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The dotdigital Group PLC (LON:DOTD) growth story continued in the financial year just ended with revenues up by more than a third year-on-year.
The marketing automation platform operator said group revenues grew by around 35% to £43.1mln in the year to the end of June from £32.0mln the year before.
The group said full-year adjusted underlying earnings (EBITDA) and operating profit are expected to be in line with market expectations.
READ: dotDigital on track to meet full-year expectations after "transformational" first half
The average revenue per user (ARPU) continued to rise, growing by 18% to roughly £845 per month from around £715 per month the year before, while the number of customers who signed up in the year rose 26% to 689 from 548 the previous year.
Happily, the strong momentum seen in the final quarter of the financial year just ended has continued into the new financial year, giving management confidence that current market expectations for the full-year will be met.
The company's expansion into the US continues to go well with revenues from the region up 43% year-on-year to US$7.1mln from US$5.0mln the previous year but this growth rate was put in the shade by the Asia-Pacific region, where revenues grew 85% to A$2.2mln from A$1.2mln in fiscal 2017.
Preparations for the introduction of new data protection regulations in the European Union did disrupt customer spending in the first half of the financial year but the region's sales cycles normalised in the second half of the year.
"This year reflects substantial progress against the company's strategic aims in accelerating our platform capabilities into the omnichannel space, continuing to innovate our product, growing geographically and deepening our relationships with our strategic partners,” said Milan Patel, the chief executive officer of dotdigital.
“Alongside our organic growth strategy, we will continue to look for acquisitions of an earnings enhancing or strategic nature that could add to the platform capabilities,” he added.
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— dotmailer (@dotmailer) May 23, 2018
Shares in dotdigital opened 3.9p higher at 78.9p.
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Marketing automation platform operator dotdigital Group PLC (LON:DOTD) is on course to meet full-year expectations after a “transformational” first half of the fiscal year.
Revenue in the six months to December 31, 2017, surged to £18.77mln from £14.98mln the year before. Organic revenue grew 17% to £17.5mln from £15mln the previous year.
READ: dotdigital's growth surge continues
Revenue from the US region was up roughly 44% to US$3.3mln from US$2.3mln the year before, driven by channel partners and system integrators for Magento and Shopify.
The expansion of the Asia-Pacific sales team paid off, with revenue from the region up around 75% to A$0.9mln from A$0.5mln in the first half of the previous financial year.
Adjusted underlying earnings (EBITDA) rose 8% to £5.7mln from £5.3mln in the same period of 2016, while profit before tax advanced to £4.35mln from £4.28mln.
After expenditure of £13.1mln, largely due to the strategic acquisition of Comapi for a cash consideration of £10.7mln, the net cash balance stood at £10.5mln at the end of 2017.
"These results show dotdigital is making good progress. We are expanding and strengthening the platform which underpins our growth while continuing to grow our presence in international markets. We're also delighted to have further cemented our partnerships with Magento, Shopify, Microsoft and our other partners, which demonstrates their trust in our ability to drive revenue for their customers through our platform,” said Milan Patel, the chief executive officer of dotdigital.
“As our offering becomes broader and more integrated, we continue to expand the quality and breadth of data on which our customers can draw when devising their campaigns. These insights are a vital component in creating personalised and relevant campaigns which increases customer engagement and ultimately ROI [return on investment] for marketers. We're working hard to ensure dotdigital continues to innovate in this area and we look forward to an exciting second half of the year," he added.
finnCap retains 115p target price
The company's joint broker, finnCap, reiterated its 115p price target after a set of interims that was in line with the January trading update.
“The three strategic pillars for growth continue to prove highly effective, delivering 25% revenue growth including 17% organic revenue growth, complemented this year by the Comapi acquisition in November,” the broker said.
“Geographic expansion, increasing numbers of strong partnerships, and product innovation continue to drive the strong growth as the group excels at current operations and demonstrates the strength of its path to become an omni-channel data-led customer behaviour and analysis platform,” it added.
In late afternoon trading, dotdigital shares were trading at 85.9p, down 9.6% on Monday's close.
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A presence on some the major online platforms, such as world number one Magento, has been behind bulk emailer dotdigital PLC’s (LON:DOTD) impressive performance.
Group revenue rose 25% to £18.8mln in the six months to the end of 2017 from £15.0mln in the first half of the year, with organic revenue growth clocking in at 17% to £17.5mln from £15.0mln in the first half.
International sales represented a quarter of all sales, with overseas revenues up 22% from the first half of the year. Revenue from the US region was up roughly 44% to US$3.3mln from US$2.3mln in the first six months of 2017, driven by dotdigital’s channel partners and system integrators for Magento and Shopify.
Sales in the Asia Pacific shot up, albeit from a small base, to roughly A$0.9mln from A$0.5mln.
The group’s underlying earnings (EBIT) were in line with management’s expectations. The cash balance at the end of the year was £10.5mln, reflecting cash outflow of £11.5mln for the acquisition and funding of Comapi during the period.
Comapi bedding in nicely
Acquired in November 2017 for £11mln in cash, Comapi is a fast-growing business focused on the omni-channel messaging and cloud communication market.
Comapi has built a scalable software platform that allows businesses to communicate with their consumers across multiple conversational messaging channels including the growing market for live chat.
Integration into the dotdigital platform will enable dotdigital to deliver aligned conversational messaging across channels including email, mobile push, SMS, Facebook messenger, Apple business messenger, Twitter and live chat.
“In acquiring Comapi, we have taken a significant step toward creating a fully-fledged, omnichannel marketing automation platform,” said Milan Patel, the chief executive officer of dotdigital.
What dotmailer does
According to the brochure, dotmailer provides marketers a single solution to message customers through email, mobile and social media and other electronic forms. The dotmailer platform and tools share data seamlessly with clients’ customer relations management (CRM), eCommerce and third party applications, with a managed service if required.
“The dotmailer platform continues to evolve and innovate, providing highly sophisticated yet 'easy-to-use' marketing automation tools that empower our clients and this we believe is part of the true essence of our continued success,” Patel said.
“Alongside our organic growth strategy, we will continue to look for acquisitions of an earnings enhancing or strategic nature that could add to dotmailer's platform capabilities.”
The new general data protection regulation will change the rules
During the latter half of 2017, the group launched additional features to help customers achieve compliance with the new general data protection regulation (GDPR).
“As GDPR implementation moves closer, we are increasing our efforts to educate the market through our seminar programme and by highlighting the additional features now available on our platform to help achieve compliance with the expected new regulations that come into force in May 2018,” Patel said.
Premium rating justified by growth opportunities
Like revenues, the share price has also been growing, though it is not the most traded share on the market.
Over the past twelve months, the shares have risen about 50% to 89p, valuing the group at £266mln.
House broker finnCap said the half-year results represented a positive trading update.
"With cash of £10.5mln the group retains the wherewithal to pursue all strategic opportunities, including further acquisitions. We lift our target price to 115p, a premium rating worthy of consistent strong delivery," the broker said.
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Chartered financial analyst Paraag Amin is to join marketing automation specialist dotdigital Group PLC (LON:DOTD) as chief financial officer.
He has more than 15 years’ experience working as an analyst and fund manager, having previously held positions with Canaccord Genuity, Peel Hunt, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs.
READ: dotDigital making progress on all fronts
He will join the dotdigital board on February 5.
“His breadth and depth of experience in the public markets and his financial background makes him ideally placed to help me as we plan and execute the next phase of dotdigital's development,” said Milan Patel, the chief executive officer of dotdigital.
READ: Dotdigital flags up another year of growth
“I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Phillip Blundell for his contribution to the business as interim CFO for the last seven Months," Patel added.
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Marketing automation platform operator dotdigital Group PLC (LON:DOTD) traded in line in the second half of 2017, with strong growth in revenues.
READ: dotdigital on track with “ambitious growth plans” as strong trading momentum continues
Sales in the Asia Pacific shot up, albeit from a small base, to roughly A$0.9mln from A$0.5mln. Underlying earnings (EBIT) were in line with management’s expectations. The cash balance at the end of the year was £10.5mln, reflecting cash outflow of £11.5mln for the acquisition and funding of Comapi during the period.
"The last six months have been transformational for dotdigital as we have made good progress with many of our strategic initiatives. Our international offering continues to go from strength to strength and in acquiring Comapi, we have taken a significant step toward creating a fully-fledged, omnichannel marketing automation platform,” said Milan Patel, the chief executive officer of dotdigital.
“I am pleased with both the speed of integration of Comapi and the enthusiasm shown by both sets of employees, while revenues delivered since acquisition have exceeded our original expectations,” he revealed.
READ: Dotdigital snaps up customer engagement group Comapi for £11mln
“Elsewhere during the period, our strategic partnerships have moved forward as we have strengthened our relationships with Magento, Shopify and Microsoft. These partnerships continue to increase our addressable market in all our regions,” Patel added.
Sales through strategic partners increased by 35% to £7.2mln from £5.4mln in the first half.
During the period the group launched additional features to support customers achieve compliance with the new general data protection regulation (GDPR).
In a note to clients, analysts at ‘house’ broker finnCap said: “With cash of £10.5mln the group retains the wherewithal to pursue all strategic opportunities, including further acquisitions.
“We lift our target price to 115p, a premium rating worthy of consistent strong delivery.”
In late afternoon trading, dotdigital shares were 1% higher at 99p.
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Bulk email specialist Dotdigital Group plc (LON:DOTD) is on track with its “ambitious growth plans”, with the strong trading momentum reported earlier this year showing no signs of stopping.
dotdigital’s non-executive chairman Frank Beechinor-Collins will tell shareholders at Tuesday’s annual general meeting that the continued progress is being driven by “strong international sales and growing demand for dotmailer in the ecommerce market”.
The AIM-quoted company has continued to strengthen its relationships with key partners including Microsoft Dynamics, Shopify and leading B2B and B2C commerce platform Magento.
In fact, the latter recently launched a new version of Magento 2.2.2 which incorporates the dotmailer connector – allows platforms to integrate ecommerce data with dotmailer – in the new code base.
“This feature positions dotmailer as Magento's preferred partner for marketing automation and allows its global user-base to register for, download and incorporate the dotmailer product into their operations within moments of taking the decision to do so,” Beechinor-Collins will say.
Last month, dotdigital unveiled the £11mln acquisition of customer engagement firm Comapi.
The integration of Comapi’s messaging capabilities into the dotmailer platform is well underway and is expected to be launched at dotdigital’s annual summit in the spring.
On top of that, Comapi has also recent won a “significant contract” which helps to underpin its revenue expectations for 2018.
“The board is very pleased with the group's current progress and remains confident in achieving its ambitious growth plans,” the chairman will tell investors.
Brokers reckon shares are worth at least £1
“dotdigital continues to justify its premium rating, comfortably achieving every target it strives for, and deploying the strength of the balance sheet to best use,” wrote finnCap analyst Andrew Darley this morning.
“100p target reiterated with plenty more upside to be gained with continuing demonstration of very high quality execution.”
Shares rose 1% to 96.4p early Tuesday.
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Bulk-email specialist Dotdigital Group PLC (LON:DOTD) has taken another step towards becoming the go-to “omni-channel marketing automation platform” after snapping up customer engagement group Comapi for £11mln.
A further £1.2mln in share options is potentially due to the Cheltenham-headquartered business depending on its performance over the next couple of years.
Comapi specialises in ‘live chat’ and has built a software platform that allows clients to communicate directly with their customers via email, SMS and social messaging apps.
Dotdigital said the deal would make it the “most advanced platform” on the market and make it more relevant in the lucrative Asian market.
“By adding Comapi to our business, dotdigital is executing on its vision to be an omni-channel marketing automation platform,” said Dotdigital chief executive Milan Patel.
“Comapi has built an impressive platform that, integrated with our software, will allow our customers access to the next generation of consumer engagement marketing technology aiding retention and boosting our competitive advantage in securing new customers.”
Comapi generated underlying earnings (EBITDA) of £1.2mln in the year to December 2016, on revenues of £7.8mln. On completion of the deal, it will have a positive net asset position, Dotdigital said.
Good use of spare cash, says broker
“With the three organic routes to growth demonstrated ably with strong final results (and a particularly strong second half) revealed in October, dotDigital is now making best use of cash resources in acquiring further impetus to growth,” wrote finnCap analyst Andrew Darley.
“Comapi, acquired for £11m initial consideration with further deferred conditional consideration of £1.2m in shares over two years, provides omni channel messaging and cloud communication: this extends dotDigital’s platform, maintaining its market leading integrated functionality; allows a more personalised service for clients across multiple communications channels (email, SMS, twitter etc); and positions the group well for the Asian market, which remains mobile led.”
Darley has lifted his full-year underlying earnings forecast by 12% for 2018 and 14% for 2019, while the analyst has also upped his price target to 100p.
Shares were up 5.2% to 91.5p in late morning trade on Wednesday.
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Progress at bulk-email specialist dotDigital Group PLC (LON:DOTD) quickened in the second half of the financial year to the end of June.
Revenue was bang in line with market expectations at £32.0mln, up 19% from the previous year's top-line number of £26.9mln. Revenues outside of the group's home market of the UK grew by 48% and now represent 23% of total revenues.
READ: Dotdigital Group's interim CFO Phillip Blundell appointed as director
Profit before tax rose 30% to £8.1mln from £6.2mln the year before and was ahead of market expectations of £7.86mln.
Underlying earnings, or EBITDA, rose 26% to £10.1mln from £8.0mln the previous year.
Earnings per share rose 32% to 2.42p from 1.83p the year before, and were ahead of the consensus forecast of 2.24p.
Cash generation was strong during the financial year at £8.8mln, boosting the net cash position to £20.4mln at the end of June.
The full-year dividend has been hiked to 0.55p from 0.43p in the previous year; analysts had pencilled in 0.53p.
The new financial year has started well, with a further acceleration in international sales, giving the board added confidence the group will meet its ambitious growth targets.
With a well-stocked war-chest, the board now has a bigger focus on building an acquisition pipeline.
"H2 progress has accelerated to bring substantial and commendable growth across all regions. The first few months of the new financial year have started well and in line with plan,” said Milan Patel, chief executive officer of dotDigital.
“There has been an increase in the customer numbers that are being added across all regions to the platform compared to the previous year. The market outlook remains strong which puts us in a good position to capitalise on our strategy and the board remains confident about achieving our ambitious growth plans."
House broker finnCap said dotDigital was making progress on every front.
“Strong results from text book execution derive from delivery of the three strategic routes to growth: more partners, doubling the addressable market; increasing reach of successful operational territories, delivering 48% revenue growth outside the UK; and broader product functionality – leading to +24% spend per customer, from a growing stable of c. 4,000 active customers.” the broker said.
The strength of the balance sheet gives options as regards future growth, FinnCap said, with the acquisition pipeline hinted at by management one route to acceleration of product development or to the enhancement of organic growth in new territories through acquiring local presence.
The broker lifted its 12-month target price to 92p from 80p.
Shares in dotDigital were among the best performers early Tuesday , rising 8.2% to 79p.
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dotdigital Group PLC (LON:DOTD) said interim chief financial officer (CFO) Phillip Blundell has been appointed as a director of the company with immediate effect.
Blundell joined the company last week to oversee the finance and legal department, and to take some of the load off chief executive officer (CEO) Milan Patel, who over the last year has been fulfilling two roles: CFO and CEO.
Blundell has previously held CFO roles at Eagle Eye Solutions Group PLC (LON:EYE) and Intelligent Environments and has over 18 years' experience as a CFO, building strong software businesses through product innovation and global strategic partnerships, dotdigital said.
“His experiences and expertise in operational leadership will be very valuable as we continue to execute our strategy to pursue the expansion of our brand globally," Patel said.
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Bishop Steve
Third Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, consecrated on February 13th 2015
Stephen Lowe was born in Hokitika, the youngest child of Milly and Frank Lowe, with two older sisters Margaret and Dorothy.
He was educated at Hokitika Primary School, then St Mary’s Primary School and because there was no Catholic College in Hokitika he completed his secondary schooling at Westland High School.
Following school he worked for the NZ Forest Service in Hokitika and Christchurch and the NZ Timberlands in Timaru. During this time he became involved in his local parish in Timaru North where he was involved in a young adults group and with youth in the parish. In 1989 he discerned the call to priesthood and entered Holy Cross College seminary in Mosgiel in 1990. He completed his final year of seminary study at St Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia during 1994-1995. Bishop-Elect Stephen Lowe was ordained as a priest for the Diocese of Christchurch in his home town at Hokitika in 1996.
He served as the assistant priest in Mairehau, Ashburton and Greymouth parishes before being appointed parish priest of Timaru North. From 2005-2007 he completed a Licence in Spiritual Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was appointed to Holy Cross Seminary in 2008 where he served as Formation Director until end of 2014. While based at the Seminary in Auckland, he served, for a time, as Parish Priest of Ponsonby.
The Lord is My Shepherd
The shield incorporates three principle dimensions of the life of Christ which are the doorway for us to grow in our spiritual life of Christ.
The wheat offers a rich symbol of the incarnation of Christ, his birth and his presence among us as one of us. As the wheat grows and ripens by the light and the warmth of the sun, so too the seed of faith sown in us grows and bears fruit by the light of Christ.
Surrounding the wheat the stars of Southern Cross remind us of the Paschal Mystery, Jesus’ death and resurrection. By imitating Jesus’ kenosis, his self-emptying, we die to self and rise to new life in him. It is this process of sharing the life, death and resurrection of the Lord that allows the mystery of His life to penetrate our lives.
The end of the Christian life is becoming one with the Holy Trinity and each other in the glory of heaven. We have a foretaste of this mystery of communio when we celebrate the Eucharist and this is symbolised with the white Host at the centre of the sheaf of wheat. It is marked with the letters, IHS, Iesus Hominum Salvator , "Jesus, Saviour of humanity", which is taken from the shield of Pope Francis who appointed Bishop Steve.
Above the shield is the abbatial cross of Blessed Columba Marmion who is a relation of Bishop Steve and from whom he was given his middle name.
In all these three dimensions of the spiritual life Jesus is our Shepherd who leads us, who calls us by names so that we might have life, life to the full.
To contact Bishop Steve, please email his PA Shona Richards at shonar@cdh.org.nz
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SongVest to Auction the Royalties of Soul Plane Theme Performed by Snoop Dogg and La Tolya Williams
SongVest's next auction will feature the theme to the movie Soul Plane where fans can bid on the royalties from Heavy Harmony Music. Auction ends June 18th 2011 at SongVest.com.
Soul Plane and SongVest
Snoop Dogg and Soul Plane fans will never get an opportunity like this.
Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) May 25, 2011
SongVest, the company that reinvented the music business by offering the ultimate fan collectable -- the songs themselves -- has announced their next auction will feature Snoop Dog title track in the movie Soul Plane.
Bidders on the auction will have the opportunity to bid on 25% or 1% units of the song’s royalty stream. The winners of the auction will receive a one of a kind award plaque or certificate, and share in a percentage of the royalties generated by the song.
Soul Plane, a comedy starring Tom Arnold and Kevin Hart, was released by MGM in 2004. The film also received much recognition for it’s large cast of musicians including Snoop Dogg, Method Man, Mo’Nique, Lil Jon and The Ying Yang Twins. 14-time Grammy nominated artist Snoop Dogg.
Rhonda Bedikian, CEO of Heavy Harmony Music, is the seller of the song. Heavy Harmony Music has dealt with numerous songs in the music industry including Hanson, Skip Scarborough and currently Ralph Johnson of Earth, Wind and Fire.
The auction will begin on June 11 at 12:00 p.m. and end on June 18 at 3:00 p.m. Fans can register now at http://www.songvest.com/.
Since 2007, SongVest has offered music fans, collectors, and investors the unique opportunity to share the royalties with the writers of their favorite music. Past auctions have included the rights to songs recorded by Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Carrie Underwood, Ringo Starr, Ozzy Osbourne, and The Monkees.
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Meat industry organizations say WHO report is baloney
October 26, 2015 by Diana Bradley and Lindsay Stein
Food industry groups said Monday that there is no scientific evidence to link meats such as bacon and hot dogs to cancer.
NEW YORK: Meat industry organizations are turning up the heat on a report released by the World Health Organization on Monday that claims processed meats such as bacon and hot dogs cause cancer.
The report placed processed meats in the same category of cancer risk as tobacco and asbestos. However, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which as part of the WHO set the classifications, explained in a Q&A that the list does not mean they are equally dangerous.
Meat organizations quickly contended on Monday that there is no scientific evidence to back up the WHO’s report.
"This has been a major overreach on the part of the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer," said Janet Riley, the North American Meat Institute’s SVP of public affairs. "There was no consensus in this vote and the abstract shows that the science is quite split, so their definitive statement is hard to reconcile with the actual science."
Although the Institute issued a statement on Friday, right after the WHO report leaked, Riley explained that Monday is the critical day for the group to make its case.
The organization has posted information and resources on its nutrition website, including videos and a Q&A, in response to the report.
"Industry groups are held to a higher standard of evidence," said Riley. "We have to prove very carefully everything we say, so everything we are saying is well referenced, footnoted, and the science is carefully catalogued."
NAMI has linked to its statements on Twitter, using infographics that illustrate the benefits of including meat in a balanced diet.
Red & processed meats are part of healthy, balanced diets the world over. Here's what you need to know https://t.co/fpLHynFkgX
— N. American Meat Ins (@MeatInstitute) October 26, 2015
The National Cattleman’s Beef Association has also communicated that science does not support the report’s opinion on a link between red meat and cancer.
The WHO report should be taken in context, concurred Christin Fernandez, director of media relations and public affairs at the National Restaurant Association.
"The findings look only at whether a substance could, under some circumstance and level, pose a cancer risk," she said, via email. "The determination also disregards the nutritional benefits of consuming meat. The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans includes the consumption of lean meat, including red meat and processed meat, as part of a healthy, balanced diet."
The National Pork Producers Council is pushing a similar message, emphasizing in its comms that the WHO’s conclusions were based on "relatively weak statistical associations from epidemiological studies that were not designed to show cause and effect."
The council’s director of communications, Dave Warner, also said that the WHO’s report is "questionable."
"There are studies throughout the spectrum on meat and cancer with some saying there is no link and some saying there is a link," Warner said. "But there is nothing definitive and therefore, we think that meat should remain a part of a healthful, balanced diet. Meat has a lot of vitamins and minerals that you can’t get in a plant-based diet."
The National Pork Producers Council has posted a press release to its website and is doing media interviews, but on social media it is focused on changing the conversation about bacon.
"A lot of the headlines have mentioned bacon causing cancer, but the report doesn’t specify bacon – it just talks about processed meat," he said. "Certainly bacon would be a processed meat, but it doesn’t say bacon will give you cancer."
The Council also tweeted a story on Monday about a 116-year-old woman who eats bacon daily.
World's oldest woman, 116, eats #bacon daily. https://t.co/UUNsbiGV1K
— NPPC (@NPPC) October 26, 2015
Warner said he wouldn’t call the headlines about bacon causing cancer false, but added that "if the news story is written by a good journalist, it will include the fact [as mentioned in the report] that the risk of getting cancer from processed foods is small – so there is no worry here."
American Association of Meat Processors outreach specialist Chris Young said it is important to note that only one agent out of 940 reviewed by the IARC was not found to pose some level of theoretical hazard. Meat was on the list of cancer-causing agents, along with sunlight, breathing air, alcohol, wood dust, and working the night shift.
"The thing I would encourage media to do is to look at all the items on that list," Young said. "Meat is a big deal and I understand that, but so is the air that we breathe. The findings are not comical, but it is almost like if you live here on Earth, something could cause cancer."
The American Association of Meat Processors was disappointed with the classification, but not completely surprised by it, Young said.
"They didn’t do a look at the overall science of everything and some of the nutrition-based [benefits], and studies that show no correlation between meat and cancer were left out," he said. "But we were not surprised because it seemed that some of the panelists [behind the decision] were already leaning one way or the other before it began."
Although Young said the report could harm the meat industry, he is not overly concerned.
"If people in general get to see the whole story, then I would hope long-term it is not going to impact the meat industry," he said.
Young added that, in order for the real story to be communicated, it is essential for meat industry organizations to stand with one voice. The American Association of Meat Processors is working with NAMI and other associations to get the same message out, he said.
Riley noted that she is reading a lot of skepticism on social media about the WHO report.
"We are seeing a lot of pushback and comments on stories, which is encouraging," said Riley. "I think consumers just can’t reconcile the message with their own personal experience and they are becoming more and more skeptical about diet and health news because it just seems to change week-to-week."
Brands let industry groups grill the report
Riley said that because this is not a brand-specific issue, rather a broader issue for the meat industry as a whole, he has advised brands to "feel free to refer calls to me."
When reached for comment by PRWeek, a number of food companies did just that.
Hormel Foods manager of external communications Rick Williamson said via email that the company’s health, science, and wellness advisory council will review the WHO report with its scientists and nutrition experts.
It added that Hormel’s experts "also understand that this report did not look at the benefits of meat consumption."
Williamson listed nutrients contained in meat, such as high levels of protein, amino acids, vitamins B1, B6, and B12, and riboflavin.
"North American experts say the best way to stay healthy and reduce the risk of cancer is to eat a balanced diet, maintain a healthy body weight, get plenty of exercise, and avoid tobacco," he added in the statement. "Meat is an essential component of this balanced diet, and Americans, on average, currently consume meat at recommended dietary levels."
For more information on behalf of the industry, Williamson referred to the North American Meat Institute.
Tyson Foods, which owns and operates brands such as Jimmy Dean, Ball Park, and Hillshire Brands, also deferred comment to the Institute.
As of Monday afternoon, Hormel and Tyson had not posted any information about the report on social media.
Representatives from Arby’s, Oscar Mayer, and Jack Link’s Jerky were not immediately available for comment.
Health-related government organizations such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the office of US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy had not posted statements about the report on social media as of press time.
An HHS spokesperson said Monday that it had not yet fully reviewed the report, but that the department and the US Department of Agriculture are considering various data and public comment as the federal government develops dietary guidelines for Americans for 2015.
The spokesperson also noted that its 2010 dietary guidelines recommended a healthy eating pattern of a range of foods.
The IARC also sought to clear the air on Monday about what exactly it was saying. It posted a Q&A on its website – though the portal was inaccessible as of press time – and on Twitter clarifying that while meat was placed in the same category as smoking and asbestos, that does not mean the risks are equal.
Q: Does it mean consumption of processed meat is as carcinogenic as tobacco smoking and asbestos? pic.twitter.com/yCYl6eKEEG
— WHO (@WHO) October 26, 2015
This story was updated on October 27 with quotes from an HHS spokesperson.
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Puerto Rican Students Win Major Victory
Tricksters and Their Opposite
By Herbert Kohl
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After a two-month strike at all 11 campuses of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), students won the most impressive victory in the history of the university—and one of the most heartening in the current fight for public education. In June, the Board of Regents was forced to agree to the central demands of the students: the continuation of a variety of tuition waivers, the cancellation of a 50 percent fee hike, the rejection of initiatives to privatize the university, and amnesty for everyone involved in the strike.
The strike began April 21 as an occupation at the main Río Piedras campus when the university president refused to budge on student demands to continue the tuition waivers, say no to privatization, and restore $100 million in budget cuts. Students camped inside the university’s gated fence and stormed the gates from within early in the morning, overwhelming the surprised security guards. Within a week, all 11 campuses were on strike. Shortly after the occupation began, unions and community groups that ordinarily protest the governor’s yearly budget address at the capitol building instead assembled outside the Río Piedras campus main gate—to show their solidarity with the students. Support for the strike was also strong among faculty, staff, parents, and the community.
A Culture of Resistance
From the beginning, artistic expression was central to
the protest. Students participated in street theater, mass bench-painting campaigns, puppet-making workshops, poetry, and musical gatherings. Students at several campuses broadcast “radiohuelgas” (strike radio). One student commented, “The strike hasn’t closed the university; rather it has given it life.” Many classes continued to meet outside university grounds or over the internet.
“The 2010 student strike shines because of its particularities,” wrote blogger Nahomi Galindo-Malavé last May. “For the first time in history there is a systemwide strike, and everyone shouts—every time they can—‘11 campuses, one UPR.’”
UPR has a long history of student strikes, but many activists say this is the most successful, both for its immediate results and because of its success in organizing and integrating large numbers of students in the process. According to Galindo-Malavé, although women were not a majority on the national negotiating committee, “the strike has a woman’s face. They are the main organizers on the campuses.” This is also the first time there was a visible presence of lesbian/gay/genderqueer activists. Rainbow flags were flown from the beginning of the occupations, the strikers celebrated the International Day Against Homophobia in May, and a gay rights organization served on the negotiating committee.
The strike was able to generate broad sympathy among students, the community, and even much of the media, partly because of the unpopularity of the current right-wing government in Puerto Rico. But, according to the website La más mínima diferencia/the slightest difference, the most critical elements to the strike’s success were the commitment to broad, democratic participation of many different political perspectives, and years of organizing on the campuses following an unsuccessful strike in 2005. In that case, students were angry enough to vote to strike, but grassroots organizations weren’t strong enough to provide a structure for organizing to win.
The Government Strikes Back
Only two weeks after the students’ victory, the government retaliated. First, Puerto Rican Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz expelled all journalists from the senate session. Then the police, including the anti-riot squad, attacked demonstrators and journalists in front of the capitol building. Once no one was around to watch, the legislature approved a new measure that eliminates student assemblies and substitutes an internet voting system. “I don’t think there is any doubt that the intention of this government is to set back civil rights,” Judith Berkan, law professor at UPR and InterAmerican University in San Juan, told Maritza Stanchich of the Huffington Post. Another clear intention was to break the back of the student movement.
The struggle to save accessible higher education in Puerto Rico, fought in the context of the worst economic crisis the island has faced since the 1930s, will clearly continue. The students say they’re ready. “We may not hold the power but we have the willpower,” law student Aníbal Núñez told Stanchich. “And given the choice, I prefer the latter.”n
Written by Jody Sokolower, policy and production editor of Rethinking Schools
Galindo-Malavé, Nahomi. “Una Huelga Particular.” La más mínima diferencia/the slightest difference. May 26, 2010. www.jalaguarta.com.
Stanchich, Maritza . “University of Puerto Rico Student Strike Victory Unleashes Brutal Civil Rights Backlash.” The Huffington Post. July 4, 2010. www.huffingtonpost.com/maritza-sanchich-phd/university-of-puerto-rico_b_635090.html.
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February 10, 2007 / 8:40 AM / in 12 years
Korea pop star Rain learns to yodel for film debut
Mike Collett-White
BERLIN (Reuters) - South Korean pop star Rain not only learned to act for his film debut.
He also spent three months practicing table tennis for scenes in the off-the-wall comedy “I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK” and having voice coaching in order to be able to yodel.
The 24-year-old heartthrob, dubbed Asia’s answer to Justin Timberlake, said he was pleased with his performance as a young man in an asylum who tries to rescue a fellow patient from the brink of death, and he plans to do more acting in the future.
“I love films and I want to continue working as an actor,” he told reporters late on Friday after a screening of the film, which is in the main competition at the Berlin film festival.
“If I’m offered something (in movies) I would most probably accept it.”
Made by revered director Park Chan-wook, the romantic comedy provided light relief in a selection of largely serious films that is typical for the hard-hitting Berlinale.
Rain, also known as Jeong Ji-hoon, found it liberating to play a quirky character far removed from his slick stage image.
“A lot of people were quite surprised when I took on this part, because the character is a bit loony,” he said, speaking through a translator.
“For me it was a transition, because I could move away from the image I have and become a real actor.”
Rain, who has sold millions of records across Asia and has made it his stated aim to crack the notoriously difficult U.S. market, did some unusual training for his role that more established method actors would be proud of.
“Yes, that was me yodeling in the film,” he assured journalists. “The character I play is someone who can steal others’ characteristics and skills, so he steals the ability to play table tennis.
“It took me three months of private lessons to play table tennis ... That (yodeling) was new for me, and I took private lessons and again I had to practice for about three months.”
For Park, “I’m a Cyborg” was a welcome change after his last film, the dark and violent “Sympathy For Lady Vengeance.”
There are scenes of killing in the comedy, but Park argues they are so heavily stylized and obviously hallucinations of a woman who thinks she is a robot that they are not disturbing.
He also has a serious point to make with “I’m a Cyborg,” which he says addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all - why do I exist?
Park said the lead character, played by Lim Soo-jung, looks at machines with envy, to the point of wanting to become one, precisely because they had a clearly defined purpose.
He also sought to shrug off mediocre box office returns at home for “I’m a Cyborg,” which he had expected to be his biggest hit so far.
“If one or two million people see this film, if you think about it that’s something quite magnificent,” he said. “When I think about that it consoles me.”
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India raises import tariffs, taxes on the super rich as it seeks growth
Manoj Kumar, Aftab Ahmed, Mayank Bhardwaj
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India raised import tariffs on nearly 75 items including gold and automobile parts in its budget on Friday and increased taxes on the rich to help pay for recapitalizing banks and supporting small business in a bid to revive sagging growth.
