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U.S. Recognition of Golan Heights Annexation: Testament to Our Times
Victor Kattan
Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 48 No. 3, Spring 2019; (pp. 79-85) DOI: 10.1525/jps.2019.48.3.79
On 25 March 2019, U.S. president Donald Trump signed a proclamation recognizing the occupied Golan Heights as part of Israel. The Golan Heights proclamation, which endorses Israel's annexation of the territory captured from Syria in the 1967 war, was issued two weeks before the Israeli general election in a photo-op with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Undermining internationally agreed-upon norms prohibiting states from recognizing the annexation of territory by force, the proclamation could have detrimental consequences for the international legal order, providing a precedent for other states to take steps to annex territory they claim is necessary for their defense.
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‘2 Guns’ Wins Weekend Box Office with $27.4M
Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington dethroned Hugh Jackman this weekend as 2 Guns grossed some $27.4 million at the box office.
Wolverine moved to second place with $21.7 million.
In third place was The Smurfs 2, which took in $18.2 million, bringing its five-day total to $27.3 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The oh-so-scary The Conjuring and those minions from Despicable Me 2 round out the top five, with a respective $13.7 million and $10.4 million in ticket sales.
“Most of the movie was improvised,” Wahlberg told Celebuzz at the 2 Guns premiere in New York City earlier in the week.
“No discredit to the writer, he did a great job and we had a great piece of material to work from. But in a situation like that, you’re constantly playing and throwing curve-balls at each other. It just heightens the material.”
On deck for this week: Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Matt Damon‘s Elysium, We’re the Millers and Disney’s Planes.
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Mark Wahlberg: Most of ’2 Guns’ Was Improvised
When you put two acting pros like Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington together on a set, they are going to make a movie their own. That’s exactly what happened with their ancitipated action-comedy, 2 Guns.
“Most of the movie was improvised,” Wahlberg told Celebuzz on the red carpet of the film’s New York City premiere. “No discredit to the writer; he did a great job and we had a great piece of material to work from. But in a situation like that, you’re constantly playing and throwing curve-balls at each other. It just heightens the material.”
2 Guns, based on a Boom! Studios graphic novel of the same name, sees two undercover operatives – one from the DEA (Washington), one from the Navy (Wahlberg) – reluctantly running together as they try to take down a Mexican drug cartel. But when a blunder gets them ousted by their bosses, they are forced to count on the only person they can: the other.
For Washington, the role called for him to step out of his drama wheelhouse to dabble in comedy. But according Wahlberg, his costar tackled the new terrain like the Academy Award-winning actor he is.
“There isn’t anything that he can’t do,” Wahlberg said. “It was just a matter of doing it with the right people and in the right setting. Having him being so committed to just trying things and going for it and wanting to do something different, ya know, it really works.”
Watch the video interview with Wahlberg, above.
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Shriners Working to Bring Ortho Surgeons to Missoula, Kalispell
Nick Chrestenson
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Missoula Shriners are working to bring Shriner’s Hospital surgeons to Missoula and Kalispell clinics on a once-a-month basis. Shriner Mike Weigel, who serves on the Spokane Hospital’s board of directors, explains why: “We are trying to grow our hospital as much as we can to get outreach out here in Montana. All of our surgeons in Spokane are board certified orthopedics.”
Weigel says that negotiations are still underway with local clinics to try to get a space for the Shriner’s doctors. In the meantime, the Shriners are still paying to send Montana kids out of state for help.
“What we do when we raise money, like what we are doing on June 9, is we pay for the travel to send kids from all over the state of Montana to our hospital,” Weigel said. “We pay for the room and board while they are there and obviously we can no longer advertise that it is free. There were political issues with that, but it is regardless of your ability to pay.”
Weigel says two Missoula kids were sent to the hospital in Spokane for help just last week by the Shriners. The walkathon scheduled for June 9th at the Fort Missoula Regional Park is being headed up by Ryan Pillsbury, who chose to become a Shriner to help with this particular cause. As a child back in 1987, Pillsbury was diagnosed with spina bifida and was sponsored by the Shriner’s to receive treatment at their Los Angeles clinic.
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Suicide By Opioid: New Research Suggests Overdoses Should Be Classified As Self-Harm
By Rachel Bluth August 27, 2018
Dozens of Staten Island residents attended a candlelight vigil in August 2017 which celebrated the lives and gave remembrance to those that have died from drug addiction. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
There has been a steady stream of headlines declaring that life expectancy in the United States is decreasing.
And the often-cited reason is the climbing number of opioid-related deaths.
Those two facts piqued the interest of a group of researchers who sought to reframe the way these trends can be viewed.
“We have a problem that is otherwise being underestimated,” said Ian Rockett, an injury epidemiologist and professor emeritus at West Virginia University.
Suicide rates have been steadily climbing, Rockett said, but their numbers are likely even higher. He said too often opioid-related drug overdoses aren’t classified as suicides, and he thinks they should be. These deaths are often deemed by medical examiners as “accidental injury deaths” unless a suicide note is found. This classification doesn’t take into account that suicide and drug overdoses both arise from “purposeful” behaviors.
To get at the root of that problem, Rockett and his colleagues developed a model of self-injury mortality that factors together both categories — overdose deaths and suicides. This combined classification “is intended to promote prevention and earlier interventions” by recognizing common, preexisting mental health issues that could have been in play, the researchers wrote.
“By always separating drug deaths from suicide is to underestimate the mental health crisis,” Rockett said. “These are all mental health issues, and they need to be on the front burner.”
The report, published Monday in the British journal Injury Prevention, shows that together these deaths would become the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S., just surpassing diabetes.
It also focuses attention from lawmakers and health practitioners on the nation’s mental health crisis and how both suicide and overdose death rates highlight the system’s gaps. Rockett conducted a similar study two years earlier.
“When a death is an accident, there’s a tendency for people to say, ‘Nothing we could do about that.’ By putting the emphasis on self-injury, we draw greater attention to the problem and particularly as an overriding mental health issue,” Rockett said.
According to CDC data, the incidence of suicide increased from 10.4 deaths per 100,000 in 2000 to 13.5 per 100,000 in 2016.
Rates of drug overdose deaths have increased threefold, from 6.1 out of 100,000 deaths in 1999 to 19.8 deaths per 100,000 in 2016.
Rockett found that in 2016, the most recent year for which data is available, self-injury deaths accounted for 29.1 out of every 100,000 deaths.
But not everyone is sold on Rockett’s concept.
“I understand what he’s trying to do, I’m still not sure of the utility of combining these,” said Bob Anderson, the chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There’s overlap between drug overdose deaths and suicides, Anderson said, adding that suicides by overdose are underestimated in general.
“I don’t dispute [Rockett’s] conclusions,” he said, although he suggested not all overdoses should be considered the same as suicides.
“By lumping all of them into one category we may miss some important distinctions that need to be made,” he added.
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Max Irons at INC Press Junket in NYC
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Max Irons, Model/Actor, Thinks New York Is More Fashionable Than London
“I think New York is more stylish than London,” 26-year-old UK-native Max Irons said Thursday morning, “I think a lot of people [in London] don’t give a shit about what they wear, but when you’re looking out the window of a taxi in New York, there are stylish people everywhere.”
Appropriately, Irons, who is the son of award-winning actor Jeremy Irons, and I were sitting on the 50th floor of the The London Hotel in New York at the time, looking out at the tops of buildings, “It’s only in the past four or five years I’ve started to get in touch with what New York’s really about. I like it, it feels quite like London,” he explains, “Everything’s bigger and faster here, it’s kind of overwhelming. I remember when I was younger because my godmother is from New York, she’s a travel agent, she used to fly me here every summer.”
Irons was in town for a few days to promote his latest gig: the face of Macy’s private label line INC. “I’m happy with them, which is rare thing,” he insists, “I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.” The actor/model is surprisingly modest considering he has already appeared in campaigns for Burberry and Mango. Though modeling was never something he set out to do, “When I first got spotted, it was a bit of a shock. I was at drama school and I had no money, so I did it.” Before becoming a model, Irons worked as a bartender at The Ark in Notting Hill, “I was the head barman. I was so bad, but I would go back if I had to. Hopefully I won’t need to.”
We’ll say he’s in the clear. Next, Irons will appear in “The Host,” Stephanie Meyers of “Twilight” fame’s new project. “I haven’t read the “Twilight” books,” he confesses, “But it’s everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but… I haven’t read them. I am a big reader. I loved “The Host,” Stephanie’s a great writer and it’s science fiction which is up my alley.”
Max Irons Talks About Crushing On Kate Moss, His Love Of Uggs, And More In Our Exclusive Interview – from MTV
Max Irons Regrets Wearing ‘Psychedelic’ Undies – from People.com Stylewatch
Interview: Actor Max Irons Dishes on His Modeling Career and His Upcoming Role in ‘The Host’ – from GuestofaGuest.com
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“Jazzing Away Prejudice”
Writing that the “good” African-American orators of the day (“spellbinders”) do for lifting up the “Race” is “nil,” this 1919 Chicago Defender editorial makes the case that the music of James Reese Europe could have a significant political impact on race relations of the time.
With the ringing down of the curtain at the Auditorium last Saturday night there closed a remarkable period of band concerts. If you were not fortunate enough to attend you missed a rare treat. This band had made a wonderful record with the American expeditionary forces in France and with its jazz music had proved a source of great entertainment wherever it went. When it returned to the United States it was given a great ovation by the people of New York City, and Chicago found it equal to advance notice. It has all the artistic finish of any band that has invaded these parts in many years.
Author Joe MaitaPosted on July 24, 2014 Categories Features, Historic JournalismTags historic journalism, james reese europe, jazz history2 Comments on “Jazzing Away Prejudice”
David Robertson, author of W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
Before there was Elvis, there was W.C. Handy, the man who made the blues. Here is the first major biography in decades of the man who gave us such iconic songs as St. Louis Blues, The Memphis Blues, and Beale Street Blues, and who was responsible, more than any other musician, for bringing the blues into the American mainstream.
David Robertson charts W.C. Handys rise from a rural Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to become one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century. The child of former slaves, Handy was first inspired by spirituals and folk songs, and his passion for music pushed him to leave home as a teenager, despite opposition from his preacher father.
Author Joe MaitaPosted on September 4, 2009 Categories Biographers, InterviewsTags african american history, blues, david robertson, james reese europe, jelly roll morton, w.c. handy2 Comments on David Robertson, author of W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
Great Encounters #27: When W.C. Handy traveled to New York for his first phonographic recording session and meeting with James Reese Europe
Excerpted from W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues, by David Robertson
Harry Pace, even at his distance at Atlanta, always had been more innovative in marketing their firm’s songs in newer ways than Handy, and, as his career later reveals, he was interested in the possibilities of owning his own phonographic business. While on a trip for his insurance company to New York City
Author Joe MaitaPosted on August 12, 2009 Categories Features, Great EncountersTags african american history, david robertson, great encounters, james reese europe, jazz history, w.c. handyLeave a comment on Great Encounters #27: When W.C. Handy traveled to New York for his first phonographic recording session and meeting with James Reese Europe
Jeffrey Magee, author of Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz: The Uncrowned King of Swing
If Benny Goodman was the “King of Swing,” then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Not only did Henderson arrange the music that powered Goodman’s meteoric rise, he also helped launch the careers of Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins, among others. In Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz: The Uncrowned King of Swing, Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of this pivotal bandleader, throwing new light on the emergence of modern jazz and the world that created it.
Author Joe MaitaPosted on January 29, 2005 Categories Biographers, InterviewsTags african american history, benny goodman, big band jazz, coleman hawkins, don redman, ethel waters, fletcher henderson, harlem renaissance, james reese europe, jeffrey magee, john hammond, louis armstrong, w.c. handyLeave a comment on Jeffrey Magee, author of Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz: The Uncrowned King of Swing
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry author Tim Brooks
Lost Sounds is the first in-depth history of the involvement of African Americans in the earliest years of recording. It examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising role black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age.
Applying more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black artists who recorded commercially in a wide range of genres and provides revealing biographies of some forty of these audio pioneers. Brooks assesses the careers and recordings of George W. Johnson, Bert Williams, George Walker, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, W.C. Handy, James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman, boxing champion Jack Johnson, as well as a host of lesser-known voices.
Author Joe MaitaPosted on May 10, 2004 May 26, 2019 Categories InterviewsTags african american history, bert williams, black swan records, edward sterling wright, ethel waters, eubie blake, fisk quartet, fisk singers, george w. johnson, george walker, history of recorded music, jack johnson, james reese europe, noble sissle, polk miller, thomas edison, Tim Brooks, tuskeegee institute singers, w.c. handy, wilbur sweatman, will marion cookLeave a comment on Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry author Tim Brooks
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KATZ (Wannfried), MENAHEM, also known as Menahem Prossnitz (c. 1800–1891), Hungarian rabbi. The name Wannfried indicates his family's origin in Hesse-Nassau. Born in Prostejov (Prossnitz), Moravia, Katz was one of the outstanding disciples of R. Moses *Sofer. He was head of the yeshivah in his native town. Elected rabbi of Rajka (Ragendorf), Hungary, he was later appointed rabbi of *Deutschkreutz (Ẓelem), one of the "Seven Communities" of *Burgenland, where he served for over 50 years. Here too, he headed an important yeshivah. Katz is best known for his activity on behalf of the Orthodox faction at the Congress of Hungarian Jewry (1868). After the schism in Hungarian Jewry, he was a member of the delegation of rabbis which obtained independent rights for the Orthodox organization from Emperor *Francis Joseph I. In 1870 he also convened a meeting of Orthodox rabbis which served as the basis for the separate organization.
S. Sofer, in: Iggerot Soferim (1929), 9; J.J.(L.) Greenwald (Grunwald), Li-Felagot Yisrael be-Hungaryah (1929), 78.
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The Formation of the Solar System
Sara S. Russell
Journal of the Geological Society, 164, 481-492, 3 May 2007, https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492006-054
Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK (e-mail: sarr@nhm.ac.uk)
The study of the origin and evolution of the Solar System is based on laboratory analysis of meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials, and on astronomical observations of star-forming regions today. A virtual consensus holds that the Solar System formed from the collapse of interstellar cloud material under its own gravity about 4.56 Ga ago. This process led initially to a dusty disc forming around the newly formed Sun. The material in the disc accreted into small planetary bodies, called planetesimals, which in turn made up the building blocks of planets. Some planetesimals survived as asteroids. Fragments of these bodies make up the majority of meteorites that fall to Earth. The most common type of meteorite are chondrites. These formed from accretion of material from the dusty disc. Most chondrites were heated, probably by radioactive decay, and became metamorphosed. Other meteorite types include those made from basalts and iron metal alloys; these testify to extensive heating to produce melting on some planetesimals. Impacts of large (>100 km bodies) were responsible for forming much of the diversity seen among planets. Indeed, impact of a Mars-sized body into the early Earth is believed to have caused the formation of the terrestrial Moon.
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Should Sibumasu be renamed Sibuma? The case for a discrete Gondwana-derived block embracing western Myanmar, upper Peninsular Thailand and NE Sumatra
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Julia Pieper — 3000 meters — 10:06
GTTC Elite team member Julia Pieper finished her LONG season last night in Germany with a 3000 meter season’s best time of 10:06. This performance just missed her personal best by 1-second, but was 6 seconds faster than she ran earlier in the year.
It’s been a great year for Julia with several highlights, including winning the 5000 meters at the NCCAA Championships and helping her team win the Heartland Conference Cross Country Championships and advance to the NCAA National Championships!
Now it’s time for a break as she’s been running strong and hard for well over a year!
I believe there are a lot more fast races in Julia’s future and am excited to see what the future holds for this hard-working runner!
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Manager, Global Travel Safety - Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Administrative Officer - 44723
EOE Statement:
Washington University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status.
Job Type/Schedule:
This position is full-time and works approximately 37.5 hours per week.
Department Name/Job Location:
This position is in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Administrative Officer, reporting to the office's Chief of Staff with a dotted line reporting relationship to the Vice Chancellor for International Affairs. This position is for the Danforth Campus.
The Global Travel Safety Manager will be responsible for risk assessment, policy development, communication, training, and case management related to international University travel.
Develop, lead, coordinate, and participate in international health and safety- related risk management efforts and key projects associated with travel abroad. Develop, review, and initiate policies for international travel for the Washington University community, with emphasis on travel to medium and high risk international destinations. Assume responsibility for communication of aforementioned policies and updates to university constituents. Serve as point person with the International Travel Oversight Committee (ITOC), Emergency Management, University leaders, and school/department group travel coordinators on emergent and on-going needs and operations related to international travel and risk.� Serve as primary point of contact for international travel proposal review process; assess security risk and prepare for discussion and review with ITOC for approval/denial.
Communicate WashU international travel policy university-wide as the primary point of contact with school/department leaders and administrators to help ensure consistent compliance outlined procedures and protocols, including international travel registration, approval procedures, consent forms, waivers� and other documents, and other international travel risk-related initiatives. Proactively engage with designated school/department representatives responsible for outreach and education on international travel policies within their areas, with particular focus on groups with heavy international activity; prepare and conduct travel risk-related training and information sessions to schools, departments and programs, especially ahead of or immediately following important policy and procedural changes; produce materials to assist schools/departments with integration of international travel emergency information in pre-travel orientations, trainings, or documents. Serve as point of contact and administrator for WashU community regarding TravelTracker (i.e. add/delete members of ITOC General Body, TravelTracker Segmentation group, add TravelTracker Manual Trip Entry administrator users, reset MyTrips passwords, create and generate reports, etc.); maintain International Travel Resources web page.
Monitor the University’s international travel exposure, with particular attention paid to high-risk locations; develop risk mitigation plans for travel to high-risk locations in consultation with necessary parties such as Emergency Management. Coordinate with Accounts Payable department to review compliance reports for faculty/staff travel registrations to track and and address any areas of non-compliance; escalate health, safety, and security concerns to senior decision makers at the University as appropriate; pro-actively monitor international developments affecting traveler health, safety, and security, and keep abreast of international travel-related policies and issues at peer institutions. Coordinate and disseminate global travel advice and alerts from multiple sources such as International SOS (ISOS), the U.S. Department of State, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), World Health Organization, and others.
Work with ISOS contacts for day-to-day concerns and overall adjustments and/or improvements to the WashU MyTrips TravelTracker (TT), and TravelTracker Incident Support (TTIS) systems. Manage the ISOS vendor relationship and contract in consultation with the Office of Risk Management; negotiate new products and services and conduct relationship reviews; function as the intermediary between ISOS and schools, departments and programs; collect, prepare and submit renewal travel data; drive enhancements through vendors based on frequency of reported issues; work with Office of Risk Management as appropriate to manage the GeoBlue travel insurance contract and related issues.
Serve as one of the University’s primary “first responders/authorized persons” in the event of an international crisis or incident that may affect the health, safety, and security of WashU travelers which may require communicating with and accounting for those impacted; provide timely updates to University leaders and other appropriate parties on traveler status and well-being; escalate incidents of non-response for investigation and further action as appropriate. Be “on call” 24/7 to work with WashU Emergency Management, ISOS, and necessary others to coordinate emergency responses, including case management for individual travelers; extractions, deployment of medical services, U.S. Dept. of State assistance; conduct after-action debriefing and recommend remedial measures as appropriate.
Liaise with other institutional offices and administrators, including the offices of Research and Export Control, Police Department, General Counsel, Office of the Provost and others, to ensure University compliance with extraterritorial requirements under U.S. laws, to include Title IX, the Family Educational Rights to Privacy Act, the Clery Act, the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control regulations, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research/Export Control, and any applicable “study abroad” related legislation; work with Human Resources and Student Health Services to determine which program services are applicable to a given situation; participate in various committees related to the activities of students, faculty and staff to remain informed of the University’s global activities, and coordinate health, safety, and security risk mitigation oversight based on findings.
Develop productive relationships with external experts and resources including those at the U.S. Department of State, Overseas Advisory Council (OSAC), NAFSA: Association of International Educators, PULSE, and the Forum on Education Abroad; remain informed of legislative efforts, legal precedents, and best practices promulgated by professional organizations and/or implemented at peer institutions affecting health and safety of scholastic efforts abroad; initiate involvement in and represent Washington University in forums related to international travel risk, as appropriate; represent Washington University in any additional professional groups or organizations whose activities and resources are designed to benefits institutions of higher learning in their strategic planning for international travel oversight and emergency management.
Arrange meetings with ITOC executive and ITOC general body committees; prepare records of meetings, disseminate key action items, and follow-up from all ITOC meetings.
Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations, Business Administration, Emergency Management, or other related field; 2-3 years’ work experience in higher education study abroad, international project management/coordination, emergency management, or related field.
1-2 years’ experience in emergency response experience.
Familiarity with issues related to international operations.
Ability to speak a foreign language a plus.
Knowledge of other cultures valued. Experience travelling internationally.
Ability to create effective infographics.
Must possess the key attributes of an exceptional analyst: insatiable and perpetual curiosity; the drive to find answers stemming from relevant and focused lines of inquiry; creative problem solving; ability to effectively operate on the full spectrum of data, information, and knowledge; and the ability to create easy-to-understand Decision-Support Tools & Graphics to facilitate critical understanding and decision-making.
Able to recognize gaps in data and design effective collection strategies to fill gaps.
Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with effective presentation and training skills.
Equally proficient with narratives, summaries, and graphic presentation.
Demonstrated knowledge in both national and international current events, including an understanding of the potential impact on security and the affected business.
Ability to quickly assimilate new information, knowledgeable in articulating emerging threats and risks, and recommend mitigation options and alternatives.
Strong organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple tasks or projects simultaneously; proficient with establishing priorities that are aligned with risk and urgency.
Ability to collaborate and coordinate with key stakeholders across the Department and communicate effectively with team members at all levels of the organization.
Highly motivated, positive “self-starter” able to operate with limited supervision in a small team environment.
Ability to use good judgment and discretion under stress and multitask in a fast-paced environment.
Proficient in the use of computers and software, including, but not limited to: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint), Social media applications (Facebook, Twitter, TweetDeck,etc.), various web-based applications.
Ability to quickly master various software applications.
The hiring range for this position is $60,801 - $79,092 annually.
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All external candidates receiving an offer for employment will be required to submit to pre-employment screening for this position. Current employees applying for a new position within the university may be subject to this requirement. The screenings will include a criminal background check and, as applicable for the position, other background checks, drug screen, employment and education or licensure/certification verification, physical examination, certain vaccinations and/or governmental registry checks. All offers are contingent upon successful completion of required screening.
This position is eligible for full-time benefits. Please click the following link to view a summary of benefits: https://wustl.box.com/s/8wkhs25yssf0775x9d6nd6vqa7obpth7
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Trump starts governing, by tweet and before assuming office!
Donald Trump has found a new tool, a new weapon which seems to be a remarkably effective way of getting a favourable response.
Without debate and without even being in office.
The Tweet.
CBS: House Republicans decide to strip ethics change in emergency meeting
House Republicans agreed Tuesday to withdraw the rules change that would have stripped the chamber’s outside ethics watchdog of its independence and power after heavy public backlash and tweets of disapproval from President-elect Donald Trump.
Republican lawmakers agreed by unanimous consent in a closed-door emergency meeting Monday to strip the rules change from their overall rules package that the lower chamber is scheduled to vote on later in the day, according to a GOP aide.
This came as the new Congress was supposed to gavel in, and just two hours after Mr. Trump tweeted that congressional Republicans shouldn’t be wasting their time with a major ethics change.
On Monday night, a majority of Republicans voted to rename the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to the Office of Congressional Complaint Review. The House Ethics Committee–whose members are lawmakers–will now oversee that outside office’s work.
Under the change proposed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, the outside office would not have been able to investigate anonymous tips, it couldn’t have had a spokesperson and it would have been barred from releasing its findings to the public. Members of the House Ethics Committee would also have been able to stop the office’s investigations.
Two tweets and he got the House Republicans to backtrack. In two tweets he manged to do what Paul Ryan could not. Note that Trump gave the House Republicans who had secretly voted for the rule change, a face saving way to back off by terming the ethics watchdog as possibly “unfair”.
It was a negotiation by twitter and a successful one at that.
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Kerry flogs a dead horse in Israel after his fiasco in Syria
I listened to John Kerry’s speech today and if you think a two state solution for Israel and Palestine will work, it seemed eminently reasonable. But the fundamental problem with the 2-state solution is that Palestine consists of 2 factions which will never see eye to eye – Fatah and Hamas. A 2-state solution would be self-destructive and would not accept Israel’s right to exist. A 3-state solution would only give two non-viable Palestinian states. Kerry’s speech was very defensive and his attempts to deny that the failure of the US to veto the UN resolution was anti-Israel were unconvincing, and sounded like rationalisation. It was not difficult to discern the personal vindictiveness (against Netanyahu) that Obama/Kerry were giving voice to.
Kerry warned that the 2-state solution is in jeopardy – and so it has always been since it is based on wishful thinking rather than the realities on the ground.
BBC:
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the prospect of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal based on a two-state solution is in grave jeopardy.
And he insisted UN condemnation of illegal Jewish settlements on occupied land was in line with American values.
Earlier, US President-elect Donald Trump tweeted in support of Israel, saying he would not allow it to be treated with “disdain and disrespect”.
He urged Israel to “stay strong” until he assumed office next month.
On Friday, the US chose not to veto a UN Security Council resolution calling for an end to Israeli settlement construction, leading to an angry response from Israel.
The 2-state solution is going nowhere and alternatives have to be found. But Obama and Kerry have no capability of thinking outside the rut.
John Kerry and Barack Obama have a habit of choosing the wrong horse to back. After years of futile attempts to broker peace in Syria (after having first initiated and then encouraged the opposition to Assad), Turkey and Russia have managed to plan talks aimed at a nationwide cease-fire. That is something Obama/Kerry and the UN have not yet managed because they backed the wrong horse running in the wrong race. The new talks maybe have a chance because the US, the EU and the UN have been excluded.
Reuters:
Turkey and Russia have prepared an agreement for a ceasefire in Syria, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Wednesday, adding that Ankara would not give up its opposition to President Bashar al-Assad staying on as leader. ….. Turkish minister Mevlut Cavusoglu’s comments appeared to signal tentative progress in talks aimed at reaching a truce. While the insistence on Assad’s departure could complicate negotiations with his biggest backer, Russia, another Turkish official did not rule out a transitional role for the Syrian president.
Russia, Iran and Turkey said last week they were ready to help broker a peace deal after adopting a declaration in Moscow setting out principles that any agreement should adhere to. Russia has said the next talks are set for Astana, the Kazakh capital.
…….. Last week, Russia’s foreign minister said Russia, Iran and Turkey had agreed the priority in Syria was to fight terrorism and not to remove Assad’s government – comments that suggested a shift by Turkey, which has long pushed for Assad to go.
…… Russian officials have said invitations to participants for the Astana talks have not been sent out and the time has yet to be decided. The talks would not include the United States and would be distinct from separate, intermittent U.N.-brokered negotiations.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura had spoken by phone with Lavrov and supported the efforts to establish a ceasefire and new peace talks.
Obama and Kerry have based too much of their foreign policy on wishful thinking – and wishful thinking supported by intelligence agencies producing reports, therefore, with a confirmation bias. They have given the administration just what they wanted to hear. In almost every instance (Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Yemen ….) they have provided what the US government wanted to hear and ignored the realities that actually existed.
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Erdogan has “proof” that Obama has been supporting ISIS
Hard on the heels of Obama’s betrayal of Israel in the UN Security Council, now comes Erdogan’s accusation – and he says he has proof – that Obama has been supporting ISIS. Now Russia, Turkey and Iran have sidelined the US and the EU from the Syrian process, and Russia has announced today that peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups would begin in Kazakhstan. The Obama/Kerry strategy is in tatters as it is, and now Erdogan’s accusation gives weight to the suspicion that Obama has even been prepared to support ISIS and other terrorist organisations in his zeal to get rid of Assad. Erdogan made his accusationa at a press conference on Tuesday.
Express:
ISLAMIC State militants are being supported by America, blasts Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, who claims to have proof at his disposal.
In the wake of two members of the Turkish military being savagely burnt to death by ISIS jihadis, Erdogan has launched a stinging attack on the Obama government, accusing it of supporting the terror cell.
The 62-year-old, who recently survived a military coup, said: “They (US) were accusing us of supporting Islamic State.
“Now they give support to terrorist groups including Daesh, YPG, PYD. It’s very clear. We have confirmed evidence, with pictures, photos and videos.” …..
Turkey has rushed tanks and heavy weapons to its border and blamed the US-led coalition for inadequate air support after Erdogan’s forces encountered deadly resistence from ISIS militants – 14 Turkish troops were killed.
SIS claims it has killed 70 Turkish soldiers during the conflict and just a few days ago the warped death cult released a video of two Turkish men being burned alive.
Turkey has entered into an arrangement with Russia and Iran whereby Erdogan’s forces will be awarded the strategic city of al-Bab should they wrestle it from ISIS’ clutches.
Obama’s foreign policy legacy has been dominated by paralysis by analysis and is a legacy of many failures. And now even his intentions, it seems, were not always good.
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“Not enough blacks for Clinton, too many whites for Trump”
After all the punditry in favour of Clinton, after the main-stream media ganged up against Trump, after the GOP repudiated Trump, and after the world media ridiculed Trump, the story of the US election reduces down to this little phrase:
I can’t quite say “I told you so”, but I found both his winning the Republican nomination and then the election were not too surprising. The wins fitted my theory that there is a global anti-establishment, anti-political-correctness wave going on right now. Part of my theory is also that science in general, and political “science” in particular, has lost its skepticism and has become “consensus science” where confirmation bias reigns. Punditry of all kinds is given far too much weight and far too much respect and there is now a global push-back against the “consensus of experts” where the “experts” are appointed (and anointed) by newspapers and TV channels.
Nate Cohn in the NYT:
But the electoral trends that put Donald J. Trump within striking distance of victory were clear long before Mr. Comey sent his letter. They were clear before WikiLeaks published hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee. They were even clear back in early July, before Mr. Comey excoriated Mrs. Clinton for using a private email server. It was clear from the start that Mrs. Clinton was struggling to reassemble the Obama coalition.
At every point of the race, Mr. Trump was doing better among white voters without a college degree than Mitt Romney did in 2012 — by a wide margin. Mrs. Clinton was also not matching Mr. Obama’s support among black voters. ………
…… Campaign lore has it that President Obama won thanks to a young, diverse, well-educated and metropolitan “coalition of the ascendant” — an emerging Democratic majority anchored in the new economy. Hispanic voters, in particular, were credited with Mr. Obama’s victory. But Mr. Obama would have won re-election even if he hadn’t won the Hispanic vote at all. He would have won even if the electorate had been as old and as white as it had been in 2004.
….. In 2016, Mr. Trump made huge gains among white working-class voters. It wasn’t just in the places where Democratic strength had been eroding for a long time, like western Pennsylvania. It was often in the places where Democrats had seemed resilient or even strong, like Scranton, Pa., and eastern Iowa.
It was a decisive break from recent trends. White voters without college degrees, for the first time, deviated from the national trend and swung decidedly toward the Republicans. No bastion of white, working-class Democratic strength was immune to the trend.
For the first time in the history of the two parties, the Republican candidate did better among low-income whites than among affluent whites, according to exit poll data and a compilation of New York Times/CBS News surveys.
According to exit polls, Mr. Trump did better than Mr. Romney by 24 points among white voters without a degree making less than $30,000 a year. He won these voters by a margin of 62 to 30 percent, compared with Mr. Romney’s narrow win of 52 percent to 45 percent. ………
…….. The turnout probably increased among all major groups of voters — Hispanics, white Democrats, white Republicans — except black voters.
The conclusive data is available in the Southern states where voters indicate their race on their voter registration forms, and they point toward a considerable decline in black turnout.
In Georgia, the black share of the electorate fell to 27.6 percent from 29.9 percent, and in Louisiana it fell to 28.5 percent from 30.1 percent, according to the completed state turnout data. …….. Turnout dropped by 8 percent in the majority black wards of Philadelphia, while rising everywhere else in the city. …… The turnout in Detroit fell by 14 percent. Turnout fell in other industrial centers with a large black population, like Milwaukee and Flint, Mich. …….. Taken in totality, it appears that black turnout dropped somewhere between 5 percent and 10 percent — with few exceptions.
Hispanic and Asian and female voters were, in the event, not the key to this election. The huge disappointment among women, not just in the US but all over the world, was entirely gender based and did not reflect the lack of any Clinton message. “Make America Great Again” resonated with whites but did not scare blacks too much. And Clinton had no real message for blacks except the continuation of the status quo – and that inspired nobody.
Trump over-performed with whites and Clinton badly under-performed with blacks.
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Obama abandons Israel (to try and tie Trump’s hands?)
After the fanfare and hope and great expectations when Obama arrived 8 years ago, his departure is becoming a sad, graceless, spiteful, whingeing affair. He seems most interested in now trying to tie Donald Trump’s hands in the few weeks he has left.
For the first time in at least 8 years, the US abstained and declined to veto an anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council. But the result will only serve to weaken the UN and pander to Trump’s desire to pull back from it.
In Israel’s eyes Obama has clearly sided with the terrorists.
After the United States abstained from voting, the U.N. Security Council on Friday passed a resolution demanding Israel stop building settlements on occupied Palestinian territory, a reversal of U.S. practice to protect Israel from United Nations action.
The resolution was put forward at the 15-member council for a vote on Friday by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal a day after Egypt withdrew it under pressure from Israel and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Israel and Trump had called on the United States to veto the measure.
It was adopted with 14 votes in favor, to a round of applause. It is the first resolution the Security Council has adopted on Israel and the Palestinians in nearly eight years.
There are reports that the US State Department helped to draft the anti-Israel resolution. The Palestine issue can only be solved by Israel and Palestine. The UN is a distraction and this resolution is likely not only to be counter-productive but to weaken the UN itself (which may, of course, be a good thing).
The US abstention was by Ambassador Samantha Power who has a history of being hostile to Israel.
Wikipedia: When asked what advice she would give to the president if either the Israelis or Palestinians looked “like they might be moving toward genocide,” Power said that the United States might consider the deployment of a “mammoth protection force” to monitor developments between the Israelis and Palestinians, characterizing it as a regrettable but necessary “imposition of a solution on unwilling parties,” and “the lesser of evils.”
She was also in the news in April this year when an armoured jeep in her motorcade ran over and killed a child in Cameroon and declined to stop. Of course she apologised later.
UN ambassador Samantha Power’s motorcade kills child in Cameroon
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Popular vote, counties won and other nonsense
So Trump was confirmed by the Electoral College. It is not certain though that this will end the state of denial that Clinton’s supporters and the Clinton news media are stuck in.
The Democrats and Clinton’s campaign and her supporters are making much of her getting about 2.7 million votes more than Donald Trump – country wide – in the presidential election. This margin includes Clinton getting about 1.5 million more in New York than Trump and about 4.3 million more in California. But the race was never about the total popular vote but about winning the popular vote in each state and thereby winning the members of the Electoral College from that state. It is a mix of geography and population and not just population. It is the same mix of geography and population that gives the total number of members of Congress (Senate + House) from each state.
In the 48 states other than New York and California, Donald Trump won about 3.1 million more votes than Hillary Clinton.
Trump won 30 states compared to Clinton’s 20.
Therefore he should have won – without faithless electors – 306 votes to Clinton’s 232. In the event, 2 electors defected from Trump while 5 defected from Clinton giving a final result of 304 for Trump and 227 for Clinton.
Trump also won 2626 counties compared to Clinton’s 487 (AP data). But the number of counties in a state is of no relevance.
The criticism of the Electoral College, now, by sore losers is just a little stupid. The game was the Electoral College and not the popular vote. The arguments being put forward about the popular vote by Clinton devotees are also a little stupid. Those arguments would require that China and India each would have 4 votes in the UN to one for the US (and Sweden would then have 0.03 of a vote).
The counties only provide a picture of the geographic reach of the candidates. And the geographical picture is of an utter dominance of Republican counties.
Trump’s reach by county
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Russia accuses US coalition of assisting ISIS attack Palmyra to save Al-Nusra front rebels in Aleppo
What has been apparent is that the US led coalition (and France in particular) have a lot vested with the Assad-rebels holed up in Aleppo. France has been particularly active in trying to get the Russians and Assad’s forces to agree to a cease-fire in Aleppo – ostensibly for humanitarian aid – but also for relieving the besieged rebels that they support. Of course the US coalition attacking Mosul in Iraq have not been quite so concerned about the civilians being used as human shields by ISIS.
Of course this could just be Russian propaganda but there is some logic to their claim that the US-led coalition have allowed ISIS forces from Mosul to attack Palmyra to try and force Assad’s forces away from retaking Aleppo and instead to defend Palmyra. It is not inconceivable that the US and France are quite desperate to save the Al-Nusra front rebels they support and are even prepared to ease off on ISIS to that end:
RT:
A new Islamic State attack on Palmyra from the Mosul region could be ‘orchestrated’ to divert the attention of Syrian government forces from Aleppo and spare the militants entrenched in the city, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
The fact that Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) militants launched their offensive on Palmyra from Iraq and “apparently from Mosul” and marched through the “territories patrolled by the aircraft of the US-led coalition makes one think that – and I really hope to be wrong here – that it was orchestrated and coordinated to give a respite to those thugs, who are entrenched in eastern Aleppo,” the foreign minister said during a press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, as he answered a question asked by RT.
Lavrov went on to say that the US has been conducting a two-faced policy towards terrorist groups in Syria from the very beginning of the Syrian crisis. The US-led coalition is fighting Islamic State but is studiously avoiding targeting another terrorist group, which is Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front, he said.
“There is a significant number of reasons to believe that [Al-Nusra] is being spared as the most effective combat-capable force, which opposes the governmental [forces] of the ground in order to be used for overthrowing the legitimate Syrian government when the time comes,” Lavrov told journalists. …..
That the US is – even now – focused on regime change in Syria and is trying to assist the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front is not at all illogical. The Obama/Kerry strategy in Syria and Iraq is a maze of inconsistencies and fundamentally flawed.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this Russian report held a great deal of truth.
Tags:Aleppo, ISIS, Palmyra
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The CIA has been producing fake news for a long time and can “get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl”
It sounds like just another conspiracy theory. The Russians hacked the Democrats and the Republicans the story goes. They released selected material from the Democrats via Wikileaks but did not do the same with the Republican material. This was to help Trump win. This is an “assessment” by the CIA (and 16 other intelligence agencies). The FBI is not so certain in their assessments. Note however that it is not contested that the material released by Wikileaks was genuine.
In the 1980s most of the Iran-Contra stories were planted by the CIA. One remembers of course how the same constellation of agencies, led by the CIA, concluded on the presence of Saddam Hussain’s WMD. Here they even invented evidence for Colin Powell to present to the UN and make an utter fool of himself. One notes also that these same intelligence agencies all missed 9/11 though they had links with Bin Laden. They also missed – or chose to miss – the rise of ISIS completely.
While the war of words continue about Russian hacking and the US Election, it is not fanciful to conclude that the CIA is “faking” news again. The CIA has and does spend a lot of effort on manipulating news not only abroad but also on US soil. Operation Mockingbird has now been well documented and was reported on by the US Congress in 1976.
Operation Mockingbird was a campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Begun in the 1950s, it was initially organized by Cord Meyer and Allen W. Dulles, and was later led by Frank Wisner after Dulles became the head of the CIA. The organization recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network to help present the CIA’s views. It funded some student and cultural organizations and magazines as fronts. As it developed, it also worked to influence foreign media and political campaigns, in addition to activities by other operating units of the CIA. The CIA’s use of journalists continued unabated until 1973, when the program was scaled back, finally coming to a halt in 1976 when George H.W. Bush took over as director.
In addition to earlier exposés of CIA activities in foreign affairs, in 1966, Ramparts magazine published an article revealing that the National Student Association was funded by the CIA. The United States Congress investigated the allegations and published a report in 1976. Other accounts were also published. The media operation was first called Mockingbird in Deborah Davis’s 1979 book, Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and The Washington Post.
The CIA fake news activities never stopped. Even the Washington Post wrote 2 weeks ago. I particularly like the quote from a CIA operative that “you could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month”.
But – as we document below – the government and mainstream media are by far the biggest purveyors of fake news.
The Government’s Been Deploying Propaganda On U.S. Soil for Many Years
The United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities found in 1975 that the CIA submitted stories to the American press:
Wikipedia adds details:
After 1953, the network was overseen by Allen W. Dulles, director of the CIA. By this time, Operation Mockingbird had a major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies. The usual methodology was placing reports developed from intelligence provided by the CIA to witting or unwitting reporters. Those reports would then be repeated or cited by the preceding reporters which in turn would then be cited throughout the media wire services.
The Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) was funded by siphoning off funds intended for the Marshall Plan [i.e. the rebuilding of Europe by the U.S. after WWII]. Some of this money was used to bribe journalists and publishers.
In 2008, the New York Times wrote:
During the early years of the cold war, [prominent writers and artists, from Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to Jackson Pollock] were supported, sometimes lavishly, always secretly, by the C.I.A. as part of its propaganda war against the Soviet Union. It was perhaps the most successful use of “soft power” in American history.
A CIA operative told Washington Post owner Philip Graham … in a conversation about the willingness of journalists to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories:
You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.
Famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein wrote in 1977:
More than 400 American journalists … in the past twenty‑five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters.
In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.
Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were [the heads of CBS, Time, the New York Times, the Louisville Courier‑Journal, and Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include [ABC, NBC, AP, UPI, Reuters], Hearst Newspapers, Scripps‑Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald‑Tribune.
There is ample evidence that America’s leading publishers and news executives allowed themselves and their organizations to become handmaidens to the intelligence services. “Let’s not pick on some poor reporters, for God’s sake,” William Colby exclaimed at one point to the Church committee’s investigators. “Let’s go to the managements.
The CIA even ran a formal training program in the 1950s to teach its agents to be journalists. Intelligence officers were “taught to make noises like reporters,” explained a high CIA official, and were then placed in major news organizations with help from management.
Once a year during the 1950s and early 1960s, CBS correspondents joined the CIA hierarchy for private dinners and briefings.
Allen Dulles often interceded with his good friend, the late Henry Luce, founder of Timeand Life magazines, who readily allowed certain members of his staff to work for the Agency and agreed to provide jobs and credentials for other CIA operatives who lacked journalistic experience.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Time magazine’s foreign correspondents attended CIA “briefing” dinners similar to those the CIA held for CBS.
When Newsweek was purchased by the Washington Post Company, publisher Philip L. Graham was informed by Agency officials that the CIA occasionally used the magazine for cover purposes, according to CIA sources. “It was widely known that Phil Graham was somebody you could get help from,” said a former deputy director of the Agency. “Frank Wisner dealt with him.” Wisner, deputy director of the CIA from 1950 until shortly before his suicide in 1965, was the Agency’s premier orchestrator of “black” operations, including many in which journalists were involved. Wisner liked to boast of his “mighty Wurlitzer,” a wondrous propaganda instrument he built, and played, with help from the press.)
In November 1973, after [the CIA claimed to have ended the program], Colby told reporters and editors from the New York Times and the Washington Star that the Agency had “some three dozen” American newsmen “on the CIA payroll,” including five who worked for “general‑circulation news organizations.” Yet even while the Senate Intelligence Committee was holding its hearings in 1976, according to high‑level CIA sources, the CIA continued to maintain ties with seventy‑five to ninety journalists of every description—executives, reporters, stringers, photographers, columnists, bureau clerks and members of broadcast technical crews. More than half of these had been moved off CIA contracts and payrolls but they were still bound by other secret agreements with the Agency. According to an unpublished report by the House Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by Representative Otis Pike, at least fifteen news organizations were still providing cover for CIA operatives as of 1976.
Those officials most knowledgeable about the subject say that a figure of 400 American journalists is on the low side ….
“There were a lot of representations that if this stuff got out some of the biggest names in journalism would get smeared” ….
An expert on propaganda testified under oath during trial that the CIA now employs THOUSANDS of reporters and OWNS its own media organizations. Whether or not his estimate is accurate, it is clear that many prominent reporters still report to the CIA.
A 4-part BBC documentary called the “Century of the Self” shows that an American – Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays – created the modern field of manipulation of public perceptions, and the U.S. government has extensively used his techniques.
The activity has continued under the Obama Administration and is clearly still ongoing.
And the government is treating the real investigative reporters like criminals … or even terrorists:
Obama has gone after top reporters. His Department of Justice labeled chief Fox News Washington correspondent James Rosen a “criminal co-conspirator” in a leak case, and for many years threatened to prosecute Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times journalist James Risen
The Obama administration also spied on Risen, Rosen, the Associated Press, CBS reporter Cheryl Atkinson and other media
In fact, top NSA whistleblowers tell Washington’s Blog that the NSA has spied on reporters for well over a decade … to make sure they don’t reveal illegal government programs
The Pentagon smeared USA Today reporters because they investigated illegal Pentagon propaganda
Reporters covering the Occupy protests were targeted for arrest
The government admits that journalists could be targeted with counter-terrorism laws (and here). For example, after Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, journalist Naomi Wolf, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and others sued the government to enjoin the NDAA’s allowance of the indefinite detention of Americans – the judge asked the government attorneys 5 times whether journalists like Hedges could be indefinitely detained simply for interviewing and then writing aboutbad guys. The government refused to promise that journalists like Hedges won’t be thrown in a dungeon for the rest of their lives without any right to talk to a judge
In an effort to protect Bank of America from the threatened Wikileaks expose of the bank’s wrongdoing, the Department of Justice told Bank of America to a hire a specific hardball-playing law firm to assemble a team to take down WikiLeaks (and see this)
The NSA and its British counterpart treated Wikileaks like a terrorist organization, going so far as to target its employees politically, and to spy on visitors to its website
Postscript: See this and this.
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Trump’s choice for Energy Secretary will be a coal supporter
It is reported that Donald Trump has a short-list of four for Energy Secretary. What seems clear is that whoever it is will be making coal jobs a priority. One of the four (Rick Perry) would be a fierce opponent of all the fake science masquerading as “climate science”, while two (Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Manchin) are coal protectors rather than climate change opponents. The fourth (Ray Washburne) has been involved primarily in economic and finance matters and has (for me) unknown positions about coal and AGW. But he is from Texas and is unlikely to ignore the bottom line (which is of no consequence for the AGW orthodoxy).
Bloomberg: Donald Trump has narrowed his search for energy secretary to four people, with former Texas Governor Rick Perry the leading candidate. People familiar with the president-elect’s selection process said two Democratic senators from energy-producing states — Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Manchin of West Virginia — are also in the mix, along with Ray Washburne, a Dallas investor and former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
If Trump picks any of the four he’ll break with recent tradition of putting scientists at the top of the Energy Department. Among other things, the agency is responsible for policies on the safe handling of nuclear material and on emerging energy technologies.
A quick search gives the positions of the four on coal production and the global warming fantasy.
Rick Perry: Rick Perry said Wednesday morning that he does not believe in global warming science and suggested it is grounded in scientists manipulating data for financial gain. …….. Perry said scientists are coming forward almost daily to question “the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.” He said the climate is changing but that it has been changing “ever since the earth was formed.” ……….. Perry added that “the issue of global warming has been politicized,” and argued that America should not spend billions of dollars addressing “a scientific theory that has not been proven, and from my perspective is more and more being put into question.”
Rick Perry could be expected to be quite active in cleaning out the muck in the Department of Energy Climate Change stables.
Heidi Heitkamp: I applaud the President’s efforts to address climate change and its effects. …… However, several of the initiatives introduced today by the President, while not new, amplify the Administration’s continuing war on coal and coal-fired power. While the President claims to believe in an all-of-the-above energy policy, he consistently fails to step-forward and truly commit to such a policy. Instead the Administration continues developing regulations that do nothing more than choke off good-paying American jobs, and threatening millions of Americans with the loss of a reliable and affordable energy source. Instead of taking this route, we need to find a path forward for the coal industry and coal-fired power by encouraging continued investments in new and existing technologies to further reduce emissions through clean coal technology projects including commercially scalable carbon capture and sequestration.
Heitkamp is only concerned about jobs and will subordinate her thinking to that end. Her apparent belief in carbon capture and sequestration though suggests that her logical thinking is a little suspect. To be kind, it may just be her attempt to save coal jobs and not any strong belief in nonsense technology which which has no real purpose and which has a fundamental “floor” energy cost which makes it meaningless.
Joe Manchin: Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) went on Fox News on Wednesday to slam President Obama’s renewed push to take action on climate change.However, returning to the refrain that Obama has declared a “war on coal” appears not to be enough this time. Now, the coal-backed senator has upgraded his rhetoric to a “war on America.”
STEVE DOOCY (HOST): The President of the United States declared a war on coal and a war on jobs and essentially a war on West Virginia.
MANCHIN: Well, really a war on America. When you look at it from that standpoint, 8 billion-tons of coal is being burned in the world as we speak. The United States of America consumes about one billion tons. Now, what’s going to happen to the other 7 billion-tons? What’s going to happen to the countries that are consuming and using 7 billion and it’s increasing rapidly? Nothing is being done there. We have done more to clean the environment than ever in the last two decades. And there is more that can be done.
Manchin, like Heitkamp, is primarily concerned about jobs in the coal industry. He has not dared, politically, to be heretical about global warming orthodoxy but has fought for coal jobs.
Ray Washburne: Mr. Ray W. Washburne has been the Chief Executive Officer of Charter Holdings since 1990 and its President. Mr. Washburne has been National Finance Chairman at Republican National Committee Inc., since February 2013. He is a Managing Partner at HP Village Partners Ltd., and served as Managing Director. He was the Chairman of Charter Holdings since 1990. He also serves on the board of directors for M Crowd Restaurant, which he co-founded in 1991. He serves as Director of Baylor Health Care System Foundation. He has been Director of Entrust Inc. since June 5, 2006. He has been an Independent Director of Veritex Holdings, Inc., since 2009 and serves as Director of Veritex Community Bank. Mr. Washburne is also a Director for Colonial Bank, Southern Methodist University-21st Century Council, and Dallas Citizens Council. He is an Adjunct Professor at SMU’s Cox School of Business and graduated from Southern Methodist University (“SMU”) in 1984.
It is not apparent that Washburne has any strong position on coal or energy or AGW. Nevertheless he can be expected to have a clear view of the bottom line and therefore, not a great supporter of subsidising non-commercial technologies for religious or ideological reasons.
If I had to bet, I would put a small amount of money on Rick Perry.
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74 questions from the Trump transition team which are bothering the Department of Energy
Whatever one may think of Trump, his transition team’s questions for the Department of Energy are penetrating. They are causing some little worry among the adherents of the man-made global warming religion.
Willis Eschenbach has the list of questions and his comments over at WUWT.
Man-made climate change (actually the lack of such), vast grants to companies which go bankrupt in the night, jaunts to resorts for climate meetings, prolonging nuclear power …. are all apparently within the sights of the transition team.
The questions and Willis Eschenbach’s comments are reproduced below
Questions for DOE
This memo, as you might expect, is replete with acronyms. “DOE” is the Department of Energy. Here are the memo questions and my comments.
1. Can you provide a list of all boards, councils, commissions, working groups, and FACAs [Federal Advisory Committees] currently active at the Department? For each, can you please provide members, meeting schedules, and authority (statutory or otherwise) under which they were created?
If I were at DOE, this first question would indeed set MY hair on fire. The easiest way to get rid of something is to show that it was not properly established … boom, it’s gone. As a businessman myself, this question shows me that the incoming people know their business, and that the first order of business is to jettison the useless lumber.
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Niall Horan Shares "Finally Free" Music Video
posted by Katrina Nattress - Sep 12, 2018
Back in July Niall Horan released "Finally Free" — an upbeat pop/folk bop that will be featured on the soundtrack of the upcoming animated film, Smallfoot. On Wednesday (September 12), the former One Direction member shared a video for the uplifting anthem.
The clip splices live footage of Horan and his band performing the song with scenes from the movie. "When you're right here beside me, there's nothing else I need/ Your eyes keep me reminded that nothing's out of reach," he sings during the track's chorus. "When you're with me, it feels like I'm finally free/ Feels like I'm finally free."
Watch the music video below
Smallfoot is voiced by a star-studded cast including Channing Tatum, James Corden, Gina Rodriguez, LeBron James, Danny DeVito, Common, and Zendaya. The film flips a well known myth on its head by following the story of a young Yeti named Migo (Tatum) who discovers that humans exist and consequently gets his community in an uproar about what other creatures may be lurking outside their snowy village.
"From the minute I seen a small clip from it, I was in straight away," Horan tweeted when he announced his contribution to the movie's soundtrack. "It’s a must see."
Smallfoot is set to hit theaters on September 28 via Warner Bros. Pictures.
Photo: YouTube
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College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences > Centers & Institutes > Center for Religion, Culture and Community > About > Mission Statement
The work of the Center for Religion, Culture, and Community focuses on one question: What are the requirements for building sustainable bridges among individuals and communities associated with different religious cultures?
To this end, the CRCC hosts multiple events, forums and celebrations of diverse religious cultures that reflect the multiple traditions that define the DePaul community. These events are designed to promote critical thinking about religion as a social, political, artistic, economic and spiritual phenomenon while examining the requirements of living together in a religiously pluralistic world. The center hosts panels of thinkers who engage conversations that include the intersection of religion and popular culture, meditation, conflict, peace building, art, gender and race.
The CRCC hosts a number of series on such topics as science and religion, meditation, Latino/a issues in religion, religion and art, ecological sustainability, peacemaking and inter-clergy relations.
For the last two years, the center has featured an ongoing dialogue among a religiously diverse group of practitioners of deep meditation, who share their insights and their practice with audience members.
The center also features screenings of films associated with one or more religious traditions followed by discussions led by different scholars of religion as well as citizen diplomats.
In addition, the CRCC hosts regular reports from the field, featuring panels of students, faculty, staff and visiting scholars who come to share their learnings from their experiences in a variety of settings from international conflict zones to local Chicago communities.
The CRCC also visits sacred spaces of different traditions and art exhibits associated with multiple religious cultures, as well as inviting musicians to come to campus and play music associated with a variety of religious traditions.
If any of these sorts of event interest you, we invite you to join us for any and all of our offerings for the 2014-15 academic year.
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Robert Roger "Bob" Rose Sr
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Obituary of Robert Roger Rose Sr
Robert Roger Rose of Kingman, passed away April 28, 2019. He was born in Winona Minnesota to Al and Agnes Rose, was one of five children. During his childhood, his family moved to San Diego and he graduated from Grossmont High School. Robert worked at the Naval Station North Island in San Diego, he then pursued a career in Carpentry.
On April 15, 1989 he married the love of his life, Patricia at “The Little Church of the West” in Las Vegas. They lived happily in Campo, CA for many years at their ranch where they would have their family over and have bbq’s and take his grandchildren on rides on the tractor up and down the hill.
Robert was the happiest when he had a project to work on. He also had a soft heart for animals and liked to feed the birds. His wife and him enjoyed camping and fishing.
Robert is preceded in death by his parents and son Robert Rose Jr. He is survived by his wife Patricia, Sons Bill and Dan Rose, Daughters Suzi Benson and Sheri Farris, 19 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
There will be a celebration of life gathering at Lietz-Fraze Funeral Home in Kingman on May 11 2019.
Arrangements were placed under the care of Lietz-Fraze Funeral Home and Crematory.
