditional Japanese artisans are a dying breed today. When Dutch settlers took over South Africa, they imposed brutal racial segregation for black generations, and when they left power, it took away its only sense of developed structure known to generations, leaving the broken state it sees today. When white Americans noticed the jazz music of the black South and adopted it, Paul Whiteman suddenly became “King.” When white Brits encountered black blues musicians and black musicians doing rock ‘n’ roll, the Beatles became “geniuses” and Eric Clapton got called “God.” Bo Diddley changed popular music forever, and yet, he’s barely remembered by pop-centric youth today the way Elvis is. Color (exterior difference) is just as much a part–if not the chiefest part–of any culture–and plays a dominant role as to what results, how it gets introduced to the world, and how others perceive the culture as different from their own. There’s necessarily nothing wrong with noticing color in itself–we humans just often handle it wrong. It’s impossible to just forget about color, when it comes to music born from it. Esp. when insensitivity to the issues that someone of a differing color (in this case, black Americans) still persist, still so pervasively. There can be no reducing boundaries–we’re born with them, and we cannot deny them. I do wish we could live in a world where color didn’t matter, and where folks can just get along. At the same time, if such were truly the case, jazz (and most black music in general) wouldn’t even exist, given that so much of it was born uniquely from experiences that black musicians endured as black Americans. Not to say no white musician can ever do a respectable job with black music–just saying that people would be best to not forget he’s doing black music, so much to the point that people want to erase the black identity from it. Sadly, that happens far too much. Barbershop, gospel, ragtime, boogie-woogie, jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll, reggae, soul, R&B, funk, electro, Detroit techno music, Chicago house music, hip-hop–it’s all been popularized and variously appropriated the world over. Of course, black American music isn’t the only heritage to suffer such issue (a similar case could be made for others, such as Indian ragas, which white hippies found so intriguing and gave birth to psychedelic music), but black music’s definitely the biggest target. What else has transformed popular music worldwide more than black American music? And yet, look who often get top billing as the “greatest”: The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Clapton, Elvis, Buddy Rich, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, and kids today might would include Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Adele. Sure, there was Michael Jackson, but he enjoys lonely company at the top as among music’s highest-selling and most regarded. This has always been true for black musicians, is true today, and will likely always be true. The best thing isn’t to forget about color and pretend like we’re all the same–it’s to acknowledge those differences and to respect those good differences that make us inextricably who we are. We shouldn’t ignore the fact that there is black music and white music–we should respect the histories and unique factors behind black music like jazz and white music like classical music, and see more people of any color who respect those perspectives. Sorry below is the correct link: http://www.roc4life.com/profiles/blogs/jayz-tweets-a-message-from-hov I understand why people want to make the differentiation but I’m just not sure it helps and brings people together, there are types of music but I just don’t think music should be defined by colour, no matter where it originates from. Even the mobo has dropped jazz as a category – it’s too confusing and contentious to label music by colour it also creates boundaries. I don’t know why there isn’t a fair respresentation of black journalists but just as women don’t have equality yet I think things can change a positive inclusive attitude and language seems the way to go though. Pingback: mike Pingback: The Son Of Heaven Pingback: The Athenian Arts Pingback: Joseph C. Phillips, Jr. \| The Glass Sen says: This is the most purile comment Ive seen in a while : “The reason why is that I often compare jazz to sausage. Many people love eating sausage, but most people aren’t interested in the “ins and outs” of how it’s actually made. In fact, it might even turn them off.” could it be that you are a musical ignoramus ? most journos don’t know a Bb from a flat tyre, that’s why you are not a real critic. Do some ear training, take a basic music course it might help you write more than cliches or sausage crap	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526960
__label__wiki	0.857996	0.857996	Oregon ArtsWatch Truth to tell: American wrongs and rights Portland Center Stage's "Hold These Truths" spins a fascinating real-life tale of World War II incarceration camps and a Japanese American hero October 8, 2016 // CULTURE, THEATER // Bob Hicks The United States Constitution has been coming up regularly in this most fractious and ridiculous of political seasons. We’ve had the “pocket constitutionalists” of the Sagebrush Rebellion taking over a bird sanctuary in Eastern Oregon because (if I have their line of reasoning straight) all government beyond the county level is illegitimate and the Constitution proves that nothing in the Constitution actually applies to them. We’ve had, amid an epidemic of mass shootings and more private gun-related tragedies, a hunkering-down on an antiquated and nonsensical interpretation of a few confusingly punctuated words in the Second Amendment that are alleged to guarantee the right to carry military weapons openly in houses of worship and kindergarten classrooms. We’ve had the presidential candidate of an actual major political party loudly declaring he will build a wall across the southern border of the United States and make the Mexican government pay for it – an act that would be at once so environmentally irresponsible, morally reprehensible, patently unconstitutional, and impossible to achieve that I really don’t know where to begin talking about it. Ryun Yu as Gordon Hirabayashi in “Hold These Truths.” Photo: Patrick Weishampel/blankeye.tv. How refreshing, then, to run across a piece of theater that tells the story of a true hero of the never-ending battle to protect the Constitution, and thus the American people in their everyday lives, against the ever-present forces trying to chip away at it for selfish or ideological reasons, or because of bouts of paranoia or sheer fright. The title of Jeanne Sakata’s play Hold These Truths, which opened Friday night in the Ellyn Bye Studio at Portland Center Stage, comes not from the Constitution but from the preamble to the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain Unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” But those Enlightenment principles, if not the actual words, are also embedded in the Constitution, most specifically in the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” a move meant to grant full citizenship status to slaves freed in the recent Civil War. The amendment’s second, and equally important, guarantee vowed equal protection under the laws, forbidding any state from denying to any citizen “life, liberty or property without due process of law.” Sakata’s play is based on the true story of Gordon Hirabayashi, a Nisei, or second generation, Japanese American student at the University of Washington in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Like so many others, he was caught in the machinations of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s infamous Executive Order 9066 shortly after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, an order that created prison camps across the West and forced 120,000-odd Japanese Americans into confinement. The mass incarceration was obviously unconstitutional, based on racial identity and utterly lacking in due process. Yet a series of courts up to the Supreme Court ruled, in essence, that in time of war, safety (or the mere notion of safety, since almost none of the incarcerees had criminal records or known ties to enemy agents) trumped due process and individual rights. Panic, and racially based resentment, rushed in where prudence should have prevailed. Further, the haste of the action meant that many Japanese Americans had to abandon their property or sell it on the cheap before they were herded into the camps. Many never received their property back after the war, paralleling the situation of European Jews who sold their artwork and other property on the cheap or had it confiscated by the Nazis: three-quarters of a century later, lawsuits over repatriation of much of that stolen property are still keeping lawyers and the courts busy. Hold These Truths is a one-person play performed by the actor Ryun Yu and directed by Jessica Kubzansky, who also teamed with Sakata on its premiere production in Los Angeles in 2007 and have repeated it in New York, Seattle, and elsewhere. It comes to Portland in the midst of a national rise in ethnic intolerance, from anti-Latino sentiment to fear of immigrants and refugees to demands (again, by the blustering presidential candidate) that all Muslims be barred from entering the country. Once again, individual rights are being weighed against prejudice and paranoia, and once again the outcome is by no means guaranteed. The Constitution may be constant, at least in its wording, but its interpreters are only human. In his bravura ninety-minute performance, Yu presents a striking portrait of an unlikely hero and the people who helped him or fought with him along the way. We meet Hirabayashi as a happy-go-lucky young man, the eldest son of traditional parents and an ebullient student who embraces campus life: as his roommate comments, he seems to be majoring in extracurricular activities. He leads an ordinary life: meets a girl, goes out with his buddies for cheap food, jokes about his parents’ strict ways, and approaches life with a love for and confidence in the ideals and beliefs of his country. It all comes tumbling down on December 6, 1941, when Japanese planes strike Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Gordon is a marked man. Life changes in little and larger ways: He and other Japanese Americans are subject to a strict curfew, which means in the evening he has to leave the library where he’s studying and rush back to his dorm. He goes out with his friends for a bite to eat and discovers the café won’t serve “his kind.” He loses out on a job because of his race. There’s a telling, beautifully written scene in which Gordon visits Manhattan and discovers an openness, an ordinary cultural stew that seems almost shockingly free compared to the casual racial bias and little curtailments of liberty he’s become used to in Seattle. Through it all, Hirabayashi is convinced that the Constitution he had learned to know and love will protect him and his family and friends. After all, they’re Americans, just like anyone else. Then, on February 19, 1942, comes Executive Order 9066. And things get serious. Ignoring his parents’ plea that he keep his head low and cooperate with the authorities – the hammer hits the nail that sticks out, his father is fond of telling him – Gordon just says no. And it is that simple act that makes him heroic. He has rights, the government is wrong, he will not acquiesce. At first he has high-powered legal help from the ACLU and others; that melts away as various pressures are applied. He spends long stretches in jail, awaiting trial; when he gets to court he doesn’t stand much of a chance. At the same time, the entire legal system seems a bit embarrassed by the whole thing, and not quite sure how to handle it. Yu holds the stage for 90 intimate and forcible minutes on his own. Photo: Patrick Weishampel/blankeye.tv. Sakata deftly blends little private moments and episodes of wry comedy into her script, and Yu makes some pinpoint switches as he brings an everyday human appeal to the momentous issues at stake: one of the play’s successes is that it so aptly reveals how large cultural ideas are formed by, and have an effect on, flesh-and-blood people. Moments of almost delightful absurdity dot the play: Hirabayashi is ordered to a prison in Arizona, but the government doesn’t have the money to send him so he makes the trip on his own, hitchhiking, doing some camping, stopping along the way to visit his girlfriend’s family. It’s fascinating to watch the ways that Yu subtly adds stature to Gordon’s personality as his battle goes on: by the end, some forty years later, his story has achieved a deep and resonating poignance. Hold These Truths is Hirabayashi’s story, and the story of Japanese Americans, who experienced these things. Its specifics are their specifics, and it’s important to understand that. Playwright Sakata’s own family spent the war years in a confinement camp, and afterwards almost never talked about it: This play came about partly as her exploration of that cultural legacy. (Read Truths self-evident and the camps, Sakata’s fascinating conversation with ArtsWatch writer Alice Hardesty, whose architect father designed and helped build one of the camps.) But the story’s implications also ripple wide, and it’s important to understand that, too. What the Constitution says and what the nation does are not always congruent, and sometimes things that have been put into law take decades to be achieved in practical terms. In a way the story of Hirabayashi and the camps is also the story of a nation reluctant to expand into its own self-definitions. The 14th Amendment might have guaranteed citizenship and rights to African Americans, but the actual achievement took far longer, with many legal setbacks and unofficial impingements and anti-miscegenaton laws and separate-but-equal ordinances, and the fight continues with voter suppression laws. How do we define “we the people”? There traditionally has been a long wait for constitutional guarantees to kick in for “outsider” groups, even original Americans: not every state granted citizenship to Native Americans until 1957. The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women’s right to vote, wasn’t ratified until 1919. Last year’s Supreme Court decision recognizing the right of same-sex couples to marry was based on the provisions of the 14th Amendment, the same one on which Hirabayashi based his legal argument during World War II. In part, the story of Hold These Truths is the continuing story of the rub between national principles and everyday beliefs. We seem headed into a similar sort of cycle to the one that Japanese American citizens faced during the war, pulling in separate directions, relying on our agreed-upon rules and rights on one hand and bending them on the other to the heat of the moment. And who will our new Gordon Hirabayashis be, the ordinary men and women who in times of trial stubbornly stand up for the long view of what is required and right? Hold These Truths continues through November 13 in the Ellyn Bye Studio of Portland Center Stage at The Armory. Ticket and schedule information here. Want to read more about Oregon theater? Support Oregon ArtsWatch! One Response. Bob Hicks says: Seventy-five years later, the issues reverberate, as a New York Times editor, Michael Luo, reveals in his story “An Open Letter to the Woman Who Told Us: Go Back to China.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/nyregion/to-the-woman-who-told-my-family-to-go-back-to-china.html?_r=0 Readers swiftly responded with their own stories: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/nyregion/go-back-to-china-readers-respond-to-racist-insults-shouted-at-a-new-york-times-editor.html DramaWatch: Working up a “Sweat” Art review: Beneath the surface seductions 45th Parallel’s real-time music video Fish, ink, and paper The new history: Dreams Deferred Vision 2020: Ka’ila Farrell-Smith Five Oaks: What’s in a name? Oregon ComposersWatch Follow ArtsWatch ArtsWatch OrArtsWatch Oregon ArtsWatch © 2020	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526961
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While Candice's most recent engagements include acting as a member of the Orrick teams successfully defending Johnson & Johnson and DISH, she has: obtained a complete victory for a pharmaceutical manufacturer in nationwide class action asserting negligent manufacture; successfully defended a biologics manufacturer in a class action alleging defective design; represented several pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers during the course of federal investigations; and settled heavily contested breach of contract claims and counterclaims involving a milestone agreement for an investigational new drug. In addition to her practice, Candice maintains an active pro bono practice handling civil and criminal appeals, with a special focus on cases in the service of Spanish-language speakers. Candice received her JD from Cornell and two bachelors' degrees from Yale University, one in history and one in political philosophy.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526962