India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives to present the 2019 budget in Parliament, New Delhi, India July 5, 2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Aiming to restart investment that’s at its weakest level in years, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government also proposed giving foreign investors a bigger role in India’s giant insurance and aviation sectors, which have been tightly controlled for decades.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled the proposals while presenting to parliament the budget for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020, the first since the Hindu nationalist-led government was re-elected in a vote spanning April and May.
Modi, boosted by his election victory, has set a target of growing India into a $5 trillion economy by 2024/2025 from $2.7 trillion. A government report on Thursday said this will be done on the back of higher investment, savings and exports in the way China’s growth was propelled.
“This budget is setting out a vision, a target, for every sector of our society,” Sitharaman said to the thumping of desks in parliament.
GDP growth slumped to 5.8% in January-March, the lowest in 20 quarters. Growth for the last fiscal year, at 6.8%, was also a five-year low. All important indicators of economic activity, like the dipping index of industrial production and plummeting automobile sales, confirmed the slowdown.
India's annual economic growth: tmsnrt.rs/2UcxL26
But the government did not announce a big jump in public spending, contrary to expectations. Sitharaman said the fiscal deficit for this financial year would be trimmed to 3.3% of GDP - which analysts said was likely based on ambitious expectations of higher tax collections.
“Commitment to restrict fiscal deficit at 3.30% compared to 3.40% is a good intent, but we need to look at the revenue assumptions more closely to draw more comfort,” said Joseph Thomas, head of research, Embay Wealth Management in Mumbai.
Capital Economics is skeptical about the deficit target. “The fiscal maths don’t add up,” it said.
India pegs 2019/20 fiscal deficit target at 3.3% of GDP: tmsnrt.rs/2Iu3bxD
TAXES ON SUPER-RICH
Sitharaman raised import duties on gold and other precious metals to 12.5% from 10%, and levied an import tax of one rupee per tonne on crude oil to boost federal revenue just as global oil prices have softened from their highs.
The government also increased local levies on a liter of petrol and diesel by two rupees each, stoking fears of inflation.
The finance minister said the government would provide state-owned banks 700 billion Indian rupees ($10.23 billion) of additional capital that are laden with bad debt which has affected their ability to lend and also spur economic growth. Indian banks and financial institutions, in all, hold bad debt of over 10 trillion rupees.
The government raised income tax surcharge on people with an annual income of more than 20 million rupees who make up the top end of Indian society.
Instant View: India proposes opening up insurance, aviation wider to help revive growth
Highlights: India unveils budget aimed at boosting infrastructure and foreign investment
Currently, India imposes a 10% surcharge where total income is between 5 million rupees and 10 million, and 15% on income above 10 million rupees.
The new rate will include 25% surcharge on income between 20 million and 50 million rupees, and 37% on income exceeding 50 million rupees a years.
“This budget is a mixed bag with a significant increase in taxation for the wealthy. Also, the increase in excise duty for petrol and diesel will stoke inflation,” said Abhimanyu Sofa, head of research at IIFL Securities Ltd.
Sitharaman cut corporate tax rates to 25% from 30% for companies with an annual turnover of up to 4 billion rupees, from current ceiling of 2.5 billion rupees.
But there was no move forward on the government’s long-time goal of across-the-board cutting of corporate taxes - now about 35% - to make India more competitive with other countries. In 2018, average corporate tax was 25% in China and Indonesia, 24% in Malaysia and 20% in Thailand, according to KPMG.
FOREIGN ROLE IN INSURANCE, RETAIL
The government said 100% foreign ownership will be permitted for insurance intermediaries and local sourcing norms will be eased for FDI in retailers selling a single brand.
India currently allows foreign direct investment in single-brand retail but mandates investors to source locally 30 percent of the value of good purchased.
At present, India allows 49% foreign ownership through the automatic route in the insurance sector, which is worth billions of dollars and has been tightly controlled for decades for fear of a backlash from the unions.
“It is high time India gets fully integrated into the global value chain of production of goods and services but also becomes part of the global financial system to mobilize global savings mostly institutional in insurance, pension, and sovereign wealth funds,” Sitharaman said.
But economists say scaling up Asia’s third largest economy in rapid fashion will need bold reforms including freeing up land and labor markets, which Modi shied away from in his first term for fear of political backlash.
Capital Economics said in a note that reaching that target “is dependent in large part on achieving real GDP growth of 8% a year, which we think is unlikely.”
Land and labor reforms are difficult in a democracy like India and it seems unlikely Modi will risk drawing the ire of his Bharatiya Janata Party voters that gave him a huge re-election mandate.
Sitharaman set an ambitious target of sale of stakes in state-run companies to 1.05 trillion rupees ($15.33 billion) from 850 billion rupees raised in the previous fiscal year.
A plan to sell the national carrier Air India has failed for lack of buyers and in the last couple of years the government has reached its target by selling its shares in one state-run firm to another in a sleight of hand.
Indian shares fell on Friday as Sitharaman proposed increasing the minimum public shareholding in listed companies to 35% from 25%, threatening a wave of new issuance.
But bonds and the rupee firmed after the government trimmed this year’s fiscal deficit target and said some of its borrowing would be made offshore.
India's divestment dilemma: tmsnrt.rs/2FSkjLC
Additional reporting by Mayank Bharadwaj and New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru bureaus; Writing by Sanjeev Miglani; Editing by Richard Borsuk
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China To Help Build Pakistani Power Line
Pakistani workers complete a high-voltage power pole in Rawalpindi. (file photo)
A Chinese state firm will help build a power line across Pakistan in a project valued at $1.5 billion, the latest Chinese investment in its South Asian neighbor.
The 4,000-megawatt power transmission line will be the first of its kind in Pakistan, according to the Pakistani government. It will link Matiari in the south, near a new power station, to Lahore in the east.
An agreement on the deal was signed on December 30 in Beijing between Mohammad Younus Dagha, Pakistan's secretary of water and power, and Shu Yinbiao, chairman of State Grid Corporation of China.
Pakistan has been plagued by a shortage of electricity for years, with widespread rolling blackouts in both rural and urban areas.
The project is the latest in a series of big Chinese investments, most of which fall under a planned $55 billion worth of projects for a China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Based on reporting by AFP and Reuters
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Why I Write Military Heroines
Nov 4 2017, 9:35 am in extraordinary women, Military heroines, Military Romance
I’m often asked why write military heroines? My question is: why don’t we have more books with military heroines? I feel like the women in the service of their countries are under appreciated.
Well, I come from a family, who over the years, have served in every branch of the service in every conflict since WWI. I have ancestors who served in British conflicts back to the early 1800’s. Two great, great, great, great uncles were in the Charge of the Light Brigade. Thomas Dunn, a corporal, and Alexander James Dunn, a lieutenant were members of the 11th Hussars, a British Army unit. Lieutenant Dunn was killed in the battle. Corporal Dunn was one of the fabled survivors.
I have stories of family in WWI but no proof. SO, fast forward to the next war to end all wars and I have many, many relatives who served. Some weren’t even in the military. Half of my family lives in Florida. Have since around the early 1900s. An uncle owned several shrimp boats. One day, after the start of WWII, some scary guys in suits and uniforms showed up and said his boats were needed to protect the east coast from U-boats. There was no please. No thank you. No payment. All his boats were taken and he never got them back. I take that back he got as couple back in such bad repair they were useless. He never complained. He was proud he could help.
My daddy trained Coast Guard recruits in Florida and Washington State, and patrolled in the North Atlantic riding shotgun for convoys.
Another Uncle was a Navy ace in that war and in Korea.
One uncle, on the other side of my family, was home in December 1941 for 30 days of leave before he was to report to his next duty. His next duty? The USS Arizona in Hawaii.
My husband’s uncle served in Germany.
Hubs was a Marine and served in Vietnam.
One son was with the first Marines into Bagdad in the Iraq war.
There are many others but I think you get the point. The military in is my DNA.
George Washington credits winning the war against England to six colonial spies who risked their lives to bring him information. One of them was a woman whose name has never been discovered.
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is the only woman to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor for her efforts during the Civil War. Her name was deleted from the Medal of Honor Roll in 1917. She was asked to return the medal and refused, wearing it every day until she died.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll known as Madame X, an American cryptanalyst for the U.S. Navy during World War I was a brilliant code breaker.
During WWII over 1000 women in this country flew every type of military aircraft, ferrying them to military bases and departure points. They were test pilots and towed targets to give gunners training. Their service wasn’t recognized until the 70s.
Nancy Augusta Wake was a British agent who became a courier for the French Resistance. By 1943, Wake was the Gestapo’s most wanted person, with a 5 million-franc price on her head.
Rose Antonia Maria Valland was a French art historian, a member of the French Resistance, a captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. She secretly recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France. Remember the book and movie The Monument Men? That’s her.
I have a special place in my heart for the nurses who took care of those who fought in Vietnam. Read, The Trunk, in my new book Let Me Tell You A Story.
The person who is credited with finding the terrorist leader who ordered the 9/11 attacks (I refuse to say his name) is a woman.
So you can see why I wrote Under Fire, Under Fire: The Admiral, Point of No Return with extraordinary Military heroines. Women at the top of their field in a man’s world. They don’t want a man to take care of them they want a man who will accept them for who they are and stand shoulder to shoulder with them in their adventures.
Why I Write About Military Heroines
Nov 15 2016, 12:01 am in Military Romance, Militray Heroines, USCG, USMC, Vietnam Nurses
I write about extraordinary women and the men they love.
Military heroines.
Women at the top of their field in a man’s world. They don’t want a man to take care of them they want a man who will accept them for who they are and stand shoulder to shoulder with them in their adventures.
I’m frequently asked why my heroines are the ones in the military.
Let me begin by saying the military is in my DNA. I come from a family, who over the years, have served in every branch of the service in every conflict since WWI. I have ancestors who served in British conflicts back to the early 1800’s. Two great, great, great, great uncles were in the Charge of the Light Brigade. Thomas Dunn, a corporal, and Alexander James Dunn, a lieutenant were members of the 11th Hussars, a British Army unit. Lieutenant Dunn was killed in the battle. Corporal Dunn was one of the fabled survivors.
I have stories of family in WWI but no proof. SO, fast forward to the next war to end all wars and I have many, many relatives who served. Some weren’t even in the military. Half of my family lives in Florida. Have since around the early 1900s. An uncle owned several shrimp boats. One day, after the start of WWII, some scary guys in suits and uniforms showed up and said his boats were needed to protect the east coast from U-boats. There was no please. No thank you. No payment. All his boats were taken and he never got them back. I take that back he got a couple back in such bad repair they were useless. He never complained. He was proud he could help.
One uncle, on Daddy’s side of my family, was home in December 1941 for 30 days of leave before he was to report to his next duty. His next duty? The USS Arizona in Hawaii.
There are many others but I think you get the point.
Now that to that question why my heroines are in the military.
My question is: why don’t we have more books with military heroines? I feel like the women in the service of their countries are under appreciated.
I have a special place in my heart for the nurses who took care of those who fought in Vietnam. (Read, The Trunk, in my collection of short stories Let Me Tell You A Story)
In my first book, Under Fire, a Coast Guard helicopter pilot teams up with a DEA agent and launches a personal seek and destroy mission to find her brother’s killer. This thriller follows the two through the dangerous drug underworld, a fierce gun battle at sea and brings down a notorious drug lord.
In Under Fire: The Admiral, a Coast Guard officer and the doctor she is flying on medical missions in Ecuador are shot down off the coast by a drug cartel. She uses all her skills to get him home safely. While in the jungle, she is the doctor’s Guardian against danger and he becomes the guardian of her heart.
Point of No Return features a female Marine Corps Intelligence officer and a contract spy, investigating kidnappings of military children and mysterious deaths. As they navigate the murky political waters of the Pentagon, and private armies, it’s hard to know who’s lying to your face, and who’ll stab you in the back.
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Special Report: Extremism
Mayor's Response to Pride Day Violence is Disturbing
We need a Mayor who is a tireless, vocal, and thoughtful fighter for those who need and deserve support when it matters most.
By Graham Crawford
I voted for Fred Eisenberger in the last election. I donated money to his campaign. I've had the pleasure of his company over cups of coffee more than a few times. I've sought and listened to his perspectives on important topics affecting the current and future health of our city. I've found him to be well-informed, often quite candid, and a pleasure to talk with.
But - and you knew this was coming - I must share my sincere disappointment and frustration with how the Mayor of our City is handling the fallout from the Pride Day violence. I believe that Mayor Eisenberger has really let us down.
I say that as both an engaged resident of Hamilton, and as a gay man who has been involved directly over the past 40 years in the queer struggle against oppression, intolerance, and violence.
I know he wasn't present at the Pride Day festivities, but his response to the well-documented violence (statements and videos) this past Pride Day was both late in coming, and utterly generic when it did come. In fact, his statement was essentially a re-tread of a statement he made about anti-LGBTQ+ violence in 2018, promising to take actions then to ensure it never happened again.
On March 21, 2018, the Spectator reported:
Mayor Fred Eisenberger said it's up to council to be vocal about protecting all citizens from discrimination and racism. "There is no room in our city for any of that," he said.
Councillors unanimously passed a motion to explore "ways and means to mitigate the use of city parks and public places" by hate groups.
Not sure whatever came of that commitment, but given the regular Yellow Vest demonstrations, it looks like nothing happened.
Fast forward to June of 2019 when the Spectator reported:
In response to the weekend violence, Mayor Fred Eisenberger said "hate speech and acts of violence have no place in the City of Hamilton.
"We will be working with Hamilton police and our community partners to discuss what steps we can take together to ensure this never happens again."
Essentially the same words, 15 months apart. As if they were the product of some kind of generic apology generator app.
Then, as is often his preferred method, Fred chose to double down on his tone-deaf position. He now seems to support the version of the story offered by Police Chief Eric Girt that was first stated on CHML's Bill Kelly show, and later reported in the Spectator and on CBC Hamilton, that the response by the police would have been different had they felt welcomed by the Pride Day organizers.
A stunning admission, if you ask me.
In response to criticisms posted on Facebook and Twitter, Eisenberger characterized criticism of the police as a "false narrative". He seems to believe the HPS were there, and would have been there even sooner if they had not had their feelings hurt by Pride Day organizers who wouldn't permit the police to set up the recruitment booth they requested at the event.
Seriously? A recruitment booth? Surely, that has to go down as one of the most tone-deaf requests in the history of Pride Day. Do these people even bother to listen to, read, or reflect upon current events and on history?
I worry that it appears our Mayor has chosen the same "All Our Cops Are Tops" stance as the past Chair of the HPS Board, Lloyd Ferguson, who, when he was stepping down form his position, told the media he regretted the end of carding because it resulted in, "bad guys feeling good about carrying guns again." Thud.
Fred stubbornly chooses to raise the rainbow flag when the LGBTQ+ representatives on his Advisory Committee expressly asked him not to, choosing to ignore the detailed rationale provided by the advisory group, including the continued employment by the City of Hamilton of a nationally-known neo-Nazi in a sensitive IT position. He takes the flag raising to tout all the progress the City of Hamilton has made in support of gay rights.
The tangled City Hall Pride Flag is an apt metaphor for the City's complicated relationship with the LGBTQ+ community (RTH file photo)
Fred chooses to remain silent when the police publicize their first arrest, Cedar Hopperton, who was arrested for parole violations, but who is a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Choices matter. So does the sequence of those choices. In this case, the police arrest a member of the queer community while violent perpetrators remain free. Perpetrators for whom we have names, place of residence, video proof, and social media posts bragging about their violent acts.
I'm disappointed in my Mayor. I'm tired of the play-it-down-the-middle strategy I see from his office way too frequently on matters of huge social and civic importance, all wrapped in generic statements that ring hollow and add up to nothing.
On Monday, June 24, Fred told Nicole Martin, CHCH News reporter, that he would not be doing any further interviews on the Pride Day violence. Period. Silence is not what we need from our Mayor.
I don't know how long Fred wants to be Hamilton's Mayor. What I do know is I need a Mayor who is a tireless, vocal, and thoughtful fighter for those who need and deserve support when it matters most.
Come on Fred, it's time.
Graham Crawford was raised in Hamilton, moving to Toronto in 1980 where he spent 25 years as the owner of a successful management consulting firm that he sold in 2000. He retired and moved back to Hamilton in 2005 and became involved in heritage and neighbourhood issues. He opened Hamilton HIStory + HERitage on James North in 2007, a multi-media exhibition space (aka a storefront museum) celebrating the lives of the men and women who have helped to shape the City of Hamilton.
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New groove rules: One year on
Just under a year has passed since new groove Rules were made available as a Condition of Competition for the elite professional game, and this Condition is now applied on all of the major Tours. The majority of these organisations have their own testing equipment and are self-sufficient in their enforcement of the Condition.
“We are pleased at how smooth the introduction of the new Rules on the worldwide tours has been,” commented The R&A’s Director of Research and Testing, Dr Steve Otto. “Manufacturers, players and tournament officials have all been positive and pro-active in their approach to the new specifications, and this is reflected in the relatively incident-free transition we have seen over the last 12 months.”
R&A field-testing began at the S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe in August 2009, in preparation for the new groove specifications which were introduced at the elite level on 1 January 2010. Since then, The R&A has tested the grooves of over 7000 clubs belonging to more than 1000 players at 38 events worldwide.
Complex measurements in the Test CentreCrucially, the Equipment Standards team were on hand at those events where the Condition was being introduced for the first time, including IFQ Australasia; the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship on the European Tour; the Allianz Open on the Challenge Tour; the Telkom PGA Pro-Am on the Sunshine Tour; the Lalla Meryem Cup on the Ladies European Tour; the Asian Tour International; the Token Cup on the Japan Golf Tour; and the Okinawa Ladies Open on the Japan Ladies PGA Tour.
In July, the team also tested at three successive Major Championships, namely The Open, The Senior Open and the Women’s British Open. But not all of the workload has been in the field. Since August 2009, over 4000 samples of individual irons and wedges have been submitted and tested for conformance to the new Rules at The R&A’s offices in St Andrews.
The revised Rules are designed to enhance the benefits of accuracy by making playing from the rough a more challenging prospect. The change was the culmination of an extensive collaborative research project between The R&A and the USGA, which showed that the old grooves were allowing players to generate as much spin from the rough as they were from the fairway. The new groove specifications significantly increase the spin differential between shots hit from the fairway and those struck from the rough, by limiting groove volume and groove edge sharpness.
A highly magnified, computer-generated image of a grooveThe Rule limiting groove volume applies to all clubs, excluding drivers and putters. The limit on groove edge sharpness applies to clubs with loft greater than or equal to 25 degrees; generally a standard five-iron and above.
It is intended that the new Rules will be introduced as a Condition of Competition at top amateur level and in other professional events from 1 January 2014. There will be no need for club golfers to change their clubs until 2024 at the earliest and, as they purchase new models, they will make the transition naturally. The status of clubs in production prior to 2010 can be found on The R&A’s informational database, available here.
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Editors, attorneys join search for new director at Reporters Committee
Contact: Steering Committee Chairman Tony Mauro at tmauro@alm.com or Search Committee Chairman John C. Henry at johnchenry48@yahoo.com
A committee of distinguished journalists and attorneys has been named to conduct a national search for candidates for the executive director’s post at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, an opening created with the resignation of First Amendment advocate Lucy Dalglish.
“We have assembled a stellar group of journalism and legal professionals whose depth of knowledge and experience will insure that we find the right person to carry forward the traditions and mission of the committee,” said Tony Mauro, a National Law Journal reporter who chairs the Reporters Committee. “We are very grateful for their willingness to assist us in this important search.”
Directing the search is John C. Henry, a former news editor for The Associated Press in Washington. Henry chaired the Reporters Committee 13 years ago when Dalglish, then an attorney with the Dorsey & Whitney law firm in Minneapolis, was hired as executive director.
Dalglish is leaving the organization to become dean of the Philip Merrill School of Journalism at the University of Maryland on Aug. 1.
In addition to Mauro and Henry, members of the search committee include:
John Seigenthaler, chairman emeritus of The Tennessean and founder of the First Amendment Center
Dawn E. Garcia, deputy director of the Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University
Michael Getler, ombudsman for the Public Broadcasting System and former editor and reporter at The Washington Post
Hodding Carter, University of North Carolina professor and former Knight Foundation president
Sue Porter, vice president of the Scripps Howard Foundation
Sandy Rowe, former editor of The Oregonian and president of the Committee to Protect Journalists
Neil Lewis, director of the non-partisan Task Force on Detainee Treatment
Charles Tobin, partner at Holland & Knight LLP
Laura Handman, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
David Boardman, executive editor of the Seattle Times and member of the Reporters Committee Steering Committee
Saundra Torry, editorial writer at USA Today and member of the Reporters Committee Steering Committee
Lois Lloyd, business manager and senior staff member at the Reporters Committee
The group is seeking an attorney with journalism experience to oversee a 12-person staff in Arlington, Va., and coordinate legal assistance to journalists across the country. The executive director supervises production of legal briefs in key First Amendment and access cases, serves as a national spokesperson on free press and freedom of information issues, raises money to run the organization, and oversees the Reporters Committee digital and print initiatives.
Letters of interest — accompanied by a resume and the names and contact information for three references — can be sent to execdirsearch@rcfp.org. Deadline for applications is June 15.
To see the full job announcement, go to http://www.rcfp.org/about-us/jobs.
About the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Founded in 1970, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press offers free legal support to thousands of working journalists and media lawyers each year. It is a leader in the fight against persistent efforts by government officials to impede the release of public information, whether by withholding documents or threatening reporters with jail. In addition to its 24/7 Legal Defense Hotline, the Reporters Committee conducts cutting-edge legal research, publishes handbooks and guides on media law issues, files frequent friend-of-the-court legal briefs and offers challenging fellowships and internships for young lawyers and journalists. For more information, go to www.rcfp.org, or follow us on Twitter @rcfp.
Bruce D. Brown is the new executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
New Reporters Committee mobile apps offer legal info, reporting tools for top hotline topics
Jenn Topper joins Reporters Committee as communications director
Reporters Committee partners with INN as a media law resource for non-profit news organizations
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Discover the Joy of Computing
Nick Bergson-Shilcock Nov 30, 2018
We’ve just launched Joy of Computing, a site where you’ll find one new link to a technical project posted each day.1 Everything on the site is made and submitted by Recursers.
Over time, we hope to grow the site into a destination for finding fun, technical work. We aim to convey the full range of things people create during and after RC, from neat gists to ambitious projects, gifs of prototypes, stories of odd bugs, games, apps, computer-generated music and art, compilers, dev tools, electronic crafts, works-in-progress, and so much more.
There are over 1,300 members of the RC community in the world, and it’s nearly impossible to see all the neat stuff that they do during and after RC—even Recursers find it hard to stay up to date. We’ve also done a poor job so far of sharing Recursers’ work with the wider world. We think there are two reasons for this.
The first reason is that our priority has always been making RC a great place to grow as a programmer. For us, this means providing a space where people can feel like they belong, ask questions without fear, and focus on programming and learning with as few external distractions as possible. It is easier to build a space like this when everyone is there to learn, has committed to healthy social norms, and feels comfortable with each other. The side effect of this is that RC is a relatively closed community. It isn’t because we want to be exclusive, but rather the opposite: we’ve found this is the best way to make a genuinely inclusive environment.
But this comes at a significant price. It’s harder to let new people know about RC and even harder to let people see and experience what goes on here before applying and attending.
The second reason we’ve struggled to share what happens at RC is related to its structure. If RC had a curriculum and teachers that taught it, we’d have easy answers to the questions of what people learn here or what a typical day looks like. But we don’t have teachers or a curriculum, nor do we tell people what they must do at RC. Rather, Recursers decide for themselves what they want to accomplish and how to structure their time, and so the answers to what people do here or what a “typical day” looks like are as varied and diverse as the people who come to RC. This is what we mean when we say that RC is self-directed and community-driven.
With Joy of Computing we intend to share much more of what happens at RC publicly, in a way that’s in line with our community-driven structure and which doesn’t disrupt the experience of people attending RC.
You can think of Joy of Computing as a bit like a big group Tumblr. Any of the 1,300+ people in the RC community can submit their own or other Recursers’ work to the site. Each submission is reviewed by one other Recurser to make sure it’s appropriate for the site (in short: the work must be technical, open source, and made by a Recurser), and once approved it gets added to a queue of upcoming posts. Every morning the site randomly publishes one post, weighted by how long it’s been in the queue.
The site is in some ways a successor to Code Words, the quarterly publication of technical writing we shuttered in 2016. But unlike Code Words, Joy of Computing is designed to be truly community-driven, rather than carefully curated by RC faculty. It is meant to be serendipitous and a bit messy — just like RC. Additionally, we aim to reflect the diversity of work people do at RC, and not only the highly polished, long-form writing that Code Words featured.
Computing and joy
A lot of computing has felt grim recently, and rightfully so. Each day has brought a new reminder of Google and Facebook’s scandals and surveillance, and our industry’s broader failings. The world has realized that technology isn’t a panacea, and some of its effects are downright harmful. We as programmers must think carefully and deeply about the impact of our work, and change our behavior accordingly.
In a climate like this it’s easy to lose sight of the positive things that attracted many of us to programming in the first place. We hope Joy of Computing will serve as a healthy counterbalance to the news of the day, and remind you that there are still many good sides of computing and technology. Programming can be not only useful but also playful, intellectual, exciting, expressive, delightful, and humane.
We released the site privately to the RC community earlier this month ahead of our public launch today, which is why the site already has a number of posts.↩
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Kodaline Paint Outside the Lines in ‘One Day’
Artist Shiloh Smith creates a watercolor scene in new clip
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Irish rockers Kodaline muse about the passing of time in “One Day,” a song from the band’s debut album, In a Perfect World. In the new clip for the track, visual artist Shiloh Smith joins forces with their colorful words, creating a watercolor scene in time-lapse format.
Steady guitars build as singer Steve Garrigan’s melancholy croon bemoans relying on other people’s opinions for validation. The camera captures Smith’s paint-stained hands as they add life to a mountain scene with a couple seated in a parked car in the foreground.
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“In a superficial world, it’s easy to get lost sometimes; it’s important to stay true to yourself,” Garrigan tells Rolling Stone. “Don’t waste your life trying to be someone else. . . If you have a skeleton in your closet, you may as well make it dance,” Garrigan says.
Kodaline launched their first national headlining tour at the Austin City Limits Festival on October 6th, and are trekking across the country throughout November before kicking off a U.K. and European tour.
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Patrick, please come up, Patrick. Well, thank Virgimia, President Donald Trump. Thank you, Governor Justice. Thanks to this amazing crowd, for this very warm welcome.
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West Virginia values. Guys, you have a choice. If you vote for Patrick Morrisey, you will be electing a conservative fighter with a record of results, who will advance the Trump jobs agenda.
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Amen, brother. He abandoned your gun rights, supporting Obama's radical gun control. He abandoned your values on life, backing planned parenthood. Maxine Waters. He abandoned your paychecks when he said no to the Trump tax cuts. He abandoned you when he supports amnesty, and when he opposed Trump's border wall.
The one who loves to make u Wheeling West Virginia we're going to build that wall. We're gonna build that wall. But it gets worse, Joe Lves supported Hillary Clinton even after, hang on, even after she made clear, she wanted to take away our coal, our oil, and our gas jobs. Manchin Hillary Clinton. Shame on Joe Manchin. And that's why liberal Joe's gotta go. Now, when I'm in the Senate, we're going to have a different approach.
We're going to put West Virginia first. We're going to fight against all those unlawful and illegal regulations that hold that job creators. Like the Woman looking real sex Phoenix Mesa I defeated as your attorney general and the ones that President Trump is withdrawing. We're going to -- we're going to ignite the economy even more, we'll supercharge West Virginia. We'll make the Trump tax cuts permanent, and we're going to re-empower the people of The State of West Virginia with term limits to ooves Washington politicians accountable.
We'll stop the funding of Planned Parenthood and we'll take -- yeah, we will. United States Senate. And we're going to take back our West Virginia values and end the grunt grabs by the Liberals in Washington. And not insignificantly, we'll all stand for the national anthem.
Yo I need your help. We're getting a lot of support from President Trump, in fact, because of his last trip, we're basically even in the polls, but we have a lot more work to do against the wily ways of these Washington politicians. American health care. I need you to get involved. I need you to volunteer. I need you to go online, at patrickmorrisey. This race will likely decide the balance of power in the Senate, amen, brother, but remember those radicals in Washington, Schumer, Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and Joe Manchin, ooh, yes, they don't want to see our President succeed.
They want to obstruct just like they did this week against Judge Kavanaugh. Ladies and gentlemen, we must confirm, Judge Kavanaugh. It's time to join our team today, because Joe's got to go. He's got to go. It's my honor to stand with President Trump to fight for you.
Thank you very much. God bless you. God bless. West Virginia coal. Thank you, wow. Good job, Patrick. Thank you Patrick. Remember this, a vote for Patrick Morrissey is a vote to stand up for West Virginia values, right. A vote for Morrisey is a vote for me and for our agenda to make America great again or, as we will soon start saying, keep America great, right? Keep America. Keep America great. That will be our new theme very soon. I don't -- I don't want to switch yet, we're not even into two years, right?
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Policing the Home Front 1914-1918
The control of the British population at war, 1st Edition
By Mary Fraser
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The civilian police during the First World War in Great Britain were central to the control of the population at home. This book will show the detail and challenges of police work during the First World War and how this impacted on ordinary people’s daily lives. The aim is to tell the story of the police as they saw themselves through the pages of their best-known journal, The Police Review and Parade Gossip, in addition to a wide range of other published, archival and private sources.
"A very readable and informative piece of research on a neglected area of police history."
- Police History Society Newsletter 98
Chapter 2: The police before the Great War
Chapter 3: Controversies over the War Separation Allowance
Chapter 4: Policing alcohol
Chapter 5: The rise of women?
Chapter 6: Living costs
Chapter 7: Pensions and philanthropy
Chapter 8: Conscription and the police
Chapter 9: Policing sexual morality
Chapter 10: The Police as ploughmen and farm workers
Chapter 11: Flashpoints and tensions
Chapter 12: Youth crime
Chapter 13: The police and food control
Chapter 14: The corrupting effects of the cinema
Chapter 15: Conclusions to Policing the Home Front 1914-1918
Appendix 1: The work of Michal Foucault (1926-1984)
Mary Fraser was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government, University of Strathclyde, and has held public appointments in healthcare in both England and Scotland. She is the sole author of Using Conceptual Nursing in Practice: A Research-Based Approach published in 1990, which was reprinted in 1993; a second edition was published in 1996. She is also the author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles. She is currently an Associate of The Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research (SCCJR).
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The First World War is a subject of perennial interest to historians and is often regarded as a watershed event, marking the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the 'modern' industrial world. The sheer scale of the conflict and massive loss of life means that it is constantly being assessed and reassessed to examine its lasting military, political, sociological, industrial, cultural and economic impact. Reflecting the latest international scholarly research, the Routledge Studies in First World War History series provides a unique platform for the publication of monographs on all aspects of the Great War. Whilst the main thrust of the series is on the military aspects of the conflict, other related areas (including cultural, visual, literary, political and social) are also addressed. Books published are aimed primarily at a post-graduate academic audience, furthering exciting recent interpretations of the war, whilst still being accessible enough to appeal to a wider audience of educated lay readers.
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German Foreign Minister joins calls to withdraw US nukes from the country
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Germany’s top diplomat has backed the suggestion of Social Democrat (SPD) leader and Chancellor hopeful Martin Schulz, who has pledged to rid his country of US nukes. Washington, meanwhile, is pressing ahead to modernize its nuclear stockpile.
Sigmar Gabriel's remarks came at the end of his official visit to the US Wednesday.
“Certainly, I am convinced that it is important to finally talk again about the arms control and disarmament,” Gabriel told the DPA news agency, as quoted by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.
US nuclear arms should be removed from Germany – chancellor candidate
“That’s why I think that Martin Schulz's words that in the end we need to get rid of the nuclear weapons in our country, are right.”
Last week, Schulz, the SDP candidate for Chancellor, pledged to get rid of the US nukes if elected.
“As German Chancellor… I will champion for the withdrawal of the nuclear weapons stationed in Germany,” Schulz said in Trier addressing a campaign rally. “Trump wants nuclear armament. We reject it.”
There are some 20 US B61 nukes stored at the Buechel Air Base in Germany, according to estimates by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS).
The issue of US nuclear weapons storage on German soil has been raised by top officials in the past. In 2009, then-German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the B61 stockpile in Germany was a “military obsolete” and urged the US to remove the weapons.
Senior Russian officials have expressed similar attitudes toward the US' “Cold War relics” still deployed in Germany.
