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Operating Hours at Different HMC Facilities During Ramadan
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) announced that there will be changes to the operating hours of all its facilities, including hospitals and clinics, during the Holy Month of Ramadan. All emergency and inpatient services across the HMC network of hospitals will, however, operate as usual, 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
Dr Yousef Al Maslamani, Medical Director of Hamad General Hospital, is also reminding patients who have appointments at HMC clinics during Ramadan about the importance of attending their appointed schedule. He urges patients to call Nesma’ak on 16060 to reschedule. He said that missing an appointment with one of the specialists can have a serious impact on the health of patients.
If we know you are unable to attend your appointment, we can rearrange your appointment for the next available and clinically appropriate time and give your previously scheduled time to someone who needs to be seen urgently.’
Hamad General Hospital
Outpatient clinics will be open from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday to Thursday and evening clinics will be open from 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm, Sunday to Thursday. The evening clinic at the Bone and Joint Centre will be open from 1 pm to 5 pm, Sunday to Thursday. The main Outpatients Department (OPD) pharmacy, located on the ground floor of Hamad General Hospital will be open from 8 am to 1 pm and from 8:30 pm to midnight, Sunday to Thursday.
Women’s Hospital / Women’s Wellness and Research Centre
Outpatient clinics will be open from 8 am to 1 pm and from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm, Sunday to Thursday; the OPD pharmacy will be open during clinic times.
Women’s Wellness and Research Centre
Ambulatory Care Centre
Outpatient clinics will be open from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday to Thursday, with afternoon and evening clinics in GI/Endoscopy open from 1 pm to 4 pm, Urology from 1 pm to 4 pm, and ENT from 8:30 pm until 11:30 pm.
Al Wakra Hospital
Outpatient clinics will be open from 8 am to 4 pm, Sunday to Wednesday, from 7 am to 3 pm on Thursdays, and from 11 am to 2 pm on Saturdays. The Burns Surgery outpatient service will also be open from 7 am to 3 pm on Saturdays. Dentistry services will operate from 8 am to 1 pm and from 8 pm to 11 pm, Sunday to Thursday. The main OPD pharmacy and laboratory (phlebotomy) services will operate during OPD clinic times.
Communicable Disease Centre
Outpatient clinics will be open from 8 am to 5 pm, Sunday to Wednesday, and from 8 am to 1 pm on Thursdays. All support services, including pharmacy, radiology, and laboratory (phlebotomy), will be available during OPD clinic times.
Qatar Rehabilitation Institute
Outpatient clinics will operate from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday to Thursday and the OPD pharmacy will be open during clinic times.
The Cuban Hospital
There are no changes to the OPD clinic and pharmacy operating hours. Outpatient clinics and pharmacy services will be open from 7:15 am to 3 pm, Sunday to Thursday and dependent on appointments, OPD dental services will operate until 5 pm, Sunday to Thursday.
Outpatient clinics and the non-invasive services will be open from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday to Thursday. There will be no evening clinics throughout Ramadan. The OPD pharmacy will operate from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday to Thursday, and from 11 am to 4 pm on Fridays and Saturdays. The Cath Lab will operate from 7 am to 3 pm, with on-call services available for emergencies 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
Al Khor Hospital
Outpatient clinics and OPD dental services will operate from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday to Thursday. There will be no evening clinics during Ramadan.
Rumailah Hospital
Outpatient clinics will be open from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday to Thursday. All therapy services will be open from 7 am to 3 pm, Sunday to Thursday, and OPD pharmacy services will operate from 8 am to 4 pm, Sunday and Tuesday and from 8 am to 3 pm, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The Plastic Surgery service will be open from 8 am to 4 pm, Sunday and Tuesday and from 8 am to 1 pm, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The Wound Care Clinic will be open from 7 am to 3 pm, Sunday to Thursday, and the Geriatric and Long-term Care service will be open from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and from 8 am to 3 pm on Tuesdays. The Oral and Maxillofacial service will be open from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday to Thursday, and will hold evening clinics from 8 pm to 11 pm, Sunday to Wednesday.
Hamad Dental Centre
Orthodontic and Pediatric Dentistry Clinics will be open from 8 am to 4 pm, Sunday to Thursday. Prosthodontics, endodontics, periodontics, and dental diagnostic and surgical science (DDSS) services will operate from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday to Thursday. Evening clinics will be from 8:30 pm until 11:30 pm, Sunday to Thursday.
National Centre for Cancer Care and Research
Outpatient clinics will be open from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday to Thursday and evening clinics will be open on Mondays from 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm. OPD pharmacy services will be open from 8 am to 1:30 pm, Sunday to Thursday, and from 9 am to 2 pm on Saturdays. The Day Care Unit will be open from 7 am to 7 pm, Sunday and Thursday and from 7 am to 3 pm from Monday to Wednesday and on Saturdays. Radiation therapy services will be open from 7 am to 3 pm, Sunday to Thursday.
Outpatient clinics and OPD pharmacy services will be open from 8 am to 1 pm, Sunday to Thursday and evening clinics will operate from 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm at Hamad General Hospital on Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The Referral and Booking Management System (RBMS) will operate from 7 am to 10 pm, Sunday to Thursday.
Nesma’ak Customer Care will operate from 7 am to 10 pm, Sunday to Thursday, and from 10 am to 4 pm on Friday and Saturday. Patients requiring information about scheduled appointments or clinic operating hours during Ramadan can call 16060 during these times. Nesma’ak will also continue to send mobile text reminders to patients prior to their appointment. To confirm or change your appointment, call 16060.
For updates and more information about any of the HMC facilities, visit hamad.qa.
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Milpitas: Hotel management firm to purchase…
Milpitas: Hotel management firm to purchase former RDA site on Barber Lane for $7 million
PUBLISHED: April 8, 2016 at 10:25 am | UPDATED: July 28, 2018 at 12:16 pm
A 3.34-acre site owned by Milpitas’ former redevelopment agency has been sold to a hotel management company.
The Milpitas City Council March 15 unanimously voted to authorize selling the undeveloped, weedy property on the northwest corner of Alder Drive and Barber Lane to Utah-based hotel management firm Lodging Dynamics Development LLC for $7 million.
The council’s vote affirmed the Successor Agency/RDA Oversight Board’s unanimous Feb. 19 vote to sell the site — bounded on the west by a VTA light rail parking lot off Tasman Drive and on the east by Interstate 880 — to the highest “responsive” bidder.
Mike McInerney, chairman of the Successor Agency/RDA Oversight Board, said two bids were submitted last year but the board rejected both.
Of the four bids submitted this time, two were deemed non-responsive and the one by Lodging Dynamics rated the highest, McInerney said.
The undeveloped property had been owned by the city’s redevelopment agency, but was taken over by the oversight board after State of California dissolved all redevelopment agencies in 2011.
The city will receive approximately 16 percent, or $1.12 million from the sale, according to city staff.
In a $41 million settlement the city reached last year with the county and state over former redevelopment agency assets, it agreed to sell certain properties purchased with redevelopment funds. Those sites must be sold for their “highest and best use.”
A long-range plan approved by the oversight board addresses the disposition of the property as well as a site designated for a park at 230 N. Main St. and a mixed-use sliver of property located at 60 N. Main St.
Residents have petitioned to keep the 230 N. Main St. site zoned for a park unless a majority of them vote otherwise at the polls. The city, however, has indicated it would like to see the property designated for government use.
The two remaining redevelopment sites will be discussed at the next board meeting on July 18.
According to its website, Lodging Dynamics was founded in 1992 and has managed and operated a number of properties in Hawaii and throughout the west and mid-west United States. The firm touts itself as an “acquirer, developer and operator of select-service and extended stay properties” around the country.
Lodging Dynamics did not return calls to this newspaper by press time about the future use of the site.
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Mountain Ash: Feeding Birds & Brightening Winter
Mountain Ash in Winter
by Kate Leary
Broadcast 11.8 & 11.13.2015
A black-capped chickadee feeds on mountain ash berries. Photo by Flickr user La Foez (CC-BY-NC-ND-2).
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Walking through many neighborhoods in Montana towns through the fall and winter, you’ll find yourself brushing past clusters of showy orange-red berries, hanging down from the limbs of mountain ash. By late winter many of the berries have spattered to the sidewalk, but through much of the drab months they provide a warm pop of color against the gray sky and white snow.
The mountain ash is a popular decorative tree, especially amongst wildlife watchers who use its fruits to attract wintering birds. Its moderate height (usually topping out around 40 feet) means that the mountain ash isn’t too much of a problem for power lines, and it is tolerant of conditions like strong winds, clay soils, and variable pH.
As one of the few trees that maintains its berries through the winter, the mountain ash can be an important source of nutrition for non-migratory bird species. If a human were to pull down some mountain ash berries and take a mouthful, however, the unlucky forager would probably spit them out immediately. Regardless of their appetizing appearance, the berries are bitter and rich in sorbic acid, only tolerable to humans after being cooked at high temperatures for jellies or jams. Despite that challenge, they were once taken aboard long sea voyages in those processed forms as a means of preventing scurvy, since they are rich in both vitamins A and C. The birds don’t mind the bitter taste, of course, and are quite content to eat the berries just as they are, although there are reports that hard frosts can cause the berries to ferment, leading to sightings of tipsy birds as their food source suddenly becomes inebriating.
The scientific name for the European variety of the plant is Sorbus aucopara, the second word of which is a homage to its importance to bird species. It derives from the phrase avis capere, literally “catches birds,” which will come as no surprise to anyone who has watched magpies flitting in and out of the branches.
The species indigenous to this continent are Sorbus americana and Sorbus decora, known colloquially as American mountain ash, and showy mountain ash, much preferred by those who are concerned about the growth of non-native species populations. The European mountain ash, although usually starting out as an intentional decorative planting, has escaped to grow wild in some areas.
All three species have narrow compound leaves with slightly serrated edges, light grey bark that may take on a plated appearance in older trees, and clusters of white blossoms in the spring, making them appear quite similar to the casual observer. Subtle differences in the appearance and texture of the buds can be used to distinguish between the varieties, and the two North American mountain ash species may have brighter displays of fall foliage, but it’s often difficult to be certain of the distinction.
Adding to the confusion is the fact that all three species have been bred into multiple sub-varieties over the years by gardeners attempting to yield plants that are shorter, more colorful, or more fruitful. Unfortunately for native species enthusiasts, the European variety is the one that is most common in ornamental gardens, so it’s quite possible that many of the lovely trees that can be spotted in yards throughout western Montana are imports.
Despite being called ashes, all of the mountain ash varieties actually belong to a branch of the rowan family, a bit of trivia that has become important with the outbreak of the emerald ash borer. While true ash trees, once the primary street tree in many cities, have dwindled as a result of the pest, the mountain ash looks to brightening yards and feeding birds for years to come.
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History and Etymology of Alcohol
Home / Alcohol Addiction Treatment / History and Etymology of Alcohol
Alcohol, the starter of fun nights and achy mornings, has been around causing trouble for thousands of years, but the word “alcohol” is relatively new. First seen during the medieval era, the word “alcohol” comes from an Arabic word “kahala” which originally meant “to stain” or to “paint.” This word was eventually associated with another Arabic word “al-kuhul,” which was a word that described a cosmetic powder designed to darken your eyelids. This word made its way into medieval Latin as “alcohol” and described “powdered ore of antimony.” Antimony was a brittle silver metal that was one of the few metals you could find in a pure state in nature.
In 1540, the earliest English definition of alcohol was “powdered cosmetic.” During the 1670s, this definition was broadened to “the pure spirit of anything,” which now would include liquids. The first appearance of a modern definition of alcohol wasn’t recorded until 1753 and was an abbreviation of the term “alcohol of wine,” which meant (as you might have guessed) the pure stuff that made wine fun to drink. Soon after that, this definition was further defined as “the intoxicating element in fermented liquors.” Finally, in 1850, the term was extended to encompass all fermented liquors and similar compounds, and the rest, as they say, is less-than-sober history.
History of Alcohol
Even though alcohol has only been known as “alcohol” for roughly 160 years or so, that hasn’t stopped our ancestors from using it. Although the first human encounter with alcohol has been lost to pre-recorded time, historians say that we probably created it by accident and that early humans eventually learned how to control the fermentation process and develop it. But we do know which brew was first: Beer. The first written evidence of alcoholic beverages comes from around 3200 B.C. and was a guide carved in Sumerian describing how to brew beer. There are also stamps on Mesopotamian clay vessels that share similarities to this first beer-brewing guide that date back to earlier than that (around 4000 B.C.), so it actually may be even older than that, but there isn’t really enough hard evidence to prove it. Still, it’s been theorized that beer-drinking actually preceded the eating of bread as a staple part of the human diet. Evidence of wine production and drinking was also discovered in this area from around 3000 B.C., but in this region, beer remained the beverage of choice, being featured in temple rituals and carvings for more than 2000 years.
Wine rose in popularity in ancient Greece around 350 B.C. Plato, Socrates, and many other philosophers would often drink wine socially and as an intellectual exercise prior to getting the assemblies together to discuss moral and political issues. In India, archeological evidence confirms the regular use of distilleries around 500 B.C., with written evidence of fermentation practices dating back to 1200 B.C., including the production of a beverage called soma, which was made from fermented mushrooms and was quite strong. Egyptians also practiced beer-brewing early on and were one of the first cultures to recommend abstinence or moderation in drinking practices, with written evidence of this dating back to 1400 B.C. However, the ancient Romans must not have read much of the Egyptian writings, as they regularly practiced ritual intoxication during their Bacchanalia, a festival of drunkenness to honor their god of intoxication, Bacchus, until 186 B.C.
For a long while after that, wine, beer, and variations like ale and mead were the drinks of choice. Hard liquors were not created until much later. Alcohol distillation first occurred in the 11th century in an Italian medical school, and the product was first called “spirits,” as the distillation was considered an extraction of the spirit of the wine. During the Middle Ages, distillation of grain alcohol (the first moonshine) soon followed this first experiment, but it’s not until the 1500s that Benedictine, the first cognac, was developed at a small monastery in France.
Use and development of distilled spirits steadily grew and spread through Europe, especially England, South America, and places in the Middle East like Constantinople. Eventually, in the early 1600s, alcohol made its way to North America, and its popularity was curtailed by various legislation forbidding drinking. Eventually, politicians in the U.S. saw it as a source of tax revenue, removing the prohibitive measures and taxing its sale until Prohibition in the early 1900s. When this didn’t stop people from drinking and increased the crime rates, politicians rethought the idea, and Prohibition was officially repealed in 1933.
Alcohol has made its way through every country in the world and has had a profound effect on world history, economies, and cultures. It has been the go-to social lubricant as far back as recorded history can tell us. The history surrounding its development and integration into our society is littered with humorous stories, profound innovations, and shockingly infamous tales. If you or a loved one is seeking alcohol addiction treatment or an alcohol detox center contact the experts at Morningside Recovery today!
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Trades center will produce skilled workers
If you’ve taken a look around Marquette County lately, you might have noticed the construction going on. Workers are employed in all sorts of different trades, which are is an important part of our economy.
There was some big news coming out of Negaunee Township last week as groundbreaking was done for a state-of-the-art skilled trades training center replace the one in Marquette. That’s good news across the board, for future workers who will learn a number of valuable skills, straight up to the state of Michigan itself State leaders have noted a need for more skilled laborers, and this facility will help to address that shortage.
About 100 community leaders, union officials, contractors and representatives of local organizations gathered Wednesday at the site of the new training center along U.S. 41. The $6 million to $7 million, 30,000-square-foot facility is being funded by the Michigan Statewide Carpenters and Millwrights Joint Apprenticeship and Training Fund, which offers four-year apprenticeships at seven locations in Michigan.
“This project symbolizes an area that we are working hard on in the state, which is to bring back our skilled trades training and increase the number of people going into the skilled trades,” Rep. Sara Cambensy said in a recent Journal article. “We know right now we have at least 100,000 jobs statewide that are not filled, and a training center like this — we’ve got them downstate, we don’t have one in the U.P., so this will help with the job shortage.”
The new training facility will include specially designed indoor areas for carpenters and millwrights to gain real-world experience, allowing union members to practice skills that are used to build everything from single-family homes to medical centers, bridges and schools. The center will also contain areas for woodshop training and welding booths to help members hone specialized skills.
Pure Michigan Talent Connect’s website, at www.mitalent.org, has a projection through 2024 for professional skilled trades jobs, many of which are expected to grow by double digit percentages.
In 2014, carpentry was one of the larger professions listed, at slightly more than 21,000 workers. But that was still projected to grow by more than 1,500 jobs, or 7.2 percent, by 2024. Four years ago, there were only about 2,900 millwrights in Michigan. But that profession was projected to grow by 20.1 percent, or about 590 jobs, according to the website.
The median wage for a carpenter was listed at $20.41, while a millwright was $31.83.
Mike Jackson is the executive secretary-treasurer for the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights. He said in the Journal story that he hopes the construction of the facility will help his organization get its core message out to Upper Peninsula workers.
“If there is a young person that is looking for a career path and this fits them, they really need to reach out because this is a great opportunity to make a very good living, have a pension and health care, and it looks like work is going to be very steady for a long time to come,” Jackson said.
These are good-paying jobs that people can live on, and the new training facility will help connect people to those positions. Not only will the facility provide people with the education and experience they need to move on in their industries, but it will also improve the state of Michigan’s position of being ready for growth and development well into the future.
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Texas official apologizes after telling Latina county judge to 'speak English'
Lina Hidalgo, was giving information in Spanish about a chemical fire at a bilingual news conference.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo talks about the air quality in east Harris County during a press conference at TranStar on March 21, 2019, in Houston.Godofredo A. Vasquez / AP file
By Nicole Acevedo
A Texas county commissioner has apologized for saying that the Latina heading the state's most populous county should “speak English” after she spoke in English and Spanish at a news conference about a massive chemical fire.
The commissioner, Mark Tice, of Chambers County, posted a comment saying “English this is not Mexico,” after Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo — the first Latina and first woman elected as the county's top executive — addressed constituents and reporters from English and Spanish language media outlets on a briefing Monday that was streamed on CBS affiliate KHOU’s Facebook page.
In the same comment, Tice said Hidalgo was “a joke.”
Tice confirmed to The Houston Chronicle that he had posted the comments, saying: “It’s real simple. This is the United States. Speak English.”
The immediate backlash following Tice’s comments pushed him to issue a response.
“From my understanding, there were reporters asking questions in Spanish and Judge Hidalgo responded to those questions in Spanish, with no translation given. If that is not the case, then I sincerely apologize,” said Tice in a Facebook post.
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Tice also said he apologizes to “Judge Hidalgo, the citizens of my County, and most importantly the entire Hispanic community for hastily acting out with transgression on social media.”
Tice's initial comments fueled responses from people like Irene Uribe, who said: “Hispanics are the majority in the Houston area. Deal with it.”
Harris County, which includes Houston, is home to over 4.6 million people — 43 percent of whom are Hispanic or Latino, according to census figures; more than 40 percent of people in the area speak a language other than English at home.
“You should not criticize people for speaking in the language of their choice,” said Steve Wendt, another Tice critic, on Facebook.
In Texas, the elected official who is the chief executive for county government is called the county judge.
Hidalgo's office issued a response after Tice’s comments, explaining that as county judge, she is the top official in charge of the region's safety.
"As the Head of Emergency Management, Hidalgo is directly responsible for the safety of all 4.5 million residents of Harris County, a third of whom are Spanish speakers," said Kiran Khalid, Hidalgo's director of communications. "Judge Hidalgo represents all of Harris County and given the county's composition and her bilingual skills, she will continue to communicate as broadly as possible especially when public safety is at stake."
Hidalgo, 28, who was born in Colombia, attended Stanford and Harvard and has worked in human rights and criminal justice reform. She oversees a $5 billion budget for the country's third most populous county. Her win in November was considered part of a Democratic sweep in the traditionally Republican county.
According to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey, 22 percent of Latinos said they had been criticized for speaking Spanish in public in the previous year, and 20 percent said they have been told to go back to their home countries.
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Nicole Acevedo is a staff reporter at NBC News Digital where she reports, writes and produces content for NBC Latino and NBCNews.com.
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Saved! Baines surprise pick for Hall, Lee Smith also chosen
FILE - In this Dec. 8, 1987, file photo, Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Lee Smith works against the San Francisco Giants during a baseball game, in Chicago. Longtime closer Smith was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Bob Fila, File) (Source: Bob Fila)
By BEN WALKER | December 9, 2018 at 7:43 PM CST - Updated December 9 at 9:48 PM
FILE - In this Saturday, July 6, 1996, file photo, Chicago White Sox's Harold Baines (3) watches his ninth inning solo home run head for the center field seats during the White Sox's 3-2 win over the Cleveland Indians in Cleveland. Smooth-swinging Baines was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Jeff Glidden, File) (Source: Jeff Glidden)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Harold Baines was given a save as big as any Lee Smith ever posted.
In a vote sure to spark renewed cries of cronyism at Cooperstown, Baines surprisingly was picked for the baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday after never coming close in any previous election.
"Very shocked," the career .289 hitter said on a conference call.
Smith, who held the major league record for saves when he retired, was an easy pick when the Today's Game Era Committee met at the winter meetings.
It took 12 votes for election by the 16-member panel — Smith was unanimous, Baines got 12 and former outfielder and manager Lou Piniella fell just short with 11.
George Steinbrenner, Orel Hershiser, Albert Belle, Joe Carter, Will Clark, Davey Johnson and Charlie Manuel all received fewer than five votes.
Smith and Baines both debuted in Chicago during the 1980 season. Smith began with the Cubs and went on to record 478 saves while Baines started out with the White Sox and had 2,866 hits.
Baines had 384 home runs and 1,628 RBIs in a 22-year career — good numbers, but not stacking up against the greats of his day. He never drew more than 6.1 percent in five elections by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, far from the 75 percent required.
"I wasn't expecting this day to come," the six-time All-Star said.
The Hall board-appointed panel included longtime White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf.
"I'm glad he was on that committee this year to help to get into the Hall of Fame," Baines said.
Reinsdorf praised his former player in a statement. Baines currently serves as a team ambassador in community relations department of the White Sox.
"So happy for Harold. He's a great player and a great human being," Reinsdorf said. "I am so honored that I was a member of the committee. He deserved to be in long ago. I am just so excited."
"Not only was Harold one of my favorite players to watch, but I have nothing but admiration for him as a player and as a human being," he said.
Tony La Russa, Baines' first big league manager, also was on the panel that elected him.
In the past, Phil Rizzuto and Bill Mazeroski were among the players who benefited from friendly faces on Veterans Committees to reach the Hall. That panel has been revamped over the years, and the Today's Game Era group was created as part of changes in 2014.
"The era committees were established as a sort of a court of appeals for an opportunity in the event that over time it was felt that maybe somebody slipped through the cracks," Hall President Jeff Idelson said. "And in the case of someone who received 6 percent of the vote in the BBWAA election, the reason that may have happened could be for many, many reasons."
Baines, now 59, had a smooth, consistent, left-handed stroke. But he never finished higher than ninth in an MVP vote, and never was among the top five AL hitters in the yearly batting race. His single-season high was 29 home runs at a time when lots of players hit more.
Smith's fastball helped him become a seven-time All-Star in an 18-year-old career. Known for his slow trudges from the bullpen to the mound, he owned the saves record when he retired during the 1997 season while with Montreal. Trevor Hoffman and then Mariano Rivera reset the mark.
Smith never reached 51 percent in 15 BBWAA elections. Still, he kept believing his day would come.
"I'm pretty patient, though, and I think I waited long enough. But it's sweeter," he said on a conference call. "You look at those things, well, OK, who's on the ballot this year? Who's on the ballot next year? But I'd never, never, never give up hope.
"And then when they started with the second-chance ballot, I thought my chances got a little better. This probably today was probably the (most) nervous I've been with this Hall of Fame voting thing," he said.
Smith became the seventh pitcher who primarily was a reliever to make the Hall, joining Hoffman, Dennis Eckersley, Rollie Fingers, Goose Gossage, Bruce Sutter and Hoyt Wilhelm. The 61-year-old has long worked for the San Francisco Giants as a minor league pitching coach and instructor.
Baines was a designated hitter for much of his career after knee trouble ended his days in the outfield. DHs have struggled to gain backing from Hall voters. Baines joined Frank Thomas as the only players in the Hall who spent more than half his games as a DH.
"Everything I hear or read is DH is really not part of the game, I guess. But I disagree. But maybe this will the open up the doors for some more DHs," Baines said.
Both closers and DHs could see the numbers increase again very shortly.
Rivera is eligible for the first time and big-hitting DH Edgar Martinez will be back on the ballot when results of the next BBWAA election are announced Jan. 22.
Induction ceremonies are scheduled for July 21 at Cooperstown, New York.
Between now and then, there's certain to be more debate about who else should be in the Hall. Drug-tainted Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are on the upcoming BBWAA ballot, influential players' union head Marvin Miller has been denied seven times by various committees, and admitted steroids user Mark McGwire wasn't among Sunday's candidates.
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Missing Wisconsin Girl Found Alive Months After Parents’ Deaths
[The authorites said on Friday that a 21-year-old man was being held in the disappearance of Jayme Closs. Read more here.] [The authorities said on Friday that a 21-year-old man was being held in the disappearance of Jayme Closs. Read more here.]
A 13-year-old girl who disappeared the same night her parents were shot to death in their rural Wisconsin home nearly three months ago was found alive on Thursday and a suspect was in custody, the authorities said. A 13-year-old girl who disappeared the same night her parents were shot to death in their rural Wisconsin home nearly three months ago was found alive on Thursday and a suspect was in custody, the authorities said.
The girl, Jayme Closs, was discovered late Thursday afternoon in Douglas County, north of her hometown, Barron, Wis., the authorities said. The family was notified at about 7:30 p.m. The girl, Jayme Closs, was discovered late Thursday afternoon in Douglas County, north of her hometown, Barron, Wis., the authorities said. The family was notified at about 7:30 p.m.
Jayme was in a hospital and being evaluated, her uncle, Jeff Closs, said. “We’re very happy that she is alive,” he wrote in a text message to a reporter. “We don’t know much else.” Jayme was in a hospital and being evaluated, her uncle, Jeff Closs, said. “We’re very happy that she is alive,” he wrote in a text message to a reporter. “We don’t know much else.”
[Read our latest update on the Jayme Closs story.] [Read our latest update on the Jayme Closs story.]
Just when the family started to give up hope, Mr. Closs said, “we got the greatest news ever.” Just when the family started to give up hope, Mr. Closs said, “we got the greatest news ever.”
Jayme had been missing since Oct. 15, when the authorities found her parents, James and Denise Closs, dead in their home, the front door open and Jayme gone. The double homicide of the Closses, a quiet couple who worked at the local turkey plant, and the mystery of their daughter’s disappearance riveted Barron, a town of just over 3,400. A manhunt drew more than 2,100 tips and thousands of volunteers. All over town, shops and homes hung green ribbons bearing the words “Find Jayme Closs.” The local police force of 78 swelled as a corps of 200 federal, state and local officers joined a hunt that went on day and night. Jayme had been missing since Oct. 15, when the authorities found her parents, James and Denise Closs, dead in their home, the front door open and Jayme gone. The double homicide of the Closses, a quiet couple who worked at the local turkey plant, and the mystery of their daughter’s disappearance riveted Barron, a town of just over 3,400. A manhunt drew more than 2,100 tips and thousands of volunteers. All over town, shops and homes hung green ribbons bearing the words “Find Jayme Closs.” The local police force of 78 swelled as a corps of 200 federal, state and local officers joined a hunt that went on day and night.
[Read more about how Jayme’s disappearance shook her hometown.] [Read more about how Jayme’s disappearance shook her hometown.]
Her disappearance also drew national attention, and her name topped the F.B.I.’s missing persons list as the reward for her recovery grew to $50,000. “We have exhausted every lead,” Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald of Barron County had said. “There is no stone that has been unturned.” Her disappearance also drew national attention, and her name topped the F.B.I.’s missing persons list as the reward for her recovery grew to $50,000. “We have exhausted every lead,” Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald of Barron County had said. “There is no stone that has been unturned.”
Weeks into the search, Jayme was found about 65 miles from where she disappeared — in the town of Gordon, Wis., at 4:43 p.m. Thursday, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. A suspect was taken into custody at 4:54 p.m., also in Gordon, the authorities said. Weeks into the search, Jayme was found about 65 miles from where she disappeared — in the town of Gordon, Wis., at 4:43 p.m. Thursday, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. A suspect was taken into custody at 4:54 p.m., also in Gordon, the authorities said.
A couple who lives in the area, Kristin and Peter Kasinskas, told The Minneapolis Star Tribune that Jayme appeared on their doorstep about 4 p.m. Thursday, after she had been found by one of their neighbors who was out walking her dog. The neighbor pounded on the family’s door, the couple said. A skinny girl, who had matted hair and was wearing shoes too big for her feet, stood by her side. A couple who lives in the area, Kristin and Peter Kasinskas, told The Minneapolis Star Tribune that Jayme appeared on their doorstep about 4 p.m. Thursday, after she had been found by one of their neighbors who was out walking her dog. The neighbor pounded on the family’s door, the couple said. A skinny girl, who had matted hair and was wearing shoes too big for her feet, stood by her side.
“This is Jayme Closs!” the neighbor said. “Call 911!” “This is Jayme Closs!” the neighbor said. “Call 911!”
While they waited for the authorities, the Kasinskases offered Jayme food and water and introduced her to their puppy. They said Jayme told them she did not know where she was, the newspaper reported. While they waited for the authorities, the Kasinskases offered Jayme food and water and introduced her to their puppy. They said Jayme told them she did not know where she was, the newspaper reported.
“It was like I was seeing a ghost,” Peter Kasinskas told The Star Tribune. “It was scary and awesome at the same time. My jaw just went to the floor.” “It was like I was seeing a ghost,” Peter Kasinskas told The Star Tribune. “It was scary and awesome at the same time. My jaw just went to the floor.”
In a Facebook post, Sheriff Fitzgerald thanked the public and other law enforcement agencies for their support as the authorities searched for Jayme for weeks. “We promised to bring Jayme home and tonight we get to fulfill that promise,” he wrote. “From the bottom of my heart THANK YOU! In a Facebook post, Sheriff Fitzgerald thanked the public and other law enforcement agencies for their support as the authorities searched for Jayme for weeks. “We promised to bring Jayme home and tonight we get to fulfill that promise,” he wrote. “From the bottom of my heart THANK YOU!
But Jayme’s return was still shrouded in as much mystery as her disappearance. No motive had been discovered for her parents’ killings, and no weapon had been found. A news conference was scheduled for 10 a.m. local time on Friday in Barron, officials said. But Jayme’s return was still shrouded in as much mystery as her disappearance. No motive had been discovered for her parents’ killings, and no weapon had been found. A news conference was scheduled for 10 a.m. local time on Friday in Barron, officials said.
But for her extended family, an agonizing wait of nearly three months was at last over. But for her extended family, an agonizing wait of nearly three months was at last over.
“I honestly had faith,” Kelly Engelhardt, Jayme’s aunt, said in an interview with a television station Thursday night. “I figured if they hadn’t found her by now that the person that did this didn’t want her dead. So I had hope.” “I honestly had faith,” Kelly Engelhardt, Jayme’s aunt, said in an interview with a television station Thursday night. “I figured if they hadn’t found her by now that the person that did this didn’t want her dead. So I had hope.”
Her cousin Seara Closs wrote on Facebook: “She is alive and on her way home, From the bottom of my heart thank you all for the help!!!” Her cousin Seara Closs wrote on Facebook: “She is alive and on her way home, From the bottom of my heart thank you all for the help!!!”
Another aunt, Lynn Closs, also posted as the news was spreading. Her message was simple: “We have her.” Another aunt, Lynn Closs, also posted as the news was spreading. Her message was simple: “We have her.”
In a statement on Instagram, Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted from her home as a teenager in 2002 and held for nine months, called Jayme’s rescue a miracle and said she was praying for a “joyous reunion” for Jayme and her extended family. In a statement on Instagram, Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted from her home as a teenager in 2002 and held for nine months, called Jayme’s rescue a miracle and said she was praying for a “joyous reunion” for Jayme and her extended family.
“No matter what may unfold in her story let’s all try to remember that this young woman has SURVIVED,” she said. “Whatever other details may surface, the most important will still remain that she is alive.” “No matter what may unfold in her story let’s all try to remember that this young woman has SURVIVED,” she said. “Whatever other details may surface, the most important will still remain that she is alive.”
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Sanctioned Russian Oligarch's Company to Invest Millions in New Aluminum Plant in Mitch McConnell's State
By Cristina Maza On 4/15/19 at 5:57 PM EDT
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Rusal, the aluminum company partially owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, announced plans to invest around $200 million to build a new aluminum plant in Kentucky just months after the Trump administration removed it from the U.S. sanctions list.
The new aluminum plant, slated to be built in the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will be the biggest new aluminum plant constructed in the U.S. in decades. Rusal will have a 40 percent stake in the facility.
"Rusal, one of the leading global aluminium producers, and Braidy Industries Inc., a U.S. base holding company which owns both Veloxint, an MIT-incubated lightweighting solutions company, and NanoAl, a Northwestern University incubated materials research and technology company, announce an intent to establish a joint project in Ashland, Kentucky, USA to produce flat-rolled aluminium products for the U.S. automotive industry," according to a company press release.
Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska speaks to the media outside his carmaker GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod on April 16, 2019. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images
The U.S. removed Rusal from its sanctions list in January, after the Treasury Department struck an agreement with the company that saw Deripaska, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reduce his stake in the company to below 50 percent and lower his voting rights to below 35. The agreement requires the companies to report any contact between Deripaska and company affiliates, including members of the board.
McConnell was among the advocates for lifting sanctions on Rusal, arguing that the deal with Treasury would maintain pressure on Deripaska personally without disrupting global aluminum supplies.
Also on Monday, the public affairs company Mercury, which was hired by British Lord Gregory Barker to lobby for the oligarch's companies to be removed from the U.S. sanctions list, filed a letter under the Foreign Agents Registration Act describing how "the Barker plan permanently removed Oleg Deripaska from control" of his companies EN+ and Rusal. Barker is the executive chairman of Rusal and its parent company EN+.
"The Board will be two-thirds/one-third independent of Deripaska, Deripaska will not receive any dividends for as long as he remains subject to sanctions, and the Company and its operations will remain under the scrutiny of U.S. regulators," the document reads. "The agreement will allow the world's second largest producer of aluminum to stay out of Russian state or Chinese ownership."
Still, analysts have expressed concern that Deripaska, who was sanctioned in April 2018 for attempting to meddle in the U.S. elections, may still wield influence over his companies from behind the scenes.
The agreement struck with the Treasury Department gave the Swiss commodities firm Glencore, a company that has done business with Deripaska for years and whose CEO previously sat on Rusal's board, some of Deripaska's lost shares. The Russian bank VTB, nicknamed Putin's piggy bank, also got a stake in Deripaska's companies. Some experts have claimed that it is possible Deripaska could use his ties with these companies to exert some influence over Rusal.
Meanwhile, at least one of the trustees that the Office of Foreign Assets Control appointed to ensure that Deripaska does not exercise influence on the company's board is linked to a law firm that has worked with the oligarch and his companies for years.
Earlier this month, The New York Times reported the Treasury Department had allowed around $78 million worth of company shares to be transferred to a trust fund belonging to Deripaska's children, despite a previous statement from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin claiming that the oligarch's children would "in no way benefit" from sanctions relief.
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Conditions ► Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis
Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis
Also known as: PFIC.
What is progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis?
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis is one of many types of progressive liver diseases that ultimately lead to liver failure. The unique thing about progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis is that, liver cells are less able to secrete a digestive fluid called bile. This buildup ultimately leads to many problems. It frequently begins in young infants.
What causes progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis?
The disease is caused by genetic mutations. It’s also a hereditary condition that can be passed down from parents to their children.
What are the symptoms of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis?
Symptoms of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis can include jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes), itchy skin, fatigue, irritability, poor feeding, nausea, vomiting and failure to thrive.
What are progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis care options?
Medications and supplements can help with the symptoms, but most children with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis will require surgery. Two procedures called partial cutaneous biliary diversion (PEBD) shunts the bile to a bag outside the skin or Partial internal biliary drainage (PIBD) is another technique that connects the gallbladder to colon. If unsuccessful a liver transplant is required.
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You are here: Home / Carhart / Germantown Abortion Clinic to Close, but Will Carhart Open Another in Cahoots with the Window Well Abortionist?
Germantown Abortion Clinic to Close, but Will Carhart Open Another in Cahoots with the Window Well Abortionist?
August 29, 2017 By Operation Rescue 5 Comments
The “Window Well Abortionist” has now been identified as Charlie Browne of Seattle, Washington.
By Cheryl Sullenger
Germantown, MD — News broke last week that Germantown Reproductive Health Services, a late-term abortion facility located in Germantown, Maryland, is being purchased by a pro-life group and must permanently close. Already the facility has stopped taking abortion appointments. Wednesday, August 30, 2017, is set to be the facility’s final abortion day.
The buyout deal, made with the Maryland Coalition for Life, also will shut down GRHS’s affiliated abortion facility, Prince George’s Reproductive Health Services, according to a posting on GRHS’s website, abortionpages.com.
However, late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart, who began conducting abortions through all nine months of pregnancy as an independent contractor at GRHS in 2010, has vowed to continue his late-term abortion business in Maryland and is attempting to locate a new facility, according to a fundraising blog.
“Due to efforts made by anti-choice terrorists, they have been able to raise enough money to buy out the [GRHS] clinic. For a few years, Lee has been trying to purchase a clinic in Maryland that will not only provide gestationally advanced abortion care, but also training future providers,” stated Carhart’s fundraising page.
However, false and incendiary rhetoric aside, his efforts to raise money for the new clinic have been an abysmal failure, with only a little more than $2,000 pledged toward the $2 million goal.
Carhart, who is 76, actually resides in Nebraska and runs his own abortion facility in Bellevue, a suburb of Omaha, which conducts abortions up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. It would be impossible for him to operate a full-time late-term abortion facility in Maryland without help.
That’s where the “Window Well Abortionist” comes in.
Earlier this month, Operation Rescue reported on an African-American abortionist who was arriving at GRHS for his abortion shifts by climbing down a ladder into the window well and entering the facility through the window. At that time, his identity was a mystery.
Local activists have now identified him as Charlie Browne, 54, an abortionist who operates the All Women’s Health North abortion business in Seattle, Washington. Brown was spotted just this week at GRHS wearing a false beard.
It is the word on the street that Browne plans to go into business with Carhart in opening a new late-term abortion facility in Maryland – possibly at another location in Germantown.
With big money to be made conducting expensive late-term abortions, which can cost thousands of dollars, it is easy to see why Carhart and Browne don’t want to see this lucrative income stream dry up.
“Everything is very much up in the air at this point. However, Carhart is well known for making public promises he cannot keep. Much of what he says is just empty bravado for the sake of the gullible left-wing media,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “I’ll believe he has a new facility when I see it.”
For example, in 2009, Carhart was working at Women’s Health Care Services in Wichita, Kansas, which at that time was the largest late-term abortion facility outside Communist China. When that facility suddenly closed, he pledged to open his own late-term abortion facility within 25-50 miles of Wichita.
Carhart then told the media he planned to open a late-term abortion facility in Council Bluffs, Iowa, which also failed when the public flooded a City Council meeting in 2010 in opposition of his plans to kill babies throughout all nine months of pregnancy in their community.
Despite Carhart’s boasting, none of those plans ever materialized.
During his time at GRHS, there have been numerous medical emergencies, patient injuries, and even one patient death. Jennifer Morbelli died from complications to a 33-week abortion after Carhart had boarded a plane back to Nebraska. He was inaccessible to the family, who futilely attempted to contact him when Morbelli’s condition worsened. This delayed emergency medical care for Morbelli. The Maryland Board of Physicians ignored calls for disciplinary action.
“We pray that this unholy alliance between Carhart and Browne will never materialize and that there will be no replacement for Germantown Reproductive Health Services,” said Newman. “There has been more than enough human suffering there and it’s past time for it to end.”
Filed Under: Carhart, Keep it Closed Campaign, Press Releases, Pro-Life Tagged With: abortion, abortion abuses, Charlie Browne, late-term abortions
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Leia Has a Larger Role in Episode VIII
Janey Tracey
Wednesday, 28 December 2016 - 3:58PM
After the heartbreaking news was announced that Carrie Fisher passed away yesterday at 60, it was also reported that she had finished filming scenes for Episode VIII. So it looks like Episode VIII will go on as planned, apparently with an expanded role for General Leia Organa.
According to Deadline, Leia has a much larger role in Episode VIII than she did for The Force Awakens, and her daughter, Billie Lourd, has more screentime as well. Let's hope that the final scenes performed by the late actress will give Leia the awesome arc she deserves.
Fisher was also expected to return for Episode IX, and it's unknown how Lucasfilm plans to deal with her death. We might not know for quite a while, since it likely depends on her character's fate in Episode VIII. And considering Lucasfilm's newfound penchant for bringing late actors back from the dead, we should be ready for anything (although we hope it's not that).
Star Wars: Episode VIII hits theaters on December 15, 2017.
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» Everspin reports its financial results for Q1 2018
Everspin announced its financial results for Q1 2018 - revenues reached a record $14.9 million as product revenues grew more than 40% compared to Q1 2017 and as Everspin received an upfront 3D sensor license fee with Alps Electric. Net loss in Q1 was $1.3 million, down from $6.1 million in Q1 2017.
At the end of the quarter, the Everspin had $33.9 million in cash and equivalents (up from $13 million in Q4 2017). In February 2018 Everspin raised $24.5 million in a secondary offering. Everspin expects revenues in Q2 2018 to be in the range of $10.9 million to $11.3 million.
Everspin says that in Q2 2018 it expects to complete the quality specification of its lead flash array customer that will use Everspin's 256Mb STT-MRAM for this product.
During the quarter, Everspin shipped its first 40nm 256Mb STT-MRAM products. Last month Everspin successfully raised $24.5 million.
Posted: May 10, 2018 by Ron Mertens
Everspin raised $15 million, sold over 10 million MRAM chips
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The Romeo and Juliet law is a relatively new statutory law that was passed in 2007. Under this law, teenagers can now be tried and convicted of sex offenses by engaging in sexual relations with teenagers younger than themselves. Receiving the label of a sex offender can have a significant impact upon a teenager’s life. Sex offender status limits housing, job employment opportunity, and personal life. As such, the law has become fairly notorious. Unfortunately for offenders, while the Romeo and Juliet law does differentiate teenage offenders from adult offenders who prey on children, the sex offender registry does not.
Learn more about the Romeo & Juliet law by calling Musca Law at (800) 687-2252! We are available 24/7 to take your calls and will fight tenaciously for your best interests.
The Requirements for Being Accused of the Romeo and Juliet Law
Before the Romeo and Juliet law was passed in 2007, a 15-year-old teenager and an 18-year-old teenager could have consensual sexual relations. Afterward, if accused, the 18-year-old, whether male or female, could then be labeled as a sex offender for a minimum of twenty years. Thanks to the Romeo and Juliet law, the teenager now has just as much right to petition the court in order to have his or her sex offender status removed as a sexual offender.
In order to petition, the case must meet the follow criteria:
The victim must have had to be at least fourteen years of age.
The victim must have had to consent to the sexual engagement.
The offender cannot have been accused or convicted of a previous sex crime.
The offender had to have been convicted of a sex offense that qualifies for petition.
The offender cannot have been more than four years the elder of the victim during the incident in question.
Note that just because the case meets the criteria listed above, that does not change the legality of the sexual contact. However, meeting the criteria will allow the offender to petition the courts to have his or her status a sexual offender revoked.
In the state of Florida, ignorance of the victim’s age is no longer considered a viable defense and thus will not constitute a repeal or revocation of the offender’s sex offender status. Since the year the Romeo and Juliet law was passed, more than two hundred and fifty would-be teenage sex offenders have successfully petitioned, and appealed, their sex offender status under the Romeo and Juliet law. Much of the public in Florida believe strongly that this law allows a distinct line to be drawn between true sex offenders, and teenagers making lustful mistakes.
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A$AP Rocky: ‘Homophobia needs to stop in hip-hop – or the genre will fail’
NME Feb 18, 2012 3:02 pm GMT
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Rapper argues 'close-mindedness' in rap world is 'retarded'
A$AP Rocky has spoken out over the issue of homophobia in hip-hop, claiming that the genre will “fail” if artists don’t become more open-minded about sexuality.
The rapper – real name Rakim Mayers – said that although he is heterosexual, he is concerned that sexual orientation is too much of an issue among many hip-hop artists.
Speaking to Spinner.com, he claimed that while pop “doesn’t discriminate against people”, hip-hop is “so retarded” when it comes to issues of sexuality and homophobia.
Mayers commented:
I’m not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail.
He continued: “Who gives a fuck? I like women. I love women. I’m not going to not be your friend because you like men. As long as you’re a great person and, aside from that, y’know, you don’t bother me and make me uncomfortable, then let’s be friends, dude.”
The rapper released his debut mixtape ‘Live.Love.ASAP’ last October and is set to release a new EP in April, before touring the UK in June.
To check the availability of A$AP Rocky tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
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Britney Spears to visit Lake District to work on tracks for new album
Nick Levine Aug 20, 2013 3:57 pm BST
Producer Naughty Boy reportedly wants to take Spears to Cumbria for creative inspiration
Britney Spears will reportedly head to the Lake District to work on tracks for her forthcoming album.
The singer has enlisted Tinie Tempah collaborator Naughty Boy as a producer on the project, and he is apparently planning to take her to Cumbria for creative inspiration.
“He’s planning to take Britney on a tour,” an unnamed source told The Sun. “They’ll be holed up at his studio in [London’s] Ealing for most of the time but he wants to weave in a visit to the Lake District. He loves it there.”
Meanwhile, Spears has teased fans with the prospect of a big announcement by unveiling a mysterious countdown on her official website. “ALL EYES ON ME” are the only words on the countdown page and at the time of writing the ticker has around 27 days and 22 hours remaining.
As well as Naughty Boy, Spears’ collaborators on her forthcoming album, the follow-up to 2011’s ‘Femme Fatale’, include Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange, William Orbit, Sia and will.i.am.
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Press Releases • NorthState Appoints Jeff Chapman Executive Vice President, Operations
NorthState Appoints Jeff Chapman Executive Vice President, Operations
NorthState, a leading fiber optic network, cloud and IT services provider, today announced that Jeff Chapman is joining the company as Executive Vice President, Operations, providing leadership around the company’s network expansion and customer operations, while playing a key role in NorthState’s offering of next-generation fiber services to support the growing array of applications requiring fiber infrastructure. The appointment is effective December 4, 2017.
Mr. Chapman joins NorthState from Bridgepoint Communications Inc., a Dallas, TX-based fiber optic construction company, where he served as Chief Executive Officer since February 2015. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President for Construction and Engineering at FiberLight, a fiber optic service provider, with responsibility for all engineering, construction and network design activities. He was previously a founding member and Vice President, Operations of fiber optic service provider PEG Bandwidth, leading PEG’s growth and operations in 14 states.
NorthState Chief Executive Officer Royster Tucker III commented, “We are excited to bring Jeff on board to support our growing fiber focus and ongoing efforts to be the best there is across all of our customer touch points. He has a track record of delivering strong leadership and having high impact on growing businesses. His ability to manage across multiple functional areas provides great flexibility to put his talents to work.”
Mr. Chapman will assume a number of the responsibilities of current Executive Vice President, COO Nick Kottyan, who is leaving the company at the end of the year. Mr. Kottyan joined NorthState in 2011 through the acquisition of DataChambers.
Mr. Tucker added, “Nick has played a key role in the design of our strategic direction. We thank him for his many contributions and for assisting with a smooth transition of responsibilities. We wish him the very best.”
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A century of faith, memories, and service
by Marty Sabota
Moses Lopez takes the mound to throw out the first pitch at the Richland Rebels High School baseball game. It was his great-grandson Jeffrey’s last regular-season game before graduating. (photo courtesy of Lopez family)
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS — As Moses Lopez’s Father’s Day family celebration approached, the father of five and grandfather and great-grandfather of 12 imparted wisdom to the younger generation.
“Go to church, follow the rules, get an education, and say three Rosaries a day like I do,” he said.
His wisdom is gleaned from many years of experience.
On July 14, the devout family man who served his country for more than two decades and served the Catholic community his entire life will celebrate his 100th birthday.
Lopez, who never smoked or drank, attributes his long life to “faith and family and working hard.”
The soon-to-be centenarian is a member since 1977 of St. John the Apostle Parish in North Richland Hills, located conveniently near the assisted living facility where he currently lives.
“It’s my entire life. It’s my soul,” Lopez said of his Catholic faith.
Father Jack McKone, pastor of St. John, said of his “oldest active” parishioner, “He’s very faithful. He’s a great guy.”
Noting that 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Diocese of Fort Worth, the pastor said, “Moses is twice as old as our diocese.” Fr. McKone blessed Lopez on his 99th birthday.
Lopez, one of seven siblings, was born in Nixon, a small town southeast of San Antonio, on July 14, 1919. The family later moved to Winnie, a small town near the Gulf of Mexico, where he grew up.
When his father died when he was 12, Lopez lived a hardscrabble life, taking whatever odd jobs he could do to help his mother make ends meet.
“I worked in the fields, picking cotton and breaking horses,” he said.
Moses Lopez in 1944 (photo courtesy of Lopez family)
In 1938, Lopez found work in the Civilian Conservation Corps. In 1941, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic. He served in World War II and flew in 15 missions.
In 1947, the United States Air Force became a separate military service. Lopez continued his military career as part of the Air Force until 1962.
In 1948, he and other soldiers took a restocking trip to Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and he bought a painting from a street artist who was creating portraits of the Holy Family. He bought it and put it in his duffle bag.
“I have always kept that picture close to me,” Lopez said of the artwork of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus.
The master sergeant then entered the second phase of his long life, working in the General Services Administration until his retirement in 1985.
In 1952, while stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, he met and married Beatrice Soto.
Beatrice died in 2013, leaving five grandchildren ranging in age from 30 to 50 and seven great-grandchildren ranging in age from 4 to 20.
Their five children live nearby: Emily Lopez of Euless; Helen Weissinger and husband Glenn of Hurst; Joe Lopez of North Richard Hills; Ray Lopez of North Richland Hills; and Lucy Griffin and husband Eric of North Richland Hills.
Lopez has been an active member of St. John since 1977, when the family moved to North Richland Hills. He has been awarded lifetime membership in the Knights of Columbus.
“I enjoy the service they provide to the parish and the community,” Lopez said of the Knights.
As a Knight, he helped with the flower garden for the statue of Mary. For many years, he mowed the church grounds weekly.
“I loved cooking at the Sunday morning breakfast and the fish fry during Lent,” Lopez said. “I loved to serve the food and talk to the people.”
Lopez’s presence has waned in recent years due to his diminished mobility.
“I’m too slow and the line gets too long,” Lopez said, adding that he still has a great time partaking as a customer and loves visiting with his Knight brothers.
Moses Lopez on a fishing expedition (photo courtesy of Lopez family)
A man of many interests, Lopez is a lifelong fisherman and still enjoys the sport he has loved since he could walk. At first fishing was a way to keep his family fed. In better times, it became a passion.
He tells family and friends the lake is where he goes to “just get away and relax.”
He enjoys the calmness of fishing and is a “catch-and-release” fisherman.
In 2013, he and grandson Nicholas Griffin were fishing when Lopez snagged a black bass.
“The fish was huge, and it was a battle landing it, but Nicholas finally got it in the net,” Lopez said. “The battery on the electronic scale was low so we had to guess at the weight — about 10 pounds.”
The fishermen measured their catch and it was a whopping 23 inches long, a fish story that was chronicled in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
“You could put your fist in his mouth,” he said.
When told it might have a been a record fish but it couldn’t be verified because he let it go, Lopez joked, “I may have to go back out there and try and catch him again.”
Another all-American passion of Lopez is baseball. Playing with his brothers and friends since he was 5 years old, at age 12 he joined a local team that traveled to other towns to play.
The years passed, and he rekindled his love with baseball when he joined a senior citizen’s league where he played into his eighties.
He now enjoys watching his great-grandchildren’s league games.
Last year, it was his privilege to throw out the first pitch at the Richland Rebels High School baseball game. It was his great-grandson Jeffrey’s last regular-season game before graduating.
Father Jack McKone, pastor of St. John the Apostle Parish, blessed Moses Lopez on his 99th birthday. (photo courtesy of Lopez family)
Although in a wheelchair, he got to the mound with Jeffrey pushing him.
“I got the ball over the plate,” Lopez said.
He is an avid fan of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Cowboys, watching and discussing their games.
“I would love to throw out the first pitch at a Rangers game,” he said of the pregame ceremonial honor.
Lopez has started a new chapter of his life. Six months ago, he moved from his North Richland Hills home to Brookdale Richland Hills, where daughter Emily Lopez said he “quickly became one of the popular residents.”
Their appreciation of the recent addition to their extended “family” was evident when Lopez gave a presentation there June 6 about his military memories on the 75th anniversary of the historic D-Day invasion of Europe by Allied forces.
“He attends most all the activities and loves talking with his meal companions,” the eldest daughter said after her father spoke at the assisted living facility to more than 100 people. “He feels like he is finally retired.”
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Few Traces Of Past Glory In Mogadishu A high-speed tour of the city does not include famous landmarks that inspire national pride. Instead, it's filled with what used to be and places where terrible things happened.
Containing Chaos: Somalia Today
Few Traces Of Past Glory In Mogadishu
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After nearly two decades of civil war, most of Mogadishu's landmarks are unrecognizable. In Somalia's capital, the remains of Somali National University now serve as a base for African Union troops who are trying to protect the U.S.-backed government from an Islamist insurgency. Frank Langfitt/NPR hide caption
After nearly two decades of civil war, most of Mogadishu's landmarks are unrecognizable. In Somalia's capital, the remains of Somali National University now serve as a base for African Union troops who are trying to protect the U.S.-backed government from an Islamist insurgency.
Final of four parts
The morning flight from Nairobi banks over the Indian Ocean and descends toward a runaway next to the beach. Waves crash and wind whips through sand dunes dotted with pockmarked buildings.
An abandoned jet lies near the edge of the runway with a broken wing.
Mogadishu was once known as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. In the 1960s and '70s, it was a haven for tourists. Frank Langfitt/NPR hide caption
Mogadishu was once known as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. In the 1960s and '70s, it was a haven for tourists.
The pilot comes on the intercom: "Welcome to Mogadishu, ladies and gentleman," he says. "The time now is 9:25."
So begins a four-day trip to one of the world’s most dangerous cities.
Mogadishu is the capital of Somalia, a country on the Horn of Africa that’s been embroiled in civil war for nearly two decades. Radical Islamists named al-Shabab are locked in a grinding battle with African peacekeeping troops.
Trapped in the middle are Somali civilians, just trying to stay alive amid the violence.
I'm traveling with a group of journalists -- guests of the African Union. The African Union has more than 7,000 troops here, defending a weak U.S.-backed government.
The soldiers say they’re pushing al-Shabab back and want to show off new forward bases. Before we head into town, our host, Ugandan Army Maj. Barigye Ba-Hoku, has this advice for our mostly white group: "Generally speaking, people of your complexion are targets for these idiots here. So, when we sit in our convoys, try as much as you can not to overexpose yourself. All right?"
Howa Mudi, 10, lost both legs in a mortar attack several weeks ago. She says at night she still dreams of playing with her older sister, who died in the explosion. Frank Langfitt/NPR hide caption
Howa Mudi, 10, lost both legs in a mortar attack several weeks ago. She says at night she still dreams of playing with her older sister, who died in the explosion.
Wearing flak jackets and helmets, we board hulking, armored personnel carriers -- paid for by the U.S. government. The vehicles pull up to the edge of the heavily guarded African Union military base and launch into what feels like a road rally through the streets of Mogadishu.
The armored personnel carriers blow past palm trees and weave through Jersey barriers, kicking up trash in their wake.
There's not much shooting today, so people are selling fruit by the roadside beneath brightly colored umbrellas. A militia man allied with the government lounges in a plastic chair, a bandolier of bullets draped over his shoulders.
The vehicle is going at least 50 miles an hour. The reason is simple: The African Union does not want to offer al-Shabab a stationary target.
When the driver slows for a donkey in the road, he blasts his horn and then races ahead.
The high-speed tour of Mogadishu does not include famous landmarks that inspire national pride. Instead, it's filled with what used to be -- and places where terrible things happened.