Thoughts and condolences may be submitted to the family at www.lietz-frazefuneralhome.com To send a FREE Card to the family go to www.sendoutcards.com/lietzfraze
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Larry S. Clark: The States Project: Oregon by Heidi KirkpatrickJanuary 30, 2016
©Larry S. Clark
Larry S. Clark, Portland. Not Larry Clark, Tulsa.
Larry has the following on the contact page of his website: I am not a film director and did not grow up in Oklahoma. If you still want to contact me, I’ll be happy to answer.
Larry is tall of stature and typically short on words. He used to tell me he wasn’t a photographer, but I never believed it. He definitely cannot get away with that anymore as you are about to see. Larry’s knowledge is vast; not only is he a photographer, and photography collector specializing in Farm Security Administration photographs, he is an antique dealer. Larry demonstrates a great eye for finding beauty in the darkness.
Beginning with a darkroom photography class in 1974, Larry Clark has had a 40 year obsession with photography. His career as an antique dealer led him to collect vintage images spanning the history of photography. Themes of family, the past, and reminders of human frailty and mortality run through his work.
The Quiet Store
My sister and I would hold our breath. Somewhere we got the notion that holding our breath as we drove past a cemetery that we could cheat death. My grandfather would say “Those people, out there, they’re saying I was once as you are now. I am now as you soon shall be.” The idea that people were talking to me from their graves was a bit unnerving, and some of the headstones that resembled pillows made me think that maybe death was a lot like a deep sleep. I wouldn’t have known my grandfather at all had he not narrowly escaped death the first time cancer came for him. It was before I was born and even though he made it through, cancer, and death, were constant household companions for him as I grew up. I was spared from loss throughout my childhood and his was the first funeral that I ever attended when cancer came back for him while I was in my twenties.
My experience up to that point had been the drive-by’s— the old City Cemetery in Vancouver, Forest Lawn and Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles, Lone Fir in Portland. I was able to visit my grandfather’s family cemetery in southern Illinois soon after his death. His family name was on every stone dating back to the early 19th century and others were obscured by vegetation and time. The first time I went to a graveyard as tourist was Pere Lachaise in Paris, and then after visiting the burying grounds in Boston it would become a hobby. The title for this series comes from something my niece said when she was very young. After losing a few family members and having to make trips to a funeral home, she mentioned having been to the quiet store. It seemed profound and fitting of the nature of the place.
The earliest customers at Portland Memorial Funeral Home are housed in handsome sealed glass compartments in bronze urns and often are surrounded with mementos— ambrotypes, books and other items relating to their time on earth. As time has progressed and their families have moved on, they become home to spiders and dust, and are cleaned infrequently. With every expansion, due to changing fashions and cheaper materials, the place takes on a different feel and style. The stateliness of the early rooms with marble floors, beautiful metalwork and stained glass windows by Tiffany Studios and the Povey Bothers give way to fluorescent lighting and shabby furnishings. Unheated in the winter and with no air-conditioning in the summer, the rooms become insufferable during extremes of weather.
In prior decades Portland Memorial had a large staff, with maintenance people on each floor and a woman stationed in each cutting room to help with placement of flowers. Due to high costs and not much demand, it now has a skeleton staff and not many visitors, except on Memorial Day. Flowers remain withered in vases from floor to ceiling, and any that are brightly colored are usually plastic. Visits to Riverview Mausoleum across the Willamette and Lincoln Memorial revealed a similar history.
Still these are important places in the community. A child’s note and drawing left for his recently deceased father brought it home to me in a way I did not expect. Despite the effort to provide some comfort to the loved ones, there is an unspoken admission that the facility can’t offer much more than a tissue to help families through their grief.
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Yuri N. Maltsev
Yuri N. Maltsev, Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute and professor of economics at Carthage College, worked as an economist on Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reform team before defecting to the United States in 1989. He has testified before the US Congress and appeared on CNN, PBS News Hour, C-Span, CBC, and other American, Canadian, Spanish, South African, and Finnish television and radio programs. He has authored and co-authored fifteen books and numerous articles. He is a recipient of the Luminary Award of the Free Market Foundation.
Yuri N. Maltsev is a Professor of Economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin. He held various government and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Before defecting to the US in 1989, he was a member of a senior economics team that worked on President Gorbachev's reforms package of perestroika. Before settling in the Midwest, he was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. a US federal research agency. His work involved briefing members of Congress and senior officials at the executive branch on issues of national security and foreign economic and military assessment. He also testified before the US Congress and appeared on CNN, PBS News Hour, C-Span, CBC, and other American, Canadian, Spanish, South African, and Finnish television and radio programs. He has authored and co-authored fifteen books and over a hundred articles. He is a recipient of the Luminary Award of the Free Market Foundation.
Works Published in:
The Free Market [1]Speeches and Presentations [2]Mises Daily Article [3]The Journal of Libertarian Studies [4]Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics [5]Contact Yuri N. Maltsev [6]
Source URL: https://mises.org/profile/yuri-n-maltsev
[1] https://mises.org/library/free-market
[2] https://mises.org/library/speeches-and-presentations
[3] https://mises.org/library/mises-daily-article
[4] https://mises.org/library/journal-libertarian-studies
[5] https://mises.org/library/quarterly-journal-austrian-economics
[6] mailto:ymaltsev@carthage.edu
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A Boston Marathon bombing victim's story
Stronger's director David Gordon Green
By Scott Marks, Sept. 20, 2017
Jake Gyllenhaal and director David Gordon Green on the set of Stronger.
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Boston Marathon bombing victim Jeff Bauman, but don’t expect the Lifetime Channel. Stronger invites audiences to cast aside all fear of drippy sentiment in tight closeup. This tale of an ordinary man thrust into an extraordinary circumstance on the presumption of their heroism is signed by director David Gordon Green (George Washington, Manglehorn).
Stronger 3.0
Green is one filmmaker who always makes himself available to the press. This is our third phone conversation together. I hope we'll get to meet in person when he brings his new version of John Carpenter's Halloween to next year's Comic Con.
Jake Gyllenhaal Biography Movie HD
Stronger official trailer #1 (2017)
Scott Marks: Had your name not been attached to Stronger, I would have passed. Certain subject are better left to documentarians rather than narrative filmmakers. I guess I’m tired of studios trying to turn acts of tragedy and/or terrorism into cash. What concerns crossed your mind when you were considering Stronger as your next project?
David Gordon Green: Every hesitation you have as an audience I would have as a filmmaker. The fear of sentimentalizing or exploiting a horrific situation for the purposes of entertainment is a very difficult thing. This story opened up a conversation about community, about support, about rehabilitation in a way that is more relevant now than ever. It’s about what happens later when you’re in the aftershock of some of these headline events. I felt not only a concern about the exploitation of the subject matter, I wanted to do something that would honor the people that we were representing. I also wanted to invite an audience to participate in this conversation about healing.
SM: Did the family object to their portrayal? After all, they’re depicted at times as a band of drunken homophobes angry at the world.
DGG: One of the things I made very clear when we started the process is I wasn’t going to make it unless they trusted me with their stories. I told them we were going to to to difficult places. You’ve opened your homes, and stories, and lives to us and I‘m going to respect that. But at times it’s going to be an unflinching portrait that’s not going to be necessarily illustrating the family in the most flattering light.
I invited them into the conversation. Actors would meet their subjects. We all became very close. We infused it with humor because a big part of these characters is how they bust balls. They use it to rebuild their relationships. I wasn’t your average Hollywood director coming in to make a movie about them. They weren’t afraid of the overly-sentimental or overly-exploitive portrait that could be painted.
SM: Let’s talk about CGI. For years Hollywood has been using special effects as an opiate to replace storytelling. It’s a new version of movie magic. How did they make Jake Gyllenhaal’s legs disappear? Did you ever stop and think that an audience could become distracted by the technology to the point that they lose sight of drama.
DGG: I did think about that. When I was putting together the crew to this movie I hired cinematographer Sean Bobbitt (Byzantium, 12 Years a Slave). I said let’s make it look really raw and unmanicured. We’ve seen the spectacle of visual effects at their most imaginative before, but this time let’s let it be unassuming. Let’s not highlight it. Let’s not compose for the legs. In fact, sometime we composed as though he had legs.
There were never lights on set. We always lit through the window or from some practical source on set. We never had an actor walk over a cable while they were making their way into their creative environment. For me the real consideration was when do we show him without legs for the first time. Do we make a dramatic reveal of that? We decided not to do that. There’s no powerful swelling of the strings. His mother literally moves from the foot of his bed to the head of his bed and we see under the sheet that his legs are missing.
SM: A lot of it also has to do with Jake’s performance. Even if one is inclined to look for the digital seams, the can’t. It’s impossible to take your eyes off his face.
DGG: You can’t make a movie like this without a relentless actor. Someone who is checking their watch or looking at their bank account is not going to make a film like this.
SM: I spotted a copy of your Snow Angels atop the Bauman family DVD collection. That’s odd. They impress me more as fans of Pineapple Express or The Sitter.
DGG (Laughing): How the f*@k did you notice that?
SM: No offense, but Helen Keller in another theatre could have spotted it.
DGG: You’re supposed to be paying attention to what was on the TV! The art department did that as a joke.
SM: If what I read on IMDB is true, your next project is a sequel to [Halloween II that you will co-write with John Carpenter and direct. Why?
DGG: First let me correct a couple of things. I’ve co-written it with Danny McBride. John Carpenter is executive producing and doing the music. It’s not necessarily a sequel to Halloween II. What it is is kind of top secret, but I wouldn’t say it’s a sequel. It’s an opportunity for me to explore my childhood nightmare. It was the most disturbing and relentless movie I had ever seen as a child. It haunted me and gave me nightmares. It’s allowing Danny and I to face our fears and put our demons to be. We also get to work with one of our idols in terms of John Carpenter. I want to construct something that will be an opportunity to shift genres once again and try something I’ve never tried.
More stories by Scott Marks
Sarsgaard gets stood up — Nov. 30, 2016
Striking gold with Digging for Fire director Joe Swanberg — Aug. 31, 2015
Kevin Macdonald had a sub, E-I-E-I-Oh what a great genre pic! — Jan. 28, 2015
Interview with Nightcrawler cinematographer Robert Elswit — Oct. 29, 2014
Lighting by Cundey — April 23, 2014
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Macerich And Wonderspaces To Bring Innovative Art Installation Concept To Scottsdale Fashion Square
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ – Macerich (NYSE: MAC), one of the nation’s leading owners, operators and developers of retail properties in top markets, and Wonderspaces, the breakthrough concept that partners with artists from around the world to deliver artwork to new audiences, today announced the company’s first permanent location at Scottsdale Fashion Square in Arizona.
At Scottsdale Fashion Square, Wonderspaces will partner with artists from around the world to present a series of ticketed art shows in a 16,000 square-foot space. As a pop-up that debuted in San Diego in 2017, Wonderspaces shows earned rave reviews from visitors and media and drew more than 60,000 visitors in 2017 and over 100,000 in 2018. Wonderspaces plans to present three shows a year at Scottsdale Fashion Square starting in early 2019.
“The first permanent location for Wonderspaces, with its dynamic roster of curated art installations, is a strong fit for Scottsdale Fashion Square and for Macerich,” said Doug Healey, Executive Vice President, Leasing, Macerich. “The high-caliber artists and the exceptional setting Wonderspaces is creating to showcase their exciting work will come together as a powerful draw for this sophisticated region and for visitors from around the world.”
Wonderspaces President and Co-founder Jason Shin recognizes the inherent benefits of locating in a vibrant retail property that already attracts millions of visitors each year. “Scottsdale Fashion Square offers a unique opportunity to make the extraordinary artwork of our partner artists accessible to metro Phoenix. Through our shows, we aim to create a space where people can connect with art and with each other. Everything about our shows – from the location and pricing to the lineup of art – is designed with accessibility in mind.”
Scottsdale Fashion Square is a premier shopping and dining destination offering nearly 2 million square feet of the region’s best brands and experiences. With its newly renovated luxury presentation that opened this fall, this top property is Arizona’s undisputed luxury leader with brands such as Gucci, Cartier, Bottega Veneta, Bulgari, Prada, Salvatore Ferragamo, Burberry, a new Apple flagship and more – including the recently announced first-to-market Saint Laurent store and Nobu restaurant. As well, premium workplace operator Industrious will open a major new coworking space at the property in January 2019.
Macerich, an S&P 500 company, is a fully integrated self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust, which focuses on the acquisition, leasing, management, development and redevelopment of regional malls throughout the United States.
Macerich currently owns 52 million square feet of real estate consisting primarily of interests in 48 regional shopping centers. Macerich specializes in successful retail properties in many of the country’s most attractive, densely populated markets with significant presence in the Pacific Rim, Arizona, Chicago and the Metro New York to Washington, D.C. corridor.
A recognized leader in sustainability, Macerich has earned NAREIT’s prestigious “Leader in the Light” award every year from 2014-2018. For the fourth straight year in 2018 Macerich achieved the #1 GRESB ranking in the North American Retail Sector, among many other environmental accomplishments. Additional information about Macerich can be obtained from the Company’s website at www.macerich.com
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The Stick……in the O.J. Simpson Case and its LEGACY OF DECEPTION
The words Legacy of Deception happen to be the title of one of the most intriguing books regarding the OJ Simpson case written. A book I assumed was apparently so rare that the only ones available were the few in tattered condition, due to the worn out, dog eared, “good quality” used copy I purchased on-line a few years back. However, I would be wrong in one instance; there were plenty in good condition left but in another manner I’d be correct in terms of its rarity. The book was authored by a prolific Denver true crime writer, whose authored more than a dozen books on the subject, Stephen Singular. His skeletal drafted manuscript of LEGACY was ready 6 months after the June murders took place by December of 1994 when seeking a publishing deal. Unfortunately, though he received his book deal, it was subsequently sabotaged by his publisher before the O.J. Simpson trial began. It appears that he wanted to see Simpson convicted of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Lyle Goldman, before hand. Thus, the publisher of Dove Books, Michael Viner, would not publish Singular’s revelations prior to this trial’s beginning in January of 1995. Upon Simpson’s acquittal in October of 1995 the publisher became angry and recalcitrant towards Singular and appeared determined not to publish his book at all, he only relented after Singular personally challenged him to honor his publishing commitment. Although he came around and agreed to publish the book, Viner did not place any emphasis on marketing it, and the book simply became, for all intent and purposes, a collector’s item. When the investigative/author, T.H. Johnson, finally caught up with Singular in 2013 and made contact, Singular told him that he felt like he’d been dug up after being entombed for 19 years. It was an example once again of the amazing impact that the OJ Simpson murder trial of 1995 has had on the psyche of normal thinking individuals, who you’d think would act in a reasonable and civil manner; especially those who are still in a rush to judgment to produce broadcast productions of what they presume to be the truth without doing in-depth research beyond the same old narrative.
Singular’s involvement in the Simpson case is discussed in the beginning chapters of one of the latest books on the Simpson trial written in 2015 by T.H. Johnson, the independent investigator from the OMIG investigative group, entitled The People vs. O.J. Simpson, the second in line following his compendium of investigative discoveries in his first offering, PURSUIT OF EXHIBIT 35 in the OJ Simpson Murder Trial.
In doing his research on the Simpson matter, Johnson found a strange reference to Singular, who for most people was a person relatively unknown in the Simpson case yet he was discussed over four pages in Chris Darden’s book, In Contempt. Johnson wanted to know, who was this man when it came out back in 1996. According to LEGACY OF DECEPTION Singular was contacted shortly after the murders in the Simpson case took place in 1994 and subsequently he was visited by an LAPD insider that met with him in a park in his home town of Denver, Colorado.
What this anonymous person would tell Singular in early August 1994 would potentially knock this case to its knees, and Singular wondered why he had been chosen to deliver the message. According to the anonymous insider, the infamous detective who found the glove at OJ Simpson’s Rockingham residence, Mark Fuhrman, had not simply gone to Simpson’s residence with the senior detectives, Tom Lange and Phil Vannatter, from the LAPD S.I.D. unit later that morning around 5:15 AM.
The insider claimed that Fuhrman and someone else had gone to Simpson’s house earlier that dark night around 3:00 AM with the expectation that Fuhrman would find incriminating evidence. To his dismay he did not find anything incriminating and apparently got into an argument with whomever he had gone there with for leaving a crime scene. The maid who worked next door to Simpson, Rosa Lopez, would claim later at the time of the trial that she had heard men arguing in the middle of the night on the boundary line between her location and Simpson’s. The insider told Singular in August of 1994 that Fuhrman went back the second time with Vannatter and Lange and that he carried one of the bloody gloves in a blue plastic bag used by detectives to collect evidence. The insider alleged that Fuhrman picked the glove up with a stick made of a piece of wood broken off the back fence of Nicole Brown Simpson’s Bundy residence. Naturally, Singular was astonished by such claims and asked how could such allegations be proven. The insider told him that the police took photos of the glove and near the glove in the photo you will find a piece of the blue plastic evidence bag. Under a somewhat feeble cross examination 7 months later in February 1995, Det. Tom Lange would ultimately admit to seeing a piece of blue plastic near the glove. I use the word feeble as best to reflect on the subsequent anger Singular would have with Simpson’s own “Dream Team” that he took chances to help reveal this corruption. The stick used to carry the bloody glove was left on Simpson’s Rockingham property too, according to the LAPD insider, and would also be collected by the police as evidence found at the Simpson property. Singular asked the insider why they did not take this information directly to the police in Los Angeles, and was told that the level of corruption within the LAPD and the Los Angeles County justice apparatus in general was so insidious that officials within these departments could not be trusted.
The reason he had reached out to Singular in Denver was because Singular had authored a book about the murder of a Denver radio talk show host by the name of Alan Berg back in 1986 entitled Talked To Death, one that Oliver Stone would later license from Singular to make a movie recounting the execution of Berg called Talk Radio. The killing of Berg was carried out by members of a neo-Nazi, white supremacist splinter group called The Order, who’d later be convicted of conspiracy, that wanted to start a violent national revolution by executing certain individuals. They had come down to Denver from Northeast Washington near the Northwest Idaho border a region of the United States that has become the headquarters for the racist Aryan nationalists. According to the LAPD insider, it also had become a popular retirement location for veteran police officers upon leaving the Los Angeles Police Department. Mark Fuhrman was known to move to this region as well, near Coeur d’alene, Idaho, when he retired in disgrace from the LAPD. The anonymous insider went on to say that there were neo-Nazi sympathizers within the LAPD, officers who were in command positions that protected these corrupt police officers who had a record of habitually corrupt practices while serving on the police force. This is why he saw no benefit in presenting such allegations to any of the justice apparatuses within L.A. County, and apparently California. The insider told Singular that he should attempt to get this information to the Simpson’s defense lawyers. Singular’s curiosity as an author in this genre of crime was intrigued enough to finally take up the challenge, and he would subsequently meet with members of O.J. Simpson’s defense team later in August of 1994. The “Dream Team” members would ultimately check out these bizarre allegations of Singular from his anonymous source and they would astonishingly find the evidence of these items to be true when they sought them out at the Los Angeles police property department. The defense team would in a sense now enlist Singular to attempt to get inside the LAPD forensic laboratory itself and secure other information they considered valuable but hidden. When Singular was not successful at doing so, or was not willing to do other things the defense requested, they appeared to act hostile and quick to kick him to the curb. In the meantime, Singular’s publisher would ultimately leak the information given to him in confidence to the L.A. D.A.’s office that Singular had a manuscript that contained information for which no one knew and had now given to the defense. The publisher, Viner, did it allegedly on advice of counsel to protect himself from any future charges. The prosecution would then attempt to sweat Singular to reveal his anonymous contact while threatening him with jail, if he refused. Singular still never gave in to their threats. The book is fascinating, to say the least, LEGACY OF DECEPTION and it’s an excellent read for those like us who still cannot get their fill of the O.J. Simpson murder case. One last thing before I let you go, something that I find quite interesting is that Mark Fuhrman would ultimately author his own book of the Simpson case entitled MARK FUHRMAN Murder In Brentwood.
His book would be published in 1997, two years after Singular’s book in 1995. What I find amazing is that Fuhrman’s book basically centers around he, himself, and all of the discoveries of evidence he made at Simpson’s Rockingham residence; the most important being the glove.
(L), Fuhrman’s glove discovery at Bundy Drive, (R), Fuhrman’s glove discovery at Rockingham
However, one item stands out as well as the glove that Fuhrman purports to have discovered. This item he discovers on the manicured boulevard in the upscale mansion neighborhood on Rockingham where O.J. Simpson lived. It is one of the highlighted discoveries made by Fuhrman that he talks about in his book, a piece of white stick that he claims looked out of place on the boulevard adjacent to Simpson’s Bronco. What is strange to us about that discovery is our attempt to imagine what significance Fuhrman thought it had in order for him to collect it as a potential piece of evidence in this murder case. Is Fuhrman attempting to imply that the perpetrator of these murders carried this piece of broken white stick from the murder site to Simpson’s property and dropped it? The onus was focused on Simpson already as a possible suspect when the detectives went to his Rockingham residence. Thus, Fuhrman apparently wants us to believe that Simpson brought the broken piece of stick to his residence after murdering two people. If so, why would Simpson do that? We cannot help but wonder if the truth inadvertently lies in the buried treasure of the last 20 years, LEGACY OF DECEPTION, whose anonymous source within the LAPD told Singular less than a month and a half after the murders took place in 1994 that Fuhrman himself broke that piece of stick off the back of Nicole Brown Simpson’s fence and used it to pick up the glove. Since Mr. Fuhrman elaborated about this stick in his book, as well as in his testimony on the witness stand, he needs to explain his thoughts about a murderer carrying such a stick back to his own residence. The idea of Simpson carrying it back to his home, and discarding it on a manicured boulevard, as those in his neighborhood after murdering two people is simply outrageously absurd. Hence, it further makes the idea of Simpson planting the glove on his own property seem. even more ridiculous and implausible, as it has always seemed to many, over the last 21 years. However, after reading Singular’s book, LEGACY OF DECEPTION, it raises the odds that the anonymous source was right in 1994, that it was Fuhrman who dropped that stick on Simpson’s boulevard, after he, Fuhrman, planted that glove inside the fence on Simpson’s residence.
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OJ Simpson Case: The Deadly Compromise
Was the OJ Simpson case compromised by a man with a deadly disease?
…Part one of a two part series
Maddogg Guest Writer, OMIG Investigator, T.H. Johnson
On that lazy sun drenched afternoon the patient peered out the window from the tall medical high-rise, and took in the view of the bustling human traffic below in the Los Angeles metropolitan enclave of Century City. Down there is where he felt he wanted to be as morning crossed into afternoon rather than in this doctor’s office, and where he would be immediately after departing this medical examination. There was a nice outdoor restaurant over in Santa Monica that he enjoyed on days like this when he had the time to go there. He decided that he would call his wife and arrange to pick her up and they would go and have lunch together. Those opportunities had become fewer and far in between given his hectic business schedule these days. After all, over 25 years of lawyer-ing had made the man, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., a successful scion in the business and social world of Los Angeles. By now he’d achieved some unique accomplishments, in becoming the attorney for some of the top celebrities in the entertainment industry, as well as winning both top recognition awards for lawyers in the state of California. A few years earlier he’d received the top annual award for civil litigation and a few years after that the Giesler Award, named in recognition of the famous top criminal defense lawyer in California the late Jerry Giesler. This was like winning the California lottery twice, we all know the difficulty of winning it once but to win twice is truly exceptional. In the legal profession it is arguably more difficult in our modern times since most attorneys choose one career line or the other, meaning a civil practice or a criminal practice.
Cochran certainly did not spring to the top of the legal totem pole after leaving law school, he had paid his dues in the trenches fighting police corruption and after a long struggle he started successfully winning cases of police brutality. He’d won the hearts of thousands of Californians as the go to lawyer for civil rights violations when he successfully represented the family of Ron Settles.
Settles was the young phenom, highly touted, southern California high school football player who was suspiciously found dead in his jail cell in the Los Angeles community of Signal Hills after being pulled over for a traffic stop by their local police. Cochran would win close to a million dollar award for the family with that case and they, it is said, gave much of that money to charity in the name of their deceased son.
Cochran years later received the call to represent the brutally beaten white truck driver, Reginald Denny, who almost lost his life in the wake of the riots that occurred in the aftermath of the Simi Valley Court acquittal of Los Angeles police officers involved in the 1991 brutal Rodney King beating.
If it was any consolation, Cochran would win a multi-million dollar personal injury settlement from the city of Los Angeles for Denny because the city’s police had pulled back from securing the intersection where the assault took place. The after effects of the Rodney King brutalizing and the subsequent riots that occurred as a result of the police acquittals in the police enclave of Simi Valley economically devastated Los Angeles and would leave the city numb for a number of years to come.
The George Holliday video recording of the unprofessional conduct of multiple police beating Rodney King with batons while simultanously shocking him with electric tasers went viral all around the world; and the toll as a result: Deaths: 58
* Injuries: 2,383, including 228 critical. Among the injured, 10 firefighters and 71 law enforcement officers.
* Fires: More than 7,000 responses.
* Arrests: 12,111
* Damage estimate: $717 million, excluding Long Beach; 5,273 buildings damaged or destroyed, including at least 1,600 severely damaged or burned businesses; 3,100 businesses affected by rioting or looting.
In the smoldering ashes across the city and heightened sense of trepidation with Marines, California National Guard, and the Army securing the streets and businesses by curfew, the images of King being beaten was akin to ripping off a scab concealing the festering racial wounds fueled by police brutality that long plagued the city. No one really knew what it would take for the authorities to recapture the moral high ground in Los Angeles and get the metro’s economy back on track? The solution might be found a year and a half later in the media promulgation of the Simpson trial.
As Cochran waited in the examination room for the return of his doctor he even drifted into somber thought about the few years he’d spent in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office. He was a criminal defense or civil plaintiff’s attorney at heart yet he was talked into coming over to the other side as one of the top three officials in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Cochran even had the custom designer license plates for his Rolls Royce convertible with the number 3 emblazoned on it, signifying that as one one of the few assistant D.A.’s, he was the third most powerful attorney in the D.A.’s office.
What lured him into that job in 1978 was the allegation by the head recruiter, John Van de Kamp, the incumbent District Attorney, who told him that Cochran could do more in terms of civil rights to change a corrupt justice system from the inside than he could by being on the outside. With his father, Johnnie L. Cochran senior’s counsel affirming the District Attorney, the junior Cochran decided to accept Van de Kamp’s invitation and take the position. He remained there for three years though his heart was in being a defense or civil plaintiff’s attorney. As he sat there in the doctor’s office he reflected back on the three years he’d spent there as he waited for the doctor to return. It is interesting to note that by the time the murder case would be brought against O.J. Simpson, well before Cochran became a part of Simpson’s defense team, he would play a significant role in that trial.
Cochran while as assistant D.A. from 1978 -1981 helped create the S.I.D. (Special Investigations Division) in the D.A.’s office at a time when they believed it was important to place a prosecutor in every police precinct in the city of Los Angeles. As a result it was Cochran who would assign the actual lead prosecutor in the Simpson trial, Bill Hodgman, to that division. The presiding D.A. of the Simpson trial, Gil Garcetti, would years earlier be assigned to Cochran by Van de Kamp as his administrative assistant. Cochran would also provide the reigning judge in the Simpson trial, Lance Ito, his first job in the D.A.’s office as a member of the gang strike force unit in the D.A.’s office. These relationships may have played a role in the inexplicable conduct and acrimony that played out during the trial in the courtroom between Cochran and Ito from time to time. However, though it was not known at the time there’d be a far more compelling reason for Cochran to find a way of becoming a member of the Simpson defense and maneuvering into the top leadership position of this heretofore all white legal defense team.
As Cochran sat there awaiting the medical results regarding a brain scan related to head aches he’d been experiencing he thought about a pesky mole on the side of his head that he had medically removed. As he looked in the mirror above the desk over cotton balls, bandages, and alcohol he probably pondered whether there’d be any cosmetic advantage of having other moles removed since he had developed a few of the unsightly growths as many people do over the years. He certainly had the financial wherewithal to have any cosmetic changes done that he so desired but maybe humorously thought why change perfection?
There was one growth in particular he thought about, a growing dark mole over his left eye. Maybe he would possibly see about it the next time he visited the doctor since it may call for a bit more cosmetic surgery which was something he could not afford to waste time on right then given his busy schedule. As he pondered this minutia, suddenly the examining room door opened as the doctor returned. “Great”, Cochran thought to himself, “Now I can get dressed and get out of here”. “Well, how about it, Doc?”
The doctor attempted to maintain a pleasant but firm bedside manner, “Well, Johnnie, I have a bit of bad news to share with you”. “We looked at the MRI brain scan regarding the vision problems you’ve been having and we’ve found a tumor called a Glioblastoma”. We ran a test on the mole that we excised from behind your ear and found it to be malignant and suspect the brain tumor might be as well”.
His words caught Cochran by surprise resulting in momentary shock and dismay causing him to sit back in his chair, “My God, then what is the prognosis, Doc?”
“Johnnie, if the brain tumor is malignant then it’s likely it will be terminal due to its inoperable location”. “However, I can say with new experimental medicines now available to treat these tumors it is possible that we can prolong the life of a patient afflicted with malignant Glioblastoma much longer than we could before; nevertheless this is still in our opinion an inoperable and predictable terminal brain disease”. “These type of tumors can be very aggressive and because they create their own blood supply they can grow much faster; however, the new medicine can potentially slow down the growth although it cannot cure the disease. Based upon the location of the tumor within the brain, however, surgery is not an option and why it is terminal”. “Thus, we just don’t know how long”. “You may have ten months or ten years we just don’t know”.
“I’ll leave you now to get dressed and have the nurse come in with a prescription that I’m prescribing for the tumor and to reduce the head aches you’ve been having that we believe is associated with the tumor”. “We want to aggressively treat this affliction so we’ll begin immediately, and have a definite schedule for you starting next week”.
When the doctor left the examination room Cochran simply slumped down in his chair and became melancholy, forgetting about his lunch plans this afternoon with his wife. All of the good thoughts he earlier had simply faded away, as he sat there numb. His life stood still at that moment as if the world for him had just come to an end. Forgetting about all of his immediate planned pleasures, he began to take inventory of his life. The visions of happiness, the houses, the cars, beautiful suits and stylish shoes, all of the physical accouterments of wealth he’d accumulated; all seemed meaningless now, they all simply melted away. Shortly thereafter, he sat up and Cochran began to regain control of himself. His Christian faith had taught him that there was an eternal life that man should strive for and not these material things that so often preoccupy men’s lives. He decided that whatever time he had left it would be spent being as productive as could be. He would get his life in order, and immediately upon saying that to himself something hit him as hard as the news of his terminal cancer. It was a statement made to him by a man he defended 22 years earlier. “DON’T FORGET ME, COCHRAN!” That very last remark would sear itself into the very fibers of his soul, burning into his spirit from that day on. They were the words that came forth at that very moment to remind him of probably the first and arguably most important major trial of his long and illustrious career.
However, with all that he had accomplished and experienced, good and bad, throughout his life those words made him restless. Had he really done all that he could? That very thought always plagued him. Those words, “Don’t forget me, Cochran!”. They burned within him because he knew he had let his guard down and allowed his arrogance as a professional, highly educated renaissance man, trained in the law to supersede the basic Christian principles his parents had taught. As he pondered the course of his life’s journey, he felt remorse for his inability to humble himself. In his mind, he had failed to value the thoughts of those beyond himself. Be humble and not arrogant “fore pride goeth before the fall”, those, his mother’s words, had escaped him.
At the time he felt insulted and embarrassed by a court system he knew was flawed but one he still believed out of common sense and decency could be fair. However, in this case it was not, and once again he would stand there dumbfounded as his client, an innocent man, who he had just witnessed the government frame being led off to jail to begin serving a horrendous sentence of life without parole in prison. Yes, it seared its way into Cochran’s spirit as he looked around at the smirk on the prosecutor and judge’s face. It burned him to the depth of his soul because his non-attorney client had warned him of the outcome and that he should beware of the government’s chicanery. Those thoughts Cochran simply dismissed as typical client paranoia since he knew that the unimpeachable evidence would reign that day. Now, though he was cloaked in one of his fine designer suits, he was made to feel small and stripped nakedly to the bone due to his own naivety. He felt like a fool in the courtroom that day, one that deserved to be called any and everything but a child of God, but as he looked back towards his client being led away, choked up for words all his client would say to the young lawyer was “Don’t forget about me, Cochran!” Though Cochran had never forgot and had done a lot over the last quarter century to assist in his appeals this was the ultimate moment that he would put all on the line to help secure his client’s freedom. Now the final bell had tolled in Cochran’s mind, at the time of his diagnosis with terminal brain cancer, he was shifting into another gear of his life. By now his client had been designated by the global research NGO that paid attention to prisoners and prison conditions around the world, Amnesty International, as the longest political prisoner in the world.
Until his recent release the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, had held that title of the longest political prisoner incarcerated. That was as a result of the many years he was locked away in the isolated penal colony of the racist apartheid regime of South Africa, at its infamous prison on Robben Island. Mandela would write to Cochran’s client upon his release and acknowledge his faith in the incarcerated political prisoner and the principles of freedom he stood for though imprisoned in the United States. Attaining his freedom would require all that Cochran had learned both in private practice as well as his time spent spent as an official in the county prosecutor’s office. This last thought would be most beneficial since Cochran’s pleasant demeanor as a lawyer and sober mind had created many inside allies who were indebted to him for things he had done for them in the past. Now, he tapped into the system from where he’d emerged long before and called upon some of those to return those favors. What he found out as it related to the Simpson case he knew was the kind of information he needed to attain the freedom of his long incarcerated client. In order to pull it off, it meant his willingness to sacrifice all that he had achieved in terms of respectability. However, the Simpson case by the summer of 1994 was setting up to become a celebrity trial, that meant optimistically it would provide the type of platform for Cochran’s strategy. The bigger it got the better it would be for his plan. The Simpson case now was totally under the control of the D.A.’s central operations’ downtown. It’s high profile trial division would set the course for this case, and it looked like the mass media is where Marcia Clark and Gil Garcetti were intentionally guiding it. Now, Cochran had to do all he could to maneuver his way onto Simpson’s defense team.
End of Part one………….
T.H. Johnson is an author and Investigative Team Coordinator for OMIG, the Ocean Medical Investigative Group since 1997. That organization initially became involved with the Simpson case after it’s head doctor and chairman, Dr. Henry S. Johnson, secretly received copies at his south Los Angeles office of the autopsy reports of the decedents, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman in 1996. What was revealed in those autopsy reports was never revealed to the public in the so called media dubbed “trial of the century”. As a result, members of that organization have written several books and a documentary regarding their investigative revelations of hidden evidence in the infamous and corrupt O.J. Simpson murder trial in an attempt to bring the truth in that corrupt infamous trial to global attention. Some of their books and documentary are cited below.
A Few Must Read Books Recommended by the writer with bearing revelations regarding the Simpson Case.
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You are here: Home / News / Would you employ someone with a tattoo?
Would you employ someone with a tattoo?
Employers are missing out on talented workers because of negative attitudes towards people with tattoos, says a new report.
The conciliation service Acas said a third of young people have a tattoo, but some firms, and individual managers, are worried about the image it would give to potential customers or clients.
Acas, which commissioned research at King’s College, London, says negative attitudes about visible tattoos are outdated.
Stephen Williams, head of equality at Acas, said: “Almost a third of young people now have tattoos so, whilst it remains a legitimate business decision, a dress code that restricts people with tattoos might mean companies are missing out on talented workers.
“We know that employers with a diverse workforce can reap many business benefits as they can tap into the knowledge and skills of staff from a wide range of backgrounds.
“Businesses are perfectly within their right to have rules around appearance at work but these rules should be based on the law where appropriate, and the needs of the business, not managers’ personal preferences.
“We have updated our dress code guidance, which also includes advice for employers to help ensure they don’t fall on the wrong side of the law with their dress codes.”
The research suggested that some managers think tattoos on staff can “positively convey an organisation’s image”.
The BBC reports ‘the research suggested there is a strict approach to appearance in the airline industry’.
The Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers in England and Wales, recently called for a ban on officers having visible tattoos to be lifted.
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Yoshitaka Amano's lush ethereal paintings of magical creatures, spirits, goblins, and apparitions have been praised and admired all over the world. In Fairies he turns his considerable talent to capturing in breathtaking images characters from such beloved stories as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the wizard Merlin and his muse the intoxicating Nimue, mermaids of the deep as well as his interpretation of fairies from Celtic and Japanese mythology.
Yoshitaka Amano has been praised around the world for his lush watercolors and evocative work dealing with myth and legend. In The Tale of Genji Mr. Amano brings his considerable talent to retelling one of the most famous of Japanese myths: written by Murasaki Shikibu shortly after 1000 AD and considered by most scholars to be the first novel ever written, The Tale of Genji is the story of the rom
Worlds of Amano
Worlds of Amano provides a rare look inside the creative process of one of the most influential popular-culture artists working in Japan in the last thirty years. Originally published in France, Worlds of Amano presents a unique overview of Yoshitaka Amano's diverse work. This vast introduction allows one to take in the full measure of the immense talent of this famous Japanese illustrator, who
Yoshitaka Amano
A beautiful celebration of the life and imagery of Japan's master of fantasy and science fiction art! This handsome, landscape-style hardback contains nearly 400 illustrations and photos from the incredible career of Final Fantasy designer Yoshitaka Amano. But Beyond the Fantasy covers far more than just the famous game series. Amano's artistic journey goes back to his first job in 1967--age 15
The Art of Camilla d'Errico
Enter the unique and beautiful dream world of Rainbow Children: The Art of Camilla d'Errico! The 3rd art book featuring one of the most powerful artists in the pop surrealism art movement is here! Camilla d'Errico is a world-renowned painter, illustrator, comic artist, as well as toy and clothing designer. This gorgeous hard cover compilation of her work, the third such collection from Dark Hors
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Home » NEWS » Do you have what it takes for Top 40 Under 40?
Prestigious recognition program back for 12th year, honoring best
Do you have what it takes for Top 40 Under 40?
Posted by: Joe D. Jones in NEWS September 6, 2004
Every year the Mississippi Business Journal combs the state searching for young people under the age of 40 who are making a difference in their communities. The 2004 quest is now underway.
Our Top 40 Under 40 awards program will recognize 40 young people from all over the state for their achievements. Nominees must be employed and have lived and worked in Mississippi for at least two years, be under the age of 40 as of December 1, 2004, and be involved in much more than just making a living. The deadline for accepting nominations is October 1, 2004.
Involvement with the Top 40 program has been an uplifting, but humbling, experience for me. Each year, we honor 40 serious achievers who have struggled to overcome obstacles, rack up impressive professional accomplishments while contributing to their communities and balancing family life all the while. Each year I feel better about the future of Mississippi after studying the record of the Top 40 nominees.
Top 40 winners are successful in their occupations. That is a given. Additionally, winners are active in all kinds of community organizations and projects. Not just members of boards and committees, our winners chair projects that require more than mere attendance.
Due to the quality of past Top 40 winners, the award has become a mark of prestige. We receive approximately 150 nomination packages each year. We leave the selection to a panel of three judges, who have one of the hardest jobs we can imagine. It is a sad fact of life that the quality of nomination package itself impacts the judges decisions.
Neat, complete packages that provide ample details of professional and community involvement and include letters of recommendation are more likely to be favorably considered than a hastily prepared, sketchy package. Go long on accomplishments; this is not the proper occasion for modesty.
Our Top 40 Under 40 program is now in its 12th year. Past winners have continued on their paths to success and now represent some of the most outstanding citizens in our state.
We are confident that this year’s class will follow that same path and continue to serve their families, professions and communities for years to come.
Winners will be honored at a luncheon here in Jackson January 19, 2005. More than 500 people attended last year’s Top 40 awards event. We look forward to meeting a new crop of young leaders this year.
Joe D. Jones, CPA, is publisher of the Mississippi Business Journal. Contact him at cpajones@msbusiness.com.
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27 May 2004 09:16am
By Jan Harley (As Amended by ISAF)
Navy Leads After Day One
© Event Media
ICSA Women's North American Championship
While many folks in the Pacific Northwest would be inclined to spend a gray and dismal day inside by the fire, women sailors from 18 colleges around the nation were demonstrating they had better things to do with their time.
They were in the Gorge for the first of their three days of racing for the 2004 ICSA (Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association) Women's North American Championship title.
The competitors faced an exciting afternoon on the Columbia River after both A and B divisions got in three races in breeze of 8-10 knots. Sailing FJs, the teams were in their fourth race when a squall brought rain and 15-20 knots of breeze, capsizing more than half the fleet. Once all the boats were righted and a short break taken, A-Division resumed racing in 10-15 knots and light rain. Those teams completed two additional races before calling it a day.
The US Naval Academy (Annapolis, Md.) holds the overall lead in the combined scoring on 42 points, with Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) second, 10 points back. Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Va.) is third with 54 points.
Defending champions Tufts University (Medford, Mass.) are first overall in A-Division after the consistent performance of skipper A.J. CRANE (Warwick, Bermuda) and Kristen TYSELL (Richmond, Calif.), both seniors, along with freshman crew Gretchen CURTIS (Marblehead, Mass.). In B-Division, Navy's freshman team of Katherine WHITMAN, Lindsey MAGEE and Catherine LONG placed first overall after four races.
District eliminations qualified 18 colleges, who will field separate A and B division teams, to sail the ICSA North American Women's Dinghy Championship: Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.), Connecticut College (New London, Conn.), College of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.), Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.), Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.), Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.), Hobart/William Smith Colleges (Geneva, N.Y.), Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.), Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Va.), Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.), Texas A & M Galveston (Galveston, Texas), Tufts University (Medford, Mass.), University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), University of Washington (Seattle, Wash.), University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wis.), U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis, Md.), Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).
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By Daniel Smith
48th Youth Sailing World Championships officially open
48th Youth Sailing World Championship officially open
2018 Youth Sailing World Championship
Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
With the words, "By hoisting the flag I declare the Championship formally open!" American Cory Sertl, the Chair of the World Sailing's Youth Events Sub-committee, officially opened the 48th annual Youth Sailing World Championship.
This evening's opening ceremony hosted by 11th Hour Racing, Official Sustainability Partner of the Championships, and The Harte Research Institute was a celebration of local culture for the 382 sailors from 66 nations. A mariachi band and dancers from the Ballet Folklorico led the parade of nations along the shoreline of Corpus Christi Bay into the American Bank Center. Inside the center Corpus Christi Mayor Joseph McComb welcomed everyone with a traditional Texan "Howdy!"
Corpus Christi Yacht Club Commodore Craig Robinson welcomed each team onto the stage one at a time where they added a jar of their home water to a communal bowl that later would be poured into Corpus Christi Bay.
The sailors' national pride was exuberant throughout the introductions. Sailors from France and Croatia playfully sparred with their nations' flags as if to say the World Cup isn't over yet. (France defeated Croatia in the FIFA World Cup Final earlier in the day.) A Portuguese sailor commanded the microphone and yelled, "Portugal!" as he walked across the stage. And the American Team marched across the stage to chants of "U-S-A! U-S-A!"
Special guests included Todd McGuire, Program Director of 11th Hour Racing in the recently concluded Volvo Ocean Race, and Dr. Larry McKinney, the Executive Director of the Harte Research Institute and a science advisor for Sailors for the Sea.
The keynote address was provided by Dr. Sylvia Earle, the American marine biologist, explorer, author and lecturer. She stressed to the sailors the importance of sustainability. Generational change starts at the grassroots level, and Earle implored the sailors to spread the word of environmental stewardship in their homelands.
The Youth Worlds has become a pinnacle event for sailors aged 16 to 19 who aspire to the upper echelons of the sport. Luminaries such as Ben Ainslie of Great Britain and Russell Coutts and Peter Burling of New Zealand have won gold medals at the Youth Worlds before going on to great success.
"To see 382 of the best young sailors from 66 nations fills myself and World Sailing with great pride," said Sertl. "This event has witnessed so many legends of our sport start their careers and no matter what your result is this week, this is only the start for you."
Corpus Christi is hosting the Worlds less than one year after Hurricane Harvey caused great damage in the region. Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane last August near Rockport, about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi. Corpus Christi was spared the brunt of the storm but there are still some houses in the city with tarps on their roofs.
The Youth Worlds could help turn all of that around. According to a study from the Corpus Christi Convention and Visitors Bureau, Henderson said the week-long regatta is expected to add about $1 million to the local economy.
The Youth Sailing World Championship is hosted by the Corpus Christi Yacht Club and organized by World Sailing and US Sailing. All of the 265 boats have been provided thanks to generous support from Neil Pryde (RS:X sailboard), Laser Performance/Maclaren (Laser Radial), Nautivela (International 420), Ovington (29er) and Nacra Sailing (Nacra 15 catamaran).
Racing is scheduled to begin tomorrow and conclude on Friday.
Full entries are available here - http://www.worldsailingywc.org/entries/corpus_christi_entries.php
Daily highlights will be available on the World Sailing TV YouTube Channel here - https://www.youtube.com/worldsailingtv.
Follow the event on World Sailing's social networks and get involved in the conversation using #YSWC18 and #YouthWorlds.
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/youthworlds
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Twitter - @youthworlds
All World Sailing international press releases throughout the duration of the Youth Sailing World Championships, including the latest news and reports, are available to read here - http://www.worldsailingywc.org/news/index.php.
About the Youth Worlds
The Youth Worlds was first held in Sweden in 1971. The 2018 Youth Sailing World Championships will be the 48th edition of the championship.
As the regatta evolved further classes were added to bring the best young sailing talent across the world together in one place and in 1984 the Mistral windsurfer was added to the list of events with Knut Budig (GER) taking the first gold medal in San Diego, California.
Past notable winners include American's Cup skippers, Chris Dickson (NZL), Russell Coutts (NZL), Dean Barker (NZL); Olympic medallists, Nathan Outteridge (AUS), Iain Jensen (AUS), Robert Scheidt (BRA), Amelie Lux (GER), Ben Ainslie (GBR), Iain Percy (GBR), Alessandra Sensini (ITA), Elise Rechichi (AUS) and Tessa Parkinson (AUS); Volvo Ocean Race sailors like Stuart Bannatyne (NZL) and Richard Clarke (CAN).
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The Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Commemoration Committee has been working with a multitude of historians and authors working on titles to be released this year. Our aim is to make Magna Carta accessible to everyone – and titles for 2015 include resources for younger audiences, schoolchildren, and adults studying at an academic level.
Books for Younger Audiences
What on Earth? Wallbooks promote education through natural curiosity and adventure. The Magna Carta Chronicle charts the fight for freedoms from the sealing of Magna Carta by King John in 1215 to the present day. It includes more than 40 newspaper articles, a 2m-long fold-out timeline wallchart, a crossword, a 50 question multiple-choice quiz and a souvenir copy and guide to the Magna Carta itself!
London publishers Guy Fox work closely with schoolchildren in the South East of England on projects to bring history to life. Their children’s educational resources about Magna Carta are supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and are available here on their website.
Magnus Carter
Inspired by Magna Carta, this entertaining and educational fable tells of the adventures of a brave mole who challenges injustice for a more democratic society. The fully illustrated book is aimed primarily at Key Stage 1 children and includes two games. Click here to visit the Hare and Heron Press website for more information about their Magna Carta educational resources for primary schools.
Published 23rd March. Available from Independent Bookshops, Amazon and the Hare and Heron press website.
@hareheronpress
King John and the Magna Carta: A Ladybird Adventure
Lawrence du Garde Peach (Ladybird) Click here to view this item on Amazon
Books for adults & students
Magna Carta: The Foundation of Freedom 1215 – 2015. (Third Millennium Publishing)
In this illustrated volume, Professor Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia, is joined by a range of leading experts on Magna Carta from across the world to reflect on the Charter’s genesis and importance today. By Third Millennium Publishing, some proceeds from the American Bar Association commemorative edition shall support the work of the Magna Carta Trust. Click here to visit the website.
Power, People, Politics and Progress (Magna Carta New Zealand)
This book is a record of all the speeches, research, and commemorative events that happened in New Zealand in 2015. Divided into sections, it looks at the Constitutional history of New Zealand and the nation’s relationship with Magna Carta.
Click here to download this e – book.
Magna Carta, by Dan Jones (Head of Zeus publishing)
A milestone in the development of constitutional politics and the rule of law, the ‘Great Charter’ established an Englishman’s right to Habeas Corpus and set limits to the exercise of royal power. For the first time a group of subjects had forced an English king to agree to a document that limited his powers by law and protected their rights. This is a beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one the most influential statements in the history of democracy.
Dan Jones’s elegant and authoritative narrative of the making and legacy of Magna Carta is amplified by profiles of the barons who secured it and a full text of the charter in both Latin and English.
Click here for more information on Magna Carta and Head of Zeus Publishing.
Click here to watch a short video featuring the book!
Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor
Following a hugely successful exhibition bearing the same name, Justice Holland has compiled this collection of illustrated scholarly essays in association with the Law Library of Congress in Washington. Click here to visit the Law Library of Congress website.
Magna Carta: J.C Holt 3rd edition
This revised edition of J. C. Holt’s classic study of Magna Carta, the Great Charter, offers the most authoritative analysis of England’s most famous constitutional text. The book sets the events of 1215 and the Charter itself in the context of the law, politics and administration of England and Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Additionally, a lengthy new introduction by two of Holt’s former pupils, George Garnett and John Hudson, examines a range of issues raised by scholarship since publication of the second edition in 1992. These include the possible role of Archbishop Stephen Langton; the degree of influence of Roman and Canon Law upon those who drafted the Charter; other aspects of the intellectual setting of the Charter, in particular political thinking in London; the Continental context of the events of 1212-15; and the legal and jurisdictional issues that affected the Charter’s clauses on justice.
Magna Carta 1215 – 2015: London’s Temple and the Road to the Rule of Law
Master of the Temple Church, Robin Griffith-Jones, assesses the path Magna Carta has taken since its genesis in 1215. Temple Church have a variety of commemorative events taking place in Magna Carta’s 800th year – including performances from the Globe Theatre, and a new Magna Carta exhibition. For more information, click here.
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View (Vintage Books)
Justice Stephen Breyer’s book discusses the US Constitution, and the responsibilities of a Judge in interpreting the clauses of one of the most influential documents of the present day – which owes much of its success to the precedents set by Magna Carta.
Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths (The British Library Publishing Division)
Claire Breay explores the context in which Magna Carta was issued to discover what it really meant to its creators and how it came to be an iconic historical document. This updated edition includes full colour illustrations. Available Here.
Magna Carta in 20 Places (The History Press)
Derek Taylor tells the story of this world famous document in a unique and entertaining way, through twenty places associated with the Great Charter’s birth and extraordinary later history. The journey takes us through England and Wales, to France, the Middle East and the USA. To see the historic itinerary, click here.
Magna Carta Uncovered, (Hart Publishing)
Anthony Arlidge and Igor Judge trace Magna Carta’s influence on documents in later centuries, up to the drafting of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Anthony Arlidge has been a Queen’s Counsel for over 30 years, and was called upon during a case in 1990 to argue the meaning of clause 40 of Magna Carta. Igor Judge was a judge for 25 years and retired as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in 2013.
Click here to visit the Magna Carta Uncovered webpage.
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
ByThomas Asbridge (Simon & Schuster UK) Click here for more information.
The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217
By Richard Brooks (Osprey Publishing). At the battle of Lincoln, the seventy-year-old William Marshal led his men to a victory that would secure the future of his nation. Earl of Pembroke, right-hand man to three kings and regent for a fourth, Marshal was one of the most celebrated men in Europe, yet is virtually unknown today, his impact and influence largely forgotten. Click here for more information.
By Professor David Carpenter (Penguin Classics). With new research giving readers a greater understanding than before, Professor Carpenter’s authoritative text was make a Penguin Classic immediately. Click here for more information.
King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant
By Professor Stephen Church (Macmillan)Click here for more information.
1215: The Year of Magna Carta
By Danny Danzinger and John Gillingham (Hodder Paperbacks) Click here for more information.
King John and Magna Carta
By Sean McGlyn (The History Press) Click here for more information.
King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta
By Marc Morris (Hutchinson) Click here for more information.
Magna Carta: The True Story Behind the Charter
By David Starkey (Hodder and Stoughton). Following a hugely successful documentary on the BBC, David Starkey has written a companion guide. Click here for more information.
Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction
By Professor Nicolas Vincent (OUP Oxford) Click here for more information.
Magna Carta: Making and Legacy
By Professor Nicolas Vincent (The Bodleian Library) Click here for more information.
Introduction – Runnymede and all that. Winston Churchill described the Magna Carta as “the foundation of principles and systems of government of which neither King John or his nobles dreamed”. Now in Politics we’re used to the law of unintended consequences...
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Bill H.3853 191st (Current)
An Act relative to the operation of charter schools in the city of New Bedford
By Mr. Markey of Dartmouth, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Christopher M. Markey and Paul A. Schmid, III (with the approval of the mayor and the city council) relative to the operation of a certain Commonwealth charter school in the city of New Bedford. Education. [Local Approval Received.]
Christopher M. Markey
Referred to Joint Committee on Education
5/13/2019 House Referred to the committee on House Rules
5/28/2019 House Placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
5/29/2019 House Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Education
5/30/2019 Senate Motion to lay on the table pending and postponed to the next session
6/3/2019 Senate Taken out of the Orders of the Day
6/3/2019 Senate Motion to lay on the table negatived
6/3/2019 Senate Senate concurred in the referral to the committee on Education
An Act authorizing the city of New Bedford to enter into a long-term lease for the operation of a performing arts center
An Act to strengthen charter school data reporting
An Act to strengthen the evaluation process for proposed new charter schools
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Land Of Glory Android Closed Beta Begins March 2nd, Well-Known Musicians Creating Soundtrack
February 22, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments
Land of Glory is an upcoming cross-platform mobile and PC MMORPG from NetEase Games that was developed in cooperation with a game studio in the United States. The game originally entered Closed Beta on iOS back in December, but Android and PC players weren't able to play at the time. While PC players still won't be able to play just yet, Android players will be given a chance to try the game out when the Android Closed Beta begins on March 2nd in China.
Additionally, 17173 is reporting that some well-known musicians are creating the soundtrack. Gordy Haab, who is known for composing for Star Wars: The Old Republic and Star Wars: Battlefront is working on the soundtrack, as are Chinese musician Yu Fei, who previously worked as a sound engineer for the Beijing Olympics and "China Film Group," and Marc Theriault, who has worked with Celine Dion for quite some time, as well as the Backstreet Boys, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and Ubisoft. The London Symphony Orchestra has also been signed on to perform the soundtrack for the recordings.
As a last interesting note, the soundtrack is being recorded in London's Abbey Road Studios, which is where the soundtracks for The Lord of the Rings series, the Harry Potter Series, the James Bond series, and Phantom of the Opera were recorded.
Despite cooperation with a game studio in the United States and well-known Western musicians, a Western release has yet to be announced.
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Widespread support for Los Angeles teacher strike as unions seek to block statewide struggle
By our reporters
Students, parents and other workers expressed their support for Los Angeles teachers, who are determined to walk out for improved wages and to oppose the drive to dismantle public education. More than 33,000 teachers, librarians and nurses were set to strike Thursday before the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) pushed back the strike deadline, saying teachers would strike on Monday if no agreement was reached.
Backed by powerful corporate interests that are pushing for the privatization of public education, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), led by former investment banker Austin Beutner, is refusing to budge on its demands to further erode teachers’ wages and health benefits, increase class sizes and use standardized testing to scapegoat teachers and replace “failing” schools with for-profit charter businesses. In the face of this, the UTLA has consistently retreated, dropping the teachers’ most pressing demands, including opposition to the expansion of charter schools, and repeatedly stalling when it comes to strike action, despite an overwhelming strike mandate by teachers.