“American nuclear weapons in Germany are relics of the Cold War, for a long time they do not serve the implementation of any practical tasks and are subject to being thrown down the dustbin of history,” Sergey Nechayev, chief of the Russian foreign ministry’s department responsible for relations with Germany said in December 2016.
Nuclear desire: Does the new US B61-12 bomb make nukes more tempting to use?
The US, meanwhile, is upgrading its B61 bombs, some 200 of which are stored in Europe. The non-nuclear assembly of the new B61-12 modification was successfully tested for the second time earlier this month.
It is expected to have significantly expanded capabilities, which might raise the likelihood of it being unleashed, according to politicians and military experts. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump proposed a $1 trillion program to modernize America's nuclear arsenal, claiming the US had “fallen behind on nuclear weapon capacity.”
Earlier in August, Gabriel attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ruling party for following the “dictate” of Trump and wanting to “double Germany’s military spending.”
In March, the German Chancellor promised to do her best to increase spending on NATO, following Trump’s demand for member states to spend their “fair share” of 2 percent GDP on defense.
“As opposed to the times of the East-West confrontation, those conflicts and wars are far more difficult to foresee and manage,” Gabriel wrote in an op-ed for the Rheinische Post newspaper. “The question is: how do we respond? The answer by US President Donald Trump is to arm.”
“We have to spend more than €70 billion on arms per year upon Trump’s and Merkel’s will,” Gabriel wrote, adding that it would not improve the situation anywhere. “Every German soldier who is deployed overseas tells us that there’s no security and stability that can be reached through weapons or military force.”
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The Challenges of Being A Race Director
Carey Pinkowski talks about the challenges faced by this year's Chicago Marathon and what lies ahead for the future of the race.
By Jim Ferstle
It seems somehow fitting that Sunday's 30th running of the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon should present another challenge in this year of challenges for the event and its executive race director, Carey Pinkowski. The challenges began at the finish of last year's race when men's champion Robert Cheruiyot slid over the finish line, smacking his head hard against the pavement as he went down.
"I wish I had an explanation for what happened," said Pinkowski. "The 3M product that we used has had thousands and thousands of people run across it without anything like that. If you look at the pictures of the Boston finish, Robert ran across it in that race. It's a dependable product."
Pinkowski has viewed the videotape of the race many times, he said, searching for clues as to what might have happened, but found no answers. He said they plan to use the same product for this year's race because it does accomplish what they want in terms of brand identity for the sponsor. All the talk of lawsuits and repercussions from the fall are just that, talk, said Pinkowski. "Do you think he would be here if there was anything like that?"
The next challenge for Pinkowski and the marathon staff was dealing with a staple of business life these days, the sale of a company. The sale in this case being LaSalle Bank being purchased by Bank of America. Announcement of the sale came in April, said Pinkowski, but then there was a challenge to that by potential buyers who were involved in the purchase of LaSalle's parent company, Abn Amro. That was finally resolved with the sale to Bank of America going through and the deal finalized officially on Tuesday.
Bank of America's Illinois president John Brennan was at the opening press conference for this year's race to announce the Bank's commitment to continue the race. Norm Bobbins, chairman emeritus of LaSalle Bank, was also there to state that in the final year of the bank's sponsorship he was going to run the race. Well, not the full 26.2 miles, just the last leg of a five person LaSalle bank relay team.
It was Bobbins who bailed the event out back in 1992 when it faced an uncertain future, said Pinkowski. He joked at the opening press conference with Linda Somers Smith, who had noted that when she won in 1992, her winners check was for $7,500 as opposed to $125,000 for Sunday's winner.
"As I recall it took awhile for you to get paid," Pinkowski said. But you finally did." He turned to look at Bobbins. "Thank you Norm," he said, as the two shared a smile of mutual gratitude and appreciation.
Bobbins will be missed, Pinkowski said, but change is a constant in business today and the key is to maximize the benefits of your current situation. One of the challenges that faces the sport is visibility, and one of the keys to visibility in professional sports is how much money can be earned by the participants.
How much runners make is often shielded from public view because race organizations don't talk about everything a runner gets paid for participating in a race. In addition to prize money and time bonus money, and athlete will often get an appearance fee, plus additiona bonuses from his or her sponsors. All this can add up to a hefty payday. Haile Gebrselassie, for example, probably earned more than a million dollars for winning and breaking the world record in last month's, Berlin Marathon, Pinkowski said.
This doesn't compare to the $10 million annuity won by golfer Tiger Woods recently, but it does rank up there with individual tournament winnings by the top golfers. The way companies look at it, Pinkowski said, is that they look at their ROI or return on investment for the money they are spending. Golfers can schmooze with sponsors during pro am events prior to the tournament, providing added value to their participation, which to some companies justifies the money they spend on a golf tournament.
Running's major selling point is the authenticity of the elite runner's performances, Pinkowski says. "They put their heart and soul into their performances. "They always give 110%. If you're looking for pure competition, pure sacrifice (you'll find it in running)."
The sports' promoters have to find a way to package that product and market it to the big ticket sponsors. Like most things today, running is a global. The top athletes come from all parts of the globe. The challenge in this at times is to get the athletes to understand that they must do their part to sell the sport. The performance has a certain value, but an athlete can also market and sell personality and creating a connection to those watching the event.
The World Marathon Majors was formed to address this and other issues, and it is approaching the end of its first championship cycle. The WMM have succeeded in gaining more attention to the sport, but there are still more challenges ahead, a lot more things they want and need to do. Pinkowski was hired by LaSalle to direct the event and his contract runs through 2012. He hopes that by then many of these challenges will have been met, and he knows that many more challenges will remain.
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Amanda Fazzalari, M.D - General Surgery Saba 2016 Graduate
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From Canada originally, Amanda had plans throughout her childhood to become a ballerina and came around to the idea of medicine later in her teens. An Honors graduate in Health Sciences at Brock University, Amanda wasn’t sure what to expect going to medical school, having no doctors in her family, other than that she would have to work hard. “I knew that I would succeed if I put in the work, but Saba gave me the opportunity to excel. I think the competitive environment in combination with the supportive friendships I made was why I did well. I was really pushed to operate at a level that I hadn’t yet reached before.”
The Saba environment was much to her liking. “My class was particularly close knit, and to this day some of my very best friends are from Saba. There are 6 of us in particular who talk almost every day. We are in different residencies, in different states, but we visit each other and have been lucky enough to share each other’s successes and celebrations through the year. They really are family.”
Amanda decided she wanted to become surgeon early on in her clinical training, having started her rotations with her surgery clerkship at Saint Mary’s Hospital. “I spent 12 weeks just totally immersed in the day-to-day grind of the surgical world: rounds, OR, procedures, rounds… I didn’t really think about whether I liked it or not, I just did… And then when it was all over, I realized it was what I needed to do. I was fortunate to do my Sub-Internship in Surgery at Saint Mary’s Hospital and ultimately match there. My first clerkship director who encouraged me to consider surgery in the first place, in my is now my program director and my boss.”
Now in her surgical residency, Amanda’s interests in Public Health lead her to her current position as a Research Scholar at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is working alongside faculty members to investigate disparities in access to surgery and outcomes from emergency surgeries, based on insurance type. “The ultimate goal is to identify any disparities that exist, and advocate for either local practice changes or legislative changes that would close these gaps and improve equal access to and delivery of surgical care.” She is also participating in continuing hibernation projects at UMass which are in collaboration with several other institutions, investigating anticoagulation in hibernating black bears. “The thought is that if we can understand and explain why the hibernating black bear doesn’t get blood clots during hibernation, we can improve treatment of patients who experience blood clots after surgery.’
Amanda has recently decided that after her general surgery residency, she will pursue training in plastic surgery. “Plastic surgery is most appealing to me as it combines artistry and innovation. There is enormous variety, as plastic surgeons treat conditions resulting from various etiologies, whether they be traumatic, congenital, or due to disfiguring cancers. Ultimately, plastic surgery allows patients to experience transformations that are not only cosmetic, but overall improve function and quality of life. Each patient’s problem must be understood and taken on with an individualized approach and a meticulous attention to detail. Also, a significant proportion of plastic surgeons are interested in Global Surgery, since the access to reconstructive surgeons and the need for reconstructive surgery may also be greater in low and middle-income countries. Global Surgery has always been a passion of mine, and learning that so many people in plastics had a similar interest was what actually initially drew me to the field.”
In March 2018, she joined a team of approximately 25 volunteers, on their SaveSmile trip to Sudan. A team of plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, pediatric internists, emergency physicians, residents and other volunteers traveled to Khartoum, Sudan for a week long surgical mission to repair cleft lips. Cleft lip and palate represent an important functional problem, that impairs speech and ability to eat and drink. Children may be malnourished as a result and also suffer recurrent respiratory infections due to aspirations. Both children and adults suffer from the stigma associated with cleft lip, and sometimes this may prevent them from going to school, gaining employment and overall social acceptance. Amanda was part of a team that performed approximately 25-40 cleft lip repairs per day, and nearly 200 cases in 5 days. “This was the groups 9th consecutive year travelling to Sudan, where there is a significant shortage of plastic surgeons, and where there are significant barriers to access to plastic surgery. Many people live in remote areas and without resources for transport or travel. They travel far and wide for surgery and seeing them smile, happily and proudly after surgery, was such a wonderful experience.” She is looking forward to participating again this year with the group as they return to Sudan for their 10th SaveSmile.
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Special Church Events
• Tribute Quartet, a southern gospel ensemble based in Nashville, will be in concert at 6 p.m. today at Ray Avenue Baptist Church, 2801 Ray. Founded by Gary Castro and Josh Singletary in 2006, the quartet also features Riley Harrison Clark and Anthony Davis. Free admission, offering will be taken. Information: 825-4220.
• CONCORDIA — North Central Kansas Teens for Christ will host David Meece in concert during this month's Teens for Christ Rally at 7 p.m. July 21 at the Brown Grand Theatre, 310 W. Sixth. Meece is a contemporary Christian singer, songwriter and pianist who had more than 30 Top 10 hits from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2008. Free admission, offering taken. Information: (785)243-1154 or ncktfc.com.
• The Mariners of Sunrise Presbyterian Church will have their 61st annual Ice Cream Social from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4 at the church, Roach and Beloit. For a donation of $5 for adult or child, those attending will get a bowl of either vanilla, chocolate or strawberry ice cream, a piece of cake and a drink. Sugar free vanilla ice cream also will be served. Tickets will be sold at the door, and carry-out will be available. Information: 823-6344.
— Special church event items may be sent by email to churchnews@salina.com or by mail to Church News, c/o Salina Journal, P.O. Box 740, Salina 67402-0740.
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Coast Lines, Aug. 19, 2016: Art Wine &…
Coast Lines, Aug. 19, 2016: Art Wine & Beer Festival this weekend
PUBLISHED: August 18, 2016 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 11, 2018 at 12:00 am
Art Wine & Beer Festival this weekend
The Scotts Valley Art, Wine and Beer Festival will take place this weekend at Skypark in Scotts Valley, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. There will be more than 100 artists, wineries, live music, micro-breweries and a family midway with a petting zoo.
Admission to the event is free.
New this year: Flavored margaritas, a human foosball court, and entertainment on three stages including local youth, dance troupes and martial arts demonstrations. Musical acts include: the Sada Springs Jug Band, Back to Nowhere Band, Aftershock, the Leftovers, the Coffis Brothers, the Joint Chiefs and the Coffee Zombie Collective.
Advance tasting kits are available at Brownpapertickets.com.
On Saturday, the festival will share the stage with the Cops N Rodders Car Show with more than 150 vintage cars, put on by the Scotts Valley Police Department, plus a K-9 demonstration and a helicopter visit. Sunday is ‘Bring Your Dog Day’ with a lookalike contest, costume contest and dog tricks contest.
West Marine store marks grand opening
West Marine will celebrate the grand opening of its new Santa Cruz test store from 5-8 p.m. Aug. 26 at the store, 2460 17th Ave.
A night of live entertainment, raffles and food trucks is part of Cruising For A Cause local charity fundraising event ($10) to support local nonprofits — Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Santa Cruz, Coastal Watershed Council, Grind Out Hunger, Jay Moriarty Foundation, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center, O’Neill Sea Odyssey, Pelagic Shark Research Foundation and The Last Plastic Straw. Ticket and raffle sales and 50 percent of West Marine’s Aug. 26 store sales, up to $10,000, will be split among the organizations.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at the store or at the door for $10. Information: 831-476-1800 or westmarine.com/santacruz.
Drilling work to close Alta Via Road
A section of Alta Via Road will be closed from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday to facilitate a drill rig for the geotechnical investigation work needed in the design of a retaining wall. The drilling for this work is expected to create some inconvenience for those living in this area, according to county public works director John Presleigh.
Traffic will not be allowed through the site. Questions: 831-454-2374.
Cannabis workshops to start Wednesday
Responding to concerns raised by cannabis cultivators, Santa Cruz County has eliminated requirements for detailed background information and Live Scan fingerprinting check for online cultivator registration, which opened Aug. 8 and will close Nov. 6 at Co.santa-cruz.ca.us/cannabislicensingoffice.aspx.
County analyst Melodye Serino said this information will be required for licensing, noting the forms can be used to gauge readiness to file for a cultivation license.
To assist cultivators, the county will hold five workshops to answer questions about the registration process. Dates are:
• 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, Board of Supervisors Chambers, 701 Ocean St., 5th floor, Santa Cruz.
• 3:30-5 p.m. Aug. 30, Agricultural Extension Auditorium, 1430 Freedom Blvd., Watsonville.
• 4:30-6 p.m. Sept. 1, Simpkins Family Swim Center, Community Room, 979 17th Ave., Santa Cruz.
• 4-5:30 p.m. Sept. 7, Felton Community Hall, 6191 Highway 9, Felton.
• 5:30-7 p.m. Sept. 21, Board of Supervisors Chambers, 701 Ocean St., 5th floor, Santa Cruz.
Warriors ‘select-a-seat’ event is Sunday
Santa Cruz Warriors fans will have the opportunity to select from the best remaining season ticket locations for the 2016-17 season in its Select-A-Seat event, beginning at 9 a.m. Sunday.
During the event between 9 and 11 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m., attendees will be able to view and take pictures with the 2015 Golden State Warriors’ Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy. The Warriors’ court will open for shoot-around for various prizes. One attendee will be eligible to win an autographed Stephen Curry jersey. NBA D-League Champion Head Coach Casey Hill will be available for a meet-and-greet from noon to 2 p.m.
In honor of the Warriors’ fifth season in Santa Cruz, all attendees purchasing four season tickets at the event will receive a fifth seat for free, with certain sections applying.
— Sentinel staff report
Setting it Straight
Santa Cruz City Council candidate Chris Krohn was a backer of past downtown and UC Santa Cruz bike lane addition projects. Information was wrong in a story on A1 Thursday.
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Nashville Superpickers
Johnny Paycheck
Lee Roy Parnell
b. William Clarence Phillips, 28 January 1936, Canton, North Carolina, USA. Phillips grew up in an area steeped in country music and learned guitar and began singing before leaving high school to work as an upholsterer. In 1955, he joined theOld Southern Jamboree on WMIL Miami and sang at local clubs, before moving to Nashville in 1957. He joined Cedarwood Publishing as a songwriter and soon gained attention when he penned Webb Pierce’s 1958 Top 10 country hit ‘Falling Back To You’. This success saw Phillips signed to Columbia Records and in 1959 and 1960, he registered his first two Top 30 hits with ‘Sawmill’ and ‘Georgia Town Blues’, both with Mel Tillis, and he appeared on the Grand Ole Opry. He joined Decca Records in 1963 and by 1971, had registered 12 more hits, the biggest being ‘Put It Off Until Tomorrow’ (1966) which, with Dolly Parton (the song’s co-writer) on harmony vocal, reached number 6. Other Top 10s included ‘The Company You Keep’ (1966), ‘The Words I’m Gonna Have To Eat’ and ‘Little Boy Sad’ (1969), the latter having previously been a 1961 pop hit for Johnny Burnette. During the 70s, he registered five more minor hits, when recording on the United Artists or Soundwaves label. From the early 70s, he began to work as part of the Kitty Wells - Johnny Wright Show, although continuing to make a few recordings as a solo artist. In 1995, he suffered a stroke and Wells, Wright and other country music friends played a charity show to raise money for him.
Southern Jamboree
Hear the Mountains Cry
His Very Best
Bill Phillips: Studio 102 Essentials
I've Loved You All over the World
Put It Off Until Tomorrow
Lyin' Eyes
I Can Stand It (As Long as She Can)
Fadin' In, Fadin' Out
There's a Honky Tonk Angel
Don't Let Me Cross Over
Words I'm Gonna Have to Eat
Wish My Baby Was Born
There's a Change in Me
Little Boy Sad
There's Been a Change in Me
Y'all Come Back Saloon
Darling Corey
Omie Wise
Lilac Bush and an Apple Tree
We Gave Birth to Passion
Roll On Mississippi
Coca-Cola Cowboy
John Michael Montgomery
Mickey Gilley
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By Judith Reeves-Stevens
(Part of Star Trek: The Original Series)
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At last! The long awaited novel featuring both famous crews of the Starship Enterprise in an epic adventure that spans time and space.
Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 are faced with their most challenging mission yet--rescuing renowned scientist Zefram Cochrane from captors who want to use his skills to conquer the galaxy.
Meanwhile, ninety-nine years in the future on the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, Picard must rescue an important and mysterious person whose safety is vital to the survival of the Federation.
As the two crews struggle to fulfill their missions, destiny draws them closer together until past and future merge--and the fate of each of the two legendary starships rests in the hands of the other vessel...
Judith Reeves-Stevens
Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens are the authors of more than thirty books, including numerous New York Times bestselling Star Trek novels. Their newest novel of suspense, Freefall, is a follow-up to their Los Angeles Times bestseller, Icefire, and is set against the political intrigue and historical conspiracy surrounding the next race to the Moon. In keeping with their interest in both the reality of space exploration and the science fiction that helps inspire it, in 2003 Judith and Garfield were invited to join a NASA Space Policy Workshop for the development of NASA's new goals as put forth in the agency's 2004 Vision for Space Exploration. Then, for the 2004 television season, the couple joined the writing staff of Star Trek: Enterprise as executive story editors. For more information, please visit Reeves-Stevens.com.
Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek (January 2003)
Fiction > Science Fiction > Alien Contact
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LONDON AS A MUSIC CITY
CLIENT: MAYOR OF LONDON
Sound Diplomacy has been working with the Greater London Authority (GLA) since 2015, with the objective of increasing London’s profile as a global music city.
What we did:
Worked on the development of the Mayor of London’s Music Board and the Night Time Commission, and acted as Secretariat to both, advising on music, music venue and night time economy policy.
Our work with the Night Time Commission saw the appointment of London’s Night Czar, a position we lobbied for, and we assisted in the development of the role's job description. We also produced her initial run of ‘Night Surgeries’.
Curated and produced a month of music, entitled Sounds Like London, featuring 500+ events, artists, venues across London, and built to celebrate London’s grassroots music scene. The inaugural campaign focussed on empowering women in music and supporting grassroots music venues. Partners included Airbnb, Boiler Room, Apple, Universal Music Group, Fabric, Southbank Centre, MTV and many others.
Project managed an extensive feasibility study into the creation, development, marketing and execution of a series of events for The Mayor of London and Greater London Authority, holding more than 150 meetings with senior stakeholders in the music industry, local boroughs and other organisations.
Assisted in the writing, researching and development of several Mayor Of London guides, handbooks, pamphlets, maps and policy documents, including:
Rescue Plan for London Grassroots Music Venues, October 2015
Rescue Plan Progress update, January 2017
Analysis of the impact of business rates revaluation on grassroots music venues in London, April 2017
Culture and the night time economy Supplementary Planning Guidance, April 2017
24 Hour London Vision, July 2017
Mayor creates first map of London’s music spaces, June 2018
Sound Diplomacy has worked with the Greater London Authority (GLA) since Autumn 2015, with the objective of increasing London’s profile as a global music city.
Working internally with the GLA, we helped to develop the role of a Night Czar for London. This role, currently held by Amy Lamé, is to champion London’s nightlife, including safeguarding venues across the city and working in partnership with the night time industries, local authorities, the Metropolitan Police, Transport for London and the public.
We also supported the development of a Night Time Commission to carry out research on London’s night time economy, and helped develop the London Music Board, to protect grassroots music venues and support London’s grassroots music scene.
On the public-facing side, we lobbied, conducted a feasibility study for, and delivered a Mayoral-led music campaign called Sounds Like London. The campaign was aimed at celebrating and marketing London’s outstanding music offer, as well as shining a light on some of the successes we’d achieved with the Night Czar and Music Board initiatives, including reversing the rate of grassroots music venue closures, working with the Met Police to scrap Form 696, and introducing the Agent Of Change principle within planning law.
Most recently, we delivered a study that aims to accurately map all of London’s music spaces. The map gives a full spectrum of music performance, recording and rehearsal spaces in London, highlighting the areas of threat, opportunity and growth.
London’s buzzing live music scene is world-renowned, having produced artists from Adele to Ed Sheeran, The Clash to The Rolling Stones. Grassroots venues are the foundation of our successful music industry. We’ve taken positive steps to address some of the challenges facing grassroots music venues, but there’s still much to be done.
— Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
Press and Links:
Information on the Mayor of London’s Music Board and Night Time Commission
Night Czar portal
An account of one of the Night Czar’s ‘Night Surgeries’
Sounds Like London campaign portal
The Londonist features Sounds Like London
Tagged: Cities & Governments, Music Cities, London, Tourism, Music Tourism
Newer PostMUSIC INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN CUBA
Older PostMUSIC. IT’S ALL PART OF THE MASTERPLAN.
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Haslam calls letter from Republicans a 'political stunt'
Updated: June 21, 2014, 2:32 p.m.
NASHVILLE (AP) — Gov. Bill Haslam’s office is dismissing as a “political stunt” a letter signed by 15 Republican lawmakers demanding the resignation of Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman.The letter dated Thursday cites complaints from school administrators, teachers and students about Huffman’s leadership style as his department implements a series of changes in K-12 education.“Commissioner Huffman has overstepped his authority and failed to serve in the best interest of the citizens of this state,” the letter said. “Anything short of his immediate removal will be unacceptable.”The lawmakers signing the letter are strongly identified with the tea party wing of the party — including Rep. Joe Carr of Murfreesboro, who is challenging incumbent Lamar Alexander for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in August.Many of the signatories were involved in a legislative effort earlier this year to thwart Haslam’s wishes by delaying the implementation of Common Core standards and related testing requirements.Haslam spokesman David Smith said the Republican governor is standing by Huffman.“The governor believes there is a more productive way to discuss something so significant than through a letter by a small group of legislators more interested in trying to get headlines than substance,” Smith said.
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Pirates capture Trinity Invite title on Sunday
SAN ANTONIO – The Southwestern University men's swimming & diving team cruised to a first-place finish in the Trinity Invite on Sunday.
The Pirates amassed 857.5 points, topping Texas-Permian Basin (688.5), Trinity (675.5), Wayland Baptist (634.5) and McMurry (187).
Southwestern was fueled by five first-place performances on the final day of competition.
Matt Sluss earned victories in the 200-yard IM (1:55.83) and the 200-yard freestyle (1:42.08).
Sluss combined with Simmon Belaineh, Michael Glover and Nathan Townsend to win the 400-yard freestyle relay with a mark of 3:06.99, which was less than half a second off the school-record pace that the same foursome set a year ago.
Belaineh, Glover, Sluss and Mickey Scarbrough also won the 400-yard medley relay with a time of 3:27.13.
Meanwhile, Glover posted a time of 46.93 to win the 100-yard freestyle.
The Pirates will return to action on January 8, 2016. Southwestern's first competition of the new year is a tri-meet in Pensacola, Fla., against West Florida and Birmingham-Southern.
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Up Close and Personal with Jupiter: A History of 9 Space Probes
By Calla Cofield 2016-06-28T11:15:01Z Science & Astronomy
An artist's rendering shows NASA's Juno spacecraft making one of its close passes over Jupiter. The probe is set to arrive at the gas giant planet on July 4.
(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech)
On July 4, 2016, the Juno probe is scheduled to reach Jupiter, and begin a campaign to get closer to the Jovian giant than any other spacecraft in history.
Including Juno, there have been nine space probes that have studied Jupiter up close. The first was Pioneer 10, which sailed past the striped giant in 1973. Here's a rundown of those nine missions, and what they have accomplished.
Most of the probes that studied Jupiter had multiple mission objectives — Pioneer 10 also studied the asteroid belt, and then flew past Jupiter to study more distant regions of the solar system. But Jupiter is the primary focus of the Juno mission. The probe will come closer to the top of Jupiter's colorful clouds than any probe before it, and after about 20 months of observation, Juno will end its mission by crashing into the gas giant. [Complete Coverage of the Juno Mission to Jupiter]
Pioneer 10
One of the things Pioneer 10 studied was the intense radiation that surrounds Jupiter. The massive planet has "the harshest radiation environment in the solar system," according to NASA. A strong magnetic field draws the radiation into a ring the shape of a doughnut around Jupiter, which poses a problem for visiting probes: Pioneer 10 fulfilled all of its Jupiter mission objectives except one, which failed because the radiation "triggered false commands" in the probe's electronics, according to NASA. In order to avoid the radiation, Juno will make more than 30 orbits that take it into the narrow space between Jupiter and the radiation doughnut. Launched in March 1972, Pioneer 10 lived up to its name by becoming the first space probe to ever cruise past the Jovian system. The spacecraft came to within 81,000 miles (130,365 kilometers) of the tops of the clouds that cover Jupiter.
Before its pass by Jupiter, Pioneer 10 studied the asteroid belt, and after the flyby it continued on a journey to exit the solar system. Its last message to Earth was received on Jan. 23, 2003. It carries a golden plaque that includes a map of Earth's location.
An artist's impression of the encounter between Pioneer 11 and Saturn.
(Image credit: NASA Ames)
Launched in April 1973, the Pioneer 11 spacecraft followed its sister satellite, Pioneer 10, through the asteroid belt and past Jupiter. It then became the first spacecraft to fly past Saturn, and discovered a previously unseen member of the planet's ring system, known as the "F ring."
Pioneer 11 came to within 26,569 miles (42,760 km) of Jupiter's cloud tops — three times closer than Pioneer 10. It also captured stunning images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and gathered information about the radiation belt around the planet, and it also carries a golden plaque with a map of Earth's location.
NASA lost contact with Pioneer 11 in 1995.
Voyager 1 & Voyager 2
The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes both flew past Jupiter in 1979, on their way out of the solar system. Represented here is Voyager 2's encounter with Jupiter.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL)
Voyager 1 left Earth in September 1977, and made its close approach of Jupiter in March 1979. It captured more than 18,000 images of the planet.
Voyager 1's sibling spacecraft, Voyager 2, launched earlier — on Aug. 20, 1977 — but reached Jupiter slightly later, in July 1979. Voyager 2's observations of the Jovian system revealed, among other things, the presence of active volcanos on Jupiter's moon Io. On Jupiter's moon Europa, Voyager 1 had imaged blurry streaks, which Voyager 2 was better able to resolve — they turned out to be massive cracks in the otherwise smooth, icy crust. The cracks indicate the presence of a subsurface ocean.
The Voyager 1 and 2 probes, like the sibling Pioneer probes before them, were built to study multiple objects and regions in the solar system, with the ultimate goal of leaving our planetary neighborhood. Unlike the Pioneer probes, scientists are still receiving data back from both Voyager probes, and Voyager 2 is NASA's longest-running mission. In recent years, the probes have revealed new information about the environment at the edge of the solar system and the interstellar space beyond.
An artist's impression of the Galileo probe's encounter with Jupiter. Galileo was the first probe to orbit the giant planet.
(Image credit: NASA)
Following the successful flybys of Jupiter by the Pioneer and Voyager probes, NASA launched a mission to orbit the giant planet. Named after Galileo Galilei, who first spied Jupiter's four largest moons through a telescope, the Galileo probe was launched in October 1989, and arrived at Jupiter in December 1995.
In addition to orbiting the planet, Galileo dropped a probe onto the gaseous planet to measure things such as temperature, wind speed and atmospheric pressure. Orbiting around the planet, Galileo studied the planet's magnetosphere, and its amazing thunderstorms. Galileo's primary mission ended in 1997, but an extended mission allowed the probe to continue operations into 2003. During that time, the probe continued to study Jupiter, as well as the moons Io and Europa.
Galileo's mission ended with a dramatic plunge into Jupiter — the same fate planned for Juno. Probes that venture into space typically still carry microbes from Earth, despite scientists' best efforts to sterilize them. Because it's possible that Jupiter's moons harbor life, scientists don't want to risk contaminating those bodies with microbes from Earth. That's why probes are often destroyed (by crashing into an extremely hostile environment, such as Jupiter's) or left to orbit a body for thousands of years.
An artist's concept of the Ulysses space probe which, among other things, made a close flyby of the Jupiter system.
(Image credit: ESA)
The Ulysses mission was another multipurpose operation that included, among other things, a study of Jupiter's atmosphere, as well as its magnetic field and radiation belt.
A joint effort between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), the Ulysses probe's primary objective was to orbit the sun and study it from pole to pole, and to take measurements of the heliosphere — the bubble that wraps around the solar system, consisting of charged particles (the solar wind) and the sun's magnetic field.
Ulysses launched in 1990, and began its life in orbit around the Earth. It was then kicked outward into the solar system, where it swung around Jupiter in February 1992. With the assist from Jupiter, Ulysses entered into a new orbit that allowed the probe to observe the southern and northern poles of the sun.
The Cassini-Huygens probe is best known for its study of Saturn, but it also captured about 26,000 images of the Jupiter system. This artist's depiction shows the probe at Saturn.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative venture by NASA, ESA and the Italian Space Agency to explore the Saturn system. The probe has sent back a trove of magnetic images of Saturn and its rings, as well as the planet's many moons.
The spacecraft was launched in October 1997, and flew past Jupiter to get a gravity boost for its journey to Saturn. The probe made a close approach of Jupiter in December 2000, and took images of Jupiter over a total of six months, generating on the order of 26,000 images of the gas giant. Researchers have learned a great deal about Jupiter from those views.
The Huygens portion of the Cassini-Huygens probe dropped onto Saturn's moon Titan in 2005 to study the moon's atmosphere and composition. The Cassini orbiter continues to study Saturn, but its days are numbered. Starting late this year, the probe will begin making a series of daring dives between Saturn and its innermost ring, where Cassini can take up-close images of the planet and potentially sample material from the rings. In September 2017, the probe will intentionally dive into Saturn.
This artist’s concept shows NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at the Pluto system. On its way to Pluto, New Horizons picked up a gravity assist from Jupiter, and studied the Jovian system during the encounter.
(Image credit: Southwest Research Institute)
NASA's New Horizons mission made headlines in July 2015 when it made the first-ever close approach of the Pluto system. But New Horizons also flew past Jupiter, where it got a gravity assist to help speed up its 10-year journey to Pluto.
During its flyby of Jupiter in February 2007, New Horizons took dramatic photos of the storms that rage across the planet, as well as portraits of many of Jupiter's moons.
New Horizons is now heading into the Kuiper Belt, the region beyond the orbit of Pluto, populated by small, icy, rocky bodies. The New Horizons team is awaiting approval to fly past another object in the Kuiper Belt.
The Juno probe launched in August 2011 on a five-year journey to Jupiter. The mission's main objectives are to learn about Jupiter's precise mass and internal composition, as well as the water content of its atmosphere. Because massive planets typically form early in the life of a solar system, these variables can provide information about the history of the planetary neighborhood where they live.
In order to get close to Jupiter, Juno will enter into an orbit that takes it in between Jupiter's cloud tops and the doughnut of radiation that surrounds it. Juno will loop through this interior region more than 30 times in 20 months.
To enter into this orbit, Juno will first have to slow down as it reaches Jupiter. That maneuver is set to take place July 4, after which scientists can breathe a sigh of relief, and wait for the data to roll in.
Editor's Note: This article previously stated that Juno will orbit through the Jupiter system for about 20 weeks. The probe will actually stay for about 20 months.
Follow Calla Cofield @callacofield. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
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Get to know Kory Enders - "Ashley Asks" of PopularOpenwheel.com
By Ashley McCubbin | May 3, 2018
Scoring a top-five last year at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Kory Enders is hopeful of repeating – or bettering – the result this season. Ahead of the race weekend, the DeForce Racing driver shared his thoughts with POPULAR OPEN WHEEL.
POPULAR OPEN WHEEL: What are your thoughts going to the IMS road course?
KORY ENDERS: So I know the team has a strong set-up for there and we showed a lot of promise at St. Petersburg, and I was pretty fast there last year getting one of my best results of the season. So I’m pretty pumped to go to Indianapolis. We have a lot of great teammates and we get a lot of good data out of that, so I think it’s going to play into our hands.
POW: What is the toughest part of IMS?