Stephanie d'Otreppe/NPR
Ba-Hoku points out the old U.S. Embassy, but you'd never recognize it. It's a collection of crumbling, sun-bleached buildings overgrown with brush.
He notes the Sahafi Hotel, not because of the service, but because two French security advisers were kidnapped there last year.
Eventually, we make our way back to the airport's concrete gate.
It's cracked and bears burn marks from a suicide bomb attack last month. African Union troops stopped the bombers, but not before they killed nine people, including two soldiers.
The African Union has set up hospitals to care for Somali civilians -- a popular service in a city where most hospitals closed long ago. By 7:30 on a Saturday morning, scores have lined up for help at an African Union Clinic. People with metal detectors check each patient for guns or bombs.
More In The Series
Part 1: Peacekeepers, Islamists Battle For The Soul Of Somalia Oct. 4, 2010
Part 2: Building An Army In Somalia, Teaching It To Fight Oct. 5, 2010
Part 3: Somalia's Al-Shabab Spreads Its Message In Kenya Oct. 6, 2010
Among the neediest are children who've been caught in the crossfire.
An 11-year-old boy named Abdu was shot coming out of a mosque. He lies on a bed, his blue T-shirt pulled up over his chest. There is a gaping incision in his abdomen, which doctors opened to remove a sniper’s bullet.
Abdu's father, who waves a reed fan to shoo flies off his son, says the sniper was with al-Shabab. The boy moans in pain, unable to speak.
On the other side of the room is Howa Mudi, a 10-year-old girl with a brilliant smile. About three weeks ago, a mortar landed on her house, killing two of her siblings.
Howa was injured so badly, doctors had to amputate most of her legs.
Her father says he doesn't know who was responsible.
To record Howa in the noisy hospital ward, I use a special microphone that vaguely resembles a gun. She stares at it in horror and begins to shake.
Only when a doctor takes hold of the mic does Howa relax.
When bullets aren't flying, people are often on the streets of Mogadishu, chatting and doing business. They are just trying to stay alive amid the violence. Frank Langfitt/NPR hide caption
When bullets aren't flying, people are often on the streets of Mogadishu, chatting and doing business. They are just trying to stay alive amid the violence.
"I'm unlucky," she says. "When I grow up, I don’t know what I'll do, because I don't have any legs."
Howa lost an older sister named Faduma in the attack. "Sometimes, when I sleep at night, I have dreams. I play with my sister," she says. "Then I wake up. This is my biggest problem."
Mogadishu was not always like this. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was a haven for tourists who came for the beaches and blue-green waters that resemble the Mediterranean.
People called it the Pearl of the Indian Ocean.
Occasionally, amid the rubble, you can still catch glimpses of the city that once was -- a city that people in Mogadishu hope one day they'll see again.
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Millennials Beware of the Dead Hand of Socialism Says Aussie Writer
By Richard Szabo March 4, 2019
Students at Sydney University's campus in Australia, on April 6, 2016. (Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)
A well-known Australian writer has warned young people about the perils of preferring socialism to capitalism in response to a recent survey showing millennials are mostly positive about that style of government.
News Limited columnist Chris Mitchell cautioned the millennial generation, born between the years 1980 and 2000, against having false illusions about the realities of life in a socialist system.
“Millennials need to be careful what they wish for lest they discover how hard life was without the growth neo-liberalism has generated,” he said in an opinion piece published in The Australian, on March 4. “They could try to find out why Scandinavians have abandoned the dead hand of state socialism … and they could ponder how their grandparents and great grandparents coped as young people with two world wars, the Great Depression, the Korean and Vietnam wars.”
Mitchell made the remark in response to an opinion piece penned by Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) Director Tom Switzer who was unhappy about mainstream media ignoring a June 2018 report, expressing concern about most millennials having a favourable view of socialism as an ideology.
He claimed less than a third of millennials surveyed knew Australia spends a lot more on health and education than 10 years ago and more than half falsely believed spending on these two sectors has fallen.
“An even greater percentage believe workers are worse off now than they were 40 years ago,” Switzer said in a public statement. “This fundamental misunderstanding of Australia’s economic and fiscal position is deeply concerning.”
The CIS/YouGov Galaxy poll found 73 percent of millennials had heard of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler but only 21 percent knew about Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong.
Adding Socialism to Curriculum
Switzer suggested adding the history of communism and socialism to state educational curriculum could help address the lack of public awareness, which seems to be prompting millennials to think socialism is not so bad after all.
“Millennials have a limited knowledge of the 20th century’s bloody and botched experiments with socialism,” Switzer said. “It is important to educate people on its brutal history, in order that socialism’s flawed promises of wealth redistribution and equality are not confused with its horrific practical shortcomings … communism and socialism were responsible for the deaths of up to 100 million people in the 20th century–as many as both world war combined.”
Mitchell supports Switzer’s view that better education would help remove any false views people may have about the realities of socialism.
“To my mind, favourable attitudes to socialism among the young reflect the dominance of left-wing thought in school education,” he said. “Rigorous education, hard work, saving, and personal responsibility rather than government-imposed socialism lifted them from poverty.”
He accuses leftist supporters, including teacher union officials, teacher educators, and politicians, of propagating the left’s social agenda through the education system.
He gave the example of former Victorian Premier Joan Kirner, and minister of education, who admitted “education has to be reshaped so it is part of the socialist struggle for equality … rather than an instrument of the capitalist system.”
Mitchell also pointed to former Griffith University lecturer in the school of education Gregory Martin’s comment that a “major task for leftist academics is … to connect education with community struggles for social justice.”
Since there has been such severe influencing of the education system Mitchell believes it will take a lot of work before the system can return to how it used to be. He referred to former Australian Education Union federal President Pat Byrne’s 2005 comment, “We have succeeded in influencing curriculum development … conservatives have a lot of work to do to undo the progressive curriculum.”
Mitchell questioned the necessity of teaching techniques of literary deconstruction in primary and high schools and suggested they could instead be reserved for university literature courses. “[This is because] texts must be analysed in terms of their role in reinforcing capitalist hegemony over the disempowered and disadvantaged, such as women, migrants and the poor,” according to Australian Catholic University senior research fellow Kevin Donnelly.
Former federal Minister for Education David Kemp separately complained the national curriculum placed too much emphasis on Aboriginal history and spirituality and not enough on Western civilisation and traditional economic and personal liberalism, which “received almost no mention in the Australian National Curriculum” said his new book, “The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom.”
“Teachers and educators rightly say the world is changing, old curricula derived from the UK no longer take account of the increasing importance of East Asia, and that in an age swamped by mass media children need to be taught how to think for themselves rather than what to think,” Mitchell said.
“All true, but the best education systems privilege traditional rigour and the role of teachers. International studies confirm this and point to Singapore, Japan, Finland and Shanghai for their success, while Australian students slip on international comparisons.”
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Current Evidence on Noncaloric Sweeteners and their Health Implications
Robert Frawley
PepsiCo Global Research and Development
Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science
This is a CME-accredited program. Click here to access the CME credit evaluation form.
Use of artificial sweeteners has been rising in the U.S. for the last 50 years. Because artificial sweeteners deliver a sweet flavor without calories, these substitutes have been considered a solution to endemic problems such as obesity and diabetes, which are linked to high caloric and sugar intake. But over the same time period, average body weight in the U.S. has increased steadily, as it has been for well over 100 years, and any link between the two trends remains unclear.
For many consumers, artificial sweeteners, also known as low-calorie sweeteners (LCSs) or nonnutritive sweeteners (NNSs), raise concerns about toxicity or deleterious health effects. On November 16, 2015, PepsiCo Global Research and Development and the Academy's Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science presented a symposium on Current Evidence on Noncaloric Sweeteners and their Health Implications to consider existing research on sweeteners.
As new sweeteners have been introduced to market their use has increased in the general population. Yet the national average BMI has increased steadily in the same period. (Image presented by Rick Mattes courtesy of Yang. Neuroscience. 2010.)
The evening began with a presentation by John Glendinning of Barnard College, who described mouse models that are used to study the roles of taste receptors in physiology and flavor perception. Although no published studies indicate that NNSs pose a risk to humans, the use of artificial sweeteners is controversial, and some opponents fear that metabolic disruption or addiction will result. Glendinning discussed the metabolic fate of NNSs in the intestinal tract and the different sensory mechanisms that mediate their detection in the mouth.
There are two signaling pathways for sweeteners in taste cells. One involves the canonical sweet-taste receptor T1r2+T1r3, and the other the K(ATP) signaling pathway. The importance of T1r2+T1r3 signaling to the attraction of mammals to sweeteners is well established. For instance, wild-type mice offered a choice between water and a sweetener solution (containing a sugar or NNS) show strong preference for the sweet taste. In contrast, T1r3 KO knockout mice (which lack the T1r3 subunit of T1r2+T1r3) show no attraction to the taste of the sweetener solution when offered the same choice.
Another important function of sweet taste is its contribution to a process called the cephalic-phase insulin release (CPIR). The process is elicited by the taste, smell, and visual appearance of foods, and causes a rapid spike in blood insulin even before food has been swallowed. The CPIR has been found to help mammals, including humans, maintain glucose homeostasis in the blood. Glendinning recently demonstrated that the taste of sugars (e.g., glucose and sucrose) but not of NNSs elicit CPIR in mice.
Deletion of T1r3 had no effect on the magnitude of CPIR in mice, whereas deletion of Sur1 eliminated CPIR. (Images courtesy of John Glendinning)
Glendinning explained that T1r2+T1r3 signaling is not required for mice to generate a normal CPIR. Indeed, T1r3 KO knockout mice show normal CPIR to oral stimulation with sugars. He found, however, that mice lacking a protein called Sur1 that is required for K(ATP) signaling exhibit normal behavioral attraction to sweeteners but show no CPIR to oral stimulation with sugars.
He emphasized that these observations are important for several reasons. First, they indicate that there are at least two signaling pathways for sugars in the taste system, each with a different function. T1r2+T1r3 signaling mediates behavioral attraction to sugars, whereas K(ATP) signaling is involved in taste-mediated CPIR. Second, the discovery of a novel taste signaling pathway for sugars provides opportunities to develop new drugs to control blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. Finally, because NNSs do not activate the K(ATP) signaling pathway, sugars are probably the main elicitors of CPIR.
Mice lacking T1r3 are less likely to lick a sweet stimulus compared to wild-type mice (Figure A). Deletion of Sur1 does not change lick frequency for solutions of sucrose (Figure B). (Images courtesy of John Glendinning)
Rick Mattes of Purdue University focused on some of the most common concerns related to artificial sweeteners: activation of reward centers in the brain, effects on metabolism and microbiota, secretion of gut peptide such as GLP-1, and stimulation of appetite and energy intake.
To start, Mattes rejected the idea that sweeteners are addicting. He reviewed the different avenues of neurological communication implicated in addiction; dopamine, the reward response in the brain, is exponentially lower during NNS consumption than it is for drugs deemed addictive. The literature discussing whether NNS consumption can change appetite or motivation to eat ranges widely and yields no consensus.
Mattes next discussed aspartame studies that monitored physical and metabolic outcomes, such as body weight, glucose levels, and cholesterol. In an animal study by Palmnas et al., mice on a regular diet with or without aspartame showed no significant differences in numerous outcome measures—body weight, percent body fat, or triglycerides. The mice only showed variation in glucose tolerance (measured via insulin tolerance test) in the short term. However, animals on a high-fat diet had a lower body weight when also given aspartame. (Both high-fat groups had much higher body weights than groups on a normal diet). A different research team (Suez et al.) also found that mice consuming an artificial sweetener (saccharin, compared to aspartame in the previous group) had higher blood glucose. These results suggest that replacing sugar with NNSs may not be an effective strategy for certain metabolic disorders or for glucose intolerance, but Mattes observed that there may be discrepancies in normalization and said both studies should be considered critically, despite publication in high-level journals. He also discussed the possible role of aspartame in dysregulating microbiota activity, although the studies cited do not directly assess the gut microbiota.
Mattes described a study by Jang et al., which focused on GLP-1, a peptide important in appetite signaling. The researchers showed that in cell culture the NNS sucralose increases GLP-1 levels compared to glucose and sucrose, and that expression of GLP-1 can be reversed with lactisole (a sweet-receptor inhibitor). There is poor consensus in the field, however, as to whether sucralose changes the levels of GLP-1, blood glucose, or insulin in animals and humans. Mattes briefly compared three papers showing conflicting results. The research is inconclusive despite the initial excitement surrounding cell-based experiments.
Swithers and Davidson proposed in 2008 that conditioning from consistent NNS consumption would cause the body to adapt and reduce the cephalic response to foods containing NNSs, despite the sweet taste, because of the absence of sugar. The authors propose that this mechanism would lead to insufficient insulin production upon the reintroduction of sugar, deregulating metabolism and leading to weight gain by uncoupling CPIR from sugar detection. In that study, animals given inconsistent chow diets (sometimes low fat, sometimes high fat) experienced the highest weight gain. However, this finding was never recapitulated in human studies. Dietary inconsistency has not been shown to lead to behavioral changes or to overeating.
The final studies Mattes examined were epidemiological. The two studies were themselves meta-analyses, which compared final outcomes, such as a change in BMI. Both studies reported a benefit to including nonnutritive sweeteners instead of water in weight-loss regimens, though neither discriminated between NNS compounds.
Gary Foster of Weight Watchers International noted that recommendations promoting decreased sugary-drink consumption often lead to increased consumption of NNS-containing drinks, not increased water intake. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2015 Report on Dietary Guidelines, "there is insufficient evidence (due to paucity of data) to recommend the use of low-calorie sweeteners as a strategy for long-term weight loss." The report reviewed three meta-analyses that included 39 studies, mostly on aspartame. While some trials showed that replacing sugary drinks with NNS-containing drinks led to decreases in body weight and lower risks of heart disease and diabetes, the overall results lacked rigor and consistency.
Foster described a trial he conducted at Temple University, published in the journal Obesity, which tested the effects of consuming NNSs or water during a weight-loss regime. Over 300 adults were enrolled in the year-long study, and subjects participated in weight-loss programs, including regular exercise and guided calorie restriction, while drinking 24oz of either water or NNS-containing soft drinks daily. Consumption of other drinks, including full-calorie soft drinks, was not limited. Participants attended weekly support meetings, followed caloric recommendations set individually on the basis of resting metabolic rate, and provided self-reported food and drink intake.
At 12 weeks the participants consuming NNSs had lost 2 kg more body weight on average, and more participants in that cohort had lost 5% of body weight or more. The NNS cohort also had lower cholesterol and LDL levels, and reported less hunger in general. At 52 weeks, among participants who completed the weight-loss regime, those in the NNS cohort lost an average of 5 kg more weight than those drinking water (8.39 kg vs. 3.39 kg lost). Both groups achieved maximum mean weight loss after about 6 months, but the NNS group regained less weight afterwards. Foster proposed that the water group may lack satisfying sweetness and consume excess calories as a result, but it is not possible to prove this hypothesis on the basis of the data gathered.
Editor's note: The initial (12-week) findings from this study were discussed in commentary by Stephen Anton published in Obesity. (Can Non-Nutritive Sweeteners Enhance Outcomes of Weight Loss Interventions?) Anton noted the need for research on potential mechanism(s) for the superior effects of NNSs on weight loss outcomes.
Participants drinking NNS lost an average of 5 kg more weight than those drinking water (8.39 kg vs. 3.39 kg lost). Both groups achieved maximum mean weight loss after about 6 months, but the NNS group regained less weight afterwards. (Image courtesy of Gary Foster)
The speakers agreed that there is generally no evidence that artificial sweeteners present harm to users who consume approximately 2 servings daily. They also noted the evidence that drinking beverages containing artificial sweeteners might improve weight-loss results. The field suffers from a paucity of studies and inconsistent results, partly because there is a lack of government funds for research into sweeteners. A few recent studies have measured effects on the gut microbiota directly. The focus of most of the work presented at this meeting was general health and weight maintenance. The speakers stressed the need for more research funding in this area. Artificial sweeteners are widely used; understanding their benefits and risks is a public health imperative.
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The New York Academy of Sciences. Current Evidence on Noncaloric Sweeteners and their Health Implications. Academy eBriefings. 2016. Available at: www.nyas.org/Sweeteners-eB
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Taste Receptors and Taste Preferences
John Glendinning (Barnard College)
Non-caloric Sweeteners in the Context of the Whole Diet
Rick Mattes (Purdue University)
Non-caloric Sweeteners in Weight Loss and Weight-loss Maintenance
Gary D. Foster (Weight Watchers International Inc.)
Moderator: Kiyah Duffey (Virginia Tech)
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Catherine Cioffi, RD
Emory University; Formerly at PepsiCo Inc.
Danielle Greenberg, PhD, FACN
F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, MD
Barry Popkin, PhD
Mireille Mclean, MA, MPH
Julie Shlisky, PhD
Kiyah Duffey, PhD
Kiyah Duffey is the director of global scientific affairs at the LA Sutherland group and an adjunct faculty in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on the determinants of dietary intake and the long-term associations between diet, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic syndrome. Her work has been featured in media outlets such as Men's Health Magazine, USA Today, BBC News, NPR's Morning Edition, Good Morning America, and NBC Nightly News. Duffey was previously a consultant on topics such as USDA dietary databases and scientific evidence-bases for FDA labeling claims. Before her appointment at Virginia Tech, she was a member of the research faculty in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Duffey holds a PhD in nutritional epidemiology from the UNC Chapel Hill.
Gary D. Foster, PhD
Weight Watchers International Inc.
Gary Foster is chief scientific officer at Weight Watchers International. He was previously the founder and director of the Center of Obesity Research and Education and Laura Carnell Professor of Medicine, Public Health and Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, and before that a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is the author of three books on the etiology and treatment of obesity. In 2014 Foster received the George A. Bray Founders Award from the Obesity Society. Foster is interested in the prevention, behavioral determinants, treatments, and effects of obesity in adults and children. His work has focused on studying scalable, evidence-based approaches to obesity management. Foster holds an MS in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in clinical psychology from Temple University.
John Glendinning, PhD
John Glendinning is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Biology at Barnard College, Columbia University. He studies the physiological mechanisms that control feeding in animals. Most of his projects focus on the contribution of taste to feeding, but he has recently begun to explore the effects of chemosensory feedback from the gut. He obtained his PhD from the University of Florida and received postdoctoral training at Florida State University and the University of Arizona.
Rick Mattes, PhD, MPH, RD
Rick Mattes is a distinguished professor of nutrition science at Purdue University, an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and affiliated scientist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. His research focuses on hunger and satiety, regulation of food intake, food preference, human cephalic phase responses, and taste and smell. Mattes directs the University Public Health Program and the Ingestive Behavior Research Center at Purdue University. He is the associate editor of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and an editorial board member for the journal Chemosensory Perception, for the Ear, Nose and Throat Journal, and for the journal Flavour. He is also secretary of the Rose Marie Pangborn Sensory Science Scholarship Fund. He has received multiple awards, most recently the Babcock-Hart Award from the Institute of Food Technologists. Mattes holds a Master's degree in public health from the University of Michigan and a PhD in human nutrition from Cornell University. He completed postdoctoral studies at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Monell Chemical Senses Center.
Robert Frawley holds a BS in biomedical engineering from Columbia University and is completing a PhD in physiology, biophysics and systems biology at Weill Cornell Graduate School. He enjoys writing for a broad audience and teaching high school science after school.
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HIV 2016: HIV and Non-Communicable Diseases
Caitlin McOmish
Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Discussion Group
In 1983 researchers isolated a novel T lymphotropic retrovirus with no idea of what it was, nor the danger that was to be unleashed on the world. In the 3 decades since, dramatic progress in understanding and treating this retrovirus—now called HIV—has taken place. Today, HIV is no longer a death sentence. In fact, the advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has extended lifespans to such an extent that HIV+ individuals are increasingly susceptible to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) associated with aging. Concerningly, incidence amongst HIV+ populations appears to surpass that seen in otherwise healthy people.
On May 26, 2016, participants gathered at the New York Academy of Sciences for HIV 2016: HIV and Non-Communicable Diseases — Opportunities and Challenges to discuss one of the next frontiers in the HIV field: how NCDs and HIV interact, how they should be treated, and how policy needs to adapt to facilitate effective treatment for people living with NCDs.
Peter Godfrey Faussett, UNAIDS, introduced the symposium, reflecting upon the progress that has been made to date. The United Nations millennium development goals (MDGs), outlined in 2000, aimed to halt the spread and reverse the incidence of HIV/AIDS, and provide universal access to treatment. By enacting efforts to properly understand the epidemic, maintaining focus, scaling actions appropriately, ensuring sustainability, and building upon national strategies already in place in almost all countries, the HIV epidemic was turned around.
As we now move on to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) the focus has shifted to integration of services across the spectrum of disease. Today's symposium aims to (1) map our understanding of the epidemiology and biology of the interactions between HIV and NCDs, (2) provide examples of programmatic interventions to improve lives of people living with HIV globally, (3) promote ideas for integrating services and programs, (4) delineate the implications of these intersections for different stakeholders, and finally (5) think about the next steps for research and policy.
Global Action Plan for Combatting HIV and NCDs (image courtesy of Peter Godfrey Faussett)
Session I explored the biology of HIV and NCDs. Andrew Phillips, University College London, introduced complex epidemiological evidence for an association between HIV and NCDs. He illustrated that there is evidence for excess risk of serious disease due to HIV even in people with viral suppression and that contributing factors include ongoing CD4 cell immunodeficency, inflammation and coagulation, and adverse effects of ART. He then focussed on studies comparing people with HIV who have viral suppression and high CD4 count with people without HIV—these do not generally show large differences in risk. However, there is high potential for selection and confounding biases in these comparisons. For example, there is confounding due to differences between people with HIV and people without, with smoking, drug use, socio–economic status and mental health being examples of possible confounders. Another key issue when considering people with viral load suppression and high CD4 count is the fact that we are selecting within HIV positive people for those with better adherence and health seeking behaviour generally. He noted also that even small increased relative risks of CVD or cancer associated with HIV should not be ignored because they will become much more significant in absolute terms as people age. He also noted that re-normalisation of CD4 count level may not be achievable and, where it is, can take several years. Finally, we should remain vigilant over potentially unidentified adverse effects of antiretroviral drugs.
Screening for CD4 count can bias comparisons between HIV+ and HIV− populations (image courtesy of Andrew Phillips)
Synthesizing the available evidence, there appears to be a 1.5–2 fold increased risk of comorbid NCDs, among people with treated HIV infection. While on the face of it the relative risk ratio is small, this needs to be extrapolated to an absolute scale, and may still be very consequential in older ages. It remains to be determined whether a person who enters care early, and remains adherent, retains this risk increase.
Steven Deeks, University of California, San Francisco, explored the biological underpinnings of increased NCD incidence, and accelerated aging, observed in HIV+ populations. HIV+ status leads to stem cell exhaustion, telomerase inhibition (via ARTs), dysregulated nutrient sensing, mitochondrial toxicity, T cell senescence, and chronic inflammation all of which have been convincingly associated with poor prognosis in the general population.
Inflammation is increasingly being implicated in a broad spectrum of illness. Once activated, inflammation damages blood vessels, causing vascular and atherosclerotic disease, which impairs cardiovascular, pulmonary, kidney, and liver function . Moreover the impact of elevated inflammatory markers (IL-6, D-dimer, hsCRP), is prolonged in the context of HIV infection, exacerbating the sequelae. Moving forward, a better understanding of the biological processes driving inflammation could lead to effective interventions targeted towards the underlying causes. Because inflammation is a target in many diseases, we can learn from progress in adjacent fields to accelerate advances. In the shorter term, it is much easier to prevent aging and inflammation, than to reverse it, so early diagnosis, and treatment interventions may improve outcomes.
Inflammation, triggered by HIV, drives a cascade of adverse biological events (image courtesy of Steven Deeks)
In addition to an increased risk for NCDs and heightened susceptibility to the effects of inflammation, the possibility of negative interactions between ART and treatment for NCDs needs to be considered. Saye Khoo, University of Liverpool, spoke about how the aging HIV+ population is leading to increased prevalence of multiple morbidities, and rising polypharmacy. Multiple morbidities significantly increases the risk of harm from drug-drug interactions. Clinical guidelines are not tailored to multiple morbidities and drug interaction studies tend to inadequately explore the impact of co-treatment on relevant populations. Careful re-consideration of clinical guidelines, and improving medical history recording and access is required.
To this end, tools for crosschecking drug–drug interactions are evolving. Liverpool has produced a website and app www.hiv-druginteractions.org to serve this purpose. Additionally, STOPP—START (screening tool of older people's prescriptions (STOPP) and screening tool to alert to right treatment (START)) is a recently revised tool that acknowledges adverse events as well as opportunities for synergy, in older patients. Concluding with some practical examples of how to manage drug–drug interactions clinically, Khoo re-iterated the importance of incorporating multiple morbidity and polypharmacy into medical training, drug development, treatment strategies, medical record administration, and policy, in order to best tailor health care approaches to the individual patients.
Session II shifted towards an exploration of policy. Tim Mastro, FHI360, introduced the session, with a message of building on HIV/AIDS Investments for NCD Prevention and Control. Unprecedented levels of investment have been committed to preventing and treating HIV, and further investments are currently being funneled towards NCD care in HIV clinics, but the need to broaden efforts to be inclusive of all people with NCDs is clear. In order to maximize the reach of NCD programs the most parsimonious path forward is to leverage existing HIV investments to advance NCD prevention and control, but scaling up NCD support is not a trivial task and given the current funding climate, cost effectiveness is critical. How can we build on HIV investments for ongoing HIV and NCD control efforts, globally?
Programs relating to NCD care can be subcategorized under the banners of prevention, diagnosis, enrollment into care, disease management, and palliative care. Linking the programs for testing, diagnosis, and care has been a very useful strategy for addressing needs in the HIV field, and given that the infrastructure is already in place, it makes sense to consider further integrating NCD programs. However, it can be difficult to convince funders to move away from vertical programs (with narrow foci) to a broader view. Moreover, just as treatment should aim to be personalized to the individual, intervention models should also be tailored to the environment: what works for retention in Thailand may not be the same as what works in Botswana.
Intersections between HIV and NCDs provide a strong rationale for integrating efforts (image courtesy of Tim Mastro)
Rebecca Dirks, FHI360, expanded on the benefits and challenges of program integration, outlining considerations that should be taken into account in order to maximize chances of success. Integrated health screening can reduce stigma associated with illness, increasing use of services, and improving self-management and empowerment. It is also of logistical benefit saving time for the individual and the workforce. Perhaps most importantly, it allows for treating individuals as a whole, rather than focusing on a single disease.
The potential benefits of integrating HIV and NCD services are numerous (image courtesy Rebecca Dirks)
However, integration models require additional resources and there is a lack of methodological evidence for their effectiveness. Thus, as we map out the path forward a clear understanding of the challenges and goals will be critical. The lack of adequate health insurance coverage poses a considerable barrier to NCD services. Moreover there is limited awareness of NCD prevalence among both the general population and health care providers, necessitating improved educational training. Finally, misperceptions with regards to the impact of NCDs are also common, and the need for long term management of the illness is underestimated. These barriers all have parallels in the HIV field and we can look to progress made there, to inform strategies for addressing these concerns.
There are many opportunities for synergism however in order to be effective, integration needs to be as extensive as possible, reflected in policy, management, resource allocation, training and supervision, and service delivery in hospitals and health centers, and funding further implementation research to develop an evidence base for optimizing NCD approaches, is crucial.
Kwasi Torpey, FHI360, illustrated the need for a more integrated approach to HIV and NCD treatment, with a case study from Zambia of a 43 year old woman had been regularly monitored in the clinic, following her HIV diagnosis in 2001. She was an adherent patient who appeared to be in good health, with low viral load and CD4 counts above 450 cells/µL. In April 2008, she was rushed to ER in serious condition and died within 2 hours of admission. Postmortem analysis showed intracranial hemorrhage. How did the system fail this patient and what lessons can be learned? An integrated approach to health care may be the answer.
Pilot programs integrating cardiovascular and diabetes services into existing HIV infrastructure have been deployed at 3 African sites in Kenya, Zambia, and Nigeria. Thousands of people have been screened for NCDs at these sites, and the local communities overwhelmingly support provision of services beyond HIV treatment. Beyond screening, these pilot programs are contributing data towards the evidence base for an interaction between HIV and NCDs. Torpey discussed some of the emerging findings, concentrating on the relationships between HIV, ART, and NCDs.
Pilot programs at 3 African sites have integrated cardiovascular services into HIV health centers, providing important epidemiological data for the link between HIV and NCDs (image courtesy of Kwasi Torpey)
Thus, the chronic care model appears to be a feasible strategy, when paired with user friendly collection and monitoring tools that facilitate data collection. Moreover, these resources appear to promote positive health seeking behavior. As countries move towards universal access, integration offers a platform for reaching clients regardless of HIV status and will help with de-stigmatization.
The Panel Discussion provided an opportunity for broader reflection on the intersections between HIV and the range of NCDs. The panel comprised David Hoos, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, who has worked in programmatic delivery of HIV care with PEPFAR, Maureen Goodenow, University of Florida Health, whose experience covers research and policy, and Roy Small, UNDP, who brought a UN perspective with a focus on development.
Panelists and audience members discussed the great strides made towards achieving the MDGs, and discussed how to leverage existing infrastructure and programs to achieve the SDGs. The vertical approach has provided a lot of return on investment, including facilities and capabilities that can be leveraged for multiple illnesses and needs. Furthermore, HIV programs have transformed medical practice, expanding beyond medication to incorporate counseling, outreach, community engagement, and attention to stigma and discrimination. This legacy, in combination with emerging technological tools (mobile phones and web based applications) is very useful for NCDs where further destigmatization and demedicalization is required. There is also an opportunity to capitalize on the biological advances made in the HIV field, to explore the biology of macrophages, monocytes, and other inflammatory pathways, ultimately benefitting the broader research community.
The benefits of a shift towards integrated services are numerous and may neutralize some resentment currently felt towards appropriated funds for HIV research, however it requires an updated strategy, taking into consideration the variability in national programs for HIV care. Well-reasoned leadership is a very important factor in dealing with these issues. How can we change the funding behaviors, and convince stakeholders of the long-term benefits of this approach? The HIV field has successfully framed its argument for funding as an investment—it isn't money spent on the issue, it is money saved in the future. This strategy needs to be coopted for the SDGs, and a solid foundation of evidence will allow us to take that route. In closing, Hoos brought home an important reminder, that this is not just a high level discussion about government processes and policy. This concerns individuals, and we need to think about how all of these decisions will impact practitioner / patient interactions. We are all getting older, and facing these issues; so the conversation should adopt an inclusive tone.
The final plenary lecture was delivered by Linda Kupfer, Fogerty International Center, NIH. Inspired by discussion throughout the day, Kupfer began with a demonstration of the Council of Foreign Relations Report on NCDs website; an interactive report that includes economic information and graphical representations of compelling statistics that address rising NCD incidence across the developing world.
Kupfer went on to cover the current PEPFAR NCD project, which aims to engage existing HIV/AIDS platforms to address the rising burden of NCDs in low resource settings. Partnering with key organizations including government agencies, implementers, NGOs, and academics, the project has defined a landscape analysis, developed research questions, and identified activities for exploring these questions. Key barriers that need to be overcome include (1) shortage of healthcare workers, (2) a weak health system, (3) lack of reliable/integrated medical commodities, (4) limited funding, and (5) monitoring and evaluation facilitating demonstration of impact resulting from the programs. While some of these barriers are clearly surmountable, others require a more solid evidence base, in order to provide recommendations to the ministries of health, policy makers, and funders. In this way, the path forward relies upon an energized and engaged research community.
Note: The HIV 2016: HIV and Non-Communicable Diseases — Opportunities and Challenges symposium was cosponsored by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The views expressed in symposium materials or publications, by speakers and moderators, or by any symposium cosponsors do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of UNAIDS; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by UNAIDS.
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The New York Academy of Sciences. HIV 2016: HIV and Non-Communicable Diseases. Academy eBriefings. 2016. Available at: www.nyas.org/HIVNCD-eB
HIV and Non-Communicable Diseases: Defining the Path Forward
Peter Godfrey-Faussett (UNAIDS)
Understanding the Extent of Excess Risk of NCDs in People with HIV Suppression on ART: an Epidemiologic Perspective
Andrew Phillips (University College London)
Factors Associated with Healthy versus Unhealthy Aging in HIV-Infected Adults
Steven G. Deeks (University of California, San Francisco)
Opportunities, Benefits, and Challenges of Integration
Rebecca Dirks (FHI360)
Building on HIV/AIDS Investments for NCD Prevention and Control
Timothy Mastro (FHI360)
Future Directions for Research and Practice
Linda Kupfer (Fogarty International Center) and Wafaa El Sadr (Mailman School of Public Health)
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Piot P, Caldwell A, Lamptey P, Nyrirenda M, Mehra S, Cahill K, Aerts A., Addressing the growing burden of non-communicable disease by leveraging lessons from infectious disease management. J Glob Health. 2016 Jun;6(1):010304. doi: 10.7189/jogh.06.010304.
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The Emerging Crisis: Noncommunicable Diseases
From the Council of Foreign Relations
HIV Drug Interaction Checker
From the University of Liverpool
From the World Health Organization
UN Interagency Task Force on NCDs (UNIATF)
Peter Godfrey-Faussett, BA, MBBS, DTM&H, FRCP (UK)
Peter Godfrey-Faussett is a professor at the LSHTM and consultant physician at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases. After training in clinical infectious diseases and molecular genetics, he spent five years leading the Zambian AIDS-related TB (ZAMBART) project, an interdisciplinary collaborative research programme between the LSHTM, Lusaka Urban District Health Management Team and the University of Zambia. Thereafter he spent a year working with the Global Tuberculosis Programme of the World Health Organization, where he was responsible for developing strategies to address the combined epidemic of TB and HIV. Following his return to London he has maintained an interest in global policies around TB and HIV and served as chairman for the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. A regular member of WHO expert groups, his research interests remain focused on the impact that the HIV epidemic is having on TB control and on interventions to reduce both diseases. He is currently seconded full-time to UNAIDS, where he is the Senior Science Adviser with a wide ranging portfolio including HIV cure, ARV-based HIV prevention, HIV vaccines and synergies between the HIV and the non-communicable disease response.
Maureen Goodenow, PhD
University of Florida Health
Dr. Goode now is a Professor of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, holds the Stephany W. Holloway University Endowed Chair for AIDS Research at the University of Florida, and is the Director of the Florida Center for AIDS Research. She received her PhD in molecular genetics from Sue Golding Graduate School at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular oncology at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, she was a visiting scientist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where she initiated her studies of HIV. Dr. Goodenow has a research program in molecular epidemiology, pathogenesis, and vaccines for HIV and related viruses, including viruses that cause cancer.
Jill A. Kanaley, PhD
Areas of interest and expertise include: Exercise endocrinology and metabolism, issues related to obesity and type 2 diabetes and weight loss with diet and exercise, effects of meal frequency and composition on the hormonal responses (e.g., insulin, incretin hormones, etc.) in obese individuals, and if exercise training will alter this response and GH responses to exercise and how they change with diet and exercise.
Linda Kupfer, PhD
Dr. Kupfer has spent over a decade at the Fogarty International Center (FIC) at the National Institutes of Health. She is currently a senior scientist at the Center for Global Health Studies, FIC. Dr. Kupfer recently spent two years (2011–2013) on detail at the US State Department, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, as a Senior Policy Advisor. In 2006, she served as the NIH Acting Director for Evaluation in the NIH Office of the Director. Dr. Kupfer's global research interests include the integration of non-communicable and communicable diseases in health delivery systems in low and middle income countries, implementation science and program evaluation, and she is particularly interested in the role of capacity building in international research. Dr. Kupfer received her bachelor's degree in Psychology from Cornell University and her MSc and PhD in Pharmacology from Columbia University before commencing a AAAS Science Diplomacy Fellowship at the State Department. Since receiving her doctorate Dr. Kupfer has held a number of posts focused on Science and Science Policy, including Program Officer for Bilateral Science Programs at the State Department and Director of Marine Biotechnology at the National Sea Grant College Program, NOAA.
Peter Lamptey, MD, DrPH, MPH
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases
Dr. Peter R. Lamptey is a public health physician and expert on health and development in developing countries, with particular expertise in communicable and non-communicable diseases. Throughout his more than 30 year career at FHI 360, he has played a pivotal role in establishing the organization as a leader in implementing HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support programs. From 1987 to 2007, Lamptey directed several key projects funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), encompassing HIV/AIDS programs in more than 65 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Lamptey serves on the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy and is a member of the Lancet Commission on Future Health of Sub-Saharan Africa. He is also a member of the Network of African Science Academies Committee on the Negative Effects of Tobacco on Africa's Health, Economy, and Development and was formerly a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health.
Timothy Mastro, MD, FACP, DTM&H
Dr. Timothy Mastro is Director of Global Health, Population & Nutrition at FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, USA. He trained in primary care internal medicine in New York City. He is also Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Mastro oversees FHI 360's health, population and nutrition research and program science conducted in the United States and through FHI 360's offices in 50 countries around the world. Dr. Mastro joined FHI in 2008 following 20 years in scientific leadership positions at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He joined CDC in 1988 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer. At CDC his work addressed HIV, TB and STI prevention research and programs in the United States and in 25 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. During 1993–2000, he served in Bangkok as Director of the CDC HIV/AIDS collaboration with the Thai Ministry of Public Health. Dr. Mastro began his international public health career on the Thai-Cambodian border, where he served as a physician and medical coordinator of the United Nations Border Relief Operation. Dr. Mastro is author or co-author of more than 160 published articles and book chapters and has served on several committees for the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, PEPFAR and the US National Institutes of Health. Dr. Mastro trained in internal medicine in New York City at Metropolitan Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and received a DTM&H from the Royal College of Physicians of London. He is board certified in internal medicine, a fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the American Epidemiological Society.
Celeste Sandoval, BSN, RN, MHSS
Celeste Maria Sandoval is Science Adviser at UNAIDS in Geneva. She manages the "UNAIDS Science now" web platform that hosts "HIV this month", which provides monthly updates on what's new in HIV science from scientific journals. She is also one of two people from UNAIDS who sits as part of the UN Interagency Task Force on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. Previously, she has served as technical officer in HIV prevention. Before joining UNAIDS, she was a research associate at the Social Development Research Centre at De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines and was involved in research on gender, violence against women, and in developing education materials for malaria. She was also part of the secretariat of the Asia-Pacific Regional Network of International Forum for Social Sciences in Health. Prior to that, she was working as a hospital nurse in Cebu City. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Health Social Science. She has certificates in gender, sexuality, fertility and reproductive health from the University of Melbourne and the Universitiet van Amsterdam.
Sonya Dougal, PhD
Dr. Sonya Dougal serves as the Director of Life Sciences Discussion Groups at the New York Academy of Sciences. In this role, she provides strategic development and oversight of an annual portfolio of 30 scientific workshops on pressing topics across the life sciences and biomedical research. The mission of this program is to build and convene communities of academic, industry, and government scientists, clinicians, and others with similar scientific interests for the open exchange of ideas on the frontiers of science. Dr. Dougal has over 14 years of experience in scientific research and program management in academia, industry, and the non-profit sector. She was most recently Director of the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Veterans Center at NYU Langone where she oversaw the administration of a $30 million program dedicated to discovering biomarkers for Post-Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury and providing mental health care for veterans and their families. Previously, she worked at the Academy as a member of the Conferences Department and was the founding Director of the Academy's Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Initiative. Dr. Dougal was a Project Manager at Eric Marder Associates, a market research company, and served as a scientific consultant for R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management.
Caitlin McOmish, PhD
Caitlin McOmish began her scientific career at the University of Melbourne where she completed a BSc (Hons) and PhD in Neuroscience. She was recruited to a postdoc in New York for which received a CJ Martin Overseas Biomedical Fellowship from the NH&MRC. This fellowship allowed her to split her time between the labs of Prof Jay Gingrich at Columbia University, NY, USA, and Prof Brian Dean at the Florey Neuroscience Institute of Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia. During this period she engaged in freelance editing and science writing, as a way of exploring non-academic careers. Caitlin transitioned out of academic work, joining the New York Academy of Sciences as a Program Manager for the Life Sciences Discussion Groups, in 2015.
Anchalee Avihingsanon, MD
The HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration
Anchalee Avihingsanon is a specialist in infectious diseases. She joined HIV–NAT in 2003 as a research physician, and since then she has led and coordinated over 40 clinical trials investigating various aspects of HIV. She is Thailand country coordinator for START and other INSIGHT Network studies, and is member of the INSIGHT Network Steering Committee. She obtained both Thai government and international funding to investigate research questions of relevance to Thailand and the region, including the pharmacokinetics of low dose antiretrovirals, and studies of tuberculosis, hepatitis B and C, and HIV renal disease. Dr. Avihingsanon has been Chief of the HIV–NAT Medical Department since 2009. She is on the writing committee for Thai HIV Treatment Guidelines, and a member of Track B planning the 2013 International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. She advises the TRC-ARC's Community Advisory Board (CAB).
Steven G. Deeks, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Steven G. Deeks is a Professor of Medicine in Residence at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a faculty member in the Positive Health Program (AIDS Program) at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Deeks has been engaged in HIV research and clinical care since 1993. He is a recognized expert on HIV-associated immune dysfunction and its impact on HIV persistence (the "reservoir") and health during antiretroviral therapy. Dr. Deeks has published over 350 peer-review articles, editorials and invited reviews on these and related topics. He has been the recipient of several NIH grants, and one of the principal investigators of DARE (the Delaney AIDS Research Enterprise), which is a U19-funded international collaboratory aimed at developing therapeutic interventions to cure HIV infection. He is the co-chair of the "Towards an HIV Cure" International Working Group and a co-chair of the NIH Office of AIDS Research Toward a Cure Planning Group. He is also a member of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (ORAC). He was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and serves on the advisory board for Science Translational Medicine and eBioMedicine. In addition to his clinical and translational investigation, Dr. Deeks maintains a primary care clinic for HIV infected patients, and was recently a member of the Department on Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents.
Rebecca Dirks, MA
FHI360
Rebecca Dirks is a public health expert with over a decade of professional experience in program implementation, technical assistance, public health project management, and assessments of public health programs. Her expertise is in public health approaches to addressing non-communicable disease, health service integration, HIV counseling and testing, and HIV prevention. At present Ms. Dirks serves as a Senior Technical Officer at FHI 360 in Washington, DC, where she provides technical assistance and project management for the organization's non-communicable disease initiative. She is the Project Director of Abundant Health, a community-based hypertension and diabetes project in Vietnam and serves as a Technical Advisor for the Community-based Hypertension Improvement Project (ComHIP) in Ghana. She has contributed to a number of integrated NCD/HIV projects in African countries. Ms. Dirks has authored numerous publications on non-communicable disease and HIV/AIDS in peer reviewed journals and presentations in international conferences. She has worked in over ten countries and is adept at working with community members and decision makers from across cultures.
Maureen M. Goodenow, PhD
Treatment Action Group
Mark Harrington was born and raised in San Francisco, CA. He studied film, photography, history and literature at Harvard, where he graduated in 1983. In 1988 he joined the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)/New York, where he was a key member of its Treatment + Data (T+D) Committee, and with whom he helped lead the 1988 "Seize Control of the FDA" and 1990 "Storm the NIH" demonstrations. In 1992 along with other members of T+D he cofounded Treatment Action Group (TAG), where he has been executive directo since 2002. He cowrote AIDS Research at the NIH: A Critical Review with Gregg Gonsalves; its recommendations were included in the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993. He cowrote Problems with Protease Inhibitor Development Plans (1995) and wrote Viral Load in Vancouver (1996). He served as a member of the U.S. panel on Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents (1997–2010) and the World Health Organization (WHO) writing groups on Scaling Up Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource-Limited Settings: Treatment Guidelines for a Public Health Approach (2003, 2006), the WHO Interim policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities (2004), and recommendations to improve the diagnosis of smear negative pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB among adults in HIV prevalent and resource constrained settings (2007). He was a member of the Global TB/HIV Working Group in the Stop TB Partnership (20032014) and served on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's Ending the Epidemic Task Force (October 2014 – January 2015) that developed New York's plan to end AIDS as an epidemic by 2020. Currently he is a member of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group Tuberculosis Transformative Sciences Group (ACTG TB TSG), the International AIDS Society (IAS) Stakeholders' Advisory Board for a Global Scientific Strategy Towards a Cure, and the Ending the Epidemic Subcommittee of the New York State AIDS Advisory Council. He is a member of the PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and co-chairs it's TB/HIV Expert Working Group. In 1997 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and in 2012 the HealthGAP Evan Ruderman Global Health Justice Award.
David Hoos, MD, MPH
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Dr. David Hoos is the project director for ICAP's PHIA Project, which is conducting population-based HIV impact assessments to measure HIV incidence and viral suppression in 20 PEPFAR-supported countries. He was senior implementation director at ICAP from 2004 to 2013 and was the director of the Multicountry Columbia Antiretroviral Program (MCAP), an eight-year cooperative agreement funded by the CDC, which supported the scale-up of HIV prevention, care and treatment in Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Tanzania. Dr. Hoos was an initial member of the MTCT Plus Secretariat at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and was responsible for establishing the procurement system for antiretroviral and other HIV-associated medications and diagnostics for the program sites. Dr. Hoos has been recognized as a technical expert in a number of areas related to HIV policy and programming. He served as a member of the Technical Review Panel for the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM), as well as a co-chair for the Procurement and Supply Management Advisory Panel to the GFATM on procurement-related policy and country guidance. He has been a member of several WHO technical panels and was seconded to UNAIDS in Geneva as a treatment advocacy advisor for eight months in 2011. Dr. Hoos is a board-certified internist and holds a Master of Public Health degree.
Saye Khoo, MB, BS, MRCP, DTM&H, FRCP, MD, GDipEpi
Professor Saye Khoo is Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, and Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the university of Liverpool. His research focuses on the pharmacology of HIV treatment failure and how therapy may be improved through individualized care through understanding of why drug exposure varies markedly between individuals (and the role of individual characteristics such as weight, gender, host genetics and drug interactions), and identify vulnerable groups who are at particular risk of failure, or toxicity. These studies span bench science, through translational research and into the clinic, and onwards to population based modelling approaches.
Fogarty International Center, NIH
Andrew Phillips, PhD
Andrew Phillips is Professor of Epidemiology in the HIV Epidemiology and Biostatistics Group at UCL working on HIV observational cohorts (including EuroSIDA, D:A:D, CASCADE, COHERE), randomized trials (including INSIGHT SMART and START trials) and simulation modelling (HIV Synthesis model). Particular areas of interest have included HIV natural progression, virologic failure, drug resistance, adverse effects of ART, and the link between HIV and risk of non-AIDS diseases. He uses an individual-based simulation model of HIV transmission, progression and the effect of ART in an attempt to address public health questions not addressable in trials or analyses of observational studies, both in developed and developing country contexts. Much of his work involves close collaboration with Copenhagen HIV Programme (CHIP).
Wafaa El Sadr, MD, MPH
Wafaa El-Sadr is University Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and Mathilde Krim-amfAR Professor of Global Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and College of Physicians and Surgeons. Through ICAP at Columbia University, the Center she established more than a decade ago, large scale programs have been established in sub Saharan Africa and Asia that integrate research, education, training and practice. ICAP works closely with US government agencies, international organizations, academic institutions, private sector, community-based organizations and civil society groups in the pursuit of responsive, inclusive, sustainable and innovative approaches to addressing global health threats and achieving public health impact. Dr. El-Sadr's research interests are diverse and include research on the prevention and treatment of HIV, tuberculosis, non-communicable diseases, maternal–child health among others. She is focused on implementation science research as a means to taking discoveries to action, ensuring that the benefits of scientific discoveries are garnered by populations around the world. She received her medical degree from Cairo University, a masters in public health from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and a masters in public administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She was named as McArthur fellow and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Roy Small
Kwasi Torpey, MD, PhD, MPH, FGCP
Kwasi Torpey is a physician, public health program manager, researcher and an Associate Professor of Population, Family and Reproductive Health with 19 years of experience in public health programming in HIV, malaria, TB, reproductive health and non-communicable disease programs in several African countries Professor Torpey served as Deputy Chief of Party, Technical for FHI360's USAID-funded Strengthening Integrated Delivery of HIV/AIDS (SIDHAS) project in Nigeria. Before this position, he was the Regional Senior Technical Advisor and Director, Technical Support for FHI/Zambia where he provided support to country programs in Africa. He has extensive experience in public health programming and implementation in HIV, malaria, TB and reproductive at different levels of the health care system as well as the community level in a number of African countries. Professor Torpey has been a global thought leader in the integration of non-communicable diseases and reproductive health into HIV programming. He has published several scientific articles in international peer reviewed journals Professor Torpey received his medical training from the University of Ghana Medical School. He received his PhD from the Institute of Tropical Medicine / University of Antwerp in Belgium. He is a fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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The Willard Jacobson Lecture and Award
Presented by the Science Education Section
The Science Education Section of the New York Academy of Sciences holds meetings throughout the year. The group's programming features active educators, who examine methods and issues related to teaching in different fields of study. The group also holds an annual Archie Lacey Lecture to recognize a scholar for substantial contributions in the recruitment of minority Americans into the sciences.
The Willard Jacobson Award
The Willard Jacobson Award is given to a science teacher who has made major contributions to the field of science education.
Willard James Jacobson, founder of the NYAS Science Education Section, was known for his pioneering achievements in science education and far-reaching contributions to national education policy. He directed public attention to the national problem of "a sadly deficient" science education in the 1950s and was recognized for his efforts at international science education.
America's Pressing Challenge – Building A Stronger Foundation
Jo Anne Vasquez
Arizona State University and Member, National Science Board (Governing Board of the National Science Foundation)
Research shows that a child who has teachers with the knowledge and skills needed to teach mathematics and science effectively in pre-college grades is more likely to be able to close the achievement gaps that he or she experiences and be prepared as an individual for success in work and life. Yet in both urban and rural areas of this country finding and keeping qualified teachers of science is reaching a crisis. How can we recruit, retrain and retain the thousands of teachers that will be needed as the experienced ones leave the field? America's competitive edge in this "flat world," its strength and versatility, all depend on an educational pipeline capable of producing a steady supply of young people well prepared in science and mathematics. Are we running the risk of raising a generation of students who do not know how to think critically, and make informed decisions based on their understanding of information? The National Science Board has appointed a Commission on 21st STEM Education, NOT to study the causes for the lack of this preparation, we have had numerous reports on the whys but this commission's charge is to come up with an action plan for moving this nation's and NSF's STEM education forward. This presentation will give a preview of this action plan and how each of you can get involved in the public comments period, before it goes to Congress. We have reached the tipping point and the time is now for a call to action!
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Archives|Wrapping a Wisdom Tooth Around That Little Finger
Wrapping a Wisdom Tooth Around That Little Finger
By AMANDA SCHAFFER FEB. 21, 2006
When Trish Barnes and Lynsey Shaw seal their love this year, they will give each other a part of themselves. Literally.
After the women undergo surgery to have their wisdom teeth removed, small bone fragments attached to the teeth will be processed in a lab and bioengineered into the rings that each will slip on the other's finger.
"You can't really get more personal," said Ms. Barnes, 29, a nurse in training who lives with Ms. Shaw, 31, a retail supervisor in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
Ms. Barnes and Ms. Shaw will sport the bio-bling along with other couples in a project that designers at the Royal College of Art and Sciences are working on with scientists at King's College London.
The science and design collaboration, which aims to make tissue-engineering technology engaging to the public, is financed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the main government agency for sponsoring such research and training. The concept of biojewelry made a splash last month with presentations at the Dana Center, part of the Science Museum in London.
"We are interested in ways of humanizing technologies by applying them to familiar contexts and making them personal," a designer, Tobie Kerridge, said in an interview.
The idea of lovers exchanging rings of bone, he said, is reminiscent of older traditions in which couples exchanged locks of hair as symbols of love and commitment. Mr. Kerridge and a fellow designer, Nikki Stott, envisioned biojewelry in 2003, and the project has just received ethical approval from Guy's Hospital in London, the site of the operations.
Mr. Kerridge and his colleagues made a point of selecting just couples who could document problems with wisdom teeth, he said, to avoid ethical questions about medically unnecessary procedures.
Ms. Barnes and Ms. Shaw, who learned of the project from an article in Bizarre Magazine, expect to have their teeth pulled in a few weeks.
Lucy Di Silvio, a senior lecturer in biomaterials and biomimetics at King's College London who heads the tissue engineering group, said that after the procedures the cells isolated and expanded from the jawbone fragments would be seeded on a bioactive scaffold. The scaffold will encourage them to proliferate, differentiate and mineralize. After roughly six weeks, the material will be used to form a bony band.
Dr. Di Silvio said the group was considering several substances, including hydroxyapatite, a synthetic substance that contains calcium and phosphate and resembles bone material, and bioglass, another synthetic used to encourage cell growth. Tissue engineering of bone is being actively researched. Growing bone segments in a lab and implanting them holds particular promise for patients who have lost sections of tissue after cancer or traumatic injury, Dr. Di Silvio said. For laboratory-grown tissue to help them, it must integrate into the bodies, interacting with blood vessels and other parts of the living system. For engineered bone to be fashioned as rings, these challenges need not be addressed -- except, perhaps, metaphorically.
After the bands are formed, designers at the Royal College will embellish them with precious metals, according to the couples' wishes. A possibility that Ms. Shaw and Ms. Barnes are considering is a gold filigree that resembles blood vessels "crawling up the top of the bone."
The biojewelry project raises deep questions on the meaning and purpose of medical technology, said Iain Brassington, a philosopher at the Center for Professional Ethics at Keele University. Dr. Brassington explored biojewelry last month in The Journal of Medical Ethics.
It can be acceptable, even laudable, to stretch a functional technology, he said, celebrating applications that are aesthetic or symbolic like wedding rings but that do not cure a physical disease.
"Maybe I'm a bit of a romantic," he said. But "a culture that can embrace the 'useless' is, I think, a culture that is likely to be vital."
A version of this article appears in print on February 21, 2006, on Page F00007 of the National edition with the headline: Wrapping a Wisdom Tooth Around That Little Finger. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Religion Civil War and Peace
Alasdair McKay
Mehmet Gurses
Under what conditions can religion play a constructive role in peacebuilding and what are the obstacles to this process?
Author's note: In this article, I use the terms “war” and “civil war” interchangeably. They refer to a contested armed incompatibility involving a government and a non-state actor that generates at least 25 battle-related fatalities annually. Whereas ethnic civil wars refer to those armed conflicts that include ethnic challengers that are at odds with the identity of a state, seek to redefine or divide the state itself, or strive for major changes in their relationship with the state ( see Sambanis 2001).
Religion, war, and peace are among the “thickest” and multifaceted concepts. Thus, tackling the relationship between them is a daunting task and calls for a greater scrutiny.
A great deal of existing scholarship on civil war, particularly those statistically examining the effects of various social, economic, and political factors on war dynamics, almost exclusively refer to the term “peace” in the negative sense, i.e., the absence of violence. This “narrow” approach to peace is in part driven by its simplicity that allows for large-n cross-national comparison. While useful in reaching generalizable findings, such an approach could potentially mask the underlying causes of war, preventing us from addressing the root causes of conflict eruption.
Here I refer to peace in the positive sense, or the absence of “structural violence” that calls for going beyond the mere absence of physical violence and points toward “social justice” (see Galtung 1969). This positive or “quality peace,” in the words of Peter Wallensteen, requires the creation of postwar conditions that not only prevent countries from relapsing back into another episode of violence but also allows for security and dignity for the members of the war-torn society.
How does religion help or hinder the creation of such circumstances? Under what conditions can religion as a powerful, potent force help reinforce and strengthen peace? What are the obstacles to religion playing such a constructive role in peacebuilding?
A complicated relationship
A number of scholars have identified religion to be the cause of deadlier, longer, and more intractable civil wars (see Svensson 2007; Fox, James, and Li 2009; Basedau et al. 2011). Yet others have drawn attention to “the seeds of tolerance, justice, compassion, and peace” in religious traditions and argued that religion can help bring about peace and democracy (Johansen 1997, 53; see also Appleby 2000; Driessen 2010). Religion, as Philpott states, “devastates not only New York skyscrapers but also authoritarian regimes; it constructs not only bellicose communal identities but also democratic civil society.” Thus, this group of scholars concludes that religion can also be used in conflict resolution and peacebuilding processes (see Abu-Nimer 2001; Alger 2002).