Educators throughout the state are champing at the bit for a struggle. On Wednesday night, hundreds of parents and students packed a school board meeting in Oakland to oppose plans to close nearly one-third of the district’s schools, even as public money is siphoned off for charter schools. Teachers throughout the state have expressed solidarity with LA teachers, with support growing for a statewide strike like the ones that occurred in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona and other states last year.
Oakland teachers supporting Los Angeles teachers
These sentiments have struck fear in the offices of the National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT), whose highly paid executives spent much of last year traveling from state to state trying to smother strikes and prevent them from coalescing into a national strike in defense of public education. Expressing fear that a Los Angeles strike could spark a broader strike, AFT President Randi Weingarten (annual salary $514,000) tweeted, “This is not about a strike wave—this is a specific fight for the kids & public schools of LA.”
The Democratic Party, which controls every lever of political power in Los Angeles and California, is relying on the UTLA to smother opposition to the Democrat’s austerity measures, which have left California 43rd out of 50 states in per-pupil spending. Rather than provoking teachers by granting the school authorities an injunction to prevent a strike, a Los Angeles county judge has upheld the union’s legal right to strike on Monday. This underscores the fact that the Democrats are counting on the UTLA either to cancel the strike altogether or to let it proceed and end it as soon as possible.
At a press conference Thursday, UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl announced the union’s intentions to come to the bargaining table on Friday with an “open mind,” even though Beutner has not budged an inch. He again urged teachers to look to the state Democrats, including new governor Gavin Newsom, to defend their interests.
“We have finally qualified for the 2020 ballot the schools and communities first initiative that would bring $5 billion to public education by closing the corporate loophole and Proposition 13. There’s a movement to address state funding in California and we need Austin Beutner to be a part of it,” the UTLA president declared. As Caputo-Pearl was making these claims Thursday, Governor Newsom released his first proposed budget, which included no additional funding for public schools aside from what is already constitutionally mandated.
The state, like LAUSD, actually has budget surpluses, but the Democrats are withholding funding to deliberately create a fiscal crisis, which in turn can be used to impose draconian cuts. Although they are sitting on nearly $2 billion in reserves, district officials claim teacher pensions and health care obligations are driving the district into insolvency. On this basis, Beutner has insisted there is no money to meet teachers’ demands for improved wages and increased hiring to address staff shortages and overcrowded classrooms.
To conduct a real fight, Los Angeles teachers must take the conduct of the struggle into their own hands by forming rank-and-file committees at every school and in every community. These committees should appeal to workers throughout Los Angeles to organize mass picketing, including of all charter schools, to stop Beutner’s strikebreaking plans. Teachers should appeal to all support staff to join the strike in defiance of the orders to scab by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and other unions. Parents and students should be rallied to support this fight. At the same time, appeals should be issued to teachers in Oakland and across the state to prepare a statewide walkout to defend public education.
Reporters for the World Socialist Web Site spoke to teachers, students and other workers in Los Angeles about the critical issues in this battle for public education.
“Of course, I support the teachers!” Anna Estes, who retired from LAUSD after 36 years of teaching said. “I’m taking care of my mom, 96, who was also a teacher. Retired teachers in LAUSD get full medical for life and also a two percent raise for life. We fought for that in the 1979 strike!”
She spoke angrily about the UTLA dropping the issues of charter schools and over-testing. “The issue of charter schools is really important. My aunt went back to teaching at LAUSD after trying a charter school for two years. She ended up with a horrific stroke and never got over it. There’s so much stress there.
“Testing is another big thing. Normally teachers use testing to help us figure out how we can explain certain concepts that the kids didn’t get in other ways. The principals would always tell us, ‘It’s not about the scores.’ And then they’d put a lot of pressure on us when students’ scores weren’t going up. Testing is the worst thing for the kids because it makes them always so stressed. We had to test every six weeks.”
Although retired, Anna expressed strong solidarity with teachers should they strike. “If they call me in to sub during the strike, I will join the picket lines. I have too many friends and family who are teachers,” she said.
“Strike, yes!” said John Farr, a maintenance worker for the school district, who agreed all school workers were part of a common struggle to defend education and jobs. “We need people to go on strike and support this fight for education. Teachers and us too.”
Janae, a sales associate at Nordstrom’s, said she supports teachers after seeing how much work they put in when she was a student not long ago. “We had some classes of 46 students, and we know they had a lot of difficult issues to manage. They shouldn’t have to go through that. And this situation we are in now, with the Trump administration, the government and politicians are really coming down on education, teachers and everything. They have money for the things they want but won’t give any of it for the things the rest of us need, like good schools.”
Several students at Hamilton High School in West Los Angeles also spoke to WSWS reporters in support of their teachers. “Teachers work so hard and don’t get enough pay to compensate for that,” Shawna said. “It doesn’t make any sense why the politicians, who got educated once, are preventing teachers from educating us. They are concerned more with war and themselves.”
Jean, a young janitor at Fairfax High School, said, “I support LA teachers because it’s wrong to have classrooms crowded with students. I’ve been in classrooms that don’t have enough seats for everyone, and that leaves a lot of mess for us because teachers don’t have the ability to keep after that with all the other responsibilities they have. We need to be paid fairly too. It’s hard to live with our pay. Especially in LA.”
Denise Dominguez has a daughter in the third grade at La Tijera Elementary School, a charter school in Inglewood, not part of the LAUSD. “Last year we had an issue like this in Inglewood. The teachers were fighting to keep their medical benefits, and a lot of them were fired. It affected our kids a lot.
“Just like at LAUSD, we’re overcrowded. I thought that because we’re a charter school, we shouldn’t have this problem. I believe there should be a maximum of 20 kids in a class. My daughter’s third grade class has 28 kids. How can one person handle that many kids and teach? Many teachers are so fed up with these conditions.
“I’m part of a group of La Tijera parents. I’m for uniting all of us in charter schools with public schools. I think we all should unite and support the LA teachers.”
Julio works as a teacher assistant at an LAUSD elementary school, supporting students with disabilities. "There is a lack of health care in this system. We do need a lot more nurses. I worked at Hamilton five years ago, and even then we didn't have a nurse there full time. There are students with diabetes and sometimes we have serious emergencies."
Julio agreed that the teachers’ struggle is far bigger than salaries, books, and classrooms, but also healthcare, immigration and other social issues. After a WSWS reporter raised the perspective that teachers are fighting a political fight against capitalism, he nodded and said, "Definitely. We have all these charter schools. Those are run by business, and the new superintendent, he is a businessman."
Another teacher who wished to remain anonymous said, “I’ve been a teacher for 20 years here and it’s gotten much worse over that time. The size of class used to be 23-24, now it’s 47. Over that time, they also cut custodial staff so now the school has gotten very dirty. I walk into my classroom and it’s dirty, there was even rat feces in the room. I became a teacher because that was my dream, but now working as a teacher has become so hard."
Jaime, a math teacher at Hamilton, expressed frustration with the UTLA's strike delay. "I really don't like how the union pushed the strike back to Monday. We were all ready to go today. I'm not even sure if they'll have us strike Monday now. I'm still confused. On Sunday night, they could tell us something happened and that there's no strike, because of a deal behind doors or something."
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The Defense of Public Education
Contract for more than 20,000 Chicago teachers expires
Michigan Governor Whitmer ties fate of Benton Harbor High School to test scores
West Virginia legalizes charter schools
Second of two “Fund Our School” rallies held in Michigan
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Anger of West Coast grocery workers mounts as union seeks to block strikes
Seventeen-year-old girl fatally shot by police on California freeway
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Education in the US
Alaska governor cuts $400 million from education, social services
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Trazodone, [Fig.1] a triazolopyridine derivative belonging to the class of serotonin antagonist an reuptake inhibitors (SARI), is used in the treatment of depression [1] and is currently approved by the FDA to treat major depression [2]. Trazodone has been branded as Desyrel – trazadone hydrochloride (HCl), and its uses, besides its antidepressant activity, include treating medical and psychiatric disorders [3], along with the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), insomnia, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD), eating disorders, abuse of substances, impediments in cognitive functioning, sexual dysfunction, and particularly in rehabilitation following acute ischemic stroke [3; 4]. Specifically, trazodone HCl [Fig.1] is considered an anti-depressant agent. The way trazodone works is through its antagonism of the serotonin receptor (5-HT2A), alpha 1 and histamine H1 receptors, and this permits the drugs hypnotic effects (at low doses), whilst a high trazodone dose blocks serotonin transporter (SERT) and 5-HT2A allowing for its antidepressant activity [2]. In addition, due to trazodone’s strong antagonistic action at serotonergic type 2 (5-HT2) receptors it is known to quickly improve sleep [5; 1]. Further, trazodone’s pharmacological mode of action is such that a very low dose – 1mg trazodone – can block half of the brain’s 5-HT2A receptors [1].
Figure 1. Structure and formula of trazodone. Trazodone (left) is a dual-acting antidepressant, able to inhibit the serotonin transporter (SERT) and serotonin type II (5-HT2) receptor [6]. Trazodone (C19H22CIN5O) molecular weight of 408.33 [7].
Trazodone is used for the treatment of depression [2]. Also, trazodone is widely used in treating insomnia due to its capacity to normalise sleep behaviour in depressed patients [6]. Trazodone’s half-life is between 5 and 23 hours [8].
Treating Insomnia and sleep
It has been identified by Jaffer et al (2017) that a ‘significant number of [clinical] trials have evaluated…the effectiveness of trazodone in the treatment of insomnia.’ The clinical definition of insomnia is a ‘subjective disorder’ in which an overall poor quality sleep pattern is observed for sufferers, increasing the risk of other complications such as hypertension, stroke and mental disorders [9]. Out of 45 studies, it was shown that trazodone was indeed effective in treating insomnia [1]. In addition, trazodone was evaluated as being effective in decreasing sleep latency and increasing the duration of sleep [1]. In a randomised study assessing the individual and combined (using trazodone (100mg)) cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) on primary insomnia, results showed that both single and combined CBT was effective in treating short-term chronic primary insomnia [10]. Further, a meta-analysis of randomised placebo-controlled trials evaluating trazodone for the treatment of insomnia concluded that trazodone is a well-tolerated hypnotic for patients suffering from primary and secondary insomnia [9]. Trazodone assists primary and secondary insomnia through decreasing stage 1 and REM duration; increasing slow-wave-sleep (SWS) (stages 3 and 4), and improving early morning awakening (EMA) and sleep duration and efficiency [11].
Treating anxiety
Anxiety, or generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), is a commonly occurring psychiatric condition wherein disproportionate worry interrupts daily life [12]. In addition, anxiety disorders share characteristics of excessive fear; the anticipation of a future threat [13]. Importantly, guidelines suggest that antidepressants are the first-line treatment for GAD [12], and, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5), anxiety disorders include: panic disorders (PD), generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety disorder (SAD) and separation anxiety disorder [13]. Table 1 and figure 2 summarise the neurological changes upon perceived anxiety. One study measured the efficacy and tolerability of trazodone [14] administered intravenously in a group of patients diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Results indicated that trazodone does have a statistically significant impact on the Hamilton Depression rating Scale scores derived from participant responses [14]. Trazodone, in conjunction with – and independent of – panic management was used to assess its effectiveness of panic disorder [15]. However, results displayed that both panic management and trazodone were marginally effective when compared to placebo [15].
Table 1. Anxiety leads to changes in the brain.
Disorder Brain alterations
Anxiety Activation of the fear network: thalamus, amygdala, hippocampus and striatum.
Panic Activation of the brain stem and hypothalamus.
General anxiety Activation of prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate to threat.
Social anxiety Activation of amygdala, response to social stimuli.
Figure 2. Brain changes associated with trazodone [Image modified from Hanson et al., 2017].
Trazodone use in dogs
Interestingly, trazodone is used to decrease anxiety in hospitalised dogs [16]. Previously, trazodone has also been described as treating anxiety disorders – alone or in combination therapy – in dogs, effectively reducing anxiety and improving patient welfare [17]. In a prospective open-label trial experiment, 36 client-owned dogs were recruited to document the calming effect of trazodone hydrochloride (HCl) after orthopaedic surgery [17]. Results suggested that trazodone was a both safe and efficacious medication that enhanced calmness during the recovery period post-orthopaedic surgery [17].
Once consumed, trazodone peaks in plasma after 1 hour of ingestion, or 2 hours when consumed with food [3]. In an investigation into the pharmacokinetics of trazodone in eight healthy subjects [18], trazodone was administered orally at 100mg [18]. Subjects ingested 100mg trazodone with, and without food and results showed that food intake lowered serum concentrations of trazodone; however, consumption of trazodone in both instances did not affect bioavailability of trazodone, but that trazodone is highly metabolised. This owes to the low recovery in urine of intact trazodone [18]. Single-dose trazodone – 50-100mg/day – was given to 75 depressed patients who experienced sleep disorders [19]. Over two weeks, participants were first given an initial dose of 50mg/day, in which – over the remaining four weeks – this dose rose to 50, 75 and 100mg/day; a total of 6 weeks [19]. Interestingly, results showed trazodone, at a 50-100mg/day dose improved the sleeping disorders experienced by participants, after two weeks of treatment [19]. In this study, trazodone was recommended to be consumed before bedtime [19]. Trazodone’s profile – in a prolonged release context – was compared with paroxetine in treating major depressive disorder (MDD) [20]. Given to 55 patients at a dose of 150-450mg/day, with mean dose being 305mg/day, trazodone – and similarly paroxetine (given to 53 patients) – was concluded as having antidepressant effects [20] over the six-week period. In addition, authors noted that trazodone might be advantageous for depressed individuals with sleeping difficulties [20].
Trazodone was administered – starting at 4mg/kg every 12 hours, and increased to 10 to 12mg/kg. Dose did not exceed 300mg per dose [21]. Results indicated that treating hospitalised dogs with trazodone – over a broad dose range – can alleviate some symptoms of stress: lip licking, panting, whining, improving these behaviours after 90 minutes of trazodone treatment [21].
Out of 200 prescription drugs trazodone HCl was ranked at 29th as most prescribed drug, in 2010 [17]. This has provided a long safety record of use for the antidepressant [17]. However, the synthesis of prolonged-release trazodone tablets in 1981 were marketed in order to limit high (peak) plasma trazodone concentrations [6]. Adverse effects have been recorded with this high peak trazodone plasma concentration, which may interfere with the therapeutic dose of trazodone in depressed patients [6]. Trazodone [acute] overdose has previously been reported in the literature [23] and in the adult population [Zahran et al., 2018]. In one case, an individual suffered from severe depression, and was treated with 100mg/day trazodone and fluvoxamine [23]. Reported cases of trazodone overdose show that dose ranged from 350mg – 8g, with some records of blood plasma concentrations of above 25g/mL [23; 24] – therapeutic concentrations are 1-1.5g/mL [23; 25]. It is also important to note that data on toxic doses in children have not been established [25]. For dogs, where the LD50 of trazodone is 500mg/kg, trazodone overdose is signalled by sedation and hypotension, with seizures and tremors occurring at the serotonin agonist range of 6-8mg/kg [26]. In terms of hepatotoxicity – damage to liver cells – tricyclic antidepressants and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) have higher capacity to cause liver damage [27]. Data evaluating whether trazodone demonstrates action against compulsive behaviours has yet to be determined from controlled studies [28]. One randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled study of 50-100mg doses of trazodone on 172 alcohol detoxified patients revealed to have negative consequences for alcoholics – post-detoxification [29]. Authors note that further studies must be conducted to assess trazodone – safety and benefits – on improving sleep for recovering alcoholics [29], and that trazodone is not adequate in treating sleep disturbance in this context [2].
Side effects of trazodone include: nausea, anxiety, insomnia, dry mouth, headaches, Dizziness, anorexia, diarrhoea, constipation, tremors and sexual dysfunction [30; 2]. Further, trazodone exhibits less anticholinergic effects indicating that this antidepressant has less cardiotoxic ability when compared with other antidepressants [2]. Trazodone has previously been studied in alcohol-dependent subjects in which results indicated trazodone might reduce relapse rates after acute detoxification [28]. As trazodone is an SSRI and newer antidepressant, it has been attributed to weight gain [27]. A recent ‘SSRI discontinuation syndrome’ has detailed the withdrawal symptoms of which commencement of withdrawal occurs within one week of discontinuation [31]. Symptoms, commonly, range from dizziness, headache nausea and lethargy, which are resolved within 48 hours of recommencement of SSRI uptake [31].
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Bobby Karl • May 23, 2011
The newest class of the Country Music Hall of Fame was inducted at last night’s Medallion Ceremony, pictured (L-R): Jean Shepard, Bobby Braddock, and Reba McEntire. Photo: Donn Jones
Chapter 365:
There are bigger and glitzier events on Music City’s annual calendar, but none can match the warmth and camaraderie of The Country Music Hall of Fame Medallion Ceremony.
You can’t beat the music, either. The Sunday evening (5/22) ceremony in the Hall of Fame’s Ford Theater began with a rafter-raising gospel collaboration between Vince Gill and The McCrary Sisters on “Down by the Riverside.”
“We gather here for powerful words and familiar music,” said Hall of Fame board chairman Steve Turner. “We are honored for the presence and fellowship of each and every one of you.” Steve Moore and Kyle Young also welcomed the 300 lucky seat holders.
The Hall of Fame inductions began with Kyle telling the Bobby Braddock story. Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton were sensational on Bobby’s co-penned masterpiece “Golden Ring” and drew enthusiastic whoops from the crowd. They were fresh from their honeymoon. Blake, you will recall, was discovered and first produced by Bobby, and they remain close to this day.
Tracy Lawrence was in fine voice for “Time Marches On.” “Thank you, Bobby,” he said. “Biggest hit of my career.”
Billy Currington was relaxed and charming on “People Are Crazy.” Kyle reminded the attendees of Bobby’s 1981 induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and of his nine BMI Million-air songs. He proclaimed Bobby Braddock, who is a youthful 70, “one of the greatest songwriters in the history of country music.”
Bill Anderson read some of Bobby’s most distinctive song lyrics, to everyone’s delight. “It’s no secret that Bobby Braddock doesn’t like to dress up,” Bill added. “But he’s dressed up tonight. Not ‘to go away,’ but to go into the Country Music Hall of Fame.” Bill then placed the Medallion around his fellow songwriter’s neck while the crowd rose in a standing ovation.
“When I hit the red carpet, I saw all the fans….saying, ‘Who’s that?,’” said Bobby wryly. “It’s like getting to go to your own funeral without having to die. How awesome is that?” He thanked George Jones for recording 29 of his songs, producer Billy Sherrill and his co-writers. “I don’t know if I deserve it, but I’m glad to get it,” he concluded.
Jimmy Capps, Charlie McCoy and Millie Kirkham were on the original recording of “He Stopped Loving Her Today.” They joined Bobby as he sat at the piano and began the iconic tune. Then George Jones appeared to do the recitation and to finish the song. The All-Star 2011 Medallion Band flawlessly recreated its ambiance. The members, led by John Hobbs, were Paul Franklin, Steve Gibson, Eddie Bayers Jr., Michael Rhodes, Deanie Richardson, Dawn Sears, Biff Watson and Jeff White.
Next, Kyle told the Jean Shepard saga. Bill Anderson reappeared to perform “A Dear John Letter” with Elizabeth Cook. Their efforts resulted in a spontaneous standing ovation. Vince stepped up to perform Jean’s “I Want to Go Where No One Knows Me.” His arms in casts for treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome, Doug Green of Riders in the Sky glided through “Second Fiddle,” complete with its climactic yodel.
“She sang proudly of her gender,” said Kyle of Jean, who is arguably the greatest female honky-tonk stylist in country-music history. Her husband Benny Birchfield was in the house, as were sons Cory and Harold and her granddaughters.
George Jones warmly inducted his old friend. “Thanks, George, for showing up,” Jean quipped. “I was happy to do my part. I hung in there like hair on a grilled-cheese. Bobby, how did I miss [singing] one of your songs?”
“I don’t know,” replied her fellow inductee. “It’s not too late.”
Jean continued by citing Skeeter Davis, The Wilburn Brothers, Jimmy C. Newman, The Browns and Mac Wiseman as people she feels strongly should also be honored with induction.
“I love what I do, and I do what I love,” she concluded. “Thanks to the wonderful country-music fans. God bless you.”
At 77, she proved she still has what it takes by delivering a powerfully moving version of “A Satisfied Mind.” Jean, by the way, is writing a book. “It’s going to be a tell-all,” she promises. Oh goody!
Kyle continued the proceedings by relating the Reba McEntire story. She has more No. 1 albums than any other female country artist and at age 56 is still knocking out chart-topping hits. Trisha Yearwood and Reba’s sister Susie McEntire were note-for-note perfect on “How Blue.” Vince sang “Somebody Should Leave.” Garth Brooks did “Whoever’s in New England.” But the real vocal fireworks were delivered by Martina McBride and Kelly Clarkson on “Does He Love You,” which was rewarded with another standing ovation.
Reba’s mother, sisters, son and husband/manager Narvel Blackstock were recognized. As a surprise to the inductee, Dolly Parton appeared to present her Medallion.
“This is a great honor and a great privilege,” said Dolly. “They said it was a surprise to Reba. I said, ‘Oh, I don’t think there’s anything Reba don’t know.’” But it was, indeed, a surprise to the redheaded superstar.
“Awards are fun, but it’s the camaraderie and the fun you have getting there [that count],” said Reba. “Having such a fun time and a wonderful career and having somebody to share it with — my partner, my buddy, my husband, I love you.
“Miss Shepard, thank you for coming before me and paving the way. I’m honored beyond words to be inducted with you. Bobby Braddock, I am a huge fan.
“Thank you all very much from the bottom of my heart. I couldn’t have done it without you. And, by God, I wouldn’t have wanted to.”
The traditional, mass-sung “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” finale was less of a train wreck than usual this year. Ray Walker took vocal control; The McCrarys were an immense addition and Vince conducted the band.
The event drew a sizable crowd of sidewalk fans who yelled loudly as the stars’ limos arrived at the red carpet. The always-genial Bill Cody presided out there.
Inside, a pre-inductions cocktail supper was held in the Conservatory and on the plaza. Roast turkey, hearts of palm with arugula and parmesan salad, burger sliders, assorted raw veggies with dip, rolled lox with cream cheese and capers, shrimp & grits, roasted potatoes and a tomato-onions-cucumber toss were among the flavors to sample.
Heading the guest list were 16 Hall of Fame members – George Jones (inducted in 1992), Jo Walker-Meador (1995), Brenda Lee (1997), Bud Wendell (1998), Dolly Parton (1999), Bill Anderson (2001), Gordon Stoker, Curtis Young and Ray Walker of The Jordanaires (2001), Jim Foglesong (2004), Harold Bradley (2006), Sonny James (2006), Ralph Emery (2007), Vince Gill (2007), Jimmy Fortune of The Statler Brothers (2008), Barbara Mandrell (2009), Charlie McCoy (2009) and Billy Sherrill (2010).
In addition, the crowd was liberally sprinkled with performers such as Jan Howard, Red Steagall, Donna Stoneman, Patsy Stoneman, Rafe Van Hoy, Matraca Berg, Don Henry and Bob DiPiero. Also in the house were David Anderson, David McCormick, David & Susana Ross, John Grady, John Siegenthaler, John Guess, Don Light, Donna & Gerald Nicely, Bill Carter, Bill Denny, Tony Conway, Tony Brown, Troy Tomlinson, Tom Roland, Jerry & Ernie Williams and Jody Williams.
Working the room were Rod Essig, Roy Wunsch & Mary Ann McCready, Pat Collins, Peter Cooper, Dick Frank, Dixie Gamble, Dann Huff, Steve Buchanan, Scott & Sandi Spika Borchetta, Eddie Stubbs, Beverly Keel, Michael Kosser, Alice Randall, Lon Helton, Ed Morris and Chet Flippo. The End. Until next year.
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Wolf Gumerman, Founding Dean of the Honors College and Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University, is an archaeologist who applies his research to broader societal concerns, including collaborating with the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office to promote cultural preservation. Using archaeology and elder knowledge he connects Hopi youth with their past. The collaboration has produced four films and a museum exhibit that present the youth’s perspective on Hopi culture and history. Wolf also has a strong interest in food and culture stemming from his 20 years of research on the north coast of Peru and from his interest in sustainable food systems. He is Co-founder and past Co-editor for the Journal Heritage Management and publishes primarily on topics related to prehistoric foodways. Wolf teaches a range of interactive courses on composition and literature, archaeology, theory, human evolution, and food and culture.
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Ted Martinez holds degrees in botany and environmental science and policy from Northern Arizona University. In 2005 he moved to Yuma AZ to what is essentially the “end of the line” for the Colorado River before the US and Mexico take their allocations of water. In Yuma, Ted has been able to utilize his education in botany and environmental science to perform conservation, education and restoration in the Lower Colorado River (LCR) Valley between the US and Mexico. There Ted has received grants from the Sonoran Joint Venture, Xerces Society and Arizona Game and Fish to perform wetland restoration, Monarch conservation and Bighorn Sheep education and outreach respectively. Ted has also worked with Mexican partners, ProNatura, to perform bi-national wetland restoration along the Colorado River region dividing the US and Mexico. His recent experiences in the LCR have made him interested in the ability of humans to both negatively and positively impact the environment. If humans can negatively impact their environment, then through massive effort can they also positively impact the environment? He also wonders if we can reconcile our role with the environment by changing our perception of nature as separate from humanity. Ted is happy to be in the NAU Honors Program teaching classes on plants, water and the environment.
Dr. Thomas D. Sisk
Tom Sisk, the Charles Olajos and Ted Goslow Endowed Chair of Environmental Science and Policy for the Southwest is an ecologist whose work focuses on three interrelated goals: improving our understanding of ongoing environmental change; engaging others in the challenges, societal relevance, and rewards of conservation; and helping to provide solutions to emerging problems facing policy makers and land managers. Tom has worked around the world developing a broad perspective on science, government, and the environment. His experiences provide insight into the relationship between science and management, as well as the challenges associated with translating sound science and progressive policy into on-the-ground action. Sisk’s laboratory group researches a broad range of topics related to the restoration and conservation of biodiversity and sensitive habitats, combining field study, geographic analysis, and spatial modeling. Tom’s courses in conservation biology, landscape ecology, and environmental policy and leadership emphasize theory in the natural and social sciences, and grounds student experience in field study and real-world applications. Tom serves on numerous advisory and editorial boards and is a certified Senior Ecologist of the Ecological Society of America and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow.
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The Second Look Doctrine, Part II
Posted on June 8, 2010 by Jeff Welty • 0 comment
Last week, I posted about the second look doctrine. (You can read that post here.) Recall that the basic idea is that if the police have custody of an object — like a wallet, or a purse, or a cell phone — that they could have searched incident to a defendant’s arrest and booking, they can go back and search the object later without a warrant. I promised to do a follow-up post addressing some of the interesting questions that arise in connection with the doctrine, and now I’m making good.
1. Do the police need probable cause to take a second look? No. The cases say that a second look is “not another search subject to Fourth Amendment proscriptions.” State v. Nelson, 298 N.C. 573 (1979). In essence, our appellate courts have ruled that once the police have lawfully taken custody of an object, the defendant’s reasonable expectation of privacy in the object is extinguished. See, e.g., State v. Motley, 153 N.C. App. 701 (2002). Because the second look is not a search at all, for Fourth Amendment purposes, it follows that neither probable cause, nor any other level of Fourth Amendment justification, is required. Accordingly, the leading commentator notes that most courts have concluded that “the police [may] conduct a [second look] upon the mere hunch” that they will find something of interest. 3 Wayne R. LaFave, Search and Seizure § 5.3(b) (4th ed. 2004).
2. Can the police take a second look to investigate a crime other than the crime of arrest? This is the question with which I ended my earlier post. The answer is yes, under State v. Steen, 352 N.C. 227 (2000). In Steen, the defendant was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and stolen credit cards. His clothes were taken from him and he was issued jail clothes. The police quickly came to suspect that he had committed a murder, so they tested the clothes for blood and other evidence. On appeal, the defendant argued “that the warrantless search and seizure [was] not valid because it was not closely related to the reason [he] was arrested,” but the state supreme court rejected his argument, relying on Edwards.
My earlier post drew a couple of skeptical comments — which are always welcome — and I admit that there isn’t complete agreement nationally on the proper scope of the second look doctrine. (Professor LaFave’s treatise provides a good starting point for those who want to look at the landscape in other jurisdictions.) But North Carolina’s appellate courts have adopted a very robust interpretation of the doctrine, and the opinions of those courts support the conclusions of the original post, and of course, the conclusions above.
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The “Second Look” Doctrine, Part I
Posted on May 27, 2010 by Jeff Welty • 3 comments
Consider the following scenario. The police arrest Sam Suspect and charge him with murdering his wife, Vicky Victim. The arrest is based on a statement from Frank Friend, one of Sam’s buddies. According to Frank, Sam told him that he was having an affair and killed Vicky to get her “out of the way.” Sam is searched incident to arrest; the search focuses mainly on officer safety, and no weapons are found. When Sam is booked into jail, his property is taken from him for safekeeping. The property includes a cell phone, which the police do not examine in detail at that point.
A week later, the police believe that they have identified the woman with whom Sam was having the affair: Polly Paramour. An officer wants to search Sam’s cell phone to see how much contact there was between Sam and Polly, whether Sam contacted Polly immediately after the murder, whether Sam sent any incriminating messages to Polly, and the like. Can the officer conduct the search without a warrant?
I’ve been asked variants of this question several times over the past few weeks. I’ll give the basic answer today, and in a follow-up post sometime in the next few days, will explore a few wrinkles.
The basic answer is yes, the officer can search the phone. I’m assuming for purposes of this answer that the police could have searched the phone incident to arrest. That isn’t a completely settled issue, as I discuss in this post, but on the facts above, I think the police probably could have searched the phone incident to arrest. And if that’s so, then the officer can search the phone a week later. The seminal case in this area is United States v. Edwards, 415 U.S. 800 (1974), in which the Court upheld a search of the defendant’s clothes a day after he had been arrested. Partly, the Court concluded that the arrest and booking process was ongoing, and that portion of the opinion isn’t on point for present purposes. But the Court also said this:
The police had lawful custody of [the defendant] and necessarily of the clothing he wore. When it became apparent that the articles of clothing were evidence of the crime for which [the defendant] was being held, the police were entitled to take, examine, and preserve them for use as evidence, just as they are normally permitted to seize evidence of crime when it is lawfully encountered. . . . Indeed, it is difficult to perceive what is unreasonable about the police’s examining and holding as evidence those personal effects of the accused that they already have in their lawful custody as the result of a lawful arrest. . . . [T]he effects in [an arrestee’s] possession at the place of detention that were subject to search at the time and place of his arrest may lawfully be searched and seized without a warrant even though a substantial period of time has elapsed between the arrest and [booking], on the one hand, and the taking of the property for use as evidence, on the other. This is true where the clothing or effects are immediately seized upon arrival at the jail, held under the defendant’s name in the ‘property room’ of the jail, and at a later time searched and taken for use at the subsequent criminal trial [and where, as in Edwards, the items are left in the arrestee’s possession].
The rule of Edwards is sometimes called the “second look” doctrine, because in effect it holds that if the police looked at — or could have looked at — an item during the arrest and booking process, and they’re still in possession of the item, they can take a second look at it later without running afoul of the Fourth Amendment. As it applies to Sam, since the police could have searched his cell phone when he was arrested, and since they’re still in possession of it, the curious officer can search it without a warrant.
As I mentioned, there are some wrinkles to the doctrine that I’ll explore in a later post. As a teaser, here’s one: the Edwards Court mentioned that the clothing was “evidence of the crime for which [the defendant] was being held.” But what if an officer wanted to search Sam’s phone not for evidence related to the murder, but for evidence of an unrelated crime, like possession of child pornography? Would that search be a permissible second look? Stay tuned. [Editor’s Note: the follow-up post is here.]
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December 25, 2012 December 25, 2012 ~ Nelima
Here’s a baker’s dozen of Christmas songs, complied by Glen Scrivener:
See you in 2013, Lord willing!
The first Christmas: The innocents
Matthew’s gospel contains the only reference—inside or outside the Bible—to the massacre of the innocents, Herod’s killing of all the baby boys two years and younger in Bethlehem and its environs.
So, was it all a Christian invention to gain sympathy for their founder? Was Herod even capable of such a cruel act? Following is a very lightly edited transcript of an interview of historian Paul Maier (one of whose novels I loved). The interview was conducted by Tony Reinke for one of Desiring God’s podcasts, Authors On The Line.
Tony Reinke: Tell us more about the character we find embedded in the Christmas story, this man we know as Herod.
Paul Maier: Well, Tony, you may be surprised to hear this, but believe it or not, if you’re ever asked which is the one figure from the ancient world on whom we have more primary evidence from original sources than anyone else in the world, the answer is not Jesus or St Paul or Caesar Augustus or Julius Caesar—none of those… Not Alexander the Great, no, no. It’s Herod the Great, believe it or not. Why? Because Josephus gives us two whole book scrolls on the life of Herod the Great, and that’s more primary material than anyone else. And I don’t think Herod deserved it. [Laughter]
He was a very remarkably successful politician, keeping the peace between Rome which had conquered Judea in 63 BC. And he acted simply as a Roman governor overseas. He was simply known as a ‘client king’. Meaning, very often when the Romans conquered a province and they didn’t want to send a governor out, and there was a local king doing a good enough job… And so, yes, he may be called ‘king’ but he was definitely deferent to Rome for his whole administration.
In 40 BC he was awarded the title king. He didn’t actually take control of the land until with Roman help he drove some adversaries out of Jerusalem. From about 37 BC on he’s in charge until his death in 4 BC.
Actually he was remarkably successful in a lot of ways. He deserves the title ‘Herod the Great’ if we talk about his accomplishments for much of his life. He was the one who rebuilt the great temple in Jerusalem. He was the one who single-handedly created the city of Caesarea: where there was no good port in the Holy Land, he creates one by sinking some ship hulls and then using them as a base to build a breakwater in an otherwise rectilinear sea coast. He built Caesarea in 12 years, and he built other cities like that too. In Jerusalem he face-lifted the entire city in addition to building a gorgeous palace for himself. He had a hippodrome, a stadium, theatres and this kind of thing. He was kind of a Hellenistic monarch.
And he also built seven great fortresses across the land, strong points at which he could defend his administration. One, the most famous, was Masada, down along the south-west corner of the Dead Sea. Everything he touched diplomatically seemed to turn to gold. He kept peace both with Jerusalem and Rome, and that says he was very successful.
Reinke: There’s another side to Herod. Tell us a little bit about the paranoid side of Herod that begins to emerge later in his life.
Maier: Well, basically, he was responsible for many of the problems back home. His home was a can of worms, simply because he married 10 wives and each of those produced princes for him and each of those male princes was scheming to succeed as number one. And there can only be one number one. And so if there weren’t two or three collateral plots taking place before they had orange juice in the morning, you knew something was wrong.
Josephus gives a hideous tale of what was going on in the family: attempted poisonings, one brother against another. It so rattled Herod that he actually put to death 3 of his own sons on suspicion of treason. He put to death his favourite wife out of the 10 of them. Mariamne was his favourite, she was a Hasmonean Maccabean princess and he put her to death then he killed his mother-in-law—I should have said one of his many mothers-in-law. He invited the High Priest down to Jericho for a swim. They played a very rough game of water polo and they drowned him. He killed several uncles, a couple of cousins… A fellow said he’s a real family man—in that negative respect.
As a matter of fact, Augustus himself, to whom Herod was always very deferent, said, “I would rather be Herod’s pig than his son.” It’s a double pun. In Greek it’s suos and huios—a clever turn on words. The other idea is that at least pigs weren’t slaughtered for human consumption over there, and they had a better chance of a longer life. And so it’s a brilliant pun on the part of Augustus.
Reinke: At one point late in his life, Herod plots to kill a stadium full of Jewish leaders. The plot ultimately failed, it doesn’t pan out. But explain that episode from his life and why he did this.
Maier: Well, Josephus says here a very grisly thing to report about Herod in his last months. He was so paranoid that he … Of course, he did have some grasp of reality, for instance he was worried that nobody would mourn his own death in the Holy Land, which shows how deadly accurate he was. [Laughter] They were preparing general celebrations. And nobody likes to die knowing that they’re going to dance in their grave. And so he was going to give the people something to cry about.
It’s in 4 BC, he’s down in his winter palace in Jericho—it’s the only place in the Holy Land that doesn’t snow or get cold in the winter, it’s 1200 feet below sea level. Herod is dying and he tries every remedy in the world to stop the gang of diseases that were creeping up on him. He went to the hot springs at [unclear name] at the north-eastern corner of the Dead Sea—by the way they’re still springing hot water 2,000 years later—and that didn’t cure him. And so now he goes back to his winter palace and he invites his sister Salome in and he says, “I want you to arrest all the Jewish leaders in the land and imprison them in the hippodrome just below the palace here.” And that hippodrome has been discovered archaeologically, by the way. And so she does and then she says, “Brother, why am I doing this?” And Herod says, “Well, I know that when I die the Jews are going to rejoice, so let me give them something to cry about.” And so he wants them all executed in that hippodrome so that there will be thousands of households weeping at the time Herod the Great dies.
So is that the kind of a sweet guy who could have killed the babies in Bethlehem? Yeah, I think so.
Reinke: Speaking of Matthew 2, the Bible records a scene from Herod’s paranoia late in his life. The wise men, of course, alert him to the birth of the new king in Bethlehem. They don’t then return to him and Herod eventually slaughters all the boys that are two years old and under in Bethlehem and in all the region.
For all that Josephus wrote about Herod, he doesn’t mention this. In fact there’s no extra-biblical evidence that this event even happened. How do you respond to that claim? Is the slaughter of the innocents historically reliable?
Maier: It’s interesting. Josephus does not mention it, and therefore a lot of biblical critics will pounce on that aspect of the nativity account and say therefore it didn’t happen. Now please understand this is an argument from silence, and that’s the weakest form of argumentation you could use. As we say in the profession, “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
And in this case, one or two things could have happened. Josephus may have heard about it and not used it. Because you don’t have hundreds of babies killed; you only have about 12, as a matter of fact—12 or 15. The infant mortality in the ancient world was so huge anyway, that this is really not going to impress a reader too much, believe it or not. And I think Josephus is choosing between the two stories about how Herod dies and right before his death. I think I would take the one where he’s going to slaughter hundreds of Jewish leaders. Or he may not have heard about it. Again, simply because little Bethlehem didn’t amount to much. A little village of 1500 or so. We did an actuarial study of Bethlehem at the time. You wouldn’t have more than about 2 dozen babies two years old and under, half of them the wrong sex. And so this is not a big deal, and I think that’s why Josephus either never heard about it or didn’t feel it important enough to record. So this does not militate against Matthew’s version by any means.
In fact I was arguing once, years ago, on the infant massacre with a professor in Wagner College in New York who claimed that this is all fiction, and that surely a massacre of hundreds of Jewish boy babies would have come to the attention… I agree it would have if there had been hundreds. It couldn’t possibly be the case.
And ‘all the coasts thereof’… Well, look, Jerusalem is 5 miles away. So therefore this would include Jerusalem as well if we’re going to take literally ‘all the coasts thereof’. We’re talking about Bethlehem and probably a half mile around when we’re talking about the surroundings of Bethlehem.
Reinke: As a historian, is there any doubt in your mind about the historicity of the slaughter of the innocents?
Maier: I see not one iota of evidence that it could not have happened. And therefore, again, there’s no reason to doubt the account as far as I’m concerned. To be sure, Luke hasn’t heard about it. Remember, Matthew and Luke don’t copy from one another when it comes to the nativity. And that’s good, because this way they can hit it from different angles.
I think it really happened, and let’s remember again that the first martyr of Christianity was not Stephen, it was Jesus, but not even Jesus… For my money the first martyr in Christian church was the first baby that was killed in Bethlehem, and we always overlook that.
The first Christmas: The inn
December 18, 2012 December 18, 2012 ~ Nelima ~ 3 Comments
We know the story of the birth of Christ: Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem after dark. She is riding a donkey and is just about ready to deliver, but they can’t find any lodging. A rude innkeeper turns them away and out of desperation, they resort to shelter in a stable filled with animals where Mary gives birth alone and unattended.
A few years ago, I posted a Christmas quiz that had helped me see that much of what I “knew” wasn’t supported by scripture. Here I go again:
Did they arrive after dark with little time to spare before the birth?
On a purely human level, what does that say about Joseph? What kind of husband was he, travelling such a long distance with his heavily pregnant wife? Remember that he was considerate enough to want to divorce her quietly (Matthew 1:19). Couldn’t that consideration for Mary’s welfare have extended to other areas as well?
Thankfully for Joseph’s reputation, Luke 2:6 informs us that “while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered” (KJV). Thus, they’d been in Bethlehem for a while when the time came for the baby Jesus to be born.
What about not finding accommodations?
Luke gives us some historical context: that a census was underway when Christ was born (Luke 2:1-3). Bethlehem was likely teeming with people who, like Joseph, lived elsewhere but had come to register. So that explains the crowds. But was Joseph incompetent at finding a place to stay? And were the people of Bethlehem so hard-hearted as to turn away a pregnant woman?
Bethlehem was Joseph’s ancestral town, so he must have had relatives—however distant—living there. In that family-oriented (not individualistic) culture he could simply turn up and recite his genealogy and be welcomed. Even if he were a total stranger, he would have found hospitality, if only for the sake of his pregnant wife.
Further, if Bethlehem proved so unfriendly, Elizabeth and Zechariah lived nearby “in the hill-country of Judea”—Joseph and Mary could have gone there, though admittedly that would mess up the prophecy of Messiah’s birth in Bethlehem.
So we can safely conclude that Joseph and Mary stayed with relatives, or other well-wishers. But wait, what’s all this about inns then?
What about there being “no room in the inn”?
The Greek word translated ‘inn’ in Luke 2:7 (kataluma) is used in Luke 22:11 and its parallel in Mark 14:14 to describe the upper room where the Last Supper took place. Why is the word translated as ‘guest room’ at the end of Christ’s life and ‘inn’ at the beginning? Besides, Luke uses the common word for inn (pandocheion) in the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:34), so he could have chosen to use it earlier in his gospel.
Additionally, it is uncertain whether Bethlehem would have a commercial inn. Inns were normally found on major roads. No major Roman road passed through Bethlehem, and small villages on minor roads had no inns.
So that leaves us with Mary and Joseph finding the guest room occupied, likely by older people who would have had precedence. Which leads us to the manger.
Was the manger in a stable?
To answer this, we return to archaeology. Homes in that part of the world at the time featured two sections: near the door, a place where the family animal was tied up at night (Luke 13:15) and a raised section that was the main family living quarters. So it would seem that Mary and Joseph were staying in this main section, and because no crib was available, the manger was put into service as a cradle.
Luke also reports the visit of the shepherds. Had the family been in unsuitable housing, the shepherds in their peasant simplicity would have helped to make other arrangements (or at least their wives would have!).
Who was present at the birth?
There is no conclusive proof that oxen, donkeys, camels and the like were present, despite what one Christmas song I really like affirms. But what of other humans?
I once heard an American pastor tell a story of watching a nativity play while he was a missionary in Ethiopia. When the time came for Mary to deliver, the village women attended her, singing loudly all the while. The pastor at first thought it very odd as he’d never considered that she would have had help. I’m convinced that the Ethiopians with their strong traditional society had it right.
Hopefully your understanding and appreciation of the Christmas story has been heightened and not diminished. Christ, in whom the fullness of deity dwells, was born among the people of the city of David, surrounded by family and helping hands. Or, as the hymn puts it He was “pleased as man with men to dwell; Jesus our Immanuel”.
This post is based on Kenneth Bailey’s article The Manger and the Inn, which is totally worth the half hour it takes to read it.
If you prefer video, here’s close to 1 hour covering the same ground. Too long? Skip right to the Q&A.
See also The first Christmas: Myths and realities by Paul Copan.
Glory to God in the highest!
December 25, 2010 July 26, 2012 ~ Nelima
Be blessed this Christmas!
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Namibia ‘won’t be held hostage’ by Germany in genocide talks
Windhoek The Presidency has called on the German ambassador in Namibia to show respect and common courtesy to the Namibian side as the two countries prepare to negotiate how best to address the German genocide committed against the Nama and Ovaherero during the first decade of the 20th century. This follows recent remarks by German Ambassador to Namibia Christian Schlaga, who was quoted in the press saying Germany will not pay any money in reparation, but would rather increase its funding of Namibian projects. Also, Ruprecht Polenz, Germany’s Special Envoy for the Genocide Talks recently informed Namibians that the matter should ideally be concluded by the end of December, as that country prepares to go to the polls next year. Polenz and Schlaga made the remarks after a meeting with President Hage Geingob and representatives of the descendants of the direct victims of the 1904-08 genocide. The statements have sparked public outrage, as many wanted to know whether the negotiations have already been concluded. Former youth minister Kazenambo Kazenambo asked why the Namibian government is silent on the matter. Geingob’s press secretary Albertus Aochamub yesterday said the meeting held at State House between the two parties agreed that the time is ripe to accelerate the pace toward closing the ugly chapter in “our history as fraternal countries sharing a special and unique bond”. The meeting also agreed that the parties would pursue a common narrative in resolving this historic tragedy, while negotiations on the key issues of genocide, apology and reparations will commence between the parties as equal partners and not a situation where one party is treated as “a minor”. The parties previously decided that if an agreement and consensus are reached after negotiations, the proposal would be presented to the respective cabinets and parliaments for final approval. “Contrary to what was agreed and also considered common courtesy in delicate matters, such as we are faced with, the German counterparts seem to have shared what appears to be their position on the negotiations through the media,” Aochamub said. “The position specifically relates to Germany’s stance on the question of reparations and where Germany seems to insist on no reparations being payable, except for the establishment of a Foundation for the Future.” “It is also clear that Germany insists on rushing the negotiations, because they face an impending election in their country in the near future and, therefore, it seems that we are held hostage to a deadline before the negotiations have even commenced. “Namibia takes serious exception to this unwelcome approach to such delicate discussions and call on the representatives of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany to show respect and extend common courtesy to their Namibian counterparts,” he added. He further warned that such behaviour does not auger well for future bilateral relations between the two sovereign states. “We would urge and advise that our counterparts allow the negotiations to commence and be concluded logically. Failure to manage these processes with due care would jeopardise any chances of success and history will be very unkind in how we will be judged by future generations...” Opposition joins fray Meanwhile, several opposition parties have voiced concerns over the ongoing negotiations between the Namibian and the German governments. DTA of Namibia president McHenry Venaani yesterday said without explicitly contesting whether reparations in the form of “developmental aid/projects” is the correct path to go, that it is disingenuous to enter negotiations with the stance that the German government will only consider reparations in that form. “This is a condition which seeks to pre-empt the end result of the negotiation process and is thus not in good faith,” Venaani said in a statement, adding that it is worrying that the reparations proposed in the form of developmental aid may not be targeted specifically at the affected communities, but amounts to ordinary development aid.“I am not in principle opposed to attempts to accelerate the negotiation process,” Venaani said. However, such acceleration should be done in good faith and should not be open to potentially being perceived as a mockery of the pain and anguish that the affected communities carry with them to this day, he added. He said his party remains hopeful the negotiation process will arrive at a result that is acceptable to the affected communities, the governments and people of both countries. Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) secretary general Mike Kavekotora said the stance taken by the German government that reparations will only come in the form of developmental aid is an “arrogant decision” that should be condemned. “The German government should not forget that we’re talking about lives that were lost, land that was lost and, moreover, they should also not forget that we, as the affected communities, have the capacity to take this matter to another level if needed,” said a fuming Kavekotora yesterday. “The Germans should know that we waited for over a hundred years and we’re ready to wait for another hundred years, so there is no need to accelerate the issue,” he added. National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO) spokesperson Vetaruhe Kandorozu said the issue that troubles him is that Namibia is negotiating with a country that is yet to recognise the German colonial policy as genocide.
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China, SADC to join forces on ivory trafficking
Staff Reporter Windhoek The People’s Republic of China is willing to assist Namibia and other SADC countries to launch a robust joint regional law-enforcement initiative to tackle head-on the trafficking of elephant ivory, rhino horns and other wildlife products, as part of China’s resolve to combat the scourge of poaching. New Chinese ambassador to Namibia, Zhang Yiming, made the revelation at his debut media conference at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Windhoek on Tuesday. Namibia and other SADC countries have been overwhelmed by cases in which locals colluding with Asians specifically the Chinese have been arrested and large quantities of ivory, rhino horns and pangolin skins and other prohibited game products confiscated while in transit to Asian markets. Zhang said his country does not support poaching or the trafficking of ivory, rhino horns and other game products and as such it has ratified the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and other international treaties as part of its resolve to help the global initiative to combat this scourge. He noted that since he initially presented his diplomatic credentials to President Hage Geingob a fortnight ago, he was also asked a similar question. “I want to assure you that our government - the Chinese government - is totally against any illegal poaching. We signed some CITES treaties from 1993. The Chinese government has already made a law against any illegal poaching. We have a law completely prohibiting any rhino horn trade and last year China also officially announced it has forbidden any commercial trade in ivory,” he said, explaining the measures taken by his government on rhino horn and ivory trade. “As the Ambassador of China, I can tell you China will never defend these people. On the contrary, we would like to cooperate with the Namibian government and law enforcement agents to punish these people - not only Chinese nationals but other nationals who violate Namibian wildlife laws,” he said. He also revealed that he had a meeting with Police Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga and they exchanged views on how best they could work together to eliminate trans-national crimes. He said a joint law enforcement plan of action could be launched that would involve China, Namibia and possibly other SADC countries that face the problem of ivory and rhino horn trafficking. In the same vein, Zhang lamented the fact that a few Namibian media houses are systematically involved in tarnishing the entire Chinese community linking them to game-product trafficking. He added that the Namibian media landscape seems to have become more negative compared to six years ago, in 2011, when he served as the deputy head of mission at the Chinese Embassy in Windhoek.
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Unreached People Groups
A people group is the largest group within which the gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understanding or acceptance. An unreached people group is where less than 2% of that population are believers. Unengaged unreached people groups means there aren’t any workers among them with a church planting strategy underway.
Total People Groups = 11,504
Total Unreached People Groups = 6,817
Total Engaged People Groups = 3,703
Total Unengaged People Groups = 3,114
There are 1,800 people groups without any Scripture. 80% of the world’s population, though, do not have a written language and therefore cannot depend on textual means for hearing the gospel.
Below are the three people groups New North Church is committing to reach in Asia, Africa and India. Do you have a heart for Asia, Africa, or India? Be part of a prayer group for the unreached people groups that New North has adopted. Vision/survey trips are coming up for each one, and we need them to be bathed in prayer before, during and after.
Asia has 442 unreached people groups.
India has 2,077 unreached people groups.
There are many unreached people groups in Africa.
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Apple debuts Watch Series 3 (GPS) and Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) - Price, Availability
Apple debuts Watch Series 3 (GPS) and Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular). Apple today introduced Watch Series 3, adding built-in cellular to the watch. Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular allows users to stay connected, make calls, receive texts and more, even without iPhone nearby. The third-generation Apple Watch is an amazing health and fitness companion with intelligent coaching features, water resistance 50 meters and a new barometric altimeter that measures relative elevation. Apple Watch Series 3 comes in two models, one with GPS and cellular, and one with GPS, both featuring a 70 percent faster dual-core processor and new wireless chip.
Apple debuts Watch Series 3 (GPS) and Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular)
Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) features a full LTE and UMTS cellular radio that switches seamlessly to cellular when it is away from iPhone. The watch shares the same number as iPhone so there's no need to provide an additional number to family, friends or colleagues; and to help get customers started, participating carriers are also offering special introductory cellular plans at launch.
Customers have the ability to make cellular calls directly with Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) and, when paired with AirPods, enjoy a seamless and fully wireless experience. Apple also pioneered an industry-first antenna design that uses the display itself as both a transmitting and receiving element for LTE and UMTS, while introducing a built-in eSIM that is over one-hundredth the size of a traditional SIM card, making over-the-air activation possible without compromising space.
Powering Apple Watch Series 3 is the S3, Apple's third-generation architecture featuring a faster dual-core processor, which allows for quicker app launch times and smoother graphics, and, for the first time, enables Siri to speak using the built-in speaker. Apple designed a new custom wireless chip called W2, making Wi-Fi 85 percent faster and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 50 percent more power efficient, while still providing all-day battery life and keeping the size virtually the same as before. Apple Watch Series 3 also features a barometric altimeter that assists with tracking activity, flights climbed and outdoor workouts, including elevation gain.
watchOS 4 features an updated Heart Rate app, giving even more insight to heart rate, including measurements during resting, workout, recovery, walking and Breathe sessions. Customers can also choose to receive a notification when their heart rate is elevated above a specific threshold while inactive. Other great watchOS 4 features include the proactive Siri watch face that displays the information users need most throughout the day, an enhanced Workout app with new interface, custom High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workout type and auto-sets for pool swims. With GymKit, users will soon enjoy the ability to connect to their favorite cardio equipment and experience two-way synchronization of data with just a tap, resulting in the most accurate information possible.
The redesigned Music app experience automatically syncs playlists like New Music Mix and Favorites Mix, along with the user's most listened to music. Later this fall, Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) will stream music, giving users access to any song from Apple Music, straight from the wrist. The new Radio app also enables listeners to access Beats 1 live or any Apple Music radio station while away from iPhone or Wi-Fi.
Apple Watch Line-Up
Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) starts at $399 (US) and Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS) starts at $329 (US), both featuring new upgrades like a faster dual-core processor and wireless chip, along with a barometric altimeter. Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) also debuts a special red Digital Crown and exclusive "Explorer" watch face that shows cellular connectivity through a unique design.
In addition to silver or space gray aluminum, Apple Watch Series 3 now comes in a gorgeous new gold aluminum, along with silver or space black stainless steel cases, which all pair with a stunning assortment of new band colors and styles. The Woven Nylon is updated with a new pattern and the incredibly lightweight Sport Loop effortlessly adjusts to fit wrists with unparalleled comfort. Apple Watch Edition expands to include a beautiful dark gray ceramic case that pairs with a new two-toned Sport Band.
Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) requires iPhone 6 or later running iOS 11 or later and Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS) requires iPhone 5S or later running iOS 11 or later.
Apple Watch is available in two different case sizes, 38mm and 42mm. Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) will be available in gold, silver or space gray aluminum, or silver or space black stainless steel paired with a variety of bands starting at $399 (US). Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS) will be available in gold, silver or space gray aluminum cases with a Sport Band starting at $329 (US). Apple Watch Edition in gray or white ceramic will be available starting at $1,299 (US). Apple Watch Nike+ starts at $329 (US) and Apple Watch Hermès starts at $1,149 (US) (prices may vary).
+ Customers will be able to order Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) beginning Friday, September 15, with availability beginning Friday, September 22 in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, the UK and the US, with other countries following next year. For carrier availability, visit apple.com/watch/cellular.
+ Customers will be able to order Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS) beginning Friday, September 15, with availability beginning Friday, September 22 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, the US and US Virgin Islands. Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS) will be available beginning Saturday, September 23 in UAE.