KORY: I think the hardest part is getting down the hard braking zones, because I think that’s where the drivers struggle the most and as you know, IMS has a long front straightaway. So coming into turn one, you have to really maximize the braking zone to make the most of turn one and get the car hunkered down. So it takes a lot of practice and a lot of time to that point, but I’ve been working on that during the off-season and doing a couple tests purely working on braking and I think that’ll work out really well.
POW: Looking back on St. Pete, what are your thoughts?
KORY: Well, as you might know, we didn’t have the best weekend at St. Petersburg. As a team, we had a good weekend; but me personally, I didn’t. But I think I showed a lot of promise. The car was very good; I just had a hard time adapting to the conditions at St. Pete with the walls. I think if I had another chance at it, I would do a lot better. But coming in with not a lot of experience on street courses – that being the third time I’d ever been to a street course, I struggled quite a bit.
Overall, we had a good weekend and are sitting decent in the points for the championship. I’m looking forward to the weeks ahead, to be honest.
CHRIS OWENS | MAZDA ROAD TO INDY
POW: How would you rate DeForce Racing’s program right now?
KORY: I would say DeForce Racing, not just because I’m apart of them, but they are one of the teams with some of the best chemistry in the entire paddock. We also currently have the best driver development program. We take a lot of young drivers and take them in and train them to be better drivers overall. You could see that a lot of teams like Exclusive and Cape Motorsports, they don’t have that ability. They sign good drivers, but their second driver doesn’t have the pace to stay with the top driver. That’s not the case with us because all of our drivers are on the same level. That’s because we work very hard to make sure everybody stays competitive with each other.
As a team, we share all of our information with the other drivers, so we try to make sure everyone has the information they need to be the best they can.
POW: What is it like working with your teammates Zach, Colin and Jose?
KORY: So we have three teammates this year. I only had one teammate last year, but this year we have Zach Holden, Colin Kaminsky, and Jose Sierra. They’re a great group of guys. They’re extremely talented driver, specifically Jose Sierra. He has a lot of experience in high downforce cars, and he really does have a great ability to control a car and produces a lot of great data. The chemistry, I think the team gets along very well. We don’t sign anybody that doesn’t have the feel or personality for our team, and this year we have a great group of guys. They’re all fast and competitive, and I think this year will be a great year for DeForce Racing.
POW: Looking ahead, what track are you most looking forward to beyond IMS?
KORY: That is an easy question. The answer is definitely Road America. That is one of my favorite tracks between the scenery, the kink, and all the great corners that track produces. The long straightaways, great breaking zones, and the scenery combined make it the best track that we go to. My favorite track was Watkins Glen, but unfortunately we don’t get to go there this year.
POW: Who is your racing hero?
KORY: My racing hero currently is Lewis Hamilton. He has an profound style of driving – great brake traces, smooth on the gas on acceleration. He’s an inspiration to a lot of young drivers, I believe, obviously being a four-time champion. I strive to be like him.
POW: With that said, you’re on the Mazda Road to Indy headed to the Verizon IndyCar Series. But do you desire to drive a Formula 1 car one day?
KORY: To be honest with you, I really want to get to IndyCar. I think IndyCar is the pinnacle for me. That being said, if the opportunity ever struck, I would love to drive a Formula 1 car just to see what it’s like, just to feel that power and downforce. But at the moment, I’m pretty focused on IndyCar and I’m looking forward to my first IndyCar test whenever that opportunity begins possible.
POW: How did you get started in racing?
KORY: So I started racing when I was six. I did some go-karts, and I did that until I was 10 or 11. Then I started driving street cars, actually for my dad’s dealership, and we found a team nearby that was DeForce Racing. It wasn’t DeForce Racing at the time, but our team owner David Martinez had a driver development program. So I went along with that, and progressed my way up as a Formula car driver. The rest is kind of history. I went into the Road to Indy and I’m just kind of learning as I go, enjoying it.
POW: What’s been the most memorable moment of your racing career to date?
KORY: That’s a great question. I’d have to say probably….. Just because it’s my only podium to date, I’d have to say racing in the F4 Series in Mexico City. I got a second-place, which should’ve been a win but we had a problem with the car and it didn’t go our way. But I’d say that the most memorable moment last year in Mexico City. It was a great moment for me.
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Chevron super PAC donation spurs complaint
POLITICS Chevron's super PAC contribution was 'pay-to-play,' critics say
By David R. Baker
Updated 7:34 pm PST, Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Chevron Corp. may have broken a law against government contractors' giving money to political campaigns by contributing $2.5 million to a Republican super PAC last fall, according to a complaint filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission.
The complaint, from a government watchdog group and several environmental organizations, argues that Chevron's donation violated a 73-year-old "pay-to-play" law that bars federal contractors from contributing to political candidates, committees or campaigns. Oil company Chevron, based in San Ramon, had $501 million in sales to the federal government in the last fiscal year.
The Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which opened the door to increased corporate spending on politics, did not overturn the pay-to-play law, said the author of Tuesday's complaint against Chevron.
"There is a long, long, sordid history of government contractors' essentially trying to bribe people with authority over contracts," said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for the Public Citizen watchdog group.
"As long as you have a federal government contract, you're prohibited from making a federal contribution."
Chevron's donation supplied roughly 22 percent of the money raised by the super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund for the 2012 election cycle, according to Public Citizen. The fund spent its money on ads attacking Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives.
Chevron argues that the law allows a corporation to make political donations if its federal contracts are held by subsidiaries, not by the parent corporation itself. Courts have upheld that argument in the past, Holman said.
"Chevron does not believe that the federal government contractor ban applies to this specific contribution," said company spokesman Lloyd Avram in an e-mail to The Chronicle.
"The contribution was made by Chevron Corp. The corporation does not conduct business with the federal government. Any such federal contracts are held by Chevron subsidiaries."
The USASpending.gov website, which tracks federal expenditures, shows multiple transactions with Chevron Corp., in addition to many more with subsidiaries such as Chevron U.S.A. The transactions with Chevron Corp. tend to be older and smaller than those with Chevron subsidiaries, although they appear as recently as last year. The bulk of the company's sales to the federal government come through Chevron U.S.A.
Federal documents filed by the Congressional Leadership Fund do not specify whether the donation came from the corporation or one of its subsidiaries. The documents simply list the donor's name as "Chevron" and give as an address a post office box in Concord.
That post office box number appears in numerous state-level campaign finance reports available online, often under slightly different names.
It's the Chevron Corp. address in a 2008 filing in New Mexico. A Texas finance report in 2010 lists it as the address for Chevron Products Co. An Oregon campaign finance report gives it as the address for Chevron Policy, Government & Public Affairs.
Holman filed his complaint against Chevron U.S.A., the subsidiary that appears to hold most of Chevron's government contracts.
"The final determination, obviously, would have to come from an investigation from the FEC to determine if they're the same entities, which I have no doubt that they are," Holman said.
David R. Baker is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: dbaker@sfchronicle.com Twitter: DavidBakerSF
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Remembering Steve Jobs
On October 5th, citizens of St. Petersburg hosted a rally in memory of the anniversary of the late Steve Jobs from Apple. The supporters came with notes with new ideas written on them for Steve Jobs, a symbolic gesture that showed how much this one person changed everyone’s life in terms of technology and new thinking. There were over 510 kilograms of apples that were given out to those who left a note.
There were also 56 candles that were lit in memory of Jobs who died at the early age of 56.
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Real Madrid Is ALREADY Shopping For a New Manager?
by Patton on March 12, 2010
photo credit: Bari D
Nobody told me they moved to Spain…
It’s official–Real Madrid is the New York Yankees of international Soccer. It didn’t take long after their loss in the Round of 16 in the Champion’s League for “vote of confidence” to come out and not much longer for the rumors about a new manager.
Apparently, Arsene Wenger is the first–of a probable many–manager who will have to tell Real “Thanks, but not thanks”. He even said:
“£240 million doesn’t buy you the Champions League necessarily. If you can spend it every year, you will get there but it is the first year of Perez back and you have to give him time. He only has to invest again next year, so I think they will be a force again. But at the moment it’s difficult to take for them.”
“In the last five years we have been in the [Champions League] final, the semi-final, two times the quarter-final. It is the consistency that is the most difficult to achieve at the top level because you have so many teams that want to be in there. When you just turn up regularly, in England, we don’t rate that any more because we are used to it. But it’s not easy.”
He’s know they’re going “Yankees” too. Trying to find every big name, every superstar, and trying to find a way to spend every Euro they can to make their team better when money isn’t the answer.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Take a lesson from the Yankees. They did this “overspending” thing for almost a decade until they realized it wasn’t working. Right after they changed their mindset–if even slightly–they won the World Series.
Real Madrid–you can do the same. You can spend, but develop talent. You can spend, but preach consistency. You can spend, but develop leaders. You can spend, but demand excellence–not fame.
It can work. Please try it.
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Soccer picks Florence will have its new football gem
In September 2008, the Dela Valle family presented for the first time all their projects for the construction of a new stadium of Fiorentina. A few months before, Inter and Zlatan Ibrahimovic had won the Scudetto, Valentino Rossi was on the brink of winning his eighth title, Matteo Renci was not yet elected mayor of Florence, and Barack Obama was not yet named president of the United States. It was only the fourth season of Cesare Prandelli, headed by Fiorentina, and Federico Kieza was a little boy who was not yet 11 years old. The Dela Valle family dreamed of a beautiful and multifunctional stadium with its own hotel, park and landscapes to decorate Florence.
`This is a project for Fiorentina and Florence, which can be realized within three years!`, said Diego Della Valle. It will take between 70 and 90 hectares to start everything in the Castello area (north of Florence).`
`Since then, almost nothing has happened. More than 10 years have passed since the show, and fans have lost any hope of seeing a new stadium.`
`The breath of change is given. We took many steps. The project can happen within three years. I believe that by 2023 the new Fiorentina stadium will be a reality. At the end of 2018, the club via register on soccer portal presented a new set of documents on the project. Responsible persons review the proposal. I`m optimistic. I have often spoken to Della Valle and Fiorentina`s leadership, and have always seen a strong support and desire for the stadium!`, said the Mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella.
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Leadership and governance at the school is divided among three primary bodies: the Board of Trustees, the College of Teachers, and the Administration. The Board and College share the management of the school’s operations. The Board is primarily responsible for financial, fiscal, and legal matters, while the College is responsible for pedagogical matters, although each group supports the efforts of the other in various ways. The Administration works to facilitate communication between the different governing bodies, provides the logistical structure required for safe and effective operation and implements the policies and recommendations of the Board and College.
The Board of Trustees, Board Committees & the Executive Committee
The Board of Trustees represents the legal and corporate entity of the school and is responsible for overall governance, long range and strategic planning and for ensuring the financial vitality of the school. The Board meets bi-monthly and member profiles are available here.
In addition to the Board’s executive and at-large members, the Board of Trustees oversees a number of strategic board committees and task forces including, but not limited to, the: Governance Committee, Executive Committee, Finance Committee, Philanthropic Development Committee, Site Committee and Master Planning Task Force.
The Executive Committee is comprised of the Board Officers and School Administrator. It meets weekly to discuss and address issues arising in the areas of marketing, finance, strategic planning, staff, fundraising, and legal compliance. The Executive Committee is designed to respond to such issues quickly and/or to determine when issues must be addressed by the entirety of the Board.
The College Of Teachers & the Section Chairs
The College of Teachers is comprised of volunteer faculty/staff members and concerns itself with pedagogical research and study as well as assuming responsibility for the pedagogical well-being of the school. They provide guidance to the faculty as a whole and are the group responsible for faculty evaluations, hiring and firing of faculty, and addressing larger concerns over pedagogical policy. The College of Teachers meets weekly and members are listed at the beginning of the Directory in this handbook. The College of Teachers (or College, as it is commonly referred to) also has mandated college committees and task forces regarding the curriculum and pedagogy.
The Section Chairs serve as liaisons to their respective areas of the school. They meet twice a week with the College Chair, Pedagogical Chair and School Administrator to contend with issues that need immediate attention and to support in the prioritizing of the agenda for the weekly College of Teachers meetings. Additionally, they guide the weekly meetings of faculty within their section.
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The College is guided by a College of Teacher Chair who not only communicates College business and administers the College meetings, but also takes up the responsibility of supporting with the resolution of parent, student and faculty concerns when they have not come to successful resolution through prior efforts at direct communication among the impacted parties. The College Chair is supported in such work by the members of the College of Teachers, the Section Chairs, the Pedagogical Chair and the School Administrator.
Pedagogical Chair
The Pedagogical Chair, working in partnership with the College of Teachers, provides guidance in the pedagogical realm of the school. The Pedagogical Chair guides faculty mentorship and professional development, parent education about Waldorf pedagogy, supports a number of pedagogical committees and manages the faculty evaluation/review processes established by the College of Teachers.
In addition to the School Administrator and Pedagogical Chair, the school employs a number of professional staff members. Senior staff members include the Business Manager, Development and Marketing Director, Admissions Director, and Campus Manager. Their role is to provide leadership and coordination in their respective areas and to accomplish designated tasks. They also support and advance the work of the Board of Trustees and mandated committees from both the Board and the College.
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Land and sky of Vladimir Shuglya
Honorary Consul General of Belarus to Tyumen Region has deeply personal reasons for developing all-round contacts between West-Siberian Region and land of his ancestors
For the ‘Fourth Measurement’ poetic book Vladimir Shuglya was awarded in Belarus with ‘Gold Kupidon’ literary prize. Photo: Ivan Zhdanovich
The memory of blood emerges in various ways, with some paying little attention to their family roots. As one poet noted, the ‘binding thread of times’ breaks. However, for centuries, Russians and Belarusians considered recognition of kinship as a sign of spirituality. For the Belarusian gentry, as well as artisans and, even peasants, it was a point of honour to know kin as far back as seven generations, at least.
Belarusian territory, at the centre of Europe, has long been a place of cruel battle, with residents enduring the hardships of war far too often. Noble families were extensive, and those who performed notable deeds were long revered by relatives. The custom of esteeming ancestors is embodied in such novels as ‘Ears Under Your Sickle’ by Belarusian icon Vladimir Korotkevich.
For Vladimir Shuglya, ancestral cultural traditions are vital. In the autumn 2013, when I was on a business trip in Tyumen, I toured his small ‘museum’ of exhibits from Belarus. His huge family tree (he has four children) was framed, including in a photo of his father and mother. Chatting, he recollected the native village of his father: Rutitsa in Korelichi District of Grodno Region, on the Ruta River. Its waters flow into the Servech, and then into the Niemen. In fact, his surname means ‘big boat’. Dolbenka boats were made from the whole trunk of an oak tree. It may be that Vladimir’s ancestors carved boats. As we know, Belarus is rich in rivers and lakes. His father, a former front-line soldier, taught him to build a house from logs.
Vladimir Shuglya was born in 1947 and grew up in the Ural Mountains (in the city of Kyshtym, in Chelyabinsk Region). He considers that the genes of many Belarusians, not only his father and mother, have played an important role in his destiny. He told me, “The main thing is to know and to remember your patrimonial roots. You are not simply ‘I’, but a personality representing those who have lived and still live on your native land. I’ve spent much energy studying my family tree, going back to 1670 in the archives. I felt better, as if planted more firmly in the ground, on coming to the native village of my father. I saw in the cemetery graves bearing the surname Shuglya and spent some time perusing them. When I returned to the village, I gathered five or six families and told them that we are related.”
Friends often ask why he wants to research his family, knowing that he’s from ‘peasant stock’. Without glorious ancestors to uncover, many think the pastime fruitless. However, he is adamant that he wishes to know more about his roots. After all, thousands of Belarusians live in Tyumen Region, which is three times the size of France, having helped construct the city of Langepas.
Vladimir notes that several generations live there, yet only about 50 officially identify themselves as Belarusian. As the Honorary Consul General of Belarus says, it’s impossible to count how many really live there.
The title of Honorary Consul General (the first such in the history of Belarusian diplomacy) was given to Vladimir Shuglya in July 2015. At the time, the media wrote that, in Moscow, the consular patent and exequatur (consent of receiving state) had been given to the Honorary Consul General by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia, H.E. Mr. Igor Petrishenko, who commented, “For Vladimir Shuglya’s productive work as the Honorary Consul of Belarus in Tyumen, strengthening trade-economic and humanitarian co-operation between Belarus and Tyumen Region, the Government of Belarus has appointed him to a higher position.”
At the same time, his consular district was expanded, to cover Tyumen, Omsk and Kurgan Regions. The former includes large parts of Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets autonomous districts. The ambassador praised Mr. Shuglya’s work as the Honorary Consul of Belarus in Tyumen, since 2009, during which time the level of Belarusian exports to Tyumen Region rose 2.6-fold, being worth $135 million (in equivalent). Mr. Shuglya noted that new Russian regions under his responsibility have great potential for developing cooperation with Belarus, and that their administration has shown desire to support such a move.”
Warm feelings for Belarus help Russian Vladimir Shuglya work for the good of our two fraternal peoples. He emphasises, with pride, that well-known Siberian divisions fought the Nazis near Moscow in the winter of 1941, including Belarusians who had relocated to Siberia early in the beginning of the 20th century. In one of his poems, devoted to heroes, he wrote: ‘The Soul is inseparable from Minsk…/Korelichi … In the sky there is a border …/Fastened by blood unity/The soul soars over the Fatherland.’
Today, Mr. Shuglya’s rich life experience is being used for common benefit. He graduated from Sverdlovsk’s Institute of National Economics in 1970, then worked in trade for years, including in the late 1980s, heading the Chief Trade Administration of Tyumen Region Executive Committee. In 1990, he created and headed the Mangazeya Holding Company, a trade house in Tyumen. A year later, he graduated from the Ural Institute of Social and Political Sciences with a degree in politology, and, in due course, successfully having done business, he sought major challenges.
Let’s consider the work of Vladimir Shuglya, thanks to which Belarus and Western Siberia have become closer. A substantial press release from his office, prepared around the time that he was to receive the status of Honorary Consul General, states his responsibilities as ‘developing trade and economic, humanitarian and cultural ties between Belarus and Tyumen Region’. From the text, it’s easy to see the continuing progression in ties.
The agreement between the Government of Tyumen Region and Minsk Region Executive Committee, on trade and economic, scientific and technical and cultural cooperation, was signed in 2014, in Minsk, at the First Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia.
Today, with the Honorary Consul General’s support, we’ve set up much joint production, and enterprises of various forms of ownership operate in Tyumen Region. In particular, the Tyumen Lift Plant has been up and running since 2010. This joint venture assembles lifts and produces lift equipment, partnering Belarusian Mogilevliftmash. The Tyumen plant annually makes and sells up to 140 complete sets of its own assemblage.
Mr. Shuglya’s special pride is TechnoTsentr LLC, the daughter company of TALK JSC. Since December 2010, TehnoTsentr (located in the village of Vinzili, in Tyumen Region) has been a dealer centre for Minsk Tractor Works, offering sales, repair and servicing of ‘Belarus’ tractors across Ural District. It is also the official dealer for many other enterprises: Trade House MTZ-ElAZ, Mozyr machine-building and Smorgon assembly plant. It also works with Bobruiskagromash, Dorelektromash, Lidagroprommash, Lidselmash, Belshina, Amkodor, and the Scientific-Practical Centre for Agriculture Mechanisation (at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus) among other Belarusian partners.
In 2014, the Russian-Belarusian expo-dealer centre ‘Pyshminskaya Valley’ opened at the TehnoTsentr. The first all-Russia dealer conference of MTZ JSC was also held there, gathering more than forty representatives, from six trade houses across Russia, including the MTZ delegation. Various tractor models sell well in the region, as does a great deal of agricultural machinery.
Gagarinskremtechpred dealership, in the village of Gagarino, in Ishim District, has been similarly engaged in the sale, repair and servicing of Belarusian agricultural machinery since 2011. It partners MTZ, Gomselmash, and Bobruiskagromash, assembling ‘Polesie-Ishim’ combine harvesters and ‘Belarus’ tractors, of all modifications, as well as round-bale presses.
The name MAZservice-Tyumen speaks for itself: this dealership of Minsk Automobile Plant is engaged in the sale and servicing of all MAZ machinery in the region. It concluded a contract to deliver over 200 buses of various brands to Tyumen in 2013, with delivery accomplished in 2014. The city’s ‘PATP-1’ service centre specifically services MAZ buses, of which there are almost 400. Krasnyi Oktyabr Wood-Processing Plant produces furniture using Belarusian components, while PKF AtlantAvto sells and services special-purpose machinery made by Belarusian Avtodor, in Tyumen Region.
Mr. Shuglya has been supporting the creation of trade houses in Tyumen, developing their liaison with Belarusian manufacturers. For example, Tyumen’s Belshina Trade House partners the well-known enterprise from Bobruisk, selling various tyres and chambers: for passenger and cargo machinery. Style-T LLC partners such companies as Milavitsa and Belorusochka garment factory, supplying Tyumen chain stores selling women’s and men’s underwear.
The Tyumen Central Department Store has also established relations with Belarusian manufacturers, selling our leather accessories, clothes, jersey items, home textiles, porcelain and crystal ware, toys and other goods. FOND Holding Company sells Belarusian products to Tyumen Region.
Belarusian motive in Tyumen. Photo: Ivan Zhdanovich
Developing new paths of trade and economic relations between Belarus and Russia, Mr. Shuglya knows that strong ties rely on personal relations. One way in which integration is supported is through twin-city relations, between Belarusian urban settlements and those in Tyumen Region. A co-operative agreement in the fields of trade and economics, as well as humanitarian works and culture, was concluded between Tyumen and Brest in 2013, having begun in 1999. From 2013-2014, twinning agreements were signed between Tobolsk and Mogilev, between Zavodoukovsk and Klimovichi, between Ishim and Bobruisk, and between Yalutorovsk and Lyakhovichi.
Contracts on cooperation exist between the universities of Belarus and Tyumen Region, built on fruitful contacts between teachers, and promoting the exchange of students, as well as publication of joint textbooks and manuals. There has been joint participation at conferences, and exchange of experience to protect monuments and cultural heritage.
Tyumen State University is liaising with the Belarusian State University (Minsk), the Frantsisk Skorina Gomel State University (Gomel) and the Polesie State University (Pinsk). The Tyumen State Oil and Gas University partners the Belarusian State Technological University (Minsk) and Tyumen State Academy of Culture, Arts and Social Technologies has concluded contracts with the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts (Minsk) and the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. Tyumen State University of Civil Engineering is working with the University of Grodno, while Tyumen State Medical Academy is liaising with Grodno State Medical University. Tyumen State Academy of Global Economic Management and Law is on friendly terms with the Belarusian State Economic University (Minsk). Meanwhile, the State Agricultural University of Northern Trans-Urals has three partners: the Belarusian State Academy of Agriculture (Gorki, Mogilev Region), the Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University (Minsk) and Grodno State Agrarian University.
No matter how close our countries and peoples, we live in different states. While basic Russian TV channels are available to Belarusian TV viewers, Russia’s remote regions lack objective information on life in Belarus. Accordingly, the Honorary Consul General has been working to promote greater knowledge of Belarus, via the press. Tyumen’s regional social-political newspaper, ‘Tyumenskaya Pravda’, (with a circulation of over 12,000 copies) has a Belarusian page under the name ‘Union — the Integration of Fraternal Peoples’, which is run every three months.
On Mr. Shuglya’s initiative, since 2015, ‘Soyuznoe Veche’ newspaper has been delivered to the Tyumen Region: the edition of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia.
Mr. Shuglya is active in public life, through which he ‘feels his pulse’. He is a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, a member of the Executive Committee of the Public Chamber of the Tyumen Region, and heads the Commission on International Relations and Freedom of Conscience.
Many Belarusians live in Tyumen Region. Those arriving newly find no difficulty in conversing with those born and bred in Siberia, including Vladimir Shuglya. ‘Golas Radzimy’ newspaper once wrote about Gomel native Sergey Yefimchik, who graduated from Leningrad and arrived to serve in the army in Tyumen in the 1980s, finding his wife, Svetlana, there. He thought that she was a native Siberian but, after their wedding, discovered that her grandfather was from Belarus. They are now retired but have long sung with Belarusian folk choir ‘Lyanok’. As we say, birds of a feather flock together.
The Honorary Consul General has enjoyed good opportunities to become acquainted with his fellow countrymen, having headed the National-Cultural Autonomy of Belarusians, created in 1997. He launched the ‘Union — the Integration of Fraternal Peoples’ public organisation in 2005, using it to help establish integration ties. Belarus renders much aid to Belarusian organizations abroad, wishing to encourage interaction, and, to make this cooperation effective, social ties are vital.
Mr. Shuglya is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Belarus, as well as by the apparatus of the Commissio-ner for the Affairs of Religions and Nationalities, by the Republican Centre of National Cultures, and by the Embassy of Belarus to Russia. They understand Vladimir, agreeing that interaction is sure to yield fruit.
People enjoy contact with their historical motherland, and are eager to take part in cultural exchanges. Belarus’ groups of Tyumen Region come to perform in Belarus.
In November 2013, the Days of Belarusian Culture were held in Tyumen Region. We wrote in ‘Belarus’ magazine, and in ‘Golas Radzimy’ newspaper about our talented countrymen whom we met on the remote taiga, in the ‘Belarusian’ villages of Yermaki and Osinovka. It was a fascinating experience. Belarusian and Russian ethnographers have long been interested in this part of the world, and continue to be so, writing research papers and articles. We’d love to help produce books on the life of Belarusians in Western Siberia.
In Tyumen, we were told that, every year, the Stroitel Palace of National Cultures holds the ‘Raduga’ Children’s Festival of National Cultures, featuring young Belarusians. In the summer, there is the ‘Bridge of Friendship’ Regional Festival of National Cultures, which also draws Belarusian groups. They gather on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, their delicate voices blending.
A gala concert by Belarusian groups from across the region ends the event.
During the Days of Belarusian Culture, Mr. Shuglya has held workshops for those who admire his poetry. In fact, he is a member of the Union of Writers of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, and of the Union of Writers of Belarus, as well as of the St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Writers of Russia.
In 2013, he gave us copies of his ‘Fourth Measurement’ and ‘Way Home’ collections. He also presented a CD of songs using his lyrical verse and featured on a televised news programme. Recently, he released a new edition, called ‘Li-ving Time’, which continues the theme of civil commentary. In a major interview for edition №1-2014 of our magazine, Mr Shuglya mentioned his poetry repeatedly, speaking of modern ‘pain’, which led us to assume that he wrote as a form of therapy. We imagined him entrusting his thoughts, feelings and experiences to paper, creating a spiritual stronghold, in which all is beautiful and harmonious.
A colleague notes of Mr. Shuglya, “Only those offering special service to the country become honorary consuls. Vladimir Fiodorovich has deserved this status through his work.” We cannot help but recall the great man’s poetry: ‘Pain oh pain — I carve verse/The lines will catch fire, like flame. Among terrestrial and vicious elements/I break a stone of heartlessness…’
By Ivan and Valentina Zhdanovich
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What is the Concept of Zen?
The first mistake that most people make when they begin talking about Zen is their attempt to give it a firm definition, either as a practice, hobby, habit, belief system, philosophy, religious direction or guiding principle in life. The term “Zen” has caught on like wildfire in the western world, and is plastered on countless online article titles and other modern associations, but those definitions all miss the mark.
At its very core, Zen is a long-standing form of traditional wisdom, which has had an impact on billions of people all over the world.
Before we can understand what “Zen” actually means, we should look at the history of this enigmatic idea. First and foremost….
The History of Zen
Nearly 1500 years ago, in 6th century China, the Ch’an school of Buddhism was first founded, and for nearly 600 years, it was restricted to that country, developing and ingraining itself within the culture. In the 12th century C.E., the concept was exported to Japan where it was quickly accepted and became a highly influential path of study. Although intense Buddhist meditation was being practiced prior to the Ch’an school, largely influenced by Tao beliefs, its official beginnings are marked in the 6th century.
The concept of Zen reached Vietnam (known there as Thiền) roughly 1,300 years ago, and it appeared in Korea (known there are Seon) even before that. Each country has established its own definitions and methods of practice, but all are based on the original ideas of the Ch’an School, which is why the most colloquial term around the world for following a Zen lifestyle is “Zen Buddhism”.
The ideas of Zen didn’t reach the western world, namely Europe and North America, until late in the 19th century, which is why the idea often seems so ancient to modern minds. Most people in the west have only been aware of the concept for a century, whereas the places where it is widely practiced have more than a millennia of history with this mysterious concept. Today, Zen is a popular catch-all term in certain areas of the western world, although there are traditional centers and areas for serious Zen study across America and Europe.
So… What is Zen?
Putting the concept and wisdom of Zen into words is difficult, as it is largely based on intuition and personal interpretation. The word Zen is derived from the Chinese word Ch’an, which is directly taken from Indian sanskrit word dhayana, which means meditation, as you might expect from the explanation above.
Zen is not taken directly from the written word, nor religious transcriptions. It centers on a personal relationship with your own mind, and a higher, undefined entity outside of yourself. “Being Zen” is essentially a state of being at peace with your own thoughts, and being self-aware of your place within the universe, inconsequential (and simultaneously essential).
As mentioned earlier, trying to define Zen is nearly impossible, as it is based in the concept of paradox. It is both the acceptance of everything and nothing, the realization that Zen encompasses everything in the world, and is similarly encompassed by every minute element of existence. It is both intensely personal, while also accessible to anyone willing to embrace the wisdom of oneness with the world around them. If you sincerely free yourself from the tangible and illusory bonds of the physical world, you can tap into the unseen fabric of life, and be fully satisfied with your place in it.
What confuses people about Zen is that there is no formal practice or set routine that people must practice to achieve the enlightenment that Zen presents as a possibility. Rather than spending weeks, months or even years dedicated to religious texts or elaborate rituals, Zen Buddhists and practitioners focus on breaking through the boundaries of traditional thought and behavior to witness the world as it truly is.
The moment of this “breakthrough” is called satori, and references when the veil of our conceived reality is stripped away, and enlightenment is achieved. The connection to Buddhism is essential when understanding Zen. After all, Buddha is not considered a god, but the belief is that he achieved ultimate enlightenment through the process of Zen meditation. Similarly, Zen celebrates the idea that all human beings are already enlightened, but clouded by ignorance. They simply need to achieve satori to overcome this block.
How Is Zen Practiced?
Depending on the area of the world and the specific path of Zen Buddhism that you follow, you may “practice” Zen in many different ways. A popular form is called zazen, which basically means “just sitting” meditation, as well as kinhin, which means walking meditation. Direct observation of the breath is achieved during zazen, but observation of the mind is where the real challenge arises. The ideal scenario is to clear your mind and allow thoughts to organically rise and fall, without interacting or affecting them in any way. This flux of thought is observed, but not influenced.
Some forms of practice also include group sessions of intense meditation, often taking up to a week of silent, disciplined focus, interrupted only by short periods of sleep. Other forms of practice include the use of koans, which are akin to parables and stories of Zen masters and students, which are told to new students, so that they may meditate on the meaning of the story.
Finally, there is Zen chanting, which is often the repetition of certain sutras from liturgical sources, such as the Heart Sutra or Lotus Sutra, followed by silent meditation on that mantra or message.
Why the Confusion?
Due to the wide variety of practice methods, and the westernization of the term Zen, thanks to popular fiction and cultural figures (e.g., Jack Kerouac, author of Satori in Paris and The Dharma Bums, Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), many people aren’t quite sure what Zen means. In many cases, use of the word Zen is completely disconnected from the underlying tenets of this ancient wisdom.
That being said, the continual evolution of Zen in the modern world, as well as its practice and impact, is due to the vague and personal nature of the concept itself. However you choose to involve Zen teachings and beliefs in your life, the end goal is the same – enlightenment and a more self-aware existence.
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World Short Course Championships: Flash! Felicity Galvez Clips World Record in 50 Fly
by Archive Team
11 April 2008, 01:56pm
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MANCHESTER, England, April 11. AUSTRALIA's Felicity Galvez clipped the world record in the women's 50 fly en route to the world title at the FINA World Short Course Championships.
Galvez clocked a time of 25.32 to clear the 25.33 set by Anna-Karin Kammerling of Sweden back in 2005.
"I don't know, it still hasn't kind of set in. I never believed I could get world record, so it's a bit of a shock, I'm just so excited," Galvez told meet organizers. "I was disappointed that I didn't make the 200m fly for the Olympics but I'm just really trying to learn a lot of things from that meet and I'm definitely doing that here. I just want to become a better athlete, so I'm definitely stepping up here and that's what I wanted to get out of this meet."
The Netherlands picked up the next two spots as Hinkelien Schreuder (25.40) and Inge Dekker (25.60) beat Inge De Bruijn's national record of 25.64 set in 2000.
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Friday 19 July 2019 | UK News feed
Diversity index reveals Britain's ethnic mix
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
12:01AM BST 06 Oct 2006
The average citizen in England and Wales has a one in four chance of bumping into someone of different ethnic origin in the street, according to a new official measure of diversity.