These contradictory findings stem from a number of sources. First and foremost, the literature on the relationship between war, peace, and religion often conceptualizes and measures these concepts from different points of view. In addition to the narrow conceptualization of peace noted above, the question of what entails a civil war and how it should be operationalized has caused much controversy. While scholars often agree on what a civil war is, the casualty threshold used to mark the onset of a civil war, ranging from 25 to 1,000 annual battle-related deaths, has resulted in a number of civil war datasets on which most of empirical findings are based, and that are not always comparable.
Second, the peacebuilding capacity of religion is applied to cases that are not necessarily analogous. For example, as Nichols argues, religious actors played a positive role in bringing about peace in the conflict between the Sandinistas and East Coast Indians of Nicaragua in the late 1980s through helping to develop a common language of conciliation and infusing Christian values into the negotiating process. Appleby, drawing on the case of Northern Ireland, maintains that religious leaders can gradually “saturate” the society by transforming the conflict environment and issues, condemn violence, and thus foster cross-communal cooperation. However, Appleby warns that such an outcome requires special situations characterized by a strong civil society and democratic tradition as well as assistance from the international community. Partly because of the lack of agreement on the casualty threshold noted above, current literature on civil war often treats the case of the Sandinistas vs. East Coast Indians within the broader conflict between Nicaragua under the Sandinistas and Contras, making it a somewhat “marginal” case. Whereas, the Northern Ireland conflict, as Appleby aptly warns, is characterized by some unique characteristics that are that are rarely present in many war-torn countries.
Third, existing literature is still in the process of identifying the complex and complicated causal mechanisms between religion and peacebuilding. This is in part due to the ambivalent, contextual nature of religion. Religion and politics are connected in complicated ways that make it nearly impossible to disentangle one from another. A religious tradition as Armstrong summarizes is “never a single, unchanging essence that impels people to act in a uniform way.” Instead, religions and religious interpretations “are susceptible to different readings in different contexts and become entangled in or influenced by newer sociopolitical context”. In the context of civil war, religion often becomes a part of the political arsenal to sustain the fight. As religion turns into another instrument of legitimation and mobilization in the hands of political actors it loses its power as a peacemaker.
Finally, and relatedly, the politicization of religion is most prevalent in ethnic civil wars in which fighters are lined up along identity lines and rebels are by and large secessionist in goals or desires. Therefore, the effect of religion on conflict processes in a case like Chechnya where Muslim Chechens fought destructive civil wars against Russia dominated by Orthodox Christians needs to be distinguished from the role religion plays in ethnic conflicts that involve groups hailing from the same faith, as in the case of Kurds vs. Turkey. While civil war between groups hailing from different faiths can contribute to identity formation in such a way that fuels the violence, war between co-religionists does not necessarily help foster peace. Instead, religion as the common denominator is often subsumed to ethnic, national identities and interests. The war realities often constrain, if not shape, religion, rendering religion an ineffective peacemaker (Gurses 2015).
Religion and ethnic civil war
Nicolas Rost and I have shown that due mainly to this “politicization of religion,” the hypothesized peacemaker role of religion does not hold against a global sample of ethnic civil wars. War and country characteristics, rather than shared religion, are better predictors of peace duration after ethnic civil wars. While the peace duration in our study refers to the absence of violence, in further support of studies that have pointed to discriminatory state policies as the culprit behind ethnic civil war onset and recurrence (Cederman, Wimmer, and Min 2010; Gurses and Rost 2013), we found that the level of discrimination faced by members of ethnic groups that rebelled against their government after the end of the war is the most robust predictor of peace duration. Thus, state policies that address the demands of aggrieved minorities and re-adjust their relationship with the state that could make them a part of the system are more likely to help build sustainable peace. Resorting to a shared religion to help reconcile warring groups without addressing the root causes of conflict is more rhetoric than reality.
There is a need to clarify the terms in order to delineate the religion-peacebuilding nexus. The terms war, religion, and peace are multidimensional and hence defy reaching a consensus on the exact nature of religion’s relationship with peacebuilding. Avoiding law-like, general explanations is more likely to be fruitful. Just as religion’s role in identity formation varies, so does the role it plays in conflict onset, duration, outcome, as well as building peace in postwar environments.
The role religion plays in peacebuilding should be qualified. Religion in conflicts fought over government, also known as ideological civil wars, could take on a dramatically different role than in conflicts involving competing identities which are often secessionist in nature. While it is much easier for religious actors to mediate between warring groups that share the same ethnicity, speak the same language, and believe in the same “God,” their role is likely to be diminished, tarnished by political considerations in situations where protagonists use religion to either distinguish themselves as a group from one another (e.g., Palestinians vs. Israel) or religion as a common denominator ceases to be a marker that separates members of warring groups (e.g., Acehnese vs. Indonesia, 1976-2005; Kurds vs. Turkey, 1984-Ongoing). Thus sharing the same faith in the context of such ethnic civil wars often results in relegating religion to a secondary role as the war dynamics help bring ethnic identities front and center.
Sustainable peace requires addressing structural causes of violence. Merely stressing shared faith as a solution to conflict without undertaking reforms that can re-adjust the warring groups’ relationship with the state is not likely to be effective.
Religion is a potent force and can serve as a peacemaker. Its role, however, is contingent upon characteristics of the civil war and the nation in question. It is worthwhile to note that “ethnic conflict remains one of the prevailing challenges to international security in our time” and “conflicts that in some way involve an ethnic dimension can be found across each of the world’s continents”. Furthermore, as Fox notes, of 268 politically active ethnic minorities worldwide for the 1990-1995 period, 163 (61%) are not religiously distinct from the dominant group. Gurses and Rost, building on datasets drawn from two different sources, find that in about half of the ethnic civil wars that started and ended between 1950 and 2006 ethnic rebels shared the same religion as the governing ethnic group. Thus, it is essential to differentiate such cases in which religion is likely to be politicized and used as an instrument of legitimation and mobilization than those cases involving groups hailing from the same ethnicity, culture, and faith.
Still, religion can serve as a peacemaker by injecting “meaning” and repair social ties that were destroyed during the war. Ideally a change of mind should coincide with a change of heart in order to reach positive or “quality” peace. However, given the discriminatory state policies toward ethno-national minorities that account for armed conflict, concrete measures, a change of mind, should precede a change of heart to build and sustain the peace in the aftermath of seemingly intractable ethnic civil wars. Sustainable peace is a dignified peace. Religion can help bring about sustainable peace only after ethnic minorities’ relations with the state are re-adjusted to a degree that minority groups feel secure and certain of their future.
Photo credit (edited): murdelta/Flickr.
Mehmet Gurses is an associate professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. He received his B.A. degree in political science and international relations from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, and his doctorate from University of North Texas. His research interests include democracy and democratization, ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peace building, post-civil war democratization, Kurdish politics, and the emergence and evolution of the Islamist parties in the Middle East. His publications have appeared in International Interactions, Social Science Quarterly, Civil Wars, Defense and Peace Economics, Democratization, Party Politics, International Journal of Human Rights, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and Political Research Quarterly.
Published: 23rd January, 2017
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Passenger traffic grow 5.1% in Tocumen Airport
The Tocumen International Airport, the main air Panama terminal, closed the first half of the year marked by a continuous growth in the number of passengers carried, to receive 7,933,597 passengers from January to June 2018, representing a variation positive 5.13% compared to the same period in 2017.
According to the data provided by the Vice President of planning and strategy, passengers who made stopover in the Tocumen International Airport to continue their journey on another flight (in transit or connection) achieved an increase of 9.3% to the Register 5,797,848 million passengers of the annual total, between January and June 2018.
In these first 6 months, the Tocumen International Airport, attended on average 43 thousand passengers per day, which were mobilized through 23 commercial carriers, which establish connections with 86 cities in 37 countries of America, Europe and Asia.
During this same period, Vía Tocumen International Airport received 1,092,335 passengers from arrival in the country while they left 1, 043,414 passengers.
Meanwhile, aircraft movements increased by 1.1%, to registering a total of 73,324 arrivals and takeoffs of aircraft.
Tocumen International Airport, also unveiled a new and interesting data, which demonstrates the destinations with greater traffic of passengers travelling through Panama during this period. Between these destinations, leads it San Jose (Costa Rica), followed by Bogotá (Colombia); Miami (USA); Cancun (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba).
Taking into account the performance by region of the movement of passengers, statistical data of the Panamanian terminal include a percentage participation from and to South America from 41%; North America had a performance by 31% and the Caribbean recorded a 12%.
Furthermore, in regard to the cargo business, will have 16 commercial airline cargo operating in the Panamanian terminal which mobilized a total of 84,421 metric tons of goods.
In June of this year, the Tocumen International Airport with an index of the 89.5% turned out award-winning for the second consecutive award On Time Performance Airport 5 star, as one of the more specific medium-sized airports in the world, awarded by the English consultant of aeronautical analysis, Official Airline Guide (OAG).
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Cristina Silva
http://www.cristinasilva.co.uk/
Cristina Silva, a online coach, celebrity trainer and is the 2015 WBFF Bikini Diva World Champion.
Owing to an international experience in Modelling and fitness has really helped her to diversify activities on stage and in the gym. She says “I know what competition means after stepping on my first stage in the WBFF London 2015, finishing on the podium in the Fitness category with a third place and winning the Bikini Category. 3 months later, She competed on the stage in Las Vegas winning her first world title. She has always been dedicated to fitness and Has always wanted to help anybody who is willing to make positive changes in their life.”
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Tracing Your Georgian Ancestors 1714-1837 (Kindle)
A Guide for Family Historians
British History Family History Social History Georgian Era
By John Wintrip
Imprint: Pen & Sword Family History
Series: Tracing Your Ancestors
eBook Released: 17th April 2018
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The Georgian period – 1714 to 1837 – was a key stage in our modern history so some understanding of it is essential for family historians who want to push their research back into the eighteenth century and beyond, and John Wintrip's handbook is an invaluable introduction to it. In a sequence of concise, insightful chapters he focuses on those aspects of the period that are particularly relevant to genealogical research and he presents a detailed guide to the variety of sources that readers can consult as they pursue their research.
While fewer sources are available than for more recent history, obstacles in the way of further research can often be overcome through knowledge of a wide range of sources and a greater understanding the historical context, together with the use of sound research techniques. So the author provides not only a historical overview of relevant topics but he also describes the records of the period in detail.
This expert guide to researching the Georgians will open up the field for experienced researchers and for newcomers alike.
For those wishing to trace ancestries back to the early 18th century, a useful and concise reference work for research in the century prior to civil registration and census returns. The book sets this era in historical context and provides an opportunity to discover the location of sources and learn how to use them effectively.
Essex Family History Society
An excellent book that not only offers a valuable perspective on a frequently overlooked century, or so, of English history, but also signposts the wealth of resources available to family historians trying to take their research back to a period pre-dating Civil Registration and the National Censuses of 1841-1911.
A very worthwhile addition to any serious genealogist’s bookshelves.
Alde Valley Suffolk Family History Group
Although it is not apparent from the title, this was conceived as a companion volume to the author’s Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors, A Guide to Research Methods for Family Historians, 2017. While the earlier volume concentrated on methodology, this one outlines the main sources that researchers will need to tackle. Both books are much needed in an era when digitisation means that family trees can be explored back to around 1830 in an evening. Not long ago the same process might have taken several years and could not have been achieved without some knowledge of sources and repositories. Now many people have little idea how to embark on research in earlier periods.
Every page of this excellent, succinct yet thorough, book can be read with profit and enjoyment. It has much to offer family historians of all levels
Family & Community Historical Research Society
John Wintrip gives clear and detailed advice on carrying out genealogical research before 1851.
An invaluable guide to family research.
Jane Austen's Regency World, September/October 2018 – reviewed by Joceline Bury
There is a timeline, a very useful glossary and an excellent bibliography and index. A book full of useful snippets for the beginner as well as the more experienced family historian.
Read the complete review online here.
John & Jane Tunesi of Liongam – Hertfordshire FHS
★★★★★ I pre-ordered this book after reading the same author’s Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors, which focuses on research methods. This new book focuses on sources and the historical background, so the two books complement each other very well. I would highly recommend this book to all family historians who take their research seriously and are prepared to go that extra mile to track down their Georgian ancestors. Although I have been researching my own family history for many years, I found many useful snippets of information in this book, and was also reminded of things I had once known but had forgotten.
Family Historian, Amazon.co.uk
Although aimed at the family historian there is plenty for the more general historian. I learned plenty: the male naming conventions in families (and why it can be so confusing), why Mr Bennet and Mr Collins have different surnames despite being descending through the male line from the same ancestor, the way the swap over from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar worked are just a few examples. I will certainly be referring to this book when stuck on how to find some of the scads of people who crop up in my research for this blog or my book projects.
Read the full review online here.
Naomi Clifford, Author
Pen and Sword's magnificent library of self-help books for genealogists continues with one of the most fascinating periods in our history - over a century of Georgian reign. John Wintrip suggests a whole host of records that might be available to people researching this period, places you might not have even thought ot. This series goes from strength to strength.
The admirable skill of presenting a wide ranging body of complex information with clarity is demonstrated in this review of the many sources useful to family historians. The historical context of the documents available for the period preceding the 1841 census and 1837 registration adds greatly to our understanding as does the description and explanation of the nature of sources from military records to wills. We benefit from the author’s advice and his assessment of the usefulness of the records available together with where and how to get access to them.
Northumberland & Durham FHS
This is a valuable introduction to research in a key stage of British history, a period when fewer record resources are available than for later times.
Bristol & Avon FHS
I don't think anyone who buys this book will be disappointed, whether they're a beginner or a more experienced researcher. It concentrates on documents available between 1714 and 1837 and groups them in a useful and readable way, emphasising which ones are likely to contain genealogical information.
WDYTYA?, June 2018 – reviewed by Pam Ross
This new book by John Wintrip is essentially an overview of sources that can be used to trace your ancestors in the Georgian era. This spans the years 1714, the death of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch and the succession of King George I, to 1837, the death of King William IV and the accession of Queen Victoria and the start of Civil Registration.
It is a great starting point for researchers new to this era of research, putting the era into context of wider events in the UK and the world, and the types of records available.
Federation of Family History Societies
John Wintrip provides a treasure trove of information on sources available for tracing ancestors in Georgian England.
Family Tree, June 2018
The book is primarily intended for those researching in England & Wales; there are a few references to Scotland and Ireland, but in the context of records that might be found there which relate to inhabitants of England or Wales. If you have English or Welsh ancestors this book is well worth buying.
Lost Cousins
About John Wintrip
John Wintrip became a professional genealogist following an earlier career as a science librarian in universities. He was awarded a Diploma in Genealogy by the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS) in 2008, has been a member of AGRA since 2009, and has carried out research for many clients both in the UK and overseas.
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Wesley Bryan
University of South Carolina (2012, Retail)
Wife, Elizabeth; Hadley James (12/15/18)
Augusta, GA, United States
PGA TOUR: 9. Winners of PGA TOUR co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, within the last two seasons, or during the current season; winners receive an additional season of exemption for each additional win, up to five seasons:
Korn Ferry Tour: Winners of Korn Ferry Tour cosponsored events within two years prior to the current year.
Attended Dutch Fork High School in Irmo, South Carolina.
Older brother, George IV, was a three-time All-American while at the University of South Carolina. Sister, MC, played collegiate golf at the College of Charleston.
Father, George, played in the 1999 PGA Championship at Medinah and now runs George Bryan Golf Academy in Chapin, S.C.
Brothers Wesley and George IV are co-founders of Bryan Bros Golf and create trick-shot videos that have received widespread Internet recognition and attention on other media outlets. Bryan Bros Golf LLC can be followed on Twitter (@bryanbrosgolf) and youtube.com.
Chose golf over baseball because "it gave the best chance at earning a college scholarship."
If not a professional golfer would be an attorney.
Obsessed with Justin Bieber and frequently listens to his music when warming up.
Earliest golf memory was going eagle, double eagle on back-to-back holes in a junior tournament at Thornblade Club near Greenville, S.C., and winning his age group at age 8.
Biggest thrill outside golf was going skydiving.
His final-round outfit is baby blue pants, a hot pink shirt and American flag socks.
Settlers of Catan, ping pong
2017 RBC Heritage
Korn Ferry Tour Victories (3)
2016 El Bosque Mexico Championship presented by INNOVA, Digital Ally Open, Chitimacha Louisiana Open presented by NACHER
Made 12 cuts in 23 starts with best result coming at the FedEx St. Jude Classic (T12). Season concluded after a missed cut at the Wyndham Championship, finishing No. 163 in the FedExCup standings.
Claimed five top-10 finishes in 25 starts through the Wyndham Championship, highlighted by his first career PGA TOUR win at the RBC Heritage. Advanced to the BMW Championship in the FedExCup Playoffs, before ending his season ranked 41st in the FedExCup standings.
BMW Championship: Posted scores of 76-71-72-69--288 (+4) to finish 69th at the BMW Championship and end his season ranked 41st in the FedExCup standings.
John Deere Classic: A year after finishing T8 in his first start at the John Deere Classic, birdied five of his last six holes in the final round (Nos. 13-17) to post a 7-under 64 and finish T3 at 16-under 268. The finish at TPC Deere Run marked his fifth top-10 finish in 22 starts on the season.
RBC Heritage: Beginning the day three shots out of the lead, edged Luke Donald by one shot to become the first South Carolinian to win the RBC Heritage in its 49-year history. With a winning total of 13-under 271, posted his first PGA TOUR victory in his 18th career start. Carried a 42-hole bogey-free streak into the par-3 fourth hole, but immediately followed the bogey with four consecutive birdies at Nos. 4-7 and two more at Nos. 13 and 15 to post a 4-under 67. With the win, collected 500 points and moved from No. 59 to No. 14 in the FedExCup standings. Became the sixth player in 49 years to win the RBC Heritage in his first attempt, joining Arnold Palmer (1969), Bob Goalby (1970), Stewart Cink (2000), Jose Coceres (2001), and Boo Weekley (2007). In addition, became the 12th player to post his first PGA TOUR victory at the RBC Heritage, joining Hale Irwin (1971), Graham Marsh (1977), Doug Tewell (1980), Nick Faldo (1984), Davis Love III (1987), Glen Day (1999), Jose Coceres (2001), Peter Lonard (2005), Aaron Baddeley (2006), Boo Weekley (2007) and Branden Grace (2016). His four-shot, come-from-behind victory marked the fifth consecutive winner at the RBC Heritage to come from at least three shots back on Sunday to win. Branden Grace (2016), Jim Furyk (2015), Matt Kuchar (2014), and Graeme McDowell (2013) were each four strokes back entering the final round during their victory, while Branden Grace came from three shots back in 2016.
Valspar Championship: Followed up consecutive T4s with a third straight top-10 showing at the Valspar Championship (T7), thanks to rounds of 68-68-72-68–276 (-8).
The Honda Classic: A week later at The Honda Classic, replicated the career-best, T4, finish. Took the 18-hole lead/co-lead for the first time in his career after tying fellow PGA TOUR rookie Cody Gribble with an opening 6-under 64. Surged into a share of the 36-hole lead for the second time in his career with a 3-under 67 to post 9-under 131, the second lowest 36-hole lead since the event moved to PGA National in 2007.
Genesis Open: Earned his first top-five finish on the PGA TOUR with a T4 at the Genesis Open despite a final-round 1-over 72 to post 11-under 273. After opening with a pair of 69s, his third-round 9-under 63 was the low round for the week and matched by Thomas Pieters in the final round. Ranked No. 2 in approach shot proximity to the hole for the week with 32'10".
Finished the Korn Ferry Tour season with 15 starts, three wins, and 11 cuts made. Finished first in the final priority-ranking order to earn fully exempt TOUR status in 2016-17 and a spot in THE PLAYERS Championship and was named 2016 Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year. Having never competed in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned tournament prior to 2016, needed just 13 starts on the Korn Ferry Tour to win three times and earn a battlefield promotion to the PGA TOUR. In four TOUR starts, managed one top-10 finish.
John Deere Classic: In his first start as a PGA TOUR member, posted a bogey-free 7-under 64 in the second round of the John Deere Classic to take a share of the 36-hole lead with eventual-champion Ryan Moore. Third- and final-round scores of 70-70 resulted in the T8 with five others. Had he won, he would have become the first player to win in his first start as a PGA TOUR member since Emiliano Grillo won the 2015 Safeway Open.
Digital Ally Open: In his next start, won the Digital Ally Open to earn the Three Victory Promotion to the PGA TOUR, becoming the 11th player to do so. Opened the week 65-67 and trailed Chris Smith by two shots after 36 holes. Took the 54-hole lead with a third round 65. Entered the final round one ahead of J.T Poston and Grayson Murray, but lost the lead with a bogey on the par-3 eighth hole when Murray made a hole-in-one. Trailed by three strokes entering the back nine, but birdied 12, 13, 14 and 16 to regain a share of the lead. Had a chance to win outright in regulation but missed a 10-foot putt on the 72nd hole. In the playoff, stayed alive with a birdie on the first extra hole. On the second hole of sudden death, knocked a 6-iron to within three feet of the hole for a tap-in birdie and the win. Became the 21st player in Tour history with three wins in a single season.
Lincoln Land Charity Championship: Shot 66-65 and played his way into contention at the Lincoln Land Charity Championship in July. Posted a third-round 63 to reach 19-under par, earning his first 54-hole lead of the year. Played in Sunday's final grouping, but closed in 2-under 70 to fall two shots shy of winner Martin Flores, T2.
Nashville Golf Open: Posted a T9 finish at the Nashville Golf Open, where he was the 18-hole leader after opening with a 9-under 63 that included just 20 putts and 10 birdies over his final 12 holes. Led by four shots through 27 holes, but closed in 43 on Friday for a second-round 76.
FedEx St. Jude Classic: Made his PGA TOUR debut playing as a sponsor invite at the FedEx St. Jude Classic (T58).
El Bosque Mexico Championship presented by INNOVA: Earned his second win of the year and moved to No. 1 on the money list at the El Bosque Mexico Championship. Posted a course-record 63 in round two to move into a tie for the 36-hole lead with Brad Fritsch. Fell two strokes back of Fritsch with a third-round 71. Birdied three out of the first five holes on Sunday to tie Fritsch for the lead. After the pair bogeyed the par-4 sixth hole, made a 15-foot putt for birdie to move into the outright lead when Fritsch made a double bogey on the same hole. Added a birdie at No. 12 to get four clear of the field. Closed the tournament birdie-bogey-birdie for a final-round 67. His 19-under-par 269 total was two shy of the tournament record.
Servientrega Championship Presented by Efecty: Picked up a top-10 at the Servientrega Championship. Posted 73-70-66-72 for a T6 and moved to No. 2 on the money list.
Chitimacha Louisiana Open presented by NACHER: With brother George on the bag, earned his first Tour victory in his third career start at the Chitimacha Louisiana Open. Opened with rounds of 66-65-71 to sit within one of the lead through 54 holes. Posted an even-par 36 on the front nine on Sunday before birdieing 12 and 13 to earn a five-way share of the lead. Birdied 17, then two-putted 18 to post 14-under par, which gave way to the win when Julian Etulain missed a birdie try to tie on the 72nd hole. Became the 16th player to earn his first Korn Ferry Tour win at the event. Moved to No. 3 on the money list with the $99,000 payday.
Panama Claro Championship: Made his Korn Ferry Tour debut at the season-opening Panama Claro Championship, finishing T7 after entering the final round just two back of leader Kyle Thompson.
Qualified for the Korn Ferry Tour for the first time via a T9 finish at the Final Stage, held at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. in December. Recorded rounds of 67-71-72-70 to earn $15,000 and secure solid Tour status for 2016. Also played on the SwingThought Tour, NGA Tour and eGolf Tour.
In high school, won the South Carolina state 4A individual championship twice and also played on a two-time winning state 4A team champions.
At the University of South Carolina, was named to the All-Southeastern Conference team three times.
Competed in 10 USGA events.
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NARRATOR: Would you be comfortable living in a house that someone else had the key to? What if an underground tunnel led into it from a public park, or its windows could never quite close all the way? Would you trust it with your safety and your privacy?
The internet is that house. This is not to say—never go into the house, but rather, you should know the hazards before you store all of your valuables there—and do what you can to protect them.
So why is it insecure, and why can’t we just fortify it until it’s safe?
Well, first of all, the internet was not originally built to be what it is today. It’s like someone decided to expand a shoebox into a skyscraper. The internet originally developed when computers were huge and so expensive to own that only universities, big businesses, and a few governments had them. The point, originally, was to let these massive supercomputers talk to each other. And as soon as two computers could send information back and forth, we had a network. The network gradually grew, until personal computers emerged in the 1980s, and then it exploded.
Soon people were not just talking to each other, but also exchanging money, playing games, reading news, shopping, and doing everything we associate with the internet today. Other devices started talking to the network too—phones, and cars, and refrigerators, and elevators and power plants, and much much more.
But the ease of all of those devices talking to each other came at a price: security. One computer could send another instructions to delete everything on it or take it over—we call these viruses and malware. Or one person could steal another’s identity by guessing, cracking, or extracting a password.
Vulnerabilities such as these will never completely go away, because they’re built into the internet’s very architecture. Criminals use them to steal billions of dollars, governments use them for surveillance, and hacktivists use them to further their political goals. Between 2004 and 2013, over 1 billion records of personal information were stolen or leaked through data breaches of major organizations.
As a thought experiment, let’s imagine what a perfectly secure internet might look like. Users would not be allowed to download or install anything onto their computers. All internet traffic would be monitored and regulated by bots and humans, massively limiting the number of websites you could visit. In order to log onto a website you’d have to type in a 100 character password, submit a genetic sample, and whistle a tune.
The servers that hold data would be kept in heavily armed fortresses... on the moon. And even with all of these safeguards in place, some clever hacker would almost certainly still find a way in.
The good news is, even with our flawed internet, there are simple things you can do to protect yourself, and there are a lot of people committed to making the internet more secure.
In NOVA’s Cybersecurity Lab, you‘ll play as one of these people, protecting a company that is the target of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks. You must continuously strengthen your defenses in order to thwart these attackers. You will do this by completing challenges that will give you basic coding abilities, help you spot scams designed to trick you into giving up your secrets, and teach you how passwords are cracked and strengthened.
The house that is the internet may be built on a shaky foundation, but it’s been a home to innovation and an unprecedented free exchange of ideas. It’s up to us to make it livable in spite of its flaws.
VIDEO CREDITS
Alex Rosenthal, Writer/Director/Producer
Nick Hilditch, Animator
George S. Zaidan, Narrator
Scorekeepers Music Library, Music
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Funding for NOVA Labs provided by Lockheed Martin
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Camille Kerr joined The ICA Group as its Associate Director in 2016. She is a business developer and consultant with expertise in ESOPs, worker cooperatives, cooperatively governed LLCs and other structures that empower workers and communities. Before joining ICA, Camille served as the Director of Field Building at the Democracy at Work Institute and the Director of Research at the National Center for Employee Ownership. Camille serves as a member of the Council of Cooperative Economists and a board member of the Cooperative Fund of New England, is an advisory board member for start.coop and Certified Employee Owned, is on the design team for Fifty by Fifty: Taking Employee Ownership to Scale, and was on the planning committee for the Platform Cooperative Conference and the Cooperative Professionals Conference. She earned a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College Of Law, where she was an Arthur Russell Morgan Fellow for Human Rights and graduated cum laude.
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Home › Loving people who have been in and out of prison makes ‘suffering Christ more real to us’
Loving people who have been in and out of prison makes ‘suffering Christ more real to us’
Matthew 25 April 18, 2019
Isaiah’s Table says ‘yes’ to Matthew 25 invitation
by Paul Seebeck | Presbyterian News Service
Isaiah’s Table lives into its mission ‘to provide grace, hope and food for all’ by serving breakfast to its neighbors each Saturday, followed by worship. (Contributed photo)
LOUISVILLE — When Nancy Wind, the leader of the new worshiping community Isaiah’s Table in Syracuse, N.Y., first saw the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s invitation for congregations to become Matthew 25 churches on this website, she was intrigued.
Recently she partnered with the Matthew 25 Farm in Central New York. Its mission is to give away fresh vegetables and fruit to those in need in their neighborhood.
After watching this video invitation that encourages congregations to become Matthew 25 churches by working on at least one of three goals — building congregational vitality, eradicating systemic poverty and dismantling racism — Isaiah’s Table said ‘yes’ to becoming the first official Matthew 25 1001 new worshiping community.
“Even though we’re not a PC(USA) church yet, it struck me that this is what we’re growing into,” said Wind.
Less than a year ago, Isaiah’s Table moved into the Westside neighborhood near downtown Syracuse. Leaving behind its food pantry at the former First Presbyterian Church, Isaiah’s Table’s main community event is still serving breakfast to community members, followed by worship. Worshipers also give away fresh produce in their neighborhood from the Matthew 25 Farm.
“This move really energized us,” says Wind. “The neighborhood is so much more vital, with a lot of community things going on around it.”
Wind is meeting next week with the executive director of a peacemaking project in the Westside neighborhood that will be working on restorative and criminal justice reform. Community members who have been in and out of jail come to Isaiah’s Table for their Saturday breakfast. Some stay for worship. One man, who had been incarcerated for around eight months, has come into a covenant relationship with Isaiah’s Table.
Recently a couple they hadn’t seen in almost a year showed up — they’d finally found Isaiah’s Table’s new location. Wind says, “It was if the prodigal son had come to breakfast.”
The community was excited, Wind said, joyfully calling them by name and hugging them.
“They were in tears,” she said. “They couldn’t believe we’d remembered their names.”
“The ministry of being involved with the same people coming with addictions — and in and out of prison — has made the suffering Christ more real to us,” she said.
Which is why on Saturday, after breakfast, when Wind takes the community through a Holy Week service that will end in silence, she’ll be thinking of the people whom Isaiah’s Table has come to love.
“They’re not just statistics anymore,” she says, “or people that you can just walk away from.”
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US and Italian secret service officials accused of kidnapping
Published time: 9 Jan, 2007 21:25 Edited time: 10 Jan, 2007 00:25
A court in Milan has begun hearing arguments on whether to indict American and Italian secret service officials over the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003. Abu Omar was abducted from the streets of the city.
He says he was then taken to Egypt, where he was tortured.
Prosecutors say 6 Italians and 26 Americans, mostly from the CIA, co-operated in organising the kidnapping.
Among those accused is the retired CIA station chief in Milan, Robert Seldon Lady, who rushed back to the US when the abduction became public. He withdrew from proceedings, saying the case should be resolved politically.
Judges are now to decide whether there is enough evidence for a trial. If so, it would be the first criminal procedure over renditions, one of the most controversial aspects of George W. Bush's global “war on terrorism”.
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Unmarried couples could save money this year thanks to a new law – here’s who can claim it
All couples in England and Wales will now be able to apply for a Civil Partnership by the end of 2019 (Photo: Shutterstock)
Published: 11:36 am July 12, 2019
Millions of unmarried couples could benefit from a £250 tax break this year thanks to a change in the law, the Government has announced.
All couples in England and Wales will now be able to apply for a Civil Partnership by the end of 2019, giving them greater financial security.
A legal agreement
Couples who live together will now be able to get a civil partnership after the Supreme Court ruled that a ban on it was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The move, which was first announced last year under plans to equalise the law, is an extension of the Civil Partnerships Act 2004, which gave people in same-sex relationships legal recognition.
However, it excluded heterosexual couples who live together from equal rights on savings, tax and pension benefits, compared to those who are married.
Under the new rules, cohabiting couples who opt not to marry will be given the option to tie the knot in a simple, paper agreement instead.
The law is an extension of the Civil Partnerships Act 2004, which gave people in same-sex relationships legal recognition (Photo: Shutterstock)
Marriage tax allowance
The rule change, which will be enforced by the end of this year, will enable the 3.3 million UK couples who live together to share financial responsibilities.
It will also grant couples who enter into a civil partnership access to a £250 marriage tax allowance that is currently denied to them.
The system permits couples to transfer £1,250 of their personal allowance – the amount that can be earned tax-free each year – between them, helping to reduce the cost of their yearly tax bill. If the lower income earner passes a portion of their personal allowance to the higher earner, this will reduce their tax bill by £250 per year.
But couples who live together and choose not to take out a civil partnership will not be entitled to claim the tax break.
Who can claim marriage tax allowance?
To claim marriage tax allowance, couples need to meet the following criteria:
You are married or in a civil partnership
You do not pay income tax, or your income is below your personal allowance (normally £12,500)
Your partner pays income tax at the basic rate, which usually means their income is between £12,501 and £50,000
More information on marriage tax allowance is outlined on the government website
This article originally appeared on our sister site, Yorkshire Evening Post.
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July 2, 2015 / 8:30 PM / 4 years ago
GAO sees room for improvement in bank cyber security exams
Suzanne Barlyn
(Reuters) - U.S. banking regulators must hire and train more examiners with technology expertise so they can give more useful cyber security recommendations to small and mid-sized banks, a federal watchdog agency has warned.
An illustration picture shows a projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer, in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office identified the issue as one of several that banking regulators need to address as cyber security threats become more prevalent and sophisticated.
For example, the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of some 83 million household and small business account holders were exposed last year when computer systems at JPMorgan Chase & Co were compromised by hackers, one of the biggest data breaches in history.
Multiple U.S. regulators, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Federal Reserve, examine banks and other financial institutions that take deposits. Examiners’ findings may include how the institutions can improve their cyber security practices.
Each of the regulators employs dozens of examiners with specialized technology expertise, but typically assigns those examiners to the largest banking institutions, the GAO said.
Examiners with “little to no” information technology expertise generally examine small and mid-sized banks. Their findings may not be as “specific or useful” as those from more experienced counterparts, the GAO said.
The various regulators have been trying to improve their oversight of bank technology, the GAO noted. For example, the FDIC imposed a four-course training requirement for examiners in 2010 to boost their technology know-how. Three-quarters of examiners had completed between one and three courses as of the end of 2014.
Among the GAO’s other concerns: regulators are not collecting and storing technology exam findings in a way that makes it easy to search industry-wide trends.
The regulators, in letters to the GAO, said they are ramping up their systems for categorizing the data.
Many U.S. credit unions are also vulnerable to cyber threats from outside vendors that help run their businesses because their overseer, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) lacks authority to review technology practices of those companies, the GAO said.
The GAO has long been pushing to expand the NCUA’s authority. But credit unions themselves and their vendors have been resistant to the idea, calling it a regulatory overreach.
The NCUA is the only federal banking regulator that does not have the power to examine third-party vendors, which range from large companies such as Fiserv or Diebold, to small companies that only serve credit unions.
Reporting by Suzanne Barlyn; Editing by David Gregorio
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June 26, 2019 / 3:55 PM / 22 days ago
Palestinians reject economic solutions from 'punitive' U.S.
Rami Ayyub, Nidal al-Mughrabi
RAMALLAH/GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian leaders accused the Trump administration of punishing them with one hand and offering to reward them with the other, as protesters turned out in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to demonstrate against a U.S. economic peace plan.
Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh, Gaza's Hamas Chief Yehya Al-Sinwar, and other Palestinian factions' leaders take part in a protest against Bahrain's workshop for U.S. Middle East peace plan, in Gaza City, June 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
At a U.S.-led conference in Bahrain U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner urged Palestinian leaders boycotting the event to think outside the “traditional box” and consider the $50 billion plan to boost the Palestinian and neighboring economies.
The event drew fiery criticism both within the Palestinian territories, where demonstrations broke out for a second day, and across the wider region, where many Arabs took aim at officials for taking part.
Palestinian officials said it was Trump who had inflicted further hardship on Palestinians, cutting hundreds of millions in aid to humanitarian organizations across the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza.
“If the U.S. is so concerned about Palestinian well-being, then why did they carry out these punitive measures against us?,” senior Palestine Liberation Organisation official Hanan Ashrawi said in Ramallah.
“Why did they target Palestinian infrastructure? Why did they stop scholarships to Palestinian students?,” she asked.
In August last year, Washington announced an end to all U.S. funding for the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees. The U.S. was UNRWA’s biggest donor by far up to that point, giving it $364 million in 2017.
And in February, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ceased all assistance to the Palestinians, to whom it provided $268 million in 2017.
The U.S. cuts were widely seen as a way of putting pressure on the Palestinian leadership to re-engage with the White House, which it has boycotted since Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in 2017.
“The same team that cut 350 million dollars of aid to refugee camps ... (goes) to Manama to say we have a brilliant plan to bring Palestinians a new chance, a new opportunity,” Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Tuesday in Jericho.
“Why would Palestinians say no to such (a) plan?,” he added, mockingly.
GULF APART
Neither the Israeli nor Palestinian governments are attending the event at Manama’s luxury Four Seasons hotel, where international bureaucrats enjoyed cocktails and delicate pastries, mingling with Arab businessmen sporting gold Rolex watches.
Some Gulf Arab states, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, voiced qualified support for Kushner’s plan, while Qatar sent top officials but made no public comment. Egypt and Jordan, the only two Arab states with a peace deal with Israel, sent deputy ministers.
Many Arabs slammed their governments for taking part, describing the event as a sell-off of Palestinians’ rights without them present.
“The participation of Arab and Islamic countries in this conference of shame in Manama is unfortunate. ..Political courtesy does not justify this participation,” Qatar University professor of political sociology Majed al-Ansari said on Twitter.
Bahrain’s main opposition group, the outlawed Shi’ite Muslim al-Wefaq party, said hosting the event had brought shame on their country’s rulers, while Kuwait’s parliament said it would reject anything that comes out of the event.
Washington is hoping that wealthy Gulf Arab states such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar will bankroll much of the $50 billion plan, another potential sticking point unpopular with some opposed to the deal.
“The last thing we can imagine as Qatari citizens is for the wealth of our country and nation to contribute to the displacement of another Arab people,” Qatari Youth Against Normalisation, a Qatari youth group, said in a statement.
Former Egyptian football star Mohamed Aboutrika took aim at FIFA head Gianni Infantino, who spoke in Manama about developing a sports sector in the Palestinian territories to drive economic growth.
“Thank you to everyone who boycotted this auction...the presence of the head of FIFA is a major question mark...our holy sites are not for sale,” Aboutrika wrote on Twitter.
More than 1,500 km (930 miles) away in Gaza, where over half of the enclave’s two million people live in poverty, Palestinians criticized the Arab businessmen who attended for siding with the United States and Israel.
“Capitalists do not think of the poor,” said Abdel-Rahim Nateel, 62, who spent most of his life in the Beach refugee camp in northern Gaza.
“Let them come and give aid to the hungry people, make projects, ask Israel not to attack us... let them give us our state on the 1967 borders and we do not want anything else from them.”
Several thousand Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza on Wednesday, burning posters of Trump and his close ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “No to the conference of treason, no to the conference of shame,” read one banner.
In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, demonstrations against Bahrain were light for a second day. Some Palestinians voiced a sense of exhaustion about peace efforts and promises of cash and prosperity.
“This conference is just like all others from the past, Arab conferences, American conferences. All of them have been at the Palestinians’ expense,” said Hamdallah Qasem, 72, who lives in Ramallah.
Their own leadership was not exempt from criticism, however. At an Israeli military checkpoint separating Palestinian villages from the neighboring Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev, several Palestinian day laborers said President Mahmoud Abbas was hurting the local economy by boycotting the conference.
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“If he was struggling like the rest of our people, maybe he would participate. As long as boycotting doesn’t hit his wallet, he will never change his position,” said Nasser, who declined to give his last name for fear of retribution.
Yara Hawari, a policy analyst based in Ramallah, said the low turnout at protests was due to a sense of fatigue at international initiatives from which they saw little chance of changing their situation.
“There are certain topics that mobilize Palestinians more than others - like Jerusalem. This ‘economic peace’ is just more of the same. They see it as empty talk,” Hawari said.
Reporting by Rami Ayyub in Ramallah and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Additional reporting by Lisa Barrington in Dubai, Ahmed Haggagy in Kuwait City, Eric Knecht in Doha, and Ahmed Tolba in Cairo; Editing by Stephen Farrell, William Maclean and Hugh Lawson
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"Jurassic Park" Discovered in Argentina
By Kate Wong on February 16, 2001
On an arid plateau in the heart of Argentina's Patagonia, researchers have discovered a fossil deposit brimming with the remains of beasts that roamed the region millions of years ago, leading scientists to liken the site to Michael Crichton's fictional Jurassic Park. Indeed, the material they have retrieved thus faran estimated 2 percent of site's contentsincludes a number of previously unknown species. "What we have found is very important, firstly because of the range of fossils found, and secondly because of the age," Gerardo Cladera of the Egidio Feruglio Paleontology Museum in Trelew told Reuters.
Earlier exploration of this region, in the province of Chubut, had turned up the remains of two dinosaurs in the 1970s and '80s. But the area was abandoned until six months ago, when a local farmer came upon bones eroding out of the ground. Those turned out to be the backbone of a large herbivore. Subsequent investigation revealed four unknown species of dinosaurs, one of the oldest-known mammals, and various amphibians, turtles and pterodactyls. The new dinosaur species, which date to between 150 and 160 million years ago, include herbivorous sauropods stretching nearly 10 yards in length and carnivorous theropods. The mammal is said to be the size of a rat, though not itself a rodent.
Despite its diminutive stature, the mammal fossil may be the most important of the new finds. "It is the first mammal of that antiquity to be found in South America," paleontologist Jos Bonaparte of Argentina's National Museum of Natural Sciences told Inter Press Service, "and among the very few found anywhere in the world."
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Kate Wong is a senior editor for evolution and ecology at Scientific American.
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Love, Scientology-Style
Source: St. Petersburg Times
Some marital advice Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes could receive today: Never go to bed angry at each other. They may be told that newlywed "girls" expect "frills," and maybe a cat, and young men are prone to "forget" their promises.
It's part of the guidance that Cruise and Holmes may get from a Church of Scientology minister at their wedding in Italy, a ceremony that has drawn attention to the marriage rituals of a church that counts the groom as one of its most famous and ardent followers.
Scientology nuptials have many familiar elements, like a bridal procession, rings and a presiding minister. The most traditional vows include "poetic" insights into men and women, including their frills and forgetfulness, that are meant to signify the need to "stand by each other," said a church minister who has performed weddings for 30 years.
"It is a poetic way of elaborating on the typical 'for better or worse' clause," the Rev. Janet Kenyon Laveau said.
Five ceremonies
Laveau said the basic ceremony has many aspects in common with those of other Western denominations. "The same brides magazines are being used," said Laveau, a Canadian who now lives in Britain.
The minister typically wears a clerical collar - but in some cases dons formal robes - and displays the church's "eight-pointed cross," which represents the eight parts, or "dynamics," of existence.
Marriage is part of the second dynamic, "creativity," which also includes raising children and family life. The first dynamic is "self" and personal growth. The others go in ever-expanding steps from "group survival" to "infinity."
There are five possible ceremonies, each with different wording and length: traditional, informal, single ring, double ring and concise double ring.
There has been no confirmation of what type of ceremony has been chosen by Cruise and Holmes, whom celebrity watchers believe will tie the knot at a 15th century castle overlooking Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome. Italy's ANSA news agency reported Thursday that the ceremony would be performed by a U.S.-based member of the church, which was founded more than 50 years ago by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.
Gloom Amid Joy
If the couple have a traditional ceremony, the groom will hear this: "Now, Tom, girls need clothes and food and tender happiness and frills, a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat. All caprice if you will, but still they need them."
And Holmes will be told: "Hear well, sweet Katie, for promise binds. Young men are free and may forget. Remind him then that you may have necessities and follies, too."
When the groom promises to "keep her, well or ill," he also will be asked, "And when she's older, do you then keep her still?"
The wording places more emphasis than the rites of many other religions on the likelihood that the future may have difficulties.
The minister tells the bride, "Know that life is stark and often somewhat grim, and tiredness and fret and pain and sickness do beget a state of mind where spring romance is far away and dead."
She is then asked if she is willing to "create still his health, his purpose and repose." Similarly the groom is told, "The tides of fortune and of life are sometimes fair or grim." He should not leave his wife in search of solutions, the minister says. "Take thy own even though they sleep beneath foul straw and eat thin bread and walk on pavement less than kind."
Why are such gloomy prospects mixed with the joy of weddings?
"We do this strictly in the context of being able to do something about it," said the Rev. John Carmichael, president of the Church of Scientology of New York and the spokesman for 12 churches in New York and New Jersey. "Scientology has workable solutions to life's problems. It is designed with tools people can use to help themselves and others."
The Other Love Triangle
As with other religions, there are specific marriage vows, but couples can substitute a personal text. The actual marriage rite takes about 15 minutes, Laveau said, but the entire ceremony can take longer because of musical selections and other things the couple add.
In Scientology, a fundamental tenet of marriage is contained in the symbol of the ARC triangle. Its three points stand for affinity, reality and communication, and couples are told they must be vigilant about preserving all three.
The Rev. Gaetane Asselin, international community affairs director of the Church of Scientology International, said, "We ask them to make a promise to heal any upset before going to sleep." She added, "As long as you maintain the triangle in full, you will understand each other."
The ceremony begins with a request from the minister about whether any guest has reason to oppose the marriage. Near the end, the guests are asked to "acknowledge" the newlyweds. The minister says: "And I will ask these witnesses present to join me in blessing this ceremony with the postulate that the trust and love of the present shall become ever stronger with each passing year."
Laveau said, "They can respond with a 'yes' or applause."
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Frog research team makes diabetes leap
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SCOTTISH scientists have made a breakthrough towards developing stem cell treatments for diabetes after carrying out research on an African frog.
Researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell Research at Edinburgh University have revealed a key protein they believe can be used to encourage
embryonic stem cells to develop into the insulin-producing pancreatic cells that malfunction in patients with diabetes.
Dr Josh Brickman, who led the team that carried out the research, found that in the African clawed frog a protein called Wnt helped form the cells in an embryo, which are the precursor of the pancreas and liver.
They have also found the protein appears to do the same job in mouse embryos.
Brickman said he hoped the protein could now be used to turn embryonic stem cells into insulin-producing cells - a Holy Grail for diabetes doctors.
The group claim the insulin-producing cells could then be used to test new therapies for treating diabetes and could even become the basis for stem cell therapy for diabetics.
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An Interview with B. P. Donigan, author of FATE FORGED
Growing up on the streets of Boston, Maeve O’Neill learned to rely only on herself. Paying bills isn't glamorous, but her life is on a better track—until she starts having agonizing visions of torture. Desperate to rid herself of the paralyzing episodes, she follows her visions to the scene of a murder. Instead of answers, she gets an unexpected gift from the victim: Magic.
With the unwanted power, Maeve becomes the access point to all of Earth's untapped magic. Now, powerful enemies are after her and staying alive means striking a bargain with an untrustworthy ally with a long-shot plan. Maeve has to keep the magic in check until she can get rid of it, but her control is slipping and everything could go wrong. If the plan fails, her unlikely ally betrays her, or her enemies catch her, she'll be handing over all of Earth's magic...and her life.
An Interview with B.P. Donigan
B.P. Donigan is the author of Fate Forged (Bound Magic Series: Book One). The novel is an Urban Fantasy that will be published on December 18th 2018 by Red Adept Publishing.
Question: If you were speaking to someone who hasn’t read your writing before, why should they want to read Fate Forged?
B.P. Donigan: Great question! The book can best be described as Epic Urban Fantasy. Fate Forged is a fast-paced thriller wrapped in magic. If you enjoy strong female protagonists who aren't invincible, and a healthy splash of realistic romance, then you'd probably like Fate Forged.
Q: Did anything from your real life influence your book at all?
BPD: Definitely! I grew up in Alaska, which is where my characters go to search for a Fate who can remove the uncontrollable magic powers from my main character. They hike over a glacier and to the top of a mountain in a re-creation of a three-day hike I did when I was a teenager. (I wasn't chased by demon dogs at the time, but otherwise it's the same hike.) The locations, and even the hiker's huts where they stop over, are all real places. Also, the book starts out in Boston where I lived for a decade after college, and I mention Davis Square and a fortune cookie factory, which are real places that are near and dear to my heart. I had a lot of fun putting my favorite places into my story.
Q: What sparked the idea for Fate Forged?
BPD: Fate Forged, started with a ‘what if’ questions. What if a woman inherited crazy magic powers, but had no idea how to control them? From there, I let the questions lead me into a story - Who is she? Why doesn't she know how to control the magic powers? Where do the powers come from? What if she doesn't remember something critical about herself...
Q: What are your interests outside of writing and reading?
BPD: Outside of writing, I have a full-time job, two kids, two dogs and a husband. All that keeps me busy! When I have spare time, I love to dabble in home-improvement projects and arts and crafts. I love trying new things, but I have a hard time finishing up the projects I start.
Q: Did anything change significantly in your book during the writing or editing process?
BPD: Yes! Many of the character's names changed, and the title of Fate Forged used to be The Lost Sect, which I liked, but the publisher didn't think had enough depth. After some soul searching, I decided "Fate" was a thread that will reach across the entire series, and then I attempted to find a title with the word Fate that didn't sound like a romance novel! To make it all cohesive, I ended up coming up with titles for the first three books (as well as the Series Title) so the extra effort was worth it.
BPD: Plotter all the way. I’m always looking for better ways to plan out the plot, the characters and pacing. For me, it’s so much easier to write creatively if I know the bones of the story are solid.Q: What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
BPD: When I’m not writing, I have a full-time job, two kids, two dogs and a husband. All that keeps me busy! When I have spare time, I love to dabble in home-improvement projects and arts and crafts. I love trying new things, but, honestly, I have a hard time finishing up the projects I start.
BPD: I’m working on book two in the Bound Magic Series, which is tentatively titled Fate Changed. Although the main characters overcome a lot of challenges in Fate Forged, there are still some people who need to be stopped, and the fate of Earth’s magic hangs in the balance in a new way.
B.P. Donigan’s Biography
B.P. Donigan was born and raised in Wasilla, Alaska (which would later become famous thanks to one infamous politician who could see Russian from her house, but at the time was about as rural as you can get).
She attended college in rural Idaho earning a degree in Print Journalism, and then not-so-rural Utah earning a degree in Marketing, and finally moved to very-not-rural Boston where she lived and worked for ten years. After paying her dues to the Extreme Winters, she resides now in sunny California, with her two kids, two fish, two dogs… and one amazing husband. Like any good superhero she spends her daytime building her cover story behind a desk, and her nights saving the world (on paper, at least).
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Raptors take to the skies above Topaz
by Caryn Haller
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Marten Benatar of Brown Valley, Calif., places a northern goshawk on a perch at the Topaz Lodge on Thursday during the meeting of the Falconers from Nevada, the California Hawk Club and the North American Falconers Association.
Shannon Litz | The Record-Courier
To some, falconry is a hobby, but for Master Falconer Morgan Campbell, 46, it’s a lifestyle.
“We get to have a front row seat watching these birds do what they do in the wild,” the Petaluma, Calif., resident said. “For me it’s one of the ways of relieving the stress from the everyday world. I enjoy the action of chasing the birds and the game.”
Hundreds of falconers from the United States, Wales and the Czech Republic converged on Topaz Lodge today and Saturday for their annual meet.
Campbell said he became interested in falconry as a child reading about medieval times and the sport of kings.
“I wanted to be a falconer really bad,” he said. “I was desperate to do anything with raptors.”
He received his first red-tailed hawk as an apprentice in 1991 after passing an exam and being sponsored by a master falconer.
Since then Campbell has trained 14 falcons to hunt jack rabbit, pheasant, ducks and sage grouse. It takes one to six months to train a raptor.
“First, they learn to eat from our fist, then jump to the fist and then fly to the fist,” he said. “When they’re doing that we can release them. And if the training’s done right, they keep coming back to us.”
Campbell added that it’s not uncommon for the bird to not return since they are taken from the wild to begin with.
“We get attached to our birds, but their sole attraction to us is food. They are wild animals,” he said. “A parrot will show affection, but raptors do not do that.”
In order to either catch a raptor in the wild, buy one or to practice falconry,a person must be licensed by the state.
After serving two years as an apprentice, the falconer can move up to general falconer, and after seven additional years he can move up to master falconer.
“Most birds I catch in the wild, and after a few years I let them back into the wild,” Campbell said. “There’s an amazing feeling working with a wild animal when it’s doing what its does naturally. I’ve done archery hunting and shotgun hunting, and there’s nothing like this.”
General falconer Civon Gewelber, 30, brought her female Peruvian Aplomado from Las Vegas to the meet.
“We do green pest control. We take a group of Aplomados to orchards and vineyards and chase pest birds away,” she said. “Rather than the farmers using poison, the falconers come out. As long as the small birds are hiding from the falcons, they’re not eating the crop.”
Gewelber became an apprentice at age 14 and received her general falconer license at age 18. She works as a dentist during the year, but takes summers off to work full-time with her falcon.
“It takes a lot of work, but if you work hard enough, you get the reward,” she said. “If I do my job right, she can do her job, and it’s good teamwork.”
Smith Valley falconer Frank Ely organized this year’s meet. This is the third time the California Hawking Club and North American Falconers Association has met at Topaz.
“Falconry is an old sport, over 5,000 years old,” he said. “We’re hunters. We’re not just carrying them around on our shoulder.”
Gardnerville resident and Carson Valley Photo Club member Jackie Gorton took advantage of the opportunity to get up close to the dozens of falcons, hawks, eagles and owls perched in the fenced-in weathering yard at Topaz Lodge.
“Their eyes are so intense. I’m drawn to them,” she said. “What an awesome opportunity to get this close to them. You’re not going to get this in the field. I can’t stop taking pictures.”
The meet wraps up Saturday night with a banquet.
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Posted on October 30, 2018 by Record Herald
Cavaliers’ coaching situation unclear after Lue’s firing
By Tom Withers - AP Sports Writer
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — After an emotional day and restless night, Larry Drew went back to work.
He organized practice, met with stunned players still reeling from Tyronn Lue’s firing and put the Cleveland Cavaliers through drills as they prepared for Tuesday’s game.
But after walking off the floor, Drew, the team’s top assistant coach under Lue for the past two years, wanted to make something clear.
“I’m not the interim coach,” he said emphatically. “I’m the voice right now.”
So much for Cleveland’s transition game.
Drew added a surprising wrinkle to Lue’s dismissal on Monday by saying he’s not ready to commit to the Cavaliers in the long term until he gets a new contract. Drew said his agent, Andy Miller, has been with talks with the team about restructuring his deal. Drew is under contract through this season.
“I’m sure you guys are aware that there are some talks that are going on,” Drew told reporters. “I don’t know if any type of agreement or settlement will be made. I am prepared either way. I’ll continue to do my job, but right now there’s not been any type of agreement.”
Drew said he plans to coach the team Tuesday night against Atlanta, but after that, nothing is definitive.
He was asked if “acting” coach was a more fitting title.
“I guess that would be more accurate, more consistent,” he said.
General manager Koby Altman fired Lue, who in 2016 became the only coach to win a pro sports championship in Cleveland since 1964, on Sunday because he felt the team was underachieving. The Cavaliers are 0-6 in their first season since three-time champion LeBron James left them for the second time as a free agent.
They had hoped to remain competitive while developing young players like rookie guard Collin Sexton. But the plan wasn’t working with Lue, forcing Altman to make a difficult decision.
“The challenge of this year was we had a mix of veterans and young guys and that’s a complex situation that’s difficult,” Altman said. “It didn’t come together the way we envisioned and we just didn’t think coach Lue was the right fit for this group. We wanted to go in a different direction, a different coach and a different voice.”
Enter Drew, who went 8-1 while filling in last season when Lue was dealing with health issues.
Drew understands what the Cavs are up against and he’s prepared to take it on.
“It’s not a very complicated situation,” he said. “It’s obvious this team is going in a different direction with the group that we do have and with the decisions that have been made with the organization. I would like to be part of it long term, to be perfectly honest. I’ve been through the rebuilding process as a player and as a coach and I feel I know what it takes. Certainly when you talk about rebuilding, it’s not an easy thing to do. It’s usually something that takes a little time.
“If it’s going to take some time, I’d like to be part of that. I made the organization pretty aware of that, that this is something that’s not going to happen overnight. In order to be a part of that, I feel that it’s going to have to be something done with a little bit more security.”
Altman said the Cavaliers feel fortunate to have someone with Drew’s experience as a possibility to lead the team through the remainder of a challenging season. Altman thought the players responded well to Drew during their first practice together.
Drew went 143-169 in four seasons as an NBA coach. He was fired after going 15-67 with Milwaukee in 2013-14.