+ Apple Watch Nike+ will be available to order on apple.com beginning Friday, September 15, with limited availability on Thursday, October 5 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Macau, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, the UK and the US. For more information, visit apple.com/apple-watch-nike or nike.com/applewatch.
+ Apple Watch Hermès will be available to order on apple.com beginning Friday, September 15, with availability beginning Friday, September 22 in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the UK and the US. For more information, visit apple.com/apple-watch-hermes or hermes.com/applewatchhermes.
+ Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS) will be available beginning Friday, September 29 in Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Guam, Hungary, Iceland, India, Jersey, Macau, Monaco, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Thailand and Turkey.
+ Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS) will be available beginning Saturday, September 30 in Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
+ New Apple Watch bands are available today on apple.com and will be available soon at Apple Stores, as well as select Apple Authorized Resellers and carriers in the US and over 35 countries and regions, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE and the UK.
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Baha'is celebrate most important festival at most holy site
Two thousand Baha'is of the world formed a procession that walked toward the Shrine of Baha'u'llah and then circumambulated the tomb at Bahji, near Acre in northern Israel.
ACRE, Israel — Followers of Bahá’u’lláh from more than 150 countries gathered yesterday at what for them is the holiest spot on earth – the tomb of Bahá’u’lláh – to celebrate Ridván, their most important festival.
This year’s celebration at Bahjí, outside Acre in northern Israel, was special because it came during the 10th International Bahá’í Convention, currently under way in nearby Haifa.
A thousand delegates from around the world – a true representation of the global community of five million Bahá’ís – joined with nearly a thousand other Bahá’ís for a program of prayers and readings and to circumambulate together the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh.
With 2,000 people in attendance, the stream of Bahá’ís making their way through the beautiful gardens of Bahjí stretched more than half a kilometer as they walked together around the sacred tomb, where in 1892 the earthly remains of Bahá’u’lláh were laid to rest.
The nine members of the Universal House of Justice, the international governing body of the Bahá’í Faith, led the procession. Many of the convention delegates came in distinctive native dress, highlighting the diversity and international character of the Bahá’í community.
Many delegates wore their native dress -- from Western business suits to the colorful garb of specific regions of South America, Africa, and Asia.
Gerda Haug, a delegate from Germany who was participating in such an event for the first time, said circumambulating the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh with Bahá’ís from around the world was a memorable experience.
“It was a symbol to me,” she said, “not just something spiritual but more than that: We were all walking together in one direction, devoted to what Bahá’u’lláh taught, guided by the Universal House of Justice – it was a great moment.”
Ridván – Arabic for “paradise” – is a 12-day festival commemorating the 12 days in 1863 that Bahá’u’lláh spent in the Garden of Ridván in Baghdad. It was during that period that He announced publicly for the first time that He was God’s Messenger for this age, the latest in a line of divine teachers that includes Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, Krishna, Moses, Zoroaster, and others.
The Festival of Ridván goes from 21 April to 2 May, and the first, ninth, and 12th days of the period are marked as specific holy days. Yesterday’s commemoration was for the ninth day of Ridván.
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UPPING THE ANTE
By Lauren Price
February 22, 2007 | 10:00am
Once some buyers go Trump, they never go back. Take Michael Cohen, 40, an attorney and partner at Phillips Nizer. He purchased his first Trump apartment at Trump World Tower at 845 United Nations Plaza in 2001. He was so impressed he convinced his parents, his in-laws and a business partner to buy there, too. Cohen’s in-laws went on purchase two more units there and one at Trump Grande in Sunny Isles, Fla.
Cohen then bought at Trump Palace at 200 E. 69th St., and Trump Park Avenue, where he currently resides. He’s currently in the process of purchasing a two-bedroom unit at Trump Place on Riverside Boulevard – so, naturally, Cohen’s next step is to purchase something at Trump Plaza Jersey City. He’s now in negotiations for a two-bedroom unit there.
“Trump properties are solid investments,” says Cohen, who’s also looking at the new Trump SoHo project.
Not surprisingly, Donald Trump agrees.
“Michael Cohen has a great insight into the real-estate market,” Trump says. “He has invested in my buildings because he likes to make money – and he does.
“In short, he’s a very smart person,” he adds.
Trump’s Jersey City project is drawing a decidedly high-end clientele to this formerly rough-and-tumble area.
“We are definitely attracting new customers to Jersey City,” says Donald Trump Jr., executive vice president of development and acquisition for the Trump Organization. “But we get a different draw of buyers than those looking to live in the surrounding developments.”
Indeed, even as Jersey City’s waterfront goes upscale, the Trump project is setting itself apart – and not just because its two gleaming towers (50 stories and 55 stories) will be the tallest residential buildings in New Jersey. “We’re getting about $800 a square foot … close to $200 more than what other developers are getting in Jersey City,” Trump Jr. says.
Still, compared to other Trump projects, Trump Plaza Jersey City is affordable. The first tower boasts studios to three-bedrooms (which range in size from 750 to 2,050 square feet) that are priced between $425,000 and $2 million. The penthouses on floors 50 through 55 offer the best views of the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty.
The second tower may not offer the same unit mix – there’s talk of larger units – and prices haven’t been set yet.
Trump Plaza’s amenity package is spread out over 41,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space. There’s a heated swimming pool and a huge lawn – an ideal spot for resting, running or playing – not to mention on-site BMW Zipcars. Inside, there’s a fitness center, a playroom and a spa – which includes a computerized shower that creates different “environments,” like a summer thunderstorm in a forest.
Occupancy for Trump Plaza Jersey City’s first tower is forecast for mid-2008. The second tower is expected to open about 10 to 12 months later. According to Marketing Directors Vice President Jacqueline Urgo, nearly 150 units have been sold since sales began in October.
Trump Plaza Jersey City is a partnership between the Trump Organization and Hoboken-based Metro Homes – the developers behind local upscale condos like the Grandview and Liberty Point – and they’re currently discussing developing another waterfront project in the area, according to Metro Homes principal Dean S. Geibel.
Looks like Cohen might have another opportunity to make a “smart” investment soon.
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Eastern Fox Squirrel
Sciurus niger
(Order: Rodentia, Family: Sciuridae)
Description: The Eastern Fox squirrel is larger than the Eastern Gray Squirrel and tends to spend more time on the ground rather than in the trees. They have an orange-red coat and a brown, bushy tail with an orange tint and fringe. This squirrel is approximately 45-71 cm (18-28 inches) in body length, have a tail length of 17-33 cm (7-13 inches), and generally weigh 0.45-1.4 kg (1-3 pounds).
Squirrel tracks
Range and Habitat: Eastern Fox Squirrels range from northeast Mexico through the eastern half of the United States into south-central Canada. They are common in oak-hickory woodlands and wooded parks and neighborhoods throughout Kansas.
Diet: They generally feed on nuts, seeds, berries, buds and insects, and will sometimes eat bird eggs and nestlings.
Behavior and Communication: Fox squirrels are diurnal and spend most of their time foraging on the ground, where they move with a rolling walk or hop. It caches nuts, especially in autumn, in shallow holes in the ground, and is important in seed dispersal. When frightened, it will retreat to the nearest tree. Once in the protection of the tree it will hide behind trunk or limb until the intruder passes by, and they tend to “bark” at the intruder as a warning sign. Like gray squirrels, fox squirrels commonly rest on horizontal limbs with the tail arched over the animal's back. They are even known to lay on the ground to rest. Owls, red-tailed hawks, foxes, and coyotes are the main predators of fox squirrels. Longevity in the wild for females is up to 12 years; males may live up to 8 years.
Video of the Eastern Fox Squirrel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ1AoXkKXNc
Reproduction: These squirrels nest in trees. In Kansas, breeding occurs in January and February, and again in June, with mating chases being conspicuous. Females two years old and older can have two litters per year, whereas young females born the previous year can only have one. After a gestation period of about 45 days the female gives birth to a litter of one to seven young. The young remain with the female for three months, or longer if they are born in late summer.
Conservation Status: This species is of Least Concern according to the IUCN red list due to its wide distribution, presumed large population, occurrence in a number of protected areas, and because it is unlikely to be declining at nearly the rate required to qualify for listing in a threatened category.
Cockrum, E. L. 1952. Mammals of Kansas. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 7:1-303.
Great Plains Nature Center: http://www.gpnc.org/squirrelef.htm
North American Mammals: http://www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=299
Mammals of Kansas: http://www.ksr.ku.edu/libres/Mammals_of_Kansas/fox-squir.html
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/20016/0
Track prints figure by: http://www.ksr.ku.edu/libres/Mammals_of_Kansas/fox-squir.html
U.S. Distribution Map by: http://www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=299
Pictures of Sciurus niger by: Casey Cantrell, July 2011
Submitted by: Casey Cantrell, July 2011
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Al Shabaab: “economic powerhouse”
“Al-Shabaab reportedly generates between $70 million and $100 million per year”
Al-Shabaab has become a top-tier terrorist organization from its extensive revenues. Their wealth is largely based on Islamic taxes that al-Shabaab imposes in accordance with the Koran. It is following the same broad-based sharia revenue model that launched the Taliban from being an obscure students’ movement into an multinational financial hegemon. From CNN (h/t to Un:dhimmi via a RoP newslink) on Aug. 5:
Washington — The once ragtag Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliate group known as Al-Shabaab has grown into an economic powerhouse, raising tens of millions of dollars in cash every year from a variety of schemes involving extortion, illegal taxation and other “fees,” according to a United Nations report.
The United States believes the group is closely coordinating with al Qaeda groups in Yemen and may be plotting attacks in the region and abroad.
The terrorist group now “generates between $70 million and $100 million per year, from duties and fees levied at airports and seaports, taxes on goods and services, taxes in kind on domestic produce, ‘jihad contributions,’ checkpoints and various forms of extortion justified in terms of religious obligation,” according to the July 18 report from the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea.
The group has a long history of hindering humanitarian aid deliveries to millions suffering from drought and famine. In recent months, the U.S. military and the CIA have stepped up covert operations inside Somalia in an effort to counter the growing Al-Shabaab capabilities.
One U.S. official says there are now estimates that Al-Shabaab controls up to 1,000 fighters in the country. He declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the information.
“I would say that the greatest risks right now in East Africa are Al-Shabaab and the violent extremists that they represent,” says General Carter Ham, commander of the U.S. Africa Command.
Speaking to his own troops recently, Ham said: “Even if you don’t think the humanitarian need is compelling enough … to me there is a security angle to this which affords us an opportunity as a nation, as a collective group of nations, to really take an effort to undermine what Al-Shabaab is trying to do in Somalia.”
The Al-Shabaab organization “presents an increasingly acute regional and international threat,” according to the U.N. report. The monitoring group says despite infighting and some military defeats, “the economic health of Al-Shabaab is more robust than ever.”
Funds are being used to pay for fighters, weapons and ammunition and continued fighting against the fragile Somalia security forces and African Union troops in the country.
“Al-Shabaab is evolving from an armed faction into a lucrative consortium of business interests, both within Somalia and abroad, whose members benefit from cartel-style trading practices, tax breaks and mutual facilitation. Moreover, there are indications that Al-Shabaab trading networks may also be used to camouflage charitable contributions from sympathizers in the Gulf States,” the report reads.
Al-Shabaab’s economic growth has emerged largely since October 2009 when it won control of the southern port town of Kismaayo and other nearby ports. The group now generates an estimated $35 million to $50 million a year from port revenues. Another $30 million to $60 million a year comes from “taxes” on businessmen operating in marketplaces in the capitol of Mogadishu and other towns.
“In addition to those taxes on businesses, Al-Shabaab operates a comprehensive web of mobile military checkpoints where transportation operators and passengers are all obliged to pay taxes for free passage,” the report reads.
The U.N. report offers extensive details on Al-Shabaab’s arms smuggling operations, as well as what the U.N. says are credible reports of potentially illegal arms shipments coming in by air and sea into southern Somalia and then being shipped to fighters throughout the country.
“During the Ramadan offensive in August and September 2010, for instance, several lorry loads of arms and ammunition arrived in Mogadishu just days after a consignment of weapons reportedly landed at Kismaayo airport,” it reads.
The report also identifies key Al-Shabaab fighters including the one insurgent leader who is “believed to command an estimated force of between 200 and 500 fighters,” most of whom are from Kenya.
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#AIinPR group kicks off work with crowdsourced tool project
The CIPR has launched a panel to explore the impact of artificial intelligence on public relations and the wider business community.
The panel is kicking-off a much-needed discussion around the use of new technologies with a view to explore the potential opportunities and threats of AI on the PR workforce and the future of the profession. As part of this, we will aim to define a capability framework for AI in PR, which will showcase the most anticipated changes in PR and how we can best prepare for them, offering greater clarity and certainty around this for professionals.
In a nutshell, the panel will aim to tackle three projects in 2018:
A crowdsourcing exercise to characterise technology and tools that are helping public relations practitioners work smarter and more efficiently
A skills framework that will seek to estimate the likely impact of artificial intelligence on the public relations workforce. It will aim to produce a paper for the World PR Forum in April
A literature and content review to explore the impact of artificial intelligence on the public sphere. This project will aim to produce a discussion paper for practitioners
The panel has started its first project by inviting practitioners to submit examples of tools that characterise the impact of technology on public relations. Everyone who participates in the project will be cited in the results.
The panel is made up of the following people all of whom have expertise in this developing area. It will be chaired by Stephen Waddington Found.Chart.PR, Hon FCIPR.
Chris Dolan Dip CIPR, FCIPR, Independent consultant
Kerry Sheehan MCIPR, Weber Shandwick
Stephen Waddington Found.Chart.PR, Hon FCIPR, Ketchum
Alastair McCapra, CIPR Chief Executive
Matt Silver MCIPR, Ketchum
Sharon O’Dea, MCIPR, Independent consultant
Andrew Smith MCIPR, Escherman
Maria Loupa, MCIPR, Liberty Communications
Professor Anne Gregory Hon FCIPR, University of Huddersfield
Jean Valin Hon FCIPR, Valin Strategic Communications
Ben Verinder, Found.Chart.PR MCIPR, Chalkstream
Dr Jon White Chart.PR, FCIPR, Independent consultant
The CIPR Artificial Intelligence panel will contribute and help lead the conversation around technology and public relations. It will publish guidance for practitioners from each of its projects during 2018.
The panel is a great step towards the right direction, with many opportunities for anyone who would like to get involved.
If you are a PR practitioner and you are using any ‘smart’ tools that make your life easier, feel free to add your recommendations to our crowdsourcing project or use #AIinPR hashtag on Twitter. More AI-focused content to follow soon!
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How do PR professionals ensure they are getting the most from content, and context, when trying to secure significant engagement between clients and their audiences in a creative, innovative and cost-effective way?
A few months back, at CIPR HQ in Russell Square, the London GLG Committee had a great panel share their thoughts on the value of advertorials in 21st century communications – it’s been a while, but since this topic is all the more relevant, we wanted to share a few highlights; especially with advertising spend set to reach $253bn by 2018, it’s definitely an untapped market worth exploring for communications professionals. Our panel included Tiffanie Darke, Creative Content Director, News UK (@tiffaniedarke), Jon Tickner, Creative Development Director at IPC Media, and Samantha Cope, Creative Editorial Director at Trinity Mirror plc (@SamanthaCope2); they all provided valuable insight from their respective publishing houses, with their host being former GLG Chair Julio Romo (@twofourseven).
The event kicked off with an introduction of what the speakers’ jobs entail. They all work as part of internal creative departments a lot of comms professionals in the audience didn’t even know existed, to help brand and comms teams create better content solutions for their clients. Sam Cope works within a team of 40 people, from account directors, to designers and everything in between, who make-up the Invention team; it’s been more than a year since Trinity Mirror launched its creative content studio and Sam works across their portfolio of news brands. Trinity Mirror has 110 regional titles, which means campaigns need to be able to talk at a local level, while maintaining a national impact.
Tiffany Darke’s team is Method, the strategic content agency at News UK. They work with The Sunday Times, The Times, The Sun and the entire News UK portfolio; they have cached a creative agency, Method, to produce content for advertising partners across sites, and they now have a sales’ arm and a customer management arm, offering an end to end experience, working with brands on creative campaigns they want to activate. Jon Tickner’s team at Time Inc, work with over 60 media brands and offer their cross-platform editorial expertise, and much more, focusing on a variety of topics from men’s hobbies, to mass market women’s publications such as Woman’s Own, Marie Claire, Wallpaper and Ideal Home.
Why media organisations form creative agencies
The conversation started by discussing what forces media organisations to form creative agencies to develop solutions instead of using PR agencies, content and advertising agencies. All speakers agreed that they know their audiences and the audiences’ needs, that’s why they are the best people to do this instead of a ‘generic’ agency. One of the many interesting things when working with media owners is that brands have the opportunity to work with a platform where people are hunting for content on. “It’s then that you realise certain things about the British public that you can’t assume, unless you’re working with them every single day. They are not marketeers, and that’s a bonus in a sense, because they are like a very intelligent consumer”, as Samantha commented. “We can offer valuable insight in what we call “Modal Britain”, the changing face of Britain which, at the middle percent, has grown and flattened in its wealth, distribution and attitudes”.
Tiffanie commented, “There is currently an ‘agency fight’ – you have digital, social, advertising, video agencies; brands have 6-7 agencies working for them and they have to co-ordinate all of these messages, as part of the whole shifting media landscape right now. It’s all about what’s relevant and useful, and who’s providing the best content and responses”.
However, PR definitely has its place in the paid space, as much as the editorial, as PR professionals are in the best position to broker this kind of deals. They are uniquely positioned in that they understand the publishers, and the audience, and the commercial side of things because they work for commercial clients and understand both sides of the contract. Tiffanie added “It’s a real opportunity for PR professionals. You already understand the audience, so you will sit halfway between us and the client. It’s a useful tool as well for you, especially for pitches and presentations to the client, as you can say ‘we spoke to the Times and they said this and that’.”
A word on audience
Content now flows across platforms, however, there’s still a large print audience present, according to the panel. “There is massive value, trust, massive circulation and communities from both a regional and a national perspective. Communities are everything – it’s a range of people who readily want to engage with you, so brands shouldn’t bother if they can’t manage this engagement”, Sam commented. Increasingly, with digital, where brands are publishers and there is an awful lot of commercial content, the bar has gotten higher. According to the panel, advertorials were considered “second” class, and the quality would have been almost purposely lower so that people wouldn’t confuse it with editorials. In Tiffanie’s word, “the truth is, that people don’t mind watching a good video if it’s for Nike or Coca Cola. So why not make it really good content, engaging and as good as an editorial?”
The panel briefly touched on market differences and similarities from an audience perspective. Jon commented “Although it’s hard to say whether the UK audience is different or not, I feel it may be more similar to the French than we may think, and different to Americans. In general, most clients aren’t set up to have such a global voice, unless it’s a completely clean of character, cross-territory voice that is entirely meaningless to anyone”. Tiffanie added: “Sadly not many clients appreciate buying globally and tailoring to markets – and we all have clients like that. Great, this campaign means nothing; PERFECT!”.
However, there is content that is more ‘transglobal’ and can break down barriers. As an example of this, Jon said that the audience shows an increased interest in ‘comparison’ pieces, especially around sporting or music events, such as the Ashes; i.e. an Australian and UK comparison of the Ashes’ coverage always performs quite well. Samantha added that hyperlocal has been giving their team a real edge, as they can reach people at a very local level, with topics that matter to them, such as the NHS.
Leveraging social media communities
According to the panel, a few of the key trends for 2016 are unquestionably mobile and video, as well as personalisation. Social media communities swing content very fast and are pretty much asked to spend their time and money when they can get a lot of it for free. That’s why media organisations have a growing responsibility to let them know when content is of editorial or advertorial nature. As Tiffanie mentioned, “A neat way around it that’s kind of a shortcut currency for everybody, is to hashtag/label it ‘spawn,’ so that they know it’s not purely editorial”.
The audience needs to be offered both high quality editorial and advertorial content for them to consume. It would almost be like undermining them, if it was assumed that they’re not interested in commercial content, in print or online; commercial message can and should be the level of editorial. “Advertorials never really concerned the audience per se; it’s all about respecting audiences enough to entertain them along the way,” according to the panel.
“If you’re fulfilling the product for engaging with the right audience, if you raise it to that level, you simply can’t fail. And that’s always a long battle, to reach it to the level it should be and educate clients accordingly. In terms of content, editorial is way more issue-based, so that’s the best way to approach it, by making your content more relevant”, the panel agreed. Different platforms simply require different content. Tiffanie explained, “If we’re running a business campaign for Santander for example and they want some Facebook activation, it would dry as a shriveled raisin, so you have to find creative ways around it. For Xbox, we did something around pig semen that did really well on Facebook, as it was a funny, Facebook-friendly post.”
Communities can empower a brand, and adding a certain tone of voice to advertorials can help brands reach them. When it comes to TOV and different platforms, the ‘would a C-suite’s daughter read/understand this’ test doesn’t always apply. “We’re humans, therefore different to each other, and that’s part of the beauty of the media world; if your daughter isn’t reading the print version product, who says that others aren’t? And if you’re a C-suite working in banking, why on earth are you looking at your daughter? She’s not your target audience”.
Furthermore, the panel argued that their teams can provide insights that only media organisations can – they can approach a huge national and regional audience via social media. They use reader panels of around 6-7k people, who can provide feedback anonymously and unknowingly, by their interactions on the content. As an example, Tiffanie mentioned that they ran a campaign around perceptions on an online shopping brand by the panel, with the goal to justify cart abandonment. As it turned out, none of the values to purchase were what the client thought, which were the fit of certain ranges and difficulties in the return process. It was simply that potential customers couldn’t picture themselves in any of the products, so it was just a matter of approach.
How editorial and advertorial work together
Regardless of a budget on a marketing campaign, the panel underlined that publishers can never promise editorial space as it’s not best practice, regardless of how big a marketing budget is for a campaign. Tiffanie commented, “Editorial credits are offered in their own way and media houses need to be accountable; and if you’ve been promised, you need to ask for it. We try to facilitate conversations as much as possible and produce content of the highest possible standard to be able to achieve this. An example of this was McMillan – they are already successful in what they do; they wanted to reach a new audience, so a campaign we did for them opened the door to conversations with the features desks and lead to editorial. Explaining the aspects of the campaign allowed them to alter their PR approach.”
The editors always have the final word; if there is anything of editorial value, they will use it. Tiffanie added “We had a big retailer, who bought Sunday Times’ four page pull-out on the main news section, and they were convinced this was worth a front page news story; especially during the weekend of the Paris attacks, everything got wiped out”. It’s all about providing investment for editorial and serve up the client with something that is directly on brand, that you know will totally engage the reader; you’re not taking readers’ eyes away, you’re just giving them more content to consume”, Tiffanie explained. “Last week as part of the Vodafone campaign, we worked on a start-up list with the Times’ editorial team – an ‘everything you need to know’, hands-on guide and an overview of the best start-ups. We said to Vodafone, “do you want to get involved?” and we produced something really good, that transcended to editorial.”
“Integration is everything in quality press, and there are always ways to open conversations towards this; a few more consumer-focused sectors are ‘easier’, like travel, film, charity (CSR angles) – if it’s a bank for example, it may be tricky to get them on the Telegraph; and it should be. It’s integrity that makes up our products.” Advertorials are sense-checked to fit in seamlessly, clearly marked and of the same standard and feel as editorials. The panel agreed that if content is tailored to be part of the publication and add value to the product, then the readers will back it. Sam shared another example of this “We’re run a blood-donation campaign as a case study and ended up running it as a feature – it’s what we call ‘earned editorial’”. The advertorial team like to get the editorial’s perspective all the time, in terms of testing new products they’re developing; it’s an amazing resource due to its immediacy, and very good for AB testing. Ultimately, media houses can provide a combination of insight from editorial, creative teams and reader panels.
Church and state – direct editorial conflicts
“As a media owner, you have to not be greedy, and choose the right clients carefully. We once had a cereal brand and they insisted on working with us on a campaign to highlight how healthy their cereals are, but actually, across all our titles we’ve been telling everyone how unhealthy they are, making their children obese; so we decided we weren’t going to pitch for this campaign, as this would cost on integrity and readers’ trust. Regardless, even if we put something on the advertorial side that directly contravenes, the editor will chuck it out”, Tiffanie commented. Sam’s views reflected this “Our audiences trust us and trust editorial teams, so when it comes to KPIs, it’s always readers first. If we know our audiences aren’t going to like something, we are not going to run it”.
Setting benchmarks
“There is massive value on top of the traditional channels, that is why when working on multi-platform campaigns, there is a growing need for our industry to measure and monetise our social media strategies”, Jon commented. Tiffanie added, “Martin Sowers, Mr WPP, was quite clear that the bar for measuring digital engagement is really low and needs to be higher, because people aren’t engaging with it the way they would engage with a print or a native digital product.” There is also a disparity of ad spend compared to the reach of print and the reach of mobile. When it comes to ROI of print sales, these offer more ‘solid’ calculations; mobile channels are enormous and cannot be sold out in the same sense; their reach is in the millions, but clients don’t buy as much as they should and don’t use it as innovatively as they’d like. Tiffanie added “Have you seen a piece of mobile advertising lately? It’s a really annoying distraction – if you watch someone reading a newspaper, they have a one to one relationship spending 20 mins reading it, which is really interesting in the online era”.
In terms of measuring results, Tiffanie mentioned that her team use Unruly, the video sharing agency; they predict how successful a campaign can be, not by views but by shares. They use a different way of measuring engagement, a different level of analytics. Other agencies may run top 10 videos in terms of views for example, but anyone can buy views by buying space. The key is behind paywalls, measuring real engagement, not via watch. Facebook is trying to go in with publishing organisations, and its targeting has certainly the ability to target, as Tiffanie mentioned, but the issue is the level of engagement they claim; “video view is 3 seconds, as much as it takes you to scroll from the top to the bottom of the screen, which a lot of sensible people would argue is not a decent level of engagement”.
“Have any metrics ever made any sense at all?” Jon added. “Don’t always measure it – I’d argue that, in our lives, not all things are about sharing nor are solid or can be measured. It could be that someone clicked the wrong link and they’re trying to close the video; we all need to be honest and that’s not easy when a client is asking for something that’s not possible”. As an example of this, Jon mentioned that his team worked on a campaign with “Time To Change”, around depression and mental illness. “People immediately switch off when they feel uncomfortable, and they may not share content due to the associations attached. So we needed a different way to measure results beyond video shares; we reached out to our regular celebrity contacts and that became our social campaign, simple to do and easy to measure”.
Evidently, reader panels are also part of every campaign produced and every report sent to clients; they are used usually at the beginning, middle, and end of the campaign to measure effectiveness. As an example, Tiffanie mentioned a Hunger Games’ campaign from last year “We ran a feature around ‘what you need to know if you haven’t watched it’ by the reader panel; three weeks later, they have acted upon it by watching the movie, because we triggered their curiosity”. Tiffanie added “You’ve got to be able to measure; digital platforms need to be measured real time, that’s why they are unique”.
How to work with media houses on content solutions
The panel agreed that it’s best to get in touch with them at the beginning, get them involved early so they can draft a content plan based on their audience insight. Tiffanie commented, “the sooner we can get around the table, the better. Be open and truthful – say we have a brand, and these are their challenges; for brands, it’s easy to focus on product facts, but we can advise in depth as we know that these facts alone are not always engaging with people”. The next steps are for the planning team, the PR team and the brand to sit together, and use audience insights to come up with the central concept, which will later be broken down by platform.
In terms of budgets, Sam and Tiffanie highlighted that no budget is too small, as they’ve run campaigns between £10-30k, while Jon’s team worked with a client who simply wanted all the potato recipes in their archive; “we had about 12,000 they bought 5 and they didn’t cost a lot at all, almost the combined change in our pockets right now, so I’ve beat you both!”.
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It’s been a while.. Since the last time I blogged, a lot has happened. The most significant change being that Tales from the North East moved South- I moved from Newcastle to London, therefore the name of this blog had to be changed slightly!
Another very, very important thing that happened in this time, is that I was shortlisted for a Digital Communication Award for my master thesis, “Social media in the Public Sector: Hit or Miss? A comparative study on the effectiveness of social media as a PR tool”, which I consider a great honour and true testament that if you love what you do, great things can happen.
Hosted by the Quadriga University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, the Digital Communication Awards are the first awards in European PR and communications that exclusively honour outstanding achievements in online communication. There are 38 award categories that cover all disciplines from social media communications to digital public affairs and explore the full range of the profession, providing a comprehensive look at exemplary best cases.
In its third year, almost 600 applications from 38 countries were submitted for the Digital Communication Awards, and we all presented our digital communication projects and campaigns to an international jury. Unfortunately, due to a series of unfortunate events, I was unable to showcase my work in the way I would have wanted to.
However, overall it was a great experience and I can’t thank Quadriga University enough for their kind invitation and impeccable hosting. Meeting a “jury of legends” -as they were called in my head- was humbling and thrilling at the same time. A massive thank you should also go to Northumberland & Monmouthshire County Councils, as well as many UK PR professionals who contributed to my research.
The gala ceremony was hosted at Berlin’s Meistersaal. Stars like David Bowie, U2 and Depeche Mode once turned the stunning Meistersaal into a modern legend. The charming presenter Hadnet Tesfai led through the evening, making every winner feel comfortable on stage and the show unforgettable. The event itself was a great opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people within the PR and Communications industry from around the world and talk about their work and their -shortlisted or winning- campaigns.
The experience of joining the Awards this year benefitted me more on an academic level- a few days after the ceremony, I was contacted by a person working on a project in the Energy Sector of US Government, interesting in my research. In my opinion, sharing best practice is one of the best things that one can do, that is why I was not only flattered but truly interested in helping. Digital media strategies in the public -and energy sector- is a very intriguing matter and to see more and more people looking into it is a massive step forward. As an extension to this, I was also invited to speak to a conference in Canada next year, and hopefully I will be able to share some information in the immediate future.
Going back to the event, do I wish I’ve done certain things differently? Every day. Would I do it again? Absolutely. And better.
For more information on the awards, you can visit http://www.digital-awards.eu/.
You can download the complete list of the winners 2013 here.
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Facebook versus Twitter in the public sector
Maria Loupa has created this insightful infographic exploring the use of Facebook and Twitter in the public sector as a means for Councils to connect directly with their audiences. It is based on her experience working in various local authority roles in the UK.
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The infographic was created using easel.ly. Its a neat cloud based service for building online graphics.
Maria Loupa is a communications intern at Northumberland County Council. She is a highly motivated communications practitioner and advocate of social media as a means of audience engagement. You can connect with her via her blog Tales from the North East, LinkedIn or Twitter @mpfalangi.
*As published in http://wadds.co.uk/2013/03/13/guest-post-facebook-versus-twitter-in-the-public-sector/
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Tips on social media for local government
In some cases local government and social media don’t mix. Many councils haven’t been actively using Facebook and Twitter and that has to change. It can be a long and complicated process. Here are some tips to get you started.
It is vital to understand that SM should form part of an overall comms plan
A comms strategy should be already in place and social media will be integrated gradually into it.
You need to comprehend the mentality behind each channel; each organisation is completely different and tools need to be customised to its needs. You need to experiment and see what works; different tools might apply to particular campaigns.
You need to consider your social media involvement carefully; once you decide to go for it, you have to go all the way.
As we recently heard from #RUDay ‘You can’t be half pregnant’. If you are not prepared to put the resource and effort behind social media, maybe it’s not for you. Lack of time shouldn’t be an excuse, as social media are gradually becoming part of the press office duties at the very least. Tweetdeck, Sendible and the likes can be used to schedule posts.
Don’t forget that social media channels have to run as a constant campaign, which is occasionally customised to each project’s purposes; messages have to be consistent and coherent and a combination of the tools helps achieve best results.
There has to be at least one devoted social media person able to understand how social media work, and you might want to start considering implementing a social media policy or guidelines for the rest of the staff as well.
Tweets and posts can for sure be deleted, but once they go live they can be retweeted and shared, and there’s no recovering them. Also, people respond best to authentic communication; so it’s advisable to use a more personal tone even on official profiles- in moderation-.
Keep in mind that it is best not to have more than 3 accounts in each channel because it will be hard to keep them regularly updated, plus it will confuse people and discourage them from using them
Evaluation and measurement
Evaluation is part of the planning procedure; what is the point of implementing a strategy if you can’t measure whether it’s effective or not? The key principles of social media presence are: Listen, Measure Understand and Engage, and you will definitely need an evaluation and measurement tool to follow them. The list is endless, you just have to find which one works for your organisation: Google analytics, Tweetstats, Backtype, Nearbytweets Netvibes Social Oomph, Radian6, Sprout social, Hoot suite, Google Insights, Social Mention, Sysomos… even Facebook Insights can get you started!
Most of them can produce reports, conduct comparison with competitors, search conversation history, etc. and give the opportunity to:
i. check the competition- see how other councils are doing; there is hardly any virgin birth anymore, so why not see what worked best for someone else and give it a try.
ii. Monitor conversations about your council; what is your audience and what do they say about you? You could even use Twitter’s much under-estimated Search feature for that.- Understand your audience in order to be able to engage with them effectively.
Works best to promote future events/announcements, as it allows more long-term involvement on thread.
Competitions/surveys are also most effective on Facebook, as it allows for more visual elements; an image is more powerful and will generate much more click-troughs than plain text.
The first few lines are the most important ones; hook your audience, use capitals, slogans & abbreviations if necessary to keep their attention and click through to read more. If you are including a link (esp. to link back to your website or your other social media channels), make sure it’s within these lines.
If the link is too long or confusing use a Bitlly or Tinyurl to shorten links and make them more memorable. Customising links will make evaluation easier too as they can be better used by the relevant tools; by allowing you to access analytics and see how many people are clicking on your links. This is information that you often wouldn’t have access to when posting links on social channels.
4. There is a time and a place for everything. Avoid posting to Facebook after 8 p.m. and before 8 a.m., and on the weekend.
Links posted from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. result in the highest average click through, with the peak time of the week being Wednesday at 3 p.m.
5. Communicate information without spamming; the last thing people want is log on to Facebook to find an endless line of posts from the council on their Timeline; they will most likely either unlike the page or they can now customise their settings to hide updates from your pages.
For Twitter:
The old KISS rule applies (Keep it short and sweet) – Tweets must be under 140 characters, however try and keep it around 120/125 to allow for re-tweets.
Use abbreviations where possible to avoid wasting characters- use figures and symbols where possible.
Sometimes grammatical sins have to be committed, but due to the nature of the organisation they have to be kept at a minimum- opt for most widely used abbreviations instead of making new ones up!
Twitter works best with real time events/announcements and a more Q & A approach, and can be very effective to start conversations and initiate two-way communication. Since it is by nature much faster paced than Facebook, it is possible for people to skim past tweets and miss them. In order to tackle that and remind to your audience of an event, it is advisable to tweet about it multiple times with slight word variations but in moderation- avoid spamming.
3. Use dedicated hash tags for specific campaigns, or whenever you consider it appropriate, in order to increase the visibility of your tweets
4. Part of Twitter savoir-faire- If you retweet someone, add RT; if you RT and edit it change the RT to MT
5. The best time to post to Twitter is in the afternoon, early in the week—from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.The peak traffic times, are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Thursday.
Last but not least, both Facebook and Twitter can be used to drive traffic to the website and as excellent customer service tool.
Any feedback or additional thoughts will not just be welcome but appreciated!
Maria Loupa is comms intern at Northumberland County Council.
*As published in http://twoheads.squarespace.com/comms2point0/2012/12/20/tips-on-social-media-for-local-government.html
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Holocaust Essay
The Holocaust was considered in history to be the most horrifying and inhuman period. Adolf Hitler, a charismatic, Austrian-born demagogue, rose to power in Germany during the 1920s and early 1930s at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval. Failing to take power by force in 1923, he eventually won power by democratic means. Once in power, he eliminated all opposition and launched an ambitious program of world domination. He knew he had to restore Germany back to its'greatness' and bring the pride of being German back to its people.It seemed Hitler had a motive against the Jewish people from the very beginning. Such evidence is shown in his writings of Mein Kampf, which he wrote while in prison. In Mein Kampf, there are dozens of passages that vilify and demonize the Jews such as:
"Was there any excrement, any shamelessness in any form, above all in cultural life, in which at least one Jew would not have been involved? As soon as one even carefully cut into such an abscess, one found, like maggots in a decaying body, often blinded by the sudden light, a kike".
These strong words by Hitler caused an extreme hatred in the Nazis who harassed and brutalized the Jews throughout the 1920s during the “struggle for power.”However many questions arise about why it was the Jewish people that were targeted by Hitler and the German people and when the holocaust initially started. This paper will discuss evidence relating to how Hitler and his followers favored and supported the start of the holocaust.
Where did such hate for a race of people initially begin? Few people might say that it just happened, others might say it was lingering in the background waiting to come out. Whatever the case was the Jews were a group of people that experienced hard and brutal times. The hate for the Jewish race is detected early and associated with the threat of Bolshevism invading Germany. Hitler makes it clear that the…
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How America Can Eat Better
April 5, 2009 – 1:47 PM – 0 Comments
Every Friday, Matt Kinsch leaves for work early to go food shopping. He doesn’t have to travel far: On the sidewalk in front of the Oakland, Calif., hospital where he works, a farmers’ market is under way. One man sells organic strawberries just picked that morning, next door a woman piles cucumbers high on a table. “Since I began shopping for vegetables at the farmers’ market here last August, I’v e lost close to 63 pounds,” says Kinsch, a 53-year-old building engineer. “I used to eat a lot of takeout and pizza. Now, I’ll mix up some kohlrabi and eggplant.”
That’s exactly what Kaiser Permanente hoped would happen when it opened the market outside its hospital in 2003.
Across the country, leading health-care professionals—as well as educators, lawmakers, and activists—are encouraging better food choices. They’re convinced by research showing that five or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day can lower the risk of developing some of the biggest killers in America—obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. In the last six years, Kaiser Permanente’s associate physician-in-chief, Preston Maring, has helped to coordinate farmers’ markets at more than 30 hospital locations.
On the East Coast, Harvard Medical School has set up a cooking program for doctors at the Culinary Institute of America. Similarly, a coalition called Health Care Without Harm is helping hospitals “green” up their food services by buying local produce.
The Obama Administration has made healthy eating a priority as well, committing $3.2 million to promoting “specialty crops” that include fruits and vegetables. It has also introduced the People’s Garden Project, which will create a sustainable community garden at the USDA headquarters in D.C.
The idea is that if garden-grown produce becomes more readily available, Americans just might learn to love vegetables. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study tracked more than a million Americans between 1994 and 2005 and found that fewer than one in four were eating fruits and vegetables five times a day, as recommended, and that consumption of fruits and vegetables actually had declined.
“We think we are eating healthier because we are buying foods with added omega-3s or probiotics,” says Harry Balzer, chief industry analyst at NPD Group, a market-research firm. Balzer has authored the annual Eating Patterns in America report for 23 years. “But this is a 180-degree shift from a few years ago, when the trend was to decrease the harmful, such as fat or sodium. Remember, a 1200-calorie burrito, even if it is made with free-range chicken and hormone-free sour cream, is still a 1200-calorie burrito.”
To help people get a better grasp of calories, New York City passed a law last year requiring all restaurants with more than 15 U.S. outlets to include calorie labeling on their menus. California and cities including Philadelphia have followed suit.
Increased awareness of healthful eating—and access to fresh foods—already has led to wellness for at least one state. According to the American Public Health Association, the Partnership for Prevention, and the United Health Foundation, Vermont is the country’s healthiest state. While many factors likely affect this ranking, experts say it’s no coincidence that the per capita consumption of vegetables in Vermont is higher than almost anywhere else in the nation.
“There’s a revolution going on,” says Tom Stearns, president of the Center for an Agricultural Economy, in Hardwick, Vt. In the past few years, this former mining town has been transformed, thanks to the growth of cooperatives that connect individuals, restaurants, schools, and food banks to locally grown produce. The Hardwick model is being introduced around the nation now. Stearns has been invited to speak to rural communities from Florida to Colorado.
“Our goal is to create healthy people and healthy communities,” Stearns says. And it all starts with vegetables.
Lisa Gosselin is the editorial director of “EatingWell” magazine.
Ringo Starr on Peace & Love, Sobriety and His All-Time Favorite Beatles Song, Plus an Exclusive Video Revealing His Secret to Staying Upbeat
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Sir Salman Rushdie: ‘Want beautiful women? Pay them lots of money’
Graeme GreenTuesday 12 Oct 2010 1:38 pm
Salman Rushdie, author of Midnight’s Children, talks about his children enjoying his books, the force of religion and tips for getting beautiful women.
Sir Salman Rushdie: Any pulling tips? Pay them lots of money (Pic: AFP/Getty)
What does the ‘Booker of Bookers’ prize look like?
It’s a block of red plastic mounted on a piece of perspex. It’s, um, let’s say it’s a piece of Pop Art.
How do your children feel to have a Booker prize-winner’s books written for them?
They don’t see me as a Booker prize-winner, they see me as Dad. I’m just relieved they like them. In both cases, I didn’t show anybody else until I knew they had passed that important test.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just take them to KFC or Laser Quest?
Oh no. There’s obviously a challenge to write a book your children will like. These books are so personal – they have a very special place for me.
Do you have to change how you write for young people?
Children’s books these days take on all kinds of dark materials: delinquency, violence, drug-taking, sexual abuse. In that sense, these books are really quite innocent. The secret was to find this fable-like language. It’s a way of speaking quite simply but saying things which are not necessarily simple. After that, you don’t have to make a lot of compromises to write for children.
You write a lot about fables, myths and magic, rather than real life. What’s the appeal?
If you grow up in India, you grow up surrounded by magic being a normal aspect of literature. You realise that kind of writing is just as capable of getting to serious, truthful human realities as realistic writing is. You can take a photograph of a starry night – it doesn’t look like Van Gogh’s painting but they’re both vivid ways of depicting a starry night. I’d say I’m closer to Van Gogh’s way of looking at things than a photographer’s.
A Japanese translator was murdered and a Norwegian publisher shot after The Satanic Verses. Do you have any regrets about publishing it?
wish those things hadn’t happened. But I’m as proud of it as I am of any of my books. Twenty-two years after it came out, people can read it as a novel and decide if they like it or don’t like it. I’m happy it’s reached that point.
How important is it that freedom of speech is protected?
Any writer would say it has to be a major issue because you can’t do your work if you don’t have that freedom. A carpenter couldn’t make a table with one arm tied behind his back.
Have things got better or worse since The Satanic Verses?
I think they’ve got worse, actually. People are more frightened now. Writers and artists are very strong-minded people, and are pretty determined to say their piece and express themselves. That will continue. The battle between art and power is not new. It’s not going to go away. I can’t see defeat. But I think eternal vigilance is important – you lose freedoms you don’t fight for.
You previously wrote ‘religion is coming after us all’. What did you mean?
We’re living in a period when religion is very politicised. Religion is, to my mind, unexceptional when it’s in the private sphere – that’s their business. But when it becomes a public force, it becomes everybody’s business. It’s not just Islam. If you’re in the US, you understand the force of conservative Christianity in that country. In India, you see how violently radical aspects of certain sections of the Hindu religion are becoming. This is trans-cultural and not unique to any religion. What does seem to be of our time is the militancy of religious groups and their willingness to be violent in defence of what they see as their ideology.
How do you always manage to have a beautiful young woman on your arm?
I pay them lots of money.
Any pulling tips?
Pay them lots of money.
Are they interested in your brains or beauty?
Oh, it’s my devastating good looks.
Luka And The Fire Of Life by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape) is out now.
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Life Is Strange: Episode 4 review – Dark Room
David JenkinsTuesday 28 Jul 2015 12:01 am
Life Is Strange: Episode 4 – hopefully it all ends well
The penultimate episode of the year’s best story-based game sees the plot thicken and the end of the world grow ever closer…
The two month wait for each episode of Life Is Strange seems to get longer every time, as the mysteries of Arcadia Bay deepen alongside our empathy for the two main characters. But we’re also desperate for all five episodes to be released so that we can finally give an overall verdict for the whole season, which up till now we’ve considered to be one of the best storytelling experiences of the last several years. But we’re now reminded of why we’re waiting for them all to be out: there’s no guarantee things will end as well as they started.
We can’t say we really understand what the problem is, but there’s obviously some intrinsic difficulty with making the penultimate episode of an episodic adventure. For many of Telltale’s games it’s always the worst episode of the season, despite them all telling very different stories with completely different characters. There’s even less similarity between Life Is Strange and anything else and yet it suffers from very familiar problems: too much waffle and not enough action.
Not action in the traditional sense you understand, Life Is Starnge is not that sort of game, but we can’t help thinking that the events of this episode could’ve been condensed into less than an hour of story. And that’s despite the fact that, at more than four hours long, Episode 4 is twice the length of any of the previous downloads.
At this point in the story there’s obviously very little we can say about the plot without spoiling everything, so we’ll just recap the basics and point you to our reviews of Episode 1, Episode 2, and Episode 3. You play as a geeky photography student called Max, who has discovered she has the ability to rewind time. How and why she gained this ability has not yet been explained, but at this point Max’s goals are three-fold: to ensure a vision of her coastal town being wiped out by a tornado don’t come to pass, to help her wastrel friend Chloe get her life back together, and to discover the fate of Chloe’s missing friend Rachel.
If you played the last episode you’ll know it ended with a pretty shocking cliffhanger, as Max’s attempts to travel further back in time failed to have the positive effects she’d hoped for. It was a great way to end the last episode but unfortunately developer Dontnod seem to have no idea what to do afterwards. Episode 4 spends the first hour of its running time very slowly labouring its point, and adding absolutely nothing to the wider story.
There are a couple of very interesting moral dilemmas that are thrown up, one of which is extremely daring for a video game to explore, but both are handled in a very perfunctory way and, as far as we can judge without playing the final episode, have no effect on the rest of the plot.
And that may be the key problem, because we’re so deep into the season now that there’s every chance we’re playing along a very different set of plot threads to most others. Because if there’s one thing Episode 4 does excel at, it’s proving just how much better Dontnod are at branching story paths than Telltale.
Just a single encounter, with drug dealer Frank, has a bewildering number of outcomes depending on the choices you’ve made up to that point and the decisions you make while talking to him. The developer sent us a little diagram to illustrate all the various options and the amount of possible inputs and outputs is hugely impressive. The only problem though, is that the actual discussion is incredibly dull. And unfortunately the same is true of many of this episode’s big set piece moments.
Life Is Strange: Episode 4 – Max is not at full power
Despite the presentation of its story Life Is Strange’s main problem has always been its clunky script, and in this episode it finally collapses under the sheer weight of dialogue sequences that go nowhere and have you screaming at the that TV to, ‘Get on with it!’ Previously we criticised the game’s simplistic attempts to add puzzle style gameplay but in this episode it barely ever bothers, which only throws the often risible dialogue into even sharper focus.
There is at least a fairly gripping cliffhanger at the end of the episode, even if it’s not as imaginative and unexpected as some of the others. But it’s not just that this episode is the least accomplished so far, but that it’s also the point at which the game stopped becoming more interesting with each new download. But we’re still as keen as ever to see how it all ends, especially as we know how personalised it will be to us and the decisions we’ve made.
Life Is Strange: Episode 4
In Short: A hugely disappointing penultimate episode, but if you enjoyed the first three it’s still nowhere near enough to put you off from following things through to the end.
Pros: The branching story paths are far more complex than any similar game and some decisions are real moral quandaries. The primary voice cast are great, despite issues with some of the bit players.
Cons: The pacing slows to a crawl for the majority of the episode, with half as much happening over twice as long a running time. Clunky dialogue buckles under the pressure.
Formats: PlayStation 4 (reviewed), Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and PC
Price: £3.99 (£15.99 for all five episodes)
Developer: Dontnod
Release Date: 28th July 2015
Age Rating: 16
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„In most EU member countries, Google controls more than 90 percent of the search market.”
„In most EU member countries, Google controls more than 90 percent of the search market. Sometimes, it controls much more”
Quelle: The Atlantic, 2015
Admittedly, the article “Europeans Use Google Way, Way More Than Americans Do” is a bit older. However, Robinson Meyer describes very well the situation of search engine use in Europe. Since 2015 this has not changed significantly.
„In most EU member countries, Google controls more than 90 percent of the search market. Sometimes, it controls much more: In Belgium, Germany, and Finland, it can claim more than 97 percent of all search engine use, according to a 2010 report by marketing research firm PTG Media.
By some measures, that’s some 30 percent more of the search market than Google controls in its home country. Estimates about Google market share in the United States put it between 67 and 75 percent of the search market.”
Full article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/europeans-use-google-way-way-more-than-americans-do/390612/
6. April 2015 /by Open Search Foundation
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YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD, ONE INTERACTION AT A TIME
Did you hear about the police officer who got caught on video playing with dolls?
If you didn’t, you missed a heartwarming story.
It goes something like this: Corporal C.B. Fleming — a 15-year veteran of the South Hill, Virginia Police Department — responded to a report of a gas leak at an apartment complex. Once first responders determined that the area was safe, Fleming took the opportunity to play with some of the neighborhood children.
Video footage shows Fleming laying on his stomach on the ground, playing dolls and talking with two young girls.
The woman who captured the video (identified as the mother and aunt of the two girls) lauded Fleming as a community “superhero” who took the time to help the children feel safe by interacting with them in a positive way (Fleming could also be seen in the video coloring with sidewalk chalk and talking with two young boys).
Fleming, of course, said he was just doing what he should.
“When I got into this job, I knew there was something different, other than just writing tickets and being the bad person all the time … I figured if I could be that bright spot in someone’s day, then that’s all that mattered.”
Fleming said he hopes his actions, and those of his fellow police officers, will lead to real change in police and community relations. In fact, according to his police chief, Fleming was doing what comes naturally for him – building authentic relationship with people in the community where he serves.
Can you imagine what would happen in our world, if each of us strived to be “that bright spot in someone’s day” and worked to build authentic relationship with the people we encounter each day?
5 responses to “YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD, ONE INTERACTION AT A TIME”
Lori buonauro opa says:
Such a good reminder that we’re all in this together! Thanks Colette
Thank you, Collette, for this reflection of an officer who saw God’s beauty in these children.
Cecelia O'Brien says:
My dad was a Policeman and was so good to children. Thank you for that story. Bunny O’Brien, OPA,ct
Jan Wilson OPA says:
Thanks Colette for sharing this story – certainly an example for all of us.
Lina Cárdenas, OPA says:
What a beautiful thing that would be indeed. As a community who strives for peace, we model for others by simply being civil, offering greetings, smiling, and helping others and our larger communities happily and willingly. Thank you Colette. You always leave me feeling better.
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Anglo-Saxon aid – a poisoned chalice?
Theresa sent news reported by Francis Elliott, Political Editor of the Times. A template for reform of aid spending has been drawn up by Tobias Ellwood, Mr Cameron’s envoy to Nato, who points out:
“Considering the financial pressure the MoD is under it makes sense to utilise funds earmarked for ODA spend, where of course it is permitted, which are currently sitting in the DfID”.
This news paled into insignificance when Mark sent news of the Obama government’s attempted subversion of Cuban society – no doubt hoping for a ‘Cuban spring’.
The Obama government’s USAID attempted subversion of Cuban society
It was first reported by Associated Press, ‘the world’s oldest and largest newsgathering organization’: “The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) masterminded the creation of a “Cuban Twitter,” a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks . . .
World News Network graphic
“The project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. Its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency with ties to the State Department, nor that American contractors were gathering personal data about them. In 2012, the text messaging service vanished as mysteriously as it appeared”.
According to documents obtained by the Associated Press and multiple interviews with people involved in the project:
“When the network reached a critical mass of subscribers, perhaps hundreds of thousands, operators would introduce political content aimed at inspiring Cubans to organize “smart mobs” — mass gatherings called at a moment’s notice that might trigger a Cuban Spring, or, as one USAID document put it, renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society”.
It was reported that this project was carried out by a high-tech team, directed by Joe McSpedon who worked for USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI). OTI was created after the fall of the Soviet Union to promote U.S. interests in quickly changing political environments — without the usual red tape. The team of contractors set up servers in Spain and Ireland to process texts, contracting an independent Spanish company called Lleida.net to send the text messages back to Cuba, while stripping off identifying data.
In 2011, the State Department’s Secretary Hillary Clinton thought social media was an important tool in diplomacy. At George Washington University, she said the U.S. helped people in “oppressive Internet environments get around filters.” In Tunisia, she said people used technology to “organize and share grievances, which, as we know, helped fuel a movement that led to revolutionary change.”
Josefina Vidal, director of U.S. affairs at Cuba’s Foreign Ministry, commented that the ZunZuneo program “shows once again that the United States government has not renounced its plans of subversion against Cuba, which have as their aim the creation of situations of destabilization in our country to create changes in the public order and toward which it continues to devote multimillion-dollar budgets each year.” Many will heartily agree with her restrained conclusion:
“The government of the United States must respect international law and the goals and principles of the United Nations charter and, therefore, cease its illegal and clandestine actions against Cuba, which are rejected by the Cuban people and international public opinion”.
Posted in Corporate political nexus, Democracy undermined, Media, Parliamentary failure, Planning, Secret State, Taxpayers' money
Tags: Associated Press, Cuban Spring, David Cameron, DFID, Hillary Clinton, Illegal actions against Cuba, Joe McSpedon, MoD, ODA, Revolutionary change, Subversion, The Tribune, United Nations charter, US State Department, USAID, ZunZuneo program
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David Adam Byrnes
https://www.davidadambyrnes.com
Country Music has been all that David Adam Byrnes has ever known. One of his earliest memories is attending a George Strait concert and really hearing a George Strait song for the first time. From that day forward, he would always take his cowboy hat to school; earning him the nickname of “George Strait” amongst his peers. In fact, Byrnes spent his final night of high school, on the stage opening up for the legendary Hank Williams, Jr.
After high school graduation, Byrnes packed his bags and headed to Nashville, TN. “I got there and to be honest with you, I was a little cocky,” he says with a laugh. “But I quickly learned the road to stardom was going to have a few more miles on it than I had planned”.
After many nights in Broadway Honky Tonks, Byrnes signed a publishing/artist development deal and found himself writing with songwriters such as: Josh Thompson, Chris Young and Billy Montana. In 2011, after building enough material Byrnes’ released his 1st album “Premium Country”. The debut single from the record “Sweet Distraction” reached Top 20 on The Music Row Country Breakout Chart and Top 65 on Billboard Country Airplay.
Byrnes has had traveled the country and opened for artists like: Chris Stapleton, Eric Church, Cody Johnson, Aaron Watson, Joe Nichols, Josh Abbott Band and many others.
With a brand new single called “Beer Bucket List” produced by Texas Troubadour Trent Wilmon, David Adam Byrnes is bringing traditional country music back one song at a time.
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Eric B and Rakim
July 278:30 pm
The Fillmore Charlotte, 1000 North Carolina Music Factory Boulevard, Charlotte, NC, 2827328206 + Google Map
Eric B and Rakim are coming to the Fillmore July 27th. Doors open at 7:30p and showtime is at 8:30p
In the history of hip-hop, few artists have had as great an impact on the development and progression of the art form as Eric B and Rakim. Universally referenced as one of the most influential DJ and MC duos and an inspiration to peers and followers alike, the group first exploded onto the scene with the release of iconic Eric B. is President in 1986. The single marked a turning point in the rap world – raising the bar for future artists and revolutionizing the way beats are constructed and rhymes are delivered to this day. No serious discussion of the music’s greatest performers is held without a deferential accounting of their achievements, and no serious rap artist takes the stage without channeling some of their legend.