Research by the Office for National Statistics, using figures from the 2001 census, shows that parts of London have the greatest ethnic mix and areas of north-east England the least.
The ONS has developed a diversity index that shows how likely it is that two people taken at random in a particular area will come from different ethnic backgrounds.
Brent, in north London, had the highest diversity score, with an 85 per cent probability that two people sitting next to each other on the bus would be from different ethnic groups. Around 30 per cent of the borough is white British and the rest of the population is Indian, black Caribbean, "other white" and black African.
A similar mix can be found in Newham in east London, which has a diversity "score" of 83 per cent, though 17 per cent of the population there is from Bangladesh or Pakistan. Outside London, Slough, Leicester and Luton are the most diverse towns, though white Britons still make up a majority of the population.
The least ethnically diverse boroughs can be found in the old mining areas of Durham. People in Easington have just a two per cent chance of meeting someone from a different background.
However, the place with the most homogeneous population is located in neighbouring Sedgefield, Tony Blair's constituency in Co Durham, which has the lowest index score of just one per cent.
The findings, published by the ONS yesterday, are intended to demonstrate how different ethnic groups live together rather than treat all minorities as a single entity separate from white British.
Some parts of Bradford, where the population is largely either white or Pakistani, would not score high on the diversity index.
However, the figures also confirm how in some parts of London and other cities, the white population is now in a tiny minority. In Southall, west London and Moseley in Birmingham less than one in 10 was white British.
The ONS has also been able to map religious diversity because the 2001 census was the first to ask a question about faith.
It found that after Christians, the biggest faith group is Muslim, with 1.6 million adherents concentrated in Birmingham, Bradford and London.
Pakistani Muslims make up the largest non-white ethno-religious group in Britain with an estimated population of almost 700,000.
The Jewish population of 267,000 is heavily clustered in Salford and north London, particularly Barnet, while Hindus make up a majority of the population in parts of Leicester.
The country's 330,000 Sikhs make up more than one in three of the population in some parts of Southall, London and Handsworth, Birmingham.
The census also uncovered an unexpectedly large number of white British Muslims, with more than 63,000 or one in 25 of the total Muslim population.
However, Muslims are also the most ethnically diverse religious groups, with 43 per cent Pakistani, 17 per cent Bangladeshi, eight per cent Indian and seven per cent other white.
There are also some 51,000 white British Buddhists, making up one third of the country's overall Buddhist population.
Harrow, in north London, had the highest level of religious diversity in England and Wales, with 47 per cent Christian, 20 per cent Hindu, seven per cent Muslim and six per cent Jewish.
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Two dead in cinema shooting as Obama says he was stymied on gun control
Teachers raised alarm as John Houser fired handgun at least 13 times during showing of Trainwreck before turning weapon on himself
John Houser fired at least 13 rounds from his handgun inside the cinema
By Rob Crilly, New York
4:02PM BST 24 Jul 2015
Two teachers were praised as heroes for raising the alarm as a gunman opened fire in a Louisiana cinema on Thursday night, hours after Barack Obama said his failure to pass gun control laws was the biggest frustration of his presidency.
Police in Lafayette said John Houser, a 59-year-old drifter, waited 20 minutes into a screening of Trainwreck before firing 13 rounds, killing two people and wounding seven other people in Lafayette.
He then tried to leave with the panicking crowd before realising that police were closing on him and turned his .40 caliber handgun on himself.
Bobby Jindal, Louisiana governor, described how one teacher saved the life of a colleague by jumping in front her. The second teacher then managed to pull a fire alarm to alert other moviegoers, he said. Both were wounded.
"Her friend literally jumped over her and, by her account, actually saved her life," he said.
Amy Schumer, who wrote and starred in the film, took to Twitter to express her horror.
My heart is broken and all my thoughts and prayers are with everyone in Louisiana.
— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) July 24, 2015
The attack took place almost three years to the day after 12 people were killed at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, and follows a string of multiple shootings in recent weeks.
Much of America remains resistant to tougher gun control. In 2013, Barack Obama failed to steer legislation - introduced after the murder of 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut – through Congress.
In an interview with the BBC, conducted before the latest shootings, he promised to continue working on the issue.
“That is an area where if you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws,” he said. “Even in the face of repeated mass killings.”
He pointed out that the number of Americans killed by terrorism since 9/11 was fewer than 100, while the number killed by gun violence was in the tens of thousands.
“And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing,” he said. “But it is not something that I intend to stop working on in the remaining 18 months.”
Meanwhile, the killings continue.
Last month, a gunman shot dead nine worshippers at a historic church in Charleston and last week four Marines and a Navy sailor were killied in Chattanooga.
On Friday, police in Lafayette said House fired at least 13 rounds from his handgun inside the cinema.
They named his victims as Jillian Johnson, 33, and Mayci Breaux, 21.
Jim Craft, the local police chief, said the gunman had been staying at a local motel, where officers found a collection of glasses and wigs, and had switched the license plate on his car.
“It is apparent that he was intent on shooting and then escaping,” he said.
“What happened is that the quick law enforcement response forced him back into the theatre, at which time he shot himself.”
Documents obtained by AP showed Houser had a history of mental illness.
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On this episode of SPORTS AND TORTS, David chats with Hall of Fame Broadcaster Milo Hamilton, long time play-by-play voice of the Astros, Braves, Cubs and Pirates. We'll also chat with College Baseball Hall of Fame Coach Bobby Winkles, the first varsity baseball coach at Arizona State University. He also managed the A's and Angels in the bigs.
Sports and Torts: Milo Hamilton
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Milo Hamilton
Milo began his baseball-broadcasting career in the Three I League in Davenport, Iowa in 1950. His big league on-air career has included stops with the St. Louis Browns (1953), St. Louis Cardinals (1954), Chicago Cubs (1956-57 and 1980-84), Chicago White Sox (1962-65), Atlanta Braves (1966-75), Pittsburgh Pirates (1976-79), and Houston Astros (1985-present).
Among his many highlights, Milo was behind the microphone for 11 no-hitters, Ernie Banks’s five grand slams in a season, Roger Maris’s 61st homer in 1961 (recreated on Western Union ticker), and Henry Aaron’s historic 715th homer in 1974. He was on the Cardinals’ broadcast crew when Stan Musial hit his record-breaking fifth home run in a doubleheader, and he was doing the play-by-play 18 years later when San Diego’s Nate Colbert duplicated Musial’s feat. He also called Barry Bonds’s Major League record-tying 70th home run in 2001, and the Astros historic six-pitcher, combined no-hitter in 2003.
Throughout his 60-year broadcasting career, Milo has helped raise more than $2 million for various charities as master of ceremonies at auctions, March of Dimes, Epilepsy Association, City of Hope, American Cancer Society, Leukemia Society of America, and the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame.
In addition to his remarkable career in baseball, Hamilton has considerable experience broadcasting a wide variety of sports, including Kentucky Wildcats basketball, the Chicago Bulls, DePaul Blue Demons, and Southwest Conference basketball.
Hamilton’s numerous awards include induction into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994, the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2000, and the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992.
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Bobby Winkles
Bobby Brooks Winkles (born March 11, 1930 in Tuckerman, Arkansas) is a former baseball coach at Arizona State University. Bobby Winkles coached from 1959–1971 and was the first varsity baseball coach at Arizona State University. Winkles laid the foundation for the legacy that has become Sun Devil baseball. His overall record while head coach at ASU is 524-173. In his 11 years at work at ASU, Winkles coached ASU to its first three national titles (1965, 1967, and 1969). Winkles coached several great players while he was at the helm of the Sun Devils, including Rick Monday, Sal Bando, Reggie Jackson, Sterling Slaughter, and Larry Gura. He was named the 1965 and 1969 NCAA Coach of the Year and The Sporting News Coach of the Year in 1965, 1967, and 1969. Winkles was inducted into the ABCA Collegiate Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997. After coaching at ASU, Winkles went on to manage four years in Major League Baseball with the California Angels (1973–1974) and the Oakland Athletics (1977–1978). His No. 1 jersey is honored at Packard Stadium where the field is named in his honor.
Winkles is a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. A right-handed-hitting and -throwing infielder, he played minor league baseball in the Chicago White Sox organization during the 1950s before becoming the Sun Devils' head coach in 1958 and served through 1971. He compiled a winning percentage of .751 (524-173) during his 14 seasons in Tempe.
In 1972, he jumped to Major League Baseball as a coach for the American League California Angels. In 1973, Winkles became manager in Anaheim, succeeding Del Rice.[1] His 1973 club won 79, lost 83 and finished fourth in the AL West. In 1974, after the Angels lost 44 of their first 75 games, Winkles was fired; his permanent successor was Dick Williams.
Winkles then became a coach for the Oakland Athletics; he managed them for parts of the 1977 and 1978 seasons, as he replaced (in 1977) and then was succeeded by (in '78) the same manager: Jack McKeon. The A's were then a struggling outfit in the final throes of the Charlie Finley era. His final managerial record: 170 wins, 213 defeats (.444). Winkles also spent a season, 1976, as a coach for the San Francisco Giants.
A brief coaching stint with the White Sox immediately followed his 1978 firing as A's manager. Then, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Winkles spent several years leading the player development department of the Montreal Expos, when the Expos had one of the most productive farm systems in the game. In 2006, he was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Avengers: Endgame review: Utterly magnificent
You have to see this movie, it's breathtaking.
"We're in the endgame now." The words of Doctor Strange ring true, as Marvel's decade-spanning, 22 movie run comes to a close. Avengers: Endgame is exactly that. It's the end.
And here's the first thing I said upon leaving the theater: I'm actually shaking. And I still am. Absolutely no spoilers, but you have to go see this movie. And if you haven't been following the MCU, get all caught up first, then go see it.
This is an event unlike anything you've ever seen on the big screen.
Endgame isn't merely Infinity War part two. It does pick up in the aftermath of that fateful moment in Wakanda, but the story doesn't simply flow into the new movie. Endgame takes up the fallout, and not just the lost Avengers. The world is in mourning for those it lost, looking for any glimmer of hope and a reason to move on.
Everything you need to know about Avengers: Endgame
Of course, seeing Cap running down to the local supermarket for a loaf of bread and reminiscing about the old days wouldn't make much of a movie. This is the Avengers. But it's a different kind of Avengers, it's an Avengers that for the first time lost, and lost hard.
It's one of the early striking themes. These are emotional responses not yet seen in the MCU. There's a human side to each of them, even those that aren't.
An emotional Avengers that lost, and lost hard
Not everyone gets the same emotional exploration, though, and it's unsurprising that the focus falls more so on the original six. But it's not all doom and gloom. There are moments you'll cry, but equally, there are a number of laugh out loud moments with the comedic sides of Hulk and Thor, in particular, breaking the tension.
So how exactly do you follow up the biggest crossover event in movie history and one that ended that way? Endgame feels different to other MCU titles, precisely because of its name. No longer is anything being set up, explained, teased, what the past 21 movies have all been about is here.
Are there a lot of moving parts? You bet. And were this not a Marvel flick it would be easy to pick fault with all the pieces that are moving at the same time. There are times the pace slows, but mostly Endgame is a hectic three hours.
But precisely because of what movie this is, is exactly why that's not a bad thing. Endgame is delivering a service to fans who have invested so much into the saga.
It's fair to say this isn't just a movie. It's an event, an experience, a rollercoaster of emotions and one of the most exciting things you'll see in many a year.
More than a movie, it's an event, an experience
It's impossible to please everyone, but there's little reason to pick fault. Endgame delivers on a scale that I didn't think possible.
It's a fight, an epic tale of good and evil, the ultimate superhero experience. Take a moment to appreciate the enormity of it all, and enjoy the adrenaline rush that accompanies it. The special effects are typically grand, adding to the scale of the task. After all, it's not just Earth at stake, the Avengers have the fate of the universe on their shoulders.
Where does the MCU go now, though? Endgame does indeed bring the Infinity Saga to a dramatic close, but it also leaves you with plenty to ponder for the future. There are twists, but it doesn't feel like anything ends abruptly. It leaves you feeling good for what comes next.
The ultimate superhero experience setting an almost impossible bar
At the start of this, I said I left the screening shaking, and that's no exaggeration. Even recounting that three-hour experience brings it back. One of the most genuinely exciting movies you may ever see.
Endgame is exactly how you bring such an ambitious project to an end, leaving fans fulfilled, and frankly, it's set an almost impossible bar.
How exactly anyone, even Marvel, can follow this is a question in it itself. Avengers: Endgame is utterly magnificent.
What comes after Avengers: Endgame?
Avenge the fallen
Don't miss the movie event of the decade
Marvel's epic run has come to a close and we finally get to understand where it's all been leading.
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Smarter Caching
Clever management of the local memory banks known as ‘caches’ could improve computer chips’ performance while reducing their energy consumption.
Computer chips keep getting faster because transistors keep getting smaller. But the chips themselves are as big as ever, so data moving around the chip, and between chips and main memory, has to travel just as far. As transistors get faster, the cost of moving data becomes, proportionally, a more severe limitation.
So far, chip designers have circumvented that limitation through the use of “caches” — small memory banks close to processors that store frequently used data. But the number of processors — or “cores” — per chip is also increasing, which makes cache management more difficult. Moreover, as cores proliferate, they have to share data more frequently, so the communication network connecting the cores becomes the site of more frequent logjams, as well.
In a pair of recent papers, researchers at MIT and the University of Connecticut have developed a set of new caching strategies for massively multicore chips that, in simulations, significantly improved chip performance while actually reducing energy consumption.
The first paper, presented at the most recent ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture, reported average gains of 15 percent in execution time and energy savings of 25 percent. The second paper, which describes a complementary set of caching strategies and will be presented at the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, reports gains of 6 percent and 13 percent, respectively.
The caches on multicore chips are typically arranged in a hierarchy. Each core has its own private cache, which may itself have several levels, while all the cores share the so-called last-level cache, or LLC.
Illustration by Christine Daniloff/MIT
Chips’ caching protocols usually adhere to the simple but surprisingly effective principle of “spatiotemporal locality.” Temporal locality means that if a core requests a particular piece of data, it will probably request it again. Spatial locality means that if a core requests a particular piece of data, it will probably request other data stored near it in main memory.
So every requested data item gets stored, along with those immediately adjacent to it, in the private cache. If it falls idle, it will eventually be squeezed out by more recently requested data, falling down through the hierarchy — from the private cache to the LLC to main memory — until it’s requested again.
There are cases in which the principle of spatiotemporal locality breaks down, however. “An application works on a few, let’s say, kilobytes or megabytes of data for a long period of time, and that’s the working set,” says George Kurian, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and lead author on both papers. “One scenario where an application does not exhibit good spatiotemporal locality is where the working set exceeds the private-cache capacity.” In that case, Kurian explains, the chip could waste a lot of time cyclically swapping the same data between different levels of the cache hierarchy.
In the paper presented last year, Kurian; his advisor Srini Devadas, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT; and Omer Khan, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Connecticut and a former postdoc in Devadas’ lab, presented a hardware design that mitigates that problem. When an application’s working set exceeds the private-cache capacity, the MIT researchers’ chip would simply split it up between the private cache and the LLC. Data stored in either place would stay put, no matter how recently it’s been requested, preventing a lot of fruitless swapping.
Conversely, if two cores working on the same data are constantly communicating in order to keep their cached copies consistent, the chip would store the shared data at a single location in the LLC. The cores would then take turns accessing the data, rather than clogging the network with updates.
The new paper examines the case where, to the contrary, two cores are working on the same data but communicating only infrequently. The LLC is usually treated as a single large memory bank: Data stored in it is stored only once. But physically, it’s distributed across the chip in discrete chunks. Kurian, Devadas, and Khan have developed a second circuit that can treat these chunks, in effect, as extensions of the private cache. If two cores are working on the same data, each will receive its own copy in a nearby chunk of the LLC, enabling much faster data access.
Sentry box
The systems presented in both papers require active monitoring of the chips’ operation — to determine, for instance, when working sets exceed some bound, or when multiple cores are accessing the same data. In each case, that monitoring requires a little extra circuitry, the equivalent of about 5 percent of the area of the LLC. But, Kurian argues, because transistors keep shrinking, and communication isn’t keeping up, chip space is not as crucial a concern as minimizing data transfer. Kurian, Devadas, and Khan are also currently working to combine the two monitoring circuits, so that a single chip could deploy the cache-management strategies reported in both papers.
“It is a great piece of work,” says Nikos Hardavellas, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University. “It definitely moves the state of the art forward.” Existing caching schemes, Hardavellas explains, do treat different types of data differently: They might, for instance, use different caching strategies for program instructions and file data. “But if you dig deeper into these categories, you see that the data can behave very differently. In the past, we didn’t know how to efficiently monitor the usefulness of the data. The [new] hardware design allows us to do this. That’s a significant part of the contribution.”
Moreover, Hardavellas says, “the two different designs seem to be working synergistically, which would indicate that the final result of combining the two would be better than the sum of the individual parts.” As for commercialization of the technology, “I see no fundamental reason why not to,” he says. “They seem implementable, they seem small enough, and they give us a significant benefit.”
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Opinion: The value of limits
Everything in my life as service, really?
By Bob O'Donnell on July 26, 2017, 9:00
No one likes to think about limits, especially in the tech industry, where the idea of putting constraints on almost anything is perceived as anathema. Arguably the entire tech industry is built on the concept of bursting through limitations and enabling things that weren’t possible before. New technology developments have clearly created incredible new capabilities and opportunities, and have generally helped improve the world around us.
But there does come a point—and I think we’ve arrived there—where it’s worth stepping back to both think about and talk about the potential value of, yes, technology limits…on several different levels.
On a technical level, we’ve reached a point where advances in computing applications like AI, or medical applications like gene splicing, are raising even more ethical questions than practical ones on issues such as how they work and for what applications they might be used. Not surprisingly, there aren’t any clear or easy answers to these questions, and it’s going to take a lot more time and thought to create frameworks or guidelines for both the appropriate and inappropriate uses of these potentially life-changing technologies.
Does this mean these kinds of technological advances should be stopped? Of course not. But having more discourse on the types of technologies that get created and released certainly needs to happen.
I hate to say it, but it’s the fake news of tech.
Even on a practical level, the need for limiting people’s expectations about what a technology can or cannot do is becoming increasingly important. With science-fiction-like advances becoming daily occurrences, it’s easy to fall into the trap that there are no limits to what a given technology can do. As a result, people are increasingly willing to believe and accept almost any kind of statements or predictions about the future of many increasingly well-known technologies, from autonomous driving to VR to AI and machine learning. I hate to say it, but it’s the fake news of tech.
Just as we’ve seen the fallout from fake news on all sides of the political perspective, so too are we starting to see that unbridled and unlimited expectations for certain new technologies are starting to have negative implications of their own. Essentially, we’re starting to build unrealistic expectations for a tech-driven nirvana that doesn’t clearly jibe with the realities of the modern world, particularly in the timeframes that are often discussed.
In fact, I’d argue that a lot of the current perspectives on where the technology industry is and where it’s headed are based on a variety of false pretenses, some positively biased and some negatively biased. On the positive side, there’s a sense that technologies like AI or autonomous driving are going to solve enormous societal issues in a matter of a few years. On the negative side, there are some who see the tech industry as being in a stagnant period, still hunting for the next big thing beyond the smartphone.
Neither perspective is accurate, but ironically, both stem from the same myth of limitlessness that seems to pervade much of the thinking in the tech industry. For those with the positive spin, I think it’s critical to be willing to admit to a technology’s limitations, in addition to touting its capabilities.
So, for example, it’s OK to talk about the benefits that something like autonomous driving can bring to certain people in certain environments, but it’s equally important to acknowledge that it isn’t going to be a great fit for everyone, everywhere. Realistically and practically speaking, we are still a very long way from having a physical, legal, economic and political environment for autonomous cars to dramatically impact the transportation needs of most consumers. On the other hand, the ability for these autonomous transportation technologies to start having a dramatic impact on public transportation systems or shipping fleets over the next several years seems much more realistic (even if it is a lot less sexy).
On the positive side, there’s a sense that technologies like AI or autonomous driving are going to solve enormous societal issues in a matter of a few years. On the negative side, there are some who see the tech industry as being in a stagnant period, still hunting for the next big thing beyond the smartphone.
For those with a more negative bias, it’s important to recognize that not all technologies have to be universally applicable to make them useful or successful. The new relaunched Google Glass, for example, is no longer trying to be the next generation computing device and industry disruptor that it was initially thought to be. Instead, it’s being focused on (or limited to) work-based applications where it’s a great fit. As a result, it won’t see the kind of sales figures that something like an iPhone will, but that’s OK, because it’s actually doing what it is best designed to do.
Accepting and publicly acknowledging that certain technologies can’t do some things isn’t a form of weakness—it’s a form of strength. In fact, it creates a more realistic scenario for them to succeed. Similarly, recognizing that while some technologies are great, they may not be great for everything, doesn’t mean they’re a failure. Some technologies and products can be great for certain sub-segments of the market and still be both a technical and financial success.
If, however, we keep thinking that every new technology or tech industry concept can be endlessly extended without limits—everything in my life as service, really?—we’re bound to be greatly disappointed on many different levels. Instead, if we view them within a more limited and, in some cases more specialized, scope, then we’re much more likely to accurately judge what they can (or cannot) do and set expectations accordingly. That’s not a limit, it’s a value.
Bob O’Donnell is the founder and chief analyst of TECHnalysis Research, LLC a technology consulting and market research firm. You can follow him on Twitter @bobodtech. This article was originally published on Tech.pinions.
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President Anastasiades begins official visit to Slovenia
President of the Republic of Cyprus begins his meetings on Wednesday in the framework of an official visit to Slovenia, with talks focusing inter alia on the Cyprus problem, energy, Brexit and the EU.
President Anastasiades arrived on Tuesday in Ljubljana for an official visit, at the invitation of his Slovenian counterpart, Borut Pahor. He is accompanied by his wife, Andri Anastasiades, and the members of the Cypriot delegation, comprising Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Christodoulides, Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou and Undersecretary to the President Vasilis Palmas.
On Wednesday, President Anastasiades will be officially received at Constitution Square in Ljubljana by the President of Slovenia and will lay a wreath at the Monument for the Victims of All Wars.
The two Presidents and their delegations will then proceed to the Presidential Palace where President Anastasiades will be decorated by President Pahor with the Medal of Merit of Slovenia, and President Pahor will be decorated by President Anastasiades with the Grand Collar of the Order of Makarios III.
There will be a tête-à-tête meeting, followed by talks with the participation of the delegations. The talks will focus inter alia on bilateral relations, developments in the Cyprus problem, energy, trilateral cooperation, Brexit, and the Future of Europe.
Later on, a Memorandum of Understanding on Political Consultations between the two countries will be signed by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
The two Presidents will then make statements to the press.
President Anastasiades will then have a meeting at the Presidential Palace with Prime Minister Marjan Šarec and will attend an official lunch hosted in his honour by Speaker of the National Assembly Dejan Židan.
In the evening, President Anastasiades will attend an official dinner hosted in his honour by the President of Slovenia.
In the framework of the official visit, Christodoulides will meet in the afternoon with his Slovenian counterpart, Miro Cerar.
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Vevo's monthly viewership up nearly 50% to 6 billion
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Vevo, the online music video hub that is a joint venture of two of the world's biggest music labels, has seen a nearly 50 per cent increase in the number of music videos streamed each month from its platform, the company's top executive said on Tuesday.
The company, which is controlled by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, hit a monthly average of nearly 6 billion views in December, a 46 per cent rise from a year earlier, said Rio Caraeff, the chief executive officer.
About 65 per cent of the videos are being watched on mobile phones, according to the company. "On a global stage, it's really all about mobile," Caraeff said in Miami, where he was participating in the Billboard Latin Music Conference. "Mobile and tablet and television are where the majority of the views are happening."
A growing number of people watch music videos from the platform on smartphones, tablets or web-connected TVs using Apple TV, Roku and XBox devices. Google is a minority stakeholder in New York-based Vevo, which was founded in 2009. Universal Music is a unit of Vivendi SA, and Sony Entertainment is part of Sony Corp.
The online music video service started out distributing videos to AOL and Google's YouTube, creating revenue from a portion of the advertising revenue it generated.
Of the approximately 6 billion music videos streamed each month, 5 billion occur outside the United States, Caraeff said. The top countries include the UK and Germany. Vevo offers its own service in more than 13 countries and will soon roll out in Mexico.
The most watched video ever is teen pop star Justin Bieber's Baby with over 1 billion streams, according to the company. Last year, Pink's Just Give Me a Reason topped Vevo's list of the most viewed videos.
Caraeff said the company is holding conversations with potential investors as it seeks to expand. He declined to say who the company has spoken with. The Wall Street Journal has reported Vevo held talks with financial services firm Guggenheim Partners. "We are continuing to speak to investors as we try to find the right partners to grow the business more rapidly than we've been able to do so far," Caraeff said. "We're still very active in that process."
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Rhodes Old Town - Medieval Town
Rhodes medieval town or “old town” as it is called by the locals is an UNESCO world cultural heritage monument. In fact this is the largest and oldest inhabited medieval town in Europe!
The old town is the town of the Knights of the Order of St. John with some of the building still carrying the emblems of the Order. Wander around the magnificent paved alleys, under gateways and colonnades and through squares and obscure courtyards and feel the genuine medieval atmosphere.
The medieval town is protected by a fortress which was built in the 14th century AD by the Knights of Rhodes divided in two parts: the Kollakio to the north and the Burgh or Hora to the south. On the north part of the Fortress you will find the Street of the Knights, the Palace of the Grand Master (also known as Castello), the Hospital (today’s museum), the official churches of the Order while in the south part (Hora) you will see the Turkish bazaar around Suleiman’s mosque and the old market (Socrates Street) where there are plenty of local shops and restaurants.
Whatever you do, do not neglect to visit the Byzantine Museum, the Panagia tou Kastrou, Rhodes’ archaeological museum and the Medieval Festival (Medieval Rose fair) organized around May each year.
Strolling around the old town of Rhodes is a unique experience and will guarantee a romantic evening out and a memorable visit for the whole family.
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560 – Behind The Scenes How To Write A Book
What goes into the making of a book? James Schramko’s book, Work Less Make More, is the product of years of experience and 18 months of focused effort. Join James and his editor Kelly Exeter as they share the stories and process that combined to realize a long-time goal.
http://media.blubrry.com/intranet/p/d2rp9ogikj5dfh.cloudfront.net/podcast/Behind-The-Scenes-How-To-Write-A-Book-business-December-1-2017.mp3
Kelly Exeter
In the podcast:
02:18 – The Mafia plan
04:30 – A previous attempt
06:25 – The talk that got attention
14:08 – Three steps that are often done wrong
18:35 – One of the hardest projects ever
21:34 – What James has that no one else does
25:53 – The things that held James back
27:40 – How did Kelly do it?
30:52 – Who the book can appeal to
32:00 – Giving weekends back
36:03 – The refining process
37:08 – People tend to normalize
40:25 – A solid first draft
44:31 – The story behind the cover
51:08 – Editing revelations
1:00:46– At the end of the day, it’s legacy
Work Less, Make More is now available on Amazon Kindle. Click HERE
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James: James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. Today, we go behind the scenes and we’re going to find out a little bit more about what goes on when you decide to write a book. And for this episode, I’ve brought along someone who’s very special in my life these days, Kelly Exeter. Welcome.
Kelly: Hello, James. Thanks for having me.
James: Kelly, it’s no under estimation when I say you’ve changed my life because of your profound input into helping me catalyze this book that I’ve been trying to get out of me for a few years now. Actually, probably half a decade. So, a big thank you upfront.
I guess we’re going to find out what it is that you’ve actually done that’s helped this happen. And you’re really paving the way for me to get a few books out of me down the track. But also, you’re helping a lot of people who might read the book and get great results. One of the first people to read a copy of this new book that I just sent off last week is one of my children, who I dedicated the book to. So, we’re already making impact. And I just wanted to express my gratitude upfront.
Kelly: Yeah. That’s exactly what I saw when I was listening to you on podcast. I heard you present and I thought, how have you not written a book yet? Because the things that you say and preach and the knowledge and experience that you have is so practical and applicable and so helpful to people. So, I just know how fantastic a book is for getting those thoughts and ideas into people’s hands. So yeah, it’s been exciting and fun working on it with you.
James: If we look to the past, we would see some of the early iterations of my online business plan, which I called at the time a mafia plan. It was a plan that was so irresistible and powerful that you couldn’t refuse it.
The original Mafia Plan James was teaching in 2009
The Mafia Plan
It actually had book on there, and I’m going back a long time now; actually, probably about eight or nine years and some of our listeners will remember the story, but I’ll just share it again; is that I had studied and studied and researched and mapped out what I thought would be an ideal plan for my online business. And I was setting about putting all the pieces in place.
It had things like a blog where you put content. You attract people to it. You get their email address. You keep in touch with them and then you make offers of things such as coaching membership, affiliate offers for products and services that they find they would need that would also be a reward for me. There were classes. So, workshops, live workshops. There were high-end workshops. There was licensing where you license your information and get paid a royalty. There were services that relate to the things that the customers needed. So, all of these things I set about building out, but one of the items was a book, because I still think if you publish a book, you must be an expert. It’s still a very influential business card, so to speak.
“If you publish a book, you must be an expert. “
But I had this plan at home and I’d printed it out and I was showing a visiting American speaker this plan. And when I went to make coffee in my kitchen, I came back and I found he was at my computer and he’d emailed himself the plan to his own computer. And I just couldn’t believe it. This guy was such a shifty guy. The more I found out about this guy the more I was angry and concerned that he’d be giving advice to anybody and that his integrity was below the gutter. I just was astounded someone would do this in my own home. So, I decided to publish the mafia plan at my next live event. So, of all the things on that Mafia plan that I’ve published and implemented, the book was the last bit.
A previous attempt
And I did try about five years ago. I put together a transcript from a training program that I’d more or less authored with the idea to make a book from it. I guess back then I was more into the repurposing concept of it. And I paid someone a considerable sum to help me, who came from a publishing background, a legit publishing company, old school and had left that business to go on her own. But she came up with this intense block. She came and visited, did some interviews, compiled some stuff, came out with a draft, and we had a plan, and it sounded great. We were going to be in airports and stuff and then nothing. Absolutely nothing happened.
For quite some time, and I think it was actually a few years and by the time she’d gotten over that and presented me something, which I think you’ve seen, it just wasn’t, I wasn’t in the zone. I wasn’t compelled by it and it just lost its interest. I kind of shelved it for a while and in the meantime, I’ve been interviewing a lot of guests and clients.
I’ve had people who I’ve coached, like Chandler Bolt, come and talk about books because he’s teaching people how to publish books. I’ve interviewed my friend John Carlton about the Kindles that he publishes because he’s a prolific writer. He publishes books. I’ve had friends of mine like Dean Jackson talking about his little books that he does really quickly. And Kevin Rogers has also done those sorts of books. But I didn’t want to do one of those sorts of books. I joked with Dean that I don’t want to do a pamphlet. It was kind of how I thought about it. I want a real book, and I think Tim Ferriss says something along those lines. If you’re going to do a book, do a book. But I think he puts a swear word in there. And I really wanted to do a proper book.
The talk that got attention
And then the next thing you know, I put together a presentation for a bunch of bloggers to speak at Tropical Think Tank in the Philippines at Chris Ducker’s event. And I didn’t think too much of it. I do what I always do, is I research the audience. I find out what challenges they’re having and I ask the host what would be the most valuable thing that they could learn from me. And I put together my slides and that presentation was something along the lines of Double Your Profit and Halve Your Work Hours in the Next Year. I thought, you know what, I’m going to make it really realistic. Give them a year to do this.
But when I think of bloggers, and no disrespect to bloggers, I thought these people, they do work hard. They’re not lazy but sometimes they’re not so commercial. They might start with a passion or a hobby and then try and figure out a way to make money from it. It’s kind of backwards from the way that I was taught, which is to start with the market with a problem and then find a solution for them and then take that to them. So, I thought maybe they could get some ideas from that because there’s this one side of the spectrum where people are absolute workaholics; like hustle, grind. They’re doing 19-hour days. They’ve got black around their eyes. They are lacking sleep. They’re probably a heart attack waiting to happen.
“There’s a physical limit and there is a price.”
And I probably was a workaholic at one stage of my life. I’ve been there, so I’m saying it with context. I know what it’s like to work really, really hard and I know there’s a physical limit and there is a price. So that wasn’t an option. And then there’s the other side of it like the super lazy one that appeals to people’s greed where they’re going to buy some automatic cash spitting out machine and sit in their hammock drinking Pina Coladas and do absolutely nothing and everything will just happen by itself. Then they’re going to hire a virtual assistant who just magically knows what they’re supposed to do. And all of this stuff.