Lue, who played for Drew, was the first one to call his former coach after he was let go by the Bucks. Drew has never forgotten that gesture and they formed a tight friendship.
Drew spent part of Sunday at Lue’s home.
“I mean the job that he did here has been unbelievable,” Drew said. “I don’t think he gets enough credit for what he’s done. But before I left yesterday I told him how much I appreciated him, and I know he’s going to be OK. He’s still going to be Ty, though. Ty’s going to be Ty. But I’m going to miss him.”
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Toys R Us Tells Workers It Will Likely Close All US And UK Stores
Posted on March 15, 2018 March 15, 2018 12:05 pm
After failing to restructure its debt or find a buyer, Toys R Us will either sell or shutter all of its brick-and-mortar stores in the U.S, Reuters reported.
The retailer has over 700 remaining locations in the U.S., including those under the Babies R Us banner. If completed, the company’s liquidation would be among the largest in retail history since Sports Authority closed nearly 500 stores, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Since a leveraged buyout, Toys R Us has been burdened with over $5 billion in debt. Competition from eCommerce retailers such as Amazon and discount stores such as Walmart hasn’t helped the company either.
Beyond the U.S., Toys R Us Chief Executive David Brandon said the company may liquidate its operations in France, Spain, Poland and Australia. In addition, the company hopes to find a buyer for its Canadian business, which it plans to package with 200 stores in the U.S.
“We’re putting a for-sale sign on everything,” Brandon told employees, according to WSJ. “Frankly, all anyone has to do is offer one dollar more.”
The retailer plans to shutter its remaining 75 brick-and-mortar locations in the U.K. as the retailer was not able to find a buyer for their business there, Reuters reported. The news comes after Toys R Us planned to shutter about 200 more stores after a weak holiday sales season. The company also plans to lay off many of its corporate staff, the WSJ had reported based on information from people familiar with the situation.
Sales at the retailer have declined 15 percent from the 2017 holiday shopping season compared to 2016, and as the retailer previously announced it may close 100 stores. This latest set of closings could halve the number of U.S. stores that the retailer had prior to its bankruptcy filing. Still, the final number of store closures could change as the retailer is still in discussions about the closings.
Toys R Us had approximately 1,600 stores globally, with about half of them in the U.S. when it filed for bankruptcy protection in September. Company spokeswoman Amy von Walter had said back in February that she would not elaborate on the closures.
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Regulators Focus on Risk Management of Mobile Financial Services
By Mason, Bernard
Article excerpt
THE FEDERAL FINANCIAL Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has added a section to its IT Examination Handbook that addresses the risk management implications of mobile financial services. This new section--Appendix E of the Retail Payment Systems Booklet--emphasizes an enterprise-wide approach to the effective management and mitigation of risks associated with mobile k financial services. The FFIEC observes that although mobile financial services can provide more convenient transaction execution capabilities, offering them can pose elevated risks related to device security, authentication, data security, application security, data transmission security, compliance, and third-party management. Customers are often less likely to activate security controls, virus protection, or personal firewall functionality on their mobile devices. Moreover, mobile financial services often involve the use of third-party service providers.
Appendix E lists the types of technologies employed to offer mobile financial services, such as short message service (SMS) messaging, mobile-enabled websites and browsers, mobile applications, and wireless payment technologies (including near field communication, image based, carrier based, and mobile P2P).
The FFIEC advises managements to identify the risks as part of the strategic plan and to incorporate the identification of risks associated with mobile devices, products, services, and technologies into the existing risk management process. Risks include those at the institution and those linked to the use of mobile devices where the customer implements and manages the security settings.
Mobile financial services introduce unique operational risks. The FFIEC warns that some of these risks are associated with the mobile device and with how the device communicates with the point-of-sale or other terminal. Also, the varying access points provide challenges with authentication and security. The prevalence of mobile devices, common operating systems, and downloadable applications makes these devices a target for malware and viruses. Inadequate access controls may fail to protect data stored on a mobile device.
Mobile Technology Risks
Appendix E discusses the risks associated with each type of mobile technology:
SMS technology risk
SMS messages typically are transmitted unencrypted over widely used telecommunications networks. This may allow an unauthorized user to send an SMS message pretending to be from a different mobile number in order to obtain sensitive personal information or access codes to financial institution systems.
Mobile-enabled website risk
In addition to the vulnerabilities of computer-based banking, mobile devices may have a reduced level of security. Mobile-enabled browsers do not always have anti-phishing and anti-cross-site scripting capabilities to filter out malicious code from websites.
Mobile application risk
Applications can be downloaded to mobile devices from many application stores. These applications may contain vulnerabilities, particularly those obtained from application stores not authorized by the device manufacturer. Distribution of malware through applications is a material risk to the institution and its customers.
Another risk occurs with the user's ability to access root user privileges in the operating system of the device, thereby removing the manufacturer's device controls or core operating system controls and allowing the user to download untrusted applications that may introduce malware onto the device.
Mobile payments risk
Because mobile payments at the pointof-sale may use near field communication, such communications can be intercepted. And even if these communications are encrypted, the potential remains for unauthorized access to transaction information.
Appendix E advises the managements of institutions to identify compliance risks when determining which mobile financial services to offer and to continue to monitor these risks as the technology evolves. …
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10 players who have their last chance to win the World Cup in 2018
If this lot want to add a World Cup medal to their cabinet, this might be their final opportunity
By Tom Victor
Philipp Lahm. Carles Puyol. Pippo Inzaghi. What do all of these players have in common?
All three won the World Cup at the last possible opportunity, hanging up their international boots before they got the chance to sully their respective reputations.
Any player in his thirties will go into this year’s tournament in Russia knowing it could be his last, and here are just a few of the players who will be keen to go out on a high.
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Country: Uruguay
Club: Barcelona
Eight years on from his pantomime villain display against Ghana, and four years from his pantomime villain display against Italy, Suárez will hope to be remembered for the right reasons. Uruguay have a very winnable group, and if they reach the knockouts without their star man biting anyone then they have every chance.
Club: Beşiktaş
Portugal have to be considered among the frontrunners, given their status as European Champions, and decorated centre-back Pepe certainly feels more than two years older than international teammate Cristiano Ronaldo. After an early red card (for headbutting a man who was already on the ground, no less) scuppered his 2014 hopes, he’ll have a score to settle this time around.
Club: Arsenal
Monreal was yet to establish himself at international level when Spain won the World Cup in 2010, but earned a place in the squad after an impressive personal season for an otherwise underwhelming Arsenal. With Fernando Hierro replacing Julen Lopetegui as Spain coach, Monreal will hope to impress the new man enough to earn game-time in Russia.
Club: Chelsea
Giroud is the most experienced outfield player in the French squad, with 74 caps, and has made it in at the expense of his former club teammate Alexandre Lacazette. Having scored three times in France’s run to the final of Euro 2016, he’ll hope to go one better this summer.
Club: Hebei China Fortune
Mascherano put his body on the line at the last World Cup, sending Argentina through to the final in the process, but he and his teammates ultimately fell short against Germany. Having left Barcelona earlier this year, he’s well aware he’s in the twilight of his career – can he end it on a high?
Club: Paris Saint-Germain
One of the most important components in Brazil’s 2014 squad, Silva’s suspension for the semi-final was a huge factor in the 7-1 defeat against Germany. He’s now part of a much more defensively solid squad, and couldn’t have asked for much more as he prepares for one last push for World Cup glory.
Mario Gómez
Club: VfB Stuttgart
Gómez missed out on a place in the victorious 2014 squad, having suffered a serious injury the previous season, so will be making up for lost time in 2018. He scored eight goals after rejoining Stuttgart in January, and will hope to follow in the footsteps of compatriot Miroslav Klose by winning the World Cup as a striker the wrong side of 30.
Club: Manchester City
Kompany might only be 32, but his injury record almost guarantees this will be his last World Cup. Still, if he wants to win the thing he’s got the right group of teammates around him. A Premier League title and a World Cup triumph in the same season? We wouldn’t rule it out.
Club: Leicester City
Yes, it’s England, and England don’t win things, but… maybe? Vardy’s last chance to win the World Cup will also be his first, and he’ll hope to do a bit more than fellow rags-to-riches story Rickie Lambert managed in 2014. He’s defied the odds before, and he can do it again. If not at least he’s still hero in Leicester with his own (semi-famous) lookalike.
Country: Colombia
Club: AS Monaco
Everyone’s perennial dark horses Colombia have been blessed with a competitive group and a potential second-round meeting with England – and after that, who knows. Falcao missed the 2014 World Cup with an ACL injury, but he’s fit and firing this time around, with more than 50 goals in his last two Monaco seasons.
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Fifth migrant child dies in custody after being detained at US-Mexico border
Posted by neha Published: May 21, 2019, 9:36 pm IST
Washington: The United States on Monday (local time) said that a 16-year-old boy from Guatemala died at a Border Patrol station in southern Texas, becoming the fifth death of migrant child since December last year.
In a statement, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the Border Patrol apprehended the teenager in Rio Grande Valley on May 13. The CBP said the teenager was found unresponsive on Monday morning during a welfare check, Al Jazeera reported.
The agency did not state why the teenager was detained for a week but said he was “due for placement” in a facility for youth operated by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
The incident happened less than a week following the death of a two-year-old child after he and his mother were detained by the Border Patrol.
According to the US and Guatemalan authorities, the small child died after several weeks in the hospital. Officials, at that time, were quoted as saying that the boy was suffering from very high fever and difficulty in breathing, and was later diagnosed with pneumonia at a children’s hospital.
“Four in six months is a clear pattern of willful, callous disregard for children’s lives,” Jess Morales Rocketto, chair of the advocacy group ‘Families Belong Together’ told Al Jazeera.
All five children who lost their lives after being apprehended by the Border Patrol so far were from Guatemala, a Latin American nation ravaged by organised crime and extortion, poverty, rampant corruption, and political turmoil.
More than 114,000 people from Guatemala have been apprehended by the Border Patrol between October and April.
In early in December last year, a seven-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin died of a bacterial infection under the US custody at the border.
An eight-year-old Felipe Gomez Alonzo died on the Christmas Eve of a flu infection. He had been detained with his father for a week before falling sick.
After Gomez Alonzo’s death, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would expand medical checks and ensure that all children in Border Patrol custody would receive “a more thorough hands-on assessment at the earliest possible time.”
Juan de Leon Gutierrez, 16, died on April 30 after officials noticed that he was sick at a youth detention facility operated by US Department of Health and Human Services.
The medical examiner in Corpus Christi, Texas, said Juan had been diagnosed with a rare condition known as Pott’s puffy tumour, which can be caused by a severe sinus infection or head trauma.
President Donald Trump’s administration has for months warned that the US immigration system was at a “breaking point.” The administration has asked for USD 4.5 billion in emergency humanitarian funding and urged Congress to change laws that would allow agencies to detain families longer and deport them more quickly.
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‘Click Interview’ with Mind.In.A.Box: ‘An Electronic Music-Movie For Your Mind’
Inferno Sound Diaries
Mind.In.A.Box has released its new album “Broken Legacies” on their own label THYX Records. It’s a new sonic voyage throughout futuristic- and psychedelic electronic-pop fields. The Austrian band set up and driven by the creative spirit of Stefan Poiss became an instant success after their debut work (cf. “Lost Alone”) released in 2004. Every new production only increased the recognition of the critics and the enthusiasm of the fans. I got in touch with Stefan Poiss to know a bit more about the new work.
Courtesy by Inferno Sound Diaries
Q: “Broken Legacies” is the newest Mind.In.A.Box album, which took 2 years to get achieved. Can you tell us a bit more about the procedure and the way it all happened to compose this work?
Stefan: There was no need to rush anything. I mean in the end only the quality counts. It just has to be as good as we can make it. So we really spend a lot of time fine tuning the album till we felt it was done.
For this album Josh Kreger wrote all the lyrics and also the story and I’m extremely pleased with it. He did a phenomenal job. But I expected nothing less from him if I’m honest.
Q: Are there some aspects of the production you wanted to improve? Or maybe change? And are there innovating elements running through the album as well?
Stefan: Some time ago I invested in new speakers and thats the first mind.in.a.box album I could mix on them. They are just amazing and they helped me a lot. Productionwise I still work like always. Adding stuff and removing what sounds bad.
Q: “Broken Legacies” has been introduced as ‘an album clarifying several major themes from previous albums’. It only becomes more confusing to me, so what is it all about?
Stefan: Yeah its not easy isn’t it? If you really want to understand it you have to read through all the stories we published, maybe several times. But even then I guess you have to ask me some questions.
“Broken Legacies” goes back in time about 20 years ago. It was even before “Lost Alone”. The Friend is this time our protagonist. He was the guy Mr. Black killed on the “Lost Alone”-album in the song “Forever Gone”. But he is not really gone. Don’t tell it to anyone.
Q: What does the title of the album reflect and how did you transpose this content into the artwork and the music?
Stefan: The Friend designed a system what the Agency is using to control everything. At that time he thought it was a good thing, but then he realized what he has done and joined the Rebels. Since then he is trying to repay his dept.
All the artwork was painted by Polina Sofronova. She is an unbelievable good painter. I Was very glad to had her onboard.
Q: You clearly are not a ‘typical’ electro-pop band so what’s your perception on electro-pop and where do you place M.I.A.B. on the map?
Stefan: Mind.in.a.box is more like an electronic music-movie for your mind. It’s more complicated but it still has some electro-pop elements. Its more soundtrack orientated.
Q: I don’t want to compare M.I.A.B. to another band because you simply are incomparable, but for the very first time I hear atmospheres, arrangements and even the vocals reminding me of Michael Cretu (Enigma). What makes your sound that ‘special’ and ‘different’ from other bands and did you find inspiration in the work of Cretu and/or other artists/genres?
Stefan: Cretu is for sure an amazing producer. I liked a lot the album what he released with Peter Cornelius, a famous Austrian singer years ago. I think our understand for music is like everything else branded in our childhood. And I listened mostly computer music from the demo scene at that time. Thats the reason I think why mind.in.a.box sounds different. You want to arrange the music-puzzle pieces like you learned it in your childhood.
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
Robertson Dean
Social Science, Public Policy
by Frank Delaney
These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell's letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The topics range from late-talking children to tax cuts for the rich, baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians. These topics are dealt with by drawing sometimes on history, sometimes on economics, and sometimes on a sense of humor.
"Engaging and accessible…Sowell's careful explicating of and grappling with issues allow his thoughts to be clearly exhibited, understood, and welcomed. Even leftist thinkers will appreciate Sowell's personal charm and intellectual rigor."—Publishers Weekly
by Eugene Cunningham
Written by Eugene Cunningham on February 26th, 2017
Some of the material is dated by 2017 but the important lessons still apply.
Sowell, Thomas
Bestselling author Thomas Sowell has been on the faculties of leading universities across the country, an economist in the corporate world and in government, and a scholar in residence at three think tanks. His books have been translated into nine languages, and his essays have appeared in "The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Forbes, " and "Fortune" and are syndicated to 150 newspapers. For the past two decades, he has been a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His Internet Web site is www.tsowell.com.
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Scunthorpe archer wins bronze medal at her first world championships
Victoria Rumary achieved new personal bests at the championships in Beijing and has her sights set on the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo
Victoria Rumary, pictured with the bronze medal she won at the world para-archery championships in Beijing and in action at the championships
A Scunthorpe archer has returned home from her first world championships with a bronze medal.
Victoria Rumary travelled to the Chinese capital, Beijing, for the world para-archery championships and achieved new personal bests on the way to finishing third.
Victoria is aiming to be selected for the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo and also competed at the 13th Juan Enrique Barrios Event in Puerto Rico earlier this year.
She was able to make the step up to international competition after being presented with a £2,700 specially-designed wheelchair following a joint fundraising operation between the four masonic lodges in Scunthorpe and the town’s Lions and Rotary clubs.
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Speaking after returning from China, she said: "I was so excited to be selected for the team. I am really pleased I was able to bring home a medal.
"I hope to keep improving and continue my journey towards the Tokyo Paralympics in 2020.
"I would like to thank all my family and friends for their support. I would also like to thank my sponsors, as their support is very valuable in helping me achieve my dream, of going to the Paralympics and competing in my archery.
"Thanks to North Lincolnshire Council community grant, Scunthorpe Lions, the Rotary clubs of Scunthorpe, Sports Aid, Custom Built Archery and the National Lottery."
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Arkansas drops 4,300 from Medicaid plan over new work rules
Originally published September 12, 2018 at 1:56 pm Updated September 12, 2018 at 4:08 pm
ANDREW DeMILLO
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas officials said Wednesday they’ve removed more than 4,300 people from the state’s expanded Medicaid program who didn’t meet a work requirement, making them the first in the nation to be kicked off Medicaid under a rule mandating they work to keep coverage.
The Arkansas Department of Human Services also said another 5,000 people on the program will lose coverage if they don’t meet the work requirement by the end of this month. Of the more than 62,000 people who were subject to the requirement last month, officials said the majority either met the requirement or were otherwise exempt.
Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he’d prefer to see more people complying with the requirement but defended the state’s efforts to reach out to beneficiaries about the rule. Hutchinson has advocated for the requirements as a way to move people into the workforce.
“Compassion and common sense says that this is a good program for those who are trying to move up the economic ladder and better themselves,” Hutchinson said. “It is also about providing assistance to those that need it and it is also about the value of work and responsibility.”
Arkansas was the first state to implement a Medicaid work requirement after the Trump administration said it would allow states to require participants to work to keep coverage. Kentucky was the first state to win approval for a work requirement, but a federal judge blocked the state from enforcing it. A similar challenge over Arkansas’ requirement is pending before the same judge.
Under Arkansas’ requirement, beneficiaries must report at least 80 hours of work each month for three months in a year. The requirement only applies to the state’s Medicaid expansion, which uses federal and state funds to purchase private insurance for low-income residents, and not the traditional Medicaid program. More than 265,000 people are on the state’s Medicaid expansion.
“To me, Arkansas is definitely a cautionary tale for all of these work requirements and particularly in states that have features that are going to make it even more likely that large numbers are going to lose coverage,” said Judy Solomon of the nonprofit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Once fully implemented, Arkansas’ requirement will affect able-bodied enrollees on the program, aged 19 to 49 years old, with no children. The requirement is being enforced on participants ages 30 to 49 this year and will expand to include those 19 to 29 years old next year.
Democrats and low-income advocates have said the state’s requirement that the hours worked be reported through a website penalizes people without access to the internet.
“It’s either stunningly bad, poorly designed, or it’s meant to kick people off,” Jared Henderson, a Democrat challenging Hutchinson in the November election, told reporters earlier Wednesday.
Hutchinson and state officials defended the online approach, saying that beneficiaries can also call one of 200 “registered reporters” at insurance carriers or other groups that can log in and report for them. The Department of Human Services said beneficiaries can also use computers at its county offices around the state.
“We always want to provide other avenues, and we’ve done that in this case,” Hutchinson said.
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Marrai tiebreaks his way to Laser gold at Kiel Week
by SVG Verlag on 25 Jun 2017
Francesco Marrai Laser class - Kiel Week Kieler Woche / segel-bilder.de
On a windy final day at Kiel Week, Francesco Marrai charged past his rivals to clinch Laser gold by the smallest of margins on the final day of Kiel Week.
Marrai’s fourth place in the Medal Race was sufficient to put him on equal points with Karl Martin Rammo, but it was the Italian’s better placing in the Medal Race that clinched victory ahead of the Estonian who had to settle for silver.
Marrai was beside himself with excitement. “To come into the race not wearing a bib [for one of the top three places] and to win here in Kiel Week is a dream come true. I remember watching Philipp Buhl win so easily here before, he is the master of Kiel, and I said to myself, one day I want to win like him, and here I am!” Buhl was hoping for another medal this week, and gold was well within his grasp. But after finishing last in the Medal Race the German fell to sixth overall, so close were the points in this 132-boat fleet.
Silvia Zennaro Laser Radial class - Kiel Week © Kieler Woche / okPress.de
In the Laser Radial, Silvia Zennaro of Italy dominated the week to win gold for Italy. The bigger battle was for silver and bronze between two Turkish team mates. Ecem Guzel won the Medal Race which was sufficient to give her silver, four points ahead of Nazli Donertas.
The duel for 470 Women’s gold went right down to the wire, with Frederike Loewe and Anna Markfort coming second in the Medal Race, ahead of Agnieszka Skrzypulec and Irmina Gliszczynska who were fourth. This put the two teams on equal points, but the tiebreak gave gold to Germany and silver to Poland.
It was much more straightforward in the Men’s 470. Mat Belcher and Will Ryan took a while to get up to full speed but the Aussie Olympic medallists ground down their opposition to win the 470 Medal Race and take the gold medal by 20 points ahead of the Russians, Pavel Sozykin and Denis Gribanov.
Deniss Karpak Finn class - Kiel Week © Kieler Woche / okPress.de
In the 49er FX, Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey won gold in fine style, winning the Medal Race and beating the Rio Olympic silver medallists - Alex Maloney and Molly Meech from New Zealand - into second place. Tidey commented: “We teamed up in January this year and we’ve been working our way up the colour of medals so to win the gold today feels great.” Dobson added: “We wanted to get a good start and then go wherever the Kiwi girls went. It’s so easy for things to change on this race course, it’s so gusty and shifty, and you can never take anything for granted.”
David Gilmour and Joel Turner have been the masters of the Men’s 49er for most of the week, the Australians winning comfortably ahead of Lukasz Przybytek and Pawel Ko?odzi?ski from Poland, with another Australian crew, brothers Will and Sam Phillips taking bronze. 49er rookie Robert Scheidt and Gabriel Borges started the week well, finishing the first day in third overall. But as the wind built during the week, so did Scheidt fall further down the fleet. However, the legendary five-time Olympic medallist from Brazil is still finding his feet on the skiff after a lifetime of sitting-down boats and he will gradually work out how to master the 49er, even at the ripe old age of 44.
Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan 470er class - Kiel Week © Kieler Woche / segel-bilder.de
Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medallist Thomas Zajac with new crew Barbara Matz has led the Nacra 17 fleet for most of the week and today the Austrians sealed the deal with victory in the Medal Race. Jan Erichsen and Ann Kristin Wedemeyer of Germany sailed to an easy silver ahead of bronze medallists from Russia, Maksim Semenov and Alina Shchetinkina.
Anders Pedersen sailed out of his skin to take the Finn medal race and almost managed to smash and grab his way to gold. But the Estonian Deniss Karpak did enough to clinch gold by two points from the charging Norwegian who took silver, just three points in front of Croatian sailor Nenad Bugarin. London 2012 Olympic Champion in the Star, Sweden’s Max Salminen started the day in pole position but slumped to fourth place, just a point off the podium.
David Gilmour ans Joel Turner 49er class - Kiel Week © Kieler Woche / segel-bilder.de
It’s been a wild, windy week in Kiel and there has been some impressive talent in the Olympic classes. Some of them will be back in a month’s time for the combined European Championships in the 49er, 49er FX and Nacra 17 classes. For the Nacra, it will be the first time that the Olympic catamaran will be up and flying on its full-foiling package.
Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey 49er FX Class - Kiel Week © Kieler Woche / segel-bilder.de
Thomas Zajac and Barbara Matz Nacra17 class - Kiel Week © Kieler Woche / segel-bilder.de
2.4mR (Para Worlds): (10) 1. Heiko Kröger (Ammersbek,4/2/4(5)5/1/1/3/1/5) Punkte 26; 2. Matthew Bugg (AUS,5(22)3/3/1/3/5/1/5/1) 27; 3. Damien Seguin (FRA,7/1/2/4/2/2/6/5(8)2) 31; 4. Bjørnar Erikstad (NOR,9(11)1/2/6/5/3/2/3/8) 39; 5. Antonio Squizzato (ITA,7.2/7.2/7/1/3/11(13)8/4/3) 51.4; 6. Bruno Jourdren (FRA,2/7(15)9/9/7/2/9/6/7) 58;
49er: (13) 1. David Gilmour / Joel Turner (AUS, 1/4/3/1(20)2/5/4/7/6/4/5/4) Punkte 46; 2. ?ukasz Przybytek / Pawe? Ko?odzi?ski (POL,5/7/2/3/10/6/3(21)1/5/10/10/14) 76; 3. Will Phillips / Sam Phillips (AUS,2/25/12/6(36)1/1/1/6/2/9/3/10) 78; 4. Erik Heil / Thomas Ploessel (Kiel,14/1/3/5/6/5/2/13/12,2/14(36)4/6) 85.2; 5. Jacopo Plazzi / Andrea Tesei (ITA,7/6(19)10/8/9/9/5/10/1/1/11/12) 89; 6. Justus Schmidt / Max Boehme (Kiel,(36)19/6/2/3/12/6/2/13/4/15/8/2) 92; 7. Uberto Crivelli Visconti / Gianmarco Togni (ITA, 3/8/11/7(22)13/14/10/4/3/6/2/16) 97; 8. Dominik Buksak / Szymon Wierzbicki (POL,10/2/5/3/10(36)11/8/23/7/3/12/8) 102; 9. Mads Emil Stephensen Lübeck / Nikolaj Hoffmann Buhl (POL,13/9(28)2/2/3/8/3/12/19/12/1/22) 106; 10. Jorge Lima / José Luis Costa (POR,(36)4/16/4/4/10/12/7/2/11/7/15/18) 110;
49er FX: (13) 1. Charlotte Dobson / Saskia Tidey (GBR,(16)4/5/1/3/11/4/1/5/5/1/2/2) Punkte 44; 2. Alexandra Maloney / Molly Meech (NZL,4/1(17)3/11/2/1/2/1/6/10/8/8) 57; 3. Enia Nincevic / Petar Cupac (CRO,15/6/4/4/1/4(25)5/18/2/4/4/4) 71; 4. Tina Lutz / Susann Beucke (GER,1/5/16/3/3/2/6/4/9/8(20)3/16) 76; 5. Noora Ruskola / David Liebenberg (FIN,13(19)11/6/8/7/2/6/11/1/8/1/6) 80; 6. Victoria Jurczok / Anika Lorenz (Kiel,(25)1/1/4/4/1/10/11/13/13/5/5/12) 80; 7. Gwendal Lamay / Luke Willim (Hamburg,10/8/7/2/6/4/5/12/2/3(13)10/18) 87; 8. Kate Macgregor / Sophie Ainsworth (GBR,2/11/6/11/2/8/7/3(17)7/9/11/14) 91; 9. Klara Wester / Rebecca Netzler (SWE,7/5/5/12/4(15)3/14/3/4/6/13/22) 98; 10. Dewi Couvert / Jeske Kisters (NED,5/10/14/1/2/12/9/9/4/10(18)17/10 )103;
Nacra 17: (15) 1. Thomas Zajac / Barbara Matz (AUT,(4)1/1/1/1/3/4/3/1/2/1/2/1/1/2) Punkte 24; 2. Jan Hauke Erichsen / Ann Kristin Wedemeyer (Flensburg,1/3/3/2/2/1/3/1/3/3(16)1/3/2/6) 34; 3. Maksim Semenov / Alina Shchetinkina (RUS,3(6)2/6/3/4/1/2/2/4/5/3/2/6/5) 48; 4. Alica Stuhlemmer / Tom Heinrich (Kiel,(5(7)5/3/7/5/2/4/6/1/3/5/7/5/8) 66; 5. Kevin Bonnevie / Isaura Maenhaut (BEL,2/2/4(16)4/8/6/6/5/9/2/4/4/9/10) 75; 6. Viatcheslav Sheludyakov / Kristina Sulima (RUS, 7/5/8/4/5/2(10)5/4/6/7/8/6/7/22) 96; 7. Shibuki Iitsuka (JPN,6/4/6/7/6/6/8/7/7/7/6(10)5/4/22) 101; 8. Anne-Line Lyngsø Thomsen / Jakob Faarvang (DEN,9/8/10/5/8/7/5/7.4/7.4/7.4/4/7(11)3/14) 102.2; 9. Calle Sørensen / Malene Christensen (DEN,11/10(13)8/9/10/12/10/8/5/8/9/10/10/22) 142; 10. Alex Philpott / Jess D-Arcy (GBR,13/13/9/12/10/11/7(16)16/16/16/6/9/8/12) 158;
Finn: (10) 1. Deniss Karpak (EST,3/1/5/1/3/2/4(37)8/10) Punkte 37; 2. Anders Pedersen (NOR,(10)6/8/5/2/5/3/6/2/2) 39; 3. Nenad Bugarin (CRO,2/2/3(10)8/10/2/5/6/4) 42; 4. Max Salminen (SWE,(11)7/1/2/1/1/11/3/1/16) 43; 5. Josip Olujic (CRO,5(21)2/6/5/4/6/7/3/18) 56; 6. Milan Vujasinovic (CRO,9/4/7/8(37)3/7/4/4/12) 58; 7. Piotr Kula (POL,16/5/4/3/7/7/9(37)5/14) 70; 8. Arkadiy Kistanov (RUS,6/8/10/7/4/6/5(37)11/20) 77; 9. Luke Muller (USA,1/16/6/21/11/14/8/1(37)8) 86; 10. Peter Mccoy (GBR,(37)22/9/11/6/16/1/8/9/6) 88;
470 M: (9) 1. Mathew Belcher / Will Ryan (AUS,2/2/1/1/1/1(3)2/2) Punkte 12; 2. Pavel Sozykin / Denis Gribanov (RUS,9(10)2/2/2/4/1/8/4) 32; 3. Daichi Takayama / Kimihiko Imamura (JPN,5/9/4/6/6/2(28)3/6) 41; 4. Simon Diesch / Philipp Autenrieth (Deggenhausertal,7/4/3/3(28)6/4/1/16) 44; 5. David Bargehr / Lukas Mähr (AUT,3/1(8)5/8/7/8/5/10) 47; 6. Malte Winkel / Matti Cipra (Schwerin,1(28)5/8/3/5/7/4/14) 47; 7. Kazuto Doi / Naoya Kimura (JPN,6(28)6/4/4/3/2/7/18) 50; 8. Chris Charlwood / Josh Dawson (AUS,13/3/7/7/5(16)5/6/8) 54; 9. Sho Kaminoki / Taisei Hikida (JPN,4/8/13/12(20)9/6/10/12) 74; 10. Maciej Sapiejka / Adam Krefft (POL,8/7/9/9/7/11/9(12)20) 80;
470 W: (9) 1. Frederike Loewe / Anna Markfort (Greifswald,2/1(4)2/3/3/1/4/4) Punkte 20; 2. Agnieszka Skrzypulec / Irmina Mrózek Gliszczynska (POL,3(8)1/1/1/1/3/2/8) 20; 3. Fabienne Oster / Anastasiya Krasko (Hamburg,9/4/3/6(19)2/4/5/2) 35; 4. Carrie Smith / Jaime Ryan (AUS,1/5(7)7/2/4/2/3/16) 40; 5. Nia Jerwood / Monique De Vries (AUS,6(9)6/5/4/6/5/1/12) 45; 6. Nadine Böhm / Ann- Christin Goliaß (Buchloe,4/2/2/4/5/7(9)7/14) 45; 7. Luise Wanser / Helena Wanser (Hamburg,5/7(12)8/8/9/7/6/6) 56; 8. Theres Dahnke / Birte Winkel (Plau)7/3/9/9/7(10)6/10/10) 61; 9. Olivia Bergström / Lovisa Karlsson (SWE,11(15)5/3/6/5/8/11/20) 69; 10. Constanze Stolz / Anna Reinsberg (Kiel,8/14/8(15)9/11/10/8/18) 86;
Laser Standard: (10) 1. Francesco Marrai (ITA,2/4/1/4/2/3/6(12)4/8) Punkte 34; 2. Karl-Martin Rammo (EST,(8)2/1/1/1/4/3/3/3/16) 34; 3. Jack Wetherell (GBR,4(10)4/3/3/4/9/9/1/2) 39; 4. Hermann Tomasgaard (NOR,1(11)3/2/4/2/5/6/2/14) 39; 5. Sergei Komissarov (RUS,2/7/3/3/3/1/12(13)7/4) 42; 6. Philipp Buhl (Sonthofen,3(19)2/1/1/1/1/4/9/20) 42; 7. Maxim Nikolaev (RUS,2/10/1/5/4/3/10/10(16)6) 51; 8. Enrique Arathoon (ESA,1/8/2/1/1/2/22/7(45)12) 56; 9. Filip Ciszkiewicz (POL,6/9/5/2/5/15/2(40)11/10) 65; 10. Eliot Merceron (FRA,11(13)6/8/2/9/4/2/6/18) 66;
Laser Radial: (9) 1. Silvia Zennaro (ITA,1(8)1/1/1/1/5/1/14) Punkte 25; 2. Ecem Guzel (TUR,8(12)2/2/3/4/9/10/2) 40; 3. Nazli Cagla Donertas (TUR,(38)14/1/1/3/3/1/3/18) 44; 4. Joyce Floridia (ITA,(38)2/7/4/2/11/8/5/8) 47; 5. Vasileia Karachaliou (GRE,1/1/9/6/8(10)2/4/16) 47; 6. Erika Reineke (USA,3/3/9/7/6/6/13(14)4) 51; 7. Maria Erdi (HUN,12(38)4/3/4/9/7/2/12) 53; 8. Tatiana Drozdovskaya (BLR,10/5/7/7/5/2(18)11/10) 57; 9. Haddon Hughes (USA,(32)18/3/2/1/5/11/12/6) 58; 10. Svenja Weger (Potsdam,5/1/6/9/10/8/16(26)20) 75;
Hansa 303 M: (9) 1. Piotr Cichocki (POL,(2)2/1/1/1/1/1/1/1) Punkte 9; 2. Christopher Symonds (AUS,1/1(11)2/2/2/3/3/6) 20; 3. Jens Kroker (Hamburg,(7)3/2/3/3/3/4/2/2) 22; 4. Jingkun Xu (CHN,3/13/5(13.5,5/6/2/4/8) 46; 5. Chang Hoon Lee (KOR,9/7(26)8/7/13/5/7/3) 59; 6. Sergio Roig Alzamora (ESP,11/6/7/4/4/11(12)12/7) 62;
Hansa 303 W: (9) 1. Violeta Del Reino Diez Del Valle (ESP,3/3/1/2/2(5)1/3/1) Punkte 16; 2. Ana Paula Gonçalves Marques (BRA,3(8)2/4/3/8/3/5/4) 32; 3. Cherrie Pinpin (PHI,(9)6/3/9/1/3/2/7/5) 36; 4. Clytie Bernardo (PHI,5/4(11)5/9/2/7/2/2) 36; 5. Jana Mestre (ESP,7/6(11)1/6/6/5/4/3) 38; 6. Magali Moraines (FRA,1/3/7/6(8)4/6/6/6) 39;
420er: (10) 1. Telis Athanasopoulos Yogo / Dimitrios Tassios (GRE,1/1/2/2/1/1/1/3(5)5) Punkte 17; 2. Enzo Balanger / Gaultier Tallieu (FRA,(7)3/3/2/1/2/2/7/3/2) 25; 3. Lennart Kuss / Paul Arp (Rostock,4/2/1/5/5/3/2/4/1(11)) 27; 4. Daniel Göttlich / Linus Klasen (Berlin,1/1/1/1/2/1/1/12/12(46)) 32; 5. Matt Logue / Shawn Harvey (USA,8(47)8/6/7/3/4/6/2/1) 45; 6. Yannis Saje / Lukas Haberl (AUT,9/2/4(14)4/7/3/2/8/7) 46;
Melges 24: (8) 1. Lennart Burke / Johan Müller, Valentin Ahlhaus, Daniel Schmidt, Thore Petersen (Nisdorf,(11)1/3/2/1/1/1/1) Punkte 10; 2. Jan Kähler / Thorsten Glabisch, Ole Harder, Knud Stegelmann, Tina Lülfink (Hamburg,(11)3/2/3/3/2/3/3) 19; 3. Stefan Gründler / Franzi Vosswinkel, Henriette Werneyer, Johannes Beyer, Kai Harder (Ammersbek,1/2/1/1(11)11/2/2) 20; 4. Martin Thiermann / Nico Lehmann, Max Thiermann, Mareike Thiesen (Nürnberg,2/4/7/5/2/4/4(11)) 28; 5. Marcus Moerchen / Max Merz, Fernando Dinkelmeyer, Jonas Frei (Weißenburg,(6)6/4/6/6/3/5/4) 34; 6. Pascal Radue / Calvin Lim, Pu Fang Ching, Wei Chong Tan, Jens Rohn (GBR,3/5/6/7/4/6/6(11)) 37;
J/70: (8) 1. Jens Marten / Justus Braatz, Terje Klockemann, Tobias Strenge (Eckernförde,(27)1/3/2/1/1/7/1) Punkte 16; 2. Gordon Nickel / Morten Nickel, Nils Merten Färber, Sebastian Röske (Stade,1/2/7/3(36)13/5/3) 34; 3. Philipp Bruhns / Valentin Gebhardt, Sven Rüggesiek, Moritz Bruhns (Berlin,3/9/1/6(14)4/2/11) 36; 4. Björn Beilken / Alexander Beilken, Jork Homeyer, Tobias Teichmann (Berne,(31)10/2/4/3/5/3/15) 42; 5. Peter Kohlhoff / Sören Brandt, Max Kleinsorg, Melanie Kohlhoff (Strande,2(44)12/11/10/2/9/2) 48; 6. Martin Fahr / Carsten Jacob, Florian Triebel, Jörg Wenzel (Berlin,5/16/8/1/13/10(29)4) 57;
J/80: (8) 1. Martin Menzner / Frank Lichte, Mika Rolfs, Nils Beltermann (Stein,4/1/1/1/1/1/2(22)) Punkte 11; 2. Hauke Krüss / Ole Sartori, Fritz Waßner, Bernd Ehler (Helgoland,3/2/3/2/3(4)1/2) 16; 3. Ulf Pleßmann / Katrin Jahncke, Carsten Vollmer, Andreas Benkert (Jork,2/3/2(4)2/3/4/1) 17; 4. Olav Jansen / Peer Jansen, Finn Jansen, Lars Kahl (Strande,1/4(22)5/4/2/8/5) 29; 5. Torsten Voss / Rainer Bläß, Rainer Stiemke, Roland V. Franco (Flensburg,(8)5/4/3/6/6/3/3) 30; 6. Tim Huemme / Gesa Lüthje, Christian Knop, Peer Lüthje (Eutin,5(12)5/8/7/7/9/4) 45;
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Nacra 15 Gold for Australia at Youth Worlds
Nacra 15 Gold for Australia at Youth Worlds Australian Sailing's Will Cooley and Rebecca Hancock have won gold in the Mixed Nacra 15 at the 2019 Hempel Youth Sailing World Championships in Gdynia, Poland with one day to spare.
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“At this point, based on an initial review of the situation, it appears that no county resources have been improperly used and no county policies have been violated,” Buckshi said Friday.
The county has not received any complaints or claims about the relationship, he said.
The other four supervisors have been informed of the issue, Buckshi said.
Aispuro, who is in her early 50s, will be reassigned to a different county department, Buckshi said. She has worked for the county for more than 20 years, including in the Clerk-Recorder’s Office, and has been Gibson’s legislative assistant since he took office in January 2007.
Gibson interviewed her and hired her as his assistant. He said the affair started later but would not be more specific, calling it a private matter. He would not say whether the relationship is ongoing.
Gibson has no plans to resign from the board — he has two more years left in his term representing the North Coast and part of San Luis Obispo — but he apologized to his constituents for causing a “breach of trust” and said he’d work to rebuild it.
“Outside the hurt that I have caused in my family, I am embarrassed at the breach of trust that I have caused to occur with my constituents,” he said. “Being an elected official does depend on a degree of trust between constituents and elected officials, and I feel this relationship and my concealment of it will cause people to question my integrity.”
Gibson said he came forward now because, after telling his wife, he figured the news would spread.
He rejected any idea that the affair took him or Aispuro away from their county responsibilities.
“Both Cherie and I gave 110 percent to this job,” he said. “It’s something we feel is important.”
Gibson wouldn’t comment on how long he and his wife, San Luis Obispo doctor Grace Crittenden, have been married. They have two grown sons and have lived in the North Coast since 1989.
Gibson said he is living with his parents outside Cambria. Aispuro is living temporarily in Paso Robles. She is on vacation this week and could not be reached to comment.
The county doesn’t have a written policy that prohibits county employees from having relationships, nor does it have a policy requiring employees to disclose personal relationships, Neal said.
However, he said, “If we become aware of a relationship, we try to take steps to reassign one of those employees,” she added.
Officials are still trying to determine where Aispuro will be placed.
Her salary and benefits, though, will continue to be paid for out of the Board of Supervisors’ budget, so at least initially there won’t be a financial impact on another department, Neal said.
Her salary is $68,890 annually, the same as the other legislative assistants.
Buckshi said the county has about 100 vacant positions, with recruitment starting for 19 of them. Once Aispuro moves into a new, permanent position, her associated costs would be paid for by that department, he said.
Neal has been studying travel claims and emails starting when Gibson was elected. She has found thousands of business-related emails between him and Aispuro, but no personal emails. She also searched their computer drives for any inappropriate photos or documents, but hasn’t found anything there either.
In addition, she is reviewing claims Gibson and Aispuro filed for various conferences and other travel-related expenses to make sure all travel was appropriate and within the bounds of their jobs.
Gibson annually attends a conference held by the California State Association of Counties, and Aispuro has attended once or twice with other legislative assistants, Neal said. Neal verified that in those cases, Aispuro stayed in a room with other female legislative assistants.
Neal met with Gibson and Aispuro separately to confirm that the relationship was consensual.
For his part, Gibson called his relationship with Aispuro “a matter of the heart” and asked for privacy.
“It’s obvious that I can’t completely separate my personal life from public life,” he said, “but it is a personal matter and I hope that everybody involved — myself, my wife, my family, Cherie — can be left (alone) to deal with the consequences of this.”
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Tali Joan Segal
moc.walsmfs@lagest
Tali Joan Segal joined SFMS in 2003. Tali is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as well as numerous federal courts, including the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In addition to these courts and jurisdictions, Tali has worked on cases with local counsel and co-counsel throughout the country.
Tali's practice is concentrated on representing clients in securities fraud, consumer fraud, unsuitable trading/churning cases and antitrust cases. She also has been extensively involved in prosecuting the Average Wholesale Price (AWP) pharmaceutical multidistrict litigation and other unfair trade practice cases.
Tali earned her undergraduate degree from Emory University (B.A. 1982), where she was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and where she served as an award-winning editor-in-chief of the university newspaper, The Emory Wheel. She also served as an assistant to former President Jimmy Carter while at Emory. Tali earned her law degree from the National Law Center, George Washington University (J.D. 1986), following which, she served an administrative law clerkship with the Honorable Ralph A. Romano of the U.S. Department of Labor. After her clerkship, Tali practiced as a commercial litigator and corporate transactional lawyer with the Philadelphia firms of Markowitz & Meo, P.C. (later Markowitz, Meo, Silberman & Raslavitch, P.C.) and Rawle & Henderson. She also established and was the managing attorney of Markovitz & Meo's New Jersey office. Prior to joining SFMS, Tali concentrated her practice in complex and general commercial, business and civil litigation, including construction law and bankruptcy law, and also served as an arbitrator for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
Tali resides in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania with her family and is involved in many community activities.
Unsuitable Trading/Churning Cases and Antitrust Cases
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Certified Legal Specialties
George Washington University National Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia
J.D. - 1986
B.A. - 1982
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
Honors: Served as an Award-Winning Editor-in-Chief of the University Newspaper, The Emory Wheel
Honors: Served as an Assistant to Former President Jimmy Carter
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Pension investors: Are you asking the right question?
Surging equity values have helped shore up pension pots in the last 12 months, prompting fears of a correction, but anticipating the market’s next move is a bad idea.
Article updated: 21 November 2017 at 10:00am Author: Pascal Dowling
The average pension pot hit £49,988 in 2017 – an increase of 40.3% on the size of the previous year’s average pot – according to research published by retirement specialist Aegon earlier this year.
Increased awareness of the need to save for retirement and the introduction of autoenrolment have contributed to this growth in provision, but the strength of the bull market which we have seen in recent years, and the effect this has had on pension portfolios, cannot be ignored.
The FTSE 100, the index representing the UK’s largest companies, and its American equivalent – the S&P 500 – have both hit record highs repeatedly in 2017, and the 42% increase recorded by the MSCI World index since the start of 20161 corresponds almost exactly with the increase that the average pension pot has seen in its value between 2016-17.
This is good news if you’re lucky enough to be one of the pension investors who’ve benefited from this increase, but it is tempting to wonder at this stage what the next phase of this market might be, and to ask whether now is the time to lock in those gains which have already been made.
There are various ways to do this. You can pull your money out of the funds you’re invested in, and hold it as cash – but you’ll miss out on any further gains from the market – or you can reallocate to funds which you think are better placed to cope with a downturn; those with more diversified assets, or those with flexible, capital preservation focused mandates.
But should you? Unfortunately, there is no right answer. Common sense suggests that after a period of such strong performance we are likely to see a correction, and there is no shortage of commentary in the media suggesting a correction is ‘due’, as if there were a celestial timetable for this, privy only journalists.
Common sense, and the newspapers, point to clear threats to the health of the current bull market. The UK could crash out of the European Union without a deal. The standoff between North Korea and the United States could go nuclear. China’s financial system could collapse.
Common sense is a false friend, however, which saw many investors – me included – running for the hills in June last year, dumping UK equities and heading for safe havens like gold and US treasuries, when the Brexit vote came back in favour of leaving the European Union. The FTSE All-Share has rallied by almost 30% since.
And it’s not a one-sided argument. Anatole Kaletsky, chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and chief investment officer at Gavekal Economics, argues in a paper he published earlier this week that, far from being the peak of a bull market, we are in the midst of a structural expansion which has many years left to run.
For the first time since 2008, he argues, the US, Europe, China, and most other big emerging markets are experiencing decently strong economic growth without threats to financial stability. He thinks emerging markets and Europe, in particular, are well positioned to benefit from what he describes as ‘a world economy firing on full cylinders’.
In Europe, he says, fears that the EU’s banking system might collapse were put to bed by Mario Draghi’s QE program, and fears that the political unity of Europe would dissolve in the wake of Brexit were proved untrue in the French elections, putting the continent in good shape at least until the next election cycle in four or five-years’ time.
In China, with the economy recovering strongly, fears of a Chinese banking or currency crisis have dissipated and the country – as the world’s largest exporter – looks set to benefit from the global recovery.
The fact that these signals are so conflicting is frustrating, until you realise you’re asking the wrong question. Trying to work out which way the market is going to go is a mug’s game, and there’s no evidence to suggest that anybody has been consistently able to do so, ever.
The question pensions investors should be asking themselves instead, as the market surges to new heights, is: when do I hope to retire?
Pascal Dowling
The answer gives you a much clearer idea of whether now is a good time to lock in the gains you’ve made in recent years and take some risk off the table, or whether you should brave these giddy heights and stay invested.
Volatility is the key here. The closer you are to your retirement date, the more it matters, and over the next few weeks I will be looking at funds across this spectrum – highlighting those which may be suitable for investors at the start of their pensions ‘journey’, and moving on to those which offer a more diversified, lower volatility approach that may be preferable for those who are closer to the end. Finally, I will look at funds which offer the kind of characteristics a pensioner might look for after they retire; a regular, predictable income and a solid focus on capital preservation.
In the meantime, I’ll be resisting the urge to time the market...
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Marketing & Communications Director, Kepler Partners
Pascal oversees marketing and PR activity at Kepler Partners and runs Investment Trust Intelligence, an online research hub for professional and private investors. His background is in financial journalism and he used to manage retail fund research website, FE Trustnet.
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By Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts
Published: New Press - April 3rd, 2018
A wholly original, well-researched examination of the memory of slavery in this country from its abolition to the present. The authors use the city of Charleston in South Carolina as a lens to show that following the Civil War there emerged two distinct threads as to how slavery would come to be remembered. One thread was that of the romanticized memory of the Old South put forth by descendants of the former slaveholders and the other thread was an unvarnished account of the brutality of slavery that came from the descendants of the former slaves and some white allies. These two narratives continued to evolve, become entrenched, and even intertwine so that as the authors follow the threads within the community of Charleston over time they provide a vital key to the understanding of many of the current events which continue to divide our nation in the present day.
Adjustment Day (Hardcover)
By Chuck Palahniuk
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 2018
This is Palahniuk at his best. A completely (hopefully) insane scenario where our country runs amok when a group of men decide to overthrow the government and those they brand as elitist with violence and install themselves as the new ruling class and then divide the United States into three regions based on race and sexual orientation. As improbable as many of the things that come to pass are in this novel, Palahniuk deftly skewers the subconscious of our society and seemingly has a great time doing it. The reader will have a great time too and one can only shake their head and laugh to themselves while marveling at what a wild genius this writer is.
The Mars Room: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Rachel Kushner
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Published: Scribner - May 2018
Two time National Book Award finalist, Kushner will continue to astound readers with her third novel. It is a fierce, unflinching look at life in prison featuring a female cast of characters who don't claim to be innocent but remain fully realized people shown in all their humanity. At times the story is harrowing but it can also be funny and ultimately it is so well observed that one feels a real sense that this is how it must be to live your life behind bars without hope of parole. Highly recommended.
Welcome to Lagos (Hardcover)
By Chibundu Onuzo
Published: Catapult - May 2018
A stellar debut novel from a rising star we are bound to hear more from in the future. With a killer title like that and being Nigerian you had better nail it and Onuzo definitely backs it up. Chike Ameobi is an army officer fighting the rebellion in the Niger Delta but when he is asked to kill innocent civilians he and one of his platoon members decide to desert. No sooner than they escape the war zone Chike finds himself becoming the de-facto leader of a new rag tag crew of runaways looking for a fresh start in Lagos. The city comes alive in Onuzo’s deft hands and the result is a tale that will stay with you for some time.
A Shout in the Ruins (Hardcover)
By Kevin Powers
Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 15th, 2018
It's still pretty early in the year but I'm pretty confident when I say that this will be one of the best works of fiction you are likely to read in 2018. Kevin Powers announced his arrival on the literary scene with his debut Yellow Birds, a powerful novel of modern war which went on to be a finalist for the National Book Award. Now he returns with a searing story of the Civil War and its long aftermath. Spanning over one hundred years and featuring a cast of characters whose lives are interwoven seamlessly, A Shout in the Ruins is a stunning achievement.
The Lost Country (Hardcover)
By William Gay
Published: Dzanc Books - July 10th, 2018
Like so many fans of William Gay's work I've been waiting to read this seemingly mythical work, The Lost Country, for a quite some time. Gay's elegiac prose sings once again as he breaths life into his characters and mines his patch of soil with the skill of the old masters. The Lost Country is the story of Billy Edgewater and his hard journey through a post World War II South filled with the downtrodden - hucksters, racists, drunks, bad or lost men and women - all trying to make it in a harsh rural setting that is unforgiving yet beautiful.
My Ex-Life: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Stephen McCauley
Published: Flatiron Books - May 8th, 2018
I so loved this charming novel. It's the perfect summer read. Julie and David were briefly married utill she lost a baby and he realized he was gay. It's now been almost 30 years since they've seen or talked to each other but as she's getting divorced from her second husband and he's reeling from the break up with his long time partner they find that they may be able to help one another. A tender, sharp-witted tale of family, mid-life crisis, and second chances. Brilliantly done.
Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey Into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music (Hardcover)
By Christopher C. King
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 29th, 2018
King is a well known musicologist and a rabid 78 rpm record collector who brings his passion for forgotten but pure music to this quirky odyssey which delves into history and traditions of a little known place called Epirus. Straddling Albania and Greece, this region is the source of a strange and hypnotic folk music which the author discovered after acquiring a few records overseas. Once he hears that the traditional songs are still played today virtually unchanged since the last century, he decides that he must go there and so begins a fascinating journey.
Anatomy of a Miracle: A Novel* (Hardcover)
By Jonathan Miles
Published: Hogarth - March 13th, 2018
This is a wild and winning work of literature presented as a blend of fiction and reportage that tells the story of Cameron Harris, a twenty six year old army vet rendered a paraplegic who after four years in a wheelchair suddenly walks again. As the news spreads of his immaculate recovery while waiting outside of a convenience store in Biloxi, Harris must grapple with the ideas of faith, identity, celebrity, and ultimately the secrets each of us harbor deep within ourselves. Miles has deftly crafted a madcap novel skewering our contemporary culture which is perfect for this hyper social age in which we live.
Eat the Apple (Hardcover)
By Matt Young
Published: Bloomsbury USA - February 27th, 2018
Matt Young enlisted in 2005 and was deployed on three tours to Iraq so he is well qualified to give an insiders view of the inner mechanics of the day to day experience of the modern day soldier. Perhaps this in itself would be enough to peek your interest but here's the thing—Young can flat out write and he employs an innovative blend of styles that results in a brutally honest and compelling look at what it is like to serve in the armed forces during the longest period of war in the history of this country.
King Zeno: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Nathaniel Rich
Published: MCD - January 9th, 2018
Finally, New Orleans has the great novel it deserves. The birth of Jazz, the infamous Axeman murders. the Spanish Influenza epidemic, the social stratification and its undercurrents that have always held sway over the city are all a part of the story here. Nathaniel Rich delivers a beautiful, haunting tale full of great characters that will linger in your mind just like the fabled music born in the crescent city.
Brass: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Xhenet Aliu
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Published: Random House - January 23rd, 2018
This debut novel is gritty, real, and brave just like the characters and the community from which they come. Aliu mines her hometown of Waterbury, CT and her family's Lithuanian/Albanian heritage to spin a compelling coming of age story full of heart and humanity. Reminiscent of the work of Andre Dubus III in its toughness and working class roots, Brass delivers a voice and a story that is wholly original.
The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream (Hardcover)
By Bryan Mealer
Published: Flatiron Books - February 6th, 2018
This is the fascinating story of Mealer's family over the course of several generations. Like many American families in the late 19th and early 20th century they migrated west and settled in Texas hoping to find land, oil, and wealth. As Mealer tells his clan's tale he vividly recreates the occasional booms and mostly busts, the boll weevil infestations and dust storms, the Great Depression and the World Wars, all of which affected this tight knit group of survivors. The result is a sweeping history filled with rough people and wild tales that will stay with you for some time.
Don't Skip Out on Me: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Willy Vlautin
Published: Harper Perennial - February 13th, 2018
Willy Vlautin always manages to throw light on the invisible working class scraping by and trying to catch up with their dreams of a life and an America that is seemingly just out of reach. His latest novel is the story of Horace Hopper, a loner who wants more than anything to become a champion boxer. As we follow Horace on his journey from the mountains of Nevada to Arizona then Mexico and ultimately Las Vegas, we see him struggle to make it on the circuit only to find out that in the end you can't change who you really are. Beautiful, heart-wrenching yet full of tenderness and compassion.
Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces (Hardcover)
By Dawn Davies
Published: Flatiron Books - January 30th, 2018
A powerful and devastatingly honest book. A memoir in pieces is the subtitle and that's an excellent way to describe the construction of Davies's essay length vignettes that she uses to tell the story of her life. From being a small child who moves too often with her family, to being a young woman finding her way in the world, to raising children her own particular way, we see Davies bare all with sharp writing and hard earned insight.
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Wide area multilateration: a multitude of antennas instead of radar dishes
Götz Ardey is an engineer with a doctorate in aerospace sciences from the University of Braunschweig, Germany, and an MBA from Cranfield UK. He joined skyguide in 2012 and is currently head of the Communication, Navigation and Surveillance division (CNS Services). As such, he is responsible for implementing the Wide Area Multilateration technology (WAM), which will replace the conventional secondary Radar technology in civil aviation. As Ardey explains, “WAM constitutes a surveillance solution superior to Radar in respect of cost and performance.”
SKYGUIDE : First, could you explain whatMultilateration is?
GÖTZ ARDEY Multilateration is aproven surveillance technology consisting of a network of antennas connected to a central processing and tracking system that can determine positions of aircraft equipped with a transponder. Widely adopted for airport ground surveillance, a number of implementations for coverage of larger airspaces have been achieved in the last years across several ANSPs, to complete but also to replace conventional secondary Radar.
For which reason is skyguide replacing conventional Radar with WAM technology?