The New York natives soon followed with Paid In Full, a transformative collection of funk and soul driven tracks which MTV among countless others have titled “The Greatest HipHop Album of All Time.” Overlaying beats born from the hard-hitting samples of James Brown, Bobby Byrd and countless R&B and jazz greats with an effortless flow of street wise but intricately conscious lyrics, the duo elevated the expanded the sound of hip-hop into what would quickly become a global phenomenon. Beyond the studio, Eric B and Rakim surrounded themselves with street authenticity and developed an envied and emulated fashion sense that equaled the braggadocio of their music. The Dapper Dan styles and Dookie gold chains they wore were captured in photos and films for later designers and artists to revere and reference.
After 6 years and 4 albums selling in the millions, Eric and Rakim parted for what was initially a hiatus to pursue solo projects but became a decades long split. Now, 30 years after their iconic first release and 25 years passing since their last national tour, Eric B and Rakim have reunited to celebrate the technique that transformed hip-hop and bring the music, style and spectacle they created to once again energize the culture.
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Add Mendelssohn to favorites
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was one of the greatest and most versatile prodigies in 19th century Western music. His music reflects both Classicism and Romanticism, coming from the generation of German composers shortly after Beethoven’s time. His musical style draws upon diverse influences, particularly the complex chromatic counterpoint of Bach, the clarity and sophistication of forms of Mozart and the drama and power of Beethoven.
Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, the pre-eminent Jewish philosopher of the Enlightenment in Germany, who campaigned for the religious tolerance of German Jews. Mendelssohn’s father Abraham set up a bank with his brother in 1804 and in the same year married Lea Solomon, the daughter of another Jewish banker. Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg in 1809, one of four children. In March 1816, the Mendelssohn children were secretly baptised as Protestant and eventually the parents also converted to Protestantism as a result of increasing religious intolerance. Abraham and Lea added the name ‘Bartholdy’ as a way to distinguish the family from other Mendelssohns. Bartholdy was not Lea’s surname, but the name of a farm that belonged to members of her family.
The Mendelssohn-Bartholdys were a prominent, well-educated family and the children were raised without religious education. Although young Felix Mendelssohn and his older sister showed talent early on, his parents never sought to exploit or capitalise on their talent. Mendelssohn’s early musical education was overseen by his mother, a decent amateur pianist. In 1816 the family visited Paris and Mendelssohn and his older sister took lessons from Marie Bigot, whose playing had been praised by Haydn and Beethoven. By 1818 he had finished elementary school and his father arranged private tuition for him. He began learning piano with Ludwig Berger and the following year started violin with the court violinist C. W. Henning, music theory with Zelter and a general education with Karl Ludwig Heyse, in which he showed academic brilliance. He joined the chorus of the Berlin Singakademie with his sister, where they encountered instrumental works byHandel and Bach. The Singakademie was founded in order to preserve 18th century sacred choral music, particularly that ofBach.
In 1825, the same year that the family moved into the mansion belonging to his mother’s side of the family on Leipzigerstrasse in Berlin, 16-year old Mendelssohn completed his famous Octet op. 20. Dedicated to his friend the violinist Eduard Rietz, it is his indisputable masterpiece. A year later, Mendelssohn completed the concert overture ofA Midsummer Night’s Dream, which was premiered privately at the Mendelssohn residence. The house had become a rich cultural centre for an ever increasing social circle of poets, philosophers, scientists and musicians. The Irish writer and critic George Bernard Shaw describedA Midsummer Night’s Dream as ‘the most striking example of a very young composer astonishing the world by a musical style at once fascinating, original and perfectly new’.
Mendelssohn made a trip to England and Scotland in 1829. He first arrived in London on the 21st of April and made private piano performances at soirées and gatherings. A month later, he conducted the English premiere of his Symphony in C minor, conducting from the piano. On midsummer day of that year, the 24th of June, he conducted the overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which was faced with immensely positive reviews. Together with Klingemann, he departed for Edinbrugh, arriving on July 26 for a walking tour of Scotland. They visited the Highlands, Oban, where they could look out at the Hebrides, Fingal’s Cave on the Island of Staffa, the equally remote island of Iona, and finally Glasgow. This remarkable trip inspired him to composerDer Hebriden. Mendelssohn also visited Wales, staying with John Taylor, the owner of lead mines, which inspired him to write the Reformation Symphony, which he finished in May of the following year.
In November 1830, he arrived in Rome and composed various sacred works there, such asNon Nobis domine, op. 31, four more chorale cantatas, and two motets. There, he met Berlioz and they became friends, althoughBerlioz’s Symphony Fantastique was not to Mendelssohn’s taste. In Rome, Mendelssohn made the first draft of his Hebrides overture, inspired by his Scottish holiday, announced as a birthday present for his father on December 11. He also noted some ideas for his Scottish and Italian Symphonies.
On 9 December 1831 he arrived in Paris which overall, turned out to be an unhappy time for him. He found the musical style there to be rather contrived and his Reformation Symphony was was rejected before it could be performed. Moreover, he was becoming increasingly depressed by the death of his childhood friend, the violinist Eduard Rietz, for whom he composed a new slow movement for the String Quintet op.18, the Intermezzo. There was an outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Paris that year, which Mendelssohn contracted.
After he recovered from cholera, he travelled to London in April of 1832, where he performed his new compositions and enjoyed the English cultural life. His first volume ofLieder Ohne Worte, op. 19b, (Songs Without Words) was prepared to be published, as was the Hebrides Overture, which was finally premiered by the Philharmonic Society asThe Isles of Fingal.
On October 1st 1833, Mendelssohn was offered a three-year contract as the Dusseldorf music director, which included conducting the choral and orchestral societies and a three-month annual holiday. During his tenure there, he conducted Handel'sIsrael in Egypt for the visit of the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, as well asBeethoven's Egmont overture, Mozart's Die Zauberflote, Weber's Oberon.
In January 1835, he had the opportunity to conduct the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig for a handsome salary and an annual leave of six months. In the end of August of that year, he finally arrived to begin his new post, where he met Schumann, Chopin, Friedrich Wieck and his teenage daughter Clara. On the 13th of September 1835 Mendelssohn held his first rehearsal at the Gewandhaus as its new director, which was to be the beginning of a fruitful 12-year association with musical life in the city of Leipzig. His concert programming showed a preference for Mozart and Beethoven and consolidated the importance of German instrumental repertoire. He also held a concert series focusing on historical music, such as Bach and Handel. Leipzig became a haven for top performing artists such as pianists Franz Lizst and Ignaz Moscheles and the violinists Ole Bull and Ferdinand David as well as writers such as Hans Christian Andersen who often visited him there.
The 22nd of May 1835 was Pentecost Sunday and for the opening of the Niederrheinisches Musikfest in Dusseldorf, Mendelssohn's St. Paul was premiered. St. Paul was regarded as a very significant step in the revival of the oratorio and Mendelssohn was elevated to the status of one of Germany’s top musicians, which secured him international fame.
In 1846, Mendelssohn began his Elijah, finishing the orchestral score on the 11 th of August and first performed in Birmingham, England on the 26th of August.
Aged only 38, Mendelssohn died on the 4th of November 1847 after a series of strokes. He had left several works unpublished, such asSechs Lieder, op 71 and Sechs Kinderstucke, op. 72, Lauda Sion, op. 73 and Responsorium et Hymnus, op. 121. Already during his lifetime, he held a hugely significant position in the development of music and additionally he had considerable posthumous fame, with his death being announced as the ‘eclipse of music’.
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University of Michigan vs Airforce - Ann Arbor, MI
ANN ARBOR, MI - SEPTEMBER 16: College Football game between University of Michigan Wolverines and Air Force Falcons at Michigan Stadium on September 16, 2017 in Ann Arbor, MI
ANN ARBOR, MI - SEPTEMBER 16: College Football game between University of Michigan Wolverines and Air Force Falcons at Michigan Stadium on September 16, 2017 in Ann Arbor, MI (Photo by: Aaron J. / Digital Depictions)
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Jim Costa & Edward Royce
Compare the voting records of Jim Costa and Edward Royce in 2017-18.
Represented California's 16th Congressional District. This is his 7th term in the House.
Edward Royce
Represented California's 39th Congressional District. This is his 13th term in the House.
Jim Costa and Edward Royce are from different parties and disagreed on 56 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
June 8, 2018 — Making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes
Feb. 6, 2018 — Further Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018
Dec. 21, 2017 — Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign Authorization Act of 2017
March 1, 2017 — OIRA Insight, Reform, and Accountability Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Alaska Remote Generator Reliability and Protection Act
Nov. 14, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 6784, the Manage our Wolves Act; and providing for proceedings during the period from November 19, 2018, through November 26, 2018
Sept. 5, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1635) Empowering Students Through Enhanced Financial Counseling Act and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4606) Ensuring Small Scale LNG Certainty and Access Act
July 12, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6237) to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes
June 26, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; and the bill H.R. 2083, the Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act.
June 6, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 3249) Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program; providing for consideration of (H.R. 8) the Water Resources Development Act; and providing for consideration of (H.R. 5895) Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
May 23, 2018 — Amodei of Nevada Amendment No. 8
April 26, 2018 — Denham of California Part A Amendment No. 79
April 25, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 4, the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018; and providing for consideration of H.R. 3144, to provide for operations of the Federal Columbia River Power System pursuant to a certain operation plan for a specified period of time
Feb. 27, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4296) to place requirements on operational risk capital requirements for banking organizations established by an appropriate Federal banking agency, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4607) the Comprehensive Regulatory Review Act
Feb. 27, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1865), the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017
Nov. 8, 2017 — Rush of Illinois Amendment No. 4
Oct. 11, 2017 — Providing for consideration of S. 585, the Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017; providing for proceedings during the period from October 16, 2017, through October 20, 2017; and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules
Sept. 27, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 3823, Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017; and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules
July 28, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3180) Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2018; and providing for proceedings during the period from July 31, 2017, through September 4, 2017
July 24, 2017 — To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit an annual report regarding performance awards and bonuses awarded to certain high-level employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs
July 19, 2017 — Beyer of Virginia Part A Amendment No. 3
July 18, 2017 — Beyer of Virginia Amendment No. 3
July 18, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 806, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2017
July 13, 2017 — Rogers of Alabama Part B Amendment No. 88
June 22, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2842) to provide for the conduct of demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of subsidized employment for TANF recipients, and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules.
May 25, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Part B Amendment No. 1
May 24, 2017 — Huffman of California Amendment No. 2
May 24, 2017 — Esty of Connecticut Amendment No. 1
May 24, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 1973, Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse Act of 2017; providing for consideration of HR 1761, Protecting Against Child Exploitation Act of 2017; providing for proceedings during the period from May 26, 2017, through June 5, 2017
May 23, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H. R. 953, the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2017
May 3, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 244) to encourage effective, voluntary investments to recruit, employ, and retain men and women who have served in the United States military with annual Federal awards to employers recognizing such efforts, and for other purposes
April 28, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 99) making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes
April 5, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 1219, Supporting America’s Innovators Act of 2017
April 4, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 1343, the Encouraging Employee Ownership Act of 2017
March 28, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill H.R. 1430, the Honest and Open New EPA Science Treatment Act of 2017
March 10, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Part A Amendment No. 2
March 10, 2017 — Soto of Florida Part A Amendment No. 1
March 2, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Part A Amendment No. 1
March 1, 2017 — Raskin of Maryland Amendment No. 10
March 1, 2017 — Bonamici of Oregon Amendment No. 8
Feb. 28, 2017 — Krishnamoorthi of Illinois Amendment No. 7
Jan. 11, 2017 — Grijalva of Arizona Part A Amendment No. 14
Jan. 11, 2017 — Goodlatte of Virginia Part A Amendment No. 1
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London Rock Walks
beatlesinlondon@gmail.com
Rock and Roll London Walk
Chelsea Rock Walk
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60s Bus Tours
Swinging 60s London – Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Kings Road
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The Beatles In Chelsea
During the 1960s, the Chelsea area of London was the most fashionable, and proved to be a magnet for the rich and famous to live, shop and party. The Beatles were no exceptions. Here are some of the many places the Beatles frequented:
We go down the Kings Road on our Swinging 60s bus tour. For more info see http://www.60sbus.london
From this Spring, we will begin our new Chelsea Rock Walk http://londonrockwalks.com/chelsea-rock-walk/
Royal Court Hotel ( Now Sloane Square Hotel)
This four star hotel, right on fashionable Sloane Square, was the hotel of choice for the Beatles on their many trips to London from June 1962 to the summer of 1963.
They first came here on June 5th 1962, in preparation for their first recording session with George Martin at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, the following day.
Chelsea and the Kings Road was already a very fashionable area and the Beatles had time to explore the boutiques, restaurants and bars that attracted the rich and famous.
The Beatles returned to the Royal Court Hotel in early September 1962, when they recorded their first single, ‘Love Me Do’ at EMI.
By early 1963, the Beatles had become nationally famous, especially after ‘Please Please Me’ reached number one in the UK charts, and their trips to London had to become much more frequent. Another notable occasion was when they came down to record the Please Please Me LP. They arrived on February 10th, ready to record the album the next day. But, rather than rest up in preparation for the recording session, they did an extensive photo session with Cyrus Andrews, in the hotel and around Sloane Square. You can see photos from the session at http://www.multiplusbooks.com/630210.html
Ringo with a fan outside the Royal Court Hotel, early 1963
The Royal Court Hotel remained the Beatles London base until the summer of 1963, when they transferred to the President Hotel in Guilford Street, Bloomsbury.
102 Edith Grove
This was a student flat, rented by Mick Jagger, and also occupied by Keith Richards and Brian Jones. The Beatles saw the Rolling Stones play at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond on April 14th 1963, and the Stones invited the Beatles back to their digs for a party afterwards. The flat was a typical student pad, and hadn’t been cleaned for months. However, the Beatles probably didn’t mind, because compared to their former digs, behind a filthy cinema in Hamburg, Edith Grove seemed like luxury! Despite the rivalry between their fans, the Beatles and the Stones remained friends throughout their careers.
Penny Lane in the Kings Road!
John Lennon came to the Kings Road in February 1967 – to shoot a scene for the Beatles ‘Penny Lane’ video! He was filmed walking past Markham Square, near Mary Quant’s ‘Bazaar’ boutique.
Chelsea Manor Studios 1-11 Flood Street
Chelsea Manor Studios opened in 1902, and has been used by artists, photographers and writers. It’s most famous photo session took place here on March 30th 1967, when the Beatles came here to have their picture taken for the cover of their new album ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.
The Beatles arrived in the late afternoon for the album cover shoot, which was devised by an amalgamation of talent. Art-directed by Robert Fraser, designed by Peter Blake and his then wife Jann Haworth, and photographed by Michael Cooper. The look of the album, the colourful collage of life-sized cardboard models depicting more than 70 famous people on the front of the album cover and lyrics printed on the back cover, was the first time this had been done on an English pop LP.
For more on the album cover shoot, see http://www.thebeatles.com/photo-album/making-cover-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band
Chelsea Manor Studios now holds luxury apartments.
A certain well known album cover
Granny Takes a Trip – 488 Kings Road
‘Granny’ was opened by Nigel Waymouth, his girlfriend Sheila Cohen and John Pearse, after looking for an outlet for Sheila’s collection of antique clothes. The premises had been acquired in 1965 and opened in December after Pearse, who was a Savile Row-trained tailor, agreed to join them. Waymouth came up with the curious name and the boutique was featured in the famous ‘London – the Swinging City’ issue of ‘Time’ Magazine. Around the same time, Nigel Waymouth began to design posters and record covers under the name Hapshash and the Coloured Coat with fellow artist, Michael English. Their posters were used exclusively to pubicise concerts at the Savile Theatre, which was owned by Brian Epstein.
All of the The Beatles are known to have shopped here, along with their wives and girlfriends.
It was, however, more famous for its external appearance(s), including the 1966 mural of a native American chief and the 1967 ‘Jean Harlow’ mural. Most famous of all is probably the 1948 Dodge saloon car which appeared to have crashed through the wall and onto the forecourt. The car was also subjected to colour makeovers – canary yellow and, most memorably, in black and gold with glittering stars. The Dodge feature was kept after the sale of the shop in 1969 until complaints from the local authorities forced its removal in 1971. The clothes, though of very high quality, were very high-priced and tended to attract an ‘elite’ clientele, which just added to its legendary status. . Pearse was unhappy with the increasingly ‘hippie’ image of the shop and eventually they ended up selling the business in 1969. The London premises at 488 closed in 1974, the name being sold to Byron Hector who opened a shop under the same name elsewhere on Kings Road, eventually closing in 1979.
Granny Takes a Trip 2
Club Dell’ Aretusa 107 Kings Rd
Opened by famed restauranteur Alvaro Maccioni, who teamed up with Apicella and Mino Parlanti (owner of the equally celebrated Borgo San Frediano) to open Club dell’Aretusa, a large members-only bar/restaurant/disco on the King’s Road. “Are you one of the beautiful people?” demanded Angus McGill’s double-page feature in the Evening Standard. “Simple test: Can you get in to the Dell’Aretusa?”
On May 22nd 1968, John Lennon and George Harrison attended a party here to launch ‘Apple Tailoring’ which was opening just down the road at 161 Kings Road. George was with his wife Pattie, but John was with his new girlfriend, Yoko Ono. They had got together just a few days earlier, and this was their first public appearance together, much to the interest of the gathered media, who kept on asking John ‘Where’s your wife?’ Ironically, George Harrison wore a jacket which he bought from rival clothes shop, Granny Takes a Trip (see above!)
George and Pattie Harrison walking to Apple Tailoring
John and Yoko walking down the Kings Road
Apple Tailoring (Civil and Theatrical) 161 Kings Road
Apple Tailoring, which opened on May 23rd 1968, was the latest addition to the Beatles growing Apple group of companies – they already had a boutique on Baker Street.
The Beatles had known the shop for a while. Before their involvement, it was called Dandie Fashions. ‘Dandie Fashions’ was the brainchild of John Crittle. He arrived from Australia around 1964, and it didn’t take John long to get himself established amongst London’s young and hip in-crowd. A fortunate turn of events landed John his first real employment was at ‘Hung On You’at 22 Cale Street, Chelsea, just off the Kings Road. It later became Jane Asher’s Cake Shop. It later relocating to 420 King’s Road. John was a designer and a fabric locator Owner Michael Rainey was an already recognised aristocrat amongst the ‘Chelsea set’. This was expanded upon when he got together with, and married, London socialite, Jane Ormsby-Gore. It didn’t take that long before the intimidating ‘Hung On You’ became the shop of the stars. Rainey himself recalls: “When The Beatles and The Who started to visit my boutique, I knew we’d made it.”
John Crittle decided to set up his own boutique, and started ‘Dandie Fashion’ at 161 Kings Road in October 1966. He also managed to secure the ‘Foster and Tara’ clothing designers for the business. Tara Browne was a well-known socialite amongst the in-crowd – being the heir to the Guinness fortune. Tara was interested in making his own way in the world, and when he moved from Ireland to London he also fell in with the young and hip from the arts and entertainment worlds. His interest in men’s clothing led him to starting up his own tailoring company, ‘Foster and Tara’. Tara had many friends in rock and pop, including Brian Jones, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. It is said that Paul McCartney took his first LSD trip with Tara.
Tara Browne was killed in a car crash while on his way to meet the team of Dudley Edwards, Douglas Binder, and David Vaughan, to discuss the design for the shop front. Browne crashed his Lotus Elan into a van parked in Redcliffe Gardens, he swerved so that he took the impact rather than his girlfriend, Suki Potier. This incident will forever be immortalised in The Beatles’ song, ‘A Day In The Life’. Tara’s untimely death also inspired The Pretty Things’ song, ‘Death Of A Socialite’.
Tara Browne and wife Nicky, as photographed by Michael Cooper
After the death of Tara Browne, John Crittle kept Dandie Fashions going, and attracted the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Roger Daltrey and Brian Jones, who all often bought clothes there.
John Crittle was also friendly with the Beatles, and in May 1968, The Beatles went into partnership with Critte to form ‘Apple Tailoring’. The purpose of this shop was to offer the discerning male customer a bespoke service, rather than the ‘off-the-peg’ service that was available at the Baker Street location. As well as this bespoke service, the basement of 161 King’s Road became a hairdressing salon, which was run by Leslie Cavendish. Apple Tailoring lasted longer than the Baker Street boutique but it too closed its doors in 1968. Apple Corps decided to withdraw from High Street commerce and handed the business and all the stock over to John Crittle. Crittle’s daughter is Darcey Bussell, former prima ballerina with the Royal Ballet, and now judge on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
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Prime Minister Theresa May And Other Controversial Figures Set To Make Huge Profits From Cannabis Legislation.
Posted by Natasha in child welfare, Researching Reform
UK Government officials, including Prime Minister Theresa May, look set to make massive profits from legislation that will legalise cannabis for medicinal purposes. The case of 12 year old Billy Caldwell, who needs Cannabis oil to treat his epileptic seizures, made the headlines after the Home Office confiscated his medicine, and has reignited calls to legalise the class B drug in the UK.
The cannabis was taken from Billy’s parents at Heathrow Airport as the family returned from a trip to Canada, where the drug is cleared for medicinal use.
After the medicine was confiscated, Billy suffered two seizures that could not be controlled by any other medication and was driven to Chelsea and Westminster hospital by ambulance. The Home Office then decided to return the cannabis oil to the family, so that Billy could be treated. The reason for the government’s U-Turn on what has been a strictly enforced policy for decades, remains unclear. Other children with similar conditions to Billy’s in the UK have in the past been denied treatment with the drug.
Prime Minister Theresa May has now vowed to put legislation in place to make medicinal cannabis available to those who need it.
The government move, likely to have been years in the making, is not an altruistic one.
Prime Minister May’s husband’s company, Capital Group, is the largest investor in GW Pharmaceuticals, which has been mass producing cannabis in the UK, for the foreign market. GW chairman Geoffrey Guy is also a Conservative party donor.
A UN body report published in 2017 found the UK to be the world’s largest producer, and exporter, of legalised cannabis. The report confirms that the UK produced 95 tonnes of marijuana in 2016, accounting for almost 50% of the world total. It also exported 2.1 tonnes in that same year, which is around 70% of the world’s total. Several advocacy groups have called out the UK government on its production of cannabis, criticising it for its prolific output whilst banning the substance in its own country. Evidence exists which shows that the drug can relieve symptoms of multiple sclerosis, chemotherapy, glaucoma, and epilepsy in children.
The amount of cannabis seized in the UK every year, offers another incentive for the government to push on with legalising the drug, and make enormous financial gains from a change in the law. The latest figures tell us that over 123 tonnes of cannabis have been seized by the police, which is more than the total combined amount of cocaine, heroin and opium confiscated.
But who is buying all this cannabis?
A survey carried out by The United Patients Alliance found that around 37% of patients in the UK use cannabis to ease their symptoms, with 72% of those surveyed saying they bought their cannabis on the street. This won’t be news to companies like British Sugar, which has had a licence to produce cannabis since 2016. Now, companies, along with the government, may be looking to profit from the demand. The two are not mutually exclusive, either.
British Sugar has serious political connections. The company is run by Paul Kenward, who is the husband of MP, Victoria Atkins. Atkins, a barrister and former criminal drugs prosecutor, was made a Home Office minister this year, in charge of crime, safeguarding and vulnerability. Whilst she has actively spoken out against legalising cannabis in the UK, she has at the same time chosen to recuse herself from debates looking into cannabis use. Campaigners in favour of legalising cannabis have called her decision, “hypocrisy on a grand scale.”
Peter Reynolds, who is the president of Clear, which campaigns for cannabis law reform said, “what is appalling is [that Victoria] doesn’t just want to support it for policy reasons, quite evidently, she wants to support it because her husband and family are directly benefiting from [the regulation of] it.”
Another controversial figure involved in the production of cannabis, is Dr George Hibbert, the disgraced family court psychiatrist who surrendered his licence to practice after co-workers and patients made several complaints about his treatment of vulnerable mothers, including the allegation that he was deliberately misdiagnosing parents in order to allow social services to remove children from them and place the children in care.
Dr Hibbert, whose father, Sir Reginald Hibbert was the UK ambassador to France and counted several high level officials as friends, has been a shareholder in GW since its floatation on the stock market in 2001 – the company which Theresa May’s husband is also the majority investor in, through Capital Group. A piece in the Guardian tells us that, “documents filed at Companies House, show that GW was supported prior to its £175m flotation in June by a list of prominent people, many of whom saw the value of their investments surge five-fold in the public offering.” The Guardian story also mentions that GW’s flotation angered analysts and fund managers, who claimed that the offering had been hyped and over-priced.
These revelations are, of course, deeply concerning. Should the production of medicinal cannabis be legalised for UK patients, safeguards would need to be introduced to ensure that the cost of the cannabis was not inflated and those in greatest need were not priced out of being able to afford the medicine. It also can’t be right that government officials, either by affiliation or engagement, have a majority stake in the production of cannabis, certainly in the UK.
At Researching Reform, we are in favour of legalising cannabis, however we are not in favour of government monopolies. Billy’s case may have been just the headline grabber the government needed to put legislation allowing the consumption of cannabis in the UK in place. The more cynical might say that the government’s decision to confiscate the cannabis was calculated, callous, and designed to bring about a change in the law.
Very many thanks to Jane Doe for sharing Dr Hibbert’s involvement with GW, with Researching Reform.
24 thoughts on “Prime Minister Theresa May And Other Controversial Figures Set To Make Huge Profits From Cannabis Legislation.”
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I thought i recognised that name Dr Hibbert and Tadpole cottage xx
It show the fundamental truth of the maxim “follow the dollar” ! If you want to find out why the” great and the good” in high places act as they do find out who is making money out of those actions !
It was very widely reported thatthe father of former prime minister David Cameron was making over £1000/day out of leasing his land for the installation of useless Wind turbines.Our present prime minister will allow the use of cannabis thus enebling her husband’s company to make a p
It show the fundamental truth of the maxim “follow the dollar” ! If you want to find out why the” great and the good” in high places act as they do ; Yes you just find out who is making money out of their actions !
It was very widely reported that the father of former prime minister David Cameron was making over £1000/day leasing his land for the installation of useless Wind turbines.Our present prime minister will allow the use of cannabis thus enebling her husband’s company to make a handsome profit out of her seemingly benevolent actions !
FOLLOW THE DOLLAR !!
As much as i dont have any trust in the British Govt i dont think they engineered this to bring a change in the Law.
i think its simply a case that nobody in Govt knows anything about the medical science and effects behind Cannabis oil. of course i could be wrong and maybe they did plan the whole thing. when we see the Govt turn a blind eye to Collusion within the SS and Family courts we have to assume anything is possible.
I don’t say the government planned any change in the law re cannabis but that if those in command see a chance in any way to make a few extra bucks for themselves and their families they do not hesitate to act !
Was your Kayhan Life page taken down ?
it states
What you were looking for doesn’t exist or isn’t here anymore. We are sorry 😦
Please return to the home page or use the search box above.”
Agh, I’m so sorry, that post wasn’t set to publish, I accidentally scheduled it…. will share the news as soon as I can. Incredibly lucky to be working with a new newspaper which wants to highlight child rights, which is launching soon. Will share as soon as the paper launches.
Natasha do you originate from Iran yourself.
Yes, I do. My mother is Persian, my dad is English.
i think the cultures of countries like Iran are more complicated than most realize but it would be good to hear from someone with roots in that country to enlighten people. obviously Islam and the Koran is a very grey area that most white British dont understand.
i notice you dont ware a hijab/head scarf which seems to indicate you dont follow islam or the Koran. or is that a usual misconception.
I’m actually Jewish, and although my mother is Muslim by virtue of legacy, she, like many Iranians, does not consider herself to be. Islam is only a very small part of our history, and many Iranians identify more with Zoroastrianism, as that is our original religion, so to speak. The newspaper hopes to shed a lot of light on the country and its people. Our aspiration is to show the whole of Iran, not just the parts the Iranian regime want the world to see. And child rights is a big part of that.
i doubt most people in the Uk will have heard of Ahura Mazda. its said Zoroastrianism likely influenced Christianity and many other Western Religions.
i do wonder how many people living in Iran believe their country was a better place to live before the lsamic revolution of 1979.
I think that’s a complicated question. The royal family didn’t take care of its people and made a series of very bad choices. The current regime is, in reality, guilty of the same, albeit in the name of expansion. Protests in Iran have been ongoing for some time, with the poorest rising up against social inequality and terrible hardships. Both governments have been guilty of violent crackdowns, but you’re right, some are wishing the old days back.
its incredible how nice Iran looked before the revolution and how women wore whatever clothes they liked and showed their Hair.
And being dominated by a regime who wants Nuclear weapons is very worrying for Western powers.
the West needs to be doing more to bring that change many would like to see in Iran. the Regime will be doing everything it can to suppress freedom of speech and freedom of choice. obviously its a dictatorship.
Hopefully Kayhan Life will help to bring big change.
Thank you, DM. Ultimately we want Iranians to take control of their own destiny and choose who they engage with, rather than suffer interference from every corner.
I understand what you mean by “interference from every corner”.
but the worry is that the more the people rise up the more the govt will clamp down abusing human rights and many will be killed. sometimes outside help can be a good thing. change is always painful under oppressive systems.
I agree, but that choice has to be made by the people….
No,
nothing re The Kayhan Life post yet.
daveyone1 said:
This particular story in the news suggests that too many politicians have too many vested interests in large business enterprises and despite the legal implications, they choose not to disclose them for public scrutiny.
Theresa May, like many of her fellow politicians, chooses not to reveal too much about family connections or the sources of family wealth, but when it involves the Prime Minister and national policy, I think we have the right to know.
The outcome of the latest cannabis fiasco has involved the Home Office as well as the Ministry of Health and brought shame to both. One suspects pressure was ultimately brought to bear and stubborn prejudice was forced to give way to common-sense because of increasingly adverse publicity. A spectacle that does not inspire confidence in the current government – nor its wisdom in giving credence to its advisors or civil servants.
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WHO’S NEWS:
CBRE announced that Joseph A. Cabrera is joining the firm as vice chairman in the Advisory & Transactions unit in the New York City office.
Joining Cabrera will be his team of four partners: David Glassman, Michael Gordon, Timothy Kuhn and Brendan Cavender.
Most recently with Colliers International as Vice Chairman of the Eastern Region, Cabrera has also served at Cushman & Wakefield as a Vice Chairman, Insignia/ESG as an Executive Managing Director and the Galbreath Company as Northeast Regional President.
Two of Mr. Cabrera’s partners coming to CBRE, David Glassman, Executive Vice President, and Brendan Cavender, Senior Vice President, will be based in New York and focus on tenant and agency representation.
Michael Gordon, Executive Vice President, will be based in Connecticut and Timothy Kuhn, Executive Vice President, will work in Philadelphia and New Jersey.
In a career spanning 30+ years, Cabrera has completed more than 4,000 transactions totaling over 50 million square feet in 250 cities across the globe.
His recent transactions include representing Bank of Montreal in its move to 151 West 42nd Street; Sidley’s long-term lease restructure at 787 Seventh Avenue; and relocating Campari’s North American headquarters from San Francisco to New York City.
Cabrera won REBNY’s Ingenious Deal of the Year Award for Thomson Reuters’ joint venture development at 3 Times Square and two NAIOP Deal of the Year Awards. The first was for Citicorp North America’s relocation from New York City to Stamford, Conn. Cabrera and his team also won for FactSet Research Systems’ headquarters deal in Norwalk, Conn.
Cabrera earned a B.A. from Columbia College where he was an All-Ivy running back and his J.D. from Temple Law School.
Investment sales broker Greg Corbin has joined Rosewood Realty Group as Executive Managing Director after a decade with Besen & Associates.
He will continue to lead The Corbin Group at Rosewood and will be accompanied by brokers Aaron Kline, Brandon Serota and Chaya Milworn.
Corbin comes with extensive market expertise and a notable track record.
He has been involved in the sale of $875 million worth of commercial real estate and currently has four buildings in contract with an aggregate value of $34.6 million.
He has sold property in almost all asset classes and has extensive expertise in the bankruptcy and foreclosure fields.
Prior to joining Rosewood, Corbin spent a decade at Besen & Associates, where he won the awards of Deal Maker of the Year in 2015 and 2017, Broker of the Year in 2014, and Team Player Award in 2014.
Before Besen, he was a director of sales at Massey Knakal Realty Services.
Corbin is a graduate of Horace Mann and Boston University.
Greystone has appointed Alex Papathomas as Chief Technologist for its Greystone Labs division to oversee the continued development and rollout of proprietary software serving Greystone’s commercial real estate clients.
Prior to joining Greystone, Papathomas served as a Vice President at RealtyMogul, a real estate crowdfunding and investing platform, where he built a proprietary loan underwriting system that was ultimately acquired by Hunt Real Estate Capital in February 2019.
Prior to that role, he was Chief of Staff and an underwriting lead at Investors Bank. Earlier in his career, Papathomas was an equities analyst for Alternative Energy Investing LLC.
Hodges Ward Elliott announced that Daniel Peek will be joining as President of the firm’s Hotel Group.
eek has completed more than $30 billion in hotel sale, debt and structured finance transactions over his career.
He joins HWE after serving as Senior Managing Director, Head of Hospitality Practice, at HFF for more than 12 years. Prior to that, he was a co-founder and managing director of Regent Street, an affiliate of The Plasencia Group. He also held numerous hotel operations and consulting positions over the course of his career as well.
Peek is a graduate of Cornell University.
Equiem announced that CRE Tech leaders, Antony Slumbers and Linda J. Isaacson, have joined the firm’s Advisory Board.
The pair will help provide Equiem’s leadership team with strategic guidance, particularly in relation to the company’s ongoing global expansion, as well as advising on both new and existing product lines.
Linda J. Isaacson is First American Title’s Senior Vice President, Director of Business Intelligence, Data & Analytics for the National Commercial Services Division.
Isaacson serves as Chair of The Global Exchange Council of Urban Land Institute and is a member of the Pension and Real Estate Association (PREA), a non-profit trade organization for the global institutional real estate investment industry where she sits on PREA’s Research Affinity Group.
She is a member of the CRETech Leadership Board that provides a platform with important insights on the most impactful industry technology trends.
Antony Slumbers has been a software development and technology strategist in commercial real estate since 1995.
A serial entrepreneur, he has founded and exited several proptech software companies. Now, he consults and works with real estate boards on transformation, technology and innovation.
He is a member of the CREtech Leadership Board.
Herrick, Feinstein LLP announced that Philip Tucker has joined as a partner and Maryam C. Toosie has joined as special condominium counsel.
The two join Douglas Heller in Herrick’s Condominium and Cooperative Law Practice
Phil Tucker has worked with a number of New York City’s largest developers on some of the most sophisticated mixed-use condominium projects of the last decade, including Riverside Center on the Upper West Side; Sky View Parc in Flushing; 30 Park Place; Four Seasons Private Residences New York Downtown; and Pacific Park on the site of the former Atlantic Yards Terminal in Brooklyn.
He advises clients on every aspect of the planning and implementation of such projects and collaborates with stakeholders and key members of development teams to move projects forward.
Tucker joins Herrick from the New York office of Kramer Levin Naftalis and Frankel LLP.
Maryam C. Toosie represents developers, lenders, borrowers, and investors in the acquisition, sale, financing, and leasing of various real property types.
She advises clients on the registration, marketing, and sale of condominium offerings.
She also assists condominium and cooperative corporation boards with corporate governance issues, unit owner/tenant-shareholder disputes, annual meetings and Board elections, managing agents, and the review of loan documents for refinancing and capital improvement projects.
Prior to joining Herrick, Toosie was counsel at Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C.
Admiral Capital Group announced James Maher Jr., formerly of BlackRock and most recently Harbor Road Holdings, has joined the investment management firm as a principal.
Maher Jr. will primarily be responsible for investments across the firm’s value-add real estate platform.
Prior to joining Admiral, Maher Jr., worked at BlackRock for 13 years and left the firm in 2014 as a director on the real estate equity team in New York City.
He then co-founded Harbor Road Holdings, a privately-held real estate investment company focused on acquiring and repositioning multifamily assets in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
Maher Jr. earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and an MS in real estate finance from NYU.
Alfred Sanzari Enterprises announced that Jeffrey Fuller has joined their senior executive team as Director of Property Management.
Fuller will oversee day-to-day management of Alfred Sanzari Enterprises’ over six million-square-foot portfolio and manage relations with the firm’s over 200 tenants.
Fuller brings nearly 30 years of property management experience to the role. Prior to joining Alfred Sanzari Enterprises, he erved as Director of Property Management for Onyx Equities in Rutherford, N.J.
During his time with Onyx, he helped manage Onyx’s over eight-million square feet of Class A commercial, industrial, and retail portfolios across New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York.
In addition to Onyx, he has worked in property management for Samson Management, Lincoln Property Company, ECA Services, and JFK Health System over a distinguished three-decade career.
CBRE has named retail industry expert Melina Cordero as the leader of its retail capital markets business for the Americas.
Cordero will lead the company’s Capital Markets’ team of more than 130 retail professionals who specialize in the sale, debt and structured finance placement assistance, and recapitalization of retail properties in the Americas.
Cordero, who is being promoted to managing director of Capital Markets, most recently held the position of global head of Retail Research at CBRE, working closely with retail professionals and business-line leaders to generate in-depth analysis on the latest trends and influences shaping the retail and shopping-center industries.
In her new role she will report to Chris Ludeman, global president of Capital Markets.
Prior to joining CBRE in 2016, Cordero’s retail experience spanned three continents, including serving as Director of Analytics for Path Intelligence, a UK-based data and customer-analytics technology firm.
Prior to this, Cordero also worked as a Global Industry Analyst tracking the retail and consumer-goods industries at Euromonitor International in London, and worked in urban planning and business policy research at the UK Parliament.
Cordero holds dual Master of Science degrees in Urban Planning and International Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Sciences-Po Paris. She also holds a B.A. from Yale University.
MetLife Investment Management announced that Adam Ruggiero will lead a newly created client solutions and product specialist team within real estate.
Ruggiero will serve as the real estate product expert partnering with MIM’s Institutional Client Group (ICG).
He will work closely with MIM’s consultants, clients and prospects to develop new investment product offerings and further extend MIM’s existing real estate capabilities.
Ruggiero joined MIM’s real estate research and strategy group in 2015. During his tenure, he was responsible for research and strategy across MIM’s real estate debt and equity platforms.
Previously global head of real estate research and strategy, Ruggiero assumes this new role effective immediately.
Will Pattison has been appointed global head of real estate research and strategy at MIM.
Pattison, who also joined MIM’s real estate research and strategy group in 2015, has played a key role in extending MIM’s research, risk management and portfolio strategy efforts.
Pattison has almost 15 years’ experience in institutional real estate valuation, research and portfolio management.
Greystone announced that Jerry Lam has been named Chief of Credit for its Freddie Mac Small Balance Loans platform.
Lam joins Greystone from Freddie Mac, where he most recently served as Director of Credit for its SBL platform and a senior member of the credit team.
Prior to his tenure at Freddie Mac, Lam held a variety of production and underwriting roles at companies including Barings Capital, Capital One Bank (formerly Beech Street Capital), PNC Bank, and Highridge Costa Housing Partners.
Lam earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from California State University, Fullerton.
He will report to Leah Purvis, Managing Director and Chief Credit Officer for Greystone’s Agency Small Loans platform.
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The 7 Fastest Growing Industries and Occupations in Downtown Sacramento
October 26, 2017 | By The Railyards
Sacramento has been a railroad town, a government town, and America’s Farm-to-Fork capital. But what industries and occupations will take over in the future as Sacramento continues to evolve and expand?
We’ve taken a look at the fastest growing jobs in California over the previous five years and compared them to a ten-year national forecast to find the industries poised to surge in Sacramento.
Whether you’re looking for a career change or just getting started down a career path, you may want to consider one of the following:
Health care is projected to become the largest major sector in the U.S., according to a ten-year forecast by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). By 2026, health care and social assistance employment is projected to add nearly 4 million jobs, about one-third of all new jobs.
Five of the ten jobs projected to grow the fastest by percent in the next ten years are in health care and elderly assistance. According to the BLS, these jobs – personal care aides, home health aides, registered nurses, medical assistants, and nursing assistants – will account for almost one-fifth of new net jobs created by 2026.
An aging population is responsible for the booming growth in these occupations. Personal-care aides who perform non-medical duties for older Americans (such as bathing and cooking) and home health aides are projected to create more than 1 million jobs in the next decade.
In California, health care industries and occupations have already demonstrated tremendous growth in the past few years.
From May 2011 to May 2016, medical records and health information technicians jobs have seen a 145.2% growth, while personal and home care aides have seen a remarkable 245.2% growth, according to data from the California Employment Development Department.
The healthcare industry provides approximately 20% of the total payroll for the entirety of Sacramento Region’s workforce; over $18 billion has been spent on new facilities at Kaiser, Mercy, Sutter and UC Davis medical expansion projects in recent years.
Kaiser Permanente is bringing an approximately 1.3 million square foot Medical Center (KP Medical Center) campus to The Railyards development in Sacramento. The KP Medical Center will reside on approximately 18-acres of land in the mixed-use development, and will bring thousands of healthcare jobs to the city.
The KP Medical Center at The Railyards will offer a comprehensive collection of inpatient and outpatient primary and specialty care services; diagnostic and treatment services; surgical services and emergency care; urgent care; radiation/ oncology services; diagnostic services including radiology and telemedicine; women’s services; and supporting ancillary health care services such as optical, pharmacy, laboratory, education and training.
Computer software engineers and systems software occupations in California have had been growing steadily over the past five years, with a 46.6% increase from 2011 to 2016. The BLS estimates that computer and information technology occupations are projected to grow 13% from 2016 to 2026, faster than the average for all occupations.
These occupations are projected to add about 546,100 new jobs. Demand will stem from greater emphasis on cloud computing, the collection and storage of big data, and information security.
The median annual wage for computer and information technology occupations was $82,860 in May 2016, higher than the median annual wage for all occupations of $37,040. (The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less.)
Sound appealing?
Many computer occupations require a bachelor’s degree.
Clean-energy workers, like solar-panel installers and wind-turbine technicians, are the only occupations that are expected to double by 2026. With the City of Sacramento and State of California both putting an emphasis on a sustainable future, it’s no surprise that clean energy jobs will expand in the next decade.
Here’s what you need to know about the fastest growing occupations from 2016 - 2026:
Solar photovoltaic (PV) installers, also known as PV installers, assemble, install, and maintain solar panel systems on rooftops or other structures.
Employment of solar installers is projected to grow 105% from 2016 to 2026, much faster than the average for all occupations.
The median annual wage for solar photovoltaic installers in the U.S. was $39,240 in May 2016.
California is the state with the highest employment level for solar installers, and offers an annual median wage of $45,380.
The highest 10% earned more than $60,570.
The continued expansion and adoption of solar panel installations will result in excellent job opportunities for qualified individuals, particularly those who complete training courses at a community college or technical school.
Sound interesting?
Although most installers need a high school diploma and typically receive on-the-job training lasting up to 1 year, some candidates take courses at a technical school or community college.
Wind turbine service technicians, also known as windtechs, install, maintain, and repair wind turbines
Employment of wind turbine service technicians is projected to grow 96% from 2016 to 2026, much faster than the average for all occupations.
The median annual wage for wind turbine technicians was $52,260 in May 2016.
California has the second highest employment level for windtechs (behind Texas), and offers a median wage of $49,080.
Because wind electricity generation is expected to grow rapidly over the coming decade, additional technicians will be needed to install and maintain new turbines. Job prospects are expected to be excellent.
Most windtechs learn their trade by attending technical schools or community colleges, where they typically complete certificates in wind energy technology, although some workers choose to earn an associate’s degree.
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Construction occupations are projected to grow 11% from 2016 to 2026, faster than the average for all occupations. The construction industry is expected to provide a gain of about 758,400 new jobs. Overall economy and population growth increases demands for new buildings, roads, and other structures, which is good news for the construction industry.
In California, construction occupations as a whole have grown by 35.9% in the past five years, but some jobs are far outpacing the industry average.
Drywall and ceiling tile installer jobs in California have grown by 118% from 2011 to 2016. Drywall is the most common interior wall covering in buildings, and demand for these workers comes from new construction of residential and commercial buildings and home-remodeling projects.
Job prospects for drywall and ceiling tile installers is expected to be good because of the need to replace workers who leave the occupation.
The median annual wage for drywall and ceiling tile installers was $41,090 in May 2016.
The highest 10% of drywall installers earned more than $79,660.
The median annual wage for all construction occupations was $43,610 in May 2016, higher than the median annual wage for all occupations of $37,040.
The median annual wage for construction managers was $89,300.
Sacramento’s Housing Market Paving Way for New Construction Jobs
In 2017, Sacramento was named one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets. According to the Sacramento Association of Realtors, new construction hasn’t kept up with demand, while buyers from the Bay Area are beginning to flood into the region. And Bay Areas transplants aren’t the only reason behind the high-demand for housing.
According to local Sacramento business experts, the “arena effect” has more than met expectations in the downtown core, spurring economic development, stimulating interest from outside investors, and creating a sense of optimism and opportunity throughout the area. A beneficial effect which could multiply after the completion of the MLS stadium in The Railyards.
With all of the high-visibility development projects happening in the Sacramento region, you may think the City couldn’t build any faster. But the supply still hasn’t caught up with demand.
Last year, 7,000 single-family homes were built in the Sacramento region, a 33% increase over 2015, according to figures from the University of the Pacific. In 2017, Sacramento is projected to build 9,600 houses. But that still leaves room for more.
In its Sacramento Region Blueprint, the Sacramento Area Council of Governments says the region needs roughly 12,000 new housing units a year to keep up with population growth.
Many builders would love to do more, but they’re unable to meet the high-demand due to a shortage of skilled construction workers and tradespeople. There’s high demand for skilled workers in the construction industry now and in the next decade.
Want to join this workforce?
Most drywall and ceiling tile installers learn their trade on the job. A formal educational credential is typically not required to enter the occupation.
Construction managers typically must have a bachelor’s degree, and learn management techniques through on-the-job training. Large construction firms increasingly prefer candidates with both construction experience and a bachelor’s degree in a construction-related field.
Most of the top ten fastest growing occupations are in the health care and personal service industries, but mathematicians and statisticians also appeared on the top-10 list.
In California, computer and mathematical occupations have had a 18% growth over the past five years. Overall employment of mathematicians and statisticians is projected to grow 33% from 2016 to 2026, much faster than the average for all occupations.
Employment of statisticians is projected to grow 33% from 2016 to 2026. This faster-than-average growth is expected to result from more widespread use of statistical analysis to make informed business, healthcare, and policy decisions.
In addition, the large increase in available data from the Internet will open up new areas for analysis.
The median annual wage for statisticians was $80,500 in May 2016.
The highest 10% of statisticians earned more than $130,090.
Employment of mathematicians is projected to grow 29% from 2016 to 2026, much faster than the average for all occupations. The amount of digitally stored data will increase over the next decade as more people and companies conduct business online and use social media, smartphones, and other mobile devices. As a result, businesses will increasingly need mathematicians to analyze the large amount of information and data collected.
Mathematicians will help companies improve their business processes, design and develop new products, and even advertise products to potential customers.
The median annual wage for mathematicians was $105,810 in May 2016.
The highest 10% of mathematicians earned more than $160,310.
Both mathematicians and statisticians occupations typically require a master’s degree education.
Self-driving cars may be coming to Sacramento in the future, but they probably won’t be taking any truck-driving or other transportation jobs away from the labor market in the next ten years. Over the next decade, transportation and material moving occupations are projected to grow 6% from 2016 to 2026, adding 643, 900 new jobs. This growth is about as fast as average for all occupations.
In California, transportation and material moving occupations have grown by 22.1% in the past five years - faster than the national average rate.
The rise of online shopping may be causing the decline of retail jobs, but this change in consumer buying behavior is ensuring that truck drivers still have a career ahead of them, transporting freight and keeping the supply chains moving.
The median annual wage for heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers was $41,340 in May 2016.
Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers usually have a high school diploma and attend a professional truck driving school and must have a commercial driver’s license (CDL).
From health care services to computer software engineers to construction workers, truck drivers, and statisticians, there’s plenty of opportunity in these fastest growing industries over the next ten years in Sacramento.
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Charity of the Month – November
Essex Boys and Girls Clubs
Who are Essex Boys and Girls Clubs?
Essex Boys and Girls Clubs was set up in 1939 and works with young people across Essex and East London and at their adventure centers in Essex, Wales, Cumbria and Birmingham. The charity helps young people to develop, by supporting 140 independent voluntary youth groups, which provide more than 15,000 teenagers with activities. The charity supports clubs which include activities such as cricket, boxing, football and outdoor activities, in the hope that this will provide teenagers with self-discipline, a ‘can-do’ spirit and a safe place to learn skills that will aid their future. In addition, Essex Boys and Girls Clubs run a range of projects with partner organisations, in order to help young people develop skills and confidence. These include The Duke of Edinburgh Award, National Citizen Service, The Arts Award and The John Muir Award.
What is our Relationship with Essex Boys and Girls Clubs?
Essex Boys and Girls Clubs, our longstanding grantee, have been highly supported by The Rank Foundation over the years due to their fantastic work. As they are a reliable and trustworthy charity, we have provided them with a number of Leadership Award students on their CAP placement, individuals on our YAP initiative and participants on our GAP program.
How does The Rank Foundation’s Placements Benefit the Charity and Individual?
O ur placements are beneficial to both the charity and the individual, as the charity is provided with an extra helping hand and the individual receives relevant work experience and training. Sue Pell, the Fundraising Officer at Essex Boys and Girls Clubs, further explains:
‘’Having a Rank CAP student with us for two weeks helps us to give the young people we work with added support and encouragement, and in return, we are able to help the Rank student get a better idea of youth work and some of the challenges and adventures it can bring. Often the Rank students come to us from different backgrounds to the young people we work with, or have never had the opportunity to encourage and support other young people in the activities we offer. Helping the Rank student to step up and take a level of responsibility within a group and watching them grow and develop is a privilege. Many of the Rank students keep in touch with us after they have completed their placement.’’
Our 2015 Leadership Award Holder, Ishaq Raheel, spent his CAP placement at Essex Boys and Girls Clubs. He told us how his placement benefited him:
‘’Personally, I really enjoyed my placement. I met some really lovely people and learnt a lot about working with young people. For example, during my placement, I had to work alongside people with different severities of autism, which provided me with a developed understanding of how to work with people who have the condition. Furthermore, through observations of the site managers, I learnt how to manage a large number of young people.’’
Trieu Ho, from our 2013 Leadership Award cohort, explained how he overcame the challenges he faced during his placement at Essex Boys and Girls Clubs
‘’The biggest challenge I encountered during my placement was leading a group of young people during a crucial time, when they had to plan their social action project to give back to the community. There were individuals that were reluctant to participate, but I had to pull the team together and eventually they came up with a good plan for the project. I am proud to have assisted young people plan methods in which they can give back to the community and I am looking forward to seeing them execute their project.’’
If you would like to find out more information about Essex Boys and Girls Clubs, they can be contacted through their website here.
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Teenage Girl Pimps Out Other Teenage Girls (You Won't Believe Where)
joni edelman, RN | 07.6.17 12:20pm
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Content notice: forced sex work
I can't believe that I am writing about a teenage girl pimping out other teenage girls, but here we are.
Jelinajane Bedrijo Almario, charged and convicted of pimping out 14- and 15-year-old girls, was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Monday — two days after her 18th birthday. She was a minor herself while apparently selling out girls she found via social media or other friends.
I'd ask how this even happens, but I think we know the answer. A culture obsessed with sex, money, and power, and a girl who wanted all of those things at whatever cost.
I live in a small California town of about 56K people. Our mall is half empty, defunct in the face of a shitty economy. We have two movie theaters and one super Walmart. There are three high schools, but only in the last few years — for most of my life we had one. We are mostly known for our dairy industry and the pistachios we provide to most of the world (plus 99% of America's artichokes, 97% of the nutrition-packed kiwis you enjoy, 95% of garlic, 69% of carrots.)
And now, teenaged female pimps.
Yes. The relatively small town I live in, the one that JUST reached a population high enough to warrant a Costco and the In-n-Out Burger we lobbied for relentlessly for 5 years, is the very place this young woman is from. There are a lot of good reasons to make international news — being happy being fat, for example — but this is not one of them. This is not the way any of the people who live in this friendly place — the place that still has a merry-go-round in the center of town, the place where I can't go out my door without running into someone I know — would want Hanford to be known.
I've lived here most of my life; aside from the years I spent at college (and a couple after), I've been a Central Valley girl since 1974. When I was in junior high, in 1987, one of the 8th grade girls got pregnant. That was the absolute most extreme thing any of us could imagine. Thirteen and pregnant. Years later, I'd be an RN taking care of these young girls having babies, still shocking, still heart breaking. Even still, I certainly never would have imagined this was happening under my unaware nose.
The FBI estimates that 100,000 girls in America, ages 9 - 19, are involved in sex trafficking.
The average age of these girls is 11. Eleven. These girls aren't runaways. They are groomed, recruited, abused into sex work. Little girls.
When I was 11, I had seven Cabbage Patch dolls and a "boyfriend" named Chris who I was betrothed to via a note with a yes/no checkbox — a boy I never even touched (I still run into him at the grocery store). It's not any more or less terrible that it happened here rather than LA or New York, or a city with a million people, or a foreign country, but my kids go to school with these girls. These are the girls sitting next to them in class, eating lunch with them on the quad, playing in the marching band, and, when school is out, being coerced into sex. My heart breaks thinking of them, so young, so scared.
The town is never too small for tragedy.
To learn more about how you can help prevent and stop sex trafficking, here you go.
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Welcome to the blog for the Jisc UK Research Data Discovery Service. On this blog you will be able to find out about the project’s progress. The following provides some background to the three phases of the project.
Phase 1 (Oct 2013 – March 2014)
In 2013, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) piloted an approach to a registry service to aggregate metadata for research data held within UK universities and national, discipline specific data centres.
This six month pilot, which engaged the support of a number of higher education institutions (HEIs), tested an existing data registry architecture, based on the software and metadata requirements of Research Data Australia developed by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). Its aims were to demonstrate the feasibility of a research data discovery service for the UK and to develop a better understanding of the optimal technical platform, metadata strategy and harvesting mechanism.
An essential feature was to initiate the engagement with stakeholders from the HEIs and data centres to ensure the pilot was designed to meet stakeholder requirements.
Phase 2 (March 2015 – Sept 2016)
This Jisc-led second phase of the project included support from the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the UK Data Service (UKDS), on HEI and data centre engagement respectively. It built on the pilot work with the aim of running a test UK research data discovery service.
The main aim of the second phase was to lay the firm foundations for the service by harvesting metadata from nine HEIs and six data centres. These pilot organisations provided metadata of their research data collections for harvesting, provided a set of user requirements and helped to test the alpha system. The alpha service was made publicly available during development to ensure the research community had the opportunity to test its functionality.
This phase came to an end with a final workshop for all participants where the alpha system was tested, requirements were reviewed and the plans for the next phase were presented.