__label__cc	0.682581	0.317419	New Toyota Prius Plug-In Review There’s no point in denying it: The new Toyota Prius Plug-In is the poster boy of the green party revolution (no, not that green party. No politics here, guys.) Any frugal-minded family looking to reduce their emissions whilst still travelling in class have been turning to the brand new Toyota Prius Plug-In, and it’s little surprise; it goes further than most of its rivals on a single charge, boasts fantastically low running costs, and comes with zero NOx. Even better, it’s just as practical and roomy as its diesel and petrol stablemates. Let’s take a closer look at what it offers. Drivability and Performance The new Toyota Prius Plug-In has a few rivals in its sector, among them the Vauxhall Ampera and the BMW i3, but unlike its nearest competitors, it doesn’t rely on its battery pack half as much. Instead, it puts the onus on its petrol engine, which essentially means that buyers get more drive at the wheels, as opposed to the drive acting as a power supply for the battery. The petrol power plant is a 1.8-litre unit, and the downside is that it’s paired to a somewhat noisy CVT gearbox which pretty much means refinement gets a zero out of ten. The ride is, moreover, a little bit firm. On the plus-side of things, the controls are light, which makes the new Toyota Prius Plug-In easy to drive. The controls might not be as fun as other Toyota hybrids, but they get the job done, whilst the car is nice and comfortable to sit in. The actual lithium-ion battery pack allows the car to manage 15.5 miles on a single charge, which ensures that you can negotiate traffic at low speeds with just the electric motor for comfort. This reduces the noise emitted from the petrol engine. Practicality and Interior There is little to tell this hybrid version of the Prius apart from its forefather, with the only clue from the outside that the new Toyota Prius Plug-In is a hybrid being the flap for the electric plug socket. Apart from that, the familiar 15” alloys grab your attention, whilst the “slippery” shape is present in all its glory. Inside, the car feels refreshingly spacious, largely thanks to the absence of any conventional dials. The huge windscreen also helps the car to feel big too. The overall impression, though, is one of cheapness. Nothing about the controls or the centre console emits quality. The new Toyota Prius Plug-In scores pretty well on practicality, though. The batteries haven’t changed, which ensures this cars’ usefulness is the same as the standard car, whilst a 443-litre boot comes in handy. There is also an area all by itself for storing the electric charging cable. Nice. The boot can be increased to a surprising 1,120-litres if you fold down the rear seats, whilst there are also various storage holes in the cabin too. Space is good, with rear legroom and shoulder room worthy of notable praise, although headroom could have been a little better. Five people, though, should be able to fit in here just fine. The new Toyota Prius Plug-In price range starts out from around £21,999, which makes it around £8,000 more expensive than the standard Prius. Buyers will be able to get their hands on a used Toyota Prius Plug-In for a little bit less. Standard equipment across the range includes LED daytime running lights, heated power outside mirrors, 15” alloys, intermittent rear window wiper and rear spoiler. If you pay extra for the Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Advanced, you will be treated to projector-beam halogen headlights and LED headlights. Integrated fog lights are available as an option for the Advanced trim. And whilst the new Toyota Prius Plug-In does cost more than the standard Prius, a £5,000 government grant for electric cars should soon make you feel a bit better. It’s also free to tax. The new Toyota Prius Plug-In is feeling the love at the moment, with many consumers putting their faith in the hybrid version of the Prius that, though it may cost more, promises better long-term benefits. These include lower running costs and very few emissions. If you’re looking to go green and need a family car that is as practical, spacious and useful as they come, the new Toyota Prius Plug-In is probably as good as things get right now. If you want to get hold of the new Toyota Prius Plug-In, don’t hesitate to leave us a message on our contact page, or give us a call on 01903 538835 to find out more about our Toyota Prius Plug-In lease deals. Andrew Kirkley Director at OSV Ltd Andrew enjoys: Movies and travelling to new cities to explore different cultures. Andrew has been in the motor trade for over 20 years. What he enjoys most about his job is the team spirit and the dedication of his work colleagues. He also appreciates the teams input in the improvement of the company. Latest posts by Andrew Kirkley (see all) Should I use a Car Broker? - 14th August 2018 What are hydrogen fuel cars? Are they are real possibility? - 22nd January 2018 Six secrets to know when renting a car - 19th January 2018 New Toyota Prius Plug-In	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526963
__label__wiki	0.728295	0.728295	Hidden from medium Hidden from desktop The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Summer 2016 Season Includes Anniversary Celebrations Summer Season Kicks Off with the Mann Center’s 40th Anniversary Season (June 21, 23, 24, and July 20 and 23) Performance under the stars at Longwood Gardens (June 29) FREE Neighborhood Concert at Penn’s Landing (July 1) Two FREE Neighborhood Chamber Concerts (June 15 and July 24) FREE Side-by-Side with NYO2 at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall (July 2) FREE PlayIN at 23rd Street Armory with NYO2 and NYO-USA (July 3) 10th Summer at Bravo! Vail Music Festival in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains (July 8-16) Celebrating 50 Years of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (August 3-20) (Philadelphia, June 9, 2016)—Returning from its triumphant 2016 Tour of Asia and China Residency, The Philadelphia Orchestra spends the coming months bringing its unique and renowned sound to music lovers across the U.S, performing in its homes in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and New York. The summer 2016 season includes the Mann Center for the Performing Arts with a special 40th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park venue on June 21, and continues with programs on June 23 and 24, and July 20 and 23. The Orchestra makes its 10th annual appearance at the Bravo! Vail festival in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, July 8-16. In August, the Philadelphians celebrate Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s 50th anniversary in Upstate New York, August 3-20. In addition to these annual residencies, the Orchestra gives a concert under the stars at Kennett Square’s Longwood Gardens on June 29, a FREE Neighborhood Concert at the Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing on July 1, and two FREE Neighborhood Chamber Concerts, at Pastorius Park in Chestnut Hill on June 15 and at the Piazza in Northern Liberties on July 24. The three Neighborhood Concert events are presented by Wells Fargo. Additional free events take place on July 2 at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall and July 3 at the 23rd Street Armory as part of NYO2’s weekend of activities in Philadelphia. A separate release is available for The Philadelphia Orchestra and NYO2 here. “This remarkable summer marks a number of long-time partnerships representing decades of music-making. From our local summer home at the Mann Center, to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, to our newest summer venue, Bravo! Vail, each is an important part of The Philadelphia Orchestra’s life. We salute the Mann and SPAC on our anniversaries together and mark our 10th summer at Bravo! Vail,” said Allison Vulgamore, president and CEO of The Philadelphia Orchestra. “Also we are, through our partnership with Carnegie Hall, hosting NYO2 in Philadelphia for a weekend, offering unique new opportunities to Philadelphia music students. Our Neighborhood Concert at the Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing and the chamber Neighborhood Concerts provide more free opportunities to enjoy the music of the members of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Once again, we thank Wells Fargo for over a decade of support of our Neighborhood Concerts and our friends at the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation.” For more information, visit philorch.org/summer. The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates 40 years of summer festivities at its local summer home, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts. The opening program (June 21) features a spectacular fireworks display and music from the repertoire performed by the Orchestra during its first summer at the Mann in 1976. The centerpiece of the Orchestra’s five performances at the Mann is the annual Party in the Park gala, featuring the North American premiere of a vividly-wrought interpretation of Stravinsky’s Firebird (July 20) created by Janni Younge of Handspring Productions. Philadelphia Orchestra Conductor-in-Residence Cristian Măcelaru leads the opening program, Firebird: Reimagined, and an all-Tchaikovsky program complete with fireworks (June 24). Movies at the Mann continues with the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone™ in Concert (June 23) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (July 23), with The Philadelphia Orchestra performing the rich orchestral scores as the films screen overhead. The Philadelphia Orchestra’s FREE Concerts for Philadelphia The Orchestra joins Philadelphia’s Independence Day festivities on July 1 for a FREE Neighborhood Concert at Penn’s Landing, in partnership with the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation, as part of the annual Wawa Welcome America! Celebration. Led by Philadelphia Orchestra Assistant Conductor Lio Kuokman, this quintessential summer concert features patriotic favorites as well as selections by Copland, John Williams, and the perennial Armed Forces Salute and Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Boy soprano Bobby Hill, who memorably sang for His Holiness Pope Francis at the 2015 Festival of Families, makes his Philadelphia Orchestra debut singing “God Bless America” and “Pie Jesu.” To add to the splendor of the evening, this year, following the concert at 9:30 PM, visitors to the Delaware River Waterfront will be able to enjoy the Wawa Welcome America! Fireworks presented by Comcast NBCUniversal & Pyrotecnico, an artfully designed fireworks show synchronized to a pre-recorded soundtrack of selections by The Philadelphia Orchestra. The soundtrack will be broadcast LIVE on KYW 1060 for listeners all over the city to enjoy. “The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation is excited to once again partner with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Wells Fargo to present this spectacular free concert under the stars at Penn’s Landing,” said Tom Corcoran, president of the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation. “We have worked closely with these partners to host this special concert for the region so that all are able to experience this premier orchestra in a beautiful outdoor setting. This collaboration helps fulfill our mission of bringing arts to the waterfront while supporting our local institutions.” Two Free Neighborhood Chamber Concerts feature members of The Philadelphia Orchestra, one on June 15 at Pastorius Park in Chestnut Hill and the other on July 24 at the Piazza in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberties neighborhood. All three concerts are presented by Wells Fargo. “At Wells Fargo, we are proud of our long history supporting The Philadelphia Orchestra, one of Philadelphia’s world class institutions,” said Greg Redden, Wells Fargo’s regional president for Greater Philadelphia and Delaware. “As presenting sponsor of the Orchestra’s Free Neighborhood Concert Series for the 13th year, we are delighted to continue the tradition of bringing the Orchestra’s music to thousands of people. The concert series offers a wonderful opportunity for community residents to come together to enjoy a live performance of one of the world’s great classical music ensembles and its leading musicians.” The events with NYO2 and NYO-USA (National Youth Orchestra of the USA) further expand The Philadelphia Orchestra’s services to area students and music lovers of all ages. The Orchestra welcomes members of NYO2 and NYO-USA from Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute to Philadelphia for two free concerts, July 2 and 3. During their visit, the students from the Philadelphia Music Alliance for Youth will be mentored by members of NYO2. NYO2 members also participate in The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Free Neighborhood Concert at Penn’s Landing on Friday, July 1. On Saturday, July 2, at 6 PM, NYO2 musicians sit Side-by-Side with The Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero for a concert at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall that is free and open to the public. The weekend culminates in a Free Full Orchestra PlayIN at the 23rd Street Armory at 12 PM on Sunday, July 3, featuring members of The Philadelphia Orchestra, NYO2, NYO-USA, as well as local instrumentalists. NYO2, in its premiere season, is a program that features some of the most talented musicians ages 14 through 17 from across the country. It was created with a particular focus on attracting students from communities underserved by, and underrepresented in, the classical orchestral field. NYO2 is an extension of Carnegie Hall’s NYO-USA, a program for ages 16 through 19, now in its fourth year. Visit philorch.org/summer for more information on our FREE Neighborhood Concerts, and the NYO2 performances. The Philadelphia Orchestra at Longwood Gardens On Wednesday, June 29, Assistant Conductor Lio Kuokman leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in a program of chamber orchestra repertoire, featuring Concertmaster David Kim in Vivaldi’s beloved Four Seasons. The Second Suite from Handel’s Water Music and Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik enliven the evening at the Open Air Theatre at Longwood. The Philadelphia Orchestra most recently performed at the preeminent horticultural display garden in 2013. The Philadelphia Orchestra at Bravo! Vail Bramwell Tovey opens The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 10th season at Bravo! Vail with an all-Beethoven program (July 8) including the Triple Concerto with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Concertmaster David Kim, and Principal Cello Hai-Ye Ni, and a dance-inspired program (July 10) introducing violinist Chad Hoopes, poised to become one of the classical world’s stars. The magic of Cirque de la Symphonie allows audiences to experience aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, and strongmen choreographed to classical masterpieces, led by Assistant Conductor Lio Kuokman (July 9). Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads three powerhouse programs: July 14 with pianist Kirill Gerstein, July 15 with Lisa Batiashvili, and July 16 with Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”), featuring soprano Karina Gauvin, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and the Colorado Symphony Chorus. The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center It’s Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s 50th anniversary, where The Philadelphia Orchestra is a founding company. August 3 is opening night for the Orchestra’s residency, and Principal Guest Conductor Stéphane Denève does the honors. The program reprises excerpts from Hannibal’s One Land, One River, One People, commissioned and premiered by The Philadelphia Orchestra in November 2015, followed by the quintessential paean to humanity, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, which was the first work performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra at SPAC 50 years ago. Completing the season are the ever-virtuosic Sarah Chang; a world premiere by Michael Torke, commissioned for The Philadelphia Orchestra; dancers from the New York City Ballet, also a SPAC founding company; Handspring Productions’ Firebird; Keith Lockhart of Boston Pops fame; appearances by Joshua Bell and Chris Botti; and three concerts led by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, featuring, respectively, stellar pianist André Watts, a SPAC veteran; America’s diva, soprano Renée Fleming, in her Saratoga debut; and a collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, SPAC’s newest resident company, for Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. Additional Philadelphia Orchestra programming introducing audiences to varied concert formats include the Pixar film Ratatouille in concert and Sophisticated Ladies, a tribute to the great ladies of American song. Prior to the concert on August 17, former Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Eugene Ormandy, one of the founding artists of Saratoga, will be honored with a “SPAC star” on the Amphitheatre apron. (August 3-20) For more information, please visit philorch.org/summer. PDF attachment: The Philadelphia Orchestra Summer 2016.pdf	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526965
__label__wiki	0.57707	0.57707	Pentax K-70 Review August 30, 2016 \| Mark Goldstein \| Rating & The Pentax K-70 is a new mid-range 24.24-megapixel DSLR camera. Key features include a 24 megapixel APS-C sensor with an anti-aliasing simulator rather than an optical anti-aliasing filter, a vari-angle LCD screen, 11-point SAFOX X Hybrid AF system, weather-resistant construction, ISO range of 100-102400, Full HD 1080p video at 30, 25 and 24fps, 6fps continuous shooting, Pixel Shift Resolution System, AA (anti-aliasing) filter simulator, High Dynamic Range mode, and a range of in-built digital filter effects. The K-70 also offers a shutter designed for 100,000 releases, top shutter speed of 1/6000th second, optical viewfinder with nearly 100% frame coverage, 77-segment matrix meter, dust removal and shake-reduction systems, built-in wi-fi connectivity, 14-bit RAW files, and a timer exposure mode. The Pentax K-70 is available in black and is priced at £559.99 / $699.95 for the body only, or £799.99 / $899.95 with the SMC DA 18-135mm F/3.5-5.6 ED AL (IF) DC WR lens. The Pentax K-70's is externally similar to its 3-year-old predecessor, the K-50, although the more "curvy" styling of that camera has been replaced with a squarer edged look. The Pentax K-70 is similar in size - 93(H) x 125.5(W) x 74(D) - and slightly heavier - 628g without the battery or