GA Secondary Radars represent a mature and robust technology that is in use for surveillance purposes all over the world. However, the technology has properties that can turn into advantages or disadvantages, highly depending on the kind of deployment of the Radar. For example, since Radar signals behave like normal light, they can be blocked
or reflected by obstacles. With mountains and lakes, Switzerland presents a very demanding geographical environment and requires a relatively large number of expensive Radars in order to cover its airspace. WAM works with a larger network of small antennas distributed in valleys and on the mountains. Therefore, they light up the airspace in a more efficient and flexible way: WAM constitutes a surveillance solution for skyguide superior to Radar
in respect of cost and performance.
Why is the WAMS.CH programme needed to introduce WAM technology?
GA This transformation of technologies will take some years and will have to follow and adapt to possibly changing targets and constraints. A single project setup embracing such dimensions and uncertainties would be very difficult to manage. The WAMS.CH programme is suitable for supporting the WAM implementation and related projects
and ensuring that at the end, these will deliver the expected results.
What are the main steps of this programme?
GA The deployments will have to be completed before the legacy Radars come to their end of life, including a period of parallel operation to ensure accuracy and stability of the WAM system. First, we will deploy WAM for the need of the coverage of the terminal control areas of Zurich and Geneva until 2020. The rest of Switzerland will follow until 2022. Other projects may then be considered to exploit the WAM capabilities for new functionalities and demands. Apart from the Multilateration, the programme will also facilitate the use of Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B).
« Wam constitutes a surveillance solution for skyguide superior to radar in respect of cost and performance »
Why invest in WAM instead of jumping directly to the more advanced ADS-B?
GA The ADS-B system is expected to become a major surveillance technology for civil use worldwide. This technology relies essentially on satellite based navigation systems, which allow aircraft equipped with dedicated transponders to broadcast their position and other data. This means that the determination of the aircraft’s position depends on the
aircraft’s own avionics. Although ADS-B will become mandatory in Europe and the US by June 2020, exemptions and exceptions (e.g. military aircraft, old and ferry flights) will limit the use of ADS-B. In order to ensure coverage of all traffic, the need for surveillance systems will still exist. WAM is a suitable solution to prepare for ADS-B: every single Multilateration sensor is de-facto an ADS-B receiver. By implementing WAM, a network of ADS-B coverage stations will be available, creating the opportunity to implement ADS-B in parallel.
What will be the main challenges?
GA WAM will have to be ready to ensure continuity of the surveillance service before our ageing Radars will arrive at the end of life. There is a certain urgency to get the first WAM projects implemented to ensure a seamless transition while minimizing the risks and bringing the expected operational and financial benefits. The transition from a Radar-centric to a more holistic view will demand a review of the business and operational requirements to define for which ATM services the surveillance picture is needed.
Are there any risks linked to WAM? And how do you mitigate them?
GA While we are pushing forward to implement Multilateration, we need to ensure a flawless performance of this new surveillance system. That’s why we are planning to have a longer phase of parallel operation to compare the output of the new technology with the previous one. Moreover, our neighbours at Austro Control have already been operating a WAM system for the last four years. We are very fortunate and proud to extend our close relations with Austro Control into our WAM deployment where they will be supporting us with their expertise in the planning and roll- out phases.
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Colorful self-made billionaire H. Ross Perot dies at 89
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Texas billionaire and two-time presidential candidate H. Ross Perot has died at the age of 89.
Former presidential candidate Ross Perot addressed the first California statewide convention of the Reform Party, a new political party he founded, in June 1996, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles. Perot, the Texas billionaire who twice ran for president, has died, a family spokesperson said today.
DALLAS >> H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice mounted outsider campaigns for president, has died. He was 89.
The cause of death was leukemia, a family spokesman said today.
Perot, whose 19% of the vote in 1992 stands among the best showings by an independent candidate in the past century, died early today at his home in Dallas surrounded by his family, said the spokesman, James Fuller.
As a boy in Texarkana, Texas, Perot delivered newspapers from the back of a pony. He earned his billions in a more modern fashion, however. After attending the U.S. Naval Academy and becoming a salesman for IBM, he went his own way — creating and building Electronic Data Systems Corp., which helped other companies manage their computer networks.
The most famous event in his business career didn’t involve sales and earnings, however. In 1979, he financed a private commando raid to free two EDS employees who were being held in a prison in Iran. The tale was turned into a book and a movie.
“I always thought of him as stepping out of a Norman Rockwell painting and living the American dream,” said Tom Luce, who was a young lawyer when Perot hired him to handle his business and personal legal work. “A newspaper boy, a midshipman, shaking Dwight Eisenhower’s hand at his graduation, and he really built the computer-services industry at EDS.”
“He had the vision and the tenacity to make it happen,” Luce said. “He was a great communicator. He never employed a speechwriter — he wrote all his own speeches. He was a great storyteller.”
Perot first attracted attention beyond business circles by claiming that the U.S. government left behind hundreds of American soldiers who were missing or imprisoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Perot fanned the issue at home and discussed it privately with Vietnamese officials in the 1980s, angering the Reagan administration, which was formally negotiating with Vietnam’s government.
Perot’s wealth, fame and confident prescription for the nation’s economic ills propelled his 1992 campaign against President George H.W. Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton. In June of that year, a Gallup poll showed Perot leading his major-party rivals, but he dropped out in July, then rejoined the race less than five weeks before the election.
Perot spent $63.5 million of his own money, much of it on 30-minute television spots during which he used charts and graphs to make his points, summarizing them with a line that became a national catchphrase: “It’s just that simple.”
His homespun quips were a hallmark of his presidential campaign. Other memorable lines included his take on negative campaigning (“let’s get off mud wrestling”) and on getting things done (“don’t just sit here slow dancing for four years”).
Some Republicans blamed Perot for Bush’s loss to Clinton, as Perot garnered the largest percentage of votes for a third-party candidate since former President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1912 bid.
Perot’s second campaign four years later was far less successful. He was shut out of presidential debates when organizers said he lacked sufficient support. He got just 8% of the vote, and the Reform Party that he founded and hoped to build into a national political force began to fall apart.
However, Perot’s ideas on trade and deficit reduction remained part of the political landscape. He blamed both major parties for running up a huge federal budget deficit and allowing American jobs to be sent to other countries. The movement of U.S. jobs to Mexico, he said, created a “giant sucking sound.”
Perot continued to speak out about federal spending for many years. In 2008, he launched a website to highlight the nation’s debt with a ticker that tracked the rising total, a blog and a chart presentation.
In Dallas, Perot left his mark by creating the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, helping finance the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, and being a major benefactor of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He also provided help to families dealing with medical expenses or other challenges, according to those who knew him.
“He gave a lot to other people in public ways, but he also did it in private ways that nobody saw. There were thousands of stories just like that,” said Meyerson, a longtime senior executive in Perot’s companies.
Henry Ross Perot was born in Texarkana on June 27, 1930. His father was a cotton broker; his mother a secretary. Perot said his family survived the Depression relatively well through hard work and by managing their money carefully.
Young Perot’s first job was delivering papers in a poor, mostly black part of town from his pony, Miss Bee. When the newspaper tried to cut his commission, he said he complained to the publisher — and won. He said that taught him to take problems straight to the top.
From Texarkana, Perot went to the U.S. Naval Academy, never having been on a ship or seen the ocean. After the Navy, Perot joined International Business Machines in 1955 and quickly became a top salesman. In his last year at IBM, he filled his sales quota for the year in January.
In 1962, with $1,000 from his wife, Margot — they met on a blind date — Perot founded Electronic Data Systems. Hardware accounted for about 80% of the computer business, Perot said, and IBM wasn’t interested in the other 20%, including services.
Many of the early hires at EDS were former military men, and they had to abide by Perot’s strict dress code — white shirts, ties, no beards or mustaches — and long workdays. Many had crew cuts, like Perot.
The company’s big break came in the mid-1960s when the federal government created Medicare and Medicaid. States needed help running the programs, and EDS won contracts — starting in Texas — to handle the millions of claims.
EDS first sold stock to the public in 1968, and overnight, Perot was worth $350 million. His fortune doubled and tripled as the stock price rose steadily.
In 1984, he sold control of the company to General Motors Corp. for $2.5 billion and received $700 million in a buyout. In 2008, EDS was sold to Hewlett-Packard Co.
Perot went on to establish another computer-services company, Perot Systems Corp. He retired as CEO in 2000 and was succeeded by his son, Ross Perot Jr., In 2009, the Dell computer company bought Perot Systems for $3.9 billion.
Forbes magazine this year estimated Perot’s wealth at $4.1 billion.
It was during the Nixon administration that Perot became involved in the issue of U.S. prisoners of war. Perot said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked him to lead a campaign to improve treatment of POWs held in North Vietnam. Perot chartered two jets to fly medical supplies and the wives of POWs to Southeast Asia. They were not allowed into North Vietnam, but the trip attracted enormous media attention.
After their release in 1973, some prisoners said conditions in the camps had improved after the missions.
In 1979, the Iranian government jailed two EDS executives, and Perot vowed to win their release.
“Ross came to the prison one day and said, ‘We’re going to get you out,’” one of the men, Paul Chiapparone, told The Associated Press. “How many CEOs would do that today?”
Perot recruited retired U.S. Army Special Forces Col. Arthur “Bull” Simons to lead a commando raid on the prison. A few days later, the EDS executives walked free after the shah’s regime fell and mobs stormed the prison. Simons’ men sneaked the executives out of the country and into Turkey. The adventure was recalled in Ken Follett’s best-selling book, “On Wings of Eagles,” and a TV miniseries.
In later years, Perot pushed the Veterans Affairs Department to study neurological causes of Gulf War syndrome, reported by many soldiers who served in the 1991 Persian Gulf war. He scoffed at officials who blamed the illnesses on stress — “as if they are wimps” — and paid for additional research.
Perot received a special award from the VA in 2009 for his support of veterans and the military.
In Texas, Perot led commissions on education reform and crime. He was given many honorary degrees and awards for business success and patriotism.
Former President George W. Bush said in a statement that “Texas and America have lost a strong patriot.”
“Ross Perot epitomized the entrepreneurial spirit and the American creed. He gave selflessly of his time and resources to help others in our community, across our country, and around the world,” Bush said. “He loved the U.S. military and supported our service members and veterans. Most importantly, he loved his dear wife, children, and grandchildren.”
While he worked at Perot Systems in suburban Dallas, entire hallways were filled with memorabilia from soldiers and POWs that Perot had helped. His personal office was dominated by large paintings of his wife and five children and bronze sculptures by Frederic Remington.
Several original Norman Rockwell paintings hung in the waiting area, and Perot once told a visiting reporter that he tried to live by Rockwell’s ethics of hard, honest work and family.
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'A marvellous thing – getting people help’ - charity receives award
More than 200 volunteers have been involved with the Staffordshire Moorlands charity since it was set up 22 years ago
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Vice Lord- Lieutenant of Staffordshire Mr Graham Stow CBE DL presents trustee Doris Barratt with the Queen’s award certificate. Mick Price,the husband of the late Pat Price received the crystal award.
A Leek-based charity has received The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.
Home Start, which covers the Staffordshire Moorlands, was founded by Councillor Sybil Ralphs, with the help of the late Pat Price, 22 years ago.
Since then, 225 volunteers have been involved, and more than 950 referrals have been made to the service.
Last week HM Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire, Mr Graham Stow CBE DL presented Mick Price, the husband of the late Pat Price, and trustee Doris Barratt the Queen’s award certificate, which has been signed by Her Majesty, and the Crystal award.
The prestigious award recognises the outstanding contribution made to local communities, by individuals devoting their time for the benefit of others.
The charity offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children.
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Founder Sybil Ralphs said: “In 1997, long before I became leader of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, I was going through my mail one morning and I came across a story about the opening of a branch of Home Start in Stafford. Up until then I thought that Home Start was an additional service given by the AA!
“The account was extremely well written: it explained that Home Start trained volunteers, many of whom were parents themselves, to visit families who had requested support and who had at least one child under five years of age, to offer advice and support, practical help and friendship, all in confidence.
“I decided there and then that this was something that would benefit families in the Moorlands.
“I phoned the author of the article for advice on who to contact, and she gave me the name and telephone number of the West Midlands regional organiser for Home-Start.
“I asked the then CEO of SMDC, Barry Preedy, if I could use the Churnet Room at Moorlands House for free, to hold a public meeting to see whether or not people agreed with me that Home Start would be a valuable and supportive service in the Moorlands.
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“I then contacted the Post & Times to ask them to publicise the meeting. They were marvellous; and 65 members of the public turned up on the day. I explained what I wanted to do, and I asked for people to come forward to form a committee. I managed to get 12 people to join me, most of whom are still with us, and one of those was Pat Price, who worked for Social Services in Stoke-on-Trent. Things took off from there; we engaged an organiser, rented an office in Biddulph, which we outgrew, and had to move to Leek, and the rest is history.”
Louise Walker from Home Start said: “We are very excited, thrilled and honoured to receive the award.”
Service user Katie said: “I moved from Stoke-on-Trent fleeing domestic violence, and moved to a refugee centre in Cheadle. I moved to Leek as I didn’t feel safe to go back to Stoke-on-Trent. I hit an all-time low as I didn’t know anyone in the area. Home Start got involved, they had to help me to walk to my garden gate and then to the end of the street.
“Now with their support I am in full recovery, started college and driving lessons and been discharged from mental health services after 13 years.”
Another service user, Karen, who was present at the award ceremony, said: “We moved to Leek 11 years ago. I now have boys aged seven and five. We use to go to Sure Start and someone recognised that I needed help and support and put me in touch with Home Start. It has given me a bit of time as I can trust them to look after my children, and being able to get on with some jobs that I wouldn’t normally be able to do.
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“By being there, it has helped me to stay calmer, because you don’t feel quite so alone and isolated, as you have got that support. They come into your home, and they are totally non-judgemental. They just genuinely want to help you.”
Kevin, who has used the services of Home Start, said: “I look after my two grandchildren, and it hasn’t been easy as I am on my own. Home Start has been a massive help for me. They make you feel welcome, and they are nothing like social services. They do an excellent job. I don’t know where I would be without their support.
“The things they do such as Christmas parties and the trips, the boys love it. The volunteers accepted the boys as part of their family. They have time for them, and even say I love you, they have that good a relationship.”
Leek town mayor Roy Tomkinson said: “It is a marvellous thing getting people the help they need. And to give credit to the people that organise it. There are people out there who haven’t got a lot, and these organisations are out there to help and guide them. Not just money, but advice, and to meet other people.
“There is a wealth of people out there who will help you. As the aims of the charity states, they are giving children the best possible start to life. And they are the future. They are the ones taking over from our generation.”
Volunteers support families for around two to three hours each week and all new volunteers undertake an initial course of preparation before being matched with a family needing support.
Anyone interested in becoming a Home Start volunteer should telephone Home Start on 01538 387231 or email info@homestartsm.org.uk as there have regular training courses running.
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Carly Rae Jepsen plans to sing at Toronto Pride parade, but Premier Doug Ford will be a no-show
by Charlie Smith on June 23rd, 2019 at 9:33 AM
Canada's largest Pride parade won't include the premier.
Ontario's Doug Ford is skipping the annual celebration in Toronto today because organizers have refused to allow uniformed police officers to march in the event.
The event starts at 2 p.m. Toronto time (11 a.m. in Vancouver) at Church and Bloor streets before travelling south on Yonge Street before reaching the TD main stage at Dundas Street.
Mission, B.C.-raised pop star Carly Rae Jepsen will be on the Bud Light float along with one of her collaborators, emerging Toronto artist Jordan Alexander.
He wrote a verse for her song "Feels Right", which will they'll perform twice.
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Listen to Carly Rae Jepsen's "Feels Right".
This year, organizers are highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall demonstration in New York City in 1969, which came after police raided a gay bar.
This will be the first Pride parade in Toronto since serial killer Bruce McArthur was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for preying on gay men in Toronto.
"We're celebrating 50 years of what should be equality," Pride Toronto executive director Olivia Nuamah told CBC News, "but what in fact continues to be an ongoing struggle for LGBTQ2+ rights as symbolized in Bruce McArthur and his decade-long serial murder spree."
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Every day another potential employer lets it be known that it is unhappy with the law.
It is up to the Coast to let it be known that we agree.
It's a bad law.
And now its supporters have taken to blaming the media. The media, you see, isn't telling you the truth about the law because if it did, you'd be for it.
For the record, the law, as signed by the governor, can be found on our website, SunHerald.com.
Please read it.
Reading the law led six law professors -- from Ole Miss, Mississippi College, Washington University in St. Louis and Columbia University in New York -- to arrive at the same conclusion we did last week -- the law is unconstitutional. You can read their work on our website as well.
Supporters say the law merely protects people with deeply held religious beliefs from having conflicting beliefs forced upon them. For example, some don't believe gays and lesbians should be allowed to fall in love and get married.
But not all religious leaders share that belief and not all of them believe the law is necessary.
The Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi said Gov. Phil Bryant signing the bill into law was "deeply disappointing."
"Ungrounded fear is never a solid foundation for legislation," the Rt. Rev. Brian R. Seage wrote. "That seems to be the case here."
We have interviewed a lot of people on the law and no one has been able to cite a single instance on the Coast or in Mississippi where a baker has been threatened with legal action by a same-sex couple, a single instance where a member of the clergy has been threatened, a single instance where the owner of a bathroom has been threatened.
And yet, we have this law.
This law and all its attendant fallout.
Travel to the state is being banned. Tourists are going elsewhere. It's playing out all over social media and it's ugly. And it's deserved.
In retaliation for the backlash, the law's supporters are trying to drag race into the issue, saying a black business owner wouldn't be forced to cater to a Klan rally.
But the NAACP isn't buying it.
"It mirrors a sincerely held religious belief and moral conviction, once held by many and still held by some that African-Americans are only suited for slavery," wrote state NAACP President Derrick Johnson.
It's too late to save our lawmakers from themselves, but it's not too late to save Mississippi. We don't expect them to act, so everyone who opposes this travesty of a law should join us in the chorus of inclusion.
And though the next election is a long four years away, we'll help voters remember the names of those who brought us here.
This editorial represents the views of the Sun Herald editorial board. Opinions of columnists, and cartoonists are their own.
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Sound Off for Sept. 24: Railroad crossings in Biloxi need to be fixed
If only we all would think as I do. Then we would all live in paradise. What? You don’t agree? Sorry typo, replace “I” with “You.” Thought so.
Fix the crossing
Another large truck is stuck on the railroad tracks in Biloxi Ms.. When are they going to fix the tracks so large trucks and buses won’t get stuck and endanger lives. Does anyone know why the city will not fix this problem?
Bill Walker needs to hold himself accountable for his actions — and pay up
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Let the lottery be a lesson for Mississippi lawmakers: Stop doing business in secret
We ask the Legislature to pass a lottery bill today
President Trump, we’re not ‘enemies of the people.’ End your war on our free press
We hope Pascagoula officials have learned a lesson. It’s OK to trust, but verify, too
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HomeSUV ResearchCrossovers with good gas mileage: 2018 edition
Crossovers with good gas mileage: 2018 edition
May 11, 2018 Karl Peskett SUV Research
Crossover SUVs have become the new craze in car-buying, with the crossover segment exploding in recent years. It’s not hard to see why; folks love the apparent practicality and chunky looks. But finding a crossover with good gas mileage is also high on most people’s list of priorities.
Fuel prices are only going to go up in the coming years, too, as the world’s reliance on oil seemingly has no end in sight, despite a push toward electrification. And thanks to crossovers appealing to singles, young couples or even empty-nesters, these folks are looking to save every dollar they can.
Rather than buying a gas-guzzling full-size SUV, they’re opting for crossovers to make parking easier, to save on insurance and still have the surety of all-wheel-drive. However, it must be noted that crossovers certainly aren’t the most fuel efficient method of transport.
There are plenty of small hatches on the market that will easily outdo a crossover SUV. That’s thanks to only two driven wheels, the size difference between a crossover and a hatch, and also the weight difference. There are also aerodynamic differences which all add to the fuel use.
Something else to consider is the fuel powering it. In most countries there’s a choice of diesel or petrol (gasoline). For example, the Volvo XC40 with its T5 engine does 30mpg, while the same sized diesel engine does 44mpg.
In some markets you can even get electric SUVs that are powered by hydrogen, which makes working out miles per gallon a little more difficult. And of course, there’s always the Tesla Model X, which doesn’t use a drop of fuel.
So for our purposes, we’re concentrating on petrol-powered crossovers, as it’s the most universal fuel worldwide, and it’s easy to compare figures.
So, let’s kick off with our list of ten crossovers with good gas mileage.
Lexus NX 300h
Hyundai Kona 1.6T
Toyota CH-R
Suzuki Vitara Turbo
You’re going to hear a lot more about this new Volvo crossover. Our test is yet to come, but based on what we’ve seen so far, the XC40 is set to shake up the compact SUV segment, with a range of fuel efficient engines, segment leading quality and plenty of interior tech. It’s also very, very safe.
Currently, it comes in a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder, but there are three-cylinder petrols on the way also. T3 – 47mpg, T4 – 43mpg
We just had this crossover on test (read our Lexus NX Review here) in front-wheel-drive form, and while it’s not the best handling machine out there, there’s no denying its quality. Lexus knows how to put a vehicle together well, and the NX is evidence of this. But for fuel use, the NX uses its hybrid system to good effect.
Thanks to its battery system, it recharges the energy used when braking, and then uses an electric motor when setting off, which is where most fuel is burned (calling on torque from a standstill isn’t economical). Thus, the NX gets 31mpg. Not great when compared with the rest of our list, but for its size, it’s quite good. 31mpg
Hyundai’s smallest crossover comes in two different engine configurations, but it’s the smaller turbocharged unit that really is the star. It’s smooth, quick, and thanks to its turbo, there’s a good amount of torque for such a compact SUV. It also looks funky and has a very interesting colour palette to choose from.
Also remarkable is that it’s very good off-road – obviously in light-duty use – so if you’re wanting to head down that bush track, you don’t have to be too precious about it. Of course, it goes without saying that we’re talking about the AWD model here. Don’t try heading off road with the FWD version. 30mpg (FWD), 27mpg (AWD)
Despite the Mazda CX-3 basically being a lifted Mazda2, there’s no getting around the fact that it’s a well-built, stylish compact SUV. Again, it can be had in both front wheel drive and all wheel drive flavours, but it’s surprising in that it manages good gas mileage without resorting to turbocharging. That’s thanks to Mazda’s SkyActive technology which is said to burn the fuel more efficiently, giving you the economy of a diesel, but the smoothness of a petrol.
Regardless, it seems to work, creating a compact crossover that’s enjoyable to drive and sips when at the bowser. 31mpg (FWD), 29mpg (AWD)
Thanks to a tiny 1.2-litre turbocharged engine, the C-HR should be very frugal, but what seems to be getting most folks over the line is its funky looks. It also drives quite well, too, making it an ideal choice for couples or singles. It’s not the biggest car, so don’t expect to carry a crowd, but you do get Toyota’s famed reliability, which is worth making a few sacrifices. However, it comes in around the higher end of fuel use in this group. 29mpg
Without being horrible, this is our least favourite crossover in this group. But it does well in the sales race, with most people drawn to its compact dimensions, and price. But spend a few extra dollars and there are definitely some better choices out there. 30mpg
Jeep Renegade 1.4T
With its Mini-Me looks and wild colours, the Renegade is at its best (for fuel economy) in 1.4-turbo form. Its compact dimensions and low weight help on the fuel use front, but some question marks remain over FCA’s reliability of late.
Still, in the right guise, you can actually do some bush-bashing in it, so it definitely lives up to the Jeep name. 39mpg
Take a Fiat Bambino and blow it up like a balloon, and what do you get? Well, something approaching the Fiat 500X. It’s different, and has plenty of Italian quirks, but it’s also quite frugal.
While not quite as solidly built as others, its attitude and do-your-own-thing marketing has appealed to quite a few buyers. 41mpg
The Vitara is a bit of an underdog and not a lot of people consider it when doing their SUV or crossover shopping. But it holds its own, despite having a slightly dated looking infotainment system.
The engine is punchy, frugal, and though it rides a little firm, it drives and steers very nicely indeed. And thanks to a hardy interior, it will stand up to the rigours of daily life. 39mpg
Look out for our Audi Q2 review soon, but this high quality crossover took a little while to warm to, thanks to its not-in-the-family looks. However, there’s no denying its quality, driveability, and thanks to an impressive turbocharged petrol engine, excellent fuel economy.
It really is the hero for petrol fuel economy, thanks to low weight and direct injection coupled with turbocharging. 1.4TSI – 51mpg
Bonus tip
Even if you have a crossover already, you can make it quite economical. Check out John and Helen Taylor’s economy driving methods in the video below.
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Best SUV crossovers in 2017
September 3, 2018 Karl Peskett BMW, Ford, Honda, Kia, Mazda, Nissan, Skoda, SUV Research, Volkswagen
Let’s get straight into it. There were a lot of good crossovers in 2017, but some stood out more than others. And that’s thanks to exceptional build quality, practicality, first class engineering and value for money. The real trick is to find the ones that [Click to read more]
18 cheapest 3rd row SUVs of 2018
September 20, 2018 Karl Peskett Buick, Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, GMC, Honda, Hyundai, Land Rover, Mazda, Mitsubishi, SUV Research, Toyota, Volkswagen
Often when you need to carry around a few people it’s out of necessity rather than just wanting to have a few more bodies in the car with you. That being the case, it’s usually on a budget. We understand that folks want to find the [Click to read more]
2018 Subaru XV 2.0i Review
October 9, 2017 Karl Peskett Subaru, SUV Reviews
2018 Subaru XV 2.0i Premium – $32,140 Defining what is and what isn’t an SUV is becoming a bit of a minefield. Crossovers add a whole new element to the equation. Where it becomes really difficult is when a crossover actually has more off-road ability [Click to read more]
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� In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps.
Today is Sunday, March 1, the 60th day of 2009. There are 305 days left in the year.
Today�s Highlight in History:
� On March 1, 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J.
� In 1781, the Continental Congress declared the Articles of Confederation to be in force, following ratification by Maryland.
� In 1790, President George Washington signed a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census.
� In 1809, the Illinois Territory came into existence.
� In 1867, Nebraska became the 37th state.
� In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed an act creating Yellowstone National Park.
� In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen.
� In 1959, Archbishop Makarios III returned to Cyprus following an agreement on Cypriot independence from Britain. (Makarios went on to be elected the first president of the Republic of Cyprus.)
� In 1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.
� In 2003, suspected 9-11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by Pakistani and CIA agents.
Ten years ago: The General Accounting Office released an audit of the Internal Revenue Service, which found chronic problems in the agency�s record-keeping. An attack by Rwandan Hutu rebels in a Ugandan national park left eight foreign tourists, including two Americans and a park guard, dead.
Five years ago: Rebels rolled into Haiti�s capital, Port-au-Prince, where they were met by thousands of residents cheering the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide the day before, on Leap Day. Iraqi officials approved an interim constitution. The California Supreme Court ruled a Roman Catholic charity had to pay for workers� contraceptive health insurance benefits.
One year ago: President George W. Bush, speaking at his Texas ranch, declined to promise more U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq before leaving, underscoring the need for a strong military presence during Iraqi provincial elections. Raul Reyes, the No. 2 commander of the Colombian rebel group FARC, was slain during a cross-border raid into Ecuador by Colombian security forces. New York�s famed Plaza Hotel reopened after a three-year, $400 million renovation.
Today�s Birthdays: Actor Robert Clary is 83. Singer Harry Belafonte is 82. Former U.S. Solicitor General Robert H. Bork is 82. Actor Robert Conrad is 74. Rock singer Mike D�Abo (Manfred Mann) is 65. Former Sen. John Breaux, D-La., is 65. Rock singer Roger Daltrey is 65. Actor Dirk Benedict is 64. Actor Alan Thicke is 62. Actor-director Ron Howard is 55. Actress Catherine Bach is 55. Country singer Janis Gill (AKA Janis Oliver Cummins) (Sweethearts of the Rodeo) is 55. Actor Tim Daly is 53. Singer-musician Jon Carroll is 52. Rock musician Bill Leen is 47. Actor Russell Wong is 46. Actor John David Cullum is 43. Actor George Eads is 42. Actor Javier Bardem is 40. Actor Jack Davenport is 36. Rock musician Ryan Peake (Nickelback) is 36. Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar is 35. Actor Jensen Ackles is 31. TV host Donovan Patton is 31. Rock musician Sean Woolstenhulme is 28. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sammie is 22.
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Today is Friday, April 6, the 96th day of 2018. There are 269 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 6, 1968, 41 people were killed by two consecutive natural gas explosions at a sporting goods store in downtown Richmond, Indiana.
In 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York.
In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Shiloh began in Tennessee as Confederate forces launched a surprise attack against Union troops, who beat back the Confederates the next day.
In 1896, the first modern Olympic games formally opened in Athens, Greece.
In 1909, American explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson and four Inuits became the first men to reach the North Pole.
In 1917, the United States entered World War I as the House joined the Senate in approving a declaration of war against Germany that was then signed by President Woodrow Wilson.
In 1943, "Le Petit Prince" (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery was first published by Reynal & Hitchcock of New York.
In 1954, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., responding to CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s broadside against him on "See It Now," said in remarks filmed for the program that Murrow had, in the past, "engaged in propaganda for Communist causes."
In 1965, the United States launched Intelsat I, also known as the "Early Bird" communications satellite, into geosynchronous orbit.
In 1971, Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky, 88, died in New York City.
In 1988, Tirza Porat, a 15-year-old Israeli girl, was killed in a West Bank melee. (Although Arabs were initially blamed, the army concluded Tirza had been accidentally shot by a Jewish settler.)
In 1998, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 9,000 points for the first time, ending the day at 9,033.23. Country singer Tammy Wynette died at her Nashville home at age 55.
In 2014, actor Mickey Rooney, 93, died in North Hollywood.
Ten years ago: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, speaking at a private fundraiser in San Francisco, spoke of voters in Pennsylvania’s Rust Belt communities who "cling to guns or religion" because of bitterness about their economic lot; Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton seized on the comment, calling it "elitist." President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, meeting at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, failed to overcome sharp differences over a U.S. missile defense system as they closed their seven-year relationship.
Five years ago: Iran and six world powers failed to reach agreement during talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on how to reduce fears that Tehran might use its nuclear technology to make weapons. Militants killed six Americans, including diplomat Anne Smedinghoff, 25, and an Afghan doctor in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan, the deadliest day for the United States in the war in eight months.
One year ago: President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping opened a two-day summit at Trump’s Florida beach resort. The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, hosted a centennial observance of the day the U.S. entered the global conflict. Don Rickles, the big-mouthed, bald-headed "Mr. Warmth" whose verbal assaults endeared him to audiences and peers and made him the acknowledged grandmaster of insult comedy, died at his Beverly Hills home at age 90.
Today’s Birthdays: Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson is 90. Composer-conductor Andre Previn is 89. Actor Billy Dee Williams is 81. Actor Roy Thinnes is 80. Movie director Barry Levinson is 76. Actor John Ratzenberger is 71. Actress Patrika Darbo is 70. Baseball Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven is 67. Actress Marilu Henner is 66. Olympic bronze medal figure skater Janet Lynn is 65. Actor Michael Rooker is 63. Former U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is 62. Rock musician Warren Haynes is 58. Rock singer-musician Frank Black is 53. Actress Ari Meyers is 49. Actor Paul Rudd is 49. Actor-producer Jason Hervey is 46. Rock musician Markku Lappalainen is 45. Actor Zach Braff is 43. Actor Joel Garland is 43. Actress Candace Cameron Bure is 42. Actor Teddy Sears is 41. Jazz and rhythm-and-blues musician Robert Glasper is 40. Actress Eliza Coupe is 37. Folk singer-musician Kenneth Pattengale (Milk Carton Kids) is 36. Actor Bret Harrison is 36. Actor Charlie McDermott is 28.
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Parla Piu Piano (in A minor)
"Speak Softly Love (Love Theme from The Godfather)" is a song written for The Godfather (1972), the first film in the Godfather trilogy. While its instrumental version is simply known as "The Godfather Love Theme", "Speak Softly Love" is the vocal version. The words are by Larry Kusik but the music itself is by Nino Rota. The signature musical theme that opens the piece closely models a theme that appears early in the Overture to "La Forza del Destino" by Giuseppe Verdi. There are also different sets of lyrics for the song in Italian ("Parla Più Piano") and also in Sicilian ("Brucia La Terra"). The Sicilian version is sung by Anthony Corleone (Franc D'Ambrosio) in The Godfather Part III.
Rota had used a more comedic version of the song for the 1958 film Fortunella. When this was discovered, Rota's score for The Godfather was disqualified from consideration at the 1973 Academy Awards; it had been nominated for Best Original Score. However, Rota's score won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Original Score, despite containing the same piece.
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Merlin's beard! Harry Potter and the Cursed Child brings magic lessons to SDCC 2019
Exclusive: Dana DeLorenzo says Ash 'has met his match' on Evil Dead series
Aaron Sagers
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Sure, Ashley J. Williams is back, but when it comes to slaying Deadites in the 21st century, he’s going to need a hand. That’s where Dana DeLorenzo comes in. In Starz’ new series Ash vs. Evil Dead, premiering this Halloween, she stars as Kelly Maxwell, one-half of our hero's backup crew.
But don’t call her a sidekick. Whereas Pablo (played by Ray Santiago) looks up to the demon-dispatching one-handed one-liner machine that is Ash -- of course still played by Bruce Campbell -- DeLorenzo’s Kelly begins the series as less than impressed with “the king.”
Instead, she says she first meets Ash when he tries to pick her up on her first day working at Value Stop, where Pablo and Ash also work. It isn’t until later that she sees there might just slightly more to Ash than the sleaziness. But when I speak to her on set, it seems like she’s definitely part of Team Ash.
It’s morning in Auckland, New Zealand, and DeLorenzo is joining me to talk about the show. As the Down Under winter winds of June whip around us, the weather goes from sunny to cloudy to rainy and back again in minutes. We’re outside, under a very structurally questionable tent that keeps creaking, before she has to film a scene for Episode 6 outside a diner.
She’s rocking a pretty sweet purple leather jacket, which looks like a signature piece of wardrobe for Kelly, and she is notably not covered in blood. I expect that to change by the end of the day.
DeLorenzo is a comedian who we’ve seen in The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson and Californication – and not so much from gory projects. But that will change when the horror comedy introduces Kelly, who is described as “a moody wild child trying to outrun her past.” But in the following conversation, DeLorenzo reveals much more about Kelly. She also shares a bit about herself, such as the fact that she is scared of everything and thinks the AvED set might be cursed.
Where is Kelly when we first meet her?
We first meet Kelly at Value Stop, which is where Ash and Pablo work. She’s Pablo’s best friend and has recently gone through a tragedy and run her life off the rails. Pablo is helping her out with that. He gets her this job. This is the first day on the job. She doesn’t want to be working there, but she’s trying to make an effort and is struggling with her own personal demons and guilt. She is really trying to find her purpose and trying to add value to the world. What will make her want to get out of bed every morning? That’s where we find her.
How does she come to get mixed up with Ash and this battle against evil?
Episode 1, Scene 1, she is working the counter, and Ash comes up and immediately hits on her in his Ash way. She is tough, and she is not afraid to speak her mind. She puts him in his place straightaway. Her first impression of him is that he’s an arrogant idiot. “Oh, here’s this guy who thinks he’s super cool, and the first words out of his mouth are some terrible pickup line.” First impressions are everything, and she tells him he just needs to walk away. It is not until, through a series of events later in the episode, she sees this other side of Ash, this unlikely hero, that he is able to have these skills. She sees him in all his glory, and almost in spite of herself, is in a little bit of awe. Because she’s best friends with Pablo, she gets dragged along with them in the fight against evil. But in the end, that’s what she needs. It is the calling she’s been looking for.
What kind of tragedy has she suffered?
She reveals it pretty quickly, but her mother has died.
We get the sense that Pablo looks up to Ash, and maybe has this unrequited love for Kelly, but what’s in it for you? Why do you really go along?
Kelly gets involved because she doesn’t know what else to do. She finds this new kind of family with them. She has Pablo’s back, and soon enough, she has Ash’s back. For her, that’s one of her strengths. It is being loyal. Pablo is the heart of the operation. Ash is the brawn, with his fighting skills. She’s the common sense, the voice of reason. Maybe we should think before we open that book over there. She is also a good counterpart to Ash, because he’s met his match in terms of mouthiness and wit. She has no qualms calling him out if he steps out of line. Spoiler alert: He steps out of line sometimes, because that’s Ash.
We know you have this vendetta against the Deadites. It is personal, right?
It is a vendetta that is close to home. Episode 1, it doesn’t really happen yet. She just meets Ash, so she’s just getting her feet wet. It is not until a couple episodes in that that vendetta and revenge happens that motivates her.
Deadites can appear as someone from your life, so does that make your character vulnerable, since she has lost her mother?
I think it makes everyone vulnerable. We’re all susceptible to falling prey to that manipulation. But in those first episodes, she is almost the voice of the new audience. She is asking the questions and trying to understand it, and that helps someone who has never seen this before.
Talk about any stunt training you’ve undergone.
It has been so awesome, because I got off the plane after a 15-hour flight, and it was, "Hey, going to stunt training." Literally, I don’t think I had unpacked yet. And I come from a comedy background, so that whole world is new to me. I have to say, I was honestly caught off guard by how much I’m doing and loving it. I do have an amazing stunt double who does the real serious stuff that I would definitely injure myself on. But I told them I injure myself on a daily basis. I walked into my own cupboard door in my trailer minutes ago. So I’m much better with choreography than in life.
What is your signature weapon?
She hasn’t found hers yet. What Kelly’s signature is, is being able to turn anything into a weapon. I will take that recorder and beat you upside the head with it. She is a real badass in the making that way. She just learns on the fly, so she doesn’t have any weapons or martial arts training. She knows she is scrappy, so she does a little street fighting. But at the end of the day, she might take a water bottle and jam you in the eye with it. Her skill is being able to adapt, and think quickly on her feet.
How much are you able to utilize your comedic skills in this role?
Definitely enough. The writers have created such a fantastic character. She has my favorite kind of sense of humor, so sarcastic, and loves to bust chops. I always find it funny when someone can really zero in – especially when done to a character like Ash, who thinks so highly of himself. To be his match and call him out has been so much fun. So yeah, definitely getting to use that comedy. There is a real rhythm to this show. Ash, we know his comedy. He has got the great one-liners, and rhythmic speak. Pablo is also funny in his own right, in such an unassuming innocent way. There is all different facets of the comedy world here. That’s my favorite, when it is not just one note. The audience will respond to that. We’ll make you laugh, then make you gag with horror.
There are three female leads on this show …
Which is so awesome, right? We’re kicking some ass.
How are these fresh, authentic characters?
It is not about being male or female. These are fully formed people. It is not that she can fight good for a girl. Like Jill’s character is fiercely intelligent, and is a badass. Kelly knows who she is, and can hold her own. She has no problem hanging with the boys, and no problem knocking out some evil. Same with Lucy Lawless’ character, which has been a mystery up to this point – other than we know she is sort of on the hunt for Ash. I, as an actor, didn’t even have an idea as to why. These three women each have their strengths, but are grounded in reality. You see their vulnerabilities and see them fight through that. Whether you’re a man or woman, who doesn’t want to see someone overcoming their weaknesses and fears? They want to come out on the other side of those and be the best versions of themselves.
This Evil Dead world has decades of fandom … [The increasingly noisy, creaking tent starts to shake]
This tent is going to fall! By the way, this crazy stuff has been happening everywhere. I’m telling you, the evil is out and well. They like to go out. Objects fly off the walls. I’m telling you, something has happened. I have been saying this. We have actually done something. I’m sorry, I believe in this stuff. I have seen it with my own eyes! Stick around long enough, you’ll see it. I’m sorry I interrupted, because we’re going to die in this tent. You hear that? That is scary. I’ll save you.
If we die, someone will have to carry on our work. How did you react the very first time you encountered a Deadite walking around on set?
I am the kind of person that jumps when the phone rings, or the toaster pops, or someone knocks on my door. I am jumpy, and I get really grossed out very easily with that kind of stuff. I was there when they were working on the prosthetics. Then, all of a sudden, I’m in the lunchroom when in walks this Deadite, and I nearly drop my peas and mashed potatoes. I could not look at them. I met them as normal people. I know they’re actors in this show, and I know they’re not really an evil person. I told my mom she’s going to have to close her eyes. I am seeing it live, and it still freaks me out. I could not look them in the eyes. It was really eerie and terrifying.
Scared of everything but into ghost stories and the paranormal?
Yeah, but that was my roots. I started loving to be scared, and horror, when I grew up reading R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps and watching Are You Afraid of the Dark every Friday. I loved going to haunted houses. Then I peaked at 13. I saw IT, The Shining and The Exorcist all in the same year, and I was done. That was it. Since then, a balloon pops and I gasp. So I think the people on the show are happy, because I don’t even have to act when it comes time for all that stuff. Because I am scared, legitimately.
Will you share a scene when your stomach churned a little bit?
You have to wait and see, but I’ll tell you Sam Raimi loves blood. He loves, looooves throwing blood on people. He loves a geyser of blood. It doesn’t matter whether the blood is coming from the ground -- if the grass is bleeding! -- it makes my stomach churn. I can’t give specifics, but let us surprise you. They are calling action, and I can’t swallow because I’m grossed out. Those are the moments I don’t want to take away from the fans. Even when they make certain things that shouldn’t be edible, but make them edible … People who like gore and horror will be clapping.
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Say goodbye to our galaxy in stunning final trailer for Interstellar
Tag: Interstellar
One last Interstellar trailer is here to floor us with new footage before the film's finally in theaters.
If you've been itching to experience Christopher Nolan's ambitious sci-fi journey as much as we have, then you know we're now just five weeks away from seeing it. That doesn't seem like a very long time in the cosmic (see what I did there?) scheme of things, but every time we see new footage from the film the wait seems to get harder. It's safe to say everyone is expecting great things from Interstellar, and some of us might be expecting so much that the film will be a letdown no matter how great it is, but trailers like the one released today make it really hard to be skeptical about this movie.
The trailer runs for two and a half minutes, and though it doesn't tell us much more than we already knew about the film's plot -- dying Earth, crack team, wormhole travel, mission to find humanity's next home and so forth -- it does give us more powerful visuals, a greater emphasis on what's at stake in this story and a new exploration of the themes at work. I was particularly taken by a line Matthew McConaughey's character, Cooper, speaks very early on: "This thing needs to learn how to adapt, like the rest of us."
Sometimes we get way too excited about movies we haven't seen yet and we get let down in a big, crushing way. Trailers are designed to sell us movies, after all, and we've been burned by more than a few (Hercules, anyone?), but even with that in mind, it's very tough to be cynical about a movie that seems to be reaching so far and promising so much. Sure, Interstellar might let us down, but when you see things like "Mankind's next step will be its greatest," and waves the size of mountain ranges, and a great cast of people playing the ultimate explorers out to save us all, it's hard not to believe in this movie.
Interstellar will arrive with limited early screenings on Nov. 5 and hit theaters nationwide on Nov. 7.
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Home / Cool / Wow / 11-Year-Old Chinese Girl Is Already 6ft 7in (2.10m) Tall
11-Year-Old Chinese Girl Is Already 6ft 7in (2.10m) Tall
Andrijadurlanac November 23, 2018 Cool, Wow
Seeing Zhang Ziyu towering over her classmates at the Cultural East Road Primary School, in Jinan, China, it’s hard to believe that they are all in the sixth grade. The 11-year-old already measures 6ft 7in (210 cm), and many believe she is the tallest girl in the world.
Zhang’s parents are both former professional basketball players, and they are both over 2 meters tall, so it’s pretty clear that genetics played an important role in her physical development, but reaching 210 cm by age 11 is still very unusual. Zhang has always been taller than all the other children, and one of her colleagues remembers that in the first grade, she already stood at 1.6m (5ft 3in) tall. That’s already considerably taller than the average Chinese sixth-grade girl (4ft 6in or 1.38m).
But forget about other 11-year-olds, at her tender age, Zhang is already three inches taller than the average NBA player, and two inches taller than her idol, LeBron James, who stands at “just” 6ft 8in (2.03 metres). She has already been dubbed the “female Yao Ming”, after the legendary Chinese basketball player who spent most of his professional career playing for the Houston Rockets. He stands at a whopping 2.29m, but if Zhang’s growth rate remains constant, it’s not that unlikely that she will one day surpass him too.
“She was 1.6 metres (3ft 3in) in our first years. We’ve been growing for six years but still aren’t as tall as she was in grade one,” a boy at Zhang’s school said in a Pear video.
“She’s younger than I am by a few months, but she has to bend down to talk to me,” another student said.
Like her parents, Zhang Ziyu is reportedly a very talented basketball player. Her mother said that when she first took Zhang to a basketball court to see her father train, she asked to get on the court to play. When her father tried to shoot the ball at the basket, Zhang instinctively raised her arms and adopted the same defensive posture that professional players do, despite knowing nothing about the game. That’s when her mother knew Zhang was a natural, and signed her up for basketball training.
The current Guinness Record for tallest girl in the world is currently held by Sophie Hollins, a 12-year-old girl from Southampton, England, who at 6ft 2in (1.88m) is several inches shorter than Zhang. It’s unclear if the Chinese girl’s family plans to make a bid for the title.
Unlike Ren Keyu, another extremely tall Chinese 11-year-old (2.06 meters) we featured on OC a few months ago, who complained about being bullied by schoolmates because of his height, Zhang Ziyu claims that the other kids at her school are nothing but proud to have such a tall colleague.
“I like being friends with Ziyu,” one of her classmates told Pear. “Because she’s so tall and can lift me really high up!”
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Apple Watch Series 4 Released: Larger Display, ECG tech, Lighter, Thinner
Abhay Ram
Apple unveiled a new Watch today at its September event. It’s called the Apple Watch Series 4, its the fourth generation device. One of the biggest change is the display, its more than 30% larger compared to the previous versions. The design of the last three watches was the same except for few tiny changes here and there. So, this version of the watch is a huge upgrade over the previous models.
Just like the previous upgrades, the internals of the newer Apple Watch have been upgraded as well. The device comes with Series 4 chip which according to Apple, is twice as fast compared to the last generation watch (the series 3). Also, the device is much thinner and lighter compared to all the previous Apple watches.
Jony Ive, the Chief Designer of Apple products says that the Apple Watch Series 4 is an “evolution” in terms of design and also adds that the software UI is hugely improved to take advantage of the larger screen. On the front, the bezels of the watch have been ripped completely in favor of a bezel less display like the iPhone X. The larger display will make it much easier to use the Apple Watch, especially for people with larger fingers.
The Apple Watch Series 4 adds a lot of medical capabilities like taking ECG which so far could only be done at a clinic. The Series 4 has electrodes on the back which makes the feature possible and all the data is synced to the user’s iPhone which can later be shared with a doctor. Also, the Series comes with “fall detection” technology, so if someone falls of a chair or from a height, the device will detect the fall and alert the user’s loved ones.
The Series 4 can be ordered starting this Friday and will be available in stores on 21st of September. The cellular version starts at $499 whereas the GPS version starts at $399.
A Tech news writer at Tapscape.
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Justice Ministry, battle with High Court in focus as Netanyahu builds coalition
Reports indicate PM weighing two hardliners for justice minister, with plan to limit court’s ability to overturn Knesset laws, all in shadow of his impending graft indictments
By TOI staff 18 April 2019, 6:35 am 5 Edit
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Tourism Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset on February 13, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will on Thursday begin a series of negotiations as he starts to put together a coalition government for his fifth term in office, with an initial focus on the key Justice Ministry.
President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday officially tasked Netanyahu with assembling a coalition to govern the 21st Knesset with a plea to Israel’s leader to soothe social divides after a combative election campaign.
Netanyahu’s most likely option is a 65-seat coalition of right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties comprising Likud (35 seats), Shas (8), United Torah Judaism (8), Union of Right-Wing Parties (5), Yisrael Beytenu (5) and Kulanu (4).
Negotiations are likely to be fierce, with all those parties, barring Kulanu, indispensable for a majority in the 120-seat Knesset.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with UTJ’s Meir Porush in the Knesset, on April 29, 2015, after the two parties signed a coalition agreement. To Netanyahu’s right is UTJ leader Yaakov Litzman. (Courtesy, Likud Party)
Initial speculation has focused on the Justice Ministry, with Netanyahu’s legal woes expected to be a major issue in the next term. The premier is facing indictment in three separate cases in the coming months, including one count of bribery, pending a hearing.
Speculation has swirled that Netanyahu may use his newfound political strength to advance legislation that would grant him immunity from prosecution as long as he remains prime minister, or seek to utilize existing immunity provisions for the same purpose. He has been reported to be considering conditioning entry to his new government on potential support for an immunity move or for a so-called French Law that would shelter a sitting prime minister from prosecution. Netanyahu has publicly given mixed signals about whether he will seek such legislation.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Tourism Minister Yariv Levin during a Knesset vote on the budget, which coincided with police publishing recommendations that Netanyahu be indicted for bribery and breach of trust, February 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
On Wednesday, Hebrew media reports indicated that Netanyahu is leaning tpward appointing either Tourism Minister Yariv Levin from his Likud party or Union of Right-Wing Parties MK Bezalel Smotrich as justice minister. Channel 12 reported that “it was almost certain” Netanyahu would choose one of the two men.
Outgoing Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, also a believer in reforming Israel’s justice system, with its reputation as a liberal bastion, did not make the Knesset after her New Right party failed to cross the election threshold.
Both Levin and Smotrich have expressed support for clamping down on the Supreme Court and removing its ability to act as a check on the legislature — by denying it the right to strike down Knesset laws. Smotrich has also explicitly said he will seek to enact legislation to protect Netanyahu from indictment.
Levin, who serves as tourism minister in the outgoing government, is a political hawk and an advocate for weakening the powers of the court.
National Union MK Bezalel Smotrich at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Smotrich, a co-founder of the right-wing NGO Regavim, which targets illegal construction by non-Jews in Israel and the West Bank, entered the Knesset in 2015 and quickly became known for his uncompromising right-wing views and controversial remarks.
During his four years in the Knesset, he has made headlines for encouraging draft-dodging in protest of the IDF’s “radical feminist” agenda, for comparing the evacuation of an illegal settlement outpost to a “brutal rape,” and for claiming that “illiterate” Arabs are only granted university admission thanks to affirmative action. He has also called himself a “proud homophobe,” has called for segregated Jewish-Arab maternity wards in hospitals, and was involved in organizing an anti-gay “Beast Parade” in Jerusalem in response to the city’s annual Gay Pride parade.
Netanyahu is a suspect in three criminal probes, known as cases 1000, 2000 and 4000, in which investigators have recommended graft indictments.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced in February that he intends to indict Netanyahu in all three cases, pending a hearing.
Netanyahu will have 28 days to form a government, with the possibility of a two-week extension at the discretion of the president.
Illustrative: Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman (left), Shas leader Aryeh Deri (center), and United Torah Judaism chief Yaakov Litzman at the Knesset. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Legal issues aside, Netanyahu is also expected to have a difficult time reconciling the demands of the two ultra-Orthodox parties, which both saw an increase in support, and Avigdor Liberman’s secularist Yisrael Beytenu party.
Liberman has vowed to hold his ground on religious and state issues in a coalition likely to be dominated by the religious right, particularly over the issue of drafting the ultra-Orthodox.
Once Netanyahu is done with all of that, he will face the tricky issue of meeting the demands for ministerial posts from his fellow Likud members, who will want a greater share of the pie after the party won 35 seats.
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Princess Diana's sisters among royal attendees at baby Archie's christening
Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was christened at Windsor Castle on Saturday.
See pics from baby Archie's royal christening
July 6, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC / Source: TODAY
By Yi-Jin Yu
It's a family affair!
On Saturday, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex released two official photos from the christening ceremony of their son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex with their son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, on the day of his christening at Windsor Castle.Chris Allerton/SussexRoyal / Getty Images
One of the two photos is a family portrait, featuring Archie front and center, sitting on his mother's lap. But behind Harry and Meghan are two very close family members as well — Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorquodale, otherwise known as Archie's great-aunts.
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex with their son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor pose for a photograph with (from L-R) Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Charles, Ms. Doria Ragland, Lady Jane Fellowes, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle on July 6, 2019 in Windsor, United Kingdom.Chris Allerton/SussexRoyal / Getty Images
In the portrait taken by photographer Chris Allerton, the royal family is congregated in the Green Drawing Room inside Windsor Castle and Fellowes stands with Doria Ragland, Meghan's mother, to her right, and McCorquodale to her left. McCorquodale also stands to the right of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
Fellowes, 62, and McCorquodale, 64, along with their brother, Earl Charles Spencer, 55, had been some of the first members of the royal family to learn of Archie's birth back in May. Harry has remained close with his mother's siblings in the years following her untimely death in 1997 and also invited his aunts and uncle to his wedding to Meghan last May.
Although many of the details from Archie's christening remain private, such as the identity of his godparents, the palace did reveal that Archie's christening was held in Queen Elizabeth II's private chapel inside Windsor Castle and officiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
For his christening, Archie wore a replica of the same gown his father, Harry wore at his christening in 1984.
Three-month-old Prince Henry of Wales, on his christening day with his mother, the Princess of Wales.PA Images / Getty Images
Archie's christening robe has a long royal history, with the first version created in 1841 for Queen Victoria's first daughter's christening. The lace and satin gown was passed down through the generations until Queen Elizabeth II commissioned a replica to be made in 2004, in order to preserve the integrity of the first garment.
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If your teeth seem especially sensitive after you brush them or when you consume certain foods or beverages, you're hardly alone: By one estimate, around 35 percent of the U.S. population experiences some degree of tooth sensitivity. While the difference between sensitivity and pain may be somewhat blurry, we can say that sensitive teeth usually produce discomfort in response to a stimulus like temperature, pressure, or even the sweetness of particular foods. What causes tooth sensitivity — and what should you do about it?
In general, tooth sensitivity results when dentin, the living tissue that makes up most of the “body” of the tooth, begins transmitting sensations to nerves deep in the tooth's inner core. The nerves relay these sensations to the brain, and they're felt as pain. To understand how this works, let's take an even closer look at your teeth.
Tooth Anatomy 101
Dentin is a sturdy, calcified tissue, that can't usually be seen. It's normally covered by super-hard enamel on the visible part of the tooth (the crown), and by softer tissue called cementum on the tooth's roots (which typically lie below the gum line). The dentin itself is composed of many tiny tubules. When these tubules become exposed to the environment of the mouth, tooth sensitivity and pain may result.
There are several reasons why the dentin can become exposed. For one, the gums may recede (shrink down), revealing some of the tooth's root surfaces. This can be caused by genetic factors, periodontal disease, excessively vigorous brushing — or a combination of all three. This problem may be worsened if the tooth's roots weren't completely covered by cementum during their development, as sometimes occurs.
Another factor that may contribute to sensitivity is the erosion of tooth surfaces due to excessive acid in the diet. While acids occur naturally in the mouth, habitually drinking sodas and sports drinks can severely erode teeth — and brushing soon after you drink actually worsens the effect. That's because these acids soften the outer surfaces of the teeth, and brushing then makes it easy to wear them away. It's best to wait for an hour afterwards, to give your saliva a chance to neutralize the acid.
Tooth decay can also cause sensitivity. Decay may not only expose dentin, but can work its way down to the nerves themselves — at which point, your pain level may escalate. And sometimes, even dental work itself can cause sensitivity. Because the same tooth structures are involved, it may sometimes take a few days after a cavity is filled, for example, for a tooth to “calm down.”
Dealing With Tooth Sensitivity
What can you do about sensitive teeth? If it's a relatively minor irritation, try not to brush the affected teeth too long or hard. Make sure you're using a soft-bristled brush and the proper, gentle brushing technique. Always use a toothpaste containing fluoride, as this ingredient is proven to increase the strength of tooth enamel, which helps resist erosion. You can also try a toothpaste with ingredients designed especially for sensitive teeth, such as potassium. Studies show that these can be effective… but it may take approximately 4 – 6 weeks for you to notice the difference.
If sensitivity persists, however — or if your tooth pain becomes more intense — don't wait to get an examination to determine what's causing the problem. Once diagnosed, the most appropriate way to reduce the sensitivity will be recommended. Some treatments may include concentrated fluoride varnishes, prescription mouthrinses, or materials that are bonded to the outer surfaces of teeth. But tooth sensitivity may also be an early warning sign of other dental problems — and the sooner they're taken care of, the better off you'll be!