I think there’s got to be some middle ground here. There’s got to be some practical things that I’ve studied, researched and implemented and put into practice in real businesses that could apply to this online marketing scenario. So, I got up on the platform there and I started speaking and that’s where you were sitting in the audience, Kelly.
Kelly: Yeah, I was. And it was funny because it was one of those things, and I mean this is not just, Tropical Think Tank’s probably the best conference I’ve ever been to and my husband and I have been three times, but it was that first year, we were horrendously, horrendously burnt out. And so, I had been taking notes assiduously from every single person that had spoken, as I do, but just feeling very despondent because I was like, this is great. These are all great ideas, but when am I going to be able to do these things? I’m already burnt out and overworked. I don’t have the time to do them.
And so you kind of got up on stage and I had listened to you previously on FreedomOcean, which is that podcast you have recently just finished up with Tim Reid from Small Business Big Marketing. And I had gone over to FreedomOcean from Small Business Big Marketing because I was like, sounds great. These guys are going to teach me how to automate things or do fancy internet marketing that’s going to solve all my problems and make life easy and solve all my business worries. And then the stuff that you guys talked about on FreedomOcean, for me, it all went completely over my head and I was like, OK, I can’t listen to this podcast anymore. It makes no sense to me.
So, when you kind of stepped up on stage at Tropical Think Tank, I was like thinking, oh here we go. He’s going to talk about internet marketing. I’m just going to fill my notebook with more stuff that I don’t have time to do. And your talk noticeably lightened the load in the room because I think everybody was feeling a little bit like us. They’re overloaded with great ideas that we didn’t have time to action.
And you, kind of first of all got up and said, I’ve been you. But here’s what I do now. Here’s what my days looks like now. And they don’t look like working all day. They look like working kind of when I’m at my peak and I make good money doing it.” Because I think that was the other thing is that a lot of people had said, “Oh, we make great money.” But what they neglected to talk about was the fact that they were all working 14-hour days or doing like these launches every three months that just used up a huge amount of time and resources.
So, you getting up there and saying that you surfed every day and you worked maybe four hours a day but you still made good money, it was very refreshing. And also, you then kind of laid out a pathway for getting there and a pathway that seemed quite achievable and doable. And you also were saying, “Guys, it’s time to take stuff off your plate. I don’t want to add stuff to it.” So, all of that kind of combined, it got everyone talking at the conference. I think it was a really impactful presentation for everybody because it was something quite different to what we’ve heard before.
James: You know, that’s something that you get to after an evolution process because the very first presentation that I ever did at a conference, which was here in Sydney, by accident actually, funnily enough, because I was a member of an online forum and I remember travelling up to the Gold Coast. Just after I’d quit my job. This would have been 2008. I went up to the Gold Coast and I presented to the members of a forum about traffic and conversions. How’s that for a catchy phrase, right? That was my topic – traffic conversions, and I was ahead of my time. And they loved it. They thought it was great.
And then I went back to Sydney, didn’t think much of it, and I went to visit a friend of mine who was speaking at an internet marketing event in the city. And my friend Andrew said, “Look, I’ve got to go back home early. You take my spot.” And I said, “What?” He said, “You take my spot. I’ll tell the event organizer that you’re doing my spot.” And I said, “Is he going to be OK with that?” He said, “Yeah. You’ll be fine. You know more about this than I do.” So, I knew that I had my presentation on my laptop and without any notice I presented this traffic and conversions presentation. And that’s the first discovery I had that the general population when they’re hearing things about online marketing, it’s as if they’re listening to aliens talk from those movies; you know, weird bass sounds and squeals. They just stared at me.
One lady purchased my program and her name was Sally. She’s a lovely lady. And she says, “I don’t know anything that you just said. I don’t understand any of it but you seem very trustworthy.” That was kind of a half compliment. It was like you know, she’s not buying it because I’m clever or she thinks I could solve her problems. She’s buying it because she thinks she can trust me. And that was a real insight but I just went way over the top. I would have done exactly what you said not to do. And that’s load people up with ideas and concepts that I was excited about but they had no way of processing.
Three steps that are often done wrong
So, over time through my coaching, I’ve discovered the real secret to getting massive impact is really just removing everything. Just take everything away and just have one thing there. So, that’s why that whole presentation that you saw was only three steps. And that’s three absolutely critical steps that almost everyone gets wrong. You don’t see these things being done well in society, especially like the main one is around self-organization. Most people are hopeless at managing their emails and controlling their social media.
Then there’s the business model. Getting that right is critical and as you said, people are getting burnt out with launches or they’re prolific and busy. I mean the host of that event, Chris Ducker, is a great example. He’s very energetic. He’s a born entertainer. He’s on social media all the time making a lot of content. So, if you were following him, if you’re part of his audience or tribe, it would be easy to think that’s what you need to do, to be running events and having a service business and publishing books. Busy, busy, busy. Now, I know he has massive time off and takes whole days off and spends time with his family. But if you go on social media, you’ll see him there a lot, especially Instagram these days. Back then it was Duckerscope, I think. He was an unfortunate early adopter of Periscope, which kind of went off a cliff. But we won’t mention that.
“You attract people who are going to be compelled to engage in your style.”
I think you attract people who are going to be compelled to engage in your style. So, I’ve been attracting people who’ve decided they don’t want to do as much stuff. They’d rather have clear objectives, do less things and keep the steps simple and just refine as we go. So, it’s taken me years and years of refinement to apply the things that I learnt from normal businesses to the online world. I don’t like the phrase internet marketer or internet marketing. I’m pretty specific when I talk about online business or even just business. I think my category is business because I’m adept whether it’s online or offline.
But these days, the online side of it definitely offers more leverage and I seem to attract people with online businesses and I’m OK with that. But yes, the goal is to do the least amount of things possible but to make sure that they’re absolutely the best things you could do and that they feed a machine that has tremendous leverage.
The other, third, thing was the team side of it. And that’s something that I really did bring from offline is hiring, training, systemizing. It’s really quite hard to do online if you don’t have experience. And the fact is a lot of people just don’t have experience if you go from school to university to a job, you probably haven’t hired or trained many people by this point. Maybe a couple of trainees. Maybe you were a trainee. You might have had one or two bosses or maybe you’ve spent your whole time as a small business owner with a very small team and you haven’t gone to scale.
So, some business models will require scale, but not all. A business like mine now, I get by with half a dozen people in my team and they’re great. But we’ve had 10 times that and still made it work. So, the concepts have to be adaptable for any business and that’s why I think it resonated with the entire audience because it’s relevant to every person in the room. And I’ve made sure from now on that the training that we do, especially even on this podcast, it hits a broad base.
So, the idea for this podcast episode is to offer some insight as to how this book came about and why it wouldn’t have happened unless Kelly Exeter came along and sat in that audience. And then I think we should talk about some of the things that happened from that inception point where you said to me, “Why don’t you have a book?” And I said, “Well funnily enough Kelly, I did try once. But I just didn’t get there.”
One of the hardest projects ever
And I have to say it’s definitely one of the hardest projects I’ve ever engaged in because of the resistance that can come up. And it was unexpected for me, because I’m good at getting things done. When I line projects up and I have a clear path, I can demolish them. But there’s extra special forces against you with a book, and the ones that surprise me were, I mean aside from the fact that it’s not all mapped out and straightforward but it’s very personal having to dig through your own stories.
I’ve had to do a lot of research and fact checking and discussions with my parents and colleagues to fact check and validate and then even when I find out the facts, I have to make decisions on how far do I go with this and what to include or not and where does the story stop being interesting. And so, there’s that aspect is the personal aspect. There’s the open-endedness of it. I’ve literally gone to my garage and unarchived records from the past, old sales achievements and things to remind me. In fact, I’m going to do a whole separate episode on this called “It’s A Long Game,” because this idea of instant success is probably holding people back. This has been something I’ve been working on my entire life, really. Everything that I’ve done today is how we’ve got to the point where we have enough material and choices to make a good book.
And I think you’ll probably mention this Kelly, but we had a lot of stuff to choose from, right? By the time I’ve done all of my career up to date and then you know, family influences and then the online decade. We had so much to choose from, I think that was one of our biggest challenges, right?
Kelly: Absolutely. I mean the raw material that we got to mine to get to the book was both daunting and exciting. I think the hardest thing with you was that you had 10 years of content basically and then the content went beyond that because you had that knowledge that you gained while you were managing dealerships, but just the content that you had in forms of podcasts mainly, there was so much in there and you’re not currently, hopefully by the time this book gets out you will be, but you are currently not known for one thing or one concept. So, the people who’ve been following you for years, because I went into the forum and said to people like, “What is it about James? What’s the concept or what’s the overriding theory or thought? What’s the thing that keeps you here that he has that no one else has?” And nobody kind of really said the same thing.
What James has that no one else does
A lot of them talked about just kind of concepts that you’ve talked about in the past like OwnTheRacecourse is something that’s very familiar to people who’ve been following you for years, but it means nothing to your average Joe. Your no-compromise approach is something that’s very familiar to people who have been following you. But again, it’s not something that would hook average Joe. And then I was like, well you’ve worked for this Lunatic Millionaire guy and oh my gosh, the stories that you’ve got around him are brilliant. They’re such good stories.
Maybe there’s a book in like the Lunatic Millionaire stories, like 10 things I learned from the Lunatic Millionaire. But again, to even have that book, you have to give context and you don’t want to spend a heap of time giving context. You need to be able to hook people straight away.
So, it took a really long time but eventually I came back to that presentation that you gave at Tropical Think Tank and went, hang on a minute, this is something that appeals very widely. It’s something that everybody wants. It’s a promise that you can make and deliver on. Because I think this is a key, is that people have to be very careful to not make a promise and then fail to deliver. In a book, that’s obviously a death knell for any book but you’re not only able to deliver on that, like you’re actually living it.
“People have to be very careful to not make a promise and then fail to deliver.”
Because I think that that’s another thing people are very wary of these days. They’ve all got radars up for people who sell them an idea but then don’t actually live that idea themselves. People have been a bit burnt by that. So, that’s why I was quite excited when we kind of settled on the whole Work Less Make More thing, that you were living it. There was an evolution that we would be able to show. And I think that that evolution is very important because you were us. You were the person who this book is written for. You know, working these insane, insane hours. And even though you were making reasonable money, like there was no living going on there because you were working so hard.
So, there were just so many pieces of the puzzle that I was like, this book just ticks every box of a book that’s going to go well, that’s going to resonate with the person reading it, that has wide appeal without being a book for everybody. But it’s also the kind of book that someone’s going to hand it to another person and go, ‘You just have to read this.’ Yeah.
But yeah, the raw material, it was crucial because the best part, we left out so much good stuff and I think once you start leaving out really good stuff, you know you’ve got a really good book.
James: Yeah. It’s like the really tough edit. And you did warn me about that. You said look, because we had all these transcriptions of courses, we had the previous book attempt, we had forum posts, blog posts, podcasts. I mean I’ve done a thousand podcasts, I’m sure. It’s just so much stuff.
Kelly: And then I got you to make new recordings.
James: That’s right. You asked me questions and said, “Can you please answer these?” I remember sitting next to the Eiffel Tower in my hotel room reading some answers for an hour or two and then having them changed.
Kelly: And then I’d end up using like, you know, maybe two or three lines.
James: Right. Yeah, it’s like, most of it has gone. I think maybe my dad was one of the most disappointed. He would have loved to hear more about the family stories and stuff. But I mean the book’s not necessarily about him and it’s not even all about me. It’s about what have I been exposed to that I can share with others. And so, it’s almost satisfying in a way when you do discard a lot of that stuff. You know the stuff that’s left is the good stuff. And I do think we’ve probably got potential for other books down the track depending on the reaction we get from this one and what people would like to hear more of. Because you are right that we have to start somewhere. This is really the start.
The things that held James back
I think the thing that held me back from publishing the book was that I wanted to sell some businesses at the high end and really tick that box. And I felt very confident now that I could help someone go from start to finish and be able to cover them all the way with all of the things that they’re likely to need along the way there.
So, that was a personal responsibility that I had, to make sure that I was qualified. And I feel that’s been achieved. And now I think it’ll be really interesting when it goes out into the market to see what people like. And I’ve often published a new course pretty much every month for years and years within SuperFastBusiness. And sometimes they love the training and it’s just wildly successful and other times it’s OK. And people like it. Some people love it. But it’s not as broadly accepted because it may not speak to everybody.
So, one or two of them have just been crazy popular, like Inbox Relief. Helping people figure out how to get out of that inbox hell where they’re spending five hours a day and that’s not even a joke. That’s legit five hours a day just constantly refreshing their inbox and dealing with what comes in. They’re that out of control. And if it solves that one. So, that can be very liberating for someone. So, we’ll see what people resonate with.
So, you got all the starting material. You sent me additional questions. And in the meantime, you had to piece together a sensible outline that you felt would help someone go from start to finish, deliver on the promise of the book, give them enough information but not lock them up into paralysis. How did you do that?
How did Kelly do it?
Kelly: Yeah. Well, I don’t know about how other people go about it but to me I feel like a lot of people go, ‘Just write the book and then you know you sort out title later. I mean you have a working title and sort out the title later.’ But to me, I felt a barrier for me and I did a lot of work for locking it down was trying to write something without knowing what that title was. So, I did start trying to write the book and then I was like, I don’t know what the guiding principle of this book is. If I don’t know what the guiding principle of this book is, like you’ve got too much content, I can’t pull that together without knowing that guiding principle of the book.
So, we took a step back and went, let’s lock down this title first and it took a while and we got there. And then once I had the title of the book, because I had kind of started two or three different introductions, and again, because there was no guiding principle, I didn’t know where to go. There were introductions like some start, if you remember, you might not remember, like an early draft of the book. We were kind of taking the tack of how you didn’t enjoy school and you weren’t particularly great at school. But yet you’ve become a very successful businessman. I thought that would be a good hook to show all the people out there who aren’t great at school that here’s where you can go. So, I kind of started going down that path.
And then I just felt there was something stronger and more appealing than that particular hook. So, once we settled on the working title Work Less Make More, then I could sit down with the introduction and go, right, this introduction needs to give some back story because it needs to tell the reader, OK, this guy has made a big promise in the title. Who is he to deliver on this promise and how is he going to do it? And once I knew that, I wouldn’t say the introduction was easy to write, because an introduction is so crucial to the whole book. If people don’t read it, then they’re not going to get deep into the book. But where we got to in the end, I was quite proud of it because I felt it really showed your evolution through your working life and then through your business-owning life and then through your workaholic life to where you are today. And where you are today is where most people want to get to.
So, it really illustrates that you’ve walked the path first and now everything that you’re going to tell people in the book is not in theory and it’s not something that you haven’t done already. Like you’ve done these things and then the people you’ve coached have done these things. So, there’s really strong experience and really great case studies sitting behind everything that you talk about in the book. And I think that’s really powerful.
James: Yeah. I liked the case studies because you know, one thing that I think makes this book a little bit special, I mean there are other books out there with similar promises. One that comes to mind would be “The 4-Hour Workweek.” But when I read that book, I had four kids and a job and this guy writing the book is this young single guy. And I’m thinking, ‘Mate, how hard could it be? Seriously. To get by with no kids, no partner, no commitments?’ Like it’s not that hard.
Who the book can appeal to
I wanted something that was more real, that bites, that could be relatable to someone who has a family. You know, if you’ve got a mortgage or you’ve got kids or you’re stuck in a job, I actually wanted this book to be able to help someone who still has a job, even though it’s not specifically targeting people who have a job who want to quit their job. That’s a whole genre, right? Quit your job. Your job sucks. It’s not just targeting people who already have a business. I think it’s got, well certainly from the few people who have read the first versions, its appeal to people who have like almost no experience online. That was really refreshing to see that feedback come back. And it also has appeal to employees who are in an online business. And it’s definitely appealing to people who already have an online business who own the business. They’ve got a lot to gain from this book too. So, it’s been a bit tricky, I suppose, to have a general book for a general audience. But it’s a starting point.
Giving weekends back
Kelly: Yeah, that’s right. And I think, I mean the thing that you and I came at the book from ever so slightly different spots because you’re like, ‘Everyone can be making, having six figure months and work the hours that I do’, which is kind of four hours a day-ish. And I said to you, “Don’t discount the value of simply giving people their weekends back or their evenings back,” because I guess I remember that when Ant and I were, every evening, the kids would go to bed and then we would be back on our laptops until nine thirty and then we’d go to bed and not sleep well because we just been on our laptops till nine thirty or ten o’clock.
Or weekends where we were a tag team. Like one person would take the kids to the park while the other person stayed home and worked on their laptop and then come back and swap places. So, even if we didn’t make any extra money but got our evenings and our weekends back, like there was such huge value in that and so that’s where I like where we got to with the book in that people like us, Ant and I where we were three, four years ago. It’s going to help those people kind of immediately, like when we saw you speak at the conference and then we sat down with you for 10 minutes at a mastermind, just those two interactions kind of gave us our weekends and nights back and that was ridiculously valuable, especially to our kids.
But then we were then able to go on and do more of the things that you told us to do. And then those started adding to our bottom line. So, it’s almost like a two-pronged approach. It’s like, OK. Let’s get your life back first. You don’t have to make more money. Let’s just give you time to relax and recharge and exercise and eat well and sleep well. Those things are hugely valuable in themselves. And then once you’ve got those under control, alright, now let’s start adding actively to your bottom line and doing things smarter and having better business models and start working your way up to making more money. And I think the book does that really well.
James: Yeah. And I think during the process of putting it together, I mean you came up with an outline and an introduction and the chapters and there were the questions and the answers and the drafts. And there was a lot of my words and your words blending together and then getting reorganized. I read half the book on the way to the Maldives and scribbled a lot of notes and then sat on it and then read the other half when I was in the Philippines. And then I went chapter by chapter and it took about two hours per chapter to rewrite or retype over the final render; not the final final final, because there were still editing and proofing after that. But there was a lot of, it was like my words and then some of your words and then my words again and then some editing and then some proofing.
A lot of people have had a go at this, but I feel like even some of the little subtle things that I insisted on pushing my agenda with or making a point about, I think even some of those were fun little sort of tune-ups that must have made you think, ‘Gosh. Why is he obsessing about this one point?’ Like an example would be where I resist strongly this Monday-to-Friday-nine-to-five-weekends-off way of life. Like it’s just ingrained into me to fight it.
So, I’m cautious about complying with that society way of thinking when I’m putting together a book. I want to be contrarian. I mean it is a sort of counter-intuitive way that I think about things because I have questioned a lot of these things. Did you find during the tune-up phase that some of the things I was pushing on were curious?
Kelly: No, I didn’t find them curious. I found them interesting and then the tricky bit for me was ensuring that the book honored how you feel and the way that you think while also ensuring that we’re meeting the reader where they are. So, if we went straight into – forget the nine to five, forget having weekends. Just work when you have the energy. I thought if we went straight into that people would go, ‘Come on mate. That’s just not realistic for me.’ A little bit how you felt about Tim Ferriss’s “The 4-Hour Workweek.”
James: Yeah, you might get a disconnection.
Kelly: Yeah. I just wanted to make sure I could honor your idea and how you felt about that specific thing. I knew you felt very strongly about it, but still meet the reader where they are and I feel I did that.
James: Oh, I think so.
Kelly: Were you happy with it?
People tend to normalize
James: I got some validation about that too when I think my youngest son was having a read and he queried, I think one of the numbers I’d put just seemed too big for him to comprehend. I was talking like, I don’t know, $100,000 a month or something in one of my exercises. And he’s like, “$100,000 a month?” And I just had to really adjust and think, you know, like you can get used to that number after 10 years. But for someone who’s not yet making that in a year that probably does seem like a lot and maybe hard to comprehend. And I say that without any air of arrogance. I learned this at Mercedes-Benz, that you normalize.
People used to say, “Oh, it must be great. You get to drive around a new Mercedes-Benz.” But you actually get really, really used to it. It feels so normal to you. My last car that I had before the current car was an AMG C63 507 edition. It was 507 horsepower. And to me it just felt so normal. But to any rev head, it’s like a hot rod. It’s like this petrol-guzzling beast of a V8. But you get so used to it, it’s like a second skin. It is so easy and normal, so you do normalize. So, I’ve definitely been operating in an environment, especially with my customers, who do big numbers.
My average customer in SilverCircle is making more than a million dollars a year. So, $100,000 a month is just a normal sort of a number. And then you realize, I’ve seen some survey results where in the online marketing space, I think some like, single-digit percentages actually make even $10,000 dollars a year. There’s a massive failure rate. And then I see some of those blogger sites where they talk about income and stuff. And I think, how do they even afford to live from their ads or whatever? So, that was a good thing is you got to get into the zone of the customer first before I take them to the next place. But I do still feel passionate that $100,000 a month is definitely within reach of a significant portion of people who are not currently getting that.
And for everyone who is doing that, I’m sure there’s several people who could just activate just even a couple of ideas and at least get the cost of their book back within the first week. Very quickly. So, there’s almost no risk at all that they wouldn’t get something from it because it’s an easy read. And I think that’s your magic, Kelly – is you’ve taken all this stuff. It’s like taking, if all my content was an instrument and you’ve somehow turned it into a beautiful concert. So, I’m very appreciative of that. I think it’s a real skill.
But there’s been a lot of steps to this process. Aside from processing all this, you actually printed out the whole very first version and sent me a few copies with specific instructions. Do you want to talk about that?
A solid first draft
Kelly: Yeah. So that first draft, it was a very solid first draft. I had done a lot of rewrites. I’d kind of completely rewritten a couple of chapters to get to that first draft. A lot of times, first drafts can be a bit very first drafty. But that was a solid one. So, I wanted it printed, because I don’t like people reading online when they read a book. I want it in their hands. And then I said to you, I knew it was going to be quite difficult for you, but I said to you, “You’ve got to read this not as James Schramko but as the reader, as someone who is overworked and underpaid or still in a job or stressed out and strung out. You’ve got to read this from their point of view and see if anything jars.” And I think probably I was asking too much of you because I think you found that difficult as well.
James: It’s hard because I do process things on multiple levels at the same time.
Kelly: Yeah.
James: Even if I go to a coffee shop I’m thinking from the point of view of the customer, I’m thinking about it from the point of view of the coffee shop owner and then I’m thinking about it from the point of view of the other customers. I think this is just from working in a showroom. You’re always processing multiple layers because it’s a skill that’s hard to learn but can be learned. And when you’ve got it, you don’t really switch it off. It’s no real benefit. So, it was hard to do that, but I did write a filter for myself because I like filters. I wrote here, would this be appropriate for my son? Is it interesting? Is it actionable? Are there examples? Is it simple English?
I actually worked pretty hard on the words to make them the most easy-to-read English possible. And I was even thinking about my team members, if they would be able to read it without having to work too hard on translation. For people who it’s not even their first language.
Kelly: And I think that it is an interesting thing because you’re either excited to get into your hands because I was like, I wondered if it would be exciting for you to see kind of all your thoughts and ideas, all your best thoughts and ideas over kind of 10 or 20 years summed up in a book, but then I also knew you would kind of be reading it going, ‘Well, this is not interesting to me.’
James: That’s the thing that surprised me the most. There was so much resistance from me to picking up the document because it was kind of boring for me. It was like there was not a single new story in that whole book for me because I’d heard it. I was already there. It’s like watching a movie 100 times. At some point you’re thinking, I know what’s going to happen next. OK. Yep. I remember that. Aha. Aha. Yeah. It’s like you hear people say after they’ve watched a good movie, or like Game of Thrones or something. Or in your case, it might be Suits. They wish they could lose their memory so they could watch it all over again. It would have been nice. But it is almost impossible for me to read that book as a first-time reader.
But yeah. So, you went to that effort. You shipped me the book, I scribbled the hell out of it. I’m holding it here. There are so many notes in this book. And from there, we cut an entire chapter out and redid it because it just wasn’t working. And then there was another whole chapter that we decided to keep separate and that was mostly because it’s the highest chance of it becoming dated. So, one of the filters that we had was we want this to be more or less evergreen.
Kelly: Yes.
The story behind the cover
James: And then there’s still a lot of stuff after that, isn’t there? You’ve been doing things like proofing and line editing and typesetting and the cover. Oh my god, the cover.
Kelly: Oh, the cover.
James: You made me take all these photos. You didn’t like my old photos. I tried a couple of new ones and you said, “You’ve got to hire a photographer. So, the photographer, we got Malcolm out here who’s a lovely photographer, local to me as well.
The timing, it’s so bizarre how that worked. I actually went on a surf trip with Malcolm two years ago and just a month or so ago, his partner called me up and said, “I’m going out with Malcolm and I’d like some coaching please.” So, I started coaching his partner, who is fantastic. And then I said to his partner, I need to ask Malcolm if he’d take some pictures. He said sure. And now we’re all going on the Maldives again next year.
Kelly: Do you want to hear something even freakier, is that Malcolm used to be a professional triathlete and I used to be a semi-professional triathlete and we actually found out that you know 10 years ago or something about, there’s a race that he won and I was over there in Foster doing the same race. I then lived in Perth and I was over in New South Wales doing the same race. It was just like, ‘Whoa! This is freaky.’ Because I was like, I knew I recognized your name. I just couldn’t place it because it was so out of context. So that was weird.
James: Well, it was meant to be. I think we were all happy with the cover.
Kelly: Yeah. And it’s probably worth talking about the cover because as I said to you, the cover is huge because books do get judged on their covers. People do pick up books based on their covers and it has to be right. You did have a lot of resistance around that cover. We were using this old photo of you, which was fine, but you don’t look like that anymore. You’re a lot fitter and healthier-looking now than you were when this photo was taken. So, yes. I did have to push quite hard, but I’m glad we did because once we got it, and there was so much tweaking of backgrounds, and would we have waves? Would we have surfing? Would we have this and that? And in the end, we went with something quite simple. Collaborating with Greg Merrilees and his Studio1 Design team and it was so fun collaborating with them. And then once we got the cover finalized, it was like, yes!
James: Greg is pretty much my brand ambassador approval design guideline Ninja. The thing that I love about Greg is that when we update something, he will then start the round of upgrades everywhere. He’ll send me a new SilverCircle home page. It’s so important to have someone looking after your brand. I agree with you, people buy the cover. And it’s important in what I do, where I guess I’m almost reluctantly becoming a little more well-known, which is really the point of the book. I think that’s what you said in the beginning. People just don’t know I exist.
Kelly: I think that’s what I said to you. I said, “You’re kind of the smartest guy I know that nobody else knows.” Like I feel like I should be able to say the name James Schramko to people and have them nod and go, ‘Oh yeah. I know who he is.’
James: I had an Uber driver recognize me the other day.
Kelly: Oh, did you?
James: Yeah. That was crazy.
Kelly: Well, hopefully after the book comes out.
James: We’re like halfway there. He goes, ‘By the way, I actually know you.’ That was kind of weird. So that’s funny. I mean people know me around my suburb.
Kelly: Yeah. I think it’s worth the highlight for you. A large part of the book, like one of the very first conversations I had with you is like, why do you want to write a book? Why do you want to have a book out there? And there’s so many different reasons to have a book out there. But in the end, we decided that this book was going to be a branding book. Like say, kind of introduce you and make you a name. So, that’s why of all the cover treatments we could have done, we could have done some beautiful typography with the cover title. But in the end, we went, no James, you have to be on the cover because the point of this book is to brand you.
James: Yeah. And it’s the core way that I’m helping people with my coaching these days and also, the businesses who I’m involved with silently behind the scenes, they’re really buying my advice and my help in their business. I think that that was something that we could all agree on. Although we have made some choices. We’re not doing the free plus shipping book upgrade stuff or the Kickstarter, buy 100 copies and get a signed t-shirt. I’ve never really liked those. So, I guess this is a choice that might cost me money. However, it really doesn’t sit with me well – the free plus shipping. It seems a little disingenuine. I don’t know why people would want 100 copies of the book and a signed t-shirt. It seems like it would be all about me making a lot of sales and getting a top listing.
I’m OK if it’s not the number one New York Times best seller. I’d let go of a lot of that ego stuff. I would be happy if it helps people and they like it and it’s popular because it’s a good book. That’s really my objective, is to put a good book out there and that’s where you have helped me immeasurably. It’s something I would not have been able to do by myself in any reasonable time frame because there’s so many steps and it is challenging to work on your own stuff. Easy for me to work on other people’s businesses. It’s easy for me to tell them to get a book. I’m telling people all the time, just ask Kelly to help you on your book. And hopefully they will, because you’re good at this. I think you definitely have a great process and system. And hopefully, some of this process is interesting for people to see what obstacles they might face, what are some of the steps that are involved and how long does it take. We’ve been at this for a while now, haven’t we?
Editing revelations
Kelly: Yeah. It’s 18 months since I first sent you that email saying, “How come you haven’t written a book yet?” And I guess these last few months have been the most intense because as you said, you got that first draft from me and then you had to go through and make your own notes on that first draft. And then from there, once you’d made those, I know you had a few beta readers as well just to pick up on a few things. And then you had to go through each chapter and Jamesify anything that wasn’t quite right.
James: And I was doing that off my notes and my two readers’ notes. The two readers were great. One of them was really quite new to the whole field and he was asking me questions. He was actually involved in discussions where he didn’t really understand what we were talking about. And I said, “Are you a reader? Would you read a book?” And he said yes. So, I gave him the book and a day or two later, he’d read the book and it was like those movies where aliens come from another planet and watch TV for 24 hours a day for a week and then suddenly they know how to speak English. He was like, he was now participating in the conversation. And it all made sense. And I was really excited about that. And he since then actually resigned from a job. Well, he’s put in notice. He’s swinging from one vine to another, is the metaphor I would use. I’m so excited for him. I actually got a message from him today. He wants to catch up. Have a chat, which is encouraging. He’s on a mission. And I’m helping him inside my membership as well.
Kelly: Yeah. I loved hearing that from you, because I thought you gave it to someone who had been around for a while and you gave it to him who had zero business experience online. And like you said, he just didn’t speak that language. So, to hear that the book suddenly made him fluent is really, really exciting.
James: The one who had been around for a while, he had great feedback as well, which was things like he’d circle a part and go, this – this could be a whole chapter. This part here is very important. So, when I was re-editing, I actually expanded parts. You noticed that there were bits where I put extra points or really drilled it home. Or he’d put questions like why, or how, or give me an example. Why is this important? So, he didn’t let me off the hook with a half explanation.
Kelly: Yeah. A lot of people find the editing process really horrible, but I found it so fun because you made your edits and then I went over your edits and cleaned up your edits.
James: See what I desecrated. Like OK, what’s he done now?
Kelly: But also, they were illuminating because they showed me, like the little tiny, it’s the subtleties and the subtleties are so important. So, your edits gave me subtleties, which then showed me where I either needed to go in to tidy up a few other areas to get those subtleties in there.
James: It’s like I’m giving you the clue. OK, well this is the bit that’s really important here, Kelly. Like this is the one I want to emphasize. Because only I would know some of these things after speaking to so many people. It’s the hot spots where every person has the same challenge. When I hear those ones, that’s where I have to nail the delivery on it.
Kelly: And you’d think that I also had to know some of the transcripts from years ago were informing the content of the book. And you’d since shifted your thinking on those things. So, that was interesting to me as well, to see where you had made subtleties in your thinking. And then those subtleties had to be carried through in certain areas.
James: Exactly. It was amazing how much of my original stuff is still exactly the same. That was one thing I thought was quite confidence-enabling. And then there were other things where I’ve just learnt more information since, where I’ve evolved my thinking because I’ve been exposed to more research, where I may have started with something and then discovered through either experience or research and going deeper into something that there’s actually a whole hidden door to that. And there’s a few examples where people are just dead wrong and they perpetuate myths over and over again. And there were several things in there where I pretty much wrote the exact opposite. Like you and I had an exact opposite phrase. Those were the most interesting ones, because I have to also consider that you’re going down your path as well. And I had to try and eliminate your bias and my bias and the reader’s bias and try and get to the neutral part. The truth, you know, as I would say.
Kelly: Yeah. The truth as close as you can. And I found that part of the process quite fun and really, really interesting. And then from there, so you made your edits and I made some more edits. And then it went to the line editor. And he went through and sharpened up every single line and takes long lines and makes them shorter and then it comes back from him and then I go through it again to check his edits and see what he’s done. And then from there then it goes to the proof reader. So, it’s so many parts of the editing process and then you know, you’ve had people reading it. I’ve had a few people reading it and people have made suggestions. And the thing is, we could keep going forever.
“It’s like software – you’ll always come up with new user features they want.”
James: It’s like software, you know? You’ll always come up with new user features they want. And then a lot of the suggestions, I don’t even like the suggestions, like I wouldn’t change it because they’re only obviously doing it from their selfish point of view. It’s hard for them to know our target market as well as we do if they’re looking at it from their point of view. So, there are a lot of suggestions.
Kelly: And you have to be so careful about it. I think if three people say the same thing, like three people highlighted one phrase and said, should you use analysis paralysis here instead? And I’m like, well three people have mentioned this – maybe. But for the most part, people are asking for things to be inserted or expanded on and it’s just that person.