Phase 3 (Oct 2016 – Dec 2017)
The third phase of the project has the following objectives:
Enhance the service by adding further requirements
Incorporate other participants’ metadata (potentially for all HEIs with research data collections)
Run as an enhanced beta service to allow for further testing
At the end of the project have a fully functional system ready to operate as a service (provided it meets the relevant criteria and the business case is agreed within Jisc)
Further information about the project is available on the project page on the Jisc website under the Research and Development section – UK Research Data Discovery Service project page.
You can also follow the project’s progress and join the discussion by following #jiscRDDS on Twitter or subscribing to the mailing list JISC-UKRDDS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK.
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Are Landlines in Peril?
The numbers are out and it looks like landlines are under siege – at least in some corners of North America.
A CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) survey in July revealed that more than 40% of US households are wireless only. That’s a pretty significant jump from a Census Bureau study in September 2013 that had that number at 33%.
The driving force behind the demand is, not surprisingly, younger users. As Jeffrey Sparshott commented in the Wall Street Journal last fall, “The youngest households are abandoning landlines in droves. About two-thirds of households led by people ages 15 to 29 relied only on cellphones in 2011, compared with 28% for the broader population.”
Canada is showing a similar trend. In 2013, more than 20% of households relied exclusively on cellphones compared to 13% in 2010 according to Statistics Canada. But the most interesting part of the data is that a similarly huge percentage of those (60.6% in fact) were households under 35 years of age.
From our perspective, that’s a lot of households that will need uninterrupted indoor cellular coverage. And as we all know, that’s not always a reality. Given the numbers, things are looking very bright indeed when it comes to growing demand for our smart signal boosters.
Have you said goodbye to your landline? How is that working for you?
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The Secret Trade Agreement The Ruling Elites Desperately Want
Posted on May 25, 2015 by RonMamita — 3 Comments
Below is a mirrored post about a very important Geopolitical Agenda.
Regardless of how difficult and how many setbacks the trade agreement has, a great effort by wealthy & influential individuals and organized groups continue to resurrect and fund the effort to be enacted into statutes by governments while the citizens remain ignorant of its secret contents. ~Ron
Corporate Gods: “Obama, remember why we hired you; ram the TPP through”
From: Activist Post | by By Jon Rappoport
“Cur rent TPP negotiation member states are the United States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei. The TPP is the largest economic treaty in history, including countries that represent more than 40 per cent of the world´s GDP.” (Wikileaks)
“Since 1945, no American President has escaped vetting by elite Globalists. Partisan politics plays no role in this process. The one overriding issue of every Presidency has been: make sure Globalist legislation and treaties pass through to completion. Do not obstruct them. A little crooked President named Nixon got it in his head to erect anti-Globalist tariffs. He found himself on the floor looking up, with Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller’s man, staring down at him, assuring him his days in the White House were over.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
Obama is under the gun. Not since he pressured Congress, on behalf of the pharmaceutical companies, to pass Obamacare, has he worked so hard and sweated so much.
The latest Globalist treaty, the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), is on the table.
Elite mega-corporations all over the world, the Council on Foreign Relations (Rockefeller), the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission (Rockefeller) want the TPP to be ratified by the 12 member nations. They really want it. They insist on it.
Obama has run into Congressional roadblocks. They appear to be temporary, but make no mistake about it, he was put into office to bring this treaty to fruition. Failure is not an option.
Whatever Obama has to promise, to whomever he has to promise it, he’s making deals. Side deals, back room deals, upside down deals.
His masters don’t care that he’s a lame duck President at this point. Lame duck, waddling duck, it makes no difference. He’s got to come through.
And he knows it.
He also knows, because the TPP is another Globalist treaty, that more jobs will flee the US, more cheap imported goods will flood the US market from countries where slave wages prevail, where environmental laws aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. He knows those cheap goods will sink more American businesses.
He knows no private citizen anywhere in the world who doesn’t run a big corporation has read the contents of the TPP—and won’t read them before its passage.
Obama has had his marching orders for 10 years. He realized going in who his bosses were.
The Globalists don’t play games when it comes to a treaty like this. The TPP is their baby.
Remember Pelosi? She blew the whistle during the midnight negotiations on Obamacare. She said to her Congressional colleagues: “If you want to know what’s in the bill, you have to vote for it. Then you can read it.”
People began to wake up to the fact that, when thousand-page bills are on the table, legislators either can’t read them or choose not to. They just vote the way they’re told to.
So here is another one: the TPP. Congressional representatives have to go into a sealed room and read it. They can’t make copies. They can’t tell the public what’s in it.
Senator Rand Paul just went into the room. When he came out, he said he didn’t even know whether he’d read a draft or the final version.
He said he couldn’t disclose what was in the treaty. Why not? Who made that decision? Under what illegal authority are legislators prohibited from revealing the details of a treaty that will, when passed, bind all Americans and citizens of 11 other countries?
Leaks indicate that the TPP will set up private courts to rule on disputes between corporations and governments. For example, a foreign corporation tries to export a product to the US. They’re blocked. They appeal to this court. Relevant US law and US courts are ignored. Questions pertaining to environmental harm or toxicity re the product are decided in secret.
As Wikileaks notes,
Similar mechanisms have already been used. For example, US tobacco company Phillip Morris used one such tribunal to sue Australia (June 2011 – ongoing) for mandating plain packaging of tobacco products on public health grounds; and by the oil giant Chevron against Ecuador in an attempt to evade a multi-billion-dollar compensation ruling for polluting the environment. The threat of future lawsuits chilled environmental and other legislation in Canada after it was sued by pesticide companies in 2008/9. ISDS [Investor-State Dispute Settlement] tribunals are often held in secret, have no appeal mechanism, do not subordinate themselves to human rights laws or the public interest, and have few means by which other affected parties can make representations.
Like GATT, NAFTA, and CAFTA, the TPP is a Globalist treaty that expands the power of mega-corporations around the world. At will, they move their manufacturing operations to places where workers are virtual slaves. They sell goods across borders, without paying billions in tariffs, regardless of the effects on smaller competitors, who are torpedoed and forced out of business.
All treaties under consideration should be published in full, at least two years before member nations vote on them. Then we would have time to see and understand what’s in them.
The secret shroud surrounding the TPP is a criminal farce.
Mainstream media dupes are fond of saying that those who warn against global dictatorship are crazy conspiracy theorists
Well, what do you call it when a secret treaty expanding the international power of mega-corporations is passed into law, when that law supersedes every other law and court of the member nations?
Would you call it “a good business decision?” “Employment enhancement?” “Smarter people helping the rest of us?”
In the US, Congressional legislators are prancing and dancing and fencing. They aren’t at all sure they know what’s in the TPP. But their debates are taken seriously, as if they actually mean something.
It’s the blind leading the blind leading the blind. But behind it all, the architects of the TPP are fully aware of the meaning and consequences of what they’re doing.
They plucked Barack Obama out of obscurity to carry out a job. This job. Passage of the treaty.
So much for “the leader representing the people.”
Ditto for the other 11 members of the TPP.
Puppet show. Shadow play.
Organized crime.
The TPP treaty is a kind of religious document. We have to take it on faith. We have to accept what the priests are telling us.
They’re our pipeline to the corporate gods.
I’ve quoted the following interview in previous articles. It reveals the kind of Globalist power I’m talking about.
Here is a close-up snap shot of a remarkable moment from out of the past. It’s through-the-looking-glass—a conversation between reporter, Jeremiah Novak, and two (Globalist/Rockefeller) Trilateral Commission members, Karl Kaiser and Richard Cooper. The interview took place in 1978. It concerned the issue of exactly who was formulating US economic and political policy, which would include trade treaties like the TPP.
The careless and off-hand attitude of Trilateralists Kaiser and Cooper is astonishing. It’s as if they’re saying, “What we’re revealing is already out in the open, it’s too late to do anything about it, why are you so worked up, we’ve already won…”
NOVAK (the reporter): Is it true that a private [Trilateral committee] led by Henry Owen of the US and made up of [Trilateral] representatives of the US, UK, West Germany, Japan, France and the EEC is coordinating the economic and political policies of the Trilateral countries [which would include the US]?
COOPER: Yes, they have met three times.
NOVAK: Yet, in your recent paper you state that this committee should remain informal because to formalize ‘this function might well prove offensive to some of the Trilateral and other countries which do not take part.’ Who are you afraid of?
KAISER: Many countries in Europe would resent the dominant role that West Germany plays at these [Trilateral] meetings.
COOPER: Many people still live in a world of separate nations, and they would resent such coordination [of policy].
NOVAK: But this [Trilateral] committee is essential to your whole policy. How can you keep it a secret or fail to try to get popular support [for its decisions on how Trilateral member nations will conduct their economic and political policies]?
COOPER: Well, I guess it’s the press’ job to publicize it.
NOVAK: Yes, but why doesn’t President Carter come out with it and tell the American people that [US] economic and political power is being coordinated by a [Trilateral] committee made up of Henry Owen and six others? After all, if [US] policy is being made on a multinational level, the people should know.
COOPER: President Carter and Secretary of State Vance have constantly alluded to this in their speeches. [untrue]
KAISER: It just hasn’t become an issue.
Source: “Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management,” edited by Holly Sklar, 1980. South End Press, Boston. Pages 192-3.
This interview “slipped under the mainstream media radar,” which is to say, it was ignored, buried, sat on, censored.
US economic and political policy run by a committee of the Trilateral Commission—the Commission had been created in 1973 as an “informal discussion group” by David Rockefeller and his sidekick, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who, much later, was Obama’s mentor in the months before he was sworn in for his first term as President.
To inhale the scent of Obama’s approach to TPP negotiations, here is a quote from his first appointed US Trade Representative, Ron Kirk. Replying to his critics, Kirk wrote:
I am strongly offended by the assertion that our [TPP negotiating] process has been non-transparent and lacked public participation.
This comment, in the face of the fact that the exact terms of the TPP are still secret.
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.comor OutsideTheRealityMachine.
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What law says the text of the TPP must remain secret?
From: Activist Post | By Jon Rappoport
To the US Congress: reveal the contents of the TPP now
It seems like a case of mass hypnosis. People claiming they can’t say what’s in the TPP trade agreement. And mainstream media accept this premise.
“That’s right. Congress must stay silent.”
Pop quiz: who says the text of the TPP must remain secret?
Under what authority?
Members of Congress are scuttling around like weasels, claiming they can’t disclose what’s in this far-reaching, 12-nation trade treaty.
They can go into a sealed room and read a draft, but they can’t copy pages, and they can’t tell the public what they just read.
If there is a US law forbidding disclosure, name the law.
Can you recall anything in the Constitution that establishes secret treaties?
Is there a prior treaty that states the text of all treaties can be hidden from the people?
I see no authority anywhere that justifies withholding the text of the TPP.
Government legislators in the other 11 nations: why can’t you reveal what’s in the TPP?
Mass silence around the world. “Sorry, we can’t say what’s in the treaty. We’ll vote on it, but you the people have no input. You have to take what we do on faith.”
Who says so? By what authority?
If a US Senator held a press conference today and explained everything he read in that sealed room about the TPP, what exactly would happen to him? Would he be arrested?
Would he be charged with a federal crime?
What crime?
If he used his cell phone to take pictures of pages of the TPP, and came out of the room and sent the pictures to 500 press outlets, what would happen?
Would the DOJ roll a few tanks up to his house and put him in cuffs? Would he be placed on trial?
If so, on what charge?
Would the trial itself be secret?
Or would everyone suddenly look at each other and say, “We never realized it before, but the emperor has no clothes!”
What would happen if a Senator went into the sealed room, picked up the whole TPP text or the laptop on which it’s stored, bulled his way out of the room, passed the text to his security staff, and had them forward every page to a few hundred media outlets around the world?
Would DHS agents shoot these people in broad daylight, just to protect the interests of David Rockefeller and his Globalist heavy hitters?
Why haven’t the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, the BBC and other outlets run major stories that detail under what precise authority the TPP text is being kept secret?
What are we missing here?
Is it simply that a bunch of national leaders and corporate big shots and trade representatives nodded and said: “Keep the text a secret”?
Did they arbitrarily give the TPP negotiating process a name, a label, with the word “authority” in it?
I just met with myself and decided to establish The Naked TPP Authority. I gave it primacy over all other negotiating bodies, and by its declaration, the full text of the TPP must be published for the whole world to see, for two years, before any further votes take place.
There. It’s done.
I fully believe my Naked Authority carries more Constitutional justification than the current scheme, which is clearly criminal.
US Congressman: “I’m sorry, my lips are sealed, I’m bound, I can’t reveal what’s in the treaty that will adversely affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people.”
“Wrong. You’re lying. You can reveal secret text. In fact, it’s your duty. Otherwise, you’re guilty of cooperating in a RICO criminal conspiracy. Now, let’s start at the beginning. Who told you that you had to remain silent? What US law did they cite? Take your time. We’ll stay here as long as it takes.”
Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2 of the US Constitution states: “[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur…”
Nothing there about secret treaties. Nothing there about the President having the discretion to keep the text of treaties secret.
Of course, a President could argue that treaties, if exposed to the light of day prior to a Senate vote, would face so much criticism and cross-talk that they would never pass.
But that’s a practical issue and problem. It’s called “free speech.” It’s also sometimes called “dissent.”
Jon Rappoport is the author of two explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed and Exit From the Matrix, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
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The U.S. Senate passed the controversial “Fast Track” legislation on Friday. But now it will face a much larger hurdle in the House of Representatives.
stuartbramhall says:
Malaysia is out of the running on the TPP agreement owing to a stipulation in the Senate bill prohibiting fast track trade deals with any country that relies on slave labor: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/22/senate-passes-fast-track_n_7425614.html
Smart for Malaysia, thank you for the link!
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CAPSTONE CONCLUSIONS
Trade, Immigration and Exchange Rates in a Globalized World
Международная бизнес-школа IE
Курс 2 из 3 — Globalization, Economic Growth and Stability Специализация
This is the second of the three courses part of the Globalization, Economic Growth and Stability Specialization. This course will focus on facets of globalization that affect a country´s economic perspectives and decisions. Globalization has recently been the predominant subject in many political debates, and this course will go into the determinants of globalization. It will be separated into four modules; the first module will explain exchange rates. It will cover what determines exchange rate and how different exchange rates affect the economy and the reality of currencies. The second module will explore trade, the reality of free trade, and what occurs to a country´s economy with protectionism. The third module will go into the balance of payments, it will help you understand how economic transactions between a country and the rest of the world work. The fourth module will focus on Immigration, which is probably one of the most controversial subjects today. It will explain how migration affects host countries and it will cover current migration trends.
RECAP: TRADE, IMMIGRATION AND EXCHANGE RATES IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD3:28
PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS2:16
PROJECT FEEDBACK: SPAIN 2004-20186:14
CAPSTONE CONCLUSIONS1:57
Gayle Allard
Выбор языкаАнглийскийАрабский
Well, congratulations on finishing the second course in the specialization,
Globalization Economic Growth and Stability.
The second course which was called Trade Immigration and Exchange Rates in
a Globalized World moved us from the domestic economy,
and what policymakers can do to that international arena,
where countries interact, where they have deficits,
where they have exchange rates,
different kinds of deficits,
where people move, and where goods and services move.
So, you found in your second project, that peer-reviewed project,
that the data actually matches the theory for the country we've analyzed,
which is Spain, and I encourage you to look at the data for
other countries to see if you find also that these profiles match.
Now, that this course is finished, we're going to move on,
or I encourage you to move on to the third course in the specialization.
That third course called Business Opportunities and Risks in
a Globalized Economy deals with
the largest economies or groups of economies in the world.
In this course, we're going to be looking at the United States,
at Japan, at the European Union,
at China, and at India.
What we're going to do is look at these countries and try to
apply all that we've learned in the first two courses of the specialization,
so that we can see whether the theory, whether normalcy,
whether policy prescriptions, whether risks and
opportunities actually bear themselves out in the data.
So, I encourage you to come along with us as we finally apply all of these,
sometimes complex, concepts to the reality of the world's biggest economies.
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The history of Sidri is, at least as far as Andaras is concerned, the history of Andaras. While this is hardly accurate, or fair, Andaras is currently one of the planets major powers, and it is what everyone is likely to have been exposed to. Hence…
Long centuries ago, the peoples of Dorasin lived as primitive, warring tribes. They farmed and they fished the seas. They raided each other, and traded with the islands nearby – and then the Verathi came.
In great ships they came, first to raid – and then to conquer. They built impregnable fortresses, abused and enslaved the people, and none could stand before them. For a generation and more they spread across the land, until King Andarun rose up to oppose them. First with a small force of loyal men, then rallying the defeated tribes to his cause, Andarun drove the Verathi back to Athas, unifying the country under his rule as he went. King Andarun received his deathwound at Loshkean, when he fought the high lord of the Verathi – and slew him. With the death of their leader, the Verathi (not knowing that Andarun was dying as well) fled. Andarun gave his enchanted sword to his oldest son, Prince Harnwel, and commissioned him to take the battle to the foe. He did so.
King Harnwel drove the remnants of the Verathi from his shores, fortified against their return, and governed the land wisely and well. However his brother, Prince Jural, was not content with his place in the court. He schemed, successfully, to get Harnwel to launch a premature attack on Athas, entangling Harnwel, and his men, in a hopeless campaign. Left to govern Dorasin for his King, and the King’s young son, Jural poisoned the child and seized the throne, sending his own forces to crush Harnwel’s army against the Verathi. Harnwel, warned by his fathers ghost, evaded the trap and returned to overthrow Jural’s corrupt reign. Resolving not to make the same error a second time, Harnwel sent the next attack under the command of his younger brother, Prince Lars, and remained to rule at home.
Unwilling to see his younger son perish in hopeless battle, the spirit of King Andarun intervened, leading his son to an astounding victory. While it took many, many, years to pacify Athas and the Verathi, there was never any doubt as to the outcome. Prince Lars united his newly-conquered realm with his brothers, and finally inherited the crowns of both lands. (Harnwel sired no more children, thanks to Jural’s dying blood curse).
Under the descendants of Andarun, Andaras gradually civilized the minor islands of the Solantic arc – save for Sicar, which remained independent. Eventually, the great King Haden II readied his army for the conquest, and celebrated his victory by instituting the Charter, permitting the nobles and citizens of Andaras greater say in their governance, now that the last of the “nearby” threats had been dealt with.
Over the next four centuries, Andaras gradually built a trading empire, establishing colonies, and governance, on many primitive islands elsewhere in the world. While still expanding, the empire has run into at least two other “major” cultures – the isolationist Naraki Islands and the bellicose Yagura. While there are skirmishes on a few islands, there are no major wars.
Historical Commentary
The Verathi: Despite the legends, the Verathi were little more then another barbarian tribe. They simply had access to more metal then was available on Dorasin at the time, allowing them to forge better weapons and build better ships. The “mighty fortresses” were only motte-and-bailey “castles”, possibly treated with elivar sap to help prevent fires. Arguably, they were better carpenters then the people they came to conquer.
King Andarun: While there is some evidence for the existence of a skilled warleader at the time, it seems likely that diplomacy played a larger role. His wife’s name would seem to indicate Verathi ancestry – and a few rebellious Verathi nobles would provide a rebel leader with a secure base and badly needed support. Despite the considerable body of legend about him, it seems rather unlikely that any individual warrior, however powerful he was, could establish an entirely new social system.
Andarun’s Sons: Stripped of the melodrama and the legendary portents, this seems to be nothing more then a fairly standard squabble over succession. What there is in the way of material from Athas supports the idea that Andarun’s youngest son married a major noblewoman of Athas first, and then got support from his brother in first resisting attempts to overthrow “the outlander”, and then in conquering the rest of the country, becoming his brothers chief vassal in the process. All of this depends on the historical existence of King Andarun, and should be taken with a grain of salt. This may well be an account of the doings of generations of war leaders rather then of the doings of a single family. There is a bit of evidence for the existence of one “Jamall”, a minor early ruler, notable for instituting some needed reforms, but nothing to justify the evil reputation of “Jural” if there is any identity between the two.
The “conquest” of Sicar was more of an amalgamation then a conquest. By that time the nobles lineages were so intertwined that the only real barriers to unifying the countries was political; the nobles of Sicar had a much larger say in their government then the nobles of Andaras. This was eventually solved when the nobles of Andaras managed to extract a charter or “constitution” from Haden II in exchange for their support in attacking Sicar – which promptly forestalled the attack thru “signing onto” said charter – giving it far more force then Haden had anticipated. Many scholars suspect that the Sicarese planned the whole episode in advance.
Andaras Society
Andaras is quasivictorian at best, and has a few spots that are downright medieval. For example, the legal system (like almost everything else) is very heavily influenced by social rank. Penalties are minor for aristocrats, light for the gentry and the wealthy, ordinary for the middle class, and severe for the poor (the vast majority). It isn’t uncommon for lower-class ten-year-olds to hang for stealing food. There are no “controlled substances”, mostly because only the upper class can afford them. Weapons laws are rather vague. Generally, the richer you are, the more you can expect to get away with. A pistol or two for self-defense is almost expected among the upper class. Among the lower class, even a knife is grounds for grave suspicion. A few weapons (garrottes and such) are considered evidence of guilt in themselves. Aristocrats may carry swords if they wish, but few do so. A characters social class also determines how much his or her word is “worth” in court. Any aristocrat can pretty much condemn a street urchin simply by making a complaint.
Sidri has a rotation period of 21.87 hours, a year of 423.32 (of it’s) days, and a radius of 5318 miles. Heavy metals are somewhat scarce on Sidri and the nickel-iron core is relatively small, resulting in a surface gravity of only 1.06 gravities, a reduced gravitational gradient – and it’s consequence, a thicker atmosphere. Sea-level pressure is about 17.7 pounds per square inch – but the air has a lesser absolute oxygen content. Tectonic activity is limited by the smaller core and lower level of heat-supplying radioactive materials, hence land masses are smaller, scarcer, and usually center on areas where what few mountains there are break the waters surface.
Seas cover about 90% of the surface, the humidity is high – and the climate is consequently cloudy and rainy. All these factors combine to generate exceptionally potent storms. Hurricane-class weather is relatively common. Despite a somewhat bluer sun, the clouds and the thicker atmosphere combine to both make sunburn scarce, and to limit photosynthesis – slightly reducing crop yields and the potential atmospheric oxygen content. On the other hand, deserts are nonexistent and the ocean moderates the climate – extending Sidri’s temperate zones nearly to the poles. Overall, the climate is warm and humid.
Much of Sidri still remains relatively unexplored, due to distance, the shortage of the metal needed to build modern ships, and the tremendous storms. There are no known “continents”, although there are some very large islands and broad stretches of shallow seas. The people of Sidri eat a lot of fish. Overall, the biosphere is superficially ordinary – however there are traces of a secondary biochemical system in scattered enclaves, as well as the usual “supernatural” flora and fauna found on every world with reasonable magical impedance levels. Such things are, however, very scarce.
Astronomical Data : Sidri is fourth among the eight known planets that orbit it’s G6 yellow sun. While the primary has a red dwarf companion, that sun is far too distant to have much effect on Sidri’s system. The red companion may have planets of it’s own, but this is as yet unknown. Sidri has one major moon (Khavron) and one smaller one (Tarote’). A nearby asteroid belt leads to relatively frequent meteorite impacts and the capture of moonlets. Meteorites are actually a significant source of accessible iron. Sidri has a meager “starscape”, as it is currently located well above the galactic plane. This supplies a marvelous view of the “local” galactic spiral, but results in few stellar neighbors. Current calendars are badly in need of major reform, resulting as they do from attempts to combine roughly three week and five week lunar cycles with holy days derived from a solar tradition.
Overall, Sidri’s technology is just a bit behind current earth technology, although the lack of sufficient metals limits it’s distribution and use. High technology is limited to the social elite – while the “masses” are normally restricted to quasi-Victorian technology levels. Aviation and space research are both considerably behind earth-level, thanks to the weather and to Sidri’s higher orbital (and escape) velocities. Basic preventive medicine is available to everyone, as epidemics are certainly undesirable, but major medical attention is typically reserved for the rich. The poor must simply hope that they don’t get sick or that they can find a physician who’s doing charity work. Trains are the prevalent means of transportation. Automobiles are limited to the middle class and up, while trucks are limited to valuable or perishable cargos. If any form of atomic weaponry has been developed it’s still being kept a secret. The fact that uranium is extremely rare on Sidri may be responsible for this aberration. There are a few bright spots. Drugs, medicines, and immunizing techniques are remarkably well developed, fusion power is approaching practicality – and research into genetics and superconductivity is doing very well. As might be expected, Sidri is well ahead of earth in ceramics and cellulose-based plastics and materials.
While both magical and psychic powers work well on Sidri, both are limited by a shortage of power to work with, and by the consequent scarcity of training in the necessary skills. Magery was never a dominating force on Sidri, and – with the rise of technology and official disapproval – has retreated further; becoming something of a family affair passed down among the talented lineages, and usually quietly used to further their own ends. Thanks to a high difference in the aspect potentials which results in a shortage of magical energy, the usual “supernatural” flora and fauna are extremely scarce. With few nearby stars to generate gravitational stresses, powerflows are rare as well. Hence, outside those few talented families, magic has almost been forgotten. Psychic powers are popularly believed in – and are generally regarded with suspicion, frowned upon by the church, and regarded as unreliable. Thanks to the shortage of usable electromagnetic fields on or near Sidri, this is often all too true. Most publicly known psychics possess very little actual power. Rumors that more powerful psychics often “disappear” shortly after they reveal themselves get very little credit. Most or all of such powerful psychics seem to be frauds in any case. Invocation is extremely limited, partly due to a shortage of beings to invoke, and partially due to the fact that Sidri’s local natural laws make it difficult to transfer energy to and from astral space. Most of the “invocation” practiced is actually empyrean magic.
Social Classes
Slavery is legal in Andaras, although it is relatively rare – mostly because slaves have (at least in theory) some rights. Their masters are responsible for feeding them, providing basic medical care, and so on. All children are born free, and those born to slaves generally become wards of the church. Actually, slaves are more trouble then simply hiring some desperate man or woman to whom you’ll have no obligations except for their salary. Since this is cheap, slaves are usually only used for things which no free servant will put up with. Slaves are usually obtained by purchasing lower- class children, import, judicially, or by the purchase of condemned criminals.
Indentured Servants have to serve for anything from six months to twenty years, but have far more rights then slaves. Adults are usually indentured for debt, children as “apprentices”. Many lower-class children are “apprenticed” as servants, receiving room and board and eventually – a reference allowing them a chance to move up a bit… Such servants are utterly vulnerable, as their masters can easily have them hung – and no one is likely to protest or investigate if an “overenthusiastic” master beats them to death.
The Poor include the petty thieves/gallows-bait and the “working poor” – mostly day-laborers. While they are better-nourished then might be expected (thanks to public-health programs), the conditions of their lives are still appalling. The poor are generally terrified of being sent to the workhouse – or of being forced to sell some of their kids simply to keep the others from starving. There are lots of charities that assist the poor – but the upper classes sponsor them because it’s supposed to improve and uplift their souls – not because they feel any obligation to the poor… They wouldn’t want them to “get above themselves” now would they?
The Artisians are the skilled labourers, craftsmen, and better servants. Given long days of labor they can actually aspire to a fairly comfortable lifestyle, and a bit of schooling for their children.
The Middle Class is relatively small, but is likely to be the most familiar group among the classes. While a member of the middle class is likely to have several servants available (Nannies, part-time cleaning women, errand boys, and so on), otherwise their lives are quite a bit like those of the middle class today. This also includes the upper-class servants of the wealthy and the aristocracy. While the middle and lower classes have a voice in the government via the House Of Commons, this is more a theoretical then a practical thing. Most of them have their children privately tutored.
The Aristocracy, Wealthy, and the Gentry, are chiefly distinguished by whether their money is new or old and by how much of it they have… Most of them live in a vaguely “manorial’ style. The House Of Lords is one of the major powers in Andaras, with a power rivaling (or exceeding) the power of the reigning monarch.
The Haelin Church is the state religion of Andaras, and a major social and political factor, the Church is responsible for public education (Such as it is. It’s efforts are supported by several secular organizations who have an interest in seeing that the members of the lower class can at least read a bit) and for the moral guidance of the people. It’s a bit of a mystery cult, and has many levels of initiation – ranging from those open to lay members, up to secrets only the primate is permitted to know. Sadly, truly dedicated priests are rare… While theoretically dedicated to monotheistic worship of Amat, in practice most prayers are directed to his servants, the “Haelea”. The Haelin Church tends to support the status quo, has a quite severe attitude towards liars, oathbreakers, thieves, and others who act in violation of trust, rebel against, or betray, those set over them, but has little to say on the subject of sex or the various aristocratic vices. It regards both magic and psychic talents with considerable suspicion. Interestingly, the church supports women’s rights – not that they need much defending. Aristocratic women have always had considerable power and influence, while the lower classes have few rights, whether male or female.
Money: Andaras uses pounds, shillings, and pence. For practical purposes, a pound is about equal to 10$. A middle-class income runs around 2000 pounds a year.
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Home Blog Entry A nutritional supplement for treating chronic hepatitis C: Viusid
A nutritional supplement for treating chronic hepatitis C: Viusid
The pathogenesis of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is associated with severe oxidative stress and non-selective immunological disturbance that lead to necroinflammation and the progression of fibrosis. Several trials have suggested that antioxidant and immunostimulant therapies may have a beneficial effect. Two previous clinical studies have reported that the Viusid related effect on histologic features, especially fibrosis, appears to be associated with antioxidant and/or immunomodulatory properties. However, the putative mechanism of action of Viusid is unknown.
A research article to be published on June 7, 2010 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this question. The authors reported the results of a randomized double-blind and placebo-controlled study to evaluate the effect of Viusid on oxidative stress and cytokine parameters in patients with CHC who had been nonresponders to previous antiviral therapy with peginterferon plus ribavirin and infected with genotype 1.
Their results show that Viusid improves oxidative stress through reduction of lipid peroxidation products and has an immunomodulatory effect on cytokine secretion via increased production of IFN-γ and IL-10, decreased production of IL-1α, and stabilized TNF-α secretion in patients with CHC who have failed previous antiviral treatment. Thus, Viusid is an interesting strategy of treatment for those patients who don’t eradicate their viral infection or when antiviral treatment is contraindicated (decompensated cirrhosis). The administration of Viusid was well tolerated. Further studies are needed to evaluate the clinical impact of the administration of Viusid in patients with end-stage liver disease secondary to CHC.
Reference: Gomez EV, Perez YM, Sanchez HV, Forment GR, Soler EA, Bertot LC, Garcia AY, del Rosario Abreu Vazquez M, Fabian LG. Antioxidant and immunomodulatory effects of Viusid in patients with chronic hepatitis C. World J Gastroenterol 2010; 16(21): 2638-2647 http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v16/i21/2638.htm
Correspondence to: Dr. Eduardo Vilar Gomez, PhD, Associated Professor, Department of Hepatology, National Institute of Gastroenterology, 25th Avenue, 503, Vedado, Havana 10400, Cuba. [email protected]
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World Journal of Gastroenterology (WJG), a leading international journal in gastroenterology and hepatology, has established a reputation for publishing first class research on esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, liver cancer, viral hepatitis, colorectal cancer, and H pylori infection and provides a forum for both clinicians and scientists. WJG has been indexed and abstracted in Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch) and Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Index Medicus, MEDLINE and PubMed, Chemical Abstracts, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Abstracts Journals, Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology, CAB Abstracts and Global Health. ISI JCR 2008 IF: 2.081. WJG is a weekly journal published by WJG Press. The publication dates are the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th day of every month. WJG is supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 30224801 and No. 30424812, and was founded with the name of China National Journal of New Gastroenterology on October 1, 1995, and renamed WJG on January 25, 1998.
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Research Shows Roughly 150 Billion Tons of Ice Lost Annually
TOPICS:Climate ChangeGlacierGlobal WarmingGRACEIce CapsNASAPopularSatelliteSea LevelUniversity Of Colorado
By University of Colorado Boulder February 9, 2012
The iceberg pictured above is a small part of the Antarctic ice sheet. The picture was taken on the Riiser-Larsen ice shelf in December 1995.
Recent research from the University of Colorado Boulder, in a joint effort with NASA, shows that regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 148 billion tons of ice annually. Using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE, researchers analyzed satellite measurements from 2003 – 2010 to gain a better understanding of the ice cap loss and future threats to sea level increases.
Earth’s glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
The research effort is the first comprehensive satellite study of the contribution of the world’s melting glaciers and ice caps to global sea level rise and indicates they are adding roughly 0.4 millimeters annually, said CU-Boulder physics Professor John Wahr, who helped lead the study. The measurements are important because the melting of the world’s glaciers and ice caps, along with Greenland and Antarctica, pose the greatest threat to sea level increases in the future, Wahr said.
The researchers used satellite measurements taken with the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE, a joint effort of NASA and Germany, to calculate that the world’s glaciers and ice caps had lost about 148 billion tons, or about 39 cubic miles of ice annually from 2003 to 2010. The total does not count the mass from individual glacier and ice caps on the fringes of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets — roughly an additional 80 billion tons.
“This is the first time anyone has looked at all of the mass loss from all of Earth’s glaciers and ice caps with GRACE,” said Wahr. “The Earth is losing an incredible amount of ice to the oceans annually, and these new results will help us answer important questions in terms of both sea rise and how the planet’s cold regions are responding to global change.”
A paper on the subject is being published in the Feb. 9 online edition of the journal Nature. The first author, Thomas Jacob, did his research at CU-Boulder and is now at the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, in Orléans, France. Other paper co-authors include Professor Tad Pfeffer of CU-Boulder’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and Sean Swenson, a former CU-Boulder physics doctoral student who is now a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
“The strength of GRACE is that it sees everything in the system,” said Wahr. “Even though we don’t have the resolution to look at individual glaciers, GRACE has proven to be an exceptional tool.” Traditional estimates of Earth’s ice caps and glaciers have been made using ground-based measurements from relatively few glaciers to infer what all of the unmonitored glaciers around the world were doing, he said. Only a few hundred of the roughly 200,000 glaciers worldwide have been monitored for a decade or more.
Launched in 2002, two GRACE satellites whip around Earth in tandem 16 times a day at an altitude of about 300 miles, sensing subtle variations in Earth’s mass and gravitational pull. Separated by roughly 135 miles, the satellites measure changes in Earth’s gravity field caused by regional changes in the planet’s mass, including ice sheets, oceans and water stored in the soil and in underground aquifers.
A positive change in gravity during a satellite approach over Greenland, for example, tugs the lead GRACE satellite away from the trailing satellite, speeding it up and increasing the distance between the two. As the satellites straddle Greenland, the front satellite slows down and the trailing satellite speeds up. A sensitive ranging system allows researchers to measure the distance of the two satellites down to as small as 1 micron — about 1/100 the width of a human hair — and to calculate ice and water amounts from particular regions of interest around the globe using their gravity fields.
For the global glaciers and ice cap measurements, the study authors created separate “mascons,” large, ice-covered regions of Earth of various ovate-type shapes. Jacob and Wahr blanketed 20 regions of Earth with 175 mascons and calculated the estimated mass balance for each mascon.
The CU-led team also used GRACE data to calculate that the ice loss from both Greenland and Antarctica, including their peripheral ice caps and glaciers, was roughly 385 billion tons of ice annually. The total mass ice loss from Greenland, Antarctica and all Earth’s glaciers and ice caps from 2003 to 2010 was about 1,000 cubic miles, about eight times the water volume of Lake Erie, said Wahr.
“The total amount of ice lost to Earth’s oceans from 2003 to 2010 would cover the entire United States in about 1 and one-half feet of water,” said Wahr, also a fellow at the CU-headquartered Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
The vast majority of climate scientists agree that human activities like pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is warming the planet, an effect that is most pronounced in the polar regions.
One unexpected study result from GRACE was that the estimated ice loss from high Asia mountains — including ranges like the Himalaya, the Pamir and the Tien Shan — was only about 4 billion tons of ice annually. Some previous ground-based estimates of ice loss in the high Asia mountains have ranged up to 50 billion tons annually, Wahr said.
“The GRACE results in this region really were a surprise,” said Wahr. “One possible explanation is that previous estimates were based on measurements taken primarily from some of the lower, more accessible glaciers in Asia and were extrapolated to infer the behavior of higher glaciers. But unlike the lower glaciers, many of the high glaciers would still be too cold to lose mass even in the presence of atmospheric warming.”
“What is still not clear is how these rates of melt may increase and how rapidly glaciers may shrink in the coming decades,” said Pfeffer, also a professor in CU-Boulder’s civil, environmental and architectural engineering department. “That makes it hard to project into the future.”
According to the GRACE data, total sea level rise from all land-based ice on Earth including Greenland and Antarctica was roughly 1.5 millimeters per year annually or about 12 millimeters, or one-half inch, from 2003 to 2010, said Wahr. The sea rise amount does not include the expansion of water due to warming, which is the second key sea-rise component and is roughly equal to melt totals, he said.
“One big question is how sea level rise is going to change in this century,” said Pfeffer. “If we could understand the physics more completely and perfect numerical models to simulate all of the processes controlling sea level — especially glacier and ice sheet changes — we would have a much better means to make predictions. But we are not quite there yet.”
Image: NASA/GRACE team/DLR/Ben Holt Sr.
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Queen Atlanna Showcases Her Fighting Skills in Latest Aquaman Clip
by Ana Dumaraog
Update: Yet another Aquaman clip has been released, this one featuring Aquaman and his brother Orm exchanging harsh words before their battle for control of Atlantis. Check it out below. A clip of Arthur and Mera battling sea monsters can also be seen at that link.
Atlanna's full Aquaman fight sequence has been released online. The mother of Jason Momoa's Arthur Curry, the former Queen of Atlantis is played by Nicole Kidman in the upcoming James Wan-directed movie. Serving as the origin story for the man who-would-be king of the underwater civilization, the film will tackle Arthur's journey to prove that he's the rightful leader of Atlantis.
With just a little bit over a week before Aquaman hits U.S. theaters, Warner Bros.' marketing machine for the project is fully running. Momoa, Amber Heard (Mera) and the rest of the cast alongside Wan have been busy doing press rounds around the world following the movie's big red carpet premiere. Meanwhile, new promo spots continue to be released, including this latest one which puts Kidman's Queen Atlanna front and center.
Related: Amber Heard Wants Mera & Wonder Woman To Team Up In Spinoff
Warner Bros. has released the full scene (posted on YouTube by Muhamad Rizki) of Queen Atlanna's fight against a few underwater creatures using her five-pronged weapon - the same one that her son has been wielding before he finds the Trident of Neptune. The scene takes place while Arthur is still a young boy, and it seems like he and Atlanna were living quietly as a family with Thomas Curry (Temuera Morrison). However, her past life continues to haunt the Queen, resulting in the need to defend those she loves. Watch the video below:
Fans have seen a snippet of said sequence in previously released footage from Aquaman, but it's always been played over Arthur's narration of his life as a half-human/half-Atlantean. Regardless, since a chunk of the action set piece was unveiled, it has been one of the most intriguing snippets of the movie that people have seen thus far. Considering what's known about the film, this dangerous encounter may just be what drives Atlanna back to Atlantis. Trailers have revealed that at one point, she'll leave her son on the surface, telling Thomas that Arthur will someday unite their worlds. After that, no one really knows what happened to her.
Considering that Aquaman takes place after Arthur's first superhero mission with the rest of the World's Finest Heroes in Justice League, the film will incorporate a series of flashbacks like this one. Fans will see Arthur in various stages of his life, including being a young boy bullied in school for his capability to communicate with underwater creatures, and during his early years of training with Vulko. This way, Wan is able to establish the lead character's history, and inn turn make him more compelling for viewers.
So far, early reviews for Aquaman are generally positive - a great way for Warner Bros. and the DCEU to make its comeback to the superhero arena after taking more than a year hiatus to regroup and adjust their plans following the financial disappointment that was Justice League. With the possibility of another hit on their hands, the studio is already talking about a sequel, and just like Wonder Woman with Wonder Woman 1984, there's a good chance that the same team of cast and crew might be brought back for it.
More: Aquaman Review: DC's Superhero Movie is a Wild & Goofy Ride
Source: Warner Bros. (via Muhamad Rizki)
Key Release Dates
Aquaman (2018) release date: Dec 21, 2018
Shazam! (2019) release date: Apr 05, 2019
Joker (2019) release date: Oct 04, 2019
Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) release date: Feb 07, 2020
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) release date: Jun 05, 2020
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The principles of service-orientation part 3 of 6: Service abstraction and reuse
This is the third article in a six-part series dedicated to exploring the common principles of service-orientation.
Thomas Erl
Arcitura Education Inc.
An aspect of service-orientation that ties directly into our previous discussion of service contracts and loose coupling is that of abstraction. It is through abstraction that we can control what parts of the underlying service logic are exposed to the outside world. By ensuring that these parts are designed in a generic manner so as to accommodate multiple potential service requestors, we can strive to position the service as a reusable IT asset. In this article we will explore different levels of abstraction and then move on to a discussion of how reuse supports the overall strategic goals associated with SOA.
Abstracting functionality and technology
Also referred to as service interface-level abstraction, it is this principle that encourages us to establish services as black boxes, intentionally hiding their underlying details from potential consumers. Abstraction is accomplished through the disciplined use of service contracts. By limiting what is made public about a service to what is documented in the service contract, a high degree of separation can be achieved between what becomes private (hidden) and public (consumable). This is desirable because it supports the loosely coupled relationship we described in part 2.
There is no limit to the amount of logic a service can represent. A service may be designed to perform a simple task or it may be positioned as a gateway to an entire automation solution. There is also no restriction as to the source of automation logic a service can draw upon.
For example, a single service can expose logic from multiple different underlying systems. In fact, as we move toward the standardization of service models that establish a functional context associated with a business entity or task, it is expected that in environments with numerous legacy solutions, one service will commonly expose functionality that relies on a variety of different systems.
Service interface-level abstraction is one of the inherent qualities provided by distributed platforms, such as component and Web services-based architectures. The use of Web services are especially synergetic because they elevate the level of attainable abstraction beyond just functionality. Web services abstract the proprietary implementation details of the underlying automation logic, which frees potential consumers of the service from having to interface with specific vendor technologies. Even though we refer to abstraction as a characteristic of the service, it is actually the individual operations that collectively abstract the underlying logic. Services simply act as containers for these operations. The level of abstraction of any given service is therefore determined to large extent by the collective levels of abstraction attained by each of its service operations.
This puts a great deal of emphasis on the design of the service contract. The more that is expressed in the service contract, the less details we end up abstracting. The more generic we make the service contract, the less process or consumer-specific the service becomes. This then determines the reuse potential of what we choose to expose (to not abstract) through the service contract.
Fostering agility through reuse
Service-orientation encourages reuse in all services, regardless of whether immediate requirements for reuse exist. This fundamental principle forces us to pay extra attention to each delivered unit of automation logic we want to call a "service."
The primary strategic goal associated with reuse is to position each service as an IT asset with "repeatable value." As the amount of reusable assets accumulate, the chances increase to fulfill new business automation requirements by building less and using more of what we already have.
This is expected to reduce the time it takes to build automation logic, thereby improving an organization's overall responsiveness to change. By decreasing the associated effort, the fulfillment of automation requirements is also anticipated to become more cost-effective, leading to the significant potential of streamlining IT development environments. This may sound like a tall order, but many organizations are investing heavily in the creation of a highly reusable service inventory to attain these very benefits.
This principle facilitates all forms of reuse, including inter-application interoperability, composition and the creation of cross-cutting or utility services. As we established earlier, a service is simply a collection of related operations. It is therefore the logic encapsulated by the individual operations that must be deemed reusable to warrant representation as a reusable service.
The emphasis on far reaching reuse also highlights the suitability of Web services as an implementation option for services. By making each service available via an industry standard communications framework, reuse potential can broaden dramatically because the logic encapsulated by a service now becomes accessible to service requestors built with different underlying technologies.
It all comes down to the service contract
Both of these principles bring us back to the required use of the service contract. It is the content of this contract that determines what is and is not abstracted. It is through the design of this content that we can determine how generic and reusable the non-abstraced parts actually are. This raises the need to truly view the design of a service as an investment. Building service-oriented solution logic is almost always more expensive and more time consuming because considerations need to be taken into account that go beyond immediate tactical requirements. An appreciation of what service-orientation is intended to accomplish is therefore useful in justifying this investment.
We're half-way through the series and hopefully have shed some light on the unique characteristics, requirements and potential benefits of the service-orientation paradigm. Up next in part 4 we will discuss the need for services to be discoverable, regardless of whether a service registry actually exists within an environment. We will also take a closer look at the very important and often misunderstood characteristic of service composability.
This article contains excerpts from "Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design" by Thomas Erl (792 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0131858580, Prentice Hall/Pearson PTR, Copyright 2006). For more information, visit www.soabooks.com.
Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author and Series Editor of the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl" (www.soabooks.com). Thomas is also the founder of SOA Systems Inc., a firm specializing in strategic SOA consulting, planning, and training services (www.soatraining.com). Thomas has made significant contributions to the SOA industry in the areas of service-orientation research and the development of a mainstream SOA methodology. Thomas is involved with a number of technical committees and research efforts, and travels frequently for speaking, training, and consulting engagements. To learn more, visit www.thomaserl.com.
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What Are Some Great Polk Gulch Restaurants to Try?
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What Are Some Good Polk Gulch Restaurants?
A small neighborhood, Polk Gulch runs along Polk Street in San Francisco. It sits just west of Nob Hill and east of Pacific Heights and has quite a storied past. During the 1950s through the 1980s, it was a popular spot for the LGBT community and even was home to the city’s first San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. Today, the community is in the process of a revitalization, which includes the addition of some fun shops and excellent places to eat — there are plenty of Polk Gulch restaurants that serve up delicious food each day.
Bob’s Donuts
Whether it’s dessert, an afternoon snack, breakfast or a midnight craving, there are almost always doughnuts available at Bob’s. Typically open 24/7, this no-frills bakery has been around since the 1960s, and it’s one of the pastry shops in the city that still makes its dough from scratch. Choose from over a dozen flavors, ranging from classics to cool, trendy combinations.
Harris’ Steakhouse
Harris’ is cozy and inviting with its warm, sophisticated decor that looks like it was pulled from an old Hollywood movie set. The restaurant opened in 1984. Since then, it’s become a staple for West Coasters who are craving a bit of the Midwest with its dry-aged beef straight from that part of the country; the signature porterhouse steak is a favorite. Other favorites include Maine lobster, salmon, chicken and lamb chops, and there’s a pastry chef on hand making seasonal desserts. Don’t forget to check out the extensive wine list.
Swan Oyster Depot
Swan Oyster Depot isn’t the fanciest place in town, but it’s one of the most popular. Typically, a line forms outside the door as patrons wait to get their hands on some of the fresh oysters available here. Guests can enjoy a range of fresh seafood items, including shellfish from the restaurant’s beloved raw oyster bar.
Basik Cafe
Basik Cafe is a go-to source for health food in the area. It opened its doors in 2010 and has been serving up good-for-everyone smoothies and acai bowls since then. The Hawaii-based eatery has four locations in four states, but its heart remains in Kailua-Kona. Expect a bit of aloha culture when dining here.
Polk Gulch is famous for its boundary-breaking history. Its restaurants just as easily break flavor boundaries with their delicious snacks and meals.
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Bioavailability of R- and S- alpha-lipoic acid has extensively been studied. After oral intake of R- and S-alpha-lipoic acid, at least a 60% higher response was found for the R-form than for the mixed (racemic) form, which would include the S-form.
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Couto Finishes Fourth, Women's Cross Country Runs Sixth at NE10 Championship
When and Where: November 4, 2018 – Hopkinton, N.H. (Hopkinton Fair Grounds)---Distance: 6k
Result: Southern New Hampshire University – 6th/15 (175)
Junior Jill Couto (Newton Junction, N.H.) cruised across the finish line in 22:09.72 on Sunday to finish fourth overall, and lead the Southern New Hampshire University women's cross country team to a sixth-place showing at the 2018 Northeast-10 Conference Women's Cross Country Championship at the Hopkinton, N.H. Fairgrounds.
Couto's efforts landed her on the All-NE10 First Team, which marks the second consecutive season she has garnered All-Conference recognition. She improved her performance by nine spots from a season ago, when she ran 13th at Stanley Park.
Freshman Grace Henson (Cumberland, R.I.) was next in for the Penmen, in 21st place, in 22:52.99. The three-time NE10 Rookie of the Week landed on the All-NE10 Third Team in her rookie season.
Junior Jill Dieterich (Commack, N.Y.) followed with a time of 23:21.75 (31st place). Senior Ashley Dennis (Conventry, R.I.) crossed the line in 24:23.08 while freshman Ashley Corcoran (East Longmeadow, Mass.) traversed the course in 25:25.22. Freshman Olivia Coco (Bedford, N.H.) came in at 27:03.61 in her first 6k run.
- The Penmen improved one spot from the 2017 NE10 Championship, and earn a top-10 spot for the fifth time in six seasons.
- All six racers for SNHU established personal bests at the 6k distance. Couto's time was the third fastest 6k in SNHU history behind only two runs by Laura O'Hanlon.
- Stonehill College captured the team title for the 10th consecutive season with a combined total of 20 points. The Skyhawks were followed by Merrimack College (89), Assumption College (145), College of St. Rose (164), Adelphi University (168) and Southern New Hampshire (175). LeMoyne College (175) followed while St. Anselm College (203) came in eighth place. The Penmen earned a Queen City Cup point by finishing ahead of the Hawks.
- Stonehill had four of the top five finishers around Couto. Junior Anna Lastra was first in at 21:57.39 while teammate Sam Curtin, a sophomore, was second at 22:03.14.
- Two of the top scorers for the Penmen did not compete
What's Next:
Southern New Hampshire is back in action on November 17 when it travels to Bethpage, N.Y. for the 2018 NCAA Division II East Regional Championships.
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Behind Xi Jinping’s Historic Visit To North Korea
Surya Gangadharan New Delhi 21 June 2019
China’s President Xi Jinping is back in Beijing after two days of confabulations with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un. “At the very least, he would have some talking points for Donald Trump when they meet at the G20 summit in Osaka next week,” says Vishnu Prakash, India’s former ambassador to South Korea.
Some South Korean analysts speculated that Xi could be looking to make a breakthrough in the trade war with the United States. He could be hoping to leverage his connect with the North Korean leader to show Trump China’s usefulness as a partner in resolving key regional issues including, perhaps, the nuclear one.
But Ambassador Prakash does not believe China has any interest in de-fanging North Korea of its nuclear weapons. China in fact backs the north’s “step by step” approach to the nuclear issue, which is completely at odds with Trump’s demand that the north agree to be de-nuclearised immediately.
He believes Xi’s intentions are more immediate. “Xi’s first visit to Pyongyang as president was to ensure China a seat at the negotiating table in any future international peace parleys on the Korean Peninsula.”
It hardly needs saying that China has no interest in peace on the Korean Peninsula. At least, no peace where it is not the chief conductor. Which is why Kim Jong-Un’s go-it-alone approach including and especially his two summits with Donald Trump, would have been deeply traumatic for Beijing.
The summits failed to achieve any breakthrough and with the U.S. and the West tightening sanctions, Xi and Kim had reason to close the door on the past and look ahead. Appropriately, the state run media in both countries rose to the occasion.
“Over more than a year, the North Korean side has taken many positive measures to avoid escalation … and manage and control the peninsular situation but it hasn’t received any response from the relevant party,” China’s CCTV quoted President Xi as telling Kim.
The North Korean party newspaper Rodong Sinmun rather dramatically referred to Xi’s visit as consolidating “the blood ties between the peoples of China and DPRK,” a reference to China’s military intervention in the 1950 war that helped the North Korean regime beat back UN forces led by the U.S. “Comrade Xi Jinping’s visit comes as pressing and significant tasks arise due to complicated international relations …,” the paper added.
More important, amid reports of food shortages in North Korea, the two sides are looking at economic development. China may be able to increase humanitarian aid and tourism to that country at a time when the sanctions regime is looking frayed. China and Russia have put a technical hold on further sanctions on the north at the UN Security Council.
What about India? Prakash says India has no leverage on the Korean Peninsula. Its goals are limited to ensuring there is no resumption of the nuclear blackmarket that brought together Pakistan, North Korea and China in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Belly @ Kentish Town Forum, 21/07/16
I don’t write about every gig I go to, but of course I had to post some thoughts about this one…
Belly were one of my favourites when I was a teenager. I loved both of the band’s albums, Star and King, and listened to them hundreds of times. I loved Star‘s mix of beguiling tunes and unsettling fairy-tale imagery, and King‘s intimate, band-in-a-room vibe. But as I didn’t hear either record until after Belly had already broken up, I didn’t have a chance to see the band play live – until they announced a reunion tour earlier this year. I picked up my tickets pretty quickly.
Belly’s slim canon was something of a blessing in the context of a reunion show. The band played for two hours, with a short intermission and no support act (hallelujah), so there was nothing I really wanted to hear that they didn’t play, and no key text (other than maybe Angel from Star and the title track from King) that was omitted. The band, laughing and joking between songs, were clearly having a blast and thankful for an audience that still cared twenty years down the line.
They’re still a tiny bit rusty (they played a couple of warm-up shows in Newport, RI, then came over here for the British leg of the tour; by the time they go back to the States, I expect they’ll be up to full speed), but they played really well. White Belly from Star (much underrated song, that – there’s a whole novel in the lines “Made a mistake on a fire escape in San Francisco; worked my way back in a hallway in LA”) was an early highlight, Red got the crowd jumping (time signature changes confounding most of them), Gepetto was a joyful sing-along and Full Moon, Empty Heart showed Tanya Donelly’s voice is no less elastic than it was in her twenties.
To my delight, personal favourites The Bees and Thief (both King era, the latter a B-side) both got an airing. The Bees (played halfway through their first set) was a bit of a moment for me, actually; it was during the first verse that it really came home that I was watching a favourite band play a favourite song for the first and probably only time. If I had to pick one stand-out moment, that’d be it – even more so than the obvious live favourites and singles (Dusted, Feed the Tree, Gepetto, Now They’ll Sleep, Super Connected, Seal My Fate). Pat, the old friend from high school who lent me his copy of Star all those years ago, felt similarly about eerie gothic melodrama Low Red Moon, one of the centrepiece tracks from Star, which the band played halfway through their second set and absolutely nailed. Chis Gorman on drums was on particularly commanding form on that one, holding the band to a perfect tempo and giving his snare drum an authoritative pounding; at the song’s end, Donelly turned to him and made some sort of gesture of appreciation. It was typical of the warm spirit of the whole evening.
It wouldn’t be a Songs from so Deep gig review if I didn’t mention the sound mix. It was, I guess, adequate. The drums were solid and powerful, partly due to Chris Gorman, who as I said gave his drums a determined thumping throughout, but his brother Tom Gorman’s guitar didn’t fare so well – it was a murky and barely discernable presence for the entire first set, and an uncontrolled feedbacky presence for the second (he was playing a Gretsch semi-acoustic and every time he stopped playing, it started to feed back). It was far from the worst live mix I’ve ever heard, but I was very worried during the opening track (Puberty), as only the drums and Donelly’s vocal were audible. Thankfully, things improved a bit for the rest of the first set, and some tweaks seemed to be made during intermission, so the sound didn’t hamper my enjoyment of the gig.
With reformed bands, I try to go in with no expectations. It’s worked pretty well this last couple of years, where many of the gigs I’ve seen have been forty- or fifty-something muscians getting the old band back together and playing their old songs. But still, I’d have been disappointed if the show had been only OK. It was much, much better than that.