Treatment of Tooth Sensitivity As many as 35% of the U.S. population suffers from tooth sensitivity. Causes include overly aggressive brushing, which causes the gum tissue to recede exposing the root surfaces of the teeth; and acidic beverages, which erode the teeth. Fortunately, there are products available for use at home or in the dental office that can help... Read Article
Sensitive Teeth Tooth sensitivity — to hot or cold, for example — is often a problem where the gums have receded, exposing the root surfaces of the teeth. These areas of the teeth have sensitive nerve fibers. Find out what steps you can take to minimize this problem... Read Article
A Severe Toothache You may think a painful toothache that goes away on its own is no longer cause for concern. However, it's still worth a visit to the dentist. The disappearance of pain could mean that the nerve tissue deep inside the tooth has died, yet an infection is still present... Read Article
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Weston is a lovely, historic New England town that values its natural rural beauty of open space, land and the noteworthy Saugatuck Reservoir. It’s among the most affluent communities in the United States and in 2011 was named by Connecticut Magazine as the number one town in Connecticut for towns with populations of 10,000–15,000. The rating considers education, crime, economy, cost and leisure.
Aside from a handful of stores that form the town’s charming center, Weston has little commercial development. Most of Devil’s Den Preserve, a 1,756-acre nature reserve, which gets 40,000 visits a year, is located in the town, adding to its bucolic character. Residential development is limited by two-acre zoning.
Weston offers top-ranked public schools on a unified campus and is committed to educational innovation and personalized attention to all students.
Manhattan is just 45 miles away with easy access to Interstate 95 and the Merritt Parkway. Residents can also access Metro North train service from Westport or Wilton.
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Adrian Belew is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and producer who has released 20 solo albums, while working alongside some of the most groundbreaking artists of the past 30 years, including Paul Simon, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, and Nine Inch Nails, among others. For 33 years he was the frontman, singer, and guitarist in art-rock giant King Crimson. Known for pushing the sonic boundaries of guitar, much of Belew's music mixes pop songwriting with complex time signatures, witty lyrics, wild sounds, and a technical mastery of his instrument.
Veteran artist and multi-instrumentalist, Saul Zonana, has been touring and releasing his quirky brand of pop-rock music for over thirty years now. His prolific and extensive career includes ten solo albums, with commercial radio success from his "WAVES" album and the still popular "BLUE MONKEY".
Teaming up with guitar icon Adrian Belew in 2006, Saul created his "42 Days" CD to critical acclaim. "Chasin' It" is still a fan favorite from that album, as is the music documentary ("Chasin' It") which aired on PBS.
Saul toured on bass with The Ace Frehley Band, and on guitar with the Crash Test Dummies. As a solo support artist, Saul has toured with Leon Russell, Glenn Tilbrook, Lisa Loeb, The Spin Doctors, Adrian Belew Power Trio 2006-2008 and many others. In the studio, Saul has worked with many great artists including Taylor Dayne, Blue Oyster Cult, and American Idol finalist Haeley Vaughn.
Adrian Belew fans know him well as the recording engineer on Belew's "Side Four: Live" as well as the groundbreaking Belew Power Trio studio album "e".
Saul is now on the road in support of his 2013 release "FIX THE BROKEN", and is close to finishing the new one, due out in January 2015.
When asked to comment on his career Saul simply smiled and said, "I'm just getting started".
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Learn More About the Great Ape Conservation Efforts in Africa
Learn More About the Great Ape Conservation Efforts in Africa -
Featuring the executive director of the Jane Goodall Institute and more
Learn more about the Great Ape Conservation in Africa through short films featuring the work of the Jane Goodall Institute and Arcus Foundation, as well as a preview on an upcoming documentary on a chimp conservation project on Rubondo Island. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the Executive Directors of both foundations as well as the filmmaker of the Rubondo Island Documentary.
About Carlos Drews:
Carlos Drews is the Executive Director of the Jane Goodall Institute in the U.S. His passion for animals sparked at a young age while in his native Colombia. He later left Latin America to conduct baboon research in Gombe, Tanzania, which propelled his professional career. He attended the University of Cambridge where he received his Ph.D in zoology and Masters in biology. Carlos joined WWT in 2003 as the Director of the Global Species Programme. This work led him to conduct research on marine wildlife in Latin America. He later worked with WWT in spearheading projects focused on saving elephants, rhinos, and great apes from the brink of extinction. He focuses on the interrelatedness of wildlife, biodiversity, and society, constantly motivated by his moral obligation to give back to nature.
The Jane Goodall Institute advances the vision and work of Dr. Jane Goodall to lead a movement of conservation for the common good—one that builds on our connections to each other, our fellow species, and the natural world we all share. Following in the trailblazing footsteps of the founder, they inspire hope through action, encouraging individuals around the world to join in taking care of the planet.
About Annette Lanjouw:
Annette Lanjouw is Co-Executive Director of the Arcus Foundation. A highly regarded expert in ape conservation, she has worked with chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas in their range habitats, and has extensive experience in conservation strategy, program implementation, and research. Before Arcus, she worked at the International Gorilla Conservation Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Howard G. Buffett Foundation. A native of the Netherlands, Ms. Lanjouw holds a BSc in zoology and psychology from Victoria University in New Zealand, and a doctorandus degree in behavioral ecology from the Rijks Universiteit in the Netherlands.
The Arcus Foundation is a leading global foundation dedicated to the idea that people can live in harmony with one another and the natural world. Founded in 2000 by Jon Stryker, the Arcus Foundation strives to achieve social justice inclusive of sexual orientation, gender identity, and race; and to ensure the conservation of, and respect for, the world’s great apes and gibbons. The Foundation works globally, and has offices in New York City and Cambridge, U
About Jeroen Harderwijk
Jeroen Harderwijk is the co-founder and Managing Director of Asilia Africa, an upmarket responsible tourism company which was founded in 2004 and which has since grown into one of the leading operators in its segment in East Africa.
Asilia operates a portfolio lodges and camps in Tanzania and Kenya and they are the only safari company operating on Rubondo Island. Rubondo Island is a national park in Lake Victoria where Professor Bernhard Grzimek of the Frankfurt Zoological Society released 16. The first cohort of chimpanzees arrived in Dar es Salaam aboard the German African Line’s steamship ‘Eibe Oldendorff’ on 17 June 1966. The animals had no rehabilitation or pre-release training but after one year on Rubondo they were able to find and eat wild foods and construct nests for sleeping.
Moderated by Charles Runnette:
Charles Runnette is a filmmaker and journalist based in New York. He has produced/directed documentaries for Discovery, Viceland and Condé Nast Entertainment and developed programming for the Travel Channel and IFC. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Traveler and Condé Nast Traveller. He’s currently directing and producing a feature documentary film about Rubondo Island called “A Place for Wild Animals”.
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Milton S. Hershey Biography
Milton Hershey was an American manufacturer and entrepreneur who started the chocolate candy revolution in the US. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline
Birthday: September 13, 1857
Famous: Philanthropists American Men
Died At Age: 88
Sun Sign: Virgo
Also Known As: Milton Snavely Hershey
Born in: Derry Township
Famous as: Confectioner & Philanthropist
father: Henry Hershey
mother: Fanny Snavely Hershey
Died on: October 13, 1945
place of death: Hershey
Founder/Co-Founder: The Hershey Company, Hershey Trust Company, Milton Hershey School, Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company
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Popularly known as the ‘candy man’, Milton Hershey was an American manufacturer and entrepreneur who started the chocolate candy revolution in the US. Born in a poor family, Milton was haunted by unfulfilled wishes throughout his life which prompted many of his philanthropic acts in later years, especially establishing a school for needy children. Milton could not complete his education and started apprenticeship at the age of 15. He failed twice in setting up a business till the time he started the Lancaster Caramel Company, where he wanted to create a perfect formula of caramel candies. Milton had his first encounter with chocolate making in World’s Columbian Exposition; with his caramel business doing well, he wanted to try his hand at chocolates and started the Hershey Chocolate Company. His aim was to find a way to mass-produce chocolate candies, which was henceforth considered the domain of the Swiss. His business thrived and there were many successful products like Hershey Kiss. Later he concentrated on the packaging of his chocolates. With his growth in business, Milton decided to build something for his community. He built schools, parks and churches in the town where the factory was located. In the later years, he helped the country during the time of Great Depression and helped the military during World War II, by supplying chocolate bars manufactured in his factory
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Milton Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, in Pennsylvania, to Veronica "Fanny" Snavely Hershey and Henry Hershey. He was born in a tiny community farm where he spent most of his childhood days.
His father was kind of a dreamer who was interests more in quick-rich schemes, rather than hard work. His mother was tired of his schemes, and the couple gradually separated. His mother was quit stricte with young Milton and instilled an appreciation of hard work in him.
When Milton was 14, he dropped out of school and told his mother about the wish to start a business of his own. He started his apprenticeship with a candy maker in Lancaster. After four years, he borrowed some money from his aunt to start his own business in 1867.
He was a hard-working person, but his candy making business was not getting any success. He shifted to Denver for a short period of time and started to work with a confectioner. Here he learnt the trick of making caramel with fresh milk. Milton started a business in New York too, but it too was not quite successful.
As Milton returned to Lancaster, he again tried his hand at caramel business, and this time it was a hit. He established the Lancaster Caramel Company, which soon became a household name in caramel business. It was so successful that he started shipping products in Europe and US. He employed almost 14,000 people in his business.
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In 1893, Milton went to World’s Columbian Exposition. It was here that he had a close look at the art of chocolate making and he became fascinated with the entire process. With a thriving caramel business already in hand, he decided to start the Hershey Chocolate Company.
Milton concentrated more on milk chocolate, a delicacy considered as the forte of Swiss. But he wanted to mass-produce these candies so that it was available to everyone. He began experimenting to create a formula for his mass-produced chocolates.
In 1900, he sold his caramel company for a whopping 1 million dollars. After three years, he started a candy-making unit in Derry Church. The factory had modern machinery and was considered as a path-breaking unit in the history of Hershey and the candy industry. His experimentation with milk chocolates ultimately led to the discovery of Hershey bar which became popular with everyone.
The Hershey Chocolate Company was extremely successful and he created the Hershey Kiss in 1907. His long experiences in this industry had taught him the value of good workers. He was an industrialist and a forward-thinker, so he saw that his workers were treated properly and there was a pleasant atmosphere for them.
The year 1924 was a landmark year in his career as he found the perfect way to mass-distribute his chocolates with the introduction of foil wrappers.
With his growing business, Milton decided that it was the time to give something back to his society. He envisioned a model community in his home town. The town where the chocolate factory was present came to be known as Hershey. Schools, parks, churches, and houses were built there, mostly catering to the needs and welfare of his factory workers.
In 1930, when the Great Depression struck US, Milton contributed to the country’s economy by creating a mini-boom in his town. To keep the morale of his workers high, he decided to build a community building, a hotel and an office for Hershey.
During the time of World War II, Milton also helped the army by producing Tropical Chocolate Bar and Ration D Bar.
Milton was the first entrepreneur who wanted to provide easily affordable chocolates. There are many products from Hershey which remain favorites, but the ‘Hershey Bar’ definitely tops the list.
Philanthropic Works
In 1909, Milton along with his wife Catherine started the Hershey Industrial School, which he thought was important for teaching young people the tricks of the trade. This school later came to be known as Milton Hershey School.
In 1918, three years after Catherine’s death, Milton transferred majority of his wealth to Hershey Trust. The money in the trust is still used to fund Hershey School.
In 1898, Milton got married to Catherine. The couple had no children, but they led a very happy life. Both of them were actively involved in philanthropic activities, and Catherine ardently helped her husband in his social work.
Milton Hershey died on October 13, 1945, at the age of 88, in Pennsylvania.
Milton believed that one should share his wealth with others, especially the less-fortunate ones; this was more of a moral obligation. The whole idea of starting the Hershey Industrial School for orphans stemmed from his deep urge to give back some of his wealth to his society. Today, the Milton Hershey School offers education and housing for more than 1000 girls and boys who have a problematic family life.
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Discover how glaciers form and their historical advance and retreats. Also, learn how a glacier is like a candy bar!
Chart the geology of Appalachian Trail and journey to a continental collision that raised mountains.
Learn the story of the Grand Canyon - a geological saga of deposition and erosion that started 1.7 billion years ago.
Use fossilized flora and fauna to open a window on ancient ecosystems, extinct species, and the history of life on Earth.
Learn how more than 2,000 natural arches formed in the Arches region.
In 1872, a wondrous region called Yellowstone was set aside as the world’s first national park, giving adventurous travelers access to a geologist’s paradise that seethes with pent-up volcanic forces. As more and more national parks were created—not just in the United States but also in Canada and Mexico—geologists were revolutionizing their field, piecing together a detailed understanding of how the world works. National parks have made these magnificent reminders of the awe-inspiring power of our planet accessible to everyone. Today, there is no better education in the remarkable forces that formed our world than a tour of the national parks of North America. These parks capture a special place in our hearts and draw millions of tourists each year.
From Yellowstone’s bubbling, steaming landscape to the great slabs of granite along Acadia’s shores, each park contributes its own chapter to the story of Earth. Most visitors get only a superficial view of these sites, guided by the informational signposts or tour books, but there is so much more to be discovered. Our national parks offer profound lessons for anyone who loves history, geology, and nature. This course provides in-depth insights, intriguing perspectives, and riveting little-known facts about these treasured places that you won’t find simply by driving through them. And the next time you do drive or hike through a national park, you’ll have a deeper appreciation for the forces—geological, historical, and otherwise—that shaped it.
You will learn how our majestic parks provide dramatic evidence of geological processes such as:
Colliding continents: From Maine’s Acadia National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, the rolling Appalachians are the eroded remnants of once-mighty peaks formed in the collision of ancient continents.
Glaciation: The magnificent valley that welcomes visitors to Yosemite National Park is the work of vanished glaciers that were nearly a mile thick. Glaciers sculpted this region and much of North America in a succession of pulses during Earth’s latest ice age.
Uplift and erosion: Imagine a board lifting into a buzz saw. A similar phenomenon produced the Grand Canyon and other breathtaking chasms in the American West, as the Colorado Plateau rose and fast-flowing rivers sliced through the land.
Volcanic Hotspots: Deep beneath Yellowstone National Park is a huge magma chamber that erupted as a supervolcano 640,000 years ago and will explode again. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park hides a tamer, fiery hotspot.
Formed just 16 years after Yellowstone was dedicated as a park, the National Geographic Society has led the way in securing protection for America’s most important natural wonders. With a connection to the national parks that stretches back all the way to the 1800s, the National Geographic Society has maintained an abiding interest in their creation and preservation, sponsoring scientific and exploratory expeditions; featuring the parks in scores of magazine articles, books, and films; and working to raise awareness and support for national parks at home and abroad. Apart from the National Park Service itself, no other organization has compiled as impressive an archive of maps and images, assembled as knowledgeable a staff, or been as committed to educating the public on the subject of these national treasures.
We are proud to join forces with this extraordinary institution to present Wonders of the National Parks: A Geology of North America, a fascinating introduction to geology that forged North America’s national parks. Beautifully illustrated, these 36 half-hour lectures take you to more than a hundred spectacular sites guided by geologist and former college professor Ford Cochran, who is currently the Director of Programming for National Geographic Expeditions. He is a storyteller and an explorer at heart who specializes in interpreting landscapes for a variety of audiences.
No previous background in geology or science is needed to experience the thrill that these lectures offer, just a sense of curiosity as you unravel the mysteries of some of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet.
Learn about Every National Park…and More
The scope of this course is truly astonishing. Professor Cochran covers every national park in the United States, together with exceptional state parks, national monuments, historical parks, marine sanctuaries, and other preserves, plus a number of outstanding parks in Canada, Mexico, and beyond. Anyone planning a trip to one or more of these sites, whether a weekend outing or a transcontinental expedition, will find their experiences immeasurably enriched by Professor Cochran’s insightful and entertaining presentation. And just staying at home watching the series is an adventure itself!
As a special bonus, three of National Geographic’s top experts appear in interview segments following many of the lectures. Photojournalist Chris Johns was the first journalist onto Mount Saint Helens after it erupted in 1980, and he recently stepped up from Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic magazine to oversee all editorial content creation at National Geographic. Biologist and wildlife documentary producer John Francis is currently National Geographic’s Vice President for Research, Conservation, and Exploration. And Kaitlin Yarnall is one of the gifted cartographers behind National Geographic’s famous maps, now serving as Executive Editor for Cartography, Art, and Graphics at National Geographic magazine as well as Director of Cartography for the Society. These three creative professionals add their fascinating perspectives to Wonders of the National Parks, rounding out the experience to provide truly enriching lessons.
The Greatest Spectacle on Earth
Many visitors to national parks never go beyond the most accessible sites, but this course shows how to experience the breathtaking diversity of these places in depth. You learn how each park fits into the geological epic of North America—a story of mountain ranges created by the collision of tectonic plates, of oceans rising and drowning the lowlands, of volcanoes raining ash and liquid fire, of glaciers growing to towering heights and scouring the terrain down to the bedrock, of desert sands burying entire regions, of earthquakes transforming the land in an instant, and of the tenacious, erosive power of flowing water. If it sounds like the greatest spectacle on Earth, it is!
Drawing on his wide experience as a field geologist and National Geographic expedition lecturer, Professor Cochran has plenty of recommendations for must-see attractions and activities. Here are just a few:
Driving: A National Geographic staffer once told Professor Cochran that Canada’s Icefields Parkway was “the most spectacular drive anywhere.” He took the trip and discovered why. The largest icefield in the Rocky Mountains, it stretches from Banff National Park to Jasper National Park along the Continental Divide.
Hiking: Among the many hikes suggested by Professor Cochran, he especially loves the West Rim Trail at Zion National Park. The awe-inspiring views of the sandstone canyons carved by the North Fork of the Virgin River are well worth the walk.
For the more adventurous:
Canoeing and kayaking: A tranquil river trip takes you through the dramatic badlands of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, retracing a portion of Lewis and Clark’s epic voyage.
Rock climbing: One of the oldest rivers on the continent, paradoxically called the New River, has worn a gorge into a uniquely hard form of sandstone that is a nearly perfect rock for climbers, who flock to New River Gorge National River to test their skills.
Remind Yourself: “This Is Real!”
In addition to geology, Wonders of the National Parks also touches on botany, zoology, atmospheric science, and other disciplines as they relate to specific protected areas. The course also explores the role that humans have played in these distinctive landscapes. For example:
Gettysburg: Gettysburg National Military Park provides a geology lesson wrapped up in a history lesson. Little Round Top, Cemetery Ridge, and other key sites in the three-day battle owe their existence to the rifting that opened the Atlantic when the supercontinent Pangaea split apart.
Gold rush: Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve includes gold formations mined during Alaska’s great gold rush. Just as in California’s gold fields, seafloor subduction and other tectonic forces created the right conditions to concentrate the glittering element in rocks near the surface.
John Wesley Powell: One of the founders of the National Geographic Society was John Wesley Powell, who led the first expeditions through the canyon country of the Colorado Plateau, including the Grand Canyon. His vivid reports brought these future parklands to public attention.
Ansel Adams: The world’s most revered nature photographer did his most famous work in the parks of the American West. Professor Cochran takes Adams’s classic view of Yosemite Valley and reads it like a book, pointing out the riveting geological story it tells.
With a career at National Geographic spanning more than 20 years, plus his professional training in geology, Professor Cochran is the ideal lecturer for this course: a deeply knowledgeable scientist, an experienced and enthusiastic traveler, and a consummate storyteller who lives and breathes the Society’s mission to “inspire, illuminate, teach.”
You may even be able to detect Professor Cochran’s background in English literature, which he pursued as an undergraduate before falling in love with geology. He often peppers his lessons with quotes and stories, adding an additional dimension of elucidation. For example, in his lectures on Yosemite, he quotes the great author and naturalist John Muir, whose eloquence helped preserve Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks in the 1890s. Professor Cochran has a similar way with words, describing one of the Yosemite hikes as follows: “The soaring scale and beauty of the granite landscape from this portion of the John Muir Trail are so extraordinary that, though you’re there and seeing it—actually seeing it—you still have to remind yourself: This is real!”
Yellowstone: Microcosm of the National Parks
Start your tour of the geological wonders of North America's national parks with Yellowstone, where the breathtaking landscape inspired the idea of a national park. Focus on the processes that produce Yellowstone's many geothermal formations, particularly its geysers. x
Yellowstone's Cataclysmic Origins and Future
Read the evidence in the rocks to discover Yellowstone's bigger story: the massive volcanic eruptions that created the region and will one day destroy it, the glaciers that shaped the terrain, and the meltwater floods that carved the impressive Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. x
Grand Teton and Jackson Hole
At Grand Teton National Park south of Yellowstone, an active fault lifts some of North America's oldest rocks to the summits of some of the continent's youngest mountains. Explore these glacier-sculpted peaks, and learn the origin of the broad valley, called Jackson Hole, at the base of the Teton Range. x
Hawaii Volcanoes: Earth's Largest Mountains
Compare the lessons of hotspot volcanism at Yellowstone with the very different landscape at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which is also stoked by upwelling magma from Earth's mantle. Professor Cochran describes rivers of fire on the Big Island of Hawaii and suggests distinctive lava formations to visit. x
The Hawaiian Islands and Maui's Haleakala
How does a barren volcanic landscape become a tropical paradise? Study the speed with which volcanic islands erode, leaving rich soil behind. Watch these processes at work on the Big Island of Hawaii, at Haleakala National Park on Maui, and also in the National Park of American Samoa. x
Mount Saint Helens, Lassen Volcanic, Rainier
Tour Mount Rainier National Park and Lassen Volcanic National Park in the Pacific Northwest, which are part of the Cascade Range of active volcanoes that include Mount Saint Helens. Then visit a group of similarly cataclysmic volcanoes in national parks in central Mexico. x
Crater Lake, Olympic, North Cascades
Learn how seafloor subduction raised a lofty volcano only to obliterate it in a colossal eruption that created Crater Lake in Oregon. Hundreds of miles to the north, tectonic forces upended the imposing mountains of Olympic National Park and formed the high jagged peaks at North Cascades National Park. x
Volcanoes of Alaska: Katmai and Lake Clark
Travel to Alaska to explore the vast national parks at Katmai and Lake Clark. Katmai was the site of the 20th century's largest volcanic eruption, while Lake Clark is unusual among national parks for having no roads and being accessible only by boat or small plane. x
Alaska's Glacier Bay and Kenai Fjords
Continue your tour of the largest state with stops at two spectacular parks that are popular destinations for cruise ships: Glacier Bay and Kenai Fjords. Discover how glaciers form and examine their historical advance and retreat in this region. Also, learn how a glacier is like a candy bar! x
Yosemite: Nature's Cathedral
Survey the most beautiful valley on Earth: Yosemite. Even for those who have not yet visited, its views are iconic thanks to stunning photos by Ansel Adams and others. Investigate the geological history of the park, focusing on its most distinctive rock type - granite. x
Redwoods, Sequoias, and the Sierra Nevada
Dig deeper into the geology of Yosemite, charting the role of glaciers in shaping the terrain. Also, learn the origin of California's famous gold deposits. Then study the special conditions that promote the growth of giant sequoias, and visit the national parks that preserve these towering trees for posterity. x
Pinnacles to Joshua Tree: The San Andreas
Trace the earth-shaking San Andreas fault through a series of national parks and recreation areas - from Point Reyes, Golden Gate, and Pinnacles in the north to the Santa Monica Mountains, Channel Islands, Joshua Tree, and Mexico's Sierra de San Pedro Martir in the south. x
Denali to Gates of the Arctic
The story of the tectonic train wreck that built Alaska is written all over the three largest national parks in the U.S.: Wrangell-St. Elias, Gates of the Arctic, and Denali. These remote preserves encompass America's tallest mountains, all built by subduction zone processes. x
Death Valley and Great Basin: The Rift Zone
Continental rifting has caused huge blocks of land to sink between high mountain belts, producing Death Valley, the lowest, hottest, driest place in North America. Explore this and other national parks and monuments in the Great Basin region. x
Shenandoah: The Collision of Old Continents
A hike along the Appalachian Trail is a journey back in time to a continental collision that raised mountains rivalling the Himalayas - now eroded into the Appalachians. Chart the geology of this ancient chain from Shenandoah National Park to Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland. x
Great Smoky Mountains and Hot Springs
Survey some of the attractions that make the Great Smoky Mountains America's most visited national park. Investigate a related geological structure in the famous Hot Springs National Park, discovering why there are hot springs so far from volcanic activity. x
National Rivers: Gorges, Falls, and Meanders
Rivers are an important clue to the geology of a region and also offer superb possibilities for recreation. Journey to some of America's national rivers, wild and scenic rivers, water trails, and other river parks, including the Upper Missouri River Breaks, the New River Gorge, and Niagara Falls. x
Great Dune Fields of North America
Sand dunes aren't usually pictured in a setting of alpine peaks, but that's precisely the scene at Great Sand Dunes National Park in the Colorado Rockies. Study the conditions that create sprawling dune fields here as well as in Kobuk Valley, White Sands, Death Valley, and Nebraska's Sand Hills. x
National Seashores and Lakeshores
Get your feet wet at America's coastal national parks, where dunes, salt marshes, ponds, and lagoons characterize shorelines. Investigate the myriad dynamic processes at Cape Hatteras, Cape Cod, and Assateague National Seashores, and at Sleeping Bear Dunes, Indiana Dunes, Pictured Rocks, and Apostle Islands National Lakeshores. x
Reefs: Virgin Islands, Florida, Texas
Turn to a trio of national parks where corals and other reef creatures are helping create new carbonate rock. Then encounter a massive reef from our planet's past, raised to towering heights at Guadalupe Mountains National Park. x
National Marine Sanctuaries and Monuments
Continue your underwater adventures by touring America's national marine sanctuaries and monuments, spread over more than a dozen locations up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, plus the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes, Hawaii, and beyond. x
Acadia's Highlands and Islands
The rocks of coastal Maine reveal a gripping legacy of lost oceans, colliding continents, epic mountains, furious volcanoes, and massive glaciers. Acadia National Park records evidence of all this, etched into its granite summits and boulder-strewn shores. x
The Dakota Badlands
Visit Theodore Roosevelt, Badlands, and Mount Rushmore National Parks in the Dakotas, beholding the landscape that inspired Theodore Roosevelt to become an ardent conservationist. Learn how the fantastic forms of the badlands are the product of deposition, uplift, and erosion. x
The Grand Canyon's 2-Billion-Year Staircase
Descend into the Grand Canyon, recording the full sequence of strata from top to bottom - a story that takes you from 270-million-year-old limestone formed in a shallow sea to basement rocks that record a mountain-building saga from 1.7 billion years ago. x
Carving the Grand Canyon
What did it take to carve the Grand Canyon? Explore theories on how this remarkable chasm came to be. Then take a boat trip through the park, from the Colorado River's access point at Lee's Ferry, down fearsome rapids and into a majestic wonderland. Also, study how humans have changed the river. x
Petrified Forest and Other Fossil Parks
See Petrified Forest National Park, a colorful landscape littered with fossil trees that shaded Earth's earliest dinosaurs. Here and in other parks in the U.S. and Canada, fossilized flora and fauna open a window on ancient ecosystems, extinct species, and the history of life on Earth. x
Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Arches
Nowhere is nature's artistry more exquisite than in the intricately eroded parks of the Colorado Plateau - from Bryce Canyon, to Arches National Park, to Canyonlands National Park. Seek answers to these strange, sculpted landforms, asking questions such as: How did more than 2,000 natural arches form in the Arches region? x
Zion, Gunnison's Black Canyon, Capitol Reef
Witness other wonders of canyon erosion on the Colorado Plateau, including the deep and narrow Black Canyon of the Gunnison, as well as The Narrows, a dramatic slot canyon in Zion National Park. x
Mesa Verde and Ancient Settlements
Explore parks where geology supported the settlement of people in North America. Begin at the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings, cleverly engineered to exploit natural shelter and rock seeps. Then survey other cliff dwellings and pueblos in the Southwest. x
The Colorado Rocky Mountains
Ascend the heights of the Rocky Mountains, asking how tectonic processes nearly a thousand miles away could possibly have raised this extensive range. Venture to Rocky Mountain National Park, Red Rocks, the Garden of the Gods, the Maroon Bells, and the Canadian Rockies. x
Montana's Glacier and the Canadian Rockies
Journey to Glacier National Park, where the glaciers may be disappearing, but the impressive glacier-sculpted terrain remains. x
Big Bend on the Rio Grande and Saguaro
Investigate the multitude of geological processes on view at Big Bend National Park in Texas. Here you find signs of continental collisions, volcanic eruptions, dramatic erosion, and other breathtaking events. Then survey another geologist's paradise - Saguaro National Park. x
Mammoth Cave, Wind Cave, Carlsbad Caverns
Visit underground parks, exploring a tiny portion of the hundreds of miles of mapped passages in Mammoth Cave, Wind Cave, and Carlsbad Caverns National Parks. Consider the similarities and differences between these caves - two carved by mildly acidic rainwater, the other by dilute sulfuric acid! x
The Everglades and the Congaree Bottomland
Florida is a limestone-dominated piece of proto-Africa that got stuck to North America. Also study similar terrain at Congaree National Park and Chichen Itza in the Yucatan. x
Voyageurs, Isle Royale, the Canadian Shield
Explore the ancient heart of North America - the Canadian Shield - heading north from Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota to Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest, most northerly national park in the world. En route, stop off at parks on Isle Royale, Baffin Island, and Ellesmere Island. x
Assembling North America, Park by Park
Conclude by surveying national parks not yet visited in the course, traversing North America on a grand expedition. Along the way, assess the geology of this spectacularly diverse continent. From the Appalachians to the Aleutians, the national parks and other protected lands tell a dramatic and unforgettable story. x
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Geologist and Program Director, National Geographic
Geologist, journalist, and educator Ford Cochran is Director of Programming for National Geographic Expeditions, where he selects and manages the expert scholars, writers, photographers, explorers, and scientists sent on educational expeditions for travelers to destinations around the world. As an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary, he studied English literature. He then took graduate courses in Earth Science at...
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Wonders of the National Parks: A Geology of North America is rated 4.1 out of 5 by 200.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Randi402 from Almost great We gave it a five because we learned so much and want to do all 36 hours again. Definetely get the CD version. He is a good presenter. We see the whole country, the parks, and the world differently. We have been some of the countries most prolific park visiters. My wife is a Geomorphologist and I a mining engineer.. This course is a treasure trove. We don't want to diminish the value of this course. What we would like to do is make suggestions to TGC that would make it perfect. 1st don't stand there with a piece of rock in you hand and say this is Gabro. Show us. Either with a slide or close up. 2nd if you are sjowing us geological graphic and mention some feature, event, or whatever HIGHLIGHT IT on the graphic. 3rd Some parks they clearly had not visited and rushed through them. Get someone who has been there to present or add. The course is about the parks and geology, not you. You don't have to be the only focus.
Rated 5 out of 5 by WESTERNBARNES from GEOLOGY NATIONAL PARKS Changed my thinking on Global Warming. Always thought that the Earth today was the “Finished Product”. Look out for the “Next Ice Age”. Kind of blows away the Genesis theory (Misses by a couple of million years).
Rated 3 out of 5 by LongJohn from Informative but a bit boring We bought this course with the idea of passing it on to a sister, thinking it might be more like a travelog. But, as a geology course it becomes rather tedious with the "professor" using the same gestures, clothing and monotone voice throughout. Would like to have more videos and stills showing what he is talking about.
Rated 3 out of 5 by LZchristopher from Strange Audio Good information, but please don't use this audio style again. Maybe it's just myself, but I find it slight disturbing and slightly distracting. It's as if the professor is in one room with a microphone while the viewer/listener is in another room watching through glass in a soundproof wall. The audio, while properly synced seems to be from a speaker in your room. I've enjoyed many of your courses and will continue. The previous method of Micing the professor for the recording and having the natural sound in the same room as the audience is IMO much better. I hope I've communicated my concerns as I had hoped. Keep up the good work. (I am not an Audio Engineer. So take this for what it's worth). C R Ellsworth
Rated 1 out of 5 by Faushi from Very boring! I found these videos extremely boring. The professor was not exciting to listen to and he spoke from a classroom atmosphere with a world map behind him. I expected the teacher to be on location. Definitely not what I bargained for!
Rated 5 out of 5 by sophie22 from Spectacular pictures Interesting information given by a very knowledgeable source. Anything presented by National Geographic is worth the money and the time spent to view it. Very happy that we purchased this.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Short bill from You can always learn something new Haven’t looked at all the information on parks I was planning on visiting as many parks that I can and was looking for as much information as I can find ,so far this is pretty good. Thanks for putting this out at a good price.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Rshipe from Good instructor Good course easy to follow, good examples, and good instructor, Joel keeps it interesting so you don't get bored
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Comment | Imperial Britain ignores fallen heroes
Posted on 23rd March 2014 by The Gryphon Web Editor
The white crosses scattered across the battlefields of the First World War have become a poignant and harrowing symbol of the war that was meant to end them all. Popularised by John McCrae’s beautiful poem, they serve as a reminder of the brave sacrifice of a lost generation in what is now considered to be a foolish, wasteful war. However, hidden amongst these crosses and often forgotten in our popular culture are the graves of non-Christians. These soldiers were enlisted from both Britain and its empire and are often overlooked when remembering the brave sacrifices made during the First World War.
The First World War was an exhibition in imperial slaughter, and as such, Britain enlisted the forces from the countries it ruled over at the time. India, Australia, New Zealand and troops from the West Indies all supplied armies for the battles the British army found itself engaged in. To modern eyes, it seems grossly unfair that a country colonised by another should sacrifice its citizens to its occupiers. To me, this is why the sacrifice of troops from the commonwealth should be remembered all the more. Nearly 50,000 Indian soldiers alone died from the 1 million enlisted from the subcontinent.
The First World War was one advocated by white and male imperialists, dragging countries and people into the throes of the conflict whether they liked it or not. Young men in Britain and the Empire alike were sold a lie of honour and servitude, one which would see the adult male population decimated in many countries around the world.
When the first Indian troops arrived to assist British forces in September 1914, it was said that they had arrived “in the nick of time” and their services were applauded. This pattern continued throughout the four years of the war, with Gurkha, Muslim, Sikh and Hindu soldiers battling alongside their Christian counterparts. They made the same brave sacrifices and in a lot of cases were treated with the respect and dignity they deserved. Injured soldiers from the British Empire were often nursed in Brighton, and the pavilion was turned into a convalescent hospital. However, even though their bravery and sacrifice was often applauded, Indian soldiers were often treated very unfairly, closely monitored and chaperoned everywhere. To be restricted when their white counterparts were not treated in such a harsh manner is disgraceful.
This terrible colonial attitude still lasts today, to a certain extent. I remember seeing little or nothing about the commonwealth armies in my history textbook at school, and although the graves of Muslim and Jewish soldiers are in public view on the European battlefields, their input into the war is often brushed over in history lessons and in popular culture. Some welcome steps are being taken in order to better represent soldiers of different races and faiths in the First World War. In the recent film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse, an Indian Sikh commander was represented alongside white British allies, and a few years ago, there was a TV drama focused on Walter Tull. Tull was a British man of Caribbean descent who became and infantry officer on the Western Front. These are good steps, but I’m sure there are many people in Britain who would love to see that the sacrifice made by non-white and non-Christian soldiers honoured equally in our remembrance.
Eleanor Healing
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Why George Osborne is wrong about the north-south divide
For Britain’s industrial areas, recovery is patchier, with weaker jobs growth and less infrastructure spending. The evidence says we never have been in it together
Sun 22 Mar 2015 10.00 EDT First published on Sun 22 Mar 2015 09.33 EDT
Recovery in the northern regions is less entrenched than in London and the home counties. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty
Hartlepool has seen better days. Its port was used to transport coal from the Durham coalfields and manufacturing thrived on the Tees estuary.
Heavy industry is still important, although there is less than there was. The council has ambitious plans for regeneration. On the waterfront, there is evidence of previous attempts to turn the town’s fortunes around. The empty office blocks and the shuttered outlet centre show these have not been entirely successful.
George Osborne made a great play of the success of the northern regions in last week’s budget speech. The chancellor rejected the idea that Britain’s recovery is only happening within the M25. He boasted how the government had been successful in getting “the whole of Britain back to work in a truly national recovery”.
In one respect, Osborne is right. The recovery is not only taking place in London and the south-east. But that has been true of every upswing from postwar recessions. Of more relevance is whether the big gap between Britain’s north and south is widening or narrowing.
The chancellor gave the impression in the budget that this divide is a thing of the past. As he well knows, nothing could be further than the truth.
Representatives from Britain’s older industrial areas met on Friday in Hartlepool where they were presented with a report that showed how uneven the upturn has been.
Whose Recovery, a report from the Industrial Communities Alliance, does not deny that growth is returning to all regions. But it provides data to show that London and the south-east are pulling away from Britain’s industrial heartlands – the 96 districts that make up the alliance. Almost all are north of a line drawn from the Wash to the Severn estuary, and they have a combined population of 18.6 million, slightly more than the 17.1 million in London and the south-east.
The study shows that, in 2009-13, employment in the whole of Great Britain increased by 440,000 to 28,300,000. There was a net increase in employment of 540,000 in London and the south-east, but a 70,000 decrease in older industrial Britain. The latter number would have been larger had it not been for strong employment growth in Manchester (up 26,200) and Leeds (up 8,900).
The ICA study notes: “To some extent, these two northern English cities, which have been the focus of special attention in the deputy prime minister’s Northern Futures initiative and as the chancellor’s ‘northern powerhouse’ are now pulling away from the rest of older industrial Britain in the same way that London is pulling away from the rest of the country.”
Osborne might say 2014 was a better year for the north. This, though, is not really supported by the data, at least for the parts of Britain with ingrained economic problems. The evidence comes from the government’s Business Register and Employment Survey until 2013, supported by statistics where available from the official Labour Force Survey for 2014.
Recovery in the northern regions is patchier and far less well entrenched than in London and the home counties. The rate of growth in private-sector employment in older industrial Britain between 2009 and 2013 was one tenth of the rate in London and the south-east.
A higher proportion of the growth of employment in older industrial Britain is in part-time jobs: in London and the south-east for every part-time job created between 2009 and 2014, there were 16 full-time jobs. In the older industrial regions, the ratio was one to four.
What’s more, between 2010 and 2014, self-employment accounted for 40% of the overall increase in employment. Self-employment grew even faster in London and the south-east, but there is a difference. Vince Cable’s business department says a higher proportion of self-employment in London and the south-east is in professional and high-skilled occupations while, in the rest of the country, it tends to be more prevalent among “elementary or low-skilled” jobs.
This may help explain why the out-of-work benefit rate has fallen more sharply in older industrial Britain (down 2.5 percentage points) than in London and the south-east (down 2.1 points). Tighter benefit rules mean people are officially self-employed but, in many cases, scratching a living.
“Even between 2013 and 2014, as economic growth quickened to a seven-year high and London’s early lead might have been expected to narrow, the rate of employment growth in London and the south-east (2.8%) continued to outstrip employment growth in older industrial Britain,” the report says.
“During the recession, there were assurances that ‘we’re all in this together’. In fact, this was never the case. What is clear from this report is that, as the UK has gradually returned to growth, we are not all together in the recovery either.”
It adds that a higher proportion of the growth needs to be directed where it is needed most. Osborne would say he is trying to do this by the creation of his northern powerhouse, harnessing the strength of Manchester and Leeds to ensure that prosperity is spread more evenly. The chancellor plans to spend more on infrastructure and is devolving control over public services (and the money that funds them) out of Whitehall.
Undoubtedly, transport matters. One reason why the number of employees increased by 4,900 between 2009 and 2013 in Bolsover is that it is next to the M1 and was attractive for retailer Sports Direct. But the fact remains that per-capita spending on transport infrastructure is higher in London than in the northern regions, while overall capital spending has been cut as part of the government’s austerity programme. Cutting journey times between Manchester and Leeds is unlikely to help a town like Hartlepool.
So what would make a difference? Better road and rail links, clearly. An increase in research and development spending to at least the European average, with a focus on the industries of the future. Some tender loving care for manufacturing, which is still the lifeblood of old industrial Britain but which has not recovered the ground lost in the recession.
The ICA has a number of useful suggestions, including using procurement as a development tool, making the most of European funding, beefing up the enterprise zone initiative, introducing a job creation programme and cutting unemployment and low pay rather than benefits.
Terry O’Neill, Labour leader of Warrington council and chairman of the ICA, says he would like full financial devolution, including control over welfare budgets.
“People in London don’t understand what is going on. Our areas are lagging behind. Recovery is happening in spite of the government not because of it.”
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Ralph Lauren at 75: 7½ facts about the designer
The superstar designer turns 75 on Tuesday. To celebrate three quarters of a century of the king of American casual, here some things you should know
Lauren Cochrane
Mon 13 Oct 2014 09.14 EDT Last modified on Mon 2 Jul 2018 10.07 EDT
Portrait of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, 1970. Photograph: Jack Robinson/Getty Images
1. Despite raking in £1.03bn in the second quarter of 2014, Ralph Lauren comes from humble beginnings. He started designing neckties in 1967, and expanded his business with a loan of around £30,000 a year later.
2. His 1983 safari collection was a hit – and it’s a theme that he returns to regularly – but he hadn’t been to Africa when he designed it. Thirty-odd years later, he still hasn’t got a stamp in his passport from any of the 47 countries that make up the mainland African continent.
3. He’s a massive fan of Downton Abbey – not surprising when you realise the 1920s are central to his design world. Lauren designed the wardrobe for the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, kitting out Robert Redford in that famous pink suit.
Robert Redford wears Ralph Lauren in the Great Gatsby (1974) Photograph: PR
4. The Ralph Lauren Polo shirt – first introduced in 1972 – is now a classic for the brand. Its tiny embroidered polo player on the chest is one of fashion’s most recognisable logos, ripe for copyists. The Yolo polo – a homage that substituted the polo player for an image of Drake – went viral last year.
5. He has kept busy during his decades of designing. There are 25 brands in the Lauren stable – running from the high end Purple label to the self-explanatory Denim & Supply. Polo Ralph Lauren has been in the spotlight again recently, with a womenswear collection launched on the runway this season, and a Central Park presentation at September’s New York fashion week.
6. Lauren is a favourite of the American establishment but he is also collected religiously by Lo-Lifes , a New York gang which has worn head-to-toe Lauren since the 1980s. The Ralph Lauren bear – originally on sweatshirts in the nineties – is the gang mascot, and came back briefly on to sweaters last year due to popular demand.
A member of the Lo-Lifes gang, who only wear Ralph Lauren Photograph: Teenfilm
7. A possible birthday present to himself might be a vintage car. Lauren collects them, but not any old fixer-uppers – ones that are so rare that they’re of museum quality. In 2011, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris displayed them – one-off Bugattis and Ferraris included.
½. Not really about Lauren but related. His son, David Lauren, married Lauren Bush, the niece of George W in 2011. She is now called Lauren Bush Lauren.
• This article was amended on 13 October 2014. It originally said Lauren was about to turn 80.
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Illegal tactics used to force confessions from California prisoners, ACLU alleges
Lawsuit claims prosecutors in Orange County used jailhouse informants to illegally ‘coerce’ confessions from other prisoners
Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Wed 4 Apr 2018 09.37 EDT Last modified on Wed 4 Apr 2018 18.48 EDT
The ACLU says that the scheme violated prisoners’ rights to an attorney. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP
Prosecutors and sheriff’s deputies in California’s Orange County used jailhouse informants in an extraordinary and long-running scheme to illegally obtain confessions from criminal defendants, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is alleging in a new lawsuit.
The suit, filed early Wednesday, alleges that the district attorney’s office and sheriff’s department in the suburban county south of Los Angeles routinely employed prisoners – including hardened gang members – as informants and used “threats of violence to coerce confessions” from defendants, violating their rights to an attorney.
The ACLU cited a mountain of evidence, amassed in criminal cases over the past five years, that prosecutors obtained material illegally, suppressed parts favorable to the defence, and sought to cover up the existence of the scheme.
“For 30 years, the Orange County sheriff’s department and district attorney’s office have been operating an illegal informant program out of the jails,” the ACLU lawyer Brendan Hamme told the Guardian. “They’ve used it to coerce information from defendants, including with threats of death, and at the same time they’ve been systematically hiding evidence of that program. These sorts of tactics are offensive to basic constitutional principles and ethical duties.”
Local officials have sought for years to play down the extent of their role. On Wednesday, the district attorney’s office said in a statement it had “not been served the lawsuit the ACLU has provided to the media” and that it would “continue to lawfully use all evidence lawfully developed by local law enforcement”. Orange County Sheriff’s Department said it could not comment on pending litigation but insisted it had “cooperated fully” with state investigations.
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The ACLU’s 41-page complaint lays out the particulars of the scandal, much of it based on documents produced by the county and by the courtroom testimony of county officials, in unforgiving detail: evidence of informants telling their cell mates they were marked for death by a “shot caller”, or gang leader, and could only save themselves if they talked in detail about their crimes; evidence that one informant was encouraged by the police to help frame a 14-year-old boy for attempted murder even though several witnesses said the boy was nowhere near the scene of the crime; evidence that informants were paid tens of thousands of dollars for their services; evidence that prosecutors had repeatedly failed to hand over documentation to defence lawyers as required by law; evidence that sheriffs had repeatedly lied under oath when asked about the existence of the informant program.
The scandal in Orange County, a bastion of law-and-order conservatism, first erupted in 2013, when Scott Sanders, a public defender, noticed that the same jailhouse informant was cited in two high-profile murder cases he was working. That informant turned to be a member of the Mexican mafia, whose jailhouse file included the instruction “Do not use as a CI [confidential informant]”.
When Sanders requested more information, the district attorney’s office stonewalled. When the trial judge sided with Sanders and the county was forced to hand over hundreds of documents revealing a troubling pattern, the district attorney’s office sought to discredit the judge and asked more than 50 times in a single year to have cases reassigned to another courtroom.
It wasn’t just civil libertarians who were outraged. Many Orange County conservatives were disturbed that, in case after case, the district attorney’s office was dropping charges or requesting lesser sentences – all, according to the ACLU suit, to avoid revealing more about the jailhouse informant scheme.
“There is still a significant amount of information being hidden from defence attorneys,” Hamme said. “We’ve seen in at least 18 cases that are publicly known that the DA’s office gets around this by dismissing or reducing charges … But the DA can’t plea-bargain [our suit] away. It will finally have to reckon with its misconduct.”
One of the compromised cases was the biggest mass killing in the county’s history. Prosecutors went all out for the death penalty for Scott Dekraai, who shot and killed eight people in a hair salon in 2011, but the scandal delayed sentencing for years and the judge forced the county to settle for a life sentence instead.
Many sheriff’s departments run jailhouse informants, usually in an effort to thwart crimes being planned inside or outside the jail. If a prisoner volunteers information, unprompted, about a crime, that too is usually regarded as legitimate evidence. But the US supreme court stipulated in 1963 that once a defendant was charged he or she could not be questioned by the state or its agents (including informants) without first being offered legal representation.
Smaller scandals than Orange County’s have erupted from time to time. Los Angeles was rocked in the 1980s by a conman who admitted he used the jail’s phone system to call prosecutors or police to learn the details of a crime, then fabricated evidence against the suspect as a way of reducing his own legal liabilities. Dozens of cases were tainted before the scam was shut down.
In Orange County, the scandal has been remarkable for the tenacity of the officials at the center of the storm. Sheriff Sandra Hutchens has announced she will not be seeking re-election this year, but has persisted in saying that any abuses were the work of a few rogue deputies only. Tony Rackauckas, the district attorney, has been stridently unapologetic and is locked in a furious re-election battle with a county supervisor who is using the scandal as his primary political weapon.
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'The Police Guards Took Her to The Hospital'
The elderly mother of ailing human rights activist and website founder Huang Qi is incommunicado, while her son has yet to receive an official sentence following his trial, RFA has learned.
Pu Wenqing, 86, is currently under house arrest at her home in Mianyang city, in the southwestern province of Sichuan, and is being watched over by state security police, sources told RFA.
Repeated calls to her cell phone this week resulted in a "no such number" message or no answer.
Pu, who is a retired doctor, has been under close surveillance since she tried to visit the Mianyang Intermediate People's Court on hearing that an inspection team from the ruling Chinese Communist Party in Beijing was visiting.
"It seems that the central government is inspecting [Mianyang], which is what this is all about," a source close to the case told RFA. "She told me [on Tuesday] that there were people standing guard both upstairs and at ground level, and that their number had grown."
Pu has been a vocal campaigner for Huang's release on urgent medical grounds, and says the charges against him are politically motivated, with no evidence to back them up.
She has also said she possesses documents proving that the charges against Huang were fabricated by the authorities, and the source said the local government is keen to stop her from traveling to Beijing with her petition.
Sources said Pu is in extremely poor health and may have cancer, but can only receive medical treatment during home visits by doctors.
"Her health is very poor; she has said there seems to be a mass of some sort in her heart and lungs," another source said. "She asked me to buy [Chinese herbs] but I don't think they did much good."
"The police guards took her to the hospital, which should be their duty in terms of humanitarian and human rights concern, even if she isn't their grandmother," the source said.
'I can't get through'
Chongqing-based rights activist Hu Guiqin told RFA that he has been unable to call Pu since the evening of June 4, the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.
"I can't get through. I have been unable to call her since the night of June 3," Hu said.
Last December, Pu was forcibly detained and pushed to the ground by authorities in Beijing after traveling there to press her son's case, and was incommunicado for several weeks afterwards.
But she returned to Sichuan, where she hired Jiangxi-based lawyer Zhang Zanning to represent Huang, and made another attempt to visit her son at the Mianyang Detention Center.
Pu also met with diplomats from Germany, Italy, the the U.K., U.S. and Switzerland at that time.
Leaking state secrets
Huang, 56, stood trial in January at the Mianyang Intermediate People's Court on charges of "leaking state secrets" and "leaking state secrets overseas," amid concerns that he could soon die in detention.
He was recently identified by Paris-based press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) as one of 10 citizen journalists in danger of dying in detention.
Huang, who founded the Tianwang rights website, has repeatedly denied the charges and has refused to "confess."
Huang's Tianwang website had a strong track record of highlighting petitions and complaints against official wrongdoing and injustices meted out to the most vulnerable in society, including forced evictees, parents of children who died in the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and other peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
The overseas-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) network, which collates reports from rights groups inside China, says Huang is among a number of gravely ill detainees or prisoners who "continue to suffer from torture by being deprived of proper medical treatment in Chinese detention centers and prisons."
"We are gravely concerned about their fate as the next victims of China's deliberate method of persecution to death through torture by medical deprivation," the group said in a statement on Thursday.
Reported by Tseng Yat-yiu for RFA's Cantonese Service, and by Han Qing for the Mandarin Service. Translated and edited by Luisetta Mudie.
Copyright © 1998-2018, RFA. Published with the permission of Radio Free Asia, 2025 M St. NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20036
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Biden apologizes in Sumter for Democratic debate exchange
Former VP defends record to crowd at South Sumter community center
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's first apology after more than a week of headlines confronting remarks he made about working with segregationist senators in his early legislative days came from a community center in South Sumter on …
Joe Biden shakes hands with supporters after speaking at the M.H. Newton Family Enrichment Center on Manning Avenue on Saturday.
MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM
A supporter hands out stickers during the event Saturday.
Joe Biden speaks at the M.H. Newton Family Enrichment Center on Saturday.
Joe Biden shakes hands with supporters after speaking at the M.H. Newton Family Enrichment Center on Saturday.
Joe Biden gets face to face with a man who attended his rally on Saturday.
Posted Tuesday, July 9, 2019 6:00 am
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's first apology after more than a week of headlines confronting remarks he made about working with segregationist senators in his early legislative days came from a community center in South Sumter on Saturday.
Biden, who served as vice president under Barack Obama, America's first black president, for eight years before Donald Trump took office, has faced backlash since June 27, when he was criticized during the second night of the first round of Democratic debates by Kamala Harris, who is also seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination, for his views on mandated busing and his seemingly fond recalling of working with two Southern Democratic segregationists in the U.S. Senate.
"Was I wrong a few weeks ago to give the impression that somehow I was praising those men I successfully opposed time and time again?" he said to a largely black audience of about 325 at the M.H. Newton Family Enrichment Center on Manning Avenue. "Yes, I was. And I regret it and am sorry for any pain that misperception may have caused."
The apology received room-filling applause.
The stop in Sumter was the first of three in a two-day trip to South Carolina. It marked his third visit to the state that is the fourth in line to hold primaries behind Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. South Carolina is the first state in the South to vote for a nominee and has the largest black electorate in the early states.
Biden has long boasted his support with black voters and his decades-long career in fighting for civil rights and defended his record on racial issues.
He has polled as the Democratic frontrunner since entering the 20-plus candidate race but saw Harris, California's first black and first female attorney general who took office in the U.S. Senate in 2017, rise in the polls after the debate.
Biden never mentioned her name at the rally stop in Sumter, but he countered the backlash their exchange brought.
As Harris and other candidates are proposing leftward-shifting campaigns, Biden has remained a moderate Democrat, reiterating on Saturday he has chosen to work "within the system to make the system better."
He said elected officials cannot work with only those with whom they agree.
"To get things done for the people you were elected to serve requires that some of the people with whom you must engage may not see the world the same as you do. Some may be downright repugnant. And sometimes, things get rather messy," he said.
You adjust and find common ground without sacrificing your principles, he said. You compromise.
"You work with people who may offend every fiber of your being - to achieve a greater good," he said. " The world I was given eight members of the Senate on the day I entered that body were signatories to the Southern Manifesto."
His votes on busing in the '70s were also brought up by Harris, which Biden addressed in Sumter.
He said busing does not get at the root of the problem, that the country needs to address housing discrimination and other contributing factors.
"I don't believe a child should have to get on a bus to attend a good school. There should be first-rate quality schools in every neighborhood in this nation," he said to more applause.
Biden proposed naming "a Secretary of Education who is an educator" to strengthen public schools and promote higher pay for teachers and increased diversity among school staff. He proposed tripling Title 1 funding and closing the wealth gap by increasing the minimum wage and initiating "the largest infrastructure program in our nation's history" because "you will be hard-pressed to find a low-performing school in a high-income community."
Biden also touched on prison reform and criminal justice reform by improving the 1994 Crime Bill, confronting China on trade, improving Obamacare by adding a public option instead of repealing it, leading the world in climate change reform, refunding programs that support Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to combat reasons for immigration at their root and said he would move to codify Roe v. Wade if the Supreme Court strikes it down.
He said he knew his years of experience would come in a campaign with "a treasure trove for the armies of opposition researchers" but is reiterating his connection to voters that he served as the vice president under Obama.
"I was vetted by him and 10 lawyers," Biden said, "and selected by him. I will take his judgment of my record, my character and my ability to handle the job over anyone else's." More applause.
Among his supporters in Sumter is state Sen. Kevin Johnson, who introduced Biden to the stage Saturday.
Johnson, a Manning resident whose District 36 spans Clarendon County, covers half of Sumter County and reaches into Darlington and Florence counties, said he doesn't "do a lot of endorsements."
"But when I do, I take it very seriously," he said. "I'm big on experience."
He said "the problems we have today" are because of President Trump's lack of political experience.
"It's not about the past, what someone said 40 or 50 years ago," Johnson said. "It's about the future."
Sheryl Witherspoon and her husband, who is from Sumter, drove from their Columbia home for the event. Biden proceeded to Orangeburg on Saturday before Sunday appearances in Charleston.
Witherspoon, who is black, said she wasn't aware of Biden's busing issue and comments but that she has read up on it since the debate.
"I love his character," she said. "I didn't think a whole lot of it. I don't think it's very concerning."
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German teens teach younger students how to stay safe in today's digital world
Senior student and media scout Joeline Klaar teaches young pupils behind a sign reading 'Cyber Mobbing' during a lesson in social media and internet at a comprehensive school in Essen, Germany. According to experts and teachers, the peer projects in which teenagers teach their younger schoolmates how to stay safe and sane online have proven to be especially successful.
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
ESSEN, Germany - How do you teach tech-savvy kids to safely navigate the digital world? In Germany, you bring in the teenagers.
On a recent day, 18-year-old Chantal Hueben stood in front of a group of fifth-graders and asked them to brainstorm about the messaging program Whatsapp, which most are using to participate in a group chat for their class. They spoke about themes like cyberbullying and what material is OK to post.
"Many are not really aware yet of the impact their messages can have on others," says Hueben, dressed all in black except for white sneakers. "We're teaching them not to post anything private on the class chat, not to send photos of others and not to insult anybody."