memory card fitted. Despite its all-plastic construction the K-70 feels pretty solid, and it's also dust, cold and water resistant, thanks to a system of special seals used throughout the design, meaning that it can operate at . This shows itself most obviously via the battery compartment and the memory card slot. The SMC DA 18-135mm F/3.5-5.6 ED AL (IF) DC WR kit lens is better built and more weather-proof than the kits lenses of its rivals. The smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6AL WR lens features a simplified weather-resistant construction designed to minimise the intrusion of water and moisture into the lens barrel. There's also a special coating which repels dust, water and grease and makes it easy to wipe off fingerprints and cosmetics. Consequently it feels well-matched to the K-70, although it's a rather slow lens at both ends of the focal length (f3.5-5.6). The K-70 features a shutter unit which provides a fast top shutter speed of 1/6000th second and a 100,000 shutter release life-span, a figure more commonly associated with much more expensive professional SLR cameras. Rather than an optical anti-aliasing filter in the camera, the K-70 has an innovative anti-aliasing simulator instead, which can be turned off (default setting) or on to either the Type1 or Type2 setting, which adjusts the level of the effect. The Pentax K-70 is quite a complex camera in terms of functionality and the number of external controls that it offers, with 19 in total and a lot of them having more than one function. Despite the presence of so many buttons and switches, the Pentax K-70 doesn't feel too cluttered or intimidating, although it will certainly take some time to adapt to for people moving up from a simpler entry-level SLR. Departing from the recent trend of ultra-compact SLR models, the Pentax K-70 is definitely designed for "normal" hands. The camera has an even deeper handgrip than its predecessor on the right-hand side, coated in a rubberized compound to aid grip, that enables you to use three fingers to hold it and a right forefinger to operate the shutter button. There is a new thumb grip on the rear where your right thumb sits, covered in the same coating as the front handgrip. Curiously the left-hand side (viewed from the rear) and the remote control port on the right also have a rubber covering, with the rest of the body finished in a shiny black. On the front of the camera body is the RAW / Fx1 button, which instantly sets the image quality to the RAW format, useful if you are shooting in JPEG and want to quickly switch to RAW mode for a particular image. This button can also be customised to optionally control either Exposure Bracketing, Optical Preview, Digital Preview, Composition Adjustment or AF Active Area. Located underneath is the Autofocus Mode switch, with two available modes, and above a small button for opening the pop-up flash, which extends quite high above the lens to help minimise red-eye. Connecting to the Pentax K-70’s built-in Wi-Fi is done via the Wi-Fi/Fx2 button on top of the camera. Once you have the dedicated Image Sync app installed on your device and you’re connected, you can shoot remotely, and very pleasingly, you have pretty much complete control over the camera’s shooting capability. So, you can change aperture, ISO, shutter speed and more - the only thing you won’t be able to change is the focal length of the lens. On the whole it’s a great app to use, and other manufacturers could look to this app for inspiration on how to produce a genuinely useful smartphone remote control app. The other option you have is to download images taken on the camera across to your smartphone or tablet for quick sharing to social networks or email. Front of the Pentax K-70 The K-70 doesn't have a built-in GPS unit. Instead, you can buy the optional O-GPS1 GPS Unit to take advantage of the camera's special built-in Astrotracer function, which calculates the earth's rotation to help that stars are captured without streaking. Using the in-body SR (shake reduction) mechanism, Pixel Shift Resolution works by shifting the image sensor by a single pixel in four different directions and merging four shots together, so that each photosite on the sensor captures red, green and blue from the colour filter array, rather than just a single colour as on a Bayer sensor. Pentax claims that this creates "super high-definition images" with more accurate colour reproduction, finer detail, elimination of false color aliasing and less noise. Images taken with the Pixel Shift Resolution function turned on can be processed on the camera and also developed using the included utility software. Note that you should use a tripod or other support when using this feature, plus one of the Self-timer, Remote Control, or Mirror Lock-up functions, and also that it can't be used effectively for moving subjects. On the bottom of the K-70 is the weather-sealed battery compartment, housing the supplied rechargeable D-LI109 battery which only offers a rather mediocre performance of around 480 shots before being depleted. Note that the K-70 no longer accepts AA batteries as well, unlike the previous K-50 model. There's also a metal tripod mount that's perfectly in-line with the centre of the lens mount. On the right-hand side of the K-70 is the weather-sealed SD / SDXC memory card slot, and located below is new HDMI port and the USB port. Note that the Pentax K-70 no longer has a remote cable release connector, a disappointing omission. The Pentax K-70 has a shooting mode dial on the top-right of the camera which allows you to select either one of the advanced mode like Aperture-priority, Shutter-Priority and Manual, or the more point-and-shoot Auto and Program modes. There are also a range of 19 scene modes, signaling its intent as a camera that's equally suited to more casual users. You'll instantly notice that the K-70 has a couple of unusual shooting modes that you won't have seen before on any other camera (apart from older Pentax DSLR models). These are the Sensitivity-Priority and Shutter & Aperture-Priority modes, and they are genuinely useful additions. Sensitivity-Priority automatically selects the best combination of aperture and shutter speed for your chosen ISO speed. The sensitivity can be shifted instantly (in 1/2 or 1/3 steps) by turning the rear control dial. This allows you to quickly select an ISO speed, without having to access the menu system, which is very useful in rapidly changing light conditions. In Shutter & Aperture-Priority mode the camera selects the most appropriate ISO speed for a shutter speed and aperture combination, allowing you to use ISO sensitivity as a third factor in determining the correct exposure. As digital cameras have always offered the unique ability to instantly change the sensitivity, it's surprising that Pentax are still the only manufacturer to allow you to use ISO in this way. Rear of the Pentax K-70 Also on the right hand side of the top of the K-70 is the small shutter button, surrounded by the on/off switch. Located in front of the shutter button is one of the e-dials, predominately used to change the shutter speed, while behind it are the Exposure Compensation button and a rather innocuous looking button with a small green dot that's unique to Pentax DSLRs. It has two uses - firstly, when shooting in Manual mode, a single push of the green button allows you to instantly set the correct exposure for the subject, as calculated by the camera, useful if you need a starting point for your own exposure. Secondly, the K-70 offers a Hyper Program function which instantly switches to either the Shutter-Priority or Aperture-Priority mode from the Program mode, simply by turning either of the control dials on the grip. Pressing the Green button then returns to the Program mode. The Pentax K-70 has a traditional eye-level optical TTL viewfinder which offers an impressive 100% scene coverage. Being able to see exactly what will be captured means that you can only blame yourself for poor composition and unwanted details creeping into the frame. The viewfinder is bright and free of any distortions or aberrations, making it suitable for both auto and manual focusing. The in-finder status LCD runs horizontally along the bottom and it shows most of the camera's key settings. The rear of the camera is dominated by the new vari-angle 3 inch LCD screen, which makes it much easier to record movies and shoot from unusual angles. The K-70's LCD screen has a high resolution of 921K dots, wide viewing angle and it remains visible outdoors in all but the brightest of conditions. The colour temperature of the screen can be modified if you think it doesn't match that of your calibrated computer monitor, but the contrast and gamma cannot be altered. The rear screen also doubles as a comprehensive status display, which can be called up by pressing the OK or Info buttons in record mode. If you then press the Info button again, you can also change all the settings right on the screen using a combination of the navigation pad and the rear e-dial. This ingenious solution spares you the pain of having to enter the menu, and makes most setting changes very simple. Located above the LCD screen and to the left of the viewfinder is the shared Live View / Delete button. You can use the Live View mode to hold the K-70 at arm's length or mount the camera on a tripod, with a single press of the LV button on the rear displaying the current scene on the LCD screen. Focusing is achieved by pressing the small AF/AE-L button on the rear of the camera or by half-pressing the shutter-button. Alternatively you can use manual focus in Live View mode, with up to 10x magnification available via the Info button to help you fine-tune the focus (you can also use the Info button to magnify the subject by up to 6x when Auto Focus is on). Most of the main camera settings are displayed in Live View, although a histogram is conspicuous by its absence. You can change the aperture, shutter speed, exposure compensation, ISO speed and a number of other settings when Live View is activated. The K-70 is the first ever Pentax DSLR to feature the Hybrid AF system, which employs both a contrast-detection AF sensor and a phase-matching AF sensor on the image sensor's surface. In practice this massively speeds up auto-focusing in live view mode, taking less than a second to lock onto the subject, rather than a couple of seconds. Although we still wouldn't use it to track a fast-moving subject, it's a real improvement and something that we'd hope and expect to see on all future Pentax DSLRs. Impressively . Tilting LCD Screen The K-70 can record Full 1080p HD movie footage, recording high-definition video at either 1920 x 1280 pixels, 1280 x 720 pixels or 640 x 480 pixel at 30fps, 25fps or 24fps in the MOV format. The maximum size of a single video clip is either 4 gigabytes or 25 minutes. There's a built-in microphone for mono recording. You can connect the K-70 to a standard TV set via NTSC/PAL, and there's now a HDMI port too. There are some notable drawbacks to the Pentax K-70's video mode. It's still quite difficult to actually start recording one. You have to move the Off/On/Movie switch to the Movie setting, then press the AF-On or half-press shutter button to set the focus, and then press the shutter button to begin recording (with the same button ending the movie). It's not on a par with the one-button system that some rivals offer, and you can't take a still shot during recording either. As with most modern DSLR cameras that offer a video mode, you can autofocus during movie recording, and it benefits from the same speed improvements as the still photo mode. You can also now set the camera to continually autofocus when shooting video, bringing the K-70 in line with newer DSLRs. To the right of the viewfinder is the rear e-dial, mainly used for changing the aperture, and the AF/AE-L button, handily placed for autofocusing and locking the exposure. Underneath is the traditional 4-way navigation pad which is split into separate buttons, providing instant access to the ISO speed, drive mode/self-timer, white balance and flash settings, with the OK button confirming actions. The Menu button accesses all of the 80+ different menu options that the camera offers, reflecting the fact that this is quite a complex and customisable DSLR. Thankfully you will only have to set about half of the settings once and can then forget about them. The menu system has a fairly logical tabbed system with five main tabs, Record, Movie, Playback, Setup and Custom, each divided into several sub-pages, and it's easily readable with a bright display and a large font size making it perfectly visible even in low light. The Pentax K-70 features a built-in Shake Reduction system. Turn it on via the main menu option and the K-70 automatically compensates for camera shake, which is a slight blurring of the image that typically occurs at slow shutter speeds, providing . As this system is built into the camera body, it works with almost any lens that you attach to the K-70, providing a significant cost advantage over DSLRs from Canon and Nikon, which use a lens-based image stabilisation system (compatible lenses are the PENTAX K-, KA-, KAF-, KAF2- and KAF3-mount lenses; screw-mounted lenses (with an adapter); and 645- and 67-system lenses (with an adapter)). If you've had a bad experience with DSLRs and dust in the past, then the K-70 offers a Dust Removal mechanism. This automatically shifts the low-pass filter located in front of the CMOS image sensor at very high speed, shaking the dust off the low-pass filter. If you do still notice any dust, there's a neat feature called Dust Alert which is designed to show exactly where the dust is on the image sensor. A vertically and laterally correct image of the sensor shot at f/16 is shown on the LCD screen, indicate exactly where any stubborn dust particles may be lurking. While this feature won't prevent dust from getting onto the sensor, it does provide a quick and easy way of checking for it. In addition Dust Removal can be set to activate whenever the camera is turned on, and you can also use the built-in Sensor Cleaning function to lift the mirror and clean the image sensor with a blower brush or third-party cleaning solution. The Pentax K-70 In-hand The Pentax K-70's High Dynamic Range (HDR) Capture option (only available for JPEGs) takes three images with different exposures, with 4 different strengths on offer, and then records a single image that combines the properly exposed parts of each one, expanding its dynamic range. It's important to always use a tripod to prevent camera shake from blurring the HDR image, and it doesn't work very well for moving subjects. Pentax's Custom Images, similar to Nikon's Picture Styles and Canon's Picture Controls, are preset combinations of different sharpness, contrast, saturation and colour tone settings. You can change the . The Pentax K-70 additionally offers 9 different Digital Filters, which allow you to quickly apply an artistic effect to a photo before taking it (JPEG images only). Note that applying the Digital Filters slows the camera down somewhat, as it has to process the image for a few seconds after it's taken. The K-70 can also be set to automatically compensate for both distortion and lateral chromatic aberration of any DA- and DFA-series lenses.,> The rather innocuous-sounding AF Fine Adjustment custom function will be of particular interest to current Pentax owners. If you have a collection of older Pentax lenses and you've never been quite sure how accurate they focus when mounted on a DSLR, this is the function for you. Essentially it allows you to alter the focus of each Fine Adjustment option, then test again until perfect focus is achieved. With most other DSLR systems you'd have to send the camera and lens off for calibration (and maybe even have to pay for it), but with the K-70, you can calibrate all of your lenses in the comfort of your own home. The start-up time of the Pentax K-70, from turning the camera on to being ready to take a photo, is very quick at around 1 second. Focusing is also quick and consistent in good light with the standard 18-135mm kit lens, and the camera happily achieves focus indoors and in low-light situations. The powerful AF Assist lamp can be used even if the built-in flash isn't raised, and there's a very handy peaking function that's great for manual focus users which now works for video as well as stills. It takes about 1 second to store a JPEG image at the highest quality setting with no discernible lockup between taking shots, allowing you to keep shooting as they are being recorded onto the memory card. For RAW images the Pentax K-70 takes about 2 seconds to store an image and again there is no lockup between shots. In the continuous shooting mode you can hold down the shutter button and take 6 shots per second for up to 40 JPEG or 10 RAW files. The camera does lock up for a few seconds once the maximum number of shots is reached, although you can continue to shoot continuously, just at a much slower rate. Next Page Image Quality » Share Tweet Comment	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526966
__label__wiki	0.685457	0.685457	Home / Albert Einstein / Relativity / SPECIAL AND GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY BY ALBERT EINSTEIN Algebra September 03, 2018 0 THE basal principle, which was the pivot of all our previous considerations, was the special principle of relativity, i.e. the principle of the physical relativity of all uniform motion. Let us once more analyse its meaning carefully. It was at all times clear that, from the point of view of the idea it conveys to us, every motion must only be considered as a relative motion. Returning to the illustration we have frequently used of the embankment and the railway carriage, we can express the fact of the motion here taking place in the following two forms, both of which are equally justifiable: (a) The carriage is in motion relative to the embankment. (b) The embankment is in