Well-preserved Belly
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National Coal Corporation
National Coal Corporation (NCOC), based in Knoxville, Tennessee, engages in mining, processing and selling bituminous steam coal in the southeastern United States. The corporation began operating in 2003 and currently serves electric utilities, industrial companies, and coal resellers. Active mines are located in east Tennessee and north Alabama and include two underground mines, six surface mines, and two highwall mines.[1] The majority of coal produced is sold to electric utilities. The largest customers are South Carolina Public Service Authority, Georgia Power, and Duke Energy.[2]
On September 29, 2010, Ranger Energy Investments entered into an agreement to acquire National Coal as a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranger by the end of the year. Under the terms of the agreement, Ranger Energy will pay $1 per share in cash for each share of National Coal common stock, including shares issuable upon exercise of options. In April 2010, Ranger Energy acquired certain National Coal assets located in Devonia, Tennessee, and in and on its New River Tract site for an aggregate sales price of $11.8m.[3]
1 Existing Coal Mines
2 New Coal Mines
3 Production and revenues up for 2008
4 Derailed train dumps 1100 tons of coal next to New River
5 Direct Action against National Coal Corporation
5.1 June 7, 2005: First stockholders meeting of National Coal Corporation Disrupted
5.2 August 13, 2009: "Going Away Party" for National Coal Corporation in Knoxville, TV
6.1 Senior management
6.2 Board of Directors
8.3 External links
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National Coal Mine 11
New Coal Mines
National Coal Mine 12 is a newly planned National Coal Corporation mining operation in Knoxville, Tennessee, announced in July 2010. National Coal said when the mine is fully operational it is anticipated to add about 40,000 tons per month, or 480,000 tons per year, to the Company’s production. Sales will be targeted to the specialty coal market. After receiving the final permit, construction of Mine 12 has begun. Production at Mine 12 will be ramped-up over a period of 18 months, with first production planned in the fourth quarter of 2010.[4]
National Coal’s operations in Tennessee include the coal mineral and mining rights to approximately 79,000 acres of land, along with mining complexes that currently include one active underground mine and one active surface mine. In addition, National Coal continues to own and operate one preparation plant and one unit train loading facility served by the Norfolk Southern Railroad.[4]
Production and revenues up for 2008
On March 30, 2009, National Coal Corp. reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter and Year End 2008. 2008 revenues totaled $132.6 million, a 43 percent increase from $92.8 million in 2007. These sales were based primarily on the sale of 2.0 million tons of coal in 2008, versus 1.8 million tons in 2007. Production increased 35.6 percent to 1.83 million tons from 1.35 million tons in 2007. Coal revenue per ton sold rose 24.6 percent to $65.00 from $52.15 in 2007.[5]
President and CEO Daniel A. Roling also said that the company is seeing higher prices per ton in 2009 compared to the previous year and is in contracts to sell 3.45 million tons of coal.[5]
Expected production for NCOC in 2008 was between 2.5 and 3 million tons of coal.
Derailed train dumps 1100 tons of coal next to New River
On January 9, 2009, a train operated by National Coal Corporation overturned and spilled around 1100 tons of coal next to the New River in Scott County, Tennessee. The spill was discovered three days later by Steve Bakaletz, a wildlife biologist with the National Park Service. According to Bakaletz, crews had been attempting to clean up the spill but had not yet completed by the time the it was discovered. The New River supports two endangered species of fish.[6]
Direct Action against National Coal Corporation
Activists disrupt National Coal Corporation's June 7, 2005 stockholders meeting.
June 7, 2005: First stockholders meeting of National Coal Corporation Disrupted
On June 7, 2005, approximately 45 Mountain Justice Summer activists, some in animal costumes, surprised the first-ever shareholders meeting of the National Coal Corporation with a marching band, chants, drumming and noise makers. Demonstrators demanded that National Coal stop mountaintop removal mining and distributed informational flyers to shareholders. The sheriff and National Coal Corporation responded by assaulting protesters with pain compliance, choke holds and arrested three on bogus felony charges. [7]
On August 15, 2005, Earth First! and Mountain Justice Summer activists blockaded a road leading to National Coal's mountaintop removal coal mine in Campbell County, Tennessee. Activists stopped a car on the road, removed its tires, locked themselves to the vehicle, and erected a tripod with a person perched on top of it. National Coal workers arrived and threatened the protestors; one tried to ram the tripod with his car. Eleven people were arrested; the police treated the arrested activists very roughly, endangering their safety.[8][9]
August 13, 2009: "Going Away Party" for National Coal Corporation in Knoxville, TV
An employee with National Coal Corporation forcefully removed a non-violent anti-mountaintop removal protester from the National Coal headquarters in West Knoxville. The protester was part of a group participating in “Love and Hug National Coal Month,” part of a series of protests organized by United Mountain Defense every Thursday in August at National Coal’s office. The protesters had organized a “Going Away Party” for NCC after the coal company defaulted on $60 million dollars of loans in Alabama in July 2009. To mark this event the protestors brought balloons and cupcakes reading “Bye National Coal’ and “Take a Hike”. Wearing party hats and dancing to festive music, the volunteers entered the National Coal Headquarters in order to deliver the cupcakes. Within 30 seconds an employee of National Coal Corporation wrapped his hand around the video camera, contorted the cameraman’s wrist and escorted the peaceful group back outside, at which point he stated that NCC did not want to call the police. The non-violent protesters complied with the National Coal employee’s request and moved to the public right of way in front of the office building. They educated passing motorists, gave away the unwanted cupcakes, danced, and had a fun time in the hot sun.[10][11]
Daniel A. Roling, CEO and President
Michael Castle, Senior Vice President and CFO
William R. Snodgrass, Senior Vice President for Business Development
Kenneth Scott, Chairman
Robert Heinlein
Gerald Malys
8915 George Williams Road
Web: http://www.nationalcoal.com/index.php
↑ National Coal Corp (NCOC) profile
↑ "National Coal Corp.: Impressive Smallcap With No Analyst Coverage", Seeking Alpha, December 21, 2007
↑ "Ranger Energy to acquire National Coal" EBR, Sep. 29, 2010.
↑ 4.0 4.1 "National Coal Corporation announces construction on Mine 12" National Coal Press Release, July 1, 2010.
↑ 5.0 5.1 "National Coal Corp. Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2008 Results," MarketWatch, March 30, 2009.
↑ "1100 Tons of Coal Dumped Near New River in Train Derailment," Alliance for Appalachia, January 14, 2009.
↑ First stockholders meeting of National Coal Corporation Disrupted, Mountain Justice Summer, April 29, 2008.
↑ Eleven Arrested Protesting ET Coal Mine, WBIR website, August 15, 2005.
↑ Tennessee Coal Road Blocked to Protest Mountaintop Removal Mining, Mines & Communities website, August 15, 2005.
↑ "Hug and Love National Coal Number 2 protest 8 0001," Youtube, accessed September 2009
↑ "Love & Hug National Coal Month- Going Away Party," YouTube, accessed September 2009
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Streema, Inc. Privacy Policy
Welcome to Streema. This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into the Streema Terms of Service (the “Terms”). The terms “Streema”, “we”, “us” and/or “our” refer to Streema, Inc. We respect your privacy. Our Privacy Policy applies to the information that is processed by Streema in the course of providing the Streema Service, which consists of our websites ("Sites"), including Streema.com, as well as our applications made available for mobile devices ("Simple Radio"), including the Simple Radio applications for the iOS platform, available on the Apple App Store, and the Android platform, available on Google Play, and any and all future offerings operated by or on behalf Streema. This Privacy Policy explains our information practices, what information we collect through the Streema Service, how we use and share that information, and how you can opt out of a use or correct or change such information. This Privacy Policy is intended to meet global requirements globally, including those in North America, Europe, APAC and other jurisdictions.
The Streema Service contains links to other websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of any other companies or individuals that Streema does not control, or any websites that you link to from the Streema Service. Streema does not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites or social media platforms. You should use caution and we encourage you to review the privacy policies of any websites that you visit from ours to learn more about their information practices. Visiting these other websites or applications is at your own risk.
Please take a few moments to read this Privacy Policy. By using the Streema Service, you agree to accept the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and are aware that our policies may change in the future as indicated below.
1. Information Collected and Received from You and How We Use It
The types of information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (the “Personally Identifiable Information”) we may collect (directly from you or from third-party sources) and our privacy practices depend on the nature of the relationship you have with Streema and the requirements of applicable law. Some of the ways Streema may collect Personally Identifiable Information include:
You may provide Personally Identifiable Information directly to Streema through interacting with the Streema Service and requesting the Streema Service or information.
As you navigate the Streema Service, certain passive information may also be collected about your visit, including through cookies and similar technologies as described below.
We endeavor to collect only that information which is relevant for the purposes of processing. Below are the ways we collect Personally Identifiable Information and how we use it.
A. Information Collected by Streema
Information You Provide Directly to Us. In various places on the Streema Service, we collect Personally Identifiable Information directly from you, such as your name, and e-mail address and other information that can be used to contact you or identify you. For example, we collect this information when you register for your Streema account with your email address or with a social media account sign-in mechanism, such as Google+ or Facebook for example. From time to time in the future we may offer additional features, services, and promotional opportunities that would require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information to participate.
Automatic Data Collection. We also collect certain information automatically through the Streema Service or other methods of web analysis such as your IP address, mobile carrier, mobile advertising identifiers, MAC address, Advertiser ID, the type of browser and device you use and other device identifiers that are automatically assigned to your computer or device when you access the Internet, geo-location information, hardware type, operating system, Internet service provider, the sections of the Streema Service that you have visited, the date and time of your visit, the amount of time you spend on each page, information about the advertisements and other links that you have clicked on and other actions taken through use of the Streema Service such as preferences .
Information from Other Sources. In addition to the above, we may receive information about you from other sources, including through third-party services and organizations to supplement information provided by you. For example, if you access the Streema Service through a third-party application, such asthe Apple App Store, Google Play App Store and/or Amazon App Store (together with any similar applications, “App Stores”) an App Store or Social Network Service (“SNS”), we may collect information about you from that third-party application that you have made public via your privacy settings. Information we collect through App Stores or SNS accounts may include your name, your SNS user identification number, your SNS user name, location, sex, birth date, email, profile picture, and your contacts on the SNS. This supplemental information allows us to verify information that you have provided to Streema and to enhance our ability to provide you with information about our business, products, and services.
B.How Streema Uses Your Information
We acquire, hold, use and process Personally Identifiable Information about individuals for a variety of business purposes, including:
To Provide our Products, Services, or Information Requested. Streema may use information about you to fulfill requests for the Streema Service or for information, including information about our potential or future products and services, including to:
Generally manage individual information and accounts;
Provide you with notices about your account;
Respond to questions, comments, and other requests;
Provide access to certain areas, functionalities, and features of the Streema Service;
Contact you to answer requests for customer support or technical support.
Administrative Purposes. Streema may use Personally Identifiable Information about you for its administrative purposes, including to:
Measure interest in the Streema Service;
Develop new products and the Streema Service;
Ensure internal quality control;
Communicate about individual accounts and activities on the Streema Service and systems, and, in Streema’s discretion, changes to any Streema policy;
Send email to the email address you provide to us to verify your account and for informational and operational purposes, such as account management, customer service, or system maintenance;
Process applications and transactions;
Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities;
Enforce our Terms of Service.
Marketing the Streema Service. Streema may use Personally Identifiable Information to provide you with materials about offers, products, and the Streema Service that may be of interest, including new content or the Streema Service via the email address you provide. Such uses include:
To tailor and customize content, advertisements, and offers;
To notify you about offers, products, and services that may be of interest to you;
To provide the Streema Service to you;
For other purposes disclosed at the time that you provide Personally Identifiable Information; or
Otherwise with your consent.
You may contact us at any time to opt out of the use of your Personally Identifiable Information for marketing purposes, as further described in Section 3 (Opt-Out (Right to Object to Processing)) below.
Research and Development. Streema may use Personally Identifiable Information to create non-identifiable information that we may use alone or in the aggregate with information obtained from other sources, in order to help us to optimally deliver our existing products and the Streema Service or develop new products and the Streema Service. From time to time, Streema may perform research (online and offline) via surveys. We may engage third-party service providers to conduct such surveys on our behalf. All survey responses are voluntary, and the information collected will be used for research and reporting purposes to help us better serve you by learning more about your needs and the quality of the products and services we provide. The survey responses may be utilized to determine the effectiveness of the Streema Service, various types of communications, advertising campaigns, and/or promotional activities. If an individual participates in a survey, the information given will be used along with that of other study participants. We may share anonymous individual and aggregate data for research and analysis purposes.
Third Party Marketing. Individuals who provide us with Personally Identifiable Information, or whose Personally Identifiable Information we obtain from third parties, may receive periodic emails, newsletters, mailings, or phone calls from us with information on Streema’s or our business partners’ products and services or upcoming special offers/events we believe may be of interest. We offer the option to decline these communications at no cost to you by following the instructions in Section 3 (Opt-Out (Right to Object to Processing)) below.
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Anonymous and Aggregated Information Use. Streema may use Personally Identifiable Information and other information about you to create anonymized and aggregated information, such as de-identified demographic information, de-identified location information, information about the computer or device from which you access the Streema Service, or other analyses we create. Anonymized and aggregated information is used for a variety of functions, including the measurement of visitors’ interest in and use of various portions or features of the Streema Service. Anonymized or aggregated information is not Personally Identifiable Information, and Streema may use such information in a number of ways, including research, internal analysis, analytics, and any other legally permissible purposes. We may share this information within Streema and with third parties for our or their purposes in an anonymized or aggregated form that is designed to prevent anyone from identifying you.
Other Uses. Streema may use Personally Identifiable Information for which we have a legitimate interest, such as direct marketing, individual or market research, anti-fraud protection, or any other purpose disclosed to you at the time you provide Personally Identifiable Information or with your consent.
C. Cookies, Pixel Tags/Web Beacons, Analytics Information and Internet-Based Advertising
We, as well as third parties that provide content, advertising, or other functionality on the Streema Service, may use cookies, pixel tags, local storage, and other technologies (“Technologies”) to automatically collect information through the Streema Service. We use Technologies that are essentially small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices (referred to collectively as a “device”) that allow us to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our Sites and the Streema Service, applications, and tools, and to recognize you across devices.
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Our uses of such Technologies fall into the following general categories:
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If you would like to opt out of the Technologies we employ on the Streema Service, you may do so by blocking, deleting, or disabling them as your browser or device permits.
D. Third-Party Websites and Social Media Platforms
The Streema Service may include publicly accessible blogs, community forums, or private messaging features. The Streema Service may also contain links and interactive features with various social media platforms (e.g., widgets). If you already use these platforms, their cookies may be set on your device when using the Streema. You should be aware that Personally Identifiable Information which you voluntarily include and transmit online in a publicly accessible blog, chat room, social media platform or otherwise online, or that you share in an open forum may be viewed and used by others without any restrictions. We are unable to control such uses of your information when interacting with a social media platform, and by using such services you assume the risk that the Personally Identifiable Information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties for any number of purposes.
E. Third-Party Payment Processing
When you make purchases through the Streema Service, we process your payments through a third-party application, including the App Stores. The third-party application may collect certain financial information from you to process a payment on behalf of Streema, including your name, email address, address and other billing information.
2. Onward Transfer – Streema May Disclose Your Information
A. Information that We Share With Third Parties
We may share your information as described in this Privacy Policy (e.g., with our third-party service providers; to comply with legal obligations; to protect and defend our rights and property) or with your permission.
We Use Vendors and Services Providers. We may share any information we receive with vendors and service providers. The types of service providers (processors) to whom we entrust Personally Identifiable Information include service providers for: (i) provision of IT and related services; (ii) provision of information and services you have requested; (iii) payment processing; (iv) customer service activities; and (v) in connection with the provision of the Streema Service and/or its content or related services that you have requested. For example, we may in the future license music from third parties and may want to share music-specific traffic and usage information with them (but not your email address or identity).
Business Partners. Streema may share Personally Identifiable Information with our business partners, and affiliates for our and our affiliates’ internal business purposes or to provide you with a product or service that you have requested. Streema may also provide Personally Identifiable Information to business partners with whom we may jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services we believe may be of interest to you. In such cases, our business partner’s name will appear, along with Streema. We require our affiliates and business partners to agree in writing to maintain the confidentiality and security of Personally Identifiable Information they maintain on our behalf and not to use it for any purpose other than the purpose for which Streema provided them.
Displaying to Other Users. The content you post to the Streema Service may be displayed on the Streema Service. Other users of the Streema Service may be able to see some information about you, such as your name if you submit a review. We are not responsible for privacy practices of the other users who will view and use the posted information.
Marketing – Interest-Based Advertising and Third Party Marketing. Through our Streema Service, Streema may allow third-party advertising partners to set tracking tools (e.g., cookies) to collect information regarding your activities (e.g., your IP address, page(s) visited, time of day). We may also share such information we have collected with third-party advertising partners. These advertising partners may use this information (and similar information collected from other websites) for purposes of delivering targeted advertisements to you when you visit non-Streema related websites within their networks. This practice is commonly referred to as “interest-based advertising” or “online behavioral advertising. We may allow access to other data collected by the Streema Service to facilitate transmittal of information that may be useful, relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you. If you prefer that we do not share your Personally Identifiable Information with third-party advertising partners, you may opt out of such sharing at no cost by following the instructions in Section 3 (Opt-Out (Right to Object to Processing)) below.
Disclosures to Protect Us or Others (e.g., as Required by Law and Similar Disclosures). We may access, preserve, and disclose your Personally Identifiable Information, other account information, and content if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to: (i) comply with law enforcement or national security requests and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; (ii) respond to your requests; (iii) protect yours’, ours’ or others’ rights, property, or safety; (iv) to enforce Streema policies or contracts; (v) to collect amounts owed to Streema; (vi) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation or prosecution of suspected or actual illegal activity; or (vii) if we, in good faith, believe that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable. In addition, from time to time, server logs may be reviewed for security purposes – e.g., to detect unauthorized activity on the Streema Service. In such cases, server log data containing IP addresses may be shared with law enforcement bodies in order that they may identify users in connection with their investigation of the unauthorized activities.
Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, then your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract. In such event, Streema will endeavor to direct the transferee to use Personally Identifiable Information in a manner that is consistent with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such Personally Identifiable Information was collected.
B. International Data Transfers
You agree that all your Personally Identifiable Information collected via or by Streema may be transferred to, processed, and stored anywhere in the world, including but not limited to, in the United States, on our servers, on the servers of our affiliates or the servers of our service providers. Your Personally Identifiable Information may be accessible to law enforcement or other authorities pursuant to a lawful request. By providing information to Streema you explicitly consent to the storage of your Personally Identifiable Information in these locations.
3. Opt-Out (Right to Object to Processing)
We offer you choices regarding the collection, use and sharing of your Personally Identifiable Information and we will respect the choices you make. You have the right to object to and opt out of certain uses and disclosure of your Personally Identifiable Information. Where you have consented to Streema’s processing of your Personally Identifiable Information, you may withdraw that consent at any time and opt out of further processing by contacting us at info@streema.com.
Please note that if you decide not to provide us with the Personally Identifiable Information that we request, you may not be able to access all of the features of the Streema Service. Even if you opt out, we may still collect and use non-Personally Identifiable Information regarding your activities on our Sites and/or information from the advertisements on third-party websites for non-interest based advertising purposes, such as to determine the effectiveness of the advertisements.
B. Email Communications
We may periodically send you e-mails that directly promote the Streema Service. When you receive such promotional communications from us, you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” (by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the e-mail you receive). We do need to send you certain communications regarding the Streema Service and you will not be able to opt out of those communications – e.g., communications regarding updates to our Terms of Service (located at streema.com/about/terms/) or this Privacy Policy.
C. Cookies and Interest-Based Advertising
As noted above, you may stop or restrict the placement of cookies on your computer or remove them from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences. Please note that cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on mobile applications. However, on many mobile devices, application users may opt out of certain mobile ads via their device settings.
The online advertising industry also provides websites from which you may opt out of receiving targeted ads from our data partners and our other advertising partners that participate in self-regulatory programs. You can access these, and also learn more about targeted advertising and consumer choice and privacy, at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, or http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ and www.aboutads.info/choices/. You can also choose not to be included in Google Analytics here and you may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick DART cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.
To be clear, whether you are using our opt-out or an online industry opt-out, these cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have opted-out. For example, if you have opted-out on your computer browser, that opt-out will not be effective on your mobile device. You must separately opt out on each device. Advertisements on Third-Party websites that contain the AdChoices link and that link to this Privacy Policy may have been directed to you based on anonymous, non-Personally Identifiable Information collected by advertising partners over time and across websites. These advertisements provide a mechanism to opt out of the advertising partners’ use of this information for interest-based advertising purposes.
D. Mobile devices
Streema may occasionally send you push notifications through our mobile applications with notices that may be of interest to you. You may at any time opt out from receiving these types of communications by changing the settings on your mobile device. Streema may also collect location-based information if you use our mobile applications. You may opt out of this collection by changing the settings on your mobile device.
4.Responding to Do Not Track Signals
Our Sites do not have the capability to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from various web browsers.
5.Rights of Access, Rectification, Erasure, and Restriction
You may inquire as to whether Streema is processing Personally Identifiable Information about you, request access to Personally Identifiable Information, and ask that we correct, amend or delete your Personally Identifiable Information where it is inaccurate. Where otherwise permitted by applicable law, you may send an e-mail to info@streema.com or use any of the methods set out in this Privacy Policy to request access to, receive (port), seek rectification, or request erasure of Personally Identifiable Information held about you by Streema. Please include your full name, email address associated with your account, and a detailed description of your data request. Such requests will be processed in line with local laws. You can also access, modify and delete the Personally Identifiable Information associated with your account by going to your profile settings at https://streema.com/profile/edit.
Although Streema makes good faith efforts to provide individuals with access to their Personally Identifiable Information, there may be circumstances in which Streema is unable to provide access, including but not limited to: where the information contains legal privilege, would compromise others’ privacy or other legitimate rights, where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to the individual’s privacy in the case in question or where it is commercially proprietary. If Streema determines that access should be restricted in any particular instance, we will provide you with an explanation of why that determination has been made and a contact point for any further inquiries. To protect your privacy, Streema will take commercially reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to or making any changes to your Personally Identifiable Information.
We retain the Personally Identifiable Information we receive as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as you use the Streema Service or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide the Streema Service, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.
7. The Security of Your Information
We take reasonable administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect the information that we collect from or about you (including your Personally Identifiable Information) from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Please be aware, however, that no method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing information is completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of any information. We do not accept liability for unintentional disclosure.
By using the Streema Service or providing Personally Identifiable Information to us, you agree that we may communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the Streema Service. If we learn of a security system’s breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically by posting a notice on the Streema Service or sending an e-mail to you. You may have a legal right to receive this notice in writing.
8. International Users
By using the Streema Service, Streema will transfer data to the United States. By choosing to visit the Sites, utilize the Streema Service or otherwise provide information to us, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Privacy Policy will be governed by the laws of the state of California and the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with Streema or the Streema Service will be in accordance with the Terms.
If you are visiting from the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use, please note that you are agreeing to the transfer of your information to the United States and to the processing of your data globally. By providing your Personally Identifiable Information, you consent to any transfer and processing in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
9.Our Policy Toward Children
The Streema Service is not directed to children under 13 (and in certain jurisdictions under the age of 16) and we do not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from children under 13 (and in certain jurisdictions under the age of 16). If we learn that we have collected Personally Identifiable Information of a child under 13 (and in certain jurisdictions under the age of 16), we will take steps to delete such information from our files as soon as possible.
10. Revisions to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our services change and expand. If we update this Privacy Policy, we will notify you about significant changes by sending a notice to the email address specified in your account or by posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Streema.com website, and we will update the date above to indicate when those changes will become effective. Unless otherwise provided, the revised terms will take effect on the date they are posted. Once such changes become effective, your continued use of the Streema Service will signify your acceptance of the new Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, or any revised Privacy Policy, you must immediately stop using the Streema Service.
11. Miscellaneous Provisions
Finally, the English language version of this Privacy Policy is the version that governs your use of the Streema Service and in the event of any conflict between the English language version and a translated version, the English language version will control.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or how to lodge a complaint with the appropriate authority, please contact us at info@streema.com or write to us at our US address for receiving written communications and notifications: Streema, Inc., 2255 Glades Road, Suite 324A, Boca Raton, FL 33431, Attention: Support. We will address your concerns and attempt to resolve any privacy issues in a timely manner.
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As Catholics and as human beings we are greatly saddened at the terrible suffering of the thousands of refugees fleeing war and persecution. We are praying that they receive all the help they need to arrive at a place of safety. We are taking guidance from Pope Francis and from our Bishops as to how we can best respond to the crisis. We are joining with other Christians in Charlbury to pray together and with the people of the town to offer the best help that we can.
Below is the statement issued by Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Archbishop Peter Smith on September 9th 2015
‘Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me (Mt 25:40)’
‘At last Sunday’s Angelus, 6 September, Pope Francis invited every parish, religious house and monastery in Europe to respond to the growing refugee crisis by offering a place of sanctuary to families fleeing from war and persecution in their home countries. The Pope calls on our generosity and solidarity to recognise and act upon our common humanity.
The UK government has agreed to receive and resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refugees from the camps in neighbouring countries over the next five years. The Catholic Church in England and Wales will work alongside Government and local authorities to offer welcome and support to those in need.
The refugee crisis is a huge challenge, not only in Europe and the Middle East, but in many others parts of the world where large numbers of refugees live deeply uncertain and perilous lives. Consequently, as a Catholic community, and as a country, we need to be committed to helping refugees over a long period.
To sustain that effort we need moral imagination.
We recognise that we can all contribute and play a part in helping to support the most vulnerable of refugees.
Such assistance includes:
Time and professional skills (e.g. language teaching, legal help, advocacy)
Shelter and accommodation
We can all be attentive to those who are vulnerable and newly arrived in our local communities and parishes. A warm welcome can be the most simple yet effective of gifts we can all offer.
Practically, we are working to ensure, as far as possible, that every diocese has a contact nominated to co-ordinate your parish/individual response; they will liaise with the local authority and other faith groups to match offers of time, talents and accommodation with the pressing humanitarian needs of the local area.
Additional information will be regularly updated in our web section for the refugee crisis.
A prayer from Pope Saint John Paul II
Hear my voice, for it is the voice of the victims of all wars and violence among individuals and nations.
Hear my voice, for it is the voice of all children who suffer and will suffer when people put their faith in weapons and war.
Hear my voice when I beg You to install into the hearts of all human beings the wisdom of peace, the strength of justice, and the joy of fellowship.
Hear my voice, for I speak for the multitudes in every country and in every period of history who do not want war and are ready to walk the road of peace.
Hear my voice and grant insight and strength so that we may always respond to hatred with love, to injustice with total dedication to justice, to need with the sharing of self, to war with peace.
O God, hear my voice and grant unto the world Your everlasting peace.
Signatories
+ Cardinal Vincent Nichols
+ Archbishop Peter Smith
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
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Sudbury by the Numbers
Board of Selectmen – Video
Planning the Future of the Fairbank Community Center
Published June 13, 2018 | Board of Selectmen | Updated July 16, 2019
Stewarding the place where Sudbury residents come together to work, play and learn.
The Fairbank Community Center has been a valuable community resource since opening its doors in 1983. The Center currently is the home to Park and Recreation, Atkinson Pool, the Senior Center, and the Sudbury Public Schools Administrative Offices. It is the site for the Town’s emergency shelter, an election voting location, and home to many of the Town’s summer camps.
A number of issues have arisen with the building over time, including leaking roof portions, failing climate control, and lack of usable space for programming. The Town has received recommendations on the best future solution for the center and anticipates a proposal to go before voters at the Fall 2018 Town Meeting.
On July 10, 2018, residents were asked to participate in a poll on the Fairbank Community Center project. Results from the survey can be found here.
A proposal for Fairbank Community Center Design Funds was defeated at October 2018 Special Town Meeting.
A working group comprised of Town committee and staff members is collaborating on a new proposal for the community center geared towards meeting the needs of all user groups.
Read on or click below to learn more about:
THE BUILDINGTHE PROBLEMSWORKING TOWARDS A SOLUTIONTHE INITIAL PROPOSALMOVING FORWARD
The Atkinson Pool at Fairbank.
The Fairbank Community Center, which is located at 40 Fairbank Road, was built in 1958 as an elementary school. The Community Center was established in 1983, and there have been two additions: the 1987 Atkinson Pool and the 1989 Senior Center. The 40,900 square foot building is also used for voting and as the emergency shelter.
Use of the Building – Senior Center
The Senior Center serves many different factions and functions for Sudbury Seniors, a population that the Town is recognizing as continuing to grow. As we know from census data, when the Senior Center addition was built in 1989 there were 1,625 residents over 60. Today, the 60 and over population is 3,815 and makes up over 20 percent of the Sudbury population. Based on demographics data and population projections, the number of seniors is expected to continue to increase in coming years. The increased population has resulted in a greater demand for programming and staff thus exacerbating the space deficiencies. Currently approximately 1,600 different individuals use the Senior Center each year; and there are approximately 24,000 visits or service units per year (this is expected to increase every year).
Use of the Building – Park & Recreation
The Recreation Department of the Town of Sudbury serves all demographics. The Recreation Department provides 690 programs serving 9,700 participants. There were over 72,000 users of the pool in 2015. The current space is approximately 30,000 square feet including the pool and shared space. The Recreation Department runs not only regular recreation programming, but also houses a teen center, preschool, a pool, summer camp and increased programming on Wednesdays when Sudbury Public Schools have a half day. The Recreation Department is inclusive and welcomes all users.
The space consists of four rooms, a small gym, bathrooms and minimum storage. The rooms are categorized as a craft room with sink, a little gym, the arcade room and the preschool room. The gym is used as a multipurpose room and hosts most of the fitness classes. There is a front desk/reception area, three offices, two small storage closets, makeshift break room, 2 sets of bathrooms, pool, locker rooms and pump room.
The 1987 HVAC unit that regulates the pool climate is one of numerous issues identified at Fairbank.
State of the Building
As has been documented in various documents, the roof is in varying degrees of disrepair. Drainage and slope are both issues. The windows in some portions of the complex are in very poor condition and require replacement. They are single pane windows, the sealants have failed and there is deterioration of the frame and sash. There are some exterior wall issues and flooring issues, including some buckling. In some sections of the building, the underside of the roof panels and structure are exposed. The ceiling is stained due to leaking. The exterior walls show signs of deterioration. Space is unsuitable and limited, making programing limited and crowded. The Building does not have a sufficient generator, particularly important during states of emergency.
Issues – Senior Center
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has set guidelines that Senior Centers should have approximately five square feet per senior. The Town currently has approximately 1.25 square feet per senior, if we include the shared gym and the kitchen space. (The space is approximately 4,750 square feet.)
The Senior Center does not have adequate storage space and lacks a basement. Currently, the Senior Center is storing equipment in the Flynn Building cellar, where it is very difficult to retrieve.
Currently, the Senior Center has two program rooms, one reception area, four offices, and a small lounge area abutting the reception area. They share three programming rooms and the small gym with the other users of the Fairbank Community Center. The Center has six full time staffers (4 in the office, 2 driving the vans) and over a dozen part-time staff. The current office space is filled with the full time staff and there is not a space for part-time staff to effectively work.
Issues – Park & Recreation
The locker rooms receive the most complaints due to conditions and footprint. They are not accessible and there are no family locker rooms available. There is a lack of adequate programming space, and a lack of the type of programming space that is needed. The pool has been deemed to be in good condition, but lacks viewing space.
WORKING TOWARDS A SOLUTION
A survey of residents asked which amenities are needed at Fairbank.
In 2012, Town Meeting opted not to repair the roof and to explore alternative options for the building. As a result, the Board of Selectmen created the Fairbank Community Center Task Force. The Task Force was asked to provide a preliminary assessment of the capacity of the existing building to identify a solution that would meet the current and future program and office needs and goals of:
Park and Recreation Department (including the Teen Center and Atkinson Pool)
Sudbury Public Schools Administration (currently housed at Fairbank)
The mission of the Task Force was to advise the Board of Selectmen as to the best options for dealing with the failing roof on the non-Pool section of the Fairbank Community Center.
In 2012, the Town engaged Russo-Bar to advise on roof repair needs and costs for the center. The Task Force determined that some repairs should be made to the roof, and that the town should undertake a feasibility study addressing the needs of the community and the future structural options for the facility. Their recommendation can be found here: https://sudbury.ma.us/facilities/final-report-2-12-13/
Since that initial recommendation, the Town has undergone two separate feasibility studies to develop conceptual designs, one with Boston-based design firm, Bargmann Hendrie & Archetype, Inc. in 2015 and one with Pros Consulting in 2017.
Feasibility Study 1: Bargmann Hendrie & Archetype, Inc. (2015)
https://sudbury.ma.us/fairbankstudy/2015/03/30/see-plans-for-new-fairbank-community-center/
Feasibility Study 2: Pros Consulting (2018)
https://sudbury.ma.us/fairbankstudy/2018/02/27/fairbank-community-center-future-options/
Pros Consulting presented to the Fairbank Community Center Task Force three separate scenarios, based on the information they gathered from interviews with town staff, stakeholders, committee and commission members, and from residents. The Fairbank Community Center Task Force voted to select scenario 2, which was very similar to the recommendation made in the first feasibility study. Following that recommendation, the consultant worked on a schematic design and a theoretical operational pro forma for scenario 2. A report was submitted to the Town in February 2018, and was presented at a public meeting.
In April 2018, the Fairbank Community Center Study Task Force brought forth a recommendation to the Board of Selectmen that received support from both the Park and Recreation Commission and the Council on Aging. The Board of Selectmen accepted the recommendation of the Task Force, approved their findings, and subsequently dissolved the Task Force with their thanks to the volunteers for their time and dedication.
THE INITIAL PROPOSAL
Main Lobby vignette proposed by Pros Consulting.
Updated Building
The recommendation of the Fairbank Community Center Task Force included a 62,800 square foot building with a full-sized gymnasium, walking/running track, a pool and diving well, locker rooms, dedicated Senior space, dedicated Park and Recreation space, a shared common space, and exercise space. It included an indoor play space, a kitchen area, and room for the preschool.
Part of the Pros Consulting report included an operational and financial plan. It should be stressed that this was merely a suggested plan. The plans were subject to change to reflect the needs and wants of the community as well as the financial capabilities and programming needs of the Town.
The report suggests an increase in staffing from ten full time employees to eighteen full time employees. Since the existing facility would have almost doubled, the report called on the town to almost double the staff to run most efficiently. This would require further study to determine what the actual programming needs would be at the time of opening.
The report also accounts for increases in utilities, capital maintenance and repairs, as well as services and goods increases. The growth rates accounted for are higher than what is typically forecasted by the administration.
The report assumes that the Town will charge a membership fee to use the Park and Recreation portions of the facility. Currently the Town has a membership fee for the pool and utilizes other revenue mechanisms, including user fees and the tax levy for other costs.
The report reflects a 90% cost recovery, this means that the facility will have revenues that are 90% of its expenditures. Currently, a portion of the Park and Recreation and the Senior Center are paid through the tax levy. The report also shows the total cost recovery decreases from year 1 to year 6. This assumes that the Town would not increase the membership fees to match the increase in expenditures. In other accounts that are based on user fees, the Town strives to increase the membership fees each year to reflect the increase in expenditures. This is good practice and helps avoid large increases in single years.
The report also has the Town performing functions such as the sale of concessions, running one hundred birthday parties a year, running a fitness center and implementing drop in childcare. These are all good revenue building programs, but the Town would need to vet each of these ideas and determine the manpower needed to properly manage them before committing to them.
The report also supplies a cost estimate for the construction of the proposed facility.
The total cost of the project including design costs, construction costs, fees and contingencies was $32,770,340. The contingency was almost $3,000,000. These costs could have change significantly as the project progressed further into the design process and when the project is publicly bid. Massachusetts General Laws require all municipal projects to undergo a competitive procurement process, and includes the use of prevailing wage for workers.
The timeline for this project was approximately two and a half years. A press release called “The Future of the Fairbank Community Center to be Considered at Town Meeting,” was sent out on Thursday, September 13, 2018. Click title for the full story. A vote at October 2018 Town Meeting to obtain design services for the proposed facility was defeated.
A working group, which was created by the Town Manager and includes representatives from: Board of Selectmen, Council on Aging, Facilities, Park & Recreation and Sudbury Public Schools is developing a plan for the future of the Fairbank Community Center. The group made a preliminary presentation at the July 9, 2019 Board of Selectmen meeting (please click below for presentation). A new proposal for the community center is anticipated to go before residents at the May 2020 Annual Town Meeting.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 121 › Louisiana Bank v. Whitney
Louisiana Bank v. Whitney, 121 U.S. 284 (1887)
Louisiana Bank v. Whitney
Submitted April 11, 1887
An order of court directing the payment into the registry of the court of a garnishee fund, claimed by a third party, pending the determination of the right to it is not a final judgment or decree within the meaning of that term as used in the acts of Congress giving this Court jurisdiction on appeals and writs of error.
This was a motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court.
ERROR TO AND APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
This is a proceeding begun May 22, 1883, by Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, then in life, to subject a certain sum of $40,000 on deposit in the Louisiana National Bank to the payment of a judgment in her favor against the City of New Orleans. There is no dispute about the fact that the money in question was on deposit when the proceeding was begun and the bank served with process, but the Board of Liquidation of the City Debt has made claim to it as part of the fund appropriated by Act No. 133 of 1880 to the payment and liquidation of the bonded debt of the city. Pending the determination of the questions involved, the court, March 15, 1886, ordered the money paid into the registry of the court. From this order the bank has appealed, and also sued out a writ of error, and the Board of Liquidation has likewise appealed. The representatives of Mrs. Gaines, who were made parties to the proceeding after her death, now move to dismiss both the writ of error and the appeals because the order to be brought under review is not a final judgment or decree within the meaning of that term as used in the acts of Congress giving this Court jurisdiction on appeals and writs of error.
We have no hesitation in granting the motion. The court has not adjudicated the rights of the parties concerned. It has only ordered the fund into the registry of the court for preservation during the pendency of the litigation as to its ownership. Such an order, it has always been held, is interlocutory only, and not a final decree. Forgay v. Conrad, 6 How. 204; Grant v. Phoenix Ins. Co., 106 U. S. 431. If in the end it shall be found that the fund belongs to the Board of Liquidation, it can be paid from the registry accordingly, notwithstanding the order that has been made. The money, when paid into the registry, will be in the hands of the court for the benefit of whomsoever it shall in the end be found to belong.
Both the appeals and the writ of error are dismissed.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 281 › Wisconsin v. Illinois
Wisconsin v. Illinois, 281 U.S. 179 (1930)
Wisconsin v. Illinois
Nos. 7, 11, and 12, Original
Argued March 12, 13, 1930
1. Passing upon the Master's report in this case and the exceptions thereto, the Court determines the amounts by which the unlawful diversion of water from Lake Michigan ( 278 U. S. 278 U.S. 367) should be diminished from time to time and the times to be fixed for each step; the plans proposed for disposal of the Chicago sewage are considered as material only as bearing on what those determinations should be; the defendants must find the way to comply with the determinations. P. 281 U. S. 197.
2. The performance to be exacted of the defendant state is to be gauged by what is possible if it devotes all its powers to the exigency. The state can base no defences upon difficulties which it has itself created, nor upon anything in its own constitution that may stand in the way of prompt action. Id.
3. In determining the extent to which the diversion of water should be reduced and the times at which the reductions should take place, a recent rise in the level of Lake Michigan cannot be taken into account, since, apart from speculation as to the duration of the rise, delays are allowable only for the purpose of limiting within fair possibility, the requirements of immediate justice pressed by the complaining states. Id.
4. These requirements as between the parties are the constitutional rights of those states, subject to whatever modification they may hereafter be subjected to by Congress acting within its authority. Id.
5. In present conditions, there is no invasion of the authority of Congress by the former decision in these cases, and the right of the plaintiffs to a decree is not affected by the possibility that Congress may take some action in the matter. Id.
6. The Court approves the Master's recommendations as to the amounts in which the diversion shall be successively reduced and the times within which the reductions shall be made, with a provision requiring the defendant Sanitary District to file with the Clerk of this Court at stated periods, reports of the progress of
the work involved at the coming in of which either party may make application to the Court for such action as may be suitable. P. 281 U. S. 198.
7. All action of the parties and the Court in this case will be subject to any order that Congress may make in pursuance of its constitutional powers and any modification that necessity may show should be made by this Court. Id.
8. The Court rejects the plaintiffs' demands that all diversion through the Drainage Canal cease, that the canal be closed at its connection with the Des Plaines River, with an incidental return of the flow of the Chicago River to its original course into the Lake, and also (a demand not contemplated by their bills) that all water pumped in the Sanitary District for domestic purposes be returned to the Lake after being purified in sewage works, and adopts as more reasonable the Master's report that, as the best way of preventing the pollution of navigable waters, an outflow from the canal into the Des Plaines should be permitted, and that the interests of navigation in the Chicago River, as a part of the Port of Chicago, will require the diversion of an annual average not exceeding 1500 c.f.s., in addition to domestic pumpage after sewage treatment. P. 281 U. S. 199.
9. The claims of the complaining states should not be pressed to a logical extreme without regard to relative suffering and to the time during which the plaintiffs have let the defendants go on without complaint. P. 281 U. S. 200.
10. If the amount of water withdrawn for domestic purposes should be excessive, it will be open to complaint. Id.
11. Whether the right for domestic use extends to great industrial plants (not argued) may be open for consideration at some future time. Id.
12. The defendants, having made the suits necessary by persisting in unjustifiable acts, must pay the costs of the litigation. Id.
Decree directed, subject to future modification
Suits brought originally in this Court by the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York, against the Illinois and the Chicago Sanitary District, to enjoin further taking of water from Lake Michigan for the purpose of carrying off the sewage of Chicago and vicinity through a drainage canal. Pursuant to the opinion reported in 278 U. S. 278 U.S. 367, the case
was referred for the second time to Charles E. Hughes, Esquire, as Special Master. The Master was directed to take testimony on the practical measures needed to dispose of the sewage without the unlawful diversions of water, and the time required for their completion, and to report his conclusions for the formulation of a decree. The decision now reported was rendered after a hearing upon exceptions to the Master's report under the second reference.
These suits, brought to prevent the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from continuing to withdraw water from Lake Michigan as they now are doing, have passed through their first stage in this Court. The facts were set forth in detail and the law governing the parties was established by the decision reported in 278 U. S. 278 U.S. 367. It was decided that the defendant state and its creature the Sanitary District were reducing the level of the Great Lakes, were inflicting great losses upon the complainants, and were violating their rights, by diverting from Lake Michigan 8,500 or more cubic feet per second into the Chicago Drainage Canal for the purpose of diluting and carrying away the sewage of Chicago. The diversion of the water for that purpose was held illegal, but the restoration of the just rights of the complainants was made gradual, rather than immediate, in order to avoid so far as might be the possible pestilence and ruin with which the defendants have done much to confront themselves. The case was referred a second time to the master to consider what measures would be necessary and what time required to effect the object to be attained. The master now has reported. Both sides have taken exceptions, but, as we shall endeavor to show, the issues open here are of no great scope.
The defendants have submitted their plans for the disposal of the sewage of Chicago in such a way as to diminish so far as possible the diversion of water from the Lake. In the main, these plans are approved by the complainants. The master has given them a most thorough and conscientious examination. But they are material only as bearing on the amount of diminution to be required from time to time and the times to be fixed for each step, and therefore we shall not repeat the examination. It already has been decided that the defendants are doing a wrong to the complainants, and that they must stop it. They must find out a way at their peril. We have only to consider what is possible if the State of Illinois devotes all its powers to dealing with an exigency to the magnitude of which it seems not yet to have fully awaked. It can base no defences upon difficulties that it has itself created. If its Constitution stands in the way of prompt action, it must amend it or yield to an authority that is paramount to the state.
The defendants' exceptions deal with the extent to which the diversion of water should be reduced, and to the time at which the reductions should take place. They argue that a recent rise in the level of Lake Michigan should be taken into account. This cannot be done. Apart from the speculation involved as to the duration of the rise, there is a wrong to be righted, and the delays allowed are allowed only for the purpose of limiting, within fair possibility, the requirements of immediate justice pressed by the complaining states. These requirements as between the parties are the constitutional right of those states, subject to whatever modification they hereafter may be subjected to by Congress acting within its authority. It will be time enough to consider the scope of that authority when it is exercised. In present conditions, there is no invasion of it by the former decision of this Court, as urged by the defendants. The
right of the complainants to a decree is not affected by the possibility that Congress may take some action in the matter. See Southern Utilities Co. v. Palatka, 268 U. S. 232, 268 U. S. 233; Kansas v. Colorado, 206 U. S. 46, 206 U. S. 117.
The master finds that, on and after July 1, 1930, the diversion of water from Lake Michigan should not be allowed to exceed an annual average of 6,500 cubic feet per second in addition to what is drawn for domestic uses. He finds that, when the contemplated controlling works are constructed that are necessary for the purpose of preventing reversals of the Chicago River at times of storm and the introduction of storm flow into Lake Michigan, works that will require the approval of the Secretary of War and that the master finds should be completed and put in operation within two years after the approval is given, and probably by December 31, 1935, the diversion should be limited to an annual average of 5,000 c.f.s. "in addition to domestic pumpage." On this point, we deal only with the amount and the time. When the whole system for sewage treatment is complete and the controlling works installed, he finds that the diversion should be cut down to an annual average of 1,500 c.f.s. in addition to domestic pumpage. This, he finds, should be accomplished on or before December 31, 1938, and the full operation of one of the contemplated works, the West Side Sewage Treatment Plant, which would permit a partial reduction of the diversion, is to be not later than December 31, 1935. These recommendations are subject to the appointment of a commission to supervise the work, or, better in our opinion, to the filing with the clerk of this Court at stated periods, by the Sanitary District, of reports as to the progress of the work, at the coming in of which either party may make application to the Court for such action as may seem to be suitable. All action of the parties and the Court in this case will be subject, of course, to any order that Congress may
make in pursuance of its constitutional powers and any modification that necessity may show should be made by this Court. These recommendations we approve within the limits stated above, and they will be embodied in the decree. The defendants argue for delay at every point but we have indicated sufficiently why their arguments cannot prevail. The master was as liberal in the allowance of time as the evidence permitted him to be.
The exceptions of the complainants go mainly to a point not yet mentioned. The sewage of Chicago at present is discharged into a canal that extends to Lockport on the Des Plaines River (which flows into the Illinois, which in its turn flows into the Mississippi), from Wilmette on the north and a point on the Lake near the boundary line of Indiana on the south, with another intake midway between these two at the mouth of the Chicago River, which has been reversed from its former flow into Lake Michigan to a flow from the Lake. The change is narrated at length in the former decision of this case. 278 U. S. 278 U.S. 367, 278 U. S. 401, et seq.. See also Missouri v. Illinois, 180 U. S. 208, 180 U. S. 211 et seq.; 200 U. S. 200 U.S. 496. It is partially to oxidize and carry off this sewage that the main diversion of water is made. The complainants demand that this diversion cease, and the canal be closed at Lockport, with an incidental return of the Chicago River to its original course. They also argue that what is called the domestic pumpage, after being purified in the sewage works, be returned to the Lake. These demands seem to us excessive upon the facts in this case. The master reports that the best way of preventing the pollution of navigable waters is to permit an outflow from the Drainage Canal at Lockport, and that the interests of navigation in the Chicago River as a part of the Port of Chicago will require the diversion of an annual average of from 1,000 c.f.s. to 1,500 c.f.s. in addition to domestic pumpage after the sewage
treatment program has been carried out. The canal was opened at the beginning of the century, thirty years ago. In 1900, it already was a subject of litigation in this Court. The amount of water ultimately to be withdrawn unless Congress may prescribe a different measure is relatively small. We think that, upon the principles stated in Missouri v. Illinois, 200 U. S. 496, 200 U. S. 520 et seq., the claims of the complainants should not be pressed to a logical extreme without regard to relative suffering and the time during which the complainants have let the defendants go on without complaint.
Perhaps the complainants would not be very insistent with regard to the 1,000 or 1,500 c.f.s. which, earlier in this case, they seemed to admit to be reasonable if their demand were allowed that the domestic pumpage be purified and returned to the Lake -- a demand not contemplated by their bill. But purification is not absolute. How nearly perfect it will be with the colossal works that the defendants have started is somewhat a matter of speculation. The master estimates that, with efficient operation, the proposed treatment should reach an average of 85 percent purification, and probably will be 90 percent or more. Even so, we are somewhat surprised that the complainants should desire the effluent returned. The withdrawal of water for domestic purposes is not assailed by the complainants, and we are of opinion that the course recommended by the master is more reasonable than the opposite demand. If the amount withdrawn should be excessive, it will be open to complaint. Whether the right for domestic use extends to great industrial plants within the District has not been argued, but may be open to consideration at some future time.
We see no reason why costs should not be paid by the defendants, who have made this suit necessary by persisting in unjustifiable acts. North Dakota v. Minnesota, 263 U. S. 583.
A decree will be entered to the effect that, subject to such modifications as may be ordered by the Court hereafter,
1. On and after July 1, 1930, the defendants, the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, are enjoined from diverting any of the waters of the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence system or watershed through the Chicago Drainage Canal and its auxiliary channels or otherwise in excess of an annual average of 6,500 c.f.s. in addition to domestic pumpage.
2. That, on and after December 31, 1935, unless good cause be shown to the contrary, the said defendants are enjoined from diverting as above in excess of an annual average of 5,000 c.f.s. in addition to domestic pumpage.
3. That, on and after December 31, 1938, the said defendants are enjoined from diverting as above in excess of the annual average of 1,500 c.f.s. in addition to domestic pumpage.
4. That the provisions of this decree as to the diverting of the waters of the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence system or watershed relate to the flow diverted by the defendants exclusive of the water drawn by the City of Chicago for domestic water supply purposes and entering the Chicago River and its branches or the Calumet River or the Chicago Drainage Canal as sewage. The amount so diverted is to be determined by deducting from the total flow at Lockport the amount of water pumped by the City of Chicago into its water mains and as so computed will include the run-off of the Chicago and Calumet drainage area.
5. That the defendant the Sanitary District of Chicago shall file with the clerk of this Court semiannually on July first and January first of each year, beginning July first, 1930, a report to this Court adequately setting forth the progress made in the construction of the sewage treatment plants and appurtenances outlined in the program as proposed by the Sanitary District of Chicago, and also
setting forth the extent and effects of the operation of the sewage treatment plants, respectively, that shall have been placed in operation, and also the average diversion of water from Lake Michigan during the period from the entry of this decree down to the date of such report.
6. That, on the coming in of each of said reports, and on due notice to the other parties, any of the parties to the above entitled suits, complainants or defendants, may apply to the Court for such action or relief, either with respect to the time to be allowed for the construction, or the progress of construction, or the methods of operation, of any of said sewage treatment plants, or with respect to the diversion of water from Lake Michigan, as may be deemed to be appropriate.
7. That any of the parties hereto, complainants or defendants, may, irrespective of the filing of the above-described reports, apply at the foot of this decree for any other or further action or relief, and this Court retains jurisdiction of the above-entitled suits for the purpose of any order or direction, or modification of this decree, or any supplemental decree, which it may deem at any time to be proper in relation to the subject matter in controversy.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE took no part in the decision or consideration of these cases.
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Art-Rite
Artists' Books / No. 14 (Winter 1976 - 1977)
Art-Rite, Carl Andre, Kathy Acker, Roberta Allen, John Baldessari, Luciano Bartolini, Ulises Carrion, Daniel Buren, Robert Delford Brown, Robert Cumming, Ted Castle, Agnes Denes, Peter Downsbrough, Mary Fish, Peter Grass, George Griffin, Judith A. Hoffberg, Douglas Huebler, Allan Kaprow, Richard Kostelanetz, Sharon Kulik, Robert Leverant, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Christof Kohlhofer, Jane Logemann, Paul McMahon, Robert Morgan, Maurizio Nannucci, Richard Nonas, Adrian Piper, Lucio Pozzi, Marcia Resnick, The Roseprint Detective Club, Carolee Schneemann, John Shaw, Bob Smith, Pat Steir, Ellen Sragow, Ted Stamm, Peter Stansbury, Richard Tuttle, Fred Truck, Lawrence Weiner, Robin Winters, Rachel Youdelman, John Howell, David Salle, Al More, Rosalle Goldberg, Lawrence Alloway, Peggy Gale, AA Bronson, Naomi Spector, Eve Sonneman, Irena von Zahn, Peter Frank
Issue edited by Walter Robinson and Edith deAk. Essays "Market Research," statements about artists' books by Kathy Acker, John Baldessari, Luciano Bartonlini, Roberta Allen, Ulises Carrion, Daniel Buren, Robert Delford, Brown, Robert Cumming, Ted Castle, Agnes Denes, Peter Downsbrough, Mary Fish, Jon Gibson, Peter Grass, George Griffin, Judith A. ... [details]
New York, NY: Art-Rite Publishing Co., 1977
[8] pp.