The session at the Gesamtschule Borbeck high school, in the western German city of Essen, is part of a large-scale program in which teenagers teach their younger schoolmates how to stay safe and sane online.
As they grow older, they also participate in workshops about media copyright issues or sexting, and, at the end of eighth grade, they take a test to get a laminated "mobile license" that allows them to use their smartphones at certain times at school.
The exam includes 10 multiple choice questions. One asks what to do when somebody sends an embarrassing Snapchat photo of a fellow student. The answer, of course, is to not forward the picture to others.
Over two-thirds of kids in Germany have smartphones by the age of 11 and, like children around the world, many are stressed by the huge number of messages they receive and don't know how to handle inappropriate and hurtful posts. With many parents and teachers lacking in digital skills and unable to relate to what it means to grow up with a smartphone, German authorities decided peer education was the best approach.
At Borbeck, which has about 1,000 students and is considered one of the most advanced schools in Germany when it comes to teaching digital skills, there are 32 students teaching in the "Medienscouts," or media scouts, program.
"We're also students, so we have this buddy-and-role model relationship with the younger kids that definitely motivates them to learn from us," Hueben says.
With the program, Germany is ahead of many other countries, where "media skills" are often taught by teachers and are more about how to read or watch news media rather than the personal impact.
It was founded in 2011 by public authorities in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In Germany, education is managed by the country's 16 separate states, and now 11 of them have established similar programs in hundreds of schools.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, 766 schools have so far participated in the media scout program. More than 3,120 high school students have been trained as scouts and around 1,500 teachers have acted as guidance counselors to help the kids grow up as mature cyber world citizens.
"It would be great if the media scouts would be established at every high school," said Sven Hulvershorn from the media authority agency for the western German state, who oversees the media scout program. "We're not there yet, but we're working on it."
Beyond teaching children how to deal with the daily stress of digital communications, experts in Germany agree there's a need to coach them in how to protect themselves from online bullying, sexual predators or fake news.
"We first had a complete ban on phones in our school," explained teacher Vera Servaty, who is the media scouts' guidance counselor at Borbeck high school. "But the reality is that media is a central aspect of the students' lives. If the school doesn't help them navigate the media and the parents aren't of any help either then how should the children learn responsible ways with the digital world?"
The program is more developed than in many other countries. In the United States, many schools have not fully embraced peer-to-peer tutoring in social media, says Liz Kolb, a professor of education technology at the University of Michigan.
U.S. schools are required by a federal program to teach appropriate online behavior, but that is done by teachers and while some schools offer peer-to-peer tutoring, it is not on the scale of what Germany is doing.
"Schools are pretty much figuring out their own way because there really is no strong mandate they have to have a certain curriculum or specific goals," Kolb said of the U.S. "It's definitely needed and schools are seeing that it's needed, they just don't know how to go about fitting it into the already tight curriculum they have."
At Borbeck high school, the media scouts spend several hours teaching the fifth graders how not to let WhatsApp take over their lives. Beyond practical tricks, like turning off the setting that lets the sender know if a message has been read, the older students also talk with the fifth-graders about learning how to take breaks from their smart phone.
After the end of Hueben's workshop, 11-year-old Simon Scharenberg looked relieved.
He said he often felt overwhelmed by the hundreds of WhatsApp messages he receives every day, most of them from schoolmates in the class group chat. He felt obliged to follow up on all of them out of fear of missing important information about homework or school activities.
After the WhatsApp workshop, Scharenberg said he felt more confident about taking a break from messaging.
"I will put down my phone in the kitchen when I come home from school," he said, explaining his new strategy. "Before I go to sleep, I will check all the messages. But I only reply if I really feel like it."
Michael Melia in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report.
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A Memoir of Glasnost
Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, reflections on glasnost's fate.
The Soviet Union ended twenty years ago, in December 1991. On November 10-11 of this year, the Gorbachev Foundation, headed by the last Soviet President, the Carnegie Moscow Center, and the Washington-based National Security Archives co-sponsored a two-day conference in Moscow on the causes behind the break up of the Soviet Union and the domestic and international consequences of that historic event. Russian, European and American participants, including scholars, journalists and political figures, presented their perspectives and debated an array of large issues. A number of the speakers had participated in or been close observers of perestroika, as Gorbachev’s reforms preceding the end of the Soviet state were known. My own contribution was on a panel focusing on social developments during that period—with a special emphasis on glasnost, or the ending of censorship. Below are my remarks at the conference. They are in part a memoir of my own experience at what was perhaps the most important glasnost newspaper.
At the height of glasnost in 1988-89, the writer Ales Adamovich remarked, "Today, it’s more interesting to read than to live." Anyone who lived during those years of glasnost as a writer, a journalist, an editor, an intellectual, a political person, understood what he meant.
My husband Stephen Cohen and I lived in Moscow for several months during each of the six and a half years of perestroika and glasnost. For an American, I had an extraordinary insider view of the unfolding of glasnost. In 1989, I worked at Moskovskii Novosti—the flagship newspaper of glasnost—under its remarkable editor, Yegor Yakovlev, a det dvatsatovo sezda (a child of the 20th party congress) and a leading perestroischik. Yakovlev’s determination, courage and ability to expand the limits of what could be published at that time, to shatter longstanding taboos despite the fierce opposition this aroused among powerful enemies of perestroika, continues to inspire me today as the editor of a weekly American political magazine whose unorthodox and dissenting views frequently provoke the animosity of powerful establishment forces.
I remember Yegor—though we were much younger than him, I do not recall any of us ever using his patronymic—crossing Pushkin Square from the editorial offices of Moskovskii Novosti to the chief censorship office (Glavlit) to argue for publication of articles about long forbidden subjects, people and literature. As I recall, there was also a censor—a nice older man—in the newspaper’s own editorial offices. With each passing week, he looked increasingly bewildered—as the multitude of taboos being broken became too many to defend. Indeed, I was amazed every week by how much I had heard spoken only in apartment kitchens during the Brezhnev era was now appearing in the pages of the mass circulation newspaper Moskovskii Novosti.
As many of you know, Yegor Yakovlev was not alone on the barricades of glasnost. Behind him stood, of course, Gorbachev and Aleksandr Yakovlev, and on his staff at Moskovskii Novosti were other fearless perestroishchiki. Len Karpinsky and Volodya Shevelov were two of them whom my husband Steve and I came to know well and admire very much.
My own small contributions to glasnost, to destroying taboos, included Yegor’s approval of my idea that I interview for the newspaper Robert Conquest, the author of the famous but still banned history of the Stalinist terror, The Great Terror. A few weeks later, I did an interview with Valery Chalidze, then living in America, who had been stripped of his Soviet citizenship for his human rights work with Andrei Sakharov and other dissidents. Both interviews were published in Moskovskii Novosti in the spring of 1989. The stir they caused among Russian readers was fascinating to observe.
I still remember standing on the street outside the newspaper’s offices, then on Pushkin Square, astonished to find crowds gathered each week to read the sten-gazeta (wall newspaper) of the latest issue of Moskovskii Novosti—enthralled and eagerly consuming each new revelation, even after two years of glasnost. Every week’s issue was a new stride toward the complete end of censorship. (We should not forget, of course, that the same was true of Ogonyok under its editor, Vitaly Korotich.)
Yegor also assigned me and several other reporters to cover the historic 1989 elections to the first Congress of People’s Deputies. When Americans and even some Russians tell me today that Russians are not capable of democracy, I always remember the way the Soviet people in March 1989, and after, avidly followed the electoral campaigns, voted in enormous numbers and were glued to the televised proceedings of that first Congress. If there was any doubt that democracy had come to the Soviet Union, evidence was provided by the following story, reported uncensored at the time in the Moscow media. When Gorbachev was told publicly by his opponents that he didn’t know what was going on in the country, for the first time a Soviet leader in power responded to such charges in a democratic and self-deprecating way: "Comrades, I even know about the following incident: In the last bus coming to Moscow, there were veterans carrying quite graphic propaganda: a portrait of Brezhnev wearing medals and a portrait of Gorbachev wearing rationing coupons." Again, all of this was reported in the press.
In recent years when I have visited Moscow and spoken with a younger generation of journalists, it saddens me that many do not know the name Yegor Yakovlev or the role he played. Yet it heartens me that virtually all of them understand that Mikhail Gorbachev was the father of glasnost.
There is disagreement about when glasnost began to end. No doubt many of you at this conference have your own opinion. Personally, I believe it began in the 1990s when the new financial elite of oligarchs took control both of mass media and increasingly of elections in order to expand and protect their wealth.
Does this mean that the glasnost achieved by Gorbachev and his allies like Yegor Yakovlev failed, or was in vain? As I think about Russia today, I do not think that is the case. Among many of my Russian journalist friends, the struggle goes on—despite the very real dangers and obstacles they face. Moreover, just as there were the "Children of the Twentieth Party Congress," now there are the Deti (Children) of perestroika and glasnost. I think of my friend Dima Muratov—a protege of Yegor Yakovlev—chief editor of Novaya Gazeta, a glasnost newspaper of our times, partially owned by Gorbachev himself. Moreover, I believe the spirit of glasnost that spread also to the West in the late ’80s and early ’90s lives on among those of us who continue to struggle for a media free of corporate and other corrupting influences and for a democracy that includes not only a free press but also social and economic justice.
It may even be that the heirs of glasnost include those who, twenty years later, are occupying the public squares around the world, from Tunisia and Egypt to Spain and Wall Street—and the 2,000 other encampments in cities and towns across America. I believe these protests show that people understand genuine democracy and social justice require a contemporary version of glasnost, including the glasnost of the new media.
It was always Mikhail Gorbachev’s conviction that there are alternatives in history and politics—ones better than the discredited status quo. He understood that such alternatives required full glasnost. That remains true today. In this essential respect, we must hope that perestroika and glasnost are not over—in Russia or in the world.
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Rancid were formed in 1991 in Berkeley, California, by Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong, both of whom were former members of Operation Ivy and Downfall (6).
Rancid includes Armstrong on guitar and vocals, Freeman on bass and vocals, Brett Reed on drums and Lars Frederiksen on guitar and vocals. Reed left the band in 2006 and was replaced by Branden Steineckert, former drummer of The Used. As of November 2006, Armstrong and Freeman have been permanent members of the band and Frederiksen did not join Rancid until 1993 after the band was searching for a second guitar player.
They are credited, along with fellow California bands The Offspring and Green Day, with reviving mainstream popular interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid 1990s and having recorded on Fat Wreck Chords and Epitaph Records (among others), have played a major role in the re-invention of ‘traditional’ punk values in a modern punk scene dominated by pop, metal and emo sensibilities.
Rancid's style often draws comparison with The Clash in their albums ...And Out Come The Wolves and Life Won't Wait, the latter of which is sometimes referred to as "Rancid's Sandinista!". This influence is further emphasized by direct homages to the seminal punk rock group in the lyrics to several of Rancid's songs, such as the title track to Indestructible.
Formed in 1988 by vocalist Jim Lindberg, guitarist Fletcher Dragge, bassist Jason Thirsk and drummer Byron McMackin, Pennywise linked with Epitaph Records for their eponymous 1991 debut. Willfully taking their sound in a direction counter to the burgeoning grunge movement, the group helped to define the emerging West Coast punk scene.
While on hiatus from the group, Jason Thirsk died on July 29, 1996 and Randy Bradbury stepped in to replace him. On August 21, 2009, Jim Lindberg announced his departure from the group. On February 16, 2010, Zoli Teglas, formerly of Ignite, was announced as Lindberg's replacement. Lindberg rejoined the group as lead vocalist on October 29, 2012.
Fletcher Dragge (Guitar, 1988-present)
Randy Bradbury (Bass, 1995-present)
Byron McMackin (Drums, 1988-present)
Jim Lindberg (Vocals, 1988-2009, 2012-present)
Jason Thirsk (Bass, 1988-1995)
Dave Quackenbush (Vocals, 1992)
Zoli Teglas (Vocals, 2010-2012)
Suicidal Tendencies is an US-based hardcore punk and metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Venice, CA by vocalist Mike Muir. Since the band's inception, Muir has been the group's only constant member, although rhythm guitarist Mike Clark was with the group from 1988 until 2013. The group started off as hardcore punk act and their 1983 self-titled debut scored an unexpected hit with the song "Institutionalized", whose video got heavy airplay on MTV. In 1984, citing concerns about crowd violence, the group was banned from performing live in the city of Los Angeles. The ban remained in effect until the early 1990s. By the end of the 1980s, the band had evolved into a full-fledged thrash metal band and would soon begin adding more funk influences into their music. In 1995, the group announced their split, marking the end to their most commercially successful period. Mike Muir and Mike Clark would resurrect the band in 1996 with new members and the group continues to this day, although their recorded output has been sparse since reuniting.
Throughout Suicidal's career, Muir has fronted a number of side-projects like Los Cycos, No Mercy (3), Infectious Grooves, and his own solo act, Cyco Miko. These acts have usually featured other members of Suicidal, as well.
Hardcore punk band from Baltimore, US.
Members of Trapped Under Ice, Sai Nam, Mindset (5), Praise (6), Diamond Youth and Turnstile (2).
http://www.thepalladium.net/
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Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far
MICHAEL FITZGERALD
The wireless communications business smacks of a soap opera, with disaster lurking like your next dropped call.
ON the surface, the mobile Web is a happening place. There’s the iPhone in all its glory. More than 30 companies have signed up for the Open Handset Alliance from Google, which aims to bring the wide-open development environment of the Internet to mobile devices. Nokia, which owns nearly 40 percent of the world market for cellphones, is snapping up Web technology companies and has made an eye-popping $8.1 billion bid for Navteq, a digital mapping service. There are also the requisite start-ups chasing the market.
It all looks good, but the wireless communications business smacks of a soap opera, with disaster lurking like your next dropped call.
In 2000, the wireless application protocol was supposed to bring the Internet to the cellphone. Our hero turned out to be a flash in the pan. That was attributed to a lack of high-speed cellular data networks, so a frenzied and costly effort to build third-generation, or 3G, networks ensued. But at a recent conference, 3G was called “a failure” by Caroline Gabriel, an analyst at Rethink Research. She said data would make up only 12 percent of average revenue per user in 2007, far below the expected 50 percent. (The 12 percent figure does not include text messaging, but you don’t need a 3G network to send a text message.)
Similarly, surveys by Yankee Group, a Boston research firm, show that only 13 percent of cellphone users in North America use their phones to surf the Web more than once a month, while 70 percent of computer users view Web sites every day.
“The user experience has been a disaster,” says Tony Davis, managing partner of Brightspark, a Toronto venture capital firm that has invested in two mobile Web companies.
While many phones have some form of Web access, most are hard to use — just finding a place to type in a Web address can be a challenge. And once you find it, most Web content doesn’t look very good on cellphone screens.
Even the iPhone’s browser can disappoint. It has a version of the Apple Safari browser that doesn’t support Flash, a programming language widely used on Web sites, so users are limited in what they can see on the Web. And, you pay a lot to experience the pain of surfing the mobile Web. Lewis Ward, an analyst at the International Data Corporation, compares the mobile Web today to AOL before it went with flat-rate pricing in the early 1990s. Most people surf on a pay-per-kilobyte model, which encourages them to surf as fast as they can, he says.
The carriers, however, seem to be having a change of heart about the mobile Web. AT&T has allowed Apple unusual control over the network in the iPhone, and Sprint and T-Mobile have signed on to the Android development platform of the Open Handset Alliance.
Industry watchers think that having started, the mobile Web will inexorably open over the next five years, solving many current problems.
For instance, there’s the challenge of finding things on the Web from a mobile phone. John SanGiovanni, founder and vice president for products and services at Zumobi (formerly ZenZui), which was spun out of Microsoft Research, says his company hopes to make it easier for phone users to find phone-ready versions of sites they want. On Dec. 14, it plans to introduce the beta, or test, version of its slick-looking software. It will include colorful “tiles” that phone users can “zoom” into and out of quickly as they move from site to site. (The tiles resemble the iPhone’s widgets, or icons on a desktop computer.)
Zumobi hopes that cellphone users will adopt tiles as their entry point to the Web; the company offers a scrolling interface of 16 such tiles that provide information with mass appeal, but users can set their own preferences. Software developers will be able to build a tile — in fact, Amazon.com has 12 ready to go — and put it on Zumobi’s platform. Tiles can carry ads as well, creating revenue potential for carriers and developers.
THE chairman of Zumobi’s board is Tom Huseby, a longtime entrepreneur and investor in the mobile business and now managing partner at SeaPoint Ventures. Mr. Huseby says the mobile Web is going through a predictable cycle involving the development of handsets, networks and markets. Now it is in the last phase of innovation: figuring out how customers want to see the Web from their phones. He says the answer will be to give people what they want, when they want it.
“You got to have open systems, to allow the vast creativity of people to take place,” he says. Zumobi, Android and other developments, he says, will help create such openness.
Other approaches to solving this problem include Yahoo Go, a mobile Internet product certified to display Web pages correctly on more than 300 handsets, and another from InfoGIN, an Israeli company whose product automatically adapts Web pages to work on cellphones.
The plot has plenty of time to twist yet again. Nathan Eagle an M.I.T. researcher, is working on mobile phone programming in Kenya, where he’s teaching computer science students how to build mobile Web applications that don’t use a browser. Instead, they rely on voice commands and speech-to-text translation to surf the Web
“People talk about the mobile Web, and it’s just assumed that it’ll be a replica of the desktop experience,” Mr. Eagle said. “But they’re fundamentally different devices.” He says he thinks that the basic Web experience for most of the world’s three billion cellphones will never involve trying to thumb-type Web addresses or squint at e-mail messages. Instead, he says, it will be voice-driven. “People want to use their phone as a phone,” he says.
For now, widespread use of the mobile Web remains both far off and inevitable.
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UEFA Women's Champions League - Women's Champions League kicks off - News
Women's Champions League kicks off
Monday 6 August 2012 by Paul Saffer
Glasgow City LFC, Apollon LFC, ever-presents KÍ Klaksvík and Montenegrin pioneers ŽFK Ekonomist Nikšić are among the 32 clubs competing in the qualifying round from Saturday.
Glasgow City would like another successful campaign ©Glasgow City LFC
The 2012/13 UEFA Women's Champions League starts on Saturday with 32 of the 54 contenders taking part in the qualifying round.
Among them are Glasgow City LFC, who reached the round of 16 last season. However, with only the eight group winners and two best runners-up to join the 22 top-ranked sides in the round of 32, Glasgow have a tough task. Two of their opponents, Finnish hosts PK-35 Vantaa and Croatia's WFC Osijek, also got past this stage 12 months ago.
Another team to have impressed in recent years are Apollon LFC of Cyprus, who eliminated two-time winners Umeå IK in the 2010/11 qualifying round. They host Group 6 against Ukraine's WFC Kharkiv, Ada Velipoje of Albania and the Faroe Islands' KÍ Klaksvík, the only side to have entered all 12 UEFA women's club seasons. By contrast, ŽFK Ekonomist Nikšić are Montenegro's first representative in any form of European women's competition and are in Slovakia to play ŠK Slovan Bratislava, Poland's RTP Unia Racibórz and FC Bobruchanka from Belarus, quarter-finalists in 2004/05.
The ten teams that progress will go into the 23 August draw for the rounds of 32 and 16. All the exempted clubs, including holders Olympique Lyonnais, enter in the last 32 with the eventual aim of a place in the 23 May final in London.
Qualifying round
Group 1: FC Zürich Frauen (SUI), Gintra Universitetas (LTU), WFC Pomurje (SVN)*, Ataşehir Belediyespor (TUR)
Group 2: FC NSA (BUL), BIIK (KAZ), ŽFK Spartak (SRB)*, Pärnu Jalgpalliklubi (EST)
Group 3: SU 1° Dezembro (POR), Olimpia Cluj-Napoca (ROU), Glentoran Belfast United (NIR), Birkirkara FC (MLT)*
Group 4: RTP Unia Racibórz (POL), FC Bobruchanka (BLR), ŠK Slovan Bratislava (SVK)*, ŽFK Ekonomist Nikšić (MNE)
Group 5: WFC SFK 2000 Sarajevo (BIH)*, ASA Tel-Aviv FC (ISR), Peamount United (IRL), Cardiff Met LAFC (WAL)
Group 6: Apollon LFC (CYP)*, WFC Kharkiv (UKR), KÍ Klaksvík (FRO), Ada Velipoje (ALB)
Group 7: FC PAOK (GRE), MTK Hungária FC (HUN), ZNK Nase Taksi-SNT 2010 (MKD)*, SKONTO FK (LVA)
Group 8: Glasgow City LFC (SCO), PK-35 Vantaa (FIN)*, WFC Osijek (CRO), FC Noroc Nimoreni (MDA)
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The Roswell UFO Crash (1)
"Roswell," the very mention of the word brings images of a crashed UFO, aliens, government cover-up, autopsies, hidden debris, guarded charred bodies, and weather balloons. In the history of UFO reports, no case has received the world-wide attention as the Roswell event of 1947. Not only did the alleged crash of a flying saucer create mass coverage at the time of the event, but remains today as an often discussed case by which all other cases are judged.
So many books and articles have been written about Roswell, it is not an easy task to write another, but I feel that no UFO enthusiast cannot include it among his comments. The Roswell event is the cornerstone of UFO research. The case offers everything one could imagine; a crash of some flying craft, direct, hands on testimony of witnesses who handled crash debris, government cover-up and secrecy, and most of all a list of participants which is generally listed at around 500 first and secondhand testimonials.
Ironically, the alleged crash story originally died as quickly as it began. It would be many years before UFO researchers refueled the fire behind its enormous potential. Most all of us are familiar with the famous Roswell headline stating that the Army had captured a "flying saucer," and then the retraction a few hours later, substituting a balloon for the crashed saucer.
At the time of the original event, a sense of naivety and trust gave birth to a rapid, quiet acceptance of the retraction, and there the event died. But, fortunately, it was resurrected in 1976, and has kept pace with all other events of the last 50+ years. It would be January 1976, when ufologists William Moore, and Stanton R. Friedman were mulling over some interview notes from two witnesses whom Friedman had met with. A man and a woman, who both had knowledge of a crashed saucer in July 1947 in Corona, New Mexico were the key witnesses.
A retired Air Force officer, Major Jesse A. Marcel asserted that he had first hand involvement in the crash debris, and the Air Force cover-up. The woman was Lydia Sleppy, who had been employed at an Albuquerque radio station KOAT. She claimed that the military had covered-up the story of a crashed saucer, and the bodies of "little men," who were aboard the craft. She also claimed that the Air Force had literally stopped the sending of a teletype news report of the incident.
The USA Military had announced to the world that it had captured a flying saucer on a remote ranch in Corona, and then about four hours later corrected the story, saying that what was found was just a weather balloon with a radar reflector kite. We have two stories. Which one is the truth?
Though subsequent confirmations of the balloon theory continue, as long as we have firsthand witnesses who defy this explanation, the investigation must continue. Of all of the explanations given to Project Bluebook, it is quite strange that the Roswell story was never mentioned. The story that died so quickly was rarely mentioned from the beginning, the only one, to my knowledge, was in a mid-1950's lecture by UFO enthusiast Frank Edward. It seems that from the beginning, a grass roots group of believers would perpetuate this grandstory. When we solve the puzzle of the many UFO reports, it will be due to this grass roots movement. The truth is hard to kill.
It would be June 24, 1947, when the term, "flying saucer" was coined by pilot Kenneth Arnold. He used this term to describe UFOs flying over Mr. Ranier, and only a couple of weeks later, the phrase was used by the Air Force to explain what had been found in Corona, New Mexico.
The alleged crash debris was flown to Eight Army Air Force Headquarters in Ft. Worth, Texas, and somehow between the time that Jesse Marcel Sr. had handled the "other worldly" material and its arrival in Ft. Worth, the strange material had lost its luster, and became just a weather balloon. The Air Force had effectively murdered the eye witness accounts, and made fools of all who were involved. Marcel would categorically state that the debris he held in his hands, and showed to his family, was not the same material shown in photos of the "balloon wreckage."
What happened to the saucer debris? An uncertified, but controversial document might provide an answer. Supposedly a brief prepared for then President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower, this document was authored on November 18, 1952. It asserts that on September 24, 1947, President Harry S. Truman ordered the genesis of the highly top-secret "Operation Majestic-12," to study the remains of the Roswell crash.
These papers would arrive in a plain manilla envelope, postmarked Albuquerque, in the post of Los Angeles television producer Jaime Shandera in December 1984. In the early part of 1987, another copy was given to Timothy Good, a British ufologist. Good released it to the British press in May.
These documents caused quite a stir, but their authenticity cannot be established beyond doubt. The jury is still out on the MJ-12 papers, but many ufologists view it as a hoax. The issue itself is not insurmountable, however, as a huge amount of evidence still remains to establish the Roswell crash as a reality.
The Roswell saga actually began in Silver City, New Mexico on June 25. Dr. R. F. Sensenbaugher, a dentist, reported sighting a saucer-shaped UFO fly over, that was about one-half the size of the full moon. Two days later, in Pope, New Mexico, W. C. Dobbs reported a white, glowing object flying overhead, not too far from the White Sands missile range. On the same day, Captain E. B. Detchmendy reported to his commanding officer that he saw a white, glowing UFO pass over the missile range.
Two days later, on June 29, Rocket expert C. J. Zohn and three of his technicians, who were stationed at White Sands, watched a giant silver disc moving northward over the desert. On July 2, a UFO was tracked at three separate installations; Alamogordo, White Sands, and Roswell. In Roswell, on the same day, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot saw a UFO. They report its appearance as "two inverted saucers faced mouth to mouth," moving at a high rate of speed over their house. Enter rancher Mac Brazel.
The events of Roswell began on either July 2 or July 4 (there is some disagreement here). A throwback to western days, William W. "Mac" Brazel, a sheep rancher, would etch his name forever into UFO history, a designation that he neither desired, nor appreciated. A common working man, Brazel was foreman of the Foster Ranch in Lincoln County, near Corona, New Mexico. Brazel was a family man, but his wife and children lived in Tularosa, near Alamogordo.
The reason for this arrangement was so his children could attend better schools than they would at Corona. Brazel stayed in an older house on the ranch, where he tended sheep, and the general chores of the ranch. He was a simple man, content with his job, family, and his life. Mac would be thrust into the limelight for a brief period of time, and ultimately regret ever reporting what he was about to discover on the range of the Foster Ranch.
An evening thunderstorm was raging at the close of another workday; the storm was highlighted by numerous bolts of lightning. These summer storms were not uncommon for these parts, but this evening Mac noticed something different... a sound, like an explosion mingled with the typical sounds of a storm.
Two of Mac's children were staying with him that night at his farm house. Mac retired with the children, and temporarily forgot about the sounds of that night. The next day's sun brought Mac out again to ride the fences, and check on his sheep. He was accompanied that day with a seven-year-old neighbor boy, William D. "Dee" Proctor, who often rode with Mac.
As they rode into the open field, ahead of them they noticed an area about a quarter of a mile long and several hundred feet wide, covered with debris of some type. The debris was composed of small pieces of a shiny, metallic material, a material that Mac had never seen before. The sheep would not cross the fragmented pieces, and they had to be taken the long way around that day. Because of the curious nature of the debris, Mac picked up some of it and carried it back to store in a shed. Little did he know the significance of his find.
One of his children, Bessie Brazel recalled: "There was what appeared to be pieces of heavily waxed paper and a sort of aluminum-like foil. Some of these pieces had something like numbers and lettering on them, but there were no words you were able to make out. Some of the metal-foil pieces had a sort of tape stuck to them, and when these were held to the light they showed what looked like pastel flowers or designs. Even though the stuff looked like tape it could not be peeled off or removed at all."
"[The writing] looked like numbers mostly, at least I assumed them to be numbers. They were written out like you would write numbers in columns to do an addition problem. But they didn't look like the numbers we use at all. What gave me the idea they were numbers, I guess, was the way they were all ranged out in columns."
"No, it was definitely not a balloon. We had seen weather balloons quite a lot, both on the ground and in the air. We had even found a couple of Japanese-style balloons that had come down in the area once. We had also picked up a couple of those thin rubber weather balloons with instrument packages. This was nothing like that. I have never seen anything resembling this sort of thing before,- or since..."
Later that afternoon, Mac took young Dee Proctor back home, a journey of about 10 miles. He took along a piece of the debris that he had found, and showed it to Dee's parents, Floyd, and Loretta. Mac tried to get the Proctors to go back with him, and look at the strange material strewn in the fields.
Floyd Proctor would later state: "[He said] it wasn't paper because he couldn't cut it with his knife, and the metal was different from anything he had ever seen. He said the designs looked like the kind of stuff you would find on firecracker wrappers...some sort of figures all done up in pastels, but not writing like we would do it."
Loretta Proctor remembered: "The piece he brought looked like a kind of tan, light-brown plastic...it was very lightweight, like balsa wood. It wasn't a large piece, maybe about four inches long, maybe just larger than a pencil."
"We cut on it with a knife and would hold a match on it, and it wouldn't burn. We knew it wasn't wood. It was smooth like plastic, it didn't have real sharp corners, kind of like a dowel stick. Kind of dark tan. It didn't have any grain...just smooth."
"We should have gone [to look at the debris field], but gas and tires were expensive then. We had our own chores, and it would have been twenty miles."
The first hint that the debris could be "not of this world" would come the next night from Mac's uncle, Hollis Wilson. Mac told Hollis about his find, and Hollis urged Mac to report the findings, since there had been reports of "flying saucers" in the area as of late. On July 6, Mac was going to Roswell to strike up a deal for a new pickup truck. He took along some of the debris, and stopped off at the Chaves County Sheriff's Office and spoke to George Wilcox.
The story of the find was not significant to Wilcox until he actually handled a piece of the silvery material. Wilcox telephoned the Roswell Army Air Field, and spoke to one Major Jesse A. Marcel, who was the base intelligence officer. Marcel told the Sheriff he would come into Roswell and talk to Brazel about his find. Word of the goings on began to spread rapidly in the community, and soon Mac was talking to radio station KGFL about the incident. Mac told the station what he knew over the telephone.
Marcel and Brazel met at the Sheriff's office. Mac told Marcel what he knew, and showed him a piece of debris. Marcel reported the results of his interview to Colonel William H. Blanchard back at Roswell Army Base. A decision was made for Brazel to go out to the site, and investigate for himself. Marcel would take his old Buick, and Army Counter Intelligence Corps officer Sheridan Cavitt accompanied him in a Jeep all-terrain vehicle.
Following Marcel back to the ranch, it was too late that day to visit the site, so they all three stayed in Mac's ranch house. After a dinner of beans, the three headed to the site the next morning. After a brief look around, Mac left Marcel and Cavitt, returning to his chores.
Continue with Roswell UFO Crash, Part 2
Also see Roswell in Pictures.
The Ramey Memo.
Haut Confession.
Von Braun & Alien Bodies.
The Mortician's Story.
Local Vet Confirms Crash.
CIA Agent Deathbed Confession.
Fireman Saw Roswell Crash.
Corso's Claim of Alien Bodies.
Texas Sheriff: 'I saw four dead aliens...'.
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Annual Report of The Rebel - 2018
2018 was the year the people fought back
This was the year that patriots around the world decided to fight back — and The Rebel was the news network that documented every move.
From the yellow vest protests that brought France to a standstill, to the Tommy Robinson phenomenon in the UK, to the rebirth of pro-freedom parties in Eastern Europe, The Rebel was there on the ground, telling “the other side of the story”, when the mainstream media attacked the people, or just ignored them.
That wave of grassroots protests has come to Canada, too. From the huge convoys of oil workers protesting against Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley in Alberta, to the populist wave that made Doug Ford the premier of Ontario, to the breakthrough election of the new CAQ party in Quebec on a platform of reduced immigration and banning burkas, that same spirit is in Canada, too.
We've known about this populist movement for years; we know the people; we know the motivations. The elite attacks on Canada's oil industry are well-known to us -- we've produced more than 1,000 news stories exposing foreign-funded lobbyists attacking it. The CBC? Well, their star personality, David Suzuki, actually is one of this foreign-funded lobbyists attacking us.
But you wouldn’t know it — you wouldn’t know any of these things — if you relied on Trudeau’s CBC state broadcaster to tell you the news. Like Trudeau, the mainstream media believes that anyone who dissents from their globalist views — high taxes; environmental extremism; open borders immigration; sympathy for Islamic terrorism — must be a “Nazi”. That’s literally what they call people who disagree with them, even though polls show that fully 80% of Canadians disagree with them on core issues.
But 2018 was the year the people stopped listening to the scolding, partisan media and started following their own course. And The Rebel played a key role in all of this. Because in each of these battles — in Canada, in Europe, and even in America — the media is in league with the political establishment. If it weren’t for us and a handful of other independent voices like us, important issues just wouldn’t be discussed in public. If it weren’t for independent media, voices we want to hear would be silenced.
Our rivals at Trudeau’s CBC state broadcaster are keenly aware of this — and they constantly berate newsmakers for even talking with us. It’s bizarre, but it proves our thesis: the mainstream media no longer cares about publishing news; they care about not publishing news; they care about spinning the news, and downplaying stories that their political masters don’t like.
2019 is the year Trudeau nationalizes the Canadian media
At The Rebel, we coined the term “the Media Party” to describe the pack mentality of the mainstream media, and it proves more accurate every day. Canada’s journalists have always been pro-Liberal, especially the CBC state broadcaster. But 2019 is the year Trudeau will formally take control of the remaining private sector media in Canada, too.
It’s an election year and Trudeau will be making plenty of spending promises in return for votes. But his $595,000,000 bail-out fund for journalists is explicitly a political bribe — it will only be given to those journalists he says he can “trust”. And he and his worst cabinet ministers have made it crystal clear: they don’t trust The Rebel.
Well, the feeling is mutual; so we announced our refusal to be rented out by the Liberals, at www.YouCantBuyUs.com.
We take that as a badge of honour; journalists should never be in the pocket of politicians. But the problem with Trudeau is that, like Notley who sent a sheriff to ban our Alberta reporter from the provincial legislature, Trudeau isn’t just offering a bribe to journalists who toe his line — he’s threatening any hold-outs who don’t. In a shocking ultimatum, Trudeau told a senior Facebook executive that if they didn’t voluntarily censor his political enemies in the 2019 election campaign, he’d pass legislation forcing them to do it.
Trudeau and Ahmed Hussen, the immigration minister, have already signed a United Nations agreement — the UN Global Compact for Migration — that specifically calls for governments to “educate” journalists on the right way to discuss open-borders mass immigration, and to punish journalists who don’t comply.
Between the $595,000,000 bail-out fund, and the threats to punish any dissenters, 2019 will likely be the worst year for journalistic independence in Canada since the Alberta government’s Press Act in the 1930s, which compelled newspapers to publish official government editorials. Except, back then most reporters were up in arms. Today, they’re part of the deal — it’s an inside job.
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Global censorship — the case of Tommy Robinson
We’ll fight censorship in Canada, as we always have, both by reporting on it, and probably by being an early test case of it. Trudeau’s justice minister has publicly mused about bringing back the notorious section 13 censorship provision of the Canadian Human Rights Act that created the counterfeit human right not to be offended. The legal attack on us could come in various forms, such as when disgraced former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne had Elections Ontario send us a threatening letter.
But so far, Canadian censorship of dissident journalism hasn’t come close to what the United Kingdom has done to Tommy Robinson, an independent journalist and best-selling author, who used to work for The Rebel.
In May, Tommy was broadcasting a political commentary outside a courthouse in Leeds, UK, where a Muslim rape gang was on trial for repeatedly raping British girls as young as 11.
Tommy had been live-streaming his comments on Facebook for more than an hour, when a squad of police suddenly pushed him into the back of a police van, and whisked him away. In a matter of hours he was arrested, charged, convicted, sentenced to 13 months in prison, and packed off to jail — without even being given the opportunity to say a word in court. The hearing itself was less than ten minutes.
Even more incredible: Tommy’s hasty trial was put under a publication ban.
Tommy was no longer our employee, but we knew we had to help — so we started reporting on the subject, producing dozens of videos, on everything from the irregularities in how Tommy’s case was handled, to the underlying issue of Muslim rape gangs, to the shocking bias of the UK media itself.
And with the permission of Tommy’s family, we launched a global crowdfunding campaign, successfully paying for a top-notch legal team to appeal his case.
That appeal was heard by a three-judge panel, presided over by no-one less than the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and their judgment was a scorching rebuke of Tommy’s treatment by the judge that day in Leeds. The Rebel covered all of the courtroom action in a series of videos, and met up with Tommy hours after he was finally released from prison.
It was shocking to see him — he had been kept in solitary confinement for nearly 10 weeks, and had lost 40 pounds and clearly was in shell-shock. He later sat down for a two-hour interview that detailed his mistreatment in prison, including terrorist threats delivered directly to his prison cell.
Europe’s slow-motion civil war
Tommy Robinson had a personal connection to us, but he is a cautionary tale for anyone in Canada and the U.S. His story is about censorship, but it’s also about an entire political class being corrupted — what our regular guest commentator Dr. Daniel Pipes calls “the 5-P professionals”: politicians, the press, police, prosecutors and professors. When the entire establishment elites are at odds with their own citizens, something’s got to break. And it is breaking — whether it’s the UK’s vote for “Brexit”, or the French “yellow vest” protests, or the rediscovery of national pride in eastern European countries like Poland, places once dominated by the Soviet Union. The Rebel has had reporters on the ground, and captured some of the most dramatic footage ever filmed of the battles on the streets of Paris.
We also have a new guest contributor based in Milan, Alessandra Bocchi, who helps us to understand the rise of Italy’s populist politician, Matteo Salvini.
We’re interested in Europe because there are dramatic stories unfolding there, that are either being ignored by the mainstream media, or covered with the same combination of bias and ignorance that we see in domestic political reporting. But studying the crises in Europe helps us to predict where Canada will be in five or ten years if we continue on the same path, too.
Europe is a cautionary tale of what happens when mass immigration, political censorship and undemocratic globalist governance combine, and the seeds of all of those problems are already planted in Canada, and to an extent, the U.S.
Covering the United Nations
Canada is not a member of the European Union, but Justin Trudeau has made it obvious that he believes in the same world government approach, especially through the United Nations.
The Rebel places a special emphasis on reporting the goings-on of the UN, and we have sent journalists to five UN conferences, including three global warming conferences, a “nanny state” conference, and the recent UN conference for global migration. The UN no longer grants us media accreditation, specifically telling us that the Canadian government has asked them to blacklist us. That doesn’t stop us from going to the conferences anyways, and doing better reporting than the submissive Media Party journalists who attend but act as stenographers or even cheerleaders.
All of our UN videos can be seen on our compilation page.
Canada’s last independent news network
We love to cover world events, because they’re interesting, and because the Media Party torques them to build a narrative about what they think Canada and the U.S. should do. It’s also visually interesting to see Rebel personalities covering dramatic news in faraway places — like when David Menzies embedded himself with the Mexican migrant caravan that was making its way to the U.S. border.
But most of the Rebel’s journalism is done at home, in Canada — telling the other side of the story that the Media Party won’t. Sometimes that’s simply providing opinions and commentary. But we also do investigative research, and we file hundreds of access to information (ATIP) requests to various government agencies. It’s a significant cost — and often, governments try to scare us off by telling us that such requests will cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. To us, though, that’s usually a sign that we’re on to something, and our viewers help us crowdfund the fee.
Trudeau and Notley are notorious for destroying or hiding documents, but nonetheless, we have produced literally hundreds of exclusive scoops due to our research.
Sometimes those scoops simply show lying and cover-ups, such as when Trudeau’s environment minister, Catherine McKenna, published an embarrassing Twitter comment praising Syria and Nicaragua — and then blamed bureaucrats. (She was lying.)
Sometimes those scoops show something much more — like the total meltdown in Trudeau’s scheme to relocate tens of thousands of Syrian migrants to Canada. Whether it’s “refugees” saying they’re rather go home than stay in Canada, or the deliberate cover-up by Trudeau’s bureaucrats of the $50,000/year in benefits Trudeau gives each migrant family, it’s news The Rebel breaks, and that other media usually choose not to follow.
That’s a sad fact: while Media Party reporters focus on Trudeau’s fancy socks, our reporters break national scandals on a regular basis. But whether it’s because our competitors don’t want to acknowledge our journalism, or because the underlying stories are embarrassing to their own left-wing agendas, they often ignore our scoops, even when they can arguably be called the biggest stories of the year.
A great team
There are about 20 of us working full-time at The Rebel. Most of our staff are behind the scenes — from our accountant, to our video editors, to our team that manages our e-mails and responds to requests for help.
The Rebel’s longest-serving full-time journalists are Ezra Levant, our Alberta bureau chief, Sheila Gunn Reid, and Ontario’s David Menzies. In September, Keean Bexte joined the Rebel, based in Calgary — but like all our journalists, he goes where the story is, including this dramatic confrontation with the terrorist Omar Khadr outside an Edmonton court house.
In London, Jack Buckby covers UK politics, including Brexit, the battles over free speech, and the crisis of Islamic terrorism. Martina Markota covers politics and culture.
We have a strong U.S. contingent, too, with Ben Davies covering Hollywood and doing movie reviews from a conservative point of view, Amanda Head covering the music and culture scene, and Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army infantry colonel who is a prolific author and practices as a trial lawyer.
And in Washington, D.C., but with a beat that covers all of the U.S. and Canada, is Rob Shimshock, the host of Campus Unmasked, our daily video series on crazy university news, from Antifa professors to the politically correct absurdities of grievance studies.
These Rebel contributors are joined by occasional guest commentators including Joel Pollak on U.S. politics, Allum Bokhari on Internet censorship, Candice Malcolm on Canadian current events, Lorne Gunter on Alberta news and dozens of other pundits and experts from around the world. With close to 11,000 videos produced and around ten more being added each day, it’s impossible to list them all, but some of our most popular videos of 2018 include a fun one by David Menzies about a vegetarian protest outside a meaty restaurant, and one by Sheila Gunn Reid about a crazed feminist on a Russian subway. You never know what’s going to go viral!
Putting ideas into action
Most of the time, The Rebel produces videos with news and commentary. But sometimes we just have to do something about what we’ve reported on, because if we don’t, no-one else will. Those campaigns can range from a simple petition to a political decision-maker, to putting up billboards, or even just fundraising for a charitable cause. Sometimes we do all of the above — like in the case of Omar Khadr, where we petitioned the government; commissioned a statistically valid public opinion poll; and even raised $230,000 to pay for college for Taryn and Tanner Speer, the children of Christopher Speer, the U.S. army medic murdered by Khadr.
(If you’ve never heard of Taryn and Tanner, and their mother, Tabitha, then you must be getting your news from the Media Party; they have written Khadr’s victims out of the narrative, and made him, a terrorist, into a victim himself. It’s a disgrace.)
In the past year or so, we ran dozens of campaigns, from a petition (and Jumbotron billboard campaign) to www.FireMorneau.com, to an information campaign against a pro-terrorist “Arab Idol” pop singer who was touring through Canada (we called that one www.HatefulIdol.com).
In the UK, we petitioned to keep a terrorist propagandist in prison for his whole term, commissioning an independent public opinion poll, a Jumbotron billboard truck, and even personally delivering the petition to the door of 10 Downing Street. In the end, Theresa May didn’t listen to the thousands of Brits demanding that she www.JailAnjem.com, but we ensured the whole of the UK knew about the scandal, their own version of Omar Khadr.
Our largest petition ever — close to 200,000 names — was done in cooperation with Tommy Robinson. It was to support UK troops who had been subjected to a political witch-hunt by military brass for simply taking selfies with Tommy at a gas station!
Sometimes we organize protests and rallies — for two years, we’ve been fighting against the carbon tax, with boisterous rallies against the scheme, when more timid conservative politicians were toying with endorsing the tax. Even the CBC felt compelled to report on our rallies, and we’ve kept o the issue ever since, keeping the pressure on with our own protests, and reporting on protests organized by others, too.
We distributed so many “stop the carbon tax” lawn signs, they’re still showing up — even in the pages of our competitors.
Politicians hate our campaigns — because they prefer citizens to be passive readers of the news. When we heard about a Canadian military base whose soldiers were so poor, they literally needed to use a foodbank, our viewers raised over $15,000. But when the military brass heard about that, they set in motion a massive effort to block our donation, out of fear that it would embarrass Justin Trudeau. They’re right, it did embarrass him — and so did the cover-up, that we discovered when we filed an access to information request. Dozens of military personnel were ordered to block our help for the troops. (If only they had been ordered to give help to the troops.)
Unfortunately, there is no shortage of military personnel or veterans in need of assistance, so we eventually found a veterans’ charity that wasn’t subject to Trudeau’s political veto.
We like to help people who are "forgotten" by the establishment; people who fight for justice, and suffer, and shouldn't fight or suffer alone -- that's why we've helped John Alabi, a Christian landlord unfairly prosecuted by his Muslim tenants, even though it's been an uphill battle. And we'll keep fighting for him, and for other forgotten people in 2019.
Helping other journalists
One of the most successful campaigns we ran in 2018 was our www.RealReporters.uk crowdfunding campaign. We knew that the UK media was extremely biased against Tommy Robinson, to the point that they were simply not even covering the shocking court rulings in his favour. So we crowdfunded four other journalists from Canada, the U.S. and even Australia to fly to London with no obligation other than to report on the trial. It was a great success — and yielded some surprising results, when the UK Media Party didn’t recognize one of our reporters, and spoke too candidly near him.
In addition to campaigns, we hold events, including our now-famous day-long Rebel Live conferences, where close to a thousand Rebel super-fans spend a day with our most interesting on-air personalities. In past years, guest speakers have included Prof. Jordan Peterson and Doug Ford (then a Toronto city councillor). In 2018, our speakers included Laurier University free speech activist Lindsay Shepherd and political leader Maxime Bernier (Andrew Scheer was also invited, but declined).
We also have periodic receptions around the country with our Producers Club members, often held at Legion Halls, for the patriotic symbolism, and we held our first donor appreciation dinner in the UK with Tommy Robinson.
In 2018, our most ambitious event was a fact-finding trip to Israel, where over 60 Rebel viewers joined us as we toured the country and were briefed by politicians, military personnel and academics, and had VIP access to events such as the graduation of Israeli Air Force cadets.
Books and documentaries
The Rebel has published several books since our inception, all of them becoming instant bestsellers. In 2016, we published Barbarians by Lauren Southern and The Destroyers by Sheila Gunn Reid; in 2017, Trumping Trudeau by Ezra Levant; and in 2018, The Case Against David Suzuki, also by Sheila.
In 2018 we produced our first two documentary films: www.SaveTheChristians.com, the story of ISIS’s ethnic cleansing of ancient Christians from Iraq, and www.killingfieldsmovie.com, about the violent attacks on the remaining white farmers in South Africa.
In August of 2018, we crossed the million subscriber mark on YouTube. As of December 28th, we have 1,116,236 YouTube subscribers, which is up by 250,034 from 2017. We have more YouTube subscribers than any other news network in Canada, including the CBC state broadcaster, though they have recently poured millions of dollars into marketing their YouTube channel and may catch up before 2019 is over.
The Rebel has 172,000 Facebook followers and 158,000 Twitter followers, and individual Rebel personalities have over 1 million followers on their own social media accounts.
The total number of people who have interacted with The Rebel — whether through our social media or through our petitions — is 3,467,182 and growing daily. If Rebel fans were a Canadian province, it would be bigger than Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia — combined!
To commemorate passing the YouTube milestone, we commissioned a special collection of Rebel lapel pins. You can see them at www.ThanksAMillion.ca — and we still have a few left if you want one.
We received a beautiful commemorative plaque from YouTube, with a letter of congratulations from their president. That was lovely, but we note that YouTube has demonetized our site, along with many other conservative news sites. That means they no longer allow our channel to be part of large advertising buys by premium advertisers, and their computer algorithms often automatically block ads from our videos altogether, especially when we use key words such as “Trudeau”, “feminism” or “terrorism” in headlines.
Left-leaning sites are not demonetized, and are never “de-platformed” on social media. It’s a threat that only conservative sites face. But as we approach our fourth birthday, we are confident that we have strong systems in place — including a proprietary app that doesn’t depend on YouTube, Facebook or other social media companies. (You can download it for free, here.)
Recruiting and developing new talent in 2019
Most Rebel reporters are new to the business — they have never been professional journalists before, and few have gone to journalism school. While that means they have a steep learning curve when they start, it also means they don’t have to un-learn the liberal groupthink that has come to define the profession.
Over the years, some Rebel personalities have come and gone — by definition, hiring “Rebels” is a volatile prospect. Some flame out; some are head-hunted away from us by deep-pocketed competitors; others want to spread their wings and try working independently.
Helping independent thinkers launch their media careers is a rewarding task, and Rebel alumni have gone on to make a name for themselves around the world — sometimes as dissident troublemakers. But in an era of conformity, that’s better than the alternative.
And that turnover gives us the exciting mandate of recruiting and developing new talent. We have three young journalists — two in Canada and one in the U.S. — who are preparing their debut at The Rebel in early 2019.
What can Rebel viewers expect in 2019?
The Rebel will continue to do what our viewers want most from us — to tell the other side of the story. That means keeping a close eye on the United Nations; shining a light on stories that the Media Party wants to downplay, like open-borders, mass-immigration. It means speaking honestly about the threat posed by radical Islam, and the insanity of political correctness oozing out of our universities.
And we’ll be acutely sensitive to any attempts to silence us or other voices, either through government censorship, or the more insidious censorship by Silicon Valley tech companies.
We’ll do that through our daily videos; through our premium, long-form TV-style shows; and through events, conferences and meet-ups.
We’ll continue to raise a ruckus when we think governments are off base, holding rallies and launching petitions, and even putting up billboards if that’s what it takes. Somebody has to, and in an era of political correctness, that often falls to us. We’re beholden to no-one — no party, no politician. It’s in our name: we’re Rebels.
2019 is an important political year in Canada — Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau both face an angry electorate, and it’s our job to make sure Trudeau’s $595,000,000 media pay-off doesn’t smother real reporting. 2019 is also the year Brexit will happen — unless that referendum is overturned through an anti-democratic edict, which is not impossible to imagine.
We’ll cover these news stories honestly and vigorously.
And we expect to publish several books in the first quarter of 2019, to debut another documentary series; and to try out our new reporters to get them up to speed in advance of the elections.
Things we need to improve in 2019
We’re not part of a corporate giant; many of us are amateurs. We don’t always get it right. But we’ve survived all of our mistakes, and hopefully we’ve learned from them. 2018 was a year of steady growth and stability. Here’s what we want to improve in 2019:
1. New website, new store
In late October, we hired a new IT manager who has been busy updating our site, making it more secure, faster to load and more user-friendly. It’s a huge website, with tens of thousands of pages, so it has to be done carefully. Our big goal in 2019 is to re-launch the site with a new look and feel. Right now, most of our viewers find us on YouTube; we want to make our own website as beautiful and easy to use as that. Our goal is to have this done in the first quarter of 2019.
At the same time, we plan to revamp our Rebel merchandise store. There are so many great T-shirt, bumper sticker and hat ideas — plus other goodies, from coffee mugs to cell phone cases — and we just haven’t kept up.
Our new store will be easy to use, up to date, and most importantly, shipping fees will be reined in. We have found a great solution, and hope to have it up and running as soon as possible.
2. Better donor recognition
We take no government money, and YouTube has demonetized us, so we’ve survived on the support of our premium subscribers, and our $250/year Producers Club members and other donors. We have thousands of supporters, and the average gift since our inception is just over $62.
We need to do a better job of thanking donors — especially people who give on a recurring basis, and our super-supporters, who have gone beyond the call of duty. We have started to do that, with Ezra Levant setting aside time for scheduled thank-you calls to especially generous donors. In January, we will start a more methodical system, including Producers Club-style receptions for people who have gone beyond the call of duty in helping us.
3. Working with volunteers — and rewarding them
Since we started, we’ve had supporters offer to act as volunteers for us, but it was always difficult to manage, given how geographically spread out our support base is. And volunteers need to have meaningful work, that is truly connected to the success of The Rebel.
One of our new IT manager’s goals is to improve the volunteer tools on our website, to allow our grassroots supporters to help us, especially in spreading the word about The Rebel (which is especially necessary given our lack of a marketing budget!) For example, Rebel ambassadors will be able to earn points for sharing Rebel news stories on Facebook and Twitter — and also for donating to our crowdfunding campaigns! — and those points can be redeemed for goodies, including special online meet-ups for our most enthusiastic fans.
4. Personnel “wish list”
Hiring an IT manager was a key success for us in 2018. If our budget could sustain it, in 2019 we’d ideally hire:
* an additional travelling reporter, to help cover the 2019 Canadian federal election and other breaking news around North America
* a Facebook manager, to unlock the potential traffic from that massive site and other social media
* a coalitions manager, to promote our work to like-minded groups and allies around world, including becoming the go-to journalists for foreign media looking for comment on Canadian stories
The greatest dangers of 2019
The greatest danger to The Rebel in 2019 is not from competitors — in Canada, there will actually be less competition, as most mainstream media sign on to Justin Trudeau’s bail-out fund, and effectively neuter themselves politically. We regard other conservative-leaning websites, like Ontario Proud, the True North Initiative, and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, as allies in our lonely fight.
Rather, the greatest danger to The Rebel is being de-platformed — through government action; through lawfare-style litigation; or most ominously, through censorship by Silicon Valley corporate giants that we rely upon, like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or even more important infrastructure, such as credit card processors like PayPal.
We’ve had a taste of government prosecution before; and unfortunately we’re very familiar with lawfare — right now, we’re being sued by anti-Israel extremists, in an obvious attempt to censor us. We have excellent lawyers and are confident of our position, but it is still a drain on our time and money.
But the threat of a sudden, unexplained corporate blacklisting — such as has happened to a number of conservative-leaning Internet-based media in recent months — remains an existential threat. We have had smooth sailing for a while; but unlike government prosecution or civil litigation, deplatforming strikes without any warning and often without any explanation. And Trudeau’s demand of Facebook that they censor his opponents during the 2019 election campaign is so obviously pointed at us, we must stay vigilant, and our lawyers must be ready on a moment’s notice to apply to the courts if Facebook or any other tech companies submit to Trudeau’s demands to censor us.
The greatest opportunities of 2019
It’s easy to become pessimistic in the face of so many threats. But in February, The Rebel will turn four years old. And so many liberal media outlets who predicted our demise — and in fact, lusted for it — are themselves collapsing, as fewer and fewer Canadians are willing to read their predictable, boring, government-approved “journalism”. The Rebel’s epitaph has been written countless times, and sometimes things did indeed look rough. But it was precisely in those tough times that our viewers showed they cared the most.
And that’s our secret — a secret that our competitors probably know, but would never have the courage to act on. Forget what the Media Party “mean girls” say; forget politicians calling you names, forget pundits scolding you. Just do what’s right, tell it like it is, tell the other side of the story, show some courage, and listen to the people. Report the news.
It’s what’s turned us into the largest YouTube channel in Canada, it’s what’s motivated us to dig up literally hundreds of scoops and run circles around the think-alikes of the mainstream media so far.
So: wish us luck in 2019. And if you can, please click here to join the thousands of Canadians — and friends around the world — who really value an independent media that fights for them.
And don’t let the bastards grind you down. Rejoice in the fact that around the world, whether it’s Brexit in the UK, Trump’s “deplorables” in the U.S., or the rising democratic nationalism across Europe, we the people really can push back against the corrupt elites, and even win.
That’s our job at the Rebel, and we love doing it. Hopefully you love watching it, and will help us continue our work in this critical year ahead.
Ezra Levant
Rebel Commander
P.S. Thank you for helping us build The Rebel. We wouldn’t exist without you.
P.P.S. If you haven’t done so yet, please sign up as a contributor — and consider making a monthly gift to help us fight the good fight. Click here to join our citizens’ army!
Nicholas Conklin commented 2019-01-07 21:44:37 -0500
Rebel Media Quietly Dropped Katie Hopkins
By Jared Holt | January 7, 2019 12:03 pm
Rebel Media personality Katie Hopkins seeks public support after the mayor of Molenbeek sued her defamation in a video posted May 18, 2018. (Photo: Screenshot/YouTube.com)
The Canadian far-right web network, The Rebel, and racist media personality Katie Hopkins appear to have parted ways months ago. Neither Hopkins nor The Rebel have made announcements regarding Hopkins’ departure.