James: Yeah. They never saw how much you cut.
James: Dad, you don’t understand. She’ll get rid of 75 percent of this. Like I don’t think my reader knows who Paul Keating is, but I appreciate the suggestion.
Kelly: And in the end, like even now, every time I go to the book with fresh eyes, I go, ‘Oh, it would be good to put a story here. Or it would be good to expand.’ And then we have to go, you know what, you have to set a publication date and you also have to set a point in the sand where you know what, this book as it stands is going to help a lot of people. I feel very strongly that people are going to read this book and then they’re going to hand it to someone else and go, ‘You have to read this.’ And to me, if I had that confidence in the book then it’s ready to get out there. It’s ready to ship. And yes, we can keep tweaking and finessing it forever but at some point, you have to….
James: Well, I’ve definitely reached the point where I’m just, sign it off and send it. I’m done. I’m not a perfectionist and I don’t have that ultimate niggle that every single thing has to be lined up, all the ducks have to be… I’m happy to let it out early and then adjust, because I know you can update Kindles fairly easily and I know that a lot of the initial sales will be via Kindle. And I’m sure that my audience will tell me everything that’s wrong with it in the first thousand copies. So, we won’t take long to get feedback. Like everything else I’ve ever produced, people will tell you fairly soon. Like, ‘Oh by the way, you’ve got “the” twice on this line,” or whatever. OK. So, I’m looking forward for the adjustments. So, if you’re listening to this and you do get a copy of the book and you have a suggestion, I’m not saying I will dismiss it. I’m saying just send it through by all means. I appreciate it. You can basically become part of our editing team.
Kelly: This is the fun bit now. It’s fun and so scary. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been through the process of like this is amazing, oh my god, this is actually crap. It’s terrible to back it. I think this is a really, really good book. But now, the proof is going to be in.
James: Well, I’m totally in the phase of whatever happens, happens now. If no one is interested in it and it doesn’t sell well then, I feel good because I’ve done that discipline of putting out a book and it was hard. And if people love it and it’s great then I’ll be excited as well because that would have been the goal, is to make something worthwhile.
Kelly: Yeah. You don’t write a book and think it doesn’t matter.
At the end of the day, it’s legacy
James: You don’t dedicate it to your children saying you know, I hope you enjoy this load of crap. It’s like, I really use them as the filter because they’ve been my longest students and project in a way, like coming on more than two decades in two cases, where I want to be able to say, “Look, if you’ve ever wondered what I actually do or how it all worked when you were a kid, here’s some stories.” So, my 17-year-old was really enjoying some of the stories when I worked in the dealership because he’s just landed himself a job and he’s really interested in – wow, maybe we’ve got some things in common and I’ve already been through what he’s going through and all this sort of stuff. It’s a great legacy to have.
Kelly: Yeah, and that’s the beauty of it. At the end of the day, it’s legacy. I know that’s maybe an ego thing but I do think you can’t underestimate the power of, like these are your ideas and now they’ve kind of been made immortal. Like, I don’t want you dying tomorrow, but if you died tomorrow, there is something left in the world that will keep helping people way beyond your lifetime. And I think that’s super exciting.
James: I wonder if that’s almost the opposite of ego. It’s really not for me or about me. It’s like gosh, all those things I’ve stored and record-kept and paid attention to. It’s nice to have been able to collect them all up and I’ve thrown out a lot of stuff since I’ve written this book. It’s like, files and boxes, because I was keeping them for writing a book. I’ve thought about writing a book for really a couple of decades. When I kept my sales reports and stuff I thought, this will be handy for a book one day. I just had a feeling that we would get to this point, but it’s released to me more than anything. So, I’m happy to let it go out there and just see what happens.
Kelly: And that’s removed a lot of blocks. Now the next one will be much, much easier.
James: If you’re up for it, Kelly. I don’t know.
Kelly: I’m totally up for it. I know it is going to be as well. It’s not going to be the one we thought it was going to be.
James: I must be a difficult customer because I’m so independent in my life with the least amount of compromise. I don’t really have bosses. And I do cut my own schedule. So, you’ve pretty much had the most control over me of anyone of any recent period. And I know I can still be difficult to wrangle, but I usually, I’m a good doer when I get on to it.
Kelly: You get there in the end. We’d get there in the end. It’s been fun.
James: I never flake. And of course, life goes on. It’s when you’re not working all the time, you’ve got plenty of other things that can come into your life like swell patterns and travel and you know, family things and stuff. So, it’s really been an amazing journey. I’ve learnt a hell of a lot. I really wanted to share some of this sort of behind the scenes. Hopefully, it’s helpful. At this stage, the easiest way to find out about the book if you’re listening to this, no matter when it’s out; if it’s not out or if it’s already published, just go to SuperFastBusiness.com/book and we’ll have links there or details on how you can find out about the book. There are no tricky things happening there. We just want you to find the book easily.
And Kelly, if someone’s listening to this and they’re an expert, author, speaker or they’re just doing their family tree and they want to get a book out there and they’d like help, where can they get your help?
Kelly: Yes. They can find me at levelupyourwriting.com, which ironically is a name that many people in the SuperFastBusiness community loathe, but that’s where I am and that’s what I feel I help people do and I look forward to helping anyone who’s listening to this podcast do the same.
James: That’s it. And also, you could reply to any email I send you and I’ll happily forward it to Kelly’s private email address and make a connection. So, there you go. By the way, if you’ve got questions about this podcast or the book process, please ask them where you see this podcast episode and I’ll ask Kelly. And if we need to come back and sort of expand on some of this, then we can do that as well. This is episode 560 and it’s called Behind The Scenes How to Write a Book. And Kelly, thank you so much for sharing.
Kelly: A pleasure. Thank you so much for having me, James.
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Born: Nov. 8, 1989, in Wheat Ridge, Colo.
Hometown: Littleton, Colo.
College: University of Portland
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Bio: A dangerous forward, Foxhoven ranks fourth on the University of Portland’s all-time career scoring list with 139 points (57 goals, 25 assists) and recently played professional in Russia for FC Energiya Voronezh. The Colorado native joins Thorns FC for the inaugural NWSL season, signing as a Discovery Player on Feb. 21, 2013.
2013: Finished the season with four goals, three of which were scored as a second-half substitute ... Started the last seven regular-season games after seeing time as a substitute in 13 of the first 15 games of the season ... Started both NWSL playoff games ... Tallied a goal in a 3-2 loss against FC Kansas City on Aug. 4 ... Scored a goal in two straight games, recording a goal in the 48th minute in both matches (June 6 vs. KC; June 16 vs. Seattle) ... Scored her first goal of the season in the 70th minute of a 2-0 win against Chicago on April 27, entered the match as a 54th-minute substitute, providing the go-ahead goal ... Drew a penalty kick to set up the game-tying goal in the 67th minute against FC Kansas City ... Younger brother Zack played for the Timbers U-23s United Soccer Leagues’ Premier Development League (PDL) side during the 2013 season.
2010: Made several appearances with the Women’s U-23 National Team, helping the side win the Four Nations Tournament in the United Kingdom … Scored one goal in three appearances during the tournament … Helped the Women’s U-23 National Team defeat Oregon State University with a penalty kick goal on April 22, 2010 … 2006: A member of the Women’s U-17 National Team for matches at the Nike Friendlies at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. … Lined up alongside Thorns FC forward Alex Morgan with the Women’s U-17 National Team on several occasions.
2012: Made nine appearances, scoring six goals for Russian side FC Energiya Voronezh … Registered a hat trick against Kubanochka on April 26, 2012 … Drafted as the 17th overall pick in the 2012 WPS Draft by the Philadelphia Independence … Two weeks later the league suspended operations.
Foxhoven ranks fourth on the University of Portland’s all-time career scoring list with 139 points (57 goals, 25 assists) … Appeared in 87 matches for the Pilots from 2008-11, and also ranks fourth on the program’s all-time goal-scoring list with 57 goals … Was a two-time All-WCC First Team selection (2009, 2010) and was the WCC Freshman of the Year in 2008.
Father, Brian, played basketball at the University of Denver (1982-86) … Founded Equipment Across Continents, a venture that collects used soccer gear from clubs and distributes it to overseas programs affiliated with Coaches Across Continents.
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The Kansas African American History Trail
About the Journey
Trail Sites
The Kansas African American Museum
Nicodemus National Historic Site
Historic Ritchie House
Freedom’s FrontierNational Heritage Area
The Richard Allen Cultural Center and Museum
John Brown Museum State Historic Site
Gordon Parks Museum
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site is one of the 420 plus National Parks in the country yet the only park dedicated to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation in public schools. This National Historic Site is located in the former Monroe Elementary School Building built in 1926, which was one of four segregated elementary schools for African Americans in Topeka.
In December, 1952, the U.S. Supreme Court consolidated five cases under one name, Oliver Brown et al. v. the Board of Education of Topeka representing cases from Kansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, South Carolina, and Virginia, all of which challenged the constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools. With NAACP guidance, 13 Kansas parents volunteered to enroll their children in white schools and then filed complaints in federal court, which ultimately led to the landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” Language from the opinion written by Chief Justice Earl Warren for the unanimous Court.
The site highlights the U.S. Supreme Court’s role in affecting changes in national and social policy and symbolizes the determination of citizens to insure equal opportunities for their children. Today, the National Park Service interprets the Brown story through programs, audiovisual presentations, exhibits and publications. The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site is located approximately four blocks southwest of the Kansas State Capitol Building located and is open free of charge from daily except for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
1515 SE Monroe Street
Topeka, Kansas 66612
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Hours: Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Click to learn about upcoming tours of Trail sites.
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America's New Happiest Cities
The new Gallup data on America's happiest metro regions has just been released. Last year's Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index ranked Silicon Valley as America's happiest metro-region. This year Boulder, Colorado is the winner. Boulder recently was named the best city for startups and registers highly on my own creativity rankings. College towns dominate the rankings. DC ranks tenth.
DC ranks first among large metros with Austin second, San Jose third, Seattle fourth, and San Francisco fifth. All of these metros have large tech clusters, highly educated populations, and high concentrations of knowledge, professional, and creative workers.
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index covers six key categories: Life Evaluation, Emotional Health, Work Environment, Physical Health, Healthy Behaviors, and Access to Basic Necessities. Honolulu leads in Life Evaluation and Emotional Health.
Gainesville, Florida leads in work environment, and Boulder comes in first for physical health. Salinas, California takes the top score for Healthy Behavior and Holland/Grand Haven, Michigan leads for Basic Access. Silicon Valley, did not score in the top ten this year, either for Overall Well-being or in any of the subcategories. The most "unhappy" metros are Rustbelt locations that have been hard-hit by the Great Reset or the Sun Belt's housing dependent cities of sand.
My next post will follow up with an analysis of the key factors that are associated with city happiness.
Richard Florida is a co-founder and editor at large of CityLab and a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is a university professor in the University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, and a distinguished fellow at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate and visiting fellow at Florida International University.
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FactCheck.org's Brooks Jackson on Overcoming Motivated Skepticism
Walter Frick
Once upon a time, before the age of the Internet, we lived in a world of "many economists." If a newspaper reporter was writing a story on inflation, for instance, he or she would call up a number of experts and relay their comments -- not just via quotes -- in an article: "Many economists think inflation is likely to rise in the near future." In other words, we lived in a world where reporters and their editors were the only link between sources and readers. And what were we, the readers, to make of what we read? For the non-expert at least, we could choose to trust it or not, and that was about it.
Fast forward to the present. Those articles still get written, of course, but the dynamic between reader, author and source has drastically changed. If I want to know what economists think about an issue, I can go straight to their blogs. The benefits of this wealth of expert information are so obvious that I won't dwell on them here. But the arrangement presents its own challenges.
By now you may have heard that there is a lot of false or misleading information on the Internet. So your first challenge as a reader is knowing where to look. That may seem easy enough, but it's complicated by a second issue: We have a stubborn tendency to seek out and accept information that conforms to our existing worldview.
A number of articles and books have already been written about the dangers of the Internet in these regards. But while it has subverted many of the traditions of journalism, the Internet has arguably led to the rediscovery of one of its most crucial processes: fact-checking. In the midst of an explosion of opinionated writing, a new class of online arbiter has emerged, led by sites like PolitiFact.com and FactCheck.org.
These sites have become invaluable sources of information about controversial political matters. Perhaps more interestingly, the methods they rely on to sort fact from fiction may serve as a guide to our own efforts to determine reliability as we filter information online.
With that in mind, I spoke with FactCheck.org Director Brooks Jackson over e-mail about the process he and his team use in their work.
While some of the claims Factcheck.org examines are relatively simple, you and your team don't shy away from complex issues. For instance, you did multiple analyses of President Obama's stimulus package. Taking on some of the claims meant wading into some heavy-duty economics. How did you decide to take that on? Do you have economists on staff at Factcheck.org?
We have no economist, or budget to hire one. I've covered economic subjects off and on in Washington for a long time, though. As for deciding to take on a subject -- when the public is subjected to conflicting claims -- the case here -- we seek out the best information we can find to prise out the facts. In this case, the stimulus was the biggest issue of the day for a long time. We try to take on whatever people are wondering about.
In Febuary 2009, Factcheck Wire ran a post outlining disagreements between economists on the stimulus, and deferring on the question of whether or not it would work. Your September 2010 analysis is more confident in its assessment of the bill's job impact. How did your team's approach to analyzing the stimulus evolve over that time?
As we noted in Feburary, at that time economists had very little data. Six months later there was more data available. Also, the CBO had weighed in. We give great weight to CBO analysis because they are scrupulously nonpartisan, they have great expertise (I'm told there are 150 Ph.D.'s on staff, and many economists.) It's important to note that we make no attempt at independent economic analysis on our own -- that's beyond our resources and expertise. What we can do is seek out the best sources of neutral analysis and lay it out for our readers in understandable terms.
Appeals to authority are tricky enough, but part of the debate over the stimulus also required weighing different models of the economy as well as different "schools" of macroeconomic thought. What kind of challenges did these factors present?
We don't try to pick which estimate is right -- we just note the range of credible expert opinion. About all we can say is that there's no doubt the stimulus spending created jobs (contrary to some silly utterances by some Republicans) but we can't be sure how many, or it's a matter of opinion as to whether they were worth the expense.
In your analysis of the stimulus, you cite the Congressional Budget Office. Ezra Klein has written about how the healthcare reform battle may have damaged the CBO's reputation, and has accused Republicans of trying to discredit "the last truly neutral, truly respected scorekeeper in Washington." Is that threat real?
CBO has certainly been attacked by some Republicans who did not like its findings. Does that mean its reputation is damaged? I'm not sure I agree. So far as I can see it still labors as honestly and skillfully as ever to give Congress an accurate picture of the likely budget consequences of proposed legislation.
In your book unSpun and on your site you list as a crucial test of evidence: "Is the source highly regarded and widely accepted?" What impact does today's level of partisanship have on that criteria?
Still a good criteria, even if it becomes harder to find a "widely accepted" source when partisans habitually reject sources that tell them what they don't want to hear. But they aren't the only criteria. With regard to CBO, they still have deep expertise, a record of unbiased nonpartisanship, and a transparent and scholarly methodology going for them.
Do your researchers rely on any sort of hierarchy of sources? Wikipedia's sourcing guidelines, for instance, treat academic and peer-reviewed sources as the most reliable. Is there any good rule of thumb about the reliability of academic work vs. think tanks vs. government vs. private researchers, etc.?
We would also give academic and peer-reviewed articles much greater weight than, say, a Wikipedia article. I don't understand their rule giving primary reliance on "secondary sources," however. We try to get as close as possible to primary sources -- such as a transcript of a news conference or a fresh download of unemployment figures from the BLS. I can't give you a strict hierarchy, however. Even peer-reviewed and scholarly articles can be wrong, as was recently shown to be the case with that horrible study claiming that vaccines cause autism. (How many young lives have been ended or blighted by that evil fraud, which scared many parents away from immunizing their children against some pretty awful diseases?)
Generally, we try never to rely on a single source. And we attribute, so our readers know where our information is coming from.
Factcheck.org has a lengthy list of think tanks along with their leanings and reliability. How did you come up with these descriptions?
We rely heavily on their own descriptions of themselves, the leanings of their leaders and funders, and our own long experience with dealing with many of these groups.
Some think tanks lean left or right by virtue of the policy implications of their research or the views of their staff (like Brookings), while others have stated ideological missions (like Heritage) that place them on one side or the other. Does that distinction matter to their reliability?
I suppose we take these things on a case by case basis. There's a wide range of opinion and focus within Brookings, for example. One author might lay out facts in a straightforward manner while another might be making a one-sided argument for a particular policy outcome. In all cases we try to look behind the arguments and validate the cited facts for ourselves. The Brookings Iraq Index was (and is) a great collection of facts about Iraq, for example. We've found fault with one or two Heritage studies, but found useful facts in others.
When is the government a good source of information? When isn't it? How do you approach using government as a source for information when the larger questions at hand are often dealing with the virtue and competency of government itself?
Agencies like BLS, CBO, the Energy Information Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and some others I could name crank out numbers that are seldom questioned and based on nonpartisan, transparent methods. I don't know of many who question their competence.
Other parts of government are not above spinning the facts for their own ends. I would not call this government ad about Medicare particularly accurate or virtuous, for example: http://www.factcheck.org/2010/07/mayberry-misleads-on-medicare/.
We give great weight to the statistical agencies. Not so much to the political appointees. There's a big distinction there.
We tend to be more skeptical of assertions that run counter to our existing worldview. How can we adjust for this bias of "motivated skepticism"? In such situations, it seems our reasoning capabilities are coming to the service of our emotions, to ill effect. Is it ever the case that we ought to employ less critical thinking?
In unSpun, Kathleen Jamieson and I argue that to keep from being fooled by this common human tendency, its a good idea to keep asking yourself "Am I missing something? Does the other guy have a point here?" It also helps to be aware of this universal psychological tendency, and for teachers to point out examples of it.
Kathleen doesn't like the term "critical thinking" because it implies to some that they should automatically be critical. We prefer "analytical thinking." If you look at it that way, I think there's no danger of being too analytical. I agree that there is a danger of automatically distrusting anything said by people in authority. In that sense, yes, there is a danger of too much "critical" thinking. It's one thing to be skeptical, which is good. It's another to be cynical, which is a sort of naive belief that everybody is lying.
There seems to be a heavy anti-expert thread running through today's American political culture. Do you think that's a feature of the political moment, or an enduring fact of American politics?
Good question, and I don't know the answer. Distrust of authority and disdain for intellectuals is nothing new. Has it reached new heights (or depths)? Will it continue at this level? I don't know.
Walter Frick is an associate editor at Harvard Business Review.
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Gueller, Shirley. "Buddy MacMaster ". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 25 August 2014, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/buddy-macmaster-emc. Accessed 19 July 2019.
Gueller, S., Buddy MacMaster (2014). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/buddy-macmaster-emc
Gueller, Shirley, "Buddy MacMaster ". In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published October 01, 2013; Last Edited August 25, 2014. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/buddy-macmaster-emc
Gueller, Shirley. The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. "Buddy MacMaster ", Last Edited August 25, 2014, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/buddy-macmaster-emc
Buddy MacMaster
Article by Shirley Gueller
Updated by Andrew Mcintosh
Last Edited August 25, 2014
Hugh Allan (Buddy) MacMaster, OC, ONS, fiddler (born 18 October 1924 in Timmins, ON; died 20 August 2014 in Judique, NS). Known as "King of the Jigs," Buddy MacMaster was considered a major force in the survival of Cape Breton music and dance.
Hugh Allan (Buddy) MacMaster, OC, ONS, fiddler (born 18 October 1924 in Timmins, ON; died 20 August 2014 in Judique, NS). Known as "King of the Jigs," Buddy MacMaster was considered a major force in the survival of Cape Breton music and dance. His citation for the Order of Canada recognized him as an "ambassador of Canadian music and a mentor to many" who led "a Gaelic renaissance in Canada and abroad."
Early Years and Career
Buddy MacMaster was born to amateur musicians from Cape Breton; they moved to Judique, Cape Breton, NS in 1929. He was virtually self-taught. His influences were Little Jack MacDonald, Angus Chisholm, Bill Lamey, Little Mary MacDonald, Dan R. MacDonald and Dan Hugh MacEachern. A renowned dance player from age 14, MacMaster joined the wedding and dance circuit in 1949. He was a guest in the launch of CJCB TV (Sydney, NS) in 1953 and for several years performed on CBC TV's Ceilidh. As a member of the fiddle group Cape Breton Symphony, he toured Scotland and Canada, played as soloist, and performed at Edinburgh Castle's first ceilidh (1975).
MacMaster appeared through Nova Scotia, Canada, the US and the UK for dances, in concert and in festivals such as the Atlantic Fiddlers' Festival, Cape Breton Fiddlers' Festival, Celtic Colours International Festival, Nova Scotia Highland Village Day, Cape Breton Fiddlers' Festival, the Nova Scotia international tattoo, and the Celtic Sundance Festival, Utah. He also performed with Symphony Nova Scotia.
He was recorded by CJFX (Antigonish, NS), CJCB (Sydney, NS), and the CBC and BBC. He made the first of several solo CDs at the age of 65. In 2007, he performed with his niece Natalie MacMaster on a BBC TV special.
Alongside his music career, MacMaster worked for the Canadian National Railways from 1943 to 1988. He was an Inverness municipal councillor from 1968 and a member of school boards and the board of the Sydney Steel Corporation.
Buddy MacMaster was considered one of the most influential mentors for musicians such as fiddler Ashley MacIsaac and gave workshops in Canada, the US and Britain (e.g., at Harvard University and the Isle of Skye). He taught at the Gaelic school Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in Skye and at the Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music in Inverness, NS. In 2006, the Celtic Music Interpretive Centre in Judique, NS, established the Buddy MacMaster School of Fiddling.
MacMaster's honours include the Canada Medal (1993), Order of Canada (2000), Order of Nova Scotia (2003), and the East Coast Music Awards' Dr. Helen Creighton Lifetime Achievement Award (2006). MacMaster was only the third Canadian to receive the US Folk Alliance International Lifetime Achievement Award (after Stan Rogers and Edith Fowke), and was the first non-Briton inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame (2006). He also received honorary degrees from St. Francis Xavier University (LLD, 1995) and Cape Breton University (D.Litt., 2006).
Composers who wrote music for MacMaster include Dan R. MacDonald, Dan Hugh MacEachern, Donald Angus Beaton, Kinnon Beaton, John Campbell and Jerry Holland.
See also: Fiddling; Folk Music, Anglo-Canadian
Atlantic Fiddling. 1979. CBC LM470
Cape Breton Connection. Stephen MacDonald Productions ASIN: B00000I44T
Heart of Cape Breton. 2002. Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40491
Cape Breton by Request. 2001. Stephen MacDonald Productions ASIN: B00005LPRA
My Roots are Showing. Natalie MacMaster. 1998. Warner Music Canada CD22715
SOLO RECORDINGS
Judique on the Floor. 1989. Sea-Cape ACD 9020
Glencoe Hall. 1991. BM-91
The Judique Flyer. 2000. Stephen MacDonald Productions SMPCD 1012
Buddy MacMaster - Cape Breton tradition. 2003. Rounder Select 82161-7052-2
Natalie and Buddy MacMaster: Traditional Music from Cape Breton Island. 2005. MacMaster 008
Buddy MacMaster: Master of the Cape Breton Fiddle. Video. 1992. SeaBright Murphy Video Productions
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Similarities in Christian & Islamic Art
Tasha Brandstatter - Updated September 29, 2017
At first glance, it may seem as though there are no similarities between Christian and Islamic art, for they serve different purposes in different ways. Christian art is didactic and usually naturalistic and figural, because of the emphasis in Christian theology on the body of Christ. Islam, meanwhile, focuses on the word of God and its art relies mainly on abstract patterns. Both Christian and Islamic art share similar antecedents, however, which is particularly clear in examples of architecture, patterns, painting and portable arts.
The greatest similarities between Islamic and Christian art can be found in architecture. Both traditions are heavily influenced by classical architecture and use light as an important element to symbolize divinity, as well as similar floor plans in some cases. Sinan, one of the foremost Ottoman architects, attempted to surpass the beauty of the Hagia Sophia in his plans for buildings such as the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey, by enlarging the dome and unifying the space. After the Crusades, Romanesque architecture also reflected the influence of Islamic architecture in the use of decorative programs on the walls and new floor plans.
Islamic art is known for its complex vegetal, geometric and calligraphic patterns. Although Christian art doesn't use patterns in the same scope and to the same purpose, they do share some of the same sources in classical art. Interlocking vegetal patters of grape vines, for instance, were a common motif in Roman temples; and the First Church of the Monastery of Hosios Loukas, in Phokis, Greece, is decorated with patterns of Kufic script. Some art historians also see a correlation between the flatness of Byzantine icons and that of Kufic script.
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Although Christian and Islamic art have very different approaches to painting, over centuries of trade and cultural exchange they have developed some commonalities. In Islam, painting is mostly confined to illuminated manuscripts or on functional objects such as pen boxes. In the image-centric world of Christian art, painting is found everywhere, from walls to canvases to books to portable objects. Both, however, share a love of landscapes and precise illustrations of plants and of portraiture -- as long as the portrait is of a non-religious figure in the case of Islamic art. This is especially true in the Mughal and Safavid artistic traditions.
Portable Arts
In the Middle Ages, Islamic metal- and glasswork was the best in the world and copied all over Europe, even for religious purposes. This was especially true in Venice, which had a closer relationship with the Islamic world than any other Christian city in Europe at the time. Pilgrim's flasks, for example, were similar to Islamic bottles not only in shape -- a round center flattened on both sides -- but in the vegetal patterns used on the sides. In both the Islamic and Christian worlds, they were occasionally ordered as a pair and given to a couple to celebrate their marriage.
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Brigham Young University: “Treasured Truths” Artists Explore Similarities Between Islam and Christianity
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Byzantine Art Under Islam
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Europe and the Islamic World, 1600–1800
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Natasha Brandstatter is an art historian and writer. She has a MA in art history and you can find her academic articles published in "Western Passages," "History Colorado" and "Dutch Utopia." She is also a contributor to Book Riot and Food Riot, a media critic with the Pueblo PULP and a regular contributor to Femnista.
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Where Did the Russian Immigrants Settle in America?
Randall Bullard - Updated September 29, 2017
Russian immigrants were individuals from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. They came from many parts of the pre-World War I Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union including the Baltic countries and the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. They settled into various parts of the U.S. among Russian immigrants of similar ethnic backgrounds.
The First Russian Immigrants
According to Countries and Their Cultures, the first Russian immigrants were part of Russia's internal migration during the 18th century. Russian settlers established colonies on the island of Kodiak off the Alaskan coast by 1784 and the colonies of Yakutat and Sitka on the Alaskan mainland soon after. After Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. in 1867, most Russian immigrants there returned to their native land.
Jewish-Russian Immigrants
The first Jewish Russian immigrants to America arrived between 1881 and 1914 and settled in areas of the northeastern United States, such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York in search of a better economic future.
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White Russian Immigrants
According to the Countries and Their Cultures website, as many as 30,000 Russian soldiers, aristocrats, professionals and intellectuals settled in New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago between 1920 and 1922, with several thousand more arriving in the 1930s. These immigrants were White Russians, named for their opposition to communism.
Non-Jewish Russian Immigrants
Non-Jewish Russians began coming to American in 1881 and continued throughout the 20th century. These immigrants settled in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and the coal-mining towns of eastern Pennsylvania.
Far East Russian Immigrants
Immigrants from the Russian Far East began to arrive in the 1880s and settled in parts of California in areas such as San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Russian Molokan Immigrants
Many Molokans, members of a Christian sect that rejected the Russian Orthodox Church, immigrated to the United States during the early 1900s and settled in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, where a 20,000-member Russian Molokan community continues to thrive.
Countries and Their Cultures; Russian Americans; 2008
Randall Bullard holds an Associate of Arts in business and will receive a Bachelor of Science in business/information systems from the University of Phoenix in 2010. He currently attends Altamaha Technical College for computer information systems/networking specialist certification. Bullard has worked as a sales consultant for Ford Motor Company, has owned a residential construction business, and has work published with eHow, Associated Content and Helium.
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Meghan McCain Keeps ABC Hanging, Refuses to Say on Air if She’s Staying With ‘The View’
On ‘The View,’ Meghan McCain didn’t say if she was returning to the show next season. This limbo will continue until the co-host feels that ABC has put a stop to damaging leaks.
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ABC bosses have made no secret of their desire for Meghan McCain to stick around for The View’s new season.
But McCain declined to announce her plans on Monday when the female-focused daytime show resumed live broadcasts after a weeklong Fourth of July hiatus.
The 34-year-old McCain’s future with The View was pointedly ignored by moderator Whoopi Goldberg and regular cohosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin—never mind that it’s arguably the show’s hottest topic since The Daily Beast reported last week that McCain is considering quitting, and feeling like an “exhausted” and “defeated... caged animal” amid a steady stream of unflattering leaks about her allegedly boorish and “unhinged” off-camera behavior.
A knowledgeable source told The Daily Beast that McCain is genuinely ambivalent about keeping her well-paid gig—something under a million dollars a year—as long as hit pieces continue to appear in gossipy tabloid stories, especially on the highly-trafficked web site of the London-based Daily Mail.
The Daily Beast understands that McCain is not playing hard-to-get as a negotiating ploy, but rather is seeking assurances from ABC and View execs that they will stop the leaks.
These leaks have become emotionally draining for McCain, who has experienced her share of turmoil over the past two years, including the brain-cancer death of her famous father, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and the periodic post-mortem attacks on him by the president, Donald Trump.
While members of her team have been encouraging her to continue on the show, McCain—The View’s resident conservative Republican—is mulling over the emotional costs versus the professional opportunity of appearing on a daily show—dubbed the “most important political show on American TV” by the New York Times—during what is expected to be a fascinating and dramatic 2020 presidential campaign.
On Monday, McCain participated eagerly in discussions about the pay disparity between male and female soccer stars, the gaffe-prone presidential campaign of Joe Biden, and in an interview with one of Biden’s Democratic rivals, Andrew Yang—but her body language with cohost Hostin, who sits next her at the table, was decidedly uncomfortable.
McCain’s supporters suspect Hostin and members of her inner circle of being sources for some of the damaging leaks—an accusation that Hostin’s publicist said it’s “beneath her” to address last week—and while the two didn’t debate each other, they barely looked at each other during the hour-long program.
McCain instead burrowed into her notes, eyes down, and seemed decidedly unamused—and didn’t bother to suppress a frown—when, during a discussion of social media complaints that an African American actress had been cast to voice the title character in Disney’s reboot of The Little Mermaid, Hostin burst into a swaying rendition of "Under the Sea."
It seemed at that moment that McCain would have preferred to be there, in the watery deep, instead of sitting two feet away from Hostin’s singing.
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India's captain Virat Kohli takes a catch to dismiss New Zealand's Matt Henry during the Cricket World Cup semifinal match between India and New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
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India's MS Dhoni, right, breaks the stumps to run-out New Zealand's Ross Taylor, left, during the Cricket World Cup semi-final match between India and New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
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India's Bhuvneshwar Kumar, left, runs to field the ball after a shot played by New Zealand's Tom Latham during the Cricket World Cup semi-final match between India and New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
New Zealand's Ross Taylor leaves the field after being dismissed during the Cricket World Cup semifinal match between India and New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
India's Hardik Pandya, left, reacts after their loss in the Cricket World Cup semi-final match against New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
India's captain Virat Kohli throws his bat in frustration after being dismissed by New Zealand's Trent Boult during the Cricket World Cup semi-final match between India and New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
New Zealand's Martin Guptill, center, celebrates after India's Mahendra Singh Dhoni was dismissed during the Cricket World Cup semifinal match between India and New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
New Zealand players celebrate their win over India in the Cricket World Cup semi-final match at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
Indian cricketers greet each other after their team lost the Cricket World Cup semifinal match between India and New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
India's captain Virat Kohli reacts after their loss in the Cricket World Cup semi-final match against New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
New Zealand cricketers celebrate after winning the Cricket World Cup semifinal match against India at Old Trafford in Manchester, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
Dizzying 45-minute spell sends India out, NZ into cup final
By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — A dizzying 45-minute spell of high-class pace bowling sent India spiraling out of the Cricket World Cup.
It also moved New Zealand, thriving once again as the underdog, back into another final — this time on the other side of the world.
India never recovered from an unprecedented top-order collapse that plunged the team to 5-3 — the top three of Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Virat Kohli were dismissed for 1 each — then 24-4 as it chased 240 to win at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
MS Dhoni (50) and Ravindra Jadeja (77 in 59 balls) gave the Indians hope by putting on a World Cup-record 116 for the seventh wicket, but India was dismissed for 221 with three balls remaining to give New Zealand an 18-run win.