motion relative to the carriage. In (a) the embankment, in (b) the carriage, serves as the body of reference in our statement of the motion taking place. If it is simply a question of detecting or of describing the motion involved, it is in principle immaterial to what reference-body we refer the motion. As already mentioned, this is self-evident, but it must not be confused with the much more comprehensive statement called “the principle of relativity,” which we have taken as the basis of our investigations. The principle we have made use of not only maintains that we may equally well choose the reference-body for the description of any event (for this, too, is self evident). Our principle rather asserts what follows: If we formulate the general laws of nature as they are obtained from experience, by making use of (a) the embankment as reference-body, (b) the railway carriage as reference-body then these general laws of nature (e.g. the laws of mechanics or the law of the propagation of light in vacuo) have exactly the same form in both cases. This can also be expressed as follows: For the physical description of natural processes, neither of the reference-bodies K, K' is unique (lit. “specially marked out”) as compared with the other. Unlike the first, this latter statement need not of necessity hold a priori; it is not contained in the conceptions of “motion” and “reference-body” and derivable from them; only experience can decide as to its correctness or incorrectness. Up to the present, however, we have by no means maintained the equivalence of all bodies of reference K in connection with the formulation of natural laws. Our course was more on the following lines. In the first place, we started out from the assumption that there exists a reference-body K, whose condition of motion is such that the Galileian law holds with respect to it: A particle left to itself and sufficiently far removed from all other particles moves uniformly in a straight line. With reference to K (Galileian reference-body) the laws of nature were to be as simple as possible. But in addition to K, all bodies of reference K should be given preference in this sense, and they should be exactly equivalent to K for the formulation of natural laws, provided that they are in a state of uniform rectilinear and non rotary motion with respect to K; all these bodies of reference are to be regarded as Galileian reference-bodies. The validity of the principle of relativity was assumed only for these reference-bodies, but not for others (e.g. those possessing motion of a different kind). In this sense we speak of the special principle of relativity, or special theory of relativity. In contrast to this we wish to understand by the “general principle of relativity” the following statement: All bodies of reference K, K', etc., are equivalent for the description of natural phenomena (formulation of the general laws of nature), whatever may be their state of motion. But before proceeding farther, it ought to be pointed out that this formulation must be replaced later by a more abstract one, for reasons which will become evident at a later stage. Since the introduction of the special principle of relativity has been justified, every intellect which strives after generalisation must feel the temptation to venture the step towards the general principle of relativity. But a simple and apparently quite reliable consideration seems to suggest that, for the present at any rate, there is little hope of success in such an attempt. Let us imagine ourselves transferred to our old friend the railway carriage, which is travelling at a uniform rate. As long as it is moving uniformly, the occupant of the carriage is not sensible of its motion, and it is for this reason that he can without reluctance interpret the facts of the case as indicating that the carriage is at rest, but the embankment in motion. Moreover, according to the special principle of relativity, this interpretation is quite justified also from a physical point of view. If the motion of the carriage is now changed into a non-uniform motion, as for instance by a powerful application of the brakes, then the occupant of the carriage experiences a correspondingly powerful jerk forwards. The retarded motion is manifested in the mechanical behaviour of bodies relative to the person in the railway carriage. The mechanical behaviour is different from that of the case previously considered, and for this reason it would appear to be impossible that the same mechanical laws hold relatively to the non-uniformly moving carriage, as hold with reference to the carriage when at rest or in uniform motion. At all events it is clear that the Galileian law does not hold with respect to the non-uniformly moving carriage. Because of this, we feel compelled at the present juncture to grant a kind of absolute physical reality to non-uniform motion, in opposition to the general principle of relativity. But in what follows we shall soon see that this conclusion cannot be maintained. Albert Einstein Relativity	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526969
__label__wiki	0.738123	0.738123	Harry and Meghan Are Becoming Financially Independent — Here's How They'll Make Money How Do Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Make Money? January 18, 2020 by Corinne Sullivan First Published: January 14, 2020 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced on Jan. 8 that they would step back as senior members of the royal family, and in their official statement, they claimed that they would "work to become financially independent." Even though they're giving up their share of the Queen's Sovereign Grant, we have a feeling that the duke and duchess of Sussex are going to get by just fine — and in fact, they may even profit from their decision to step down. According to their website's Funding section, the money they were provided by the Sovereign Grant in 2019 only amounted to 5 percent of their total income. The grant, which acts as a wage for royal duties, also placed a restriction on their private financial opportunities. Up until now, the remaining 95 percent of Harry and Meghan's income came from the Duchy of Cornwall, which is part of Prince Charles's private estate and financially supports both of Charles's sons and their wives. The couple also has some pretty substantial savings, as Prince Harry and his brother William received most of the fortune left by their late mother, Princess Diana, as well as millions of pounds from the Queen Mother, their late great grandmother. And let's not forget that Meghan starred in seven seasons of USA's Suits, where she earned thousands per episode (and residuals from all the episodes in syndication). Meghan Markle Doesn't Get a Salary — Here's What She Has Instead Now that they're relinquishing their titles as senior royals, Harry and Meghan will have the opportunity to earn money in ways they hadn't been able to before. Back in June 2019, they submitted a trademark application for their joint brand, Sussex Royal, which would cover hundreds of items under the categories of clothing, campaigning, charitable fundraising, and more. Translation: their brand will make them big money. Given their celebrity status and A-list network, the power couple is likely to receive lucrative offers for book deals, talk show appearances, and speaking engagements, among other possibilities, but — save for their income from the Duchy of Cornwall — it seems their burgeoning brand will keep Harry and Meghan's pockets full for years to come. Image Source: Getty / WPA Pool The RoyalsMeghan MarklePrince HarryThe British Royals	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526971
__label__wiki	0.632378	0.632378	[Title Page] The Theatre of The Empire of Great... John Speed [Title Page] The Theatre of The Empire of Great Britaine . . . By Iohn Speed . . . 1650 London / 1650 Highly decorative title page from the 1650 edition of John Speed's Theatre of Great Britaine, perhaps the most famous and enduring atlas of Great Britain published in the 17th Century. The map includes allegorical figures showing a Britaine, Roman, Saxon, Dane and Norman, the "ethnic composition" of the people of 17th Century Britain. Engraved by R. White, for Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, the last major updated edition of Speed's atlas. John Speed Biography John Speed (1551 or '52 - 28 July 1629) was the best known English mapmaker of the Stuart period. Speed came to mapmaking late in life, producing his first maps in the 1590s and entering the trade in earnest when he was almost 60 years old. John Speed's fame, which continues to this day, lies with two atlases, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (first published 1612), and the Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World (1627). While The Theatre ... started as solely a county atlas, it grew into an impressive world atlas with the inclusion of the Prospect in 1627. The plates for the atlas passed through many hands in the 17th century, and the book finally reached its apotheosis in 1676 when it was published by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, with a number of important maps added for the first time. Antique Maps / Europe / British Isles / British Isles Antique Maps / Curiosities / Title Pages	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526972
__label__wiki	0.533043	0.533043	Kentucky and Tennessee The item illustrated and described below is sold, but we have another example in stock. To view the example which is currently being offered for sale, click the "View Details" button below. 1836 David Hugh Burr Stock# m0408 David Hugh Burr New York / 1834 Attractive example of David Burr's scarce map of Kentucky & Tennessee, from his rare Universal Atlas. The map shows counties, towns, roads, rivers, mountains, lakes, forts and other important details. Nice wide margined example of this hard to find map. Burr's Atlas was perhaps the most elegant American commercially published atlas of its time, utilizing wonderful wash colors and elegant engraving style. Burr studied under Simeon DeWitt in New York. His first atlas was an Atlas of New York State, the second state atlas to be issued in the US (after Mills Atlas of South Carolina in 1826). In the 1830s, he served as topographer for the US Post Office, producing a series of rare and highly sought after large format state maps during this period. Later, he was appointed as the Geographer of the House of Representatives, where he served during the later part of the 1830s. Burr is widely regarded as one of the most important names in American Cartographic history. Antique Maps / United States / South / South	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526973
__label__wiki	0.944053	0.944053	Place your own classified Life & StyleLife life-style, life, snow, skiing, snowboarding, Perisher, Thredbo, winter Want to live your life chasing the snow around the world? Here's how three people made it happen. For someone whose glamorous career is that of the globe-tripping ski blogger, Rachael Oakes-Ash has to work hard at finding time to enjoy it. Behind all the envy-dripping pictures of first ski tracks on empty, pristine powder snow and glamorous people having the time of their lives on mountains across the world is some genuine story-hunting "hard yards". Regularly reaching social media audiences of hundreds of thousands of people makes her a genuine influencer, too. But just don't call her that. "I hate the term; I'm a journalist who wants to get good stuff out there people want to see and read," she says. "In my experience, social media influencers usually focus more on themselves and much less on the content. "And you know what? People like it like that, particularly my Australian audience. Social media should be all about producing great content, not vanity." Long before she became Miss Snowitall, Australia's top-ranked ski and snowboard blogger and writer with tens of thousands of followers on her Snowsbest page, Ms Oakes-Ash was a journalist, working in radio, as a freelance writer and in "lifestyle" PR. Now, through a few twists of fate, a strong work ethic and fierce determination, she appears to live the kind of life of which every avid skier or snowboard dreams: getting paid to leapfrog from one resort to another, wined and dined, often hanging out with the beautiful people and, best of all, having access to the world's best quality powder snow. She was a late adopter to skiing but now spends the northern winter in the US and the southern in either New Zealand or Australia. Park City, Utah, which was the site for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, was her northern base for the past three winters and for someone who lives months of her life out of a suitcase, the reasons were quite logical: it's not far from the airport. "I rented a place about 30 minutes from the airport so if there's an event or big snowfall at Whistler or Wyoming, I can jump on the plane and be there," she says. For the southern snow season, she usually rents a cottage at Arrowtown, just outside Queenstown, New Zealand. With over 47,000 Facebook followers, 20,000 on Instagram and 100,000 people reading her blogs, there's constant pressure to generate up-to-date content, work on a new promotion and come up with fresh ideas and images. "The social media business is 24/7 and it's all about the strength of your engagement and reaching people; on a good week we can be reaching up to 700,000 people," she says. "And being a journalist, I like to be first with the snow news about what's happening, particularly in our part of the world so that creates its own pressures." However, it isn't a completely endless winter for Rachael Oakes-Ash. On recent return journeys home from her northern sojourn, she has been making a stop-over in the Cook Islands for a healthy dose of sun-giving vitamin D. As a young surfer growing up in Forster, on the NSW far North Coast, Charles Beckinsale could never have expected that his adult life would be shaped by snow. But at 13 when his mother moved to Jindabyne, the transition from surfing to snowboarding was relatively easy and within a few years, young Beckinsale was a sponsored star of his new-found sport. "I left school at 16 to pursue a career as a professional snowboarder and for a young bloke, it was a pretty exciting thing to do, going on fully sponsored trips to North America with a decent travel budget and stuff like that," he says. Specialised terrain parks, where skiers and boarders use rails, boxes, jumps and berms to perform spectacular tricks were the new booming area of the sport. But getting the snow shaped just right for progressive, usable jumps was, at least on the Australian snowfields, still a unexplored skill. "At 17 I was on the shovel and rake at Thredbo, helping to build a terrain park by hand and explaining to the snowcat drivers where to push the snow, how high to make it, and how to form the basic snow structures that we finished off by hand," he says. As an accomplished snowboarder who had worked with film-makers and photographers overseas and knew the type of images they wanted, Beckinsale knew good parks attracted the best riders and the publicity trail which followed them. His first big break came when a friend recommended him for a start as a groomer in a snowcat at the Squaw Valley skifield in California. "It was a strange, unregulated industry back then. I just needed to get into driving a cat because I knew what I wanted to build and using machinery makes it so much quicker and would save myself and the crew hours of handwork shaping," he says. Once he got his break, Beckinsale never looked back. He started grooming ski slopes first and mastered the complex controls. Fast forward four years and he was creating some of the top terrain parks in North America. "The snowboard industry was a bit smaller then and word always got around pretty fast about a great park because that's where the sponsored riders and teams want to ride so they can get the best training, shots and images," he says. "I was a bit of a unusual commodity because I was a known rider who could also build. And the more parks I built, the better I got at it." Beckinsale describes snow as a "fascinating and unusual medium" to manipulate but it took some trial and error to learn what it can and can't do. From building and running the terrain parks at Thredbo, he was then head-hunted to do the same at Perisher. "I loved the variety of the work I did in that role. Everything from designing the park, welding the steel rails, running the crew, jumping in a cat to execute the builds with the team and marketing the parks and pipes at Perisher, no two days would ever be the same." As a park designer and builder for hire, swapping between northern and southern winters, Beckinsale began to specialise further. Four years ago he created a company called Stomping Grounds Projects. A key focus of its activity occurs on a glacier high in the Swiss mountains near Zermatt, at a place called Saas-Fee where Charles and his team build a competition size slopestyle course and halfpipe venue. For six months of the northern hemisphere winter that follows, his company custom-builds specialised features, such as half-pipes and jumps of various sizes. His customers range from global sports backers like Red Bull, Nike and Monster, to national snowboard teams looking for a discreet training location, World Cup event organisers for large scale competition venues and ski resorts just looking to offer a great terrain park to public guests. "The northern winter is so busy now that I can afford to take time off during the southern winter in Jindabyne to spend time with my wife and son. "The two of them join me for two of the longer trips away each year and I get home for a few weeks here and there throughout my work schedule but the 3-4 months of time off with them at home is worth the time away," he said. If not for her love of the snow, Renata Hercock could be wearing a sharp suit and sitting in a courtroom