Hopkins joined The Rebel at the start of 2018, where she spent months producing columns and video segments for the web platform that largely revolved around fear-mongering about immigrants and advancing racist and white nationalist tropes. Hopkins’ website still displays this message:
Dear friends and foes,
As we dive into 2018, I could not be more excited to share my news. I have joined the team at Rebel Media and am thrilled to already be working hard on my first mission with Hopkins World.
With this platform provided by Rebel Media, and the kind support of my sponsors, subscribers, and adversaries, we will be heard.
The Rebel has not uploaded a video featuring Hopkins since October. Hopkins no longer appears on The Rebel’s staff list on the website’s “about us” page and is also not mentioned by name in The Rebel’s 2018 annual report. However, Rebel “Commander” Ezra Levant described Hopkins as one of “our own” as recently as November 10. Episodes of Hopkins’ Rebel.media show have been moved into the site’s archives.
Rebel Media’s website shows that Katie Hopkins’ show, “Hopkins World,” has been archived.
Right Wing Watch reached out to The Rebel and Hopkins for comment but did not receive responses. Vice News reported in 2017 that “Levant requires Rebel employees to sign strict non-disclosure agreements and has a history of being litigious.”
In September, Hopkins applied for an insolvency agreement to avoid bankruptcy after she lost a libel case involving food writer Jack Monroe. Hopkins’ prior employer Mail Online (an affiliate of Daily Mail) paid “substantial damages” to a teacher that Hopkins had made false accusations against.
The Rebel’s YouTube channel, Rebel Media, has more than one million subscribers, but only occasionally breaks more than 10,000 views on any given video
Hopkins is the latest figure through The Rebel’s revolving door for far-right media personalities who have served up white nationalism, including Jack Posobiec, Lauren Southern, and Faith Goldy.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rebel-media-quietly-dropped-katie-hopkins/
Billy Howard commented 2019-01-02 20:51:51 -0500
Deplatforming – Get on Gab now (at least a mirror acct) for when Twitter bans you. Get on BitChute for when YouTube/FB bans you.
A BC reporter (missing Christopher Wilson’s reports)
The Rebel is doing a great job getting the news that the leftist MSM will not broadcast.
Excellent report Ezra and probably the longest that you have ever written, on the Rebel at least. I found it uplifting, scary, sad, stirring, happy, thoughtful and inspiring. One thing is certain, the Rebel has to keep on fighting regardless of outside interference by the MSM and the Trudeau Gang, even if communication is by Cell Phone and a weekly Newsletter. Rebel members must never be in a position where they cannot express their thoughts and communicate via comments. Rebel members must always have access to the articles published by the Rebel.
Keep up the good work Ezra and we, who Rebel will help you fight the good fight.
Bruce Atchison commented 2018-12-31 19:35:27 -0500
I actually feel optomistic about 2019. My prayer is that we get rid of Notley and Trudeau. I also hope John Horgan, Horgan the horrible, also goes down to defeat. And when I get my yellow vest from The Rebel Store, I’ll wear it proudly everywhere I go. What an awesome conversation starter.
Norbert Neumann commented 2018-12-31 19:10:12 -0500
Great write up Ezra! Thankyou for your great reporting! Cheers!
Ezra Levant tells young journalists: “‘Fake news’ is in the eye of the beholder”
SEE Ezra Levant's #FreeTommyRobinson graffiti at Defend Media Freedom Conference, London, UK
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Local couple opens coffee and tea shop with whimsical flair
As the Crow Flies Coffee & Tea, located at 3770 Monroe Highway, serves specialty Vietnamese and Turkish coffee drinks, gourmet tea and more.
Local couple opens coffee and tea shop with whimsical flair As the Crow Flies Coffee & Tea, located at 3770 Monroe Highway, serves specialty Vietnamese and Turkish coffee drinks, gourmet tea and more. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2018/06/05/local-couple-opens-coffee-and-tea-shop-whimsical-flair/673029002/
Miranda Klein, mklein@thetowntalk.com Published 4:29 p.m. CT June 5, 2018
Alexandria Police Department officers met with community members at Le Bistreaux Coffee and Waffle Bar on Coliseum Boulevard Wednesday morning. The APD plans to host similar events around town. Melinda Martinez/The Town Talk
"As the Crow Flies Coffee & Tea" opened at 3770 Monroe Highway in Pineville in April.(Photo: Miranda Klein/The Town Talk)Buy Photo
A new coffee and tea shop in Pineville has a menu and atmosphere to reflect its owners' love of travel.
"As the Crow Flies Coffee & Tea", located at 3770 Monroe Highway, had its soft opening in April. The shop, owned by Jeffrey Raia (pronounced Rah-ee-ah) and wife Lynn of Ball, serves specialty Vietnamese and Turkish coffee drinks, gourmet tea and more.
"We want to bring a world experience to Pineville," Raia said. " … We've got a lot of coffee people probably haven't even heard of."
Raia said part of the couple's vision was to create a unique atmosphere. The shop's Alice in Wonderland-esque furniture and décor from auctions, estate sales and antique shops are a nod to their European and other travels.
"I love to travel," Raia said. "Lynn has been all over South America and Europe."
Their travelling also inspired a focus on presentation, and that extends to items on the menu like tea and coffee, which are served in mugs on colorful platters instead of disposable cups.
"As the Crow Flies Coffee & Tea" opened at 3770 Monroe Highway in Pineville in April. (Photo: Miranda Klein/The Town Talk)
"To truly get the experience of this shop, you have to come in and sit down," said Kade Buquoi, head barista.
"We want you to stay for the presentation," Raia added. "Keep us company."
The shop carries a selection of pastries like biscuits, scones, truffles and 14 different loose-leaf teas, which come from an online store that carries teas from around the world, and are as popular with customers as coffee, Raia said.
Bestsellers include Bingo Blueberry and Emperor's Seven Treasures, which are both fruity teas, and Butter Truffles, a black tea made with nuts and spices.
The shop is operated completely by family, including Buquoi, Lynn's son.
He is responsible for preparing specialty drinks like Vietnamese hot coffee (also known as egg coffee), which is prepared with egg yolks, sugar and condensed milk, and Turkish coffee, which Buquoi said refers to a method that involves preparing finely ground coffee using an ibrik (a Turkish coffee pot) over an open flame.
Kade Buquoi, head barista at "As the Crow Flies Coffee & Tea" in Pineville, prepares a coffee drink. (Photo: Miranda Klein/The Town Talk)
"A lot of people have tried (Turkish coffee) for the first time and come back for it," Raia said. " … We even had a gentleman come in who's been to Turkey, and he said it reminded him of the coffee he had (there)."
It took more than six months to transform a space that previously housed a yoga studio, and an arcade before that, into the coffee and tea shop people see today. The new owners added walls, a drop ceiling and bathroom, in addition to completing extensive cosmetic work.
Plus, everything that isn't second-hand, was custom built and painted, including the main bar, book cases and table tops.
"This was all purely grassroots, family (pulling) together very limited resources, very limited money … and lots of prayer," Raia said. "God told us he would give us the resources for it, and he did."
"As the Crow Flies Coffee & Tea" is open 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The shop includes a loft area with a couch and other comfy seating for about 10 or 11 people that can be reserved for book clubs, church groups and others with a minimum purchase of $15 between the group.
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ITIC highlights value of diligent debt collection
ITIC has highlighted the value of diligently pursuing the collection of shipping industry debts in today’s difficult economic climate.
In its latest Claims Review, ITIC notes that a shipbroker acting for charterers was owed $25,000 in commission by an Indian voyage charterer under a charter party which provided that the charterer would deduct the commission. Having written to the charterer and not received a response, ITIC ascertained from local sources that the charterer was in serious financial trouble. It was also rumoured that the charterer was about to receive a large injection of finance from a foreign investor.
A local lawyer was appointed to pursue the debt, and a letter was sent to the charterer stating that, if it did not pay the outstanding commission, winding-up procedures would be started via an application to the local court. Again, the charterer did not respond with an offer of settlement.
ITIC, as promised, began the winding-up process, and this prompted an immediate payment to the shipbroker by the charterer.
The ITIC Claims Review also highlights a problem of a different nature faced by a ship agent in Canada, which was owed more than C$70,000 by a local company which had been declared bankrupt. ITIC instructed lawyers to have the ship agent properly listed as a creditor, and although there were other creditors, aspects of the agent’s debt took priority over many of the claimants and ITIC managed to recover C$42,998 on behalf of the ship agent.
ITIC says, “The case shows the importance of ensuring that claims are properly filed in liquidations.”
Copies of the ITIC Claim Review can be requested from: chris@merlinco.com
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Taylor Kitsch and Minka Kelly Reflect on Where Their Friday Night Lights Characters Would Be Now
“I’ll never play Riggins again,” says Kitsch.
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Friday Night Lights is one of those television shows that all kinds of people in your life—even the ones who don’t keep up with “cool” TV—seem to be obsessed with. Your parents, your grandparents, your cousin, your baby brother, your barista, your dentist, your dog—they all make the same gleeful expression when the show gets mentioned. “Oh my God, it’s a perfect show, I can barely even talk about it,” they’ll say. Or they’ll just squeal a character’s name (“Riggins!” “Landry!” “TAMI TAYLOR!”) and pass out on the spot. There is a fanaticism about the show that is rare even by Beloved Cult TV standards.
It’s been 10 years since the series premiered, in 2006, and select members from the cast—Minka Kelly (Lyla Garrity), Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins), Aimee Teegarden (Julie Taylor), and Zach Gilford (Matt Saracen)—convened in Chicago over the weekend to mark the occasion. They did not, sadly, all drive pickup trucks to some abandoned field, drinking beer cans and staring at the horizon, all the while appearing American Eagle–catalogue gorgeous. No, the group came together—in an effort facilitated by Marriott Rewards—to compete in a grueling Spartan Race, which required advance training involving spear-throwing, rope-climbing, monkey-bar-conquering, and other components.
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Kitsch told me on the phone, about a week before the race, that he was looking forward to re-uniting with his castmates. “It feels forever ago [since the show started], no doubt,” he said. “I mean, I still live in Austin, and Chan still lives in Austin, and I still see him when we can make it work, but it definitely feels like a long time ago. . . . I haven’t seen Minka or Zach or Aimee for . . . five years, four years.” (Yes, this was disappointing for us to learn, as well, as we always imagined the Friday Night Lights cast had some super-active group text going for years, and gathered for a monthly margaritas-and-grilling party at Kyle Chandler’s house. Some solace: Kitsch apparently refers to Chandler as “Chan.”)
Kelly, on the other hand, whom I spoke to on the morning of the race, said it doesn’t feel to her that it’s been a decade since the show premiered (“The only real difference that I can feel is that Aimee Teegarden [who was 16 when the show started] is . . . a woman now! Looking at her, I’m like, ‘So grown up!’”). Kelly explained, “It’s not like we are texting each other all the time, but we certainly check in with each other every so often, and we’re like a little family. It’s not hard to hear about what’s going on with any of them.”
In this age of the revival—The X-Files, Full House, and Gilmore Girls have all recently seen their worlds revisited—Friday Night Lights would seem a slam-dunk campaign. But the duo—who both talk about the show in the reverent, joyous way that you or your friends might talk about your favorite teacher in high school—both said, to awkwardly slide a football metaphor in here, that they believe the clock has run out. “I’ll never play Riggins again,” Kitsch said, flatly. “I don’t know. I don’t see any reason to relive it; leave the memories where they’re at . . . they’re so great, you know?” Kelly has a similar perspective: “I think some things are better left [with people] wanting more.”
But just because they aren’t sure there should be more Friday Night Lights, it does not mean they have left their characters, spiritually, behind. I asked both where they think their characters would be now, five years since we left them, after the series finale in 2011. Kitsch did not hesitate: “Obviously, [Riggins would] have an ice-cold beer in his hand.” When pressed further about his character, who was last seen having acquired a new piece of property, Kitsch said, “I see him still in that property, you know? He’d probably have a little family going. He’s a simple [guy]. I think he’d have, hopefully, a simple life.” And would he be with Tyra, his character’s sometimes love interest (played by Adrianne Palicki)? “I think that would be pretty cool. It’d be hilarious to have little Riggins-and-Tyra kids. God, they would be great.”
Kelly said she hopes to find future roles that make clear she is not Lyla in real life: “I couldn’t be more different from Lyla. . . . I really look forward to opportunities of showing how different I am from her, how much stronger I am than her,” she said, citing Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, and Reed Morano as directors she would love to work with. Kelly said that her Friday Night Lights character probably ended up staying in Nashville after attending Vanderbilt University, which is how we left Lyla. “Maybe she’s running Vanderbilt . . . ,” Kelly mused. When I asked if she thinks Riggins and Lyla—who dated Tim on and off—are over for good, she suggested that “maybe [Riggins] is with Tyra now.” But after I told her that I always liked Riggins and Lyla as a pair, she reconsidered. “I think he’s probably the love of her life. I don’t know, maybe they do end up back together, maybe he gets his shit together, and they work things out. . . . And he runs the football division at Vanderbilt!”
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The fishing and aquaculture sector is currently one of the world’s fastest growing sectors, with more than 58 million men, women and children involved in fishing and aquaculture globally, according to a 2014 UN FAO report. With the rapid expansion of the sector has come an increase in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, a practice that heightens the likelihood of over-fishing and increases risks of labor abuses, as vessels undertake longer and longer voyages in order to find fish, trapping their crews on board for longer and longer periods of time. Forced labor, child labor, and human trafficking of fishers sold into slavery on vessels have been widely reported.
Verité is working to promote ethical labor practice in the seafood sector through advocacy and research that sheds further light on the problem, and through development of resources and approaches that help governments and companies build practical, sustainable solutions.
The following resources provide an overview of the risks of labor abuse associated with fishing and seafood production, and present Verité original research on forced labor in shrimp and fish production in Southeast Asia.
Human Trafficking Risk in Global Fishing and Aquaculture Sector
This report provides an overview of the sector’s risk factors, including hazardous/undesirable work, a vulnerable, easily replaced, and/or low-skilled workforce and the prevalence of migrant workers. Workforce vulnerability in fishing derives from a variety of causes, some of which have to do with the typical structure of employment relationships in the industry, and some of which have to do with the economic and education levels of the worker populations in question.
Research on Indicators of Forced Labor in the Supply Chain of Tuna in the Philippines
While much attention has been paid to the environmental and economic aspects of the Philippines tuna sector, little has been paid to labor conditions, and even less to specific indicators of forced labor. This report sheds light on the presence of these issues.
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While the shrimp sector has been promoted as a needed source of employment, previous research has tied the shrimp sector to labor, environmental, and human rights abuses. This report explores what few others have: the indicators of forced labor.
Research on Indicators of Forced Labor in the Supply Chain of Fish in Indonesia: Platform (Jermal) Fishing, Small-Boat Anchovy Fishing, and Blast Fishing
Fishing plays a large role in the Indonesian economy; over 6.2 million people are involved in fishing activities in there. Hazardous working conditions, coercive pay structures, and harassment are just some of the labor rights violations that were discovered and reported here.
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The first step companies can take is to trace the seafood in their supply chain back to its origins. Labor and human rights abuses are linked to both the extraction and processing of fish, so scrutiny of supply chains is necessary at every step in seafood production. Corporate efforts to understand and monitor the environmental implications of their suppliers’ fishing practice should be extended to incorporate efforts to monitor for possible human rights implications as well. Once companies achieve visibility into their supply chains, they should identify specific risks they may face, and improve management systems and business practices to better protect workers from potential abuses. Companies can also participate in ongoing capacity building efforts, public policy advocacy and stakeholder dialogue.
What is Verité Doing?
Verité consults with a wide range of sector stakeholders, including multi-national brands, suppliers, governments and civil society representatives, helping them understand and address labor and human rights problems in the industry. We seek to help retailers, brands and buyers, traders, fish producers, and others that wish to eliminate the risk of labor abuse and lead the field in ethical seafood supply through a series of key steps, beginning with understanding and analysis, and ending with direct action to resolve problems. We are currently working with American seafood companies (retailers, importers, restaurants) to develop a model global compliance plan around trafficking and are piloting efforts in hot spots to determine good practices in compliance areas such as auditing, training, systems building, and research.
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Assessment. Verité’s shadow audits and independent assessments help companies identify risks of labor abuse that they face in seafood supply chains, and improve management systems to better protect workers from these abuses.
Training. Verité boosts critical competencies at all levels of the supply chain with training programs that focus on the root causes of labor abuses and impart the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to resolve these abuses.
Resources. Verité develops customized tools and learning modules to assist companies in protecting workers from labor abuses in the harvesting and processing of seafood.
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NSE penalises companies for non-compliance of listing regulations
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 15 (ANI): The National Stock Exchange (NSE) said on Wednesday that it has imposed fines and issued notices to more than 250 companies for non-compliance of listing regulations as specified by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
Big names on the list included Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, Jet Airways, Power Grid, Bharat Electronics, New India Assurance Company, Indraprastha Gas, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Oil India.
More than 30 companies on the list are liable to pay a fine of Rs 4.5 lakh each.
NSE said it can levy per day fines and freeze the holdings of promoter and promoter group if non-compliant listed entities fail to comply with the requirement of listing regulations and/or pay the fine levied within the stipulated period.
"If the non-compliance continues for two consecutive quarters, then the exchange can shift trading in securities of the companies to specified category wherein trade shall take place on 'trade for trade' basis, and subsequently suspend the trading of companies," it said in a statement.
On May 3 last year, capital markets regulator SEBI had specified a standard operating procedure in the matter of levy of fines for non-compliance with certain provisions of SEBI (Listing Obligations Disclosure Requirement) Regulations 2015. (ANI)
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Jordan's Za'atari camp goes green with new solar plant
Largest project of its kind in a refugee camp will provide welcome additional power to residents and slash carbon emissions and energy costs
By Marwa Hashem | 14 November 2017 | Español | Français | عربي
File photo of Za'atari refugee camp in April 2016. © UNHCR/Jordi Matas
ZA’ATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan – The largest solar plant ever built in a refugee camp went live on Monday, providing clean and much-needed additional power to 80,000 Syrian refugees living in Jordan’s Za’atari camp.
The plant will reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions from the camp by 13,000 metric tonnes per year, equivalent to 30,000 barrels of oil. It will also deliver annual savings of around US$5.5 million, which UNHCR – the UN Refugee Agency – will be able to reinvest in vital humanitarian assistance.
The 12.9 megawatt peak solar photovoltaic plant was funded by the Government of Germany through the KfW Development Bank at a cost of 15 million euros (US$ 17.5 million).
Za'atari refugee camp goes green
Electricity provides an essential lifeline for camp residents, from lighting shelters to preserving food and maintaining hygiene. Previously, however, the high cost of powering the camp has meant that electricity use in refugee shelters was rationed to six to eight hours a day after sunset.
The new solar plant will provide families with between 12 and 14 hours electricity each day. Residents say the extra power will vastly improve their lives, allowing them to complete their daily chores earlier and prevent children from having to play outside on the dusty streets after dark.
Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp made the switch to clean energy on Monday 13 November, with the inauguration of the largest solar power plant ever built in a refugee setting. © UNHCR/Yousef Al Hariri
Ilham, a 41-year-old mother of three from Dara’a in southern Syria, said the extra hours of electricity would help her keep her children healthy and safe. “Now I will be able to do the laundry during the day, rather than at night when it doesn’t dry and we get sick from wearing wet clothes.”
“It’s also safer for my children. It means they can stay indoors and do their homework or watch some TV, rather than playing outside on the streets until after dark,” she added.
Her son Mohammed, aged 10, said the new plant would help him with his schoolwork. “My family and I use electricity for doing the laundry and watching TV, but with more hours of electricity I will definitely study more.”
The solar plant was constructed on the outskirts of the camp, consisting of 40,000 photovoltaic panels arranged in rows hundreds of metres long covering an area roughly the size of 33 soccer pitches. The project provided employment to workers from the local Jordanian community, as well as 75 Syrian refugees living in the camp under an existing cash-for-work scheme.
Gasem, a 31-year-old Syrian who has lived in the camp since 2012, joined the project when it began in April. As well as benefiting the camp as a whole, he said the construction of the new plant had helped him gain new skills and experience that would stand him in good stead for the future.
Construction of the solar plant provided employment for local Jordanian workers and 75 Syrian refugees living in the camp. © UNHCR/Yousef Al Hariri
“Myself and the other Syrian refugees who worked on this project benefited a lot from the experience. We have developed our knowledge and technical skills, and it has also enabled me to find a job working on another solar project outside the camp,” he said.
All of the electricity generated by the new plant will be used to power refugees’ shelters, ensuring that residents are the prime beneficiaries. The solar plant is connected to Jordan’s national grid, meaning any unused power is fed back into the network to support the energy needs of the local community and help the country meet its renewable energy goals.
UNHCR Representative in Jordan Stefano Severe said the solar plant would help maintain vital humanitarian assistance to some 650,000 registered Syrian refugees in the country.
“The plant will deliver huge savings in energy bills for UNHCR, which will be reinvested in other much-needed assistance. With the Syrian refugee crisis already into its seventh year, donor fatigue is setting in, making such savings essential for UNHCR to continue providing assistance to refugees in Za’atari camp and beyond,” Severe said.
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Igor Hiriak, unique soldier from Chernobyl response team: Did anyone go around catching stray dogs in the zone? I don't know. One lived in our camp. We shared food with it.
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After watching the "Chernobyl" series, many in Ukraine did not agree with the author's reading of those events. People said many things were made up. Meanwhile, one British scriptwriter criticized the authors for not having any PoC actors. People on social networks immediately mocked this remark, because most believed it was unlikely that any soldiers of color ever served in the Soviet forces. However, the ridicule proved to be wrong as there actually was one soldier of another race on the response team! UNIAN was able to find this man.
The best-selling Chernobyl series attracted world attention to people who, at the cost of their health and lives, worked hard to minimize the Chernobyl fallout in 1986. UNIAN talked with a unique participant in those events, Igor Hiriak, the only liquidator of color, a former draft soldier of the Kyiv-based pontoon engineering regiment who was deployed to the Zone.
Why didn't the authors of the best-selling Chernobyl series give any roles to actors of color? That's how the moviemakers were criticized by a British scriptwriter and actress Karla Marie. Her criticism of the series sparked ridicule on social networks. However, it appeared that, at least, one liquidator of color was part of the Chernobyl response team.
In 1986, Igor Hiriak was serving in the pontoon engineering regiment in Kyiv, which was deployed to the Chernobyl zone.
Igor was born in Kharkiv and considers himself a Ukrainian, although he has lived all his life in Russia's Cherepovets. His father remained in Ukraine, but the two barely communicate – the last time Igor visited his homeland was more than 30 years ago.
We met at the train station in Cherepovets, spending the whole day together. We did an interview, a tour of the city, and had a long off record conversation at a dinner. Igor is reluctant to comment on today's current relations between Ukraine and Russia, speaks up for world peace, but then adds that it is the responsibility of all citizens to defend their country.
Igor is already over 50, he is a Chernobyl "veteran." But he looks much younger and radiates tremendous charm and energy. Igor works at a local metallurgical plant, and also does occasional standup shows, sometimes plays extras in movies, and even participates in the reconstruction of the battles of 1812 on the side of the French forces.
After the release of the Chernobyl series, Igor Hiriak became a local celebrity. He has already given about a dozen of interviews and even starred in a talk show in Moscow.
The UNIAN correspondent was the first among Ukrainian journalists to personally thank him for his contribution to the elimination of the consequences of the Chernobyl NPP accident. We talked about life, the accident, and the Chernobyl series, and found out the details that could interest some scriptwriters.
For example, Igor said that in their unit, there was always not enough food – everything was provided to them according to regular norms, but their stomachs needed more, so they would go hunting and fishing right in the fallout zone. Food quality control routine was simple: they would gut the fish they caught, put a dosimeter in it, and if the figures were lower than those of the air, the fish was considered edible.
Igor, tell us about yourself.
My mother is from Cherepovets, but I was born in Kharkiv. When a question arose what nationality should be recorded in my passport, Russian or Ukrainian, I decided that I would choose my nationality on my father's line. Now sometimes people tell me that I am "not Russian". Indeed, I'm not! My father lives in Kharkiv, and I would like to wish him good health and long life. I often think about him, although I haven't seen him for a long time. The last time was in 1970s when he came to Cherepovets. Now we do not even exchange calls.
How did you get to Chernobyl? What tasks did you perform there? How did your comrades-in-arms treat you?
I got to Chernobyl while I was on draft military service. I was drafted in the fall of 1985, right from Cherepovets. I was sent to a pontoon engineering regiment in Kyiv. Following the accident, our unit was deployed to Chernobyl.
The task of the regiment in peacetime is to provide assistance to civilians and victims of natural disasters or accidents. Therefore, our primary task was to arrange a crossing on the Pripyat River. There were two of them. The first one was right at the river station in Chernobyl – to evacuate the population from the territory of Belarus. Another bridge was on the bypass technical canal. Subsequently, we maintained the technical condition of the bridge and the roads leading to it. We also performed random tasks at the station and in the town. We did not get on the roof of the reactor. We did do some work at the train station and the helipad.
When we worked at the station, we would take showers at the spot, changed clothes and disposed of the used uniform.
Did you know in advance what you would do in the accident zone?
When we went there, no one knew where we were going. It was announced that we were going for a drill, that the enemy used nuclear weapons, and that it was necessary to use chemical defense gear. When they arrived, everything gradually cleared up. Later, we were told that there had been an accident at the nuclear power plant and that we must just do what we're told. I do not exactly remember how orders were formulated.
You were then 19 years old. Did you realize the degree of risk and understand how dangerous everything was?
I studied well at school, and I was interested in physics and geometry, and also ROTC. I knew it was dangerous there. In addition, our commanders explained what we must and must not do. And if they said we shouldn't be going somewhere, then it was better not to do it. Dosimeters were constantly used, including in our regiment, and heavily affected spots were marked so that no one would go there.
Were you scared?
I don't know. Were you scared of anything when you were 19? We had to do our job. Those were the times when if they told us something had to be done, it meant it had to be done. I don't know how it would be done today, but it seems to me that it would be the same.
In 1980s, a black guy wearing a military uniform in the Soviet army was not quite a standard situation. How did others treat you?
Since my childhood years, I have always been the best guy in the squad. I've never felt obstructed. People reach out to me, and since childhood years, I have been surrounded by friends. I quickly made friends in the army. When I would go out on a leave to the city, civilians thought that I was Cuban. At that time there were many Cuban military in Kyiv. Commanders would even send me to take our guys from military police. While policemen were trying to figure out what's going on, whether I was Cuban or not, we were already on our way to the base. After all, they were unlikely to try to check whether a "Cuban's" uniform was in line with Soviet statutes...
Have you encountered discrimination based on ethnic or racial grounds?
Sometimes it happened. Strangers would sometimes say: "Get out of here, go home." Some situations were even worse.
Did anyone try to pick fights with you?
Some did. Before the army, and in the army too, I was into sports. At the same time, I looked younger than my actual age... Already at home, after I completed my service, young guys, maybe 14-15-year-olds, tried to pick fights, thinking I was their age. It was always funny when it turned out I was 22.
I haven't had any unpleasant situations for maybe 15 years already.
Are people in your town aware that you've become a celebrity?
In Cherepovets I had at least three thousand acquaintances, but after the release of the Chernobyl series, strangers come up and say they know that I am a participant in the Chernobyl response efforts.
Many people think that I have become famous, but I don’t think so. I didn't do anything to this end. Recently I was in Moscow, people approached me, saying that they had learned about my story from the internet. Now this wave is already passing, but after the first report appeared on Picabu, in, like, 20 minutes, strangers started writing me, asking whether it was fake new or not. First I responded, but the number of messages was getting greater. A minute later there were 80, then 200 ... I thought that I would not have time to read them, and got off the internet. Then reporters called with similar questions.
Did you watch the Chernobyl show?
I did. But when it started, I confused it with another series about this disaster. Then it turned out that we were talking about different things, and I watched the first two episodes. At first it seemed to me that there were a lot of actual facts there, but after I watched it all and attended a panel show, it turned out that some facts were distorted.
The first impression is that there's 80% truth. And after talking with people who also were at the station at the time of the accident, I tend to think that there's 60-70% truth there.
What struck you most? What was fiction?
For example, catching marauders. It wasn't like that. Too much alcohol in the series, too. As far as I know, drinking was unacceptable among conscripts. Throughout the time in the disaster zone, there were only two cases where alcohol was involved. This one time a civilian truck driver scratched my truck. That guy told me they were drinking alcohol to get radionuclides out. There was another case where the soldier drank but he was immediately punished. Among civilians, to my knowledge, drinking was also unacceptable. If some civilians drank, it was probably somewhere where no one could see.
Was order maintained there?
Of course. It was actually martial law. Any misbehavior was curbed.
Okay, there were no free boxes of vodka, but what else in the series w an obvious fiction?
For example, the episode where the miners were talking with the minister. At that time, it was impossible for ordinary workers to slap the minister on the shoulder like that. Also, they showed that the minister had guards armed with automatic rifles. It wasn't the case either. We were deployed in the area, we did have our weapons, but they were locked in a special storage tent.
Did anyone go around catching stray dogs?
I don't know, one lived in our camp. Our guys would go to do their work, and that stray dog sort of stuck around – we would share food with it. I haven't seen anyone shooting stray pets.
Did you live in tents as shown in the series?
Yes, we had two camps. One was on the river shore, near the bridge, and the other one in the 18-kilometer zone, in the forest. We had real tent camps. At first we lived at the shorefront in car cabins and boats, then we moved to the tents, and closer to 1987, trailers appeared.
How much time did you spend there?
I spent there a little more than 2.5 months non-stop. Then I was transferred to a motorized platoon. I would drive the commander around, and then I would also drive him to the bridge to organize the work there.
Have you met someone who became the prototypes for the heroes of the series, Shcherbyna or Legasov?
No, I haven't, but while serving there I once met a Marshal of the Soviet Union. It was in Pripyat, on the bridge. Our service was organized as follows: a week in the forest camp and a week on the bridge. From the forest camp, soldiers were deployed to work at the station, while on the bridge, respectively, they were engaged in maintaining its technical condition. In our "Lenin room" we had a portrait of the Minister of Defense, and they demanded that we know his face. Where is the Minister of Defense, and where am I, a private?! That day, we were preparing the bridge for drawing to allow navigation of vessels when then the UAZ offroader stopped, a man came out wearing a field uniform, without epaulets. However, his pants had wide general stripes. When I approached, another man got out of the car and told me that I was facing a general. I reported according to the protocol. The general asked what we were doing and asked not to draw the bridge until they returned. From 12:00 to 13:00 every day we would draw the bridge. Then he asked where I was from, we talked about Cherepovets – we have a military academy here. And then, I see, our lieutenant running across the bridge, then twenty meters from us, he started marching as a Kremlin cadet, and, approaching us, he reported: "Comrade Marshal of the Soviet Union..." I was so surprised then. I believe he was the marshal of the engineering forces, Sergey Aganov.
Did those two and a half months in Chernobyl affect your health?
Health is definitely didn't get better, but I could say for sure if I could live another life without Chernobyl.
Did you have individual dosimeters?
We were given dosimeters in the form of pens, which were mounted on our pockets, but this device, at most, showed one roentgen, and some had the indicator frozen. We even did an experiment: we once wrapped this dosimeter in a mitten, which was strongly exposed, but as a result we saw the same one roentgen. After that, no one used them. Perhaps this device simply was not designed for "dirty radiation", and it was made for the conditions of a nuclear explosion.
In 1987, "tablet" dosimeters appeared, which did show this. But we had it this way: the order was given that those who received 25 roentgen were supposed to be sent back to the base. But the number of soldiers was limited, so they would write that we received 0.1 or 0.2 roentgen per day. According to those "calculations" some accumulated even as much as 30 roentgen, and only then were they recalled.
What was the fate of those other people on your team with whom you served on that bridge?
Many have passed away. But it is difficult to say why they died. It was never proven that it was a result of their exposure to radiation. After returning home, many liquidators gave up on themselves, started drinking, and this way made things even worse for their already poor health.
How are Chernobyl response operatives supported in Russia?
Immediately after the accident, there were much more benefits, then the situation changed. I think that the opinion of the liquidators both in Ukraine and Russia is the same: the authorities do not provide sufficient assistance. Often people are left alone facing their problems. They are only remembered on Memorial Day, April 26. There is an opportunity to get an early retirement, there is an additional vacation time, to get various vouchers for vacation trips, but I rarely use that. It is easier for me to do this at my job. I work for Severstal enterprise, which provides for us.
In Russia, many commentators have branded this series almost a blasphemy targeting today's authorities. What do you think about this?
They revealed the attitude of the government of those times. Perhaps the series actually has won acclaim precisely due to these scandalous shortcomings. However, this is a feature, so its creators wanted to sell it as successfully as they could. If there's no drama, there will be no disputes and discussions. That's what attracts audiences. Anyway, I'm grateful to them for once again reminding people about those who took part in response efforts following that terrible accident.
I think that in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, many officials feared to lose their jobs and that's why it went down this way. Perhaps, the authorities were concerned that panic might ensue and half of the population would prefer to flee the country. It would take to walk their shoes to understand whether their actions were justified or not. It's always easier to say "I would have done it differently", however, when people get their chance to act, many hesitate.
Would you like to go back and see the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after all these years? The place is booming with tourists today…
I definitely would. I already thought about going there before, and now I also am considering this even more so. I don't think I have the actual opportunity to visit though. It's both about money and time. Probably, this trip will just remain my dream.
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Pakistan warms to Iranian gas pipeline
ISLAMABAD, June 20 (UPI) -- There is no reason for the Pakistani government to delay the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Iran, the natural resources minister said.
Iran wants to construct a natural gas pipeline from the South Pars natural gas complex in the Persian Gulf across the border to Pakistan. The U.S. government objects to the project because of the eventual economic benefits to Tehran.
Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaquan Abbasi told The News International, a Pakistani newspaper, there was no reason to hold off on the project because of domestic energy concerns.
"I am surprised over the objection about the Iran-Pakistan project because the gas to be imported by Pakistan wouldn't have any brand as 'made in Iran' wouldn't be written on the gas," he said in an interview published Thursday.
Aging infrastructure and an inability to pay its bills has left Pakistan struggling to find a way to resolve lingering electricity shortages. The government discussed how to resolve the energy crisis while negotiating a bailout package this week with the International Monetary Fund.
Iran has offered Pakistan a $10 million loan to help with construction costs.
"I don't see any reason for objecting and keep it in mind the agreement is between to sovereign states for the benefit of their people," the minister said.
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Trump nominates Gene Scalia to be labor secretary
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Chicago officials tout improvement in crime statistics
Chicago's reputation as a murder capital is unfair, or at least a tad overblown, a new study shows.
Chicago officials tout improvement in crime statistics Chicago's reputation as a murder capital is unfair, or at least a tad overblown, a new study shows. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1bFdLX4
William Spain, Special for USA TODAY Published 2:46 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2013 | Updated 12:02 a.m. ET Dec. 15, 2013
Chicago Police investigate an officer-involved shooting in the North Austin neighborhood on the city's West Side late Sunday, September 9, 2012.(Photo: Brett T. Roseman for USA TODAY)
New report says Chicago crime has dropped to 40-year low
Critics say they haven't seen any significant improvement, city still deadly
Mayor says new initiatives have had an impact
CHICAGO — If the grimly regular tally of shootings provides plenty of grist for both the local and national media mills, the reality of violence in Chicago may be quite different — at least according to a study about to be released.
Crime in the city of Al Capone and John Gacy has dipped to a 40-year low, said Andrew Papachristos, a criminologist and associate professor at Yale University who conducted the research. Chicago officials aren't missing their chance to seize on the data and tout the improvement.
This year alone, "Chicago appears to be on track to have both the lowest violent crime rate since 1972, and lowest homicide rate since 1967," he said.
The report, titled 48 Years of Crime in Chicago, examines the crime trends in the city. Papachristos noted that while Chicago has long been thought of a bastion for criminals, it in fact ranks 19th in violent crime rates among large cities, on par with Houston and Minneapolis and below places like Detroit and St. Louis.
Even in New Haven, where Yale is located, "the rate is higher than Chicago," he added.
The Chicago Police Department reports that there were 483 murders in 2012, a number that has dropped to 392 so far this year. Overall crime is down 16%.
City leaders say the study as proof both that Chicago's gruesome reputation is undeserved and that recent stepped-up law enforcement and social services efforts are working.
"We have more work to do," Mayor Rahm Emanuel told USA TODAY. But "it does show that the things we are trying . . . are having an impact."
The crime dips have been uneven, with some more affluent areas — the largest beneficiaries of recent development — seeing the biggest fall-offs. But the overall trend has generally been citywide.
"More and more mothers, more and more neighborhoods can now enjoy a sense of normalcy," Emanuel said.
Emanuel is pushing what he calls the "Four Ps": policing, prevention, parenting and penalties.
Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said that while Chicago has the fourth highest level of police per capita of the largest cities in the USA — behind Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Newark — law enforcement is just part of the solution.
"We are backing (policing) with social programs and things that will have a longer-term effect," he said. "We are not just trying to put a Band-aid on the problem."
The numbers, however, are of little comfort to some of those who live in Chicago's tougher regions.
"I have a neighbor who has been robbed twice in the last two years and she has a Rottweiler," said Donna Johnson, whose family has lived in the Roseland neighborhood on the city's Far South Side for 44 years. "As kids in the 1960s and 1970s, we felt very safe running around. As adults, we don't even walk to the store after dark."
Johnson said she has seen "no meaningful improvement" in the last few years: "A police car just drove past my house but that doesn't mean anything."
Still, crime rates have generally been dropping across the USA, a trend that resists explanation by criminologists and others, including Yale's Papachristos.
"I don't think it is any one thing," he said. "And it is certainly not tied to economics since crime is going down even as we have a crummy economy. It really has criminologists baffled."
In 2011, there were 2,128 shootings in the city, according to police figures. That number spiked to 2,364 in 2012 but was at 1,756 as of December 8 this year. The overall number of major crimes in the same period of 2011 was 80,527. That slipped to 74,078 in 2012 and to 62,392 to date in 2013.
Papachristos said that the data from 2013 "indicates that the index crime rate will continue to fall, with early estimates suggesting a rate of 4,251 per 100,000, a rate not seen since 1972."
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Trump condemns 'egregious display of violence and bigotry' in Charlottesville
Trump called the street clashes, ending with a car plowing through a group of counter-protesters, "very, very sad.''
Trump condemns 'egregious display of violence and bigotry' in Charlottesville Trump called the street clashes, ending with a car plowing through a group of counter-protesters, "very, very sad.'' Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2vZjBbV
Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY Published 2:33 p.m. ET Aug. 12, 2017 | Updated 6:40 p.m. ET Aug. 12, 2017
President Trump interrupted a signing ceremony for veterans to publicly denounce the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia saying the U.S. government is "ready, willing and able" to step in. USA TODAY
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" exchange insults with counter-protesters as they enter Lee Park during the "Unite the Right" rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images)
President Trump publicly denounced a deadly eruption of violence at a Virginia rally of white nationalists Saturday, declaring that the "hatred and division must stop.''
Trump, interrupting a signing ceremony for legislation benefiting veterans at his New Jersey golf club, called the street clashes, ending with a car plowing through a group of counter-protesters, "very, very sad.''
"I condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of violence and bigotry,'' Trump said, calling for a "swift restoration of law and order.''
But white nationalist leader David Duke quickly seized on Trump's comments, calling on the president to "to take a good look in the mirror (and) remember it was white Americans who put you in the presidency.''
Duke's remarks were a reminder of the challenge Trump faces when addressing issues of race, as members of the alt-right often rallied to the side of Trump's contentious campaign.
Although he offered a condemnation, Trump did not single out the hate-fueled white nationalist movement. Rather, he suggested that "many sides'' were responsible for Saturday's unrest.
He did not elaborate, other than to to say that such conflict "has been going on for a long time in our country.''
"Above all else, we must remember this truth," Trump said. "No matter color, creed, religion or political party, we are all Americans first.''
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a one-time Trump rival, appeared to rally to the president's aid, tweeting that it was "very important for the nation to hear @potus describe events in #Charlottesville for what they are, a terror attack by #whitesupremacists."
Trump addressed the unrest in Charlottesville, Va., where Gov. Terry McAuliffe earlier declared a state of emergency when the alt-right protest of the city's planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee turned deadly.
Later, McAuliffe, who blamed the white supremacist movement for inciting the violence, said that he had called on Trump during telephone conversations Saturday to help cool strident rhetoric that has taken hold of common public discourse.
We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!
Vigils in Charlottesville after violent protests
Susan Bro, mother of Heather Heyer, speaks during a memorial for her daughter on Aug. 16, 2017, at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Va. Pool photo by Andrew Shurtleff
A photo of Heather Heyer, who was killed during a white nationalist rally, sits on the ground at a memorial the day her life was celebrated at the Paramount Theater on Aug. 16, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. Evan Vucci, AP
Marcus Martin, right, hugs Marissa Blair, left, during a memorial for Heather Heyer on Aug. 16, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. Martin pushed Blair out of the way of the vehicle that killed Heyer. Pool photo by Andrew Shurtleff
Mark Heyer, the father of Heather Heyer, gets emotional during a memorial service for his daughter on Aug. 16, 2017, at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Va. Pool photo by Andrew Shurtleff
People gather near a memorial for Heather Heyer, who was killed during a white nationalist rally, after a service to honor her life on Aug. 16, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. Evan Vucci, AP
Clergy observe a moment of silence during the memorial service for Heather Heyer outside the Paramount Theater Aug. 16, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. The memorial service was held four days after Heyer was killed when a participant in a white nationalist, neo-Nazi rally allegedly drove his car into the crowd of people demonstrating against the 'alt-right' gathering. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas Jr. (R) stands outside the Paramount Theater during a memorial service for Heather Heyer on Aug. 16, 2017. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
People were asked to wear purple for the memorial service for Heather Heyer. Purple was Heyer's favorite color. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Mia Jones shows off the "NO H8" message written on her hands as she waits to attend the memorial service for Heather Heyer. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Clergy observe a moment of silence during the memorial service for Heather Heyer. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Supporters gather on the pedestrian mall outside the Paramount Theater during a memorial service for Heather Heyer. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Jason Charter of Washington, left, stands at the site where Heather Heyer was killed during a white nationalist rally on Aug. 16, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. Charter was at the scene when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting the rally. Evan Vucci, AP
A chalk message calling for a park to be renamed after Heather Heyer is written in the street where she was killed and 19 others injured when a car slamed into a crowd of people protesting against a white supremacist rally, Aug. 16, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Mason Pickett, a Charlottesville resident, tries to toss a wire over the chalk wall to hang up a wreath. Following protests that turned violent on Aug. 12, 2017, and a day of memorial and mourning on 13th, Charlottesville, Va, continues to recover. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
Tannis Fuller embraces her son while her husband and other son stands nearby. Fuller moved to Charlottesville in 2003 and started a family from scratch, both her sons were born in the town and she was just blocks away at the time when Heather Heyer was killed. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
The memorial on 4th Street is built up with more flowers while two spectators drop their bouquets into the formation. Following protests that turned violent on Saturday and a day of memorial and mourning on Sunday, the town of Charlottesville, Va., continues to recover from the social rift. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
People gather at an informal memorial at the site where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when a car plowed into a crowd of people protesting against the white supremacist Unite the Right rally on Aug. 13, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. Charlottesville is calm the day after violence errupted around the Unite the Right rally, a gathering of white nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and members of the 'alt-right,' that left Heyer dead and injured 19 others. Win McNamee, Getty Images
Mourners sit beside the memorial for 32-year-old Heather Heyer on Aug. 13, 2017. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
A crowd gathers around the impromptu memorial at the site on Aug. 13, 2017, where a car barreled into a group of protesters. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
Marcus Martin, a victim of the car attack is comforted by Marissa Blaire on Aug. 13, 2017, while he speaks of the attack and Heather Heyer, who lost her life during the attack. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
After threats of alt-right presence in the area, a crowd of hundreds of mourners and citizens showed up to a vigil on Aug. 13, 2017, at the crash site in Charlottesville, Va., where Heather Heyer was killed when a car barreled into a group of protesters. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
Brittney Cain-Conley, lead organizer for Congregate Charlottesville, with hat, gets a hug from a supporter after she addressed the crowd during a vigil on, Aug. 13, 2017, held at the site where a car plowed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally on Saturday in Charlottesville, Va. Steve Helber, AP
A crowd member listens to speakers during a vigil on Aug. 13, 2017, at the site where a car barreled into a group of protesters. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
Hundreds of people gather for a vigil on the spot where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when a car plowed into a crowd of people protesting against the white supremacist Unite the Right rally Aug. 13, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Flowers and notes are left in memory of Heather Heyer, who died after she was struck when a car plowed into a crowd protesting the 'Unite the Right' rally. Mykal McEldowney, Indy Star-USA TODAY NETWORK
Mourners take time with family after placing flowers on 4th street, where Heather Heyer was killed by a motorist driving into the crowd. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
An officer guards closed off streets in downtown Charlottesville. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
David Brear, gray shirt, Kerry Rock, facing camera, and Colleen Todd, red shirt, embrace after visiting the memorial for the three who passed away the day before during the protests. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY Sports
A protester throws a punch at Jason Kessler after grabbing at his shoulder during a press conference. Kessler, an alt-right blogger, held a press conference in front of Charlottesville City Hall the day after the protests, where a crowd of counter protesters arrived to shout over him while he spoke into the microphone on Aug. 13, 2017. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
Virginia police are stationed in locations all around the podium as Jason Kessler, an alt-right blogger, holds a press conference in front of Charlottesville City Hall the day after the protests, where a crowd of counter protesters arrived to shout over him while he spoke on Aug. 13, 2017. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY Sports
Virginia State Police attempt to stop reporters and protesters following Jason Kessler as he left the podium. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
A police car sits in an alley with paint splatter from the night before still coating it. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY Sports
Protesters brandish signs in the direction of police officers and where Jason Kessler fled to after his press conference. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
"I just don't want to see people get hurt anymore," said Charlottesville resident Mai Shurtleff, left. "I have a little girl I just can't imagine." As Shurtleff sat weeping on the sidewalk near the site where a car plowed into a group of counter protesters killing one, Damonia Lee approached. "We are fighting for equality. I was here. I hugged her. She was so sweet," Lee said, about the young female who lost her life. "We're going to take our city back. This is a city of love." Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
A counter protester warns police that if actions, hate aren't stopped he will 'do something' on his own. He and others voiced their opinions over a loud speaker after the press conference by 'Unite the Right' organizer Jason Kessler in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 13, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Crowd members play loud instruments and yell as to drown out the voice of 'Unite the Right' rally organizer and white nationalist Jason Kessler as he speaks to a large crowd gathered at Charlottesville City Hall on Aug. 13, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Nicole Curry, a life-long resident of Charlottesville, watches from inside the Charlottesville Downtown Visitors Center as people start to file onto the grounds in front of City Hall to watch a press conference by 'Unite the Right' organizer and white nationalist Jason Kessler on Aug. 13, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
'Unite the Right' rally organizer and white nationalist Jason Kessler speaks to a large crowd gathered at Charlottesville City Hall. Crowd members played loud instruments and yelled as to drown out his voice on Aug. 13, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Flowers and notes of love lay on the site where a car plowed into a group of counter protesters, killing one. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Following the violence during the Alt-right rally and counter protests, where one person was killed and nineteen injured after being hit by a car, the city of Charlottesville reacts. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
Jewel King presents flowers to a small memorial following the violence at the Alt-right rally and counter protests where one person was killed and nineteen injured after being hit by a car. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
David Heins spreads flowers in the shape of a heart on Sunday in Charlottesville, Va., a day after one person died in violent protests when white supremacists clashed with counter protesters. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
Workers pack up barricades placed the night before in front of the statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville on Aug. 13, 2017. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
Charlottesville resident Mai Shurtleff, right, sits weeping on the sidewalk near the site where a car plowed into a group of counter protesters killing one. "This wasn't something I expected to happen in our town," she said as Charlottesville resident Bob Kiefer consoled her on Aug. 13, 2017. "This does not define Charlottesville at all. We are a strong, loving community. I don't even know this gentleman but as strangers we are friends. This is what makes us stronger together." Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
TC Whysall, manager at Red Pump Kitchen in Charlottesville, lays white roses on the site where a car plowed into a group of counter protesters killing one. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Kitty Matthews, the Deacon at First Baptist Church in Charlottesville, says a prayer before service, where the governor of Virginia will also speak on Aug. 13, 2017. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe speaks with Simona-Holloway-Warren following speaking at the First Baptist Church. Henry Taylor, USA TODAY
Charlottesville Parks and Recreation employees remove police tape and barricades from Emancipation Park in Charlottesville on Aug. 13, 2017. "Be sure if you find weapons or drugs do not touch them," one manager said. He asked to remain anonymous. "Get the attention of an officer." Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Charlottesville Parks and Recreation employees remove police tape and barricades from Emancipation Park in Charlottesville on Aug. 13, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Media film on the street in front of Emancipation Park on Aug. 13, 2017, a day after the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them. Ryan M. Kelly, The Daily Progress via AP
Laura Hainsworth, right, and Kristina Morris wave peace signs while holding a rainbow colored PEACE flag during a counter protest to the rally in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 12, 2017, in Abingdon, Va. Earl Neikirk, The Bristol Herald-Courier via AP
Virginia State Police inspect the site where a vehicle hit protesters in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 12, 2017. According to media reports at least one person was killed and 19 injured after a car hit a crowd of people counter-protesting the 'Unite the Right' rally. Tasos Katopodis, European Pressphoto Agency
Police and members of the National Guard patrol near the location where a car plowed into a crowd of people marching through a downtown shopping district on Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
AUGUST 12: Krystin Rines, center, rests her head on her husband Tyler Rines' shoulder during a vigil for those who were injured and died when a car plowed into a crowd of anti-fascist counter-demonstrators marching near a downtown shopping area Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Win McNamee, Getty Images
People place flowers at a makeshift memorial during a vigil for those who were injured and died when a car plowed into a crowd of anti-facist counter-demonstrators marching near a downtown shopping area Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Win McNamee, Getty Images
People gather for a vigil after a car plowed through a crowd of demonstrators, killing one person and injuring 18 others, during violence at the white nationalist 'United the Right' rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency after white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" violently clashed with anti-facist and Black Lives Matter counter-demonstrators at Emancipation Park. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Rescue workers move victims on stretchers after car plowed through a crowd of counter-demonstrators marching through the downtown shopping district Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
A car plows into pedestrians and vehicles on the mall in Charlottesville after Saturday's white supremacist rally. The driver hit the knot of cars and people at high speed, then backed up and fled the scene. Jeremiah Knupp, Special to The News Leader via USA TODAY Network
Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them. Steve Helber, AP
A member of a white nationalist group recovers after being hit by a counter protester on the grounds of Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, during a 'Unite the Right' rally. Mykal McEldowney, IndyStar via USA TODAY NETWORK
A member of a white nationalist group recovers after being hit by pepper spray by a counter protester on the grounds of Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, during a 'Unite the Right' rally. Mykal McEldowney, IndyStar via USA TODAY NETWORK
White nationalists swing their flag sticks and use makeshift shields to push their way through counter protesters at Emancipation Park during the 'Unite the Right' rallyon Aug.12, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Multiple white nationalist groups hold the grounds Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, during a 'Unite the Right' rally. Mykal McEldowney, IndyStar via USA TODAY NETWORK
A white nationalist prepares to swing his flag stick and use makeshift shields to help push his crew's way through counter protesters at Emancipation Park during the 'Unite the Right' rally on Aug.12, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
A Charlottesville police officer breaks up a fight on the street in front of Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, during the 'Unite the Right' rally on Aug.12, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
White nationalists guard the grounds at Emancipation Park during the 'Unite the Right' rally on Aug.12, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
A counter protester, left, feuds with a white nationalist on the street in front of Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, during the 'Unite the Right' rally on Aug.12, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
A white nationalist guards the entrance to Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, during the 'Unite the Right' rally on Aug.12, 2017. The man wore a red wings pin on the collar of his shirt. According to the Detroit Free Press, "The Detroit Red Wings are exploring possible legal action after a slightly modified team logo appeared on signs held by protesters at a violent and deadly white nationalist rally in Virginia on Saturday. " Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Multiple white nationalist groups hold the grounds at Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, during a 'Unite the Right' rally. Mykal McEldowney, IndyStar via USA TODAY NETWORK
A white nationalist is punched in the face by a counter protester at Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, during the 'Unite the Right' rally. Mykal McEldowney, IndyStar via USA TODAY NETWORK
White nationalist groups and counter protesters throw smoke grenades back and forth at Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, during the 'Unite the Right' rally. Mykal McEldowney, IndyStar via USA TODAY NETWORK
Multiple white nationalist groups hold the grounds Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, during a 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Va. Aug. 12, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, IndyStar via USA TODAY NETWORK
A Charlottesville Police officer breaks up a fight on the street in front of Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, during the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 12, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, IndyStar via USA TODAY NETWORK
White nationalist demonstrators class with counter demonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 12, 2017. Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency and police dressed in riot gear ordered people to disperse after chaotic violent clashes between white nationalists and counter protestors. Steve Helber, AP
A counter demonstrator uses a lighted spray can against a white nationalist demonstrator at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 12, 2017. Steve Helber, AP
Colleen Cook, 26, holds a sign as hundreds of people are facing off in Charlottesville, Va., ahead of a white nationalist rally planned in the Virginia city's downtown on Aug. 12, 2017. Cook, a teacher who attended UVA, said she sent her black son out of town for the weekend. "This isn't how he should have to grow up," she said. Sarah Rankin, AP
White nationalist demonstrators clash with counter demonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 12, 2017. Gov. Steve Helber, AP
Alt Right demonstrators walk through town after their rally was declared illegal near Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 12, 2017. Steve Helber, AP
White nationalist Richard Spencer, center, and his supporters clash with Virginia State Police in Lee Park after the "United the Right" rally was declared an unlawful gathering Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clashed with anti-facist protesters and police as they attempted to hold a rally in Lee Park, where a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is slated to be removed. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" are confronted by protesters as they march down East Market Street toward Lee Park during the "United the Right" rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march down East Market Street toward Lee Park during the "United the Right" rally Aug.12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. A Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march down East Market Street toward Lee Park during the "United the Right" rally Aug.12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with counter-protesters as they enter Lee Park during the "Unite the Right" rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" exchange vollys of pepper spray with counter-protesters as they enter Lee Park during the "Unite the Right" rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" exchange insults with counter-protesters as they enter Lee Park during the "Unite the Right" rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
A man makes a slashing motion across his throat twoard counter-protesters as he marches with other white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" during the "Unite the Right" rally Aug 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Counter-protesters line the route taken by white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" during the "Unite the Right" rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Counter protesters and white supremacists clash at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville during the Unite the Right rally held by the "alt-right" on Aug. 12, 2017. Mike Tripp, The News Leader
Multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville on Aug. 11, 2017. When met by counter protesters, some yelling "Black lives matter," tempers turned into violence. Multiple punches were thrown, pepper spray was sprayed and torches were used as weapons. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the UVA campus in Charlottesville on Aug. 11, 2017. When met by counter protesters, some yelling "Black lives matter," tempers turned into violence. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
White nationalist groups, a member pictured on right, feud with counter protesters on the UVA campus in Charlottesville on Aug. 11, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the UVA campus in Charlottesville on Aug. 11, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
A white nationalist, right, pepper sprays a counter protester on the UVA campus in Charlottesville on Aug. 11, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
White nationalist groups march with torches through the UVA campus in Charlottesville on Aug. 11, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
Campus and state police yell to disperse as white nationalists and counter protesters feud on the UVA campus in Charlottesville on August 11, 2017. Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star via USA TODAY NETWORK
First lady Melania Trump joined the president, saying that "no good comes from violence.''
"Our country encourages freedom of speech, but let's communicate w/o hate in our hearts,'' the first lady said.
The fighting, featuring clubs and bottle-throwing, followed an unusually large demonstration Friday night with white-nationalists carrying lighted torches through the streets.
"The views fueling the spectacle in Charlottesville are repugnant,'' House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted Saturday. Let it only serve to unite Americans against this kind of vile bigotry.''
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said the hate-fueled demonstrations were not representative of his state and the rest of the country.
"White supremacists chanting Nazi slogans aren't Virginia or America,'' Beyer said. "They are weak, ignorant, fearful people with citronella tiki torches.''
Beyer referred to Friday night's display in which demonstrators marched with torches generally used to illuminate summertime backyard gatherings.
"Free speech may give them the right to do this but also empowers us to unite to loudly speak out against it,'' said Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.
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