Museums by Artists
[Exhibition Brochure]
AA Bronson, Peggy Gale, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Filliou, General Idea, Hans Haacke, On Kawara, Garry Neill Kennedy, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Glenn Lewis, George Maciunas, Piero Manzoni, N.E. Thing Co. LTD., Claes Oldenburg
Exhibition brochure published in conjunction with show held at Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 2 - May 15, 1983. Traveled to Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, September 15 - October 30, 1983 ; and Glenbow Museum, Calgary, November 18, 1983 - January 7, 1984. ... [details]
Toronto, Canada: Art Metropole, 1983
Artist-Run Spaces : Non Profit Collective Oraganizations in the 1960s & 1970s
Gabriele Detterer, Maurizio Nannucci, AA Bronson, Christophe Cherix, Carl Andre, John Armleder, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Tom Marioni
Documentation of artist-run spaces in the 1960s and 70s. Edited by Gabriele Detterer and Maurizio Nannucci. Text by Gabriele Detterer, AA Bronson, Christophe Cherix and Maurizio Nannucci. Artists include Carl Andre, John Armleder, AA Bronson, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Tom Marioni and Maurizio Nannucci. ... [details]
Zürich, Switzerland: JRP Ringier, 2013
Art Metropole : The Top 100
Kitty Scott, Jonathan Shaughnessy, Peggy Gale, AA Bronson, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Art & Language, Art Workers Coalition, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Iain Baxter, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Dara Birnbaum, Barbara Bloom, Alighiero E Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Sophie Calle, Colin Campbell, Elizabeth Chitty, Larry Clark, Kate Craig, Greg Curnoe, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Marcel Duchamp, Pierre Falardeau, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hamish Fulton, General Idea, Gilbert & George, Robert Gober, Jack Goldstein, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Guerrilla Girls, Noel Harding, Jenny Holzer, Tehching Hsieh, Image Bank, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Garry Neill Kennedy, Martin Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Yves Klein, Barbara Kruger, Les Levine, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt, Micah Lexier, Ken Lum, George Maciunas, Christian Marclay, Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Morris, Ian Murray, Maurizio Nannucci, Bruce Nauman, N.E. Thing Co., Nihilist Spasm Band, Hermann Nitsch, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Roman Opalka, Dennis Oppenheim, Meret Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Martha Rosler, Edward Ruscha, Tom Sherman, Becky Singleton, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Daniel Spoerri, Lisa Steele, Jana Sterbak, Derek Sullivan, Vincent Trasov, Rosemarie Trockel, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Joyce Wieland, Christopher Wool, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held December 1, 2006 - February 25, 2007. Texts by Kitty Scott, Jonathan Shaughnessy, Peggy Gale, AA Bronson. Documents the "top 100" works from the Art Metropole works in the Art Metropole Collection held by the National Gallery of Canada. ... [details]
Ottawa, Canada: National Gallery of Canada, 2006
AA Bronson, Peggy Gale, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Michael Asher, Anne Rorimer, Harald Szeemann, Ursula Wevers, Marcel Broodthaers, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Filliou, R. Austen Marshall, General Idea, Walter Grasskamp, Daniel Spoerri, Image Bank, Donald Judd, Hans Haacke, Wulf Herzogenrath, On Kawara, Garry Neill Kennedy, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Glenn Lewis, George Maciunas, Piero Manzoni, N.E. Thing Co. LTD., Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Garry Schum
Exhibition catalogue / critical theory published to accompany exhibition of same title, show held at Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 2 - May 15, 1983. Traveled to Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, September 15 - October 30, 1983 ; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, November 18, 1983 - January 7, 1984. ... [details]
edition size 1000 /
Video by Artists
Peggy Gale, AA Bronson, Tom Sherman, Ant Farm, David Askevold, Colin Campbell, Don Druick, Bruce Emilson, General Idea, Dan Graham, Noel Harding, Michael Hayden, Al Razutis, Lisa Steele, Vincent Trasov, Bill Vazan, John Watt, Rodney Werden, W.O.R.K.S., Les Levine, Jean-Pierre Boyer
Compendiums on video art. Edited by Peggy Gale, designed by AA Bronson. Featured artists Ant Farm, David Askevold, Colin Campbell, Don Druick, Bruce Emilson, General Idea, Dan Graham, Noel Harding, Michael Hayden, Al Razutis, Lisa Steele, Vincent Trasov, Bill Vazan, John Watt, Rodney Werden, and W. ... [details]
Plot / 09 : A Guide to This World & Nearer Ones
Mark Beasley, Anne Pasternak, Edgar Arceneaux, AA Bronson, Peter Hobbs, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Adam Chodzko, Tue Greenfort, Jill Magid, Teresa Margolles, Anthony McCall, Nils Norman, Susan Philipsz, Patti Smith, Jesse Smith, Tercerunquinto, Tris Vonna-Michell, Mark Wallinger, Klaus Weber, Lawrence Weiner, Judi Werthein, Guido van der Werve, Krzysztof Wodiczko
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held on Governors Island, New York City, Summer 2009. Curated by Mark Beasley. Introduction by Anne Pasternak. Artist contributions by Edgar Arceneaux, AA Bronson, Peter Hobbs, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Adam Chodzko, Tue Greenfort, Jill Magid, Teresa Margolles, Anthony McCall, Nils Norman, Susan Philipsz, Patti Smith, Jesse Smith, Tercerunquinto, Tris Vonna-Michell, Mark Wallinger, Klaus Weber, Lawrence Weiner, Judi Werthein, Guido van der Werve and Krzysztof Wodiczko. [details]
New York, NY: Creative Time Books, 2009
Mike Kelley : Interviews, Conversations, and Chit-Chat (1986)
Mike Kelley, AA Bronson, Larry Clark, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Jutta Koether, Harmony Korine, Tony Oursler, Richard Prince, Jim Shaw, Michael Smith, Jeffrey Sconce, John Waters, John C. Welchman
"This publication reunites Mike Kelley's major interviews with artists and cultural figures such as AA Bronson, Larry Clark, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Jutta Koether, Harmony Korine, Tony Oursler, Richard Prince, Jim Shaw, Michael Smith, Jeffrey Sconce, and John Waters, outlining, in the same manner as his critical essays, an artistic genealogy that draws its references from American popular culture, scientific and historical research, and the inhibitions of Western society. ... [details]
Zürich / Dijon, Switzerland / France: JPR Ringier / Les Presses du Réel, 2005
General Idea : A Retrospective, 1969 - 1994
General Idea, Frédéric Bonnet, Jean-Christophe Ammann, AA Bronson, Louise Dompierre, Elisabeth Lebovici, David Moo
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show "Haute Culture : General Idea. A Retrospective, 1969 - 1994," held at ARC / Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, February 11 - April 30, 2011. ... [details]
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Eoin Morgan (captain) September 10, 1986 (age 29) Left-handed Right-arm medium
Joe Root December 30, 1990 (age 25) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Moeen Ali June 18, 1987 (age 28) Left-handed Right arm off break
James Vince March 14, 1991 (age 24) Right-handed Right-arm medium
Jason Roy July 21, 1990 (age 25) Right-handed Right arm medium
Alex Hales January 3, 1989 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm medium
Sam Billings June 15, 1991 (age 24) Right-handed n/a
Chris Jordan October 4, 1988 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Jos Butler September 8, 1990 (age 25) Right-handed n/a
Chris Woakes March 2, 1989 (age 26) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
David Willey February 28, 1990 (age 25) Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium
Mark Wood January 11, 1990 (age 26) Right-handed Right-arm fast
Reece Topley February 12, 1994 (age 21) Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast
Stephen Parry January 12, 1986 (age 30) Right-hand Slow left arm orthodox
Adil Rashid February 17, 1988 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
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VIDEO: Holy Orders (what ordination means)
The Sacrament of Holy Order s
By Scott P. Richert
The Sacrament of Holy Orders is the continuation of Christ's priesthood, which He bestowed upon His Apostles; thus, the Catechism of the Catholic Church refers to the Sacrament of Holy Orders as "the sacrament of apostolic ministry."
"Ordination" comes from the Latin word ordinatio, which means to incorporate someone into an order. In the Sacrament of Holy Orders, a man is incorporated into the priesthood of Christ, at one of three levels: the episcopate, the priesthood, or the diaconate.
The Priesthood of Christ:
The priesthood was established by God among the Israelites during their exodus from Egypt. God chose the tribe of Levi as priests for the nation. Their primary duties were the offering of sacrifice and prayer for the people.
Christ, in offering Himself up for the sins of all mankind, fulfilled the duties of the Old Testament priesthood once and for all. But just as the Eucharist makes that sacrifice present to us today, so the New Testament priesthood is a sharing in the eternal priesthood of Christ. While all believers are, in some sense, priests, some are set aside to serve the Church as Christ Himself did.
The Ordination of Bishops:
There is only one Sacrament of Holy Orders, but there are three levels. The first is that which Christ Himself bestowed upon His Apostles: the episcopate. A bishop is a man who is ordained to the episcopate by another bishop (in practice, by several bishops). He stands in a direct, unbroken line from the Apostles, a condition known as "apostolic succession."
Ordination as a bishop confers the grace to sanctify others, as well as the authority to teach the faithful and to bind their consciences. Because of the grave nature of this responsibility, all episcopal ordinations must be approved by the Pope.
The Ordination of Priests:
The second level of the Sacrament of Holy Orders is the priesthood. No bishop can minister to all of the faithful in his diocese, so priests act, in the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as "co-workers of the bishops." They exercise their powers lawfully only in communion with their bishop, and so they promise obedience to their bishop at the time of their ordination.
The chief duties of the priesthood are the preaching of the Gospel and the offering of the Eucharist.
The Ordination of Deacons:
The third level of the Sacrament of Holy Orders is the diaconate. Deacons assist priests and bishops, but beyond the preaching of the Gospel, they are granted no special charism or spiritual gift.
In the Eastern Churches, both Catholic and Orthodox, the permanent diaconate has been a constant feature. In the West, the office of deacon was reserved to men who intended to be ordained to the priesthood. The permanent diaconate was restored in the West by the Second Vatican Council. Married men are allowed to become permanent deacons.
Eligibility for the Sacrament:
The Sacrament of Holy Orders can be validly conferred only on baptized men, following the example set by Christ and His Apostles, who chose only men as their successors and collaborators. A man cannot demand ordination; the Church has the authority to determine eligibility for the sacrament.
While the episcopate is reserved to unmarried men, the discipline regarding the priesthood varies in East and West. The Eastern Churches allow married men to be ordained priests, while the Western Church insists on celibacy. Once a man has received the Sacrament of Holy Orders, however, he cannot marry.
The Form of the Sacrament:
As the Catechism of the Catholic Church notes:
The essential rite of the sacrament of Holy Orders for all three degrees consists in the bishop's imposition of hands on the head of the ordinand and in the bishop's specific consecratory prayer asking God for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and his gifts proper to the ministry to which the candidate is being ordained.
Other elements of the sacrament, such as holding it in the cathedral (the bishop's own church); holding it during Mass; and celebrating it on a Sunday are traditional but not essential.
The Minister of the Sacrament:
Because of his role as a successor to the Apostles, who were themselves successors to Christ, the bishop is the proper minister of the sacrament. The grace of sanctifying others that he receives at his own ordination allows him to ordain others.
The Effects of the Sacrament:
The Sacrament of Holy Orders, like the Sacrament of Baptism and the Sacrament of Confirmation, can only be received once for each level of ordination. Once a man has been ordained, he is spiritually changed, which is the origin of the saying, "Once a priest, always a priest." He can be dispensed of his obligations as a priest (or even forbidden to act as a priest); but he remains a priest forever.
Each level of ordination confers special graces, from the ability to preach, granted to deacons; to the ability to act in the person of Christ to offer the Mass, granted to priests; to a special grace of strength, granted to bishops, which allows him to teach and lead his flock, even to the point of dying as Christ did.
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World’s biggest Experience centre opens to the public in Johannesburg
Jaguar Land Rover South Africa has opened the world’s biggest experience centre in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg.
The state-of-the-art facility located in the middle of 14-hectares of land in Lonehill is the ideal place to explore and experience what our vehicles are capable of.
The new centre has something for everybody, with activities aimed at a variety of age groups all displaying the best of the vehicles, the technology and the lifestyle associated with each brand.
There is everything from a children’s off-road area, miniature race track to full-blown expedition trails, which pays tribute to South African explorer Kingsley Holgate.
There is also a host of conferencing and event facilities located on site, alongside the TLC restaurant and a personalisation lounge, where visitors can design their perfect Jaguar or Land Rover.
Guests at the official opening, which included a selection of lifestyle media, national retailer principals and VIPs, were treated to a showcase to remember. A stunt show featuring a collection of Jaguar and Land Rovers piloted by a team of instructors wowed the crowd, while visitors could peruse the latest and greatest vehicles from both brands– including the Jaguar I-PACE and Range Rover PHEV models.
Speaking on the night, Richard Gouverneur, Managing Director of Jaguar Land Rover South Africa and sub-Sahara Africa, said today’s consumers demand much more from retailers than previously before and moving with the times is essential, adding:
“It’s imperative that we as Jaguar Land Rover can offer as authentic an experience as possible for existing and potential customers and this facility affords just that.
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Bangladesh 137-run win against Sri-Lanka in the inaugural Asia Cup .
Bandage in the left hand, and the right hand bat. What could be the better view of cricket! Tamim Iqbal’s Asia Cup in the early part of the innings ended in a similar fashion. But it has not ended yet. Because of the wicket, retired heart came back to the house Tamim again took the field. But now being a warrior of the hand, the aim is to co-operate with Mushfiqur Rahim. Mushfiq, who was ruled by the One Man Army, was successful in his field debut
Mushfiq added another 32 runs to Tamim on one side and played in the Bangladesh innings. Mushfiq’s innings was also enough to make the game crisp. Returning to Tamim’s field with a bat in one hand or Mushfiq’s single fight, nothing was in vain. Bangladesh‘s 137-run win against Sri Lanka in Asia Cup opening Asia Cup This is the biggest win in the Asia Cup.
Before winning the toss at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Saturday, Bangladesh started the night before the nightmare but the end is colorful. Mushfiq, batting with Mohammedan Mithun, played an important innings of 144 runs in a historic innings. Bangladesh got 261 runs in the fight Then Mashrafe, Mustafiz, Mirzad’s rule with the ball. Sri Lanka could not fight Their innings stopped at only 124 runs in 35.2 overs.
Sri Lanka’s opener Upul Tharanga tried to bounce back from the start of the target with a target of 262. Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza runs out of trouble in the first over and runs the left-hander this batsman. Tharanga picked up 13 runs in a four and a six. Mustafizur Rahman also could not benefit from the next over. Although he did not score any runs in the first two, he had to dig two or four in the fourth and fourth.
However, this rule did not tolerate much of the time that the world trembling Mustafiz in international cricket LBW trapped Kusal Mendis as the left-arm pacer in the last over of the first over. Mashrafe came in the next over and bowled. Tharanga, the victim of his prey. Mashrafe did not give chance to overcome Sri Lanka’s pressure In the third over, Bangladesh captain returned to Dhananjay De Silva.
Sri Lanka did not have to overcome this pressure Sri Lanka are ahead in front of the controlled bowling of Bangladesh. Nobody could guide the team with the bat. Dilruwan Perera top scored with 29 runs. Upul Tharanga scored the second highest score of 27 runs. Surang Lakmal comes from the bat 20 runs Mashrafee, Mustafiz and Miraz took two wickets each. Shakib, Rubel and Mosaddek got one wicket each.
In the beginning, Bangladesh started to go down in the middle of the first phase. After one year, Sri Lankan paceman Lasith Malinga, who was named to play international cricket, immediately fired the batting line-up of Bangladesh. In the first over of the innings, Liton Kumar Das and Shakib Al Hasan Two wickets in one run During the boat, when the boat was in the middle, the biggest blow was to tolerate Bangladesh. Tamim Iqbal has to leave the field after being injured in the injury.
Three wickets in two runs In Bangladesh camp then dark darkness At that time Mushfiqur Rahim and Mohammed Mithun, who appeared in the light circuit, started with a new start.Mushfiq, who showed the way to Bangladesh alone, added another 32 runs to Tamim at the other end. Before the third ball of the 50th over, out of 150 balls, 11 fours and 4 sixes, 144 runs in a blistering innings, an experienced batsman, played in this innings. This is the highest personal collection of any Bangladesh i batsman in Asia Cup. And it is jointly the second highest personal collection in this history. Mushfiq-Mithun deposited only 24 runs in 10 overs in 10 overs. But the two of them have been tired.
Gradually to increase the speed of the run. The speed that peaked over 20 overs is pretty normal. Bangladesh over 100 runs in 20 overs The innings of Bangladesh is quite consistent. This couple will go a bit more. Mohammad Mithun lifted the first half century of ODI career After a while, Mushfiq passed 50. The pair added 132 runs in the right direction and the two were on the right track.
But again Malinga returned to the role of the killer Now his victim Gemini. 68 runs in 5 fours and 2 sixes in the right arm took the bat. After the departure of Gemini, Bangladesh again lost the direction. Go back quickly Mahmudullah Riyadh and Mosaddek Hossain Saikat. But the epic 144 runs in the game Mushfiq was unstable. He runs the batting of the end batsmen.
Meanwhile, Mushfiq took the first of the Asia Cup and the sixth one-dayer in ODIs. After this one has returned to Mehedi Hasan Miraz, captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Rubel Hossain and Mustafizur Rahman. Although 229 runs were scored in the scorecard, Bangladesh still in the wicket crisis. So Tamim did not delay Bangladesh opener dropped off the field with the bandage.
Mushfiq, who showed the way to Bangladesh alone, added another 32 runs to Tamim at the other end. Before the third ball of the 50th over, out of 150 balls, 11 fours and 4 sixes, 144 runs in a blistering innings, an experienced batsman, played in this innings. This is the highest personal collection of any Bangladeshi batsman in Asia Cup. And it is jointly the second highest personal collection in this history.
The Next Game Play For Bangladesh
15:00 local | 11:00 GMT
Group B : Bangladesh vs Afghanistan, 6th ODI
Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi
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Diphenhydramine
(Redirected from DPH)
Diphenhydramine is typically reported to produce extremely unpleasant (if not dangerous) experiences.
The effects of diphenhydramine as a deliriant are highly unpredictable and may result in serious injury or death. Please use harm reduction practices if using this substance (e.g. always using a trip sitter). See this section for more details.
Summary sheet: Diphenhydramine
DPH, Benadryl, Nytol, Sominex, Unisom, ZzzQuil
2-(diphenylmethoxy)-N,N-dimethylethanamine
Ethanolamine
25 - 100 mg
100 - 200 mg
700 mg +
Diphenhydramine (also known as DPH, Benadryl, and many others) is a deliriant substance of the ethanolamine class. Diphenhydramine is a first-generation H1 antihistamine that is widely used as a generic, over-the-counter medication to treat allergies. When exceeding approved doses, diphenhydramine produces powerful deliriant effects.
Diphenhydramine was first synthesized in 1943. In 1946, it became the first prescription antihistamine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It was approved for over-the-counter use in the 1980s.[1] Today, it is typically used to treat allergies, but it may also be used for a number of conditions including itchiness, insomnia, motion sickness, nausea and the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.[2]
According to user reports, diphenhydramine has a non-linear dose-response, meaning the effects do not correspond directly with the dose. Lower doses produce a body high effect, while higher doses produce a state of delirium in which the user sees and hears fully-formed, extremely convincing hallucinations. Doses between these two extremes are uncomfortable and dysphoric. Diphenhydramine is frequently reported to produce significant nausea and bodily discomfort ("body load"). Most users who try diphenhydramine typically do not report positive effects and do not wish to repeat the experience.
The toxicity of recreational diphenhydramine use has not been studied. Anecdotal reports suggest that heavy use may cause persisting hallucinations and cognitive and memory impairments. It is highly advised to use harm reduction practices if using this substance.
4.2.1 Suppression
6.1 Overdose
6.2 Psychosis
6.3 Dependence and abuse potential
Diphenhydramine was discovered in 1943 by George Rieveschl, a former professor at the University of Cincinnati.[3][4] In 1946, it became the first prescription antihistamine approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).[5]
In the 1960s diphenhydramine was found to inhibit reuptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin.[6] This discovery led to a search for viable antidepressants with similar structures and fewer side effects, culminating in the invention of fluoxetine (Prozac), a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).[6][7]
Diphenhydramine, or 2-(diphenylmethoxy)-N,N-dimethylethanamine, is an organic compound belonging to the ethanolamine class. The chemical structure of diphenhydramine consists of an ethylamine chain with two methyl groups bonded to the terminal nitrogen group RN. Additionally, this ethylamine chain is substituted at R2 with a diphenylmethoxy group, forming an ether. The diphenylmethoxy group consists of two aromatic phenyl rings bonded the carbon member of a methoxy group CH3O-.
DPH is produced as a hydrochloride salt.
Diphenhydramine is an inverse agonist of the peripheral histamine H1 receptor and a central histamine H1 receptor.[citation needed] The peripheral inverse agonism induces the allergy reducing effects.[citation needed] Like many first-generation antihistamines, it is also a competitive antagonist at mACH receptors.[citation needed]
Diphenhydramine is an acetylcholine receptor antagonist. Although the precise mechanism is not understood, the inhibition of the action of acetylcholine is thought to be primarily responsible for the delirium, sedation and intensely realistic hallucinations alongside the extremely uncomfortable and dysphoric physical side effects.
Diphenhydramine has been shown to block sodium channels and inhibit the reuptake of serotonin.[8][9] It also blocks voltage-gated potassium channels (VGKCs), meaning it has the potential to cause or lead to torsades de points, a potentially dangerous cardiac condition that can lead to sudden cardiac death. [10]
The receptor binding affinities are listed as follows:[11][12]
Receptor Site
Binding Affinity (nM, Lower = Stronger)
H1 9.6-16
H2 missing data
H3 >10,000
M1 80-100
M2 120-490
SERT ≥3,800
According to user reports, diphenhydramine displays a non-linear dose-response, meaning the effects don't correspond directly with the dose. Doses under 300 mg are reported to produce restlessness, muscle relaxation, and a body high while doses above 500 mg begin to produce a state of delirium in which the user sees and hears fully-formed, extremely convincing hallucinations. Doses in between these two extremes are said to be uncomfortable and dysphoric. Nausea and bodily discomfort ("body load") is reported almost universally.
Sedation - Diphenhydramine produces considerable sedation and low doses are commonly used as a sleep aid. This sense of sedation is accompanied by a heavy body load which can become overwhelmingly uncomfortable. However, higher doses of diphenhydramine also have a stimulating quality that can make actual rest difficult.
Spontaneous bodily sensations - Users commonly report all-encompassing, sharp and painful jolts of electricity that spontaneously manifest themselves uncontrollably in a similar rhythm to hiccups.
Perception of bodily heaviness - One of the most apparent effects is having a massive body as if the gravity has been multiplied tenfold. This makes it extremely tough and uncomfortable to move.
Restless leg syndrome - Restless legs are very prominent and arguably one of the most uncomfortable side effects of diphenhydramine . It can also last for days after the experience and can even be chronic when it is abused repeatedly.
Tactile enhancement - This results in increased feelings of touch, pain, warmth and orgasms. It is usually only present at the peak and not during the come up or come down.
Tactile suppression - Diphenhydramine produces feelings of numbness throughout the body. This is attributed to its ability to block sodium channels within the nerves.[13]
Tactile hallucination - This is often a direct result of visual hallucinations and they commonly feel and look as if insects are crawling on one's skin.
Nausea or Nausea suppression- Depending on the dose, diphenhydramine can both suppress and cause nausea. Low doses effectively suppress nausea, which is why it is marketed and sold as a motion sickness suppressant, while high doses cause it in significant amounts.
Abnormal heartbeat[citation needed]
Dehydration[citation needed] - Diphenhydramine can be extremely dehydrating, which often leads to dry mouth and skin, chapped lips and nose bleeds. Users should drink plenty of water before and after an experience.
Frequent urination & Difficulty urinating - Diphenhydramine has the strange effect of making the user want to frequently urinate while making actual urination extremely difficult. This sensation is described as very uncomfortable.
Gustatory hallucination - A foul metallic-like taste is present throughout the entire experience, which in combination with a dry mouth can be a very uncomfortable effect which can last for days after the experience. Eating or drinking flavored drinks will only make the taste go away temporarily. It can also appear as a sign of addiction, where it acts as a trigger for cravings.
Increased blood pressure[citation needed] - This often results in feelings of a beating chest and, with a high heart rate can lead to hyperventilation if excess stress is applied to the body.
Increased heart rate[citation needed]
Temperature regulation suppression - This effect can lead the user to experience shivers, especially during the come up phase.
Increased perspiration
Motor control loss
Muscle cramps & Muscle spasms - Sudden muscle cramps and spasms can form unexpectedly. This is common at the beginning of the trip and usually passes quickly.
Olfactory hallucination - It is common for users to smell a mild, thick and dull smell in the air that can easily be ignored most of the time. Some users also notice a smell enhancement[citation needed]
Physical fatigue
Pupil constriction or Pupil dilation - While it it shown that diphenhydramine constricts pupils minimally[14], many people also report that their pupils dilate, especially at high dosages when anti-cholinergic effects take place similar to substances like atropine or scopolamine.
Skin flushing - Flushed skin occurs mostly around the eyes, but can also be seen all over the body.
Temporary erectile dysfunction
itchiness - This effect happens in high doses but in low doses it reduces itchiness
While diphenhydramine produces visual hallucinations, it does not enhance visual stimuli in the manner of psychedelics. Instead, it tends to degrade and decrease visual acuity and processing that results in increased hallucinations and degraded vision. This becomes more apparent in darker areas than in well-lit ones.
Pattern recognition suppression
Visual acuity suppression - This effect can result in blurry vision to the point of blindness. It sometimes can last for days after the experience itself.
Drifting (melting, breathing, morphing and flowing) - Compared to hallucinogens, this effect can be described as intricate in complexity, jittery and flexible in motion, static in their permanence, realistic in believability, and interactive in plasticity. It is also very faint.
Object alteration - The textures seen are described as transparent whirling lines and swirls which move at changing speeds and jitter uncontrollably. They only appear slightly above surfaces, walls and ceilings and can not be felt.
Brightness alteration - Diphenhydramine can cause one's vision to decrease in brightness and become dark and gloomy.
Visual haze
External hallucination (autonomous entities; settings, sceneries, and landscapes; perspective hallucinations and scenarios and plots) - Relative to other hallucinogens, this effect occurs more frequently at moderate to heavy doses and is the defining feature of the experience. It can be comprehensively described through its variations as delirious in believability, controllable or autonomous in controllability and solid in style. The most common themes for these hallucinations include those of both everyday occurrences such as smoking phantom cigarettes, talking to people who are not there, seeing and feeling insects and immersion in sinister or nightmarish experiences.
Internal hallucination (autonomous entities; settings, sceneries, and landscapes; perspective hallucinations and scenarios and plots) - Relative to other hallucinogens, this effect occurs briefly and spontaneously at moderate doses but becomes progressively extended in its occurrence and duration proportional to dosage before eventually becoming all-encompassing. It can be comprehensively described through its variations as delirious in believability, interactive in style, equal in new experiences and memory replays in content, autonomous in controllability and solid in style. Internal hallucinations may occur at lighter dosages than needed to cause external hallucinations and delirium.
Peripheral information misinterpretation
Shadow people
Unspeakable horrors
Object activation
The head space of diphenhydramine is described by many as generally negative and dysphoric, often consisting of extreme paranoia and feelings of impending doom. It is extremely confusing and disorienting and often results in a complete inability to communicate or understand normal language.
Analysis suppression - At higher dosages, a person could experience a complete halt of external information processing, which can make the user unable to perform simple tasks or make decisions.
Anxiety& Paranoia - Anxiety and paranoia are more commonly reported on diphenhydramine than almost any other substance. However, there is a threshold doses (around 500mg) where it begins to disappear.
Sleepiness - Diphenhydramine is reported to be extremely tiring. Low doses are often used and sold as a sleep aid.
Wakefulness - Even though diphenhydramine is primarily a depressant and causes sleepiness, it has stimulant effects on the body, which can also keep the user awake. This effect predominates sleepiness at higher dosages.
Dysphoria - The levels of dysphoria experienced, however, vary between people with a very small percentage of users reporting that they do not seem to experience them at all.
Confusion - Diphenhydramine causes significant confusion which can result in a complete inability to understand others' intentions, emotions, humor and even simple sentences.
Creativity suppression
Decreased libido - Interestingly, one's sex drive seems to have diminished, although sex and masturbation are considered more enjoyable in a unique way and often come with powerful orgasms.
Delirium - Delirium may be experienced with extremely high doses which may necessitate hospitalization.
Disinhibition - Disinhibition on diphenhydramine is different from substances like alcohol, as it may not even be present in certain situations and is heavily influenced by anxiety and paranoia.
Dream potentiation - Diphenhydramine is extremely effective at potentiating dreams. This can result in not just increased intensity but a change in dream content, leading to dreams that are both vivid and extremely bizarre.
Dysarthria[citation needed] - Slurred speech and speaking with a different voice is common on DPH.
Emotion suppression
Feelings of impending doom
Focus suppression
Language suppression
Memory suppression - Memory suppression on diphenhydramine is extremely strong. Short-term memory loss is affected in a manner similar to cannabis.
Amnesia - At higher dosages, diphenhydramine can cause a complete halt of external information processing, which can make the user unable to perform simple tasks or make decisions.
Motivation suppression - Diphenhydramine can cause a complete loss of motivation to do almost anything. This is often accompanied by depression and can make the user extremely bored and restless.
Thought disorganization
Time distortion - Although not extreme, time dilation is definitely felt and can be overwhelming if the user is having a difficult trip.
Auditory hallucinations - Auditory hallucinations like voices and screams are commonly reported on diphenhydramine.
Auditory suppression
Auditory enhancement
Brightness alteration
Gustatory hallucination
Sleepiness
Visual acuity suppression
Anecdotal reports which describe the effects of this compound within our experience index include:
Experience: 550mg DPH - My First Time on DPH
Experience:100/100/100mg, first time with it
Experience:300mg DPH + 600mg DXM - An Interesting Combo
Experience:400mg DXM + 300mg DPH – Bacterial friends
Experience:550mg-Bugs All Around Me.
Experience:700mg - Joining the 700 club
Experience:700mg Diphenhydramine trip
Experience:DPH 400mg - Barking Paper
Experience:DXM & DPH in combination
Experience:Datura & DPH - Results of Experiment by Isopropanol
Additional experience reports can be found here:
Erowid Experience Vaults: Diphenhydramine
Diphenhydramine is available in several different forms over the counter and online.
Pills are available over the counter and online. Well-known brands include Benadryl, Benylin, Dramamine, Nytol, Sominex and ZzzQuil. Rarely, some of these products may contain other medicines, including dextromethorphan, guaifenesin, and acetaminophen. Care should be taken when using these products to ensure that there is not an overdose on other medicines in these DPH-containing products.
Liquid is available over the counter and online. Diphenhydramine in liquid form can be taken orally or injected. Well-known brands include Benadryl and ZzzQuil. Rarely, some of these products may contain other medicines, including dextromethorphan, guaifenesin, and acetaminophen. Care should be taken when using these products to ensure that there is not an overdose on other medicines in DPH-containing products.
Powder is available online. Diphenhydramine in powdered form can be taken orally as well as via injection. Any other routes of administration other than oral are not recommended because diphenhydramine burns and dehydrates skin tissue, which leads to extremely painful burns and bleeding.
The toxicity and long-term health effects of recreational diphenhydramine use have not been studied.
User should note that diphenhydramine can be extremely unpredictable and the mechanism by which it produces hallucinations has the potential to result in serious injury, hospitalization or death. Additionally, diphenhydramine puts users in a state where they have little control over their actions. Diphenhydramine can provoke bizarre and nonsensical behavior which may put the user at risk.
Anecdotal reports suggest that regular use of diphenhydramine can have serious effects on one's kidney and bladder with the potential to result in issues similar to that of ketamine cystitis.
The overdose threshold for diphenhydramine is commonly held to be around 1000 milligrams; however, sensitive individuals can overdose with less. The main effects of an overdose are similar to those of heavy doses. Effects include delirium, psychosis, anxiety, confusion as well as an increased heart rate,[citation needed] increased blood pressure[citation needed], dryness, urinary retention, dizziness and dilated pupils. Some of the more serious side effects at very high doses include the risk of seizures,[citation needed] and dangerous cardiovascular effects such as arrhythmia (abnormal heartbeat).[citation needed]
The user may completely not be able to distinguish reality from hallucinations. There is also a significant risk of responding to a delusional environment and possibly injuring themselves or others and also too much physical activity which can further strain the heart or cause rhabdomyolysis.[citation needed] Individuals undergoing delusions should, if possible, not be agitated. The first lines of treatment for overdose should be benzodiazepines, although medical attention should always be sought.
Diphenhydramine can become fatal at amounts close to or exceeding 2 grams.[citation needed] This can result in death when combined with most stimulants, depressants and MAOIs.
User reports suggest that diphenhydramine causes psychosis and delirium at a significantly higher rate than other hallucinogens (i.e. psychedelics and dissociatives).[citation needed] There are a large number of experience reports online which describe states of psychotic delirium, amnesia, and other serious consequences after abusing the substance. In many cases, it has resulted in hospitalization and death.[citation needed]
The recreational use of diphenhydramine is generally not advised. If deciding to use this substance, one should use extreme caution and harm reduction practices, such as having a sober trip sitter.
Dependence and abuse potential
Diphenhydramine produces dependence with chronic use. In comparison to other hallucinogens, DPH has been reported to have significantly less abuse potential than other hallucinogens. This is simply because the vast majority of people who try it do not wish to repeat the experience.
Tolerance to many of the effects of DPH develops with repeated use. This results in users having to administer increasingly large doses to achieve the same effects. After that, it takes about 1 - 2 weeks for tolerance to return to baseline (in the absence of further consumption). DPH presents cross-tolerance with all deliriants, meaning that after the consumption of DPH, all deliriants will have a reduced effect.
Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) - SSRIs can suppress the visual effects of diphenhydramine. However, this combination may elevate the risk of serotonin syndrome due to diphenhydramine's serotonergic effects.[citation needed]
Stimulants - Due to diphenhydramine's excitatory cardiac effect, combining it with stimulants poses a risk of an abnormal heart rhythm, severe tachycardia, or a heart attack as well as other cardiovascular events.
Benzodiazepines - Benzodiazepines can suppress the visual effects of diphenhydramine. However, this can combination can produce a dangerous amount of sedation and respiratory depression.[citation needed]
Anticholinergics - Due to diphenhydramine's excitatory cardiac effect, combining it with other anticholinergics poses a risk of an abnormal heart rhythm, severe tachycardia, or a heart attack as well as other cardiovascular events (inhibition of acetylcholine causes increased heart rate).
Diphenhydramine is available either over the counter or by prescription in most countries. However, some countries require the purchaser to be over 16, 18 or 21.
Zambia: Diphenhydramine is illegal to possess and sell in Zambia; foreigners have been detained for possession.[citation needed]
Deliriants
Acetylcholine
Diphenhydramine (Wikipedia)
Diphenhydramine (Erowid Vault)
Diphenhydramine (Isomer Design)
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A day in the Land of Virgin Goddess – Kanyakumari (II)
Posted on October 2, 2017 by Tiru
Part-II:
After having a darshan of the Goddess, we were onto the streets of Kanyakumari which are packed with various shops selling a wide range of goods like clothes, antiques, toys for the children and souvenirs. We went to a shop where my friend bought a jewelry box for her cousin while I bought a small sindhoor box for my mom. After going around few more shops, we headed towards another important tourist place of this town – ‘Gandhi Memorial‘, which is located near to the Kanyaka Amman temple.
From the outer view and architecture of this Memorial, one can find it different as this is not of the Dravidian style which is quite common in South India. Instead this was constructed in the Kalinga style or the style which is most common in Odisha. It is said that the urn containing the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi was kept at this place before immersing them in the waters here. This is a two-storied building with the roof-top offering some of the best views of the town. The ground floor has a meditation hall with it’s walls adorned by various photographs of Mahatma Gandhi and the height of the central dome is 79 feet which indicates the age of Mahatma when he died! Though they said that there is a library here, which will remain open on Saturdays, we couldn’t find any that Saturday!
Our next place to visit is the church which we saw from the Vivekananda Rock Memorial. It seemed huge from there, so we made a point to visit this church also. We took an auto-rickshaw asking him to leave us at one of the most beautiful churches I would say called the ‘Our Lady of Ransom Church‘. It is 15 minutes away from the Amman Temple and when we reached there, the church was indeed huge. It is a pristine and exquisite example of Gothic Architecture and the church is dedicated to Mother Mary. The church stands on the sea shore and this huge white structure with the blue sea in it’s background is picture perfect!
The height of this church is 153 ft with a cross on top of it which is made of pure gold. And a mast is erected infront of the temple, which was donated by a merchant who bought a foreign ship that got stuck on the seashore of Leepuram at Kanyakumari. This is an added attraction to the church! Having enough of photographs of this beautiful monument, we left the place to visit yet another significant structure called the ‘Mathur Aqueduct‘ or the ‘Mathur Hanging Trough’.
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A day in the Land of the Virgin Goddess – Kanyakumari (I)
Part – I:
On a Friday evening, a friend of mine asked me whether I had been to Kanyakumari and I nodded a ‘no’. She was a bit surprised to see me saying a ‘no’ as I was living in Trivandrum for the last two years and I didn’t visit this place yet 🙂 She then casually asked me why couldn’t we visit Kanyakumari the next day? And of course, I said Y can’t we? 😉 We booked two tickets for the Guruvayur-Chennai Express which could drop us at Nagercoil Junction and we could easily get into a bus to Kanyakumari from there. The plan was set and we were ready by 03.20 hrs. Thanks to the Uber cab driver, who after 20 minutes from the booking time told us that he won’t be able to pick us up and we ended up missing the train by 2 minutes 😦
We walked towards the Kerala State Transport Corporation Bus Station to check if there were any buses available to Kanyakumari or Nagercoil. After waiting for 30 minutes, the first bus to Nagercoil was ready on the platform and we grabbed two seats. The distance between Trivandrum and Nagercoil is 75 kms and was covered in 2.5 hours. Luckily we got a bus to Kanyakumari immediately after reaching Nagercoil. The distance of 15 kms was covered in 40 minutes and here we are in the ‘Land of the Virgin Goddess – Kanyaka Parameswari’. But we couldn’t see the sunrise this time 😦
Kanyakumari or Cape Comorin, is said to be the southern most tip of the Indian peninsula – better known for it’s dazzling sunrise and sunset. A small town yet significant historically and spiritually, Kanyakumari attracts a lot of tourists all through out the year. The streets are narrow and the roads are packed with hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops. We rushed to a nearby restaurant to have some breakfast. The breakfast though is South Indian was tasteless, hopeless but too costly!
We started walking towards the ticket counter of the Poompuhar Shipping Corporation which issues the ferry tickets to reach the famous Vivekananda Rock Memorial and ‘Shri Thiruvalluvar Statue’. The counters open only by 08.00 hrs and tourists will be sent in batches to accommodate them in the ferries available here. We were in the first lot to board the ferry as we were among the first few to get the tickets and each ticket costs Rs. 34 (to and fro). The sea was rough with it’s waves crashing against the rocks and the sun was already blazing high in the sky. Soon the engines of the ferry roared and it started sailing towards the hill on which once the Great Indian Sage ‘Swami Vivekananda’ meditated!
Vivekananda Rock Memorial – This Memorial was built on one of the two rocks which were located at the meeting of two seas (the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea) and a might ocean (the Indian Ocean). Legend has it that the philosopher dived into shark-infested waters to reach the rock where he meditated. The memorial built at the spot has two structures: the Vivekananda Mandapam and the Sripada Mandapam. The Vivekananda Mandapam hosts a bronze statue of the philosopher made by renowned sculptor Sitaram S. Arte and it is said that at this very point Swami Vivekananda meditated. There are book stalls adjoined to this meditation hall and all books published by the Rama Krishna Mission are available here.
Just opposite to this Mandapam there is another mandapam called the Sripada Mandapam. The legend is that Goddess Parvati in one of her incarnations as Kanya did Tapasya here to obtain the hand of Lord Shiva in marriage. One can see a natural projection similar in the form of a human foot and a little brownish in complexion and traditionally this is being revered as the ‘Shri Padam’.
The other major attraction of Kanyakumari is the massive stone figure of famed Sangam poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar, which stands atop a rocky islet about 500 metres off the coast, and near to the Vivekananda Rock Memorial. This Thiruvalluvar’s statue has been made 133 feet tall to match the 133 chapters of his most famous work Tirukkural, a collection of 1330 couplets on social conduct, ethics and love. Waves break and froth at the base of the rocks but never touch the statue, which looks invulnerable and sacrosanct on a three-tiered pedestal flanked by ten elephants. The statue’s most striking feature is its unusual posture – slightly bent at the waist like the carvings of dancers on the temple walls.
It is said that Dr V Ganapati Sthapati, who designed the statue, incorporated elements of vaastu shastra in its construction. When the statue’s location was questioned, he declared that his creation could withstand the mightiest of earthquakes. That claim was indeed tested when the Thiruvalluvar statue survived the destructive Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. A true tribute to the great poet and India’s greatest ‘science of architecture – the Vaastu Shastra’. After taking a few snaps of these beautiful architectural marvels and buying some books, we returned back to the mainland and walked towards the 3000 year old temple of Devi Kanyakumari after whose name this small town was named!
The temple is situated near Kanyakumari beach, and is dedicated to Goddess Devi Kanyakumari. The temple is not huge one unlike the other temples which we come across in Tamil Nadu. Though there is a entrance in the East, we are allowed to enter through the northern gate and the eastern gate remains closed and is opened only on some festivals, when the deity is taken out for a ceremonial bath. According to the Hindu Mythology, Goddess Parvati in order to kill the demon king Banasura took the incarnation of a virgin girl and hence the name Devi Kanyaka. The idol faces the East and it is believed that her nose ring is set with rubies that shone so bright that they could be seen from a great distance at night. And in the past, many ships out at sea, mistook the brightness as the light emitting from the lighthouse and hit against the perilous rocks and in order to avoid this the eastern side gate of the Kumari Amman Temple is kept closed. Interesting huh! 🙂 🙂
(Part-II follows)….
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Formula Sun is upon us!
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Please stay tuned to the updates page throughout the following week (May 11-17th) for fresh updates from the Formula Sun Grand Prix.
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Finish competitively, use the latest innovations, and team work are the new goals set forth by the University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project. The strategies used to achieve these goals are building a reliable and race-able car that is able to manage power efficiently. Improvements will be made over the last car while outsourcing will be kept to a minimum.
The University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project has been competitively racing solar vehicles for over ten years. University undergraduate students design, build, test, and race a new vehicle every two years. The project is composed mainly of, but not exclusively, engineering students from different fields. The Solar Vehicle Project gives students the opportunity to learn skills not offered in a classroom setting. The project brings publicity to both the University of Minnesota and sponsoring companies. It also brings awareness of alternative energies as well as contributing to the local community. A continuing goal of the Solar Vehicle Project is to give students meaningful, hands on experience while learning about teamwork and organization. To accomplish this, much of the components used in the car are designed and created by students. Most of the funding is derived from private organizations in the form of products or money contributions. The donated products are used directly into building solar car components and the cash donations are used to either obtain other products or maintain the logistical component for a competitive, traveling racing team. Funding is necessary in order to continue the benefits Solar Vehicle Project offers the students, the University, the scientific community, and the local community.
Formula Sun 2004, May 17-21
Formula Sun is an annual race held at Heartland Track in Topeka, Kansas. Schools from across the nation come to race their solar vehicles for three days on a 2.1 mile race track. This year, the Solar Vehicle Project is bringing a record number of participants, 29, to Formula Sun to defend last year’s first place finish. The first two days are reserved for teams to be scrutinized mechanically, electrically, aerodynamically, as well as other pre-qualifying tasks. After teams pass all the qualifying requirements they may enter the race on Wednesday, May 19. Poll positioning is determined by the car’s quarter-mile time with the fastest time having the first poll position. Each race day begins at sun up and concludes at 4pm. Throughout the duration of the race, teams will dedicate nearly every moment of their time to their solar car; sleep is considered a luxury. On Friday, May 21 the race concludes with some friendly team competitions such as the iron man and tire change competition. After the races final conclusion, the team celebrates their accomplishment with a dinner at one of the local Topeka restaurants and a good night's sleep.
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Kelly’s Heroes
Synopsis: Led by Private Kelly, a group of soldiers go AWOL in a scheme to steel millions of dollars worth of gold.
• The seemingly impossible genre mix of comedy, war, and bank heist somehow just works.
• A true anti-establishment film that is also subtly anti-war.
• The whole cast clearly enjoyed themselves, and all the characters are more than memorable.
• The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Oddball is a perfect parody homage scene.
• Harry Dean Stanton has a small but noticeable role as Pvt. Willard.
• The plot itself is somewhat implausible; Generals like Patton certainly would never have let anything like this happen under their watch.
• Not always consistent tonally.
• The theme song for the film, “Burning Bridges,” might be a bridge too far in lightening a tone already lightened by the talented cast, while it might not hold up well for the present-day ear.
What is interesting about WWII films as late as even 1970 is how many of the actors served in that war: Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Harry Dean Stanton, among others. That fact gives a de-facto authenticity to a war film. At the same time, Kelly’s Heroes is not a traditional war film. Comedy and War seem like as odd genre bedfellows as Horror and Comedy. War and Comedy might not even work all that well on their own, but this film is also a bank heist. As a result, this is really a film about the power of greed. All Kelly (Eastwood) had to do was show one gold bar, and most came to follow him, often instantly. The establishment did not matter, as the establishment came to follow in their own ways. The heroes technically did a lot of good in the fight against the nazis, but the gold, their greed was all that really mattered. Most do not really want war, and that gold proved how ridiculous war can look against anything else. Kelly’s Heroes is a unique film in its genre mixing that is a classic simply because it works.
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This NYC Horsedrawn Street Trolley is the Oldest Preserved Streetcar in the World
Michelle Young 06/21/2016 Arts & Culture, New York, News, NYC Getaways, Transit
Earlier this month, we tracked down the incredible private subway car of August Belmont Jr., the financier for the first subway line in New York City at the Shore Line Trolley Museum in Connecticut. Another find in this amazing museum, which has over 100 vintage trolley and subway cars, is the horse drawn trolley car, the Horsecar 76. It’s believed to be the oldest preserved streetcar in the world. This adorable trolley was tucked in the back of one of the museum’s brand new storage barns, built 17 feet above the 500 year flood plain.
The type of streetcar, known as a reversible horse car, could actually rotate 360 degrees on its undercarriage utilizing a single pin, so when the trolley needed to go in the reverse direction along the rails, the horse and the cab would just rotate around. It was built by John Stephenson & Co., an important streetcar and rail manufacturer, who patented the braking system for the reversible horsecar in 1859. Starting in 1843, Stephenson was producing streetcars from a six-story factory he built on Madison Avenue and 27th Street, across from the depot of the New York & Harlem Railroad.
Horsecar 76 already shows concepts Stephenson would develop further about the design of horsecars and street cars, including roof windows and clerestories for light and ventilation. Stephenson called the clerestory level a Bombay roof, inspired by the types of vehicles from the Indian city. The Stephenson horse trolley was also lighter than other comparative types, and required only one driver and one horse.
US Patent # 2626 by John Stephenson from 1859. Image via the Branford Electric Railway Journal
It’s unclear when Horsecar 76 was actually built but an article in the Branford Electric Railway Journal goes in depth attempting to narrow a time frame, somewhere between 1853 and 1862.
It’s also unclear which streetcar company operated Horsecar 76. It is known that the Sixth Avenue Railroad purchased nine horsecars in 1856, and another nine a year later. The painted CENTRAL PARK signage below the windows does not indicate that the trolley ran within the park, but rather was perhaps the destination of the trolley. The 6th Avenue Railroad did have a stop at 59th Street by 1856. Later archival photographs show that the Central Park sign above the windows once read, “8 AV, CANAL STRET.”
The conundrum of the horsecar’s signage and usage are even more befuddling than described here, but in the end, this trolley somehow ended up in the possession of the Second Avenue Railroad Company, though a Central Park stop was not part of that company’s jurisdiction. As the Branford Electric Railway Journal article writes, “The Second Avenue Railroad wound up with this car, which Stephenson claimed was used on Sixth Avenue, and is lettered for Eighth Avenue!”
Interior of Horsecar 76 today
Despite the horsecar’s technological innovations, its passenger capacity was simply too low to be effective in dense urban centers. For at least 35 years, the Horsecar 76 was used as a ceremonial car for special events, such as the below image from 1897. It was a test run for the conversion to electrical conduit operation on the Fourth Avenue line, but as The Street Railway Review reported at the time, “Several members of the Board of Aldermen were guests, but before the trip was finished they had all the enthusiasm shaken out of them.”
Horsecar 76 makes another appearance in newspaper photographs in 1923, used in a parade down Fifth Avenue to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the unification of the five boroughs.
In 1933, the Second Avenue Railroad transferred Horsecar 76 to the Museum of the City of New York where it was on view until the early 1980s. It was moved into storage at Bush Terminal during museum renovations, but when the Brooklyn Nets rented space there to use for indoor practice courts, the lease with the museum was terminated.
The Museum of the City of New York reached out to the New York Transit Museum but Horsecar 76 could not fit in the decommissioned IND subway station the museum calls home. As Chelsea Newburgh, from the New York Transit Museum tells us,”Our Curatorial team reached out to the Shore Line Trolley Museum’s President Emeritus and longtime Transit Museum volunteer, Bill Wall, and it was agreed upon by everyone at MCNY, NYTM, and SLTM that SLTM was the best home for the historic car.” The move was quite an adventure, as recounted in the Branford Electric Railway Journal article, but it finally arrived at the Connecticut museum on December 5th, 2014.
We are coordinating a tour to the Shore Line Trolley Museum to see this car, the August Belmont Jr. private subway car, and more from the extensive collection of vintage trolleys and trains. Sign up for advance notice here:
Next, see photos of the Belmont private subway car and read about the secrets of the NYC subway.
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World Losing 2,000 Hectares of Farm Soil Daily to Salt-Induced Degradation
Water, Agriculture, Natural Resources
2014•10•28 Hamilton
Salt-spoiled soils worldwide: 20% of all irrigated lands — an area equal to size of France; Extensive costs include $27 billion+ in lost crop value / year. UNU study identifies ways to reverse damage, says every hectare needed to feed world’s fast-growing population.
Every day for more than 20 years, an average of 2,000 hectares of irrigated land in arid and semi-arid areas across 75 countries have been degraded by salt, according to a new study — Economics of Salt-induced Land Degradation and Restoration — published today by the UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).
Currently an area the size of France is affected — about 62 million hectares (20 percent) of the world’s irrigated lands, up from 45 million hectares in the early 1990s.
Salt-induced land degradation occurs in arid and semi-arid regions where rainfall is too low to maintain regular percolation of rainwater through the soil and where irrigation is practiced without a natural or artificial drainage system.
Irrigation practices without drainage management trigger the accumulation of salts in the root zone, affecting several soil properties and reducing productivity.
“To feed the world’s anticipated nine billion people by 2050, and with little new productive land available, it’s a case of all lands needed on deck,” says principal author Manzoor Qadir, Assistant Director of the Water and Human Development programme at UNU-INWEH. “We can’t afford not to restore the productivity of salt-affected lands.”
Zafar Adeel, Director of UNU-INWEH, notes that the UN Food and Agriculture Organization projects a need to produce 70 percent more food by 2050, including a 50 percent rise in annual cereal production to about 3 billion tonnes.
“Each week the world loses an area larger than Manhattan to salt degradation. A large portion of the affected areas in developing countries have seen investments made in irrigation and drainage but the infrastructure is not properly maintained or managed. Efforts to restore those lands to full productivity are essential as world population and food needs grow, especially in the developing world.”
Well known salt-degraded land areas include:
Aral Sea Basin, Central Asia
Indo-Gangetic Basin, India
Indus Basin, Pakistan
Yellow River Basin, China
Euphrates Basin, Syria and Iraq
Murray-Darling Basin, Australia, and
San Joaquin Valley, United States
The paper, authored by eight experts based in Canada, Jordan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and published in the UN Sustainable Development journal Natural Resources Forum, details crop productivity losses at farm, regional, and global scales, the cost of doing nothing, and the net economic benefit of preventing and/or reversing land degradation.
The estimated cost of crop losses was drawn from a review of more than 20 studies over the last 20 years in Australia, India, Pakistan, Spain, Central Asia and the United States.
Globally, irrigated lands cover some 310 million hectares, an estimated 20 percent of it salt-affected (62 million hectares). The inflation-adjusted cost of salt-induced land degradation in 2013 was estimated at US$441 per hectare, yielding an estimate of global economic losses at US$27.3 billion per year.
In India’s Indo-Gangetic Basin, crop yield losses for wheat, rice, sugarcane and cotton grown on salt-affected lands could be 40 percent, 45 percent, 48 percent, and 63 percent respectively. Employment losses could be 50–80 man-days per hectare, with an estimated 20–40 percent increase in human health problems and 15–50 percent increase in animal health problems.
In the Indus Basin in Pakistan, wheat grain yield losses from salt-affected lands ranged from 20–43 percent with an overall average loss of 32 percent. For rice, the crop yield losses from salt-affected lands ranged from 36–69 percent with an overall average loss of 48 percent.
Even in the US’s Colorado River Basin, studies show the annual economic impact of salt-induced land degradation in irrigated areas at US$750 million.
“It is important to note that the above numbers on global cost of salt-induced land degradation refer to economic losses based on crop yield losses only,” the paper says.
“However, the crop yields from irrigated areas not affected by salinization have increased since 1990 due to factors such as improved crop varieties, efficient on-farm practices, better fertilizer use, and efficient water management practices. Consequently, there may be larger gaps in crop yields harvested from salt-affected and non-affected areas under similar agro-ecosystems, suggesting an underestimation of the economic cost of salt-induced land degradation.
“These costs are expected to be even higher when other cost components such as infrastructure deterioration (including roads, railways, and buildings), losses in property values of farms with degraded land, and the social cost of farm businesses are taken into consideration. In addition, there could be additional environmental costs associated with salt-affected degraded lands as these lands emit more greenhouse gases, thus contributing to global warming.”
Methods successfully used to facilitate drainage and reverse soil degradation include tree planting, deep plowing, cultivation of salt-tolerant varieties of crops, mixing harvested plant residues into topsoil, and digging a drain or deep ditch around the salt-affected land.
Reversing land degradation and bringing salt-affected lands back into a highly productive state are expected to result in favorable environmental benefits in addition to economic gains, although functional markets for many of the ecosystem services are currently embryonic or nonexistent.
Although there are investment costs to prevent and reverse land degradation, or to restore degraded land into productive land, these costs are much less than the costs of allowing land degradation to continue and intensify.
Pertinent policies, well-designed salinity management plans, supportive institutions, skilled human resources, provision of facilities and infrastructure for disposal of salts, capacity development of farmers, utilization of locally available resources and indigenous knowledge of communities are crucial in combating salt-induced land degradation.
Salt-induced land degradation may also affect the business sector negatively either directly or indirectly, targeting their inputs, outputs, or processes. The businesses in close connection with natural resources may be affected, such as those dealing with basic resources (forestry, wood, pulp, and paper), food and beverage, construction and materials, industrial goods and services (transportation and packaging), utilities (water and electricity), personal and household goods (clothing, footwear, and furniture), leisure and travel (hotels and restaurants), and real estate. Therefore, reversing salt-induced land degradation would help these sectors achieve potential economic gains by providing needed levels of materials and services.
For more information on the study or to arrange interviews, contact:
Mr. Terry Collins
tc@tca.tc
2013•10•09 Hamilton UNU-INWEH Coordinated Initiative Focuses on Economics of Land Degradation
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On the road of life there are old friends, new friends, and stories that change you. Watch the new trailer for Toy Story 4 now, in theatres June 21.
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called “Forky” to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy. Directed by Josh Cooley (“Riley’s First Date?”) and produced by Jonas Rivera (“Inside Out,” “Up”) and Mark Nielsen (associate producer “Inside Out”), Disney•Pixar’s “Toy Story 4” ventures to U.S. theaters on June 21, 2019.
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The Action-Packed ‘John Wick: Chapter 2’ Trailer Is Here
It seems unthinkable, considering The Force Awakens made approximately all the money in the world, but there’s something more popular than Star Wars out there: Fifty Shades Darker. The steamy trailer for the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey was viewed 114 million times in the first 24 hours since its release, breaking the previous record set by The Force Awakens‘ 112 million. That’s a shame for two reasons: 1) Star Wars is much better than Fifty Shades of Grey, although the dialogue in both can be equally cringeworthy, and b) the record-holder should be John Wick: Chapter Two. The trailer for 2017’s most important movie starring Keanu Reeves and a badass dog has been out for a couple of hours, and the view count is currently under 100,000. This is simply unacceptable. Guess it’s time to watch the preview 115 million times in a row.
It will be hard for John Wick: Chapter 2 to recapture the magic of the original, which is a nearly perfect action movie, but the trailer looks promising. This time around, our man Wick has been “forced back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild,” according to the official plot synopsis. He heads to Rome, where “he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers,” including Orange Is the New Black‘s Ruby Rose. Also, Reeves’ The Matrix co-star Laurence Fishburne plays a character named the Bowler King who menacingly holds pigeons.
Fifty Shades Darker can’t compete with that.
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