somewhere, arguing a case. Originally from the Central Coast of NSW, she had finished her law degree and was wondering what to do next when she headed to the snow for a "bit of a break" and applied for an non-certified instructor position at Perisher. She started work at Smiggins Holes, which is possibly the most modest instructor role at the resort, but fell in love with the snow life and getting paid to teach children how to ski. "I actually dislike summer and I never really enjoyed it," she says. After just one season, the potential employment reach that Perisher has across the world as a member of the US-based Vail Resorts group opened up other opportunities for her. "I then travelled overseas to another Vail resort, Beaver Creek, in Colorado and worked there. It made sense to do back-to-back winters seeing as I didn't want to do anything else after my first season," she said. Now she has joined the hundreds of instructors who follow the snow season across the world. It's a globe-tripping work and lifestyle opportunity which is the envy of us who sit at our desks each day, flipping through Instagram shots of snow-covered mountains in far-off lands. As the melt begins here in Australia and the crowds head home, she takes off the skis and pulls beers behind the bar at the Banjo Paterson Inn in Jindabyne. "In late November I'll head to my parents' house on the Central Coast of NSW and spend a few days with them before I fly out to Park City, Utah in early December," she says. "Some years I head over the USA a little earlier and do some travelling during the period I have off. I work as an instructor and a trainer out of the Canyons base at Park City Resort from early December to early April each year. I then fly home, spend some time with Mum and Dad again and then head home to Jindabyne where it all starts again!" Spending so long away from home, she admits to missing her parents and friends. But the fresh mountain air and the laughter of the young kids finding their first ski legs on Perisher's Front Valley provides a daily tonic. "I've managed to build myself a fulfilling career in this industry and intend to move into management positions with more experience. So in short, I plan to keep it going for the rest of my working life," she says. The Canberra Times https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/fdcx/dc5syd-6q71oc13zs8wiwfykcg.jpg/r9_0_3662_2064_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg August 15 2019 - 6:00PM Blogger, ski instructor, terrain park builder: the people who make a living from the snow, all year round Peter Brewer Want to live your life chasing the snow around the world? Here's how three people made it happen. The snow blogger For someone whose glamorous career is that of the globe-tripping ski blogger, Rachael Oakes-Ash has to work hard at finding time to enjoy it. Behind all the envy-dripping pictures of first ski tracks on empty, pristine powder snow and glamorous people having the time of their lives on mountains across the world is some genuine story-hunting "hard yards". Regularly reaching social media audiences of hundreds of thousands of people makes her a genuine influencer, too. But just don't call her that. Kerry Lee Dodd in the powder on the signature backcountry tours at Falls Creek with Rachael Oakes-Ash. Photo: Chris Hocking "I hate the term; I'm a journalist who wants to get good stuff out there people want to see and read," she says. "In my experience, social media influencers usually focus more on themselves and much less on the content. "And you know what? People like it like that, particularly my Australian audience. Social media should be all about producing great content, not vanity." Long before she became Miss Snowitall, Australia's top-ranked ski and snowboard blogger and writer with tens of thousands of followers on her Snowsbest page, Ms Oakes-Ash was a journalist, working in radio, as a freelance writer and in "lifestyle" PR. She appears to live the kind of life of which every avid skier or snowboard dreams: getting paid to leapfrog from one resort to another, wined and dined, often hanging out with the beautiful people... Now, through a few twists of fate, a strong work ethic and fierce determination, she appears to live the kind of life of which every avid skier or snowboard dreams: getting paid to leapfrog from one resort to another, wined and dined, often hanging out with the beautiful people and, best of all, having access to the world's best quality powder snow. She was a late adopter to skiing but now spends the northern winter in the US and the southern in either New Zealand or Australia. Snow blogger Rachael Oakes-Ash in New Zealand. Picture: Tarn Pilkington. Park City, Utah, which was the site for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, was her northern base for the past three winters and for someone who lives months of her life out of a suitcase, the reasons were quite logical: it's not far from the airport. "I rented a place about 30 minutes from the airport so if there's an event or big snowfall at Whistler or Wyoming, I can jump on the plane and be there," she says. For the southern snow season, she usually rents a cottage at Arrowtown, just outside Queenstown, New Zealand. With over 47,000 Facebook followers, 20,000 on Instagram and 100,000 people reading her blogs, there's constant pressure to generate up-to-date content, work on a new promotion and come up with fresh ideas and images. "The social media business is 24/7 and it's all about the strength of your engagement and reaching people; on a good week we can be reaching up to 700,000 people," she says. The Stomping Grounds course at Saas Fee, near Zermatt. Picture Stomping Grounds "And being a journalist, I like to be first with the snow news about what's happening, particularly in our part of the world so that creates its own pressures." However, it isn't a completely endless winter for Rachael Oakes-Ash. On recent return journeys home from her northern sojourn, she has been making a stop-over in the Cook Islands for a healthy dose of sun-giving vitamin D. The terrain park builder As a young surfer growing up in Forster, on the NSW far North Coast, Charles Beckinsale could never have expected that his adult life would be shaped by snow. But at 13 when his mother moved to Jindabyne, the transition from surfing to snowboarding was relatively easy and within a few years, young Beckinsale was a sponsored star of his new-found sport. "I left school at 16 to pursue a career as a professional snowboarder and for a young bloke, it was a pretty exciting thing to do, going on fully sponsored trips to North America with a decent travel budget and stuff like that," he says. Terrain park builder Charles Beckinsale behind the controls of a snowcat in Switzerland. Picture: Stomping Grounds Specialised terrain parks, where skiers and boarders use rails, boxes, jumps and berms to perform spectacular tricks were the new booming area of the sport. But getting the snow shaped just right for progressive, usable jumps was, at least on the Australian snowfields, still a unexplored skill. "At 17 I was on the shovel and rake at Thredbo, helping to build a terrain park by hand and explaining to the snowcat drivers where to push the snow, how high to make it, and how to form the basic snow structures that we finished off by hand," he says. As an accomplished snowboarder who had worked with film-makers and photographers overseas and knew the type of images they wanted, Beckinsale knew good parks attracted the best riders and the publicity trail which followed them. A snowcat at work building a terrain park in Switzerland His first big break came when a friend recommended him for a start as a groomer in a snowcat at the Squaw Valley skifield in California. "It was a strange, unregulated industry back then. I just needed to get into driving a cat because I knew what I wanted to build and using machinery makes it so much quicker and would save myself and the crew hours of handwork shaping," he says. Once he got his break, Beckinsale never looked back. He started grooming ski slopes first and mastered the complex controls. Fast forward four years and he was creating some of the top terrain parks in North America. "The snowboard industry was a bit smaller then and word always got around pretty fast about a great park because that's where the sponsored riders and teams want to ride so they can get the best training, shots and images," he says. "I was a bit of a unusual commodity because I was a known rider who could also build. And the more parks I built, the better I got at it." Beckinsale describes snow as a "fascinating and unusual medium" to manipulate but it took some trial and error to learn what it can and can't do. From building and running the terrain parks at Thredbo, he was then head-hunted to do the same at Perisher. "I loved the variety of the work I did in that role. Everything from designing the park, welding the steel rails, running the crew, jumping in a cat to execute the builds with the team and marketing the parks and pipes at Perisher, no two days would ever be the same." As a park designer and builder for hire, swapping between northern and southern winters, Beckinsale began to specialise further. Four years ago he created a company called Stomping Grounds Projects. A key focus of its activity occurs on a glacier high in the Swiss mountains near Zermatt, at a place called Saas-Fee where Charles and his team build a competition size slopestyle course and halfpipe venue. For six months of the northern hemisphere winter that follows, his company custom-builds specialised features, such as half-pipes and jumps of various sizes. His customers range from global sports backers like Red Bull, Nike and Monster, to national snowboard teams looking for a discreet training location, World Cup event organisers for large scale competition venues and ski resorts just looking to offer a great terrain park to public guests. "The northern winter is so busy now that I can afford to take time off during the southern winter in Jindabyne to spend time with my wife and son. "The two of them join me for two of the longer trips away each year and I get home for a few weeks here and there throughout my work schedule but the 3-4 months of time off with them at home is worth the time away," he said. The ski instructor If not for her love of the snow, Renata Hercock could be wearing a sharp suit and sitting in a courtroom somewhere, arguing a case. Originally from the Central Coast of NSW, she had finished her law degree and was wondering what to do next when she headed to the snow for a "bit of a break" and applied for an non-certified instructor position at Perisher. She started work at Smiggins Holes, which is possibly the most modest instructor role at the resort, but fell in love with the snow life and getting paid to teach children how to ski. Renata Hercock loving her working life on the roof of Australia "I actually dislike summer and I never really enjoyed it," she says. After just one season, the potential employment reach that Perisher has across the world as a member of the US-based Vail Resorts group opened up other opportunities for her. "I then travelled overseas to another Vail resort, Beaver Creek, in Colorado and worked there. It made sense to do back-to-back winters seeing as I didn't want to do anything else after my first season," she said. Now she has joined the hundreds of instructors who follow the snow season across the world. It's a globe-tripping work and lifestyle opportunity which is the envy of us who sit at our desks each day, flipping through Instagram shots of snow-covered mountains in far-off lands. Renata Hercock loving her working life on the roof of Australia. Picture: Perisher As the melt begins here in Australia and the crowds head home, she takes off the skis and pulls beers behind the bar at the Banjo Paterson Inn in Jindabyne. "In late November I'll head to my parents' house on the Central Coast of NSW and spend a few days with them before I fly out to Park City, Utah in early December," she says. "Some years I head over the USA a little earlier and do some travelling during the period I have off. I work as an instructor and a trainer out of the Canyons base at Park City Resort from early December to early April each year. I then fly home, spend some time with Mum and Dad again and then head home to Jindabyne where it all starts again!" Spending so long away from home, she admits to missing her parents and friends. But the fresh mountain air and the laughter of the young kids finding their first ski legs on Perisher's Front Valley provides a daily tonic. "I've managed to build myself a fulfilling career in this industry and intend to move into management positions with more experience. So in short, I plan to keep it going for the rest of my working life," she says. The Canberra Times Port Stephens Annual Awards nominees No end in sight of rift between councillors Waters and D'Arrietta tour timeless Lennon tribute to Nelson Bay Aged care reform being met Australia Day 2020 in Port Stephens Share your stories of our community champions Port Stephens Examiner	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526975
__label__wiki	0.916478	0.916478	Mother and son horses get new lease on life at sanctuary Two elderly horses have a new home at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary — and a new lease on life. Mother and son horses get new lease on life at sanctuary Two elderly horses have a new home at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary — and a new lease on life. Check out this story on poughkeepsiejournal.com: http://pojonews.co/2hOENGM Journal staff Published 3:04 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2016 Ashley, left, and Pliers were saved and now have a new home at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary.(Photo: Courtesy photo) The horses, Ashley, 35, who is blind, and her son, Pliers, 33, were about to be put down because their owner could no longer care for them, when the sanctuary was contacted by an intervening neighbor, according to Meredith Liguori, communications associate at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary. The mother and son duo had never been separated from each other, making their relationship dangerous for both them and the people around them, Liguori said. Room was made for them at the sanctuary at 316 Old Stage Road in Saugerties, she said. "A few months ago we took in over 100 chickens, five sheep and four calves from the largest ever farm animal abuse case in the northeast," Liguori said via email. "Since taking in over 100 animals, we are at full capacity. Yet, we heard the story of Ashley and Pliers, two elderly horses who desperately needed a home, and we couldn't turn them away. Pliers, left, and Ashley were recently rescued and now have a new home at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary. (Photo: Courtesy photo) Liguori said the goal of the sanctuary is to get Pliers comfortable enough to be away from his mother because she does not have much time left, being 35 and blind. "We had been boarding them at a nearby facility while we made room for them here at the sanctuary," she said. "Our staff has been going over to work with and socialize them while we prepare for them.". The sanctuary picked up the horses Wednesday Dec. 14 from the boarding facility and are now enjoying new pastures at Catskill Animal Sanctuary. For more information, visit https://casanctuary.org/ Read or Share this story: http://pojonews.co/2hOENGM	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526976
__label__cc	0.532693	0.467307	British Precast keeps a keen eye on national and international standards - this ensures that customers of our members receive the best quality products which are compliant to all relevant standards. As well as specific standards, many manufacturers also comply with ISO 9001, and ISO 14001 and ISO 45001/ OHSAS 18001. Quality in design and production means precast units are extremely structurally efficient; they have a high span/depth and EC2 makes provision for reduced partial safety factors for precast, in acknowledgement of the controlled production environment. British Precast is represented on relevant BSI committees and provides UK delegates to the CEN committees dealing with precast concrete products. We represent the views of members and report back with current information on progress and changes to product and installation standards and test methods. Members also receive a discount on BSI standards purchased through British Precast. Eurocodes Structural Eurocodes (referred to as Eurocodes) are a set of ten European Standards that contain common structural rules for the design of buildings and civil engineering structures. Eurocodes are applicable to whole structures and to individual elements of structures and cater for the use of all the major construction materials such as concrete, steel, timber, masonry and aluminium. More information on Eurocodes is available here. Sustainability of Construction works standards (TC350) CEN has published a number of standards on methods to assess the sustainability performance of construction products, buildings and infrastructure assets. The TC350 suite of standards includes EN 15804, the main core rule standard on environmental product declarations (EPDs), EN 15978, the main calculation method standard for the environmental impact of buildings and structures, EN 16309, the buildings’ social performance calculation standard, and a number of other standards. The concrete industry has recently published EN 15767, which is the core rule standard for developing EPDs for concrete products (in line with EN 15804). BES 6001 - Responsible Sourcing BES 6001, the BRE standard, has been published to enable construction product manufacturers to ensure and then prove that their products have been made with constituent materials that have been responsibly sourced. The standard describes a framework for the organisational governance, supply chain management and environmental and social aspects that must be addressed in order to ensure the responsible sourcing of construction products. The Construction Products Regulation (CPR) requires that from 1st July 2013 it is mandatory for many, but not all construction products to have CE markings in order to be placed on the market anywhere in Europe. CE marking is an indicator of a product’s compliance with applicable EU legislation and its legitimacy to be placed on the market within the European Market. CE stands for Communaute Europeenne. CE marking communicates that a product meets a set of basic European harmonised standards, or a European Technical Assessment. Each product with CE markings has a Declaration of Performance (DoP) that is made available to purchasers and specifiers. It should be noted that in some cases, even if the product and intended use are included in the scope of a harmonised standard, the manufacturer may not be obliged to CE mark a product. The exception most commonly raised are cases where the product is/are individually manufactured or custom-made for a given use, and therefore not available to ‘the market’ at large. British Precast have developed a guidance document for members only on CE Marking. Contact us to find out about this and many other benefits of membership. Building Regulations: Thermal Performance: Part L1A The 2013 edition of Part L1A (new dwellings) came into force in April 2014. Key changes include a 6% reduction in CO2 emissions across the build mix, and a new ‘elemental recipe’ approach for producing compliant dwelling specifications. Our product associations the Aircrete Products Association and the Concrete Block Association have been involved in developing guidance on this regulation. It is the most commonly used building material in the world. Find out more about precast concrete and its use in design and construction.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526977
__label__wiki	0.789101	0.789101	Our Theater Whole Lodge Rental About Presque Isle Lodge The Old Presque Isle Lighthouse is located one mile from the 1870 Light Keepers Station. The site is open for tours and tower climbing from June through September. OLD PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION (1840) On July 5, 1838, Congress appropriated $5,000.00 for the first Presque Isle Lighthouse, a year after Michigan gained statehood. On July 10, 1839, an advertisement for proposals to build a lighthouse at Presque Isle appeared in the Detroit papers. 1839 “Lighthouse Reservation” surveyed by A.E. Hathon during the 3rd quarter. Later surveys would show that the point opposite the lighthouse property was the center of activity on the harbor during this era. Only two roads in the area were indicated, both led to a wharf on the point, one from the south along the west shore of Lake Esau and the other from Grand Lake. On August 26, 1839, an agreement was signed between Abraham Wendell, U.S. Superintendent of Lighthouses for this district and Jeremiah Moors of Detroit, to “build and complete in all respects agreeable to the specifications contained in said advertisement for proposals for the sum of $5,000.00.” On September 4, 1840, John Scott certified the lighthouse completed according to contract. On September 23, 1840, Henry Woolsey was appointed Keeper with an annual compensation of $350.00. In 1868, due to deteriorating conditions of the keeper’s house, new plans were drawn to rebuild the house and attach it to the tower. However, the plans were never used. It was determined that the Old Presque Isle Lighthouse was not an adequate aid to navigation and in July, 1870, Congress appropriated $28,000.00 for a new lighthouse at the north end of the peninsula. The last keeper of the old lighthouse was Patrick Garraty Sr., he was appointed by Abraham Lincoln. In February, 1871, notice was given to mariners of the new lighthouse. Patrick Garraty Sr. moved from the old harbor lighthouse to the new lighthouse. In 1871, the old lighthouse was decommissioned and in 1897 it was sold to the highest bidder, E.O. Avery. After a few years he resold to General Duffield who owned it about a year until purchased by Bliss Stebbins. In 1930, Bliss Stebbins sold the property to Francis B. Stebbins. Due to deterioration of the dwelling it was demolished and rebuilt on the same foundation in the late 1930’s. Francis died in 1969 and the property was willed to his son James Stebbins. In August, 1961, a surplus lens was purchased by Francis B. Stebbins. Fred May of Grand Lake constructed a lantern room which was hoisted into place atop the 1840 lighthouse. The revolving 4th order lens was most likely removed from South Fox Island in Lake Michigan. On June 19, 1965, a State Historical Marker for the 1840 Lighthouse was formally dedicated. In 1995, with the assistance of the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund and private donors, the property was transferred from the Stebbins family to the Presque Isle Township for a lighthouse museum and park. Prepared by: Judy Kimball – Historian and Jerry Cameron, Copyright © RKcom Web Design 2018 - 2019 All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526978
__label__wiki	0.544278	0.544278	Successful eCall demonstration by Qualcomm and Hughes Telematics First In-vehicle Emergency Calls over Wireless Networks Completed Nov 19, 2009SAN DIEGO Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, and Hughes Telematics, Inc. (HTI), a leader in providing next generation telematics solutions, have successfully demonstrated the data transmission technology of the upcoming pan-European, in-vehicle emergency call (eCall) standard over commercial wireless networks at the 12th eSafety Forum Plenary meeting, “eCall Summit”, held in Brussels, Belgium on October 29, 2009. The use of eCall to deploy emergency assistance will save lives and reduce the social burden of road accidents. The creation of eCall standards and requirements has been triggered by the eSaftety Forum, an initiative of the relevant stakeholders, brought together by the European Commission. An eCall is generated either manually by vehicle occupants, or automatically via activation of in-vehicle sensors, in the case when an accident occurs. When activated, the eCall-enabled, in-vehicle system establishes a 112-voice connection directly with the relevant Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). At the same time, a Minimum Set of Data- including key information about the accident such as time, location and vehicle description - is sent to the PSAP operator receiving the voice call. Technology provided by HTI and Qualcomm, including an eCall in-band modem, was used to make a call to a prototype of an eCall-enabled PSAP located in Germany. Once the voice call was established, the eCall in-band modem protocol was used to transmit the Minimum Set of Data to the PSAP. The eCall modem was fully integrated on the Qualcomm QSC6270™ chipset embedded in the demonstration unit. “Safety and security is the cornerstone of our telematics offering,” said Erik Goldman, president of Hughes Telematics, Inc. “Working with Qualcomm to support this initiative in Europe confirms our commitment to the global industry to enhance driver safety and provide a timely and efficient response during emergency situations.” “Qualcomm has spent the last several years developing eCall technology and standards to further the public objective of helping to save lives on roads,” explains Ed Tiedemann, senior vice president of engineering at Qualcomm. “We are pleased to collaborate with Hughes Telematics on developing and demonstrating an eCall solution that will ultimately enable automakers to integrate this capability in all vehicles." About Hughes Telematics, Inc. Hughes Telematics, Inc. (OTCBB: HUTC and HUTCW) is a leader in implementing the next generation of connected services for the automobile. Centered on a core platform of safety and security offerings, the company develops and manages vehicle- and driver-centric solutions to enhance the driving and ownership experience. Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., Hughes Telematics offers a portfolio of consumer, manufacturer, fleet and dealer services provided through two-way connectivity to the vehicle. Networkfleet, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Telematics located in San Diego, Ca., offers remote vehicle diagnostics, an integrated GPS tracking and emissions monitoring system for wireless fleet vehicle management. Additional information about Hughes Telematics can be found at www.Hughestelematics.com. Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on CDMA and other advanced technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Qualcomm is included in the S&P 100 Index, the S&P 500 Index and is a 2009 FORTUNE 500® company. For more information, please visit www.qualcomm.com. Qualcomm is a registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. QSC and QSC6270 are trademarks of Qualcomm. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526982
__label__cc	0.610953	0.389047	Bedford Industries Earns BRC Certification BRC is a globally recognized standard for food quality and safety. WORTHINGTON, Minn. – Bedford Industries announced it has earned its BRC certification, effective Nov. 2, 2019. The prestigious BRC is a globally recognized standard for food quality and safety, and is reserved for top organizations within the food production chain that exemplify elevated standards for quality, plant sanitation and product safety. Bedford received the designation after a rigorous audit by the British Retail Consortium’s certifying body, including reviews of Bedford’s machinery, materials’ sourcing, procedures, employee practices, storage, cleaning and transportation. The designation indicates that Bedford meets internationally recognized food safety standards as established by the Global Food Safety Initiative’s (GFSI) benchmarking committee. Bedford moved to this global reach after meeting food safety requirements of annual AIB International audits for the past seven years. “Achieving BRC certification is another level of commitment to demonstrate to our customers that we place quality and food safety as our highest priorities,” said Jay Milbrandt, president of Bedford Industries. “We’re excited to receive this designation and especially appreciate each of our more than 400 employees who have made a collective commitment to quality and best practices. We’re delighted to bring this level of confidence for our customers.” BRC certification joins Bedford’s other commitments to quality, including achieving ISO 9001:2015 certification, and sustainable practices such as participation in Operation Clean Sweep/Blue. Processed Potato Products Gain in Popularity PMR research predicts baked, instant, and organic products to uplift sales. A study of the processed potato products market conducted by Persistence Market Research shows the market has seen significant growth in the past few years and is projected to reach $67 billion by 2019 end. Driven prominently by the thriving convenience food trend, the market will continue its growth at a stable 4% CAGR through forecast period of 2019-2029, the report states. The factors expected to predominantly drive market growth in the next decade are the wide consumption of mashed potatoes, potato rolls, loaded sweet potatoes, smoked and fried potatoes by a majority of the consumer base; the preference for cutlets, mashed potatoes, and tater tots by children; and the increasing popularity of ready-to-eat, ready-to-cook, and frozen meals. Further findings include: According to USDA statistics, usage of potatoes for processing applications in the country grew at the average rate of 1% during 2015-2017. Baked potato chips, instant mashed potatoes, and organic potato products are expected to gain traction during through 2029. Current trends such as snackification, shift to organic and non-GMO diets influence consumers in their product preferences. Emerging countries are expected to offer lucrative opportunities for the processed potato products market as the processed food industry is growing at higher rates in developing regions including Latin America, South Asia, and Africa. Retail sales for processed potato products are gaining momentum. Despite holding a major share in the processed potato products market, the U.S. is projected to witness only moderate growth rate in the processed potato products market. Manufacturers can profit from introducing processed potato products that offer health benefits along with taste as the market focuses on the impacts of the increasing shift to low-carb diets such as keto diet that continue to pose a major threat to product sales. Manufacturers of processed potato products are developing market strategies in response to current trends in market, the researchers stated. Prominent manufacturers are emphasizing technological advancements to manufacture and market innovative processed potato products in terms of taste and texture. Leading market players use strategies such as strengthening their supply chains and increasing the production capacity of their units. Global manufacturers are keen on expanding their presence in the global market whereas regional and small manufacturers are focusing on product diversification and improving their brand awareness. One example given is that of McCain Foods which announced investments worth of $100 million to build a new production plant in Brazil (2019). The company plans to establish this plant in Araxa which will particularly boost the company’s capacity and sales in Latin American region. Romer Expands Food Allergen Testing with Mollusk Test Kit ELISA kit can test for traces of the allergen in foodstuffs, drinks, rinse waters and samples taken from surface swabs. Romer Labs, a provider of diagnostic solutions for the agricultural, food and feed industries, is expanding its solutions for food allergen detection with the launch of the AgraQuant Mollusk ELISA test kit. With an LOD of 1.7 ppb mollusk tropomyosin, the new ELISA kit can be used to test for traces of the allergen in foodstuffs, drinks, rinse waters and samples taken from surface swabs. One of the largest groups of invertebrates, mollusks, along with crustaceans, make up the food group colloquially known as “shellfish.” Tropomyocin is the most prominent major allergen in mollusks and is highly resistant to heat and other production processes, making the testing for mollusk traces necessary to protect allergic consumers. Mollusks or mollusk-derived ingredients are used in a variety of products such as baked goods, confectionery, sauces, and seafood other than mollusks. The AgraQuant Mollusk test kit is an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and is extremely sensitive, the company said, adding, it is easy to use and shares virtually the same extraction procedure with all other allergen AgraQuant kits. “Accurately labeling food for allergenic content or producing allergen-free food are just two of the most formidable challenges that today’s food producers face,” said Romer Labs Managing Director Eva Wanzenböck. “Reliable, fast and quantitative diagnostic solutions are essential not only in helping them to do their job, but also in protecting millions of allergic consumers worldwide. With shellfish allergy estimated to affect up to 2.5% of the world’s population, AgraQuant Mollusk has an important role to play in informing consumers and keeping them safe.” For more information, visit www.romerlabs.com. Scientists Find Myoglobin Improves Cultured Meat Development is a step toward the goal of growing meat from livestock animal cells for human consumption. A team of Tufts University-led researchers exploring the development of cultured meat found that the addition of the iron-carrying protein myoglobin improves the growth, texture, and color of bovine muscle grown from cells in culture. This development is a step toward the goal of growing meat from livestock animal cells for human consumption. The researchers found that myoglobin increased the proliferation and metabolic activity of bovine muscle satellite cells. Addition of either myoglobin or hemoglobin also led to a change of color more comparable to beef. The results, published in FOODS, indicate potential benefits of adding heme proteins to cell media to improve the color and texture of cell-grown meat. “Taste, color, and texture will be critical to consumer acceptance of cultured meat,” said David Kaplan, Stern Family Professor of Engineering at the Tufts University School of Engineering and corresponding author of the study. “If our goal is to make something similar to a steak, we need to find the right conditions for cells to grow that replicate the formation of natural muscle. The addition of myoglobin looks to be one more important addition to the recipe that brings us closer to that goal,” he said. Kaplan is also chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a program faculty member at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts. The rationale for developing cultured meat (i.e., lab-grown meat, cellular agriculture, or cell-based meat) is the potential to reduce the amount of resources required in meat production, as well as significantly shrink its environmental footprint relative to animal farming. Animal farming has been associated with greenhouse gas emissions, antibiotic resistance problems, animal welfare concerns, and land use issues, such as the clearing of the Amazon rainforests. The ability to grow cultured meat in a bioreactor, as in tissue engineering, could potentially alleviate these issues. However, much remains to be done to grow the cells in a way that replicates the texture, color and flavor of naturally derived meat, the researchers said. Plant-based meat substitutes like the Impossible Burger have incorporated heme proteins from soy, which make the product more meat-like in appearance and taste. The Tufts-led research team hypothesized that adding heme proteins to meat cell culture could not only have a similar effect but also could improve the growth of muscle cells which require the heme proteins to thrive. Myoglobin is a natural component of muscle, and hemoglobin is found in blood. As heme proteins, both carry iron atoms that are responsible for the natural bloody, slightly ‘metallic’ taste of beef. The researchers found that adding hemoglobin or myoglobin changes the color of the bioartificial muscle to a reddish-brown meat-like hue. Myoglobin, however, was much better for promoting cell proliferation and differentiation of the BSCs to mature muscle cells, and better at helping the cells form fibers and adding a rich meat-like color. “We knew that myoglobin has an important role to play in muscle growth, as it is one of the most abundant proteins in muscle cells,” said first author of the study Robin Simsa, an industrial Ph.D. student from Europe who conducted the studies during his fellowship stay at the Tufts University School of Engineering. “It’s possible that myoglobin is bringing oxygen to the cell’s mitochondria, boosting their energy and helping them to proliferate. More than just an ingredient for color, iron content and potentially flavor, myoglobin could also be an important element in the scaled-up production of cell-based meat to increase cell yield.” Other authors contributing to the study include John Yuen, Andrew Stout, and Natalie Rubio, all graduate students at the Tufts University School of Engineering and working on cellular agriculture goals; and Per Fogelstrand of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the PI supervisor for Robin Simsa. The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health and New Harvest. Simsa was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant, conducted within the “Training 4 Cell Regenerative Medicine” network. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. McCloud's Regional Technical Manager Earns ACE Certification Michael Rector, regional technical manager at McCloud Services, recently passed the ACE exam to become an Associate Certified Entomologist. SOUTH ELGIN, Ill. - Michael Rector, regional technical manager at McCloud Services, recently passed the ACE exam to become an Associate Certified Entomologist. ACE is a certification option geared specifically toward the pest management industry. McCloud Services says that through this certification Rector demonstrates his expertise, his superior commitment to McCloud’s customers and his dedication to the company.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526983
__label__cc	0.730448	0.269552	Home » Browse » Academic journals » Religion Journals » Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society » Article details, "Does Mark's Gospel Have an Outline?" Academic journal article Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society Does Mark's Gospel Have an Outline? By Williams, Joel (ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Mark's Gospel is like a path on which readers can travel, walking with Jesus and experiencing his life, death, and resurrection. As with any journey, this one has a starting point, travel time, and a destination. It begins with the preparatory work of John the Baptist and with Jesus' baptism, moves continually forward toward Jesus' crucifixion, and ends with an empty tomb. If Mark's Gospel is like a path, then an outline of the book is like a road map. It guides the traveler along the path, identifying important turns, intersections, and points of interest. Any map is a simplified representation, so that it does not replace the journey itself but helps the traveler to make sense of the trip. In the same way, an outline is not a substitute for the reading of Mark's Gospel itself but is an attempt to offer guidance about the significant divisions, turning points, interconnections, and developments in the story. This article argues for an overall outline or map of Mark's Gospel, one that takes seriously the narrative shape of Mark and pays close attention to narrative features such as character, setting, and plot, as well as to the patterned arrangement of episodes. Mark's Gospel is a historical narrative, but it is still a narrative, which has implications for the structure of the book. I. THE PROBLEM OF MARK'S OUTLINE Does Mark's Gospel have an outline? Some have objected to the whole idea of an outline for Mark's Gospel, if by an outline we mean an identifiable structure made up of discrete units with obvious divisions. Joanna Dewey expresses the objection clearly.1 According to Dewey, Mark's Gospel is like an oriental carpet with crisscrossing patterns. It is an interwoven tapestry made up of multiple overlapping structures and sequences that serve to bridge breaks in the narrative rather than create them. Mark's Gospel is too complex. It contains more patterns than can be expressed in an outline, especially since an outline will necessarily highlight certain patterns and by doing so obscure others. By its very nature, an outline also identifies breaks in the narrative and divides the text into separate sequential units. According to Dewey, Mark's Gospel does not divide easily because it consistently bridges breaks through interconnections, repetitions, and anticipations, so that different events and episodes are interwoven into a unified narrative. For Dewey, Mark's Gospel does not have a clear overall structure. Instead it consists of forecasts and echoes, repetition with variations, resulting in the type of narrative that meets the needs of a listening audience.2 Since Mark's Gospel consists of overlapping patterns, different interpreters will create different outlines depending on which patterns they emphasize.3 In Dewey's opinion, various outlines tell us more about their creators than about the Gospel of Mark and its structure.4 There is an element of truth to this objection. An outline cannot display all the possible relationships that exist between passages in Mark's Gospel. For example, the feeding of the 5000 (6:30-44) comes immediately before Jesus' walking on the water in Mark's Gospel (6:45-52), and the two events are connected. The final statement in the second of these two episodes indicates that the disciples' confusion concerning Jesus' power over the sea grew out of their lack of insight concerning the loaves (6:52). In this way, Mark associated the two events, and an outline ought to make that relationship apparent. However, an outline that connects the feeding of the 5000 with what follows makes it more difficult to notice the relationship between the feeding of the 5000 and the event that precedes it in the narrative. The banquet of Herod (6:14-29) serves as an important background for the banquet of Jesus (6:30-44), since the selfish and destructive King Herod provides a striking contrast to the compassionate shepherd who feeds his sheep. … Publication: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society Volume/issue: Vol. 49, No. 3 Williams, Joel	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526984
__label__cc	0.744588	0.255412	The Race Marked Out for Us November 22, 2019 Pioneers UK Stories from the Field Manhattan is a special place any time of year, but it was particularly stunning on Sunday, the 3rd of November. The sky was blue and endless, the air was crisp and chilly, and the pavements were packed with bright-faced well-wishers, cheering their hearts out for the 60,000 runners who had made it into the New York City Marathon that day. My best friend is no marathoning novice—NYC was her fourth marathon, so she went into the morning confident. So confident, in fact, that she’d had no qualms about walking 11 miles the day before, taking in the sights with her husband and 17-year-old daughter, and me and my new hubby. My husband and I had risen early on Marathon Sunday to catch her at mile 5, not too far from where I used to live in Brooklyn. She was running at a steady pace, and when she saw us at our pre-planned meeting spot, she threw her arms in the air and started talking a mile a minute. Her eyes were bright and her energy was high. A great sign of things to come. She ran off, and we ran for the subway. We had about 90 minutes to get back to Manhattan, meet her husband and daughter, and make our way to the marathon route to catch her at our second meeting spot. She arrived not long after we’d settled in, and though she was still in good spirits, she looked tired. We gave her some food and a few hugs and sent her off again. We didn’t have a planned meeting spot for our third rendezvous, but we told her we’d text her to let her to know where to look for us. We dashed for the subway again and ended up in Central Park halfway between miles 23 and 24. But by the time we settled on a spot, her phone had died and our texts weren’t going through. We were tracking her progress on the NYC Marathon app so we knew where she was, but she had no way of knowing where we were, or when (or if!) she would see us again. We waited a long time for her to come. When she finally rounded a corner into view, we started shouting her name and waving our arms with glee. She ran to the side, but this time there were tears in her eyes and she dared not stop. “I just need it to be over,” she shouted as she passed us with heavy feet. We watched her carry on around the bend and my husband looked back at my best friend’s 17-year-old daughter. Her face said it all: she just wanted to be with her mother. He said, “Shall we catch her?” She said, “Yes.” And before we knew what had happened, they sprinted off down one of the many winding paths of Central Park, leaving the rest of us behind. Neither of them was familiar with Central Park. Only one of them had a working phone. They barely even knew each other. But they took off with a common goal. They couldn’t let her run alone. And they caught her! They cheered her on from the sidelines again and again the last three miles of the race—sprinting and cheering, and sprinting and cheering. They refused to stop until they could see the finish line. As she was limping back to the hotel that evening, her finisher medal swinging from her neck, she said, “All I wanted to do was stop running. I wanted to walk. But then I saw those two running next to me and cheering me on. They gave me the strength to keep going.” She crossed the finish line 18 minutes earlier than she expected to. If ever there was a real-life example of how we should be supporting our missionaries, I lived it in New York on the 3rd of November. You see, my best friend’s daughter was not a runner before that day. My husband is a runner, but he’s never (yet) run a marathon. But they saw an experienced marathoner struggling and they both upped their game to help her to the finish line. They didn’t make excuses like “I’m not wearing running clothes,” or “I’ve already walked 10 miles today,” or “I don’t know the way.” They just went. And their going not only helped my best friend finish the marathon; their going also inspired her daughter to start running. Now, back in Alabama, my best friend and her daughter run together. So let’s get alongside our missionaries! Let’s not make excuses like “I don’t know them that well,” or “I don’t have enough spare cash to give,” or “I don’t have time to pray,” or “I couldn’t possibly do what they do.” Instead, let’s up our game and get running so that we can all cross that hard-earned finish line together. marathonmissionaryrunning Migrant in Our Midst May 1, 2019 Pioneers UK Stories from the Field BY A PIONEERS MISSIONARY IN EUROPE The world’s population is on the move. The latest UN figures suggest that 258 million people are currently living in a country other than their birth country. 78 million of these are settled in Europe, where they have joined the millions of descendants of those migrants who arrived in the last few decades. This gives unique opportunities for Gospel witness, as significant numbers of migrants come from countries traditionally closed to the Gospel. However, not everyone is excited about the growing global movement of people. Most European countries have seen a growth in political parties advocating stricter immigration policies, and greater control of immigration was one of the reasons put forward in support of Brexit leading up to the 2016 referendum. Similar concerns are seen in other parts of the world. In the US, Donald Trump was elected president partly on the back of a promise to put Americans first, and a range of countries throughout the world are introducing tighter immigration policies. The presence of foreigners tends to raise two significant concerns in the minds of many: Firstly, there are concerns that migrants and their descendants have an adverse impact on the indigenous population’s access to jobs or welfare benefits. Every job occupied by a foreigner is one less job for an indigenous person, and every time a foreigner accesses welfare benefits, healthcare or schools, it puts greater pressure on these resources to the detriment of indigenous people. Secondly, indigenous people often express real concerns that foreigners will have a negative impact on culture. Most cultures have an expectation that foreigners will conform to the dominant culture, and a perceived lack of willingness to conform to the host culture (including language, dress and interpersonal interactions) creates confusion or anger, and possibly fear that foreigners will permanently change the culture in a given neighbourhood or city. Members of the host culture can fear becoming strangers in their own country. Naturally, the idea that foreigners have a negative influence on a country is not uncontested. For example, strong arguments can be made about the benefits of foreigners providing a necessary workforce in the context of an ageing indigenous population. Many will testify to the quality-of-life improvements brought about by a richer cultural tapestry in a given country – who doesn’t like a good curry?! Nevertheless, concerns about ‘those’ people taking over ‘our’ country can run deep, and the sentiment can impact Christians and non-Christians alike. This has significant implications for diaspora ministry – ministry to the migrants among us. For no matter how great the potential for diaspora ministry might be, it is unlikely to be realised if indigenous believers primarily view those arriving from traditionally non-Christian nations as a threat to their country. Frustrations or fears related to real or perceived negative consequences of migration can often act as a significant deterrent to any genuine attempt to share the love of Christ with the foreigner. It is hard to love your perceived enemy. However, Scripture is emphatically clear that we MUST love our brothers and enemies alike, and love should be expressed in both word and deed. That does not mean we necessarily must support an immigration policy that provides free passage to everyone wanting to enter our country. But it absolutely means we must seriously wrestle with heart attitudes that are not in line with Scripture, so that we are ready to genuinely love and share Christ with whomever we meet, including those from other cultures. This is a daunting task, but thankfully the Holy Spirit and Scripture are formidable resources to us and can help us in at least three ways: Remind Us Of The Grace We Have Received I live in a neighbourhood that is roughly 70% Pakistani Muslim, and I remember walking down the street a couple of years ago feeling thoroughly frustrated with an aspect of Pakistani culture. I was getting on my high horse about the deficiency of Pakistanis, when the Spirit reminded me that I was a wild olive shoot that was grafted into the true vine (Romans 11.17). I’m not better than Pakistanis. I am not less sinful. My European culture does not make me more deserving of God’s grace. I am on a completely level playing field with Mohammed and Ahmed – we are desperately in need of God’s grace and mercy. Being reminded of God’s grace should act as a healthy antidote to the sense of superiority that can easily be formed by our ethnocentric view of the world. God’s love for the migrant in our midst is as relentless and passionate as it is for us. Remind Us That ‘Our’ Country Is Not Ours This country does not belong to us. It does not belong to immigrants either. This country, and every other speck of the earth belongs to God. No population has a divine right to a particular territory. Even Israel’s control of the Promised Land was conditional – obey the Lord and enjoy the land, disobey and go into exile. We don’t deserve to enjoy the benefits of our country. As a continent, Europe has turned its back on God. When we consider the sinfulness of our own lives, and the societal rejection of God, our first response should not be anger that migrants have come to our shores. Rather, we should marvel that God has allowed us to continue to enjoy peace, prosperity and freedom to the extent that we have. This does not take away the challenges of engaging cross-culturally on our ‘home turf’, but it might dampen our misplaced sense that we are being unfairly ‘robbed’ by undeserving foreigners. Exactly what have we done to deserve living where we do? Remind Us That This Is Not Our Home: We Seek The Kingdom Christ told us to pray for God’s kingdom to come, for our Father’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. Scripture also reminds us that we are sojourners passing through – we now long for, and belong to, a heavenly country. Our desire should therefore not be to see our national culture prevail, but for God’s kingdom to grow. And with that in mind, we should feel free to challenge aspects of any culture that does not conform to our Father’s will. So if an incoming culture shines a light on aspects of our own culture that is not in line with Scripture, e.g. our Western hyper-individualism, then we should receive that influence as a gift and be open to grow. Similarly, at times, members of different cultures may be allies, where our prevailing Western culture is pushing us down a road we don’t want to travel. For example, my daughters are in a primary school with predominantly Muslim children, and I know their Muslim parents would stand shoulder to shoulder with us if the school wanted to introduce significant teaching on gender fluidity and sexual ethics contrary to scriptural commands. And of course, there will be times when aspects of a migrant population’s culture run counter to Scripture, in which case we should also seek to find opportunities to influence this culture in a different direction. But in all these matters, our benchmark is the Kingdom of God, not our own national culture. The growth in migration provides unique opportunities for Gospel ministry among diaspora populations, but without the Spirit’s help, we are unlikely to take them. May God continue to shape us in the image of Christ, open our eyes to His heart for all people and prepare us to reach out in love to the foreigner in our midst. ~ countrymigrantministrymissionarynationality The Great Reversal March 14, 2019 Pioneers UK Uncategorized BY DR DAVID SMITH During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries huge numbers of people left the shores of Europe in a vast migration which was to change the demographics of the world forever. Some of those who crossed the oceans did so in search of a new life with better prospects than seemed available to them and their children in the industrialising societies at home. Very many others went not by choice, but either by necessity, driven by extreme poverty or famine, or by force in the case of convicts transported to provide labour in distant territories now brought under colonial rule. It has been estimated that by 1915 some 21 percent of the European population had been relocated to lands overseas and this white diaspora now occupied one third of the inhabited world. William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, devised a detailed plan of social action to remedy the huge problems facing Victorian society and in his book In Darkest England and the Way Out he illustrated this with a poster which showed emigration as a key component of his vision. We see ships steaming away from Britain, carrying domestic servants and thousands of the poor and oppressed people who have been rescued from urban slums by the Army’s work of redemption to a new life in British and other colonies. This highlights the fact that the global spread of Christianity, and its later emergence as a world religion, occurred in parallel with this enormous migratory movement and was in some sense made possible by it. In the 1960s I worked as a humble bank clerk in the City of London at the time that the S.S.Windrush docked at Tilbury with the first group of West Indian immigrants to Britain. From the start there was resentment and suspicion of those who came, and I remember the impact of a poster which appeared on the London Underground with a picture of the cheerful arrivals depicted as saying ‘We are HERE because you were THERE’. As that first trickle of incomers became a flood, people from Africa, India, China, and countless other places might have repeated that statement, reminding white Europeans and North Americans that the migratory movement now flowing from South to North represented the reversal of the earlier mass movement of peoples fleeing poverty and despair in the modernising West. Where and how does the mission of the people of God fit into this picture? The question is far too big for this article, so I limit comment to a single observation. If what has been called the Great European Migration was the context within which the nineteenth century missionary movement was possible, then the present reversal of the global flows of human population must also create situations within which God’s purpose of grace is being worked out. Jehu Hanciles points out that the extraordinary influx of immigrants to Western societies has resulted in ‘an unprecedented volume and diversity of religious expressions and practices’, while also transferring non-Western forms of Christianity into the heart of a multitude of secular, Western cities. A missionary movement which continues to operate within structures and visions which belonged to the first great migration cannot possibly meet the challenges and opportunities which are presented by the Great Reverse Migration. As Andrew Walls says, ‘The missionary movement entered its old age as the Great European Migration came to a close. Under the conditions of the Great Reverse Migration, it is now in the process of transformation to something else, with the non-Western world increasingly assuming a sending role and producing the missionaries’. global southgreat commissionmissionmission agencymissionary Passion for Mission September 10, 2018 Pioneers UK Stories from the Field BY STEVE, PIONEERS UK DIRECTOR “I really think we’ve got enough firewood now, Steve!” Lesley is my longsuffering wife. She had already helped me buy an interview shirt in Alexandria and now we were in Athens preparing for a Skype call with Pioneers UK; including a presentation entitled My Passion for Mission. We had gone foraging in the woods as I’d set my heart on a visual aid! After smuggling a small forest into our room, I built my fire and, while Pioneers grilled me, Lesley repelled room cleaners. (Inexplicably, Lesley had forbidden actually lighting the fire.) Somewhere in Namibia, while overlanding Africa, we had learned from the previous director that he was stepping down as director and Pioneers UK were advertising. This was a bolt utterly out of the blue! The Landrover was filled with discussion and even prayer all the way to Kenya…but we had arrived at a sense of peace about applying. Ever since reading Emil Brunner’s famous statement “a church exists by mission as a fire exists by burning”, I have loved quoting it! I’ve made a lot of campfires this last year. Foraging for grasses, kindling, wood…then carefully putting them together is all part of the satisfaction of a fire! But a fire not actually set alight is a travesty. Plus, no-one remembers sitting round a bunch of unlit sticks! I know Pioneers is much more than just Islam or Africa; yet the five-times-daily call to prayer reminds that Islam is missionary. Loudspeakers throughout Africa insistently proclaim that Islam is spreading with passion; sometimes with a terribly extreme passion. Yet, I’m waking up to the stronger, deeper truth that Jesus is very passionate about revealing himself to individuals in people groups whose minds have been blinded by Islam. All my life I’ve sought to follow Jesus – even if often not very successfully. In recent years, however, I’ve been taken somewhat by surprise by coming to love Jesus himself; not just his church or the Bible or Mission. Jesus’ commission stirs me more strongly than ever. I find I want to be where Jesus is. Absolutely, Jesus is with his church. I’m learning he is also passionately ‘out there’ – appearing, for instance, in the visions and dreams of Muslims across the world in ways that remind of the extraordinary beginnings of the church. I read recently about a once passionately-Muslim Palestinian whom Jesus found. Authorities might forbid Bibles, close down churches, ban missionaries…but no regime on earth, he wrote, has the power to stop Jesus appearing to people in their dreams! Stuff like that makes the ears of my spirit tingle! It reminds that I must not put God into a coffin of my theological understanding. I find myself newly stirred. Wakened up by Jesus. In my 50s!! Of course, a good fire needs the ‘passion’ of wind! I sense there is a breath of God blowing out there. And, somehow, we need to be where it and Jesus is. I believe I have a matured passion for seeing Christians and churches built and blown into fire for Jesus…and their being mobilised, like sparks on the wind, to be out there with him reaching people, planting the church – relevantly, effectively, full of magnetic life…and, please God, with joy in them ‘enough to set a whole kingdom laughing’. This, I have freshly realised, is my passion for mission. To light fires. (By the way, one can never have enough firewood!) Photo by Tirza van Dijk. missionmissionarypassion My Adventures as a Data Input Artist I’ve always fancied myself an amateur adventurer – up for anything, willing to rough it, and ready at the drop of a hat. To my delight, God’s plan for me has actually involved quite a bit of adventure. They’ve been your basic missionary adventures like going on safari in multiple African countries, rafting the Nile, taking long layovers in Paris and London, scalding my feet on the white-hot marble of the Taj Mahal; that sort of thing. I’ve lived in New York, San Francisco, Istanbul, Botswana, and now sunny England; and I’ve visited more countries than I can count on my fingers and toes. Yes sirree, it’s a life of adventure for me. I’d always known I wanted to be involved in cross-cultural mission. It was drummed into me from the age of four onwards that anyone who is serious about Jesus would go into ministry of some kind, and for me and my (even at age four) ravenous appetite for adventure, becoming a missionary was the only way to go. So at the age of 24 I did just that. I became a missionary. And boy was I rubbish at it! I mean, I had a great time getting to know the people, and spending time with my fellow missionaries, and of course going on so many safaris I’ve lost count. BUT I never really got the hang of missionary-ing. I was too selfish. Too socially inept. Too immature. I made a complete hash of it, so much so that there was serious talk of sending me back to America before my two-year assignment was over. I had to beg them to let me stay! They did let me stay in the end, and I learned a lot of important lessons. But on my next missionary assignment – four years later, to Turkey – my emotional immaturity and spiritual arrogance got the best of me, and I left the field in tatters seven months before I was due to go home. So what does a person do if they’ve failed at being a missionary but still have a call to cross- cultural mission? Well in my case, they flounder for a few years not knowing what to do until one day someone offers them a job in mobilisation. I started working at Pioneers four years ago, and it wasn’t long after I started that the penny finally dropped. Turns out that a call to cross-cultural mission doesn’t mean you’re meant to be a missionary. In fact, it turns out that a call to cross-cultural mission isn’t a special thing, conferred only on those who are serious about Jesus. The call to cross-cultural mission is universal to Christians. We are ALL called! I loved being a mobiliser. I was able to help prospective missionaries with all the logistics of getting to the field and, better still, I had the very undeserved privilege of discipling and mentoring first-time missionaries through their experiences on the field. I have so much experience with failure and frustration on the field, I was able to counsel my young charges through just about every situation that arose with a simple, “Here’s what NOT to do.” But now I’ve swapped my mobiliser hat for a communications hat. And that’s where my fancy new role as Data Input Artist comes into play. I get to do lots of interesting and fulfilling things as the communications person for Pioneers, but one of my less glamourous jobs is maintaining our huge database. And for the last couple of months, because of the new data protection regulations, and because we recently switched data management systems, I’ve been neck deep in spreadsheets and consent forms and all manner of mundane mumbo-jumbo. In some ways it’s an important job, but it is D-U-L-L dull! Why am I telling you about my apparent descent from the romantic life of an African missionary to the woes of being a desk-jockey? It’s not just so that you’ll send me sympathy (and chocolate). It’s because I’ve had to come to terms with the fact—and it’s actually a glorious fact—that because we’re ALL called to cross-cultural mission, everything we do has the potential to impact God’s world for good. We’re not all called to be front-line field-based missionaries. If everyone was called to the field, who would spend those precious pre-dawn hours praying for the people on the field? Who would work in the marketplace or run businesses in order to fund mission work? Who would sit at a desk day after day punching contact preferences into an online database so that Pioneers could connect with those who ARE called to the field? We genuinely believe at Pioneers that all are called. Some are called to send (me!); some are called to pray; some are called to give; and some are called to go. So for me, the self-styled amateur adventurer, being a some-time Data Input Artist is enough. It’s enough because even if it doesn’t always make me happy, it makes God happy because I’m doing what he wants me to do, where he wants me to do it, all because someone out there needs to know His love. And my database is just one of many tools He will use to tell them. Photo by Markus Spiske. adventurecommunicationsmissionmissionaryoffice Millennial Missionary April 26, 2018 Pioneers UK Stories from the Field BY STEVE, PIONEERS MISSIONARY IN ASIA As a Gen Xer (just barely!), it has been my privilege to lead several amazing Millennials over the last several years in both short and long-term ministry. There is little doubt that there is a significant generation gap between those of us born in the late 70’s and those who are text-book Millennials. It was my first year of university, sitting in a “computer lab,” when a message popped up on my screen from someone across the room. Shocked, I looked frantically around for the sorcerer who conjured up such witchcraft! Electronic communication was just on the cusp, and I had barely missed being culturally shaped by it. What a different reality Millennials have grown up in! God made all people, “and He marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.” (Acts 17:26) God has graced each generation with unique contributions to gospel work at their appointed time in history. While we must recognise and value the way that God has shaped the next generation to impact Kingdom work, each generation must also be aware of the inherent liabilities that sometimes accompany their strengths. As I consider the contributions that Millennials have made to gospel ministry in my own mission context, there are three clear strengths—among many—that rise to the surface. Millennials can effectively minister to Millennials. Most young people in the world are fully “wired.” This means that a “wired” Western Millennial and a “wired” Asian Millennial actually have significant cultural common ground. They can easily “connect” with each other through texting. In fact, this is often the preferred way of communicating. For non-Millennials, it is difficult for us to feel that we have connected without real face-to-face time. However, Millennials can naturally interact cross-culturally with other Millennials through the medium of technology. In addition, even in a cross-cultural context they share similar values and can understand how the gospel impacts their peers in ways that Gen Xers simply do not see. The potential weakness Milllennials need to be aware of is the inherent need in gospel ministry for “in person” gospel communication. Evangelism by texting is awesome, but the unreached need to hear the gospel in person from redeemed image bearers. Millennials catalyse authentic community on our teams. The desire for authentic relationships is a real gift that Millennials can bring to the field. Many Gen X missionaries can minimise their own need for community and live superficially with other Christians while focusing on the “real” gospel work of missions. Millennials simply do not accept the status quo of flat, shallow team relationships. Adding Millennials to your team can create healthy cultural change on teams as they expect authentic and intentional—i.e. biblical—relationships. The potential liability with this strength is that Millennials can seek more community than they really need. One of the sacrifices of missions to the unreached is the loss of robust community that one could get back in their home country. This is a cost that Millennials will feel, but it is a sacrifice that will not go unrewarded by our King. Millennials are bold and open to varied ministry approaches. When a clear vision is put in front of Millennials, I have always seen them respond with enthusiasm and boldness. We ask our Millennial teammates to do very difficult things—approach Muslim students and talk to them about Jesus! Although they often acknowledge fear, they are willing to pray, trust God for strength and go do it! This is very encouraging to more pensive Gen Xers. This strong faith is vital if we are going to see the gospel penetrate the unreached. Gospel ministry among the unreached is simply hard work, and Millennials seem to have the faith and boldness to do it! The danger here for Millennials is that they can be tempted to try too many things for the kingdom. Often they seem to be looking for that “perfect ministry fit.” What can often happen is, Millennials will do amazing ministry for a season, then they will go try another ministry in order to decide what they should do! This can really stunt gospel ministry, especially among Muslims, when the process of sharing the gospel is counted in terms of years not months. The “perfect ministry fit” may be an illusion. What is not an illusion is the commission of Christ to go to the ends of the earth and preach the gospel. If you find yourself doing that, don’t look for a better fit! You are in the center of the revealed will of Christ! In conclusion, I am so thankful for the influence of Millennials on my own soul, the life of my family, our team, and the work of the gospel in our context. They have been sacrificial servants in the harvest field, and we pray that the LORD of the Harvest will send us many more! Photo by Ali Yahya. Asiamillennialsmissionary	cc/2020-05/en_head_0065.json.gz/line1526987

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