"To go out on the basis of 45 minutes of bad cricket is saddening," said Kohli, India's captain and the biggest superstar in world cricket. "It breaks your heart."
Kohli thought 240 was "chaseable on any surface," only to be one of the batsmen bewitched by the seaming and swinging deliveries of New Zealand strike bowlers Matt Henry and Trent Boult.
Sharma, the top run-scorer at the World Cup with 648, lasted four balls before edging Henry to wicketkeeper Tom Latham. Kohli lasted six balls before getting trapped lbw by an inswinger from Boult, a review showing the ball would have clipped the bails and leading Koli to throw his bat into the air in disgust.
Rahul went three balls later, also edging Henry to a diving Latham.
Eleven deliveries, three wickets, one run. And one devastated nation.
It was the first time in international history that a team lost its first three batsmen all for 1.
"It was mayhem out there with the new ball," Boult said. "It was a dream start for us."
Kohli acknowledged it was the key part of the game.
"The way they bowled with the new ball, moving it around, it was an outstanding skill level on display," Kohli said.
When Dinesh Karthik was removed by an amazing, one-handed catch by a diving Jimmy Neesham, India was 24-4 at the end of the opening powerplay — the lowest score after 10 overs this tournament — and reeling.
It still needed more brilliance in the field to see off India, which was seeking a fourth appearance in a World Cup final.
Dhoni, an expert finisher, anchored one end — too much for some exasperated India cricket observers — and allowed Jadeja to unload at the other. Jadeja hit four fours and four sixes, all straight down the ground, to move India into a position where the game was still potentially up for grabs with three overs left and the team needing 37 more runs.
Jadeja went for another six off Boult with 14 balls remaining, only to sky it high and straight into the safe hands of New Zealand captain Kane Williamson.
Then Martin Guptill, with only one stump to hit from his side-on position, took aim and ran out Dhoni by a matter of centimeters as the India veteran raced back for a second run.
It left India needing 24 off nine balls and it proved too much.
"You finish No. 1 in the (group) table and then a spell of bad cricket and you are out of the tournament completely," Kohli said. "But you have to accept it. It's happened to us before and we have all come out better cricketers because of these setbacks."
While the Indian players head home, no doubt to much soul-searching and reflection by their cricket-loving public, the New Zealanders head to Lord's on Sunday for a match against either England or Australia.
The second semifinal is at Edgbaston on Thursday. If Australia wins, it will be a repeat of the 2015 final won by the Australians in Melbourne.
The Kiwis will be underdogs against either England or Australia. Just like they were before the semifinal against India. And just like they were after scoring 239-8 in their 50 overs, having adding 28 runs in 3.5 overs on resuming at 211-5 after rain ended play prematurely on Tuesday.
It necessitated the use of a reserve day, meaning Old Trafford was two-thirds empty at start of play Wednesday and not full at the gripping finish.
The way the chase panned out vindicated Williamson's attritional approach to batting on difficult conditions, and highlighted just how dangerous his bowling attack will be in the final, especially if there is cloud cover.
"Anybody can beat anybody," said Williamson, repeating his mantra from before the semifinal.
And look how it turned out.
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Tanzania's opposition Chadema seeks mediation
Tanzania main opposition Chadema leaders in the precincts of the Dar es Salaam court. The six are charged with sedition and incitement to violence. PHOTO | THE CITIZEN | NMG
The chairman Freeman Mbowe, said efforts by the opposition and civil society to mobilise citizens to stand up against intolerance were thwarted after the government banned political rallies.
The leader of the opposition in parliament also accused the office of the Speaker of ordering the closure of his office in parliament, describing the move as “unprecedented efforts to tame the opposition” in parliament.
This is the first time the leader of the official opposition has been arrested, charged and taken to remand since multi-partyism was re-introduced in Tanzania in 1995.
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Canada Lawyer challenges restrictions on inquiry into Lionel Desmond murder-suicide
Lawyer challenges restrictions on inquiry into Lionel Desmond murder-suicide
Michael MacDonald
Published May 7, 2019 Updated May 7, 2019
Wilfred Desmond holds a framed photo of his grandson Lionel Desmond in his home in Lincolnville, N.S. in January.
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Nova Scotia’s Justice Department is trying to muzzle the inquiry into the death of an Afghan war veteran who killed his family and himself more than two years ago, a senior lawyer says.
Adam Rodgers, who represents the family of former soldier Lionel Desmond and his estate, says the department has imposed unrealistic restrictions on legal fees and preparation time.
“Unfairly stifling access to justice by imposing limited preparation time at junior counsel rates … is tantamount to impeding access to justice,” Mr. Rodgers says in a legal brief presented to the commissioner of the pending fatality inquiry, provincial court Justice Warren Zimmer.
Mr. Rodgers says he wants assurances from Justice Zimmer the inquiry will have enough judicial independence to ensure its investigation “is not bureaucratically or financially constrained by those who may be in a conflict of interest.”
The provincial government promised an inquiry in December, 2017, almost a year after Mr. Desmond fatally shot his mother, Brenda, wife Shanna and 10-year-old daughter Aaliyah, before turning the gun on himself in the family’s rural home in Upper Big Tracadie, N.S.
The 33-year-old former soldier was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after two harrowing tours in Afghanistan in 2007, which transformed him into a broken shell of who he used to be, his family says.
Mr. Desmond’s twin sisters, Cassandra and Chantel, spent more than a year pressing the government for answers and demanding a judicial fatality inquiry.
They say the former infantryman did not get the help he needed to deal with his mental illness and a post-concussion disorder after he was medically released from the military in 2015.
That allegation will be at the centre of the inquiry, which is supposed to start in September – more than 18 months after the province promised it.
“Given the province’s sustained reticence to convene this inquiry, and the degree of silence since [Justice Zimmer’s] appointment, the Desmond family has grown increasingly concerned about the assignment of resources to support [the] inquiry,” Mr. Rodgers says in his legal brief.
“They are increasingly concerned that the original public momentum for accountability that led to the creation of [the] public inquiry is dissipating with the passage of time.”
More importantly, Mr. Rodgers has asked Justice Zimmer to protect his clients from Justice Department restrictions that Mr. Rodgers says “attempt to muzzle and constrain the effectiveness of our legal services.”
In February, the department said legal counsel appearing before the inquiry would be limited to eight hours a day for preparation time at a rate of $175 an hour, for a maximum of 100 hours.
Mr. Rodgers said those limits represented a poorly camouflaged attempt “to stifle the legal voice and representation to which our clients are entitled.”
The department increased the limits in April and again last week, settling on nine hours a day at $220 an hour, for a maximum of 150 hours of preparation time.
The Nova Scotia Justice Department issued a statement on Tuesday, saying the funding limit represents a $70-an-hour increase over the eight-hour daily rate used in 2010, when the province held its most recent fatality inquiry.
“We believe the terms of funding are both fair and reasonable,” department spokeswoman Heather Fairbairn said in an e-mail.
In a letter dated May 1, provincial lawyer Glenn Anderson argued the limits were in line with inquiry rules in Ontario and Manitoba. As well, he pointed to another fatality inquiry in 2005, which specifically stated that Nova Scotia taxpayers “have the right to expect a principled approach to the spending of their money.”
However, Mr. Rodgers argued the 2005 inquiry also determined that lawyers representing the deceased were entitled to full compensation for their legal costs at prevailing hourly rates for experienced counsel hired by the province.
In his application to the commissioner, Mr. Rodgers has asked Justice Zimmer to increase the limits to 10 hours a day at $250 an hour, with no restriction on total preparation time.
In his regular practice in New Glasgow, N.S., Mr. Rodgers typically earns $350 an hour.
His application to the commissioner will be heard May 23.
Mr. Rodgers has been working with Desmond family since March, 2017. He said he has devoted 80 hours to the case this year.
The inquiry requires enough resources to look beyond the deaths of one former soldier and his family, he said.
“If this public inquiry is to fulfill the mandate the public demanded, it must be far-reaching,” his legal brief says.
“It is the mandate and responsibility of [this] inquiry to understand what happened to Lionel Desmond and others like him and to recommend what can be done to reduce the chances of history repeating itself.”
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Opinion The debt we owe Chinese Canadians
The debt we owe Chinese Canadians
William Johnson
Contributed to The Globe and Mail
Published October 31, 2002 Updated April 17, 2018
Will there be redress? Chinese Canadians, descendants of those forced to pay the odious "head tax" to be admitted to Canada, demonstrated on Parliament Hill this week. But, so far, they've been unable to sway the Liberal government.
And yet their cause is compelling. Just read the 1902 report of our own Royal Commission on Chinese and Japanese Immigration. The commissioners saw the contempt of white British Columbians for Chinese labourers: "The majority of working men will not, if they can avoid it, work with Chinamen; they feel that they would be degraded in the eyes of their associates by so doing."
Did the commissioners then deplore this racism? No. "They are unfit for full citizenship and are permitted to take no part in municipal or provincial government. Upon this point there was entire unanimity. They are not and will not become citizens in any sense of the term, as we understand it. They are so nearly allied to a servile class that they are obnoxious to a free community and dangerous to the state."
Their recommendation? "This class of immigration . . . from a Canadian standpoint is injurious, and in the interest of the nation any further immigration ought to be prohibited."
This report was not an aberration. In 1885, just as the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was being driven home, a royal commission on Chinese immigration had recommended discouraging Chinese immigration by requiring each immigrant to pay a head tax of $50, a very large sum for those driven out of China by utter poverty. That attitude animated the first Chinese Immigration Act (1885). Then, in 1900, finding that $50 was not a sufficient deterrent, Parliament raised the head tax to $100.
Two years later, the royal commission decided that none was best: "We find that the increase in the capitation tax from $50 to $100 is ineffective and inadequate. Your Commissioners are of opinion that the further immigration of Chinese labourers into Canada ought to be prohibited. . . . That in the meantime and until this can be obtained the capitation tax should be raised to $500."
From 1903 until 1923, every Chinese immigrant had to pay $500 to enter the country. The Bank of Canada, taking into account inflation but not interest, estimates that, in 1914, $500 was the equivalent of $8,340.28 today.
In 1883, John A. Macdonald defended keeping Chinese immigrants -- until the CPR was finished. "It will be all very well to exclude Chinese labour, when we can replace it with white labour." In 1900, Wilfrid Laurier said: "In my opinion, there is not much room for the Chinaman in Canada. He displaces a good Canadian, or a good British subject."
Their country of adoption rejected them. Paid less than half the amount of white workers who resented them for undercutting wages, about 1,500 Chinese labourers building the CPR lost their lives though accidents or disease. In 1907, a major anti-Chinese riot in Vancouver provoked another royal commission.
They were stripped of the right to vote in B.C. and Saskatchewan, were forbidden access to the professions and work on Crown lands or for provincial or municipal governments, and were deprived of welfare benefits. In three provinces (including Ontario), white women could not work in Chinese-owned businesses. In Vancouver, where most lived, covenants restricted them to the ghetto.
On July 1, 1923, an amendment to the act excluded all Chinese immigrants.
Only Chinese immigrants were subjected to a head tax. Their mistreatment was not precipitated by war or fear of a fifth column, but by pure racism. Canada has yet to come to terms with this past. We still live off the avails of the blood, sweat and tears of those generations. We, as a country, owe redress. wjohnson@globeandmail.ca
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Gustav Metzger: 'Destroy, and you create'
Stuart Jeffries
He inspired the Who to smash their guitars, refuses to be photographed and has a new art project in which a robot does all the work. Gustav Metzger tells Stuart Jeffries about six decades of political art and professional trouble-making
Mon 26 Nov 2012 15.00 EST First published on Mon 26 Nov 2012 15.00 EST
'My fears about men and machines started with the Nazis' ... Gustav Metzger in 1962. Photograph: Ida Kar/National Portrait Gallery, London. Click to enlarge
Gustav Metzger didn't have to do much when it came to his latest art project. The renowned 86-year-old sat for 20 minutes looking blank and thinking about nothing. Then he wandered off. Don't pretend you haven't had working days like that.
The result is a sculpture entitled Null Object, which consists of a 50cm cube of 145 million-year-old fossilised Portland stone with a hole drilled in it. It's the hole that is important: this void is a three-dimensional representation of Metzger thinking about nothing. "My contribution was minimal," the artist admits. The hard work was done by robots drilling into stone, using biofeedback technology devised by cyberneticists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and from databases compiled in Hackney, London.
As Metzger sat during a series of 20-minute sessions, trying not to think, readings were taken every two minutes of the electrical activity in his brain. The resulting electroencephalograms were used to create the instructions for a robot to work on the stone at a factory in Oxfordshire. The end product looks like a non-functioning washing machine. Perhaps this is a blueprint for art. In the future, machines will do the work, while artists stare gormlessly, 24/7.
"Gustav is the neurophysiological trigger," explains Bruce Gilchrist of artists' practice London Fieldworks; he and his collaborator Jo Joelson have created this sculpture questioning what happens to human subjectivity in an era of technological evolution and cybernetic augmentation.
Null Object, by Gustav Metzger. Photograph: London Fieldworks
These are questions that have intrigued Metzger since he was a boy. He was raised by Polish-Jewish parents in 1930s Nuremberg, where he bore witness to what he describes as "machine-like" Nazi marches and rallies. In 1939, he and his brother came to Britain, two of about 10,000 children saved by the Kindertransport association. In 1943, Metzger's parents were murdered by the Nazis. "Facing up to the Nazis and the powers of the Nazi state coloured my life as an artist," he says.
Later, in 1969, the avant-garde artist became the first editor of the London-based Computer Art Society's journal, Page. "I swung the journal around from technological messianism into recognising technology as a threat," he recalls. Metzger's career has been about alerting us to the risks in our deluded pursuit of technological progress, and of humans being eclipsed by their machine selves.
Gilchrist and Joelson's original idea was that Metzger would sit in a gallery for 20 minutes a day, wired to a computer-brain interface. Visitors could stare at him as he stared at nothing in particular, like an exhibit in a transhuman zoo. Across the gallery, a robot drill would carve into the stone cube. But that proved impossible, not least because the industrial robot is so huge it would have necessitated removing the gallery floor. Just as well: it would have taken only one visitor pulling faces at Metzger to put him off his task of thinking about nothing. Instead, the show will consist of the cube with allied video and documentary material.
You could argue that Metzger's 20-minute spurts of creative inactivity are the culmination of his career. He is best known as the inventor of the auto-destructive art movement, which he launched in 1959. (Famously, the Who's Pete Townshend, who studied with Metzger, adhered to auto-destructive art's tenets when trashing his guitars on stage.) "When I saw the Nazis march, I saw machine-like people and the power of the Nazi state," he says. "Auto-destructive art is to do with rejecting power." In 1961, wearing a gas mask, Metzger performed one of the most famous acts of auto-destructive art when he threw hydrochloric acid at a sheet of nylon on London's South Bank. "The important thing about burning a hole in that sheet," he recalls, "was that it opened up a new view across the Thames of St Paul's cathedral. Auto-destructive art was never merely destructive. Destroy a canvas and you create shapes."
Auto-destructive art is also to do with rejecting art's egocentrism. Instead of being a narcissistic creator making stuff, he has often erased his work, or even himself, for the sake of an art he thinks must always have political purpose. He refused to have his picture taken for this article, even though with his kind eyes and funky hat he would have looked a treat. "I don't want my image to appear in the mass media," he says, in a gentle voice still inflected with German, "since it would detract from the project." Between 1977 and 1980, Metzger went on an art strike, refusing to labour for the exploitative Man.
Why did Gilchrist and Joelson want to harvest Metzger's brainwaves? One reason is that, while being one of Britain's most bracing art-world troublemakers, he knows a lot about nothing. In 2009, Metzger co-curated Voids, a retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. "We realised that there wasn't much literature on voids," Metzger says of that show. "So we decided to fill the gap." With, it should be added, nothing. Five rooms of Paris's premiere modern art temple displayed classic non-works such as Yves Klein's 1959 blank gallery wall and Art and Language's 1967 air-conditioned air in an empty gallery. The guards probably had difficulties ensuring visitors didn't touch the exhibits.
Metzger says he has always been interested in voids – an interest, it is hard not to think, that stems from his politically and ecologically charged disgust at adding to a world already filled with too many images and works of art. "I've always opposed two things in art: celebrity and commercialisation." That said, the 500-page exhibition catalogue for Voids cost €39 (£34). And Null Object, despite its central void, would have been an oddity in that show. It looks like a minimalist sculpture, a beautiful thing rather than anti-art provocation. It's not nothingy enough. It's not impossible that Charles Saatchi might want to acquire it.
As we sit over coffee in London Fieldworks' studio in Hackney, Gilchrist shows me a lump of wax. It's a scale model of the hole in Null Object: an absence has become a presence, something has been made from nothing. It recalls Rachel Whiteread's House, or a mutant Anish Kapoor, and is just the sort of thing hipsters might buy at a gift shop for their mantlepieces. (Work Gallery has no desire to commodify Metzger's brain activity. This, of course, would be very wrong.)
Photograph: London Fieldworks
Metzger's art has often violently commented on the violence we do to the world and to each other. In his 2009 work Flailing Trees, for instance, 21 upended trees were plunged into concrete in Manchester's Peace Garden. In a retrospective at London's Serpentine Gallery the same year, technicians battered a car with sledgehammers until it resembled the wreckage in a news photograph of a street demonstration Metzger had once seen.
He has long campaigned against nuclear weapons. "Atomic physics," he once said, "was the worst thing that happened in the 20th century." As a member of the British anti-war group the Committee of 100, Metzger was jailed briefly for civil disobedience during CND protests in the early 1960s. Has living in the shadow of the bomb defined his art? "No. My fears about men and machines started in my childhood," he says. "My parents lived just off the main road between Fürth and Nuremberg. Thousands of people would march along that road to the Nazi rallies. I was frightened and disturbed by the Nazis."
At the Serpentine show, visitors had to crawl on the floor under a sheet to look at blown-up press photographs of Jews scrubbing the streets of Vienna during the Nazi era – Metzger's way of making us empathise more profoundly. "At the beginning I was confronted with a choice: move into art or revolutionary politics," he says. "I took the path of art at the age of 18." But the choice turned out to be more apparent than real: "I could see this possibility of using the ideas of social change within art."
Now, after decades of unmaking and undoing, Metzger is embroiled in making a sculpture. Two of his earliest influences, Henry Moore and Eric Gill, also sculpted holes in monumental stone. Metzger is no lone genius with a chisel, though. Null Object, by harnessing a creative inactivity, by showing an artist colonised by technology, and by then erasing him from his work, is perhaps his most radical move yet. "I find it very admirable," he says, examining a scale model as if the work had nothing to do with him. Which, in a sense, it doesn't.
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Sarah Boseley's global health blog
Time to target the shocking neglect of stillbirths
Minnie Driver's new film, Return to Zero, is about a couple who suffer a stillbirth, said to be the first feature film on the subject. Is it time for a post-2015 global target to reduce their numbers?
Sarah Boseley
Every year 2.6 million babies are stillborn. It is a tragedy for their parents, but this statistic is largely forgotten by everybody else. Photograph: Alamy
Minnie Driver, in a new film from the US, plays a woman who is told a while before she is due to give birth that her baby is dead in the womb. Return to Zero tells the desperate but all too common story of a couple who suffer a stillbirth. It was written, directed and produced by Sean Hanish who went through the horrible experience with his wife himself.
Perhaps it is because it is so sad, but stillbirth is little discussed. In acknowledgement of that, the film's website offers a place for people to tell their own stories. There are charities like Sands in the UK, which offer support, but it is surprising how little attention stillbirths get in affluent and in poorer countries alike. There seems to be a willingness to brush them under the carpet, as if these were babies that were never meant to be.
That's not so. Joy Lawn, professor of maternal, reproductive and child health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and lead author of a new five-paper series on stillbirths and neonatal deaths in the Lancet, which I wrote about here, points out that by 28 weeks' gestation, the point at which the World Health Organisation classifies death in the womb as stillbirth, babies are usually viable.
Every year 2.6 million babies are stillborn. But, says Lawn, these babies, whose loss is a tragedy for their parents, are forgotten by everybody else. And it does not look as though they will be remembered in the post-2015 global targets that will follow on from the Millennium Development Goals. She told me:
We have been told the post-2015 goals should have a target for newborns, but no way will there be a stillbirth target.
Why is there this resistance to focusing on stillbirths? From the family's point of view, there is little difference in the scale of the tragedy between having a stillborn baby and the death of a baby a few days old. And from a practical and economic point of view, while everybody applauds efforts to bring contraception to more people, while parents run a high risk of the death of their babies, there is far less incentive to limit the numbers conceived.
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Sarah Storey
Dame Sarah Storey's roadmap for women's cycling and para-cycling
Dame Sarah Storey won three gold medals in Rio but her sport is still crying out for sponsorship, media coverage and money. She has proposed some solutions
By Suze Clemitson of 100 Tales 100 Tours, part of the Guardian Sport Network
Suze Clemitson
Fri 2 Dec 2016 06.00 EST Last modified on Wed 21 Feb 2018 12.46 EST
Sarah Storey poses with one of her 14 Paralympic gold medals. Photograph: Friedemann Vogel/Getty Images
There is nothing like a Dame. And Dame Sarah Storey, who has been back in action at the Revolution Series in Manchester, is a Dame like no other. A ferocious competitor on the road and the track, Storey won her 12th, 13th and 14th Paralympic gold medals in Rio this summer and picked up her second nomination for Sports Personality of the Year this week.
Storey, who triumphed on both the road and track in Rio, says the track is the “fun option” but that she will do most of her preparation for Tokyo on the road. “I see myself as a road cyclist as it’s where the greatest amount of competition has been in the past seven seasons since I first started racing UCI Women’s pro races,” she says. But events such as Revolution keep her track cycling options open.
Sarah Storey wins 14th Paralympic gold in women’s road race in Rio
Storey’s team, Podium Ambition Pro Cycling, will not be racing as a UCI-registered team for the 2017 season, citing a lack of financial support and the fall of the pound, but she hopes to be back in the UCI peloton come 2018. In the meantime she’ll be looking for wild-card entries to key races and preparing for Tokyo in 2020, her eighth Paralympic Games and her fifth as a cyclist after she switched from a successful career in the pool.
Storey is not slowing down yet but, when she steps back from racing, she would like to use her experience to improve women’s cycling and para-cycling further. She is already involved with British Cycling’s Choose Cycling campaign, along with Chris Boardman, and has set up the Boot Out Breast Cancer Cycling Club with her husband, Barney. “I set up the cycling club with Barney and, while the purpose is to raise the profile of the charity as they have no marketing budget, the club has introduced me to cyclists of all ages and ambitions so being able to encourage people to be active is something I enjoy too. And, if it’s none of the above, I will definitely be learning the necessary rules and intricacies of whatever hobbies [her daughter] Louisa chooses when she gets going!”
How does Storey find the time and energy to combine being the mother of a three-year-old with her training schedule? She says she has a massive amount of family support and an “amazing” husband, Barney, the tandem pilot and coach who she married in 2007. “We do everything as a team and Louisa is always with us. We’ll have to adapt how we work when she’s at school but haven’t ruled out the need to homeschool on tour as Shelley Rudman did.”
Running the cycling team and travelling with Louisa “has been a great education already and it’s amazing to watch her grow up with so many great experiences.” Storey describes the delicate balance between parenthood and elite sport as “an adventure for all of us – it’s certainly given me an even happier environment to return to after a tough day in the saddle.”
Sarah and Louisa Storey pose for the camera in Rio. Photograph: onEdition
Born without a fully formed left hand, Storey is one of an elite group of Paralympic athletes who also competes in “able bodied” sport. It puts her in a unique position to identify the challenges faced by two groups of athletes who are often sidelined in elite competition: women and para-athletes. “Para-cyclists have more barriers on an international scale because there are fewer competition opportunities, especially on the track, and no prize money or professional registration. There’s no doubt para-cycling is many years behind where women’s cycling is. The difference is also that male para-cyclists are in the same position, unlike women’s cycling where they have less opportunity than their male equivalent.”
Storey points out that the number of para-cyclists in the UK is on the rise ; she hopes that competitive opportunities will follow demand. “While the women could have 200 women racing on any weekend from April to July, a para-cycling event might only attract 30 to 40 across 13 classes, male and female. Women’s cycling in the UK needs a race structure revision to accommodate a two-tier system, which will ensure new recruits to the sport aren’t faced with racing the elite cyclists straight from the off.” Though an entry level National Team Series and the elite level National Road Series both exist, Storey says they currently cater for the same category of cyclist “and there’s still quite a rapid drop-out rate when women get overwhelmed by not being able to start at a level they feel comfortable with.”
She feels that, despite the success of the Aviva Women’s Tour and the newly minted Tour de Yorkshire, women still need more opportunities to race on closed roads in full-on racing conditions. “Lots of UK club teams look for guest places in European races to provide the closed-road, race-convoy experience to their riders. Ultimately it’s a lot of travelling and its expensive, so if I could wave a magic wand it would be to provide those opportunities more often in the UK.”
Storey is equally passionate about the need for greater integration for para-cycling in the World Cups and World Championships, something that already works successfully in para-rowing and para-triathlon. “The biggest challenge is in providing this opportunity to the UCI in a format they can’t refuse,” Storey says. “So far the barriers presented back to para-cycling are time constraints and having too many people accredited for one event. Clearly the integration of para-cycling into the worlds or World Cups would see these existing events grow by a huge number, but the many benefits of publicity, spectators and the reduction of logistical costs to nations and their staffing should allow an economical model to be found both in terms of time and finance.
“Integration will be the fastest way to increase media coverage for para-cycling. At the moment there isn’t any live coverage of any event outside the Paralympics. The South African World Cup organisers experimented with a live feed showing pictures of the start and turn in their time-trial, but there was no commentary or graphics to allow people to adequately follow.”
How would she like to see para-cycling structured in the future? “I’d like to see an option for professional registration so that individuals or teams can demonstrate to sponsors they are investing in something at the highest level,” she says. Storey would also like to see the UCI establish equal prize money at world championships “even if that means funding it themselves until they can create the interest in para-cycling so it can be self-sufficient – currently the UCI struggle to find organisers for Para Track events, even World Championships are a struggle.”
The UCI give little or no promotion to para-cycling events, Storey points out, and the organisers are expected to do everything themselves. “It would be good to see the UCI take more responsibility for the promotion and provision of live TV pictures so that the profile of the sport can be raised and organisers get into a genuine bidding process rather than the current situation where there’s only one option or bidder, if we’re lucky, each year. It’s for this reason the integration model would work but the question is whether able-bodied cycling can adapt to welcome the para-cycling events into the event.”
Sarah Storey: how to perform under pressure
Storey’s clear roadmap for para-cycling makes sense and, as an International Paralympic Committee member who will shortly travel to her first meeting in Germany, she’s uniquely placed to make it happen. UCI President Brian Cookson has said he is confident progress is being made in para-cycling in the face of fierce criticism from cycling’s only DBE.
So has Storey achieved everything she wants to in her glittering career? She rules out another attempt on the Hour Record, saying she doesn’t have the resources or finances, now that Evelyn Stevens has set the record at altitude. But she does have one final ambition: “The 3:30 barrier in the 3,000m on the track is still something I am keen to topple, plus I would love to win a road stage at a UCI Women’s stage race or win the polka dot jersey. I’d also love to ride the team time-trial World Championships as it’s the ultimate team event on the road.”
Storey says she has come close to the magic 3:30 all season without success “so maybe my Tokyo preparations can see it happen.” And if she had to sum up her extraordinary career to date? “In all honesty, I have achieved more than I could ever have imagined, so I’m quite relaxed. My biggest motivation is to enjoy what I do while trying to find the best version of me on a bike!” It’s a modest summary from a very special woman.
• This article is from 100 Tours 100 Tales
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Grand Falls-Windsor hosts first songwriter’s circle as a part of the 2019 Exploits Valley Salmon Festival
Nicholas Mercer (nicholas.mercer@thewesternstar.com)
Published: Jul 11 at 2:57 p.m.
Chris Ryan is hosting the songwriter’s circle event as a part of the 2019 Exploits Valley Salmon Festival. - Contributed
Chris Ryan sees potential in a new event at the Exploits Valley Salmon Festival.
Just the thought of hosting the inaugural songwriters circle this weekend has the renowned Newfoundland musician counting the days until the festival opens.
However, it's the fact that it will be hosted in the Gorden Pinsent Centre for the Arts in Grand Falls-Windsor that really gets his juices going, given its intimate setting and the lineup people can expect to see.
With the help of Music NL, Ryan will be joined on the stage by some powerhouses in Newfoundland music. People will get to see Chris LeDrew, Janet Cull, Sherry Ryan, Paul Lamb and Mallory Johnson.
“There is a great group of artists and it is something that can be really special,” he said. “Between the group, it is going to be a heck of show.”
Having been to various award ceremonies across the country and seeing songwriter’s circles happen at these places, Ryan sees intricate value in them. Generally, these circles are treated as one of the marquee events of the weekend. They give audiences the chance to hear some of their favourite artists perform in an intimate setting, while sharing some stories.
The Grand Falls-Windsor show will be an acoustic one and could feature some songs people haven’t heard before. There is also the chance for some collaboration.
“Everybody brings something special to the table,” said Ryan. “The idea is to leave a lasting impression.”
The songwriter’s circle is scheduled to go ahead on Saturday from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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ThoughtWorks Managing Director Joanna Parke Named to Crain’s Chicago 40 Under 40
November 25, 2015 - Chicago, IL
Past Recipients have Included Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Rahm Emanuel, Veronica Roth
Joanna Parke, Managing Director of ThoughtWorks, a global technology company headquartered in Chicago, today was named to Crain’s Chicago’s prestigious 40 under 40 list. Now in its 26th year, the list spotlights 40 Chicagoans in business, government, philanthropy and the arts who have reached the top of their fields before their 40th birthday.
As Managing Director for North America, Parke oversees operations in ThoughtWorks’ largest market. Globally, ThoughtWorks has 3,500 employees spread across 34 offices in 13 countries. Parke has led a five-year diversity effort that nearly doubled the percentage of women and minorities on ThoughtWorks’ North American technical staff. At one-third women, it far surpasses the industry standard.
“It is an honor to be listed amongst so many of my fellow Chicagoans. I would not be in the position to receive this distinction without the support of my family, and my incredible colleagues at ThoughtWorks,” said Joanna Parke. “I am fortunate to work in an environment that fosters creativity, inclusivity, and the drive to have a positive impact on our clients and society.”
“Joanna represents the very best of ThoughtWorks. Starting as a software developer, Joanna evolved her skill sets and business acumen beyond coding. We recognized her quick growth and in short order her career entered a new phase, focused on management and client engagement,” said Craig Gorsline, Chief Commercial Officer of ThoughtWorks. “Joanna is never satisfied with the status quo and is always pushing our team and our clients to think creatively when tackling problems. We are also excited to see Joanna mentor our next generation of IT professionals, including the Chicago based i.c.stars.”
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Mitchells Family of Stores Named 2014 Top Innovator by Apparel Magazine
April 29, 2014 - New York, NY
New York, NY – April 29, 2014 – ThoughtWorks Retail today announced that Mitchells Family of Stores has been named a 2014 Top Innovator by Apparel Magazine. Mitchells was selected for its highly personalized customer engagement platform that supports its unabashed pursuit of shopper intimacy, a cornerstone of its operations from its very first store. Mitchells has quickly transitioned to a “responsive organization” by leveraging rapid experimentation as it incorporates a continuous feedback development process.
Instead of taking the traditional approach to customer engagement, Mitchells partnered with ThoughtWorks to develop a technology platform that enables true 1:1 interactions. Mitchells’ sales associates now curate individual style recommendations with personalized communications for their clients, using key product characteristics such as designer, size and inventory details, combined with robust customer information on preferences and purchase history. This level of individualized collaboration gives Mitchells’ shoppers exactly what they want. As a result, overall store traffic has increased, an enviable feat given the intense competition from many luxury department stores.
“The Mitchells name has always been synonymous with legendary customer service, and in partnering with ThoughtWorks we knew we’d only strengthen that tradition”, said Russ Mitchell, Co-President, Mitchells Family of Stores. “With the ThoughtWorks implementations, we’re able to see and experience innovative ideas on a weekly basis, allowing us to make real-time strategy decisions based on our dynamic business needs and direction.”
“Mitchells is a leader as an independent luxury chain, and they have fostered a culture of continuous innovation that ThoughtWorks greatly admires”, said Robin Copland, Vice President of Retail, Americas, ThoughtWorks. “We wanted to bring Mitchells and their shoppers the next generation of customer engagement experiences using a unique platform for digital collaboration between sales associates and their clients.”
Apparel Magazine’s annual Top Innovator award recognizes apparel retailers, brands and manufacturers who have deployed new technology in unique ways to improve their business.
Visit us at http://www.thoughtworks.com/retail for more information.
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Mobility in a Net-Zero World
Editor's note: This is the second post in a two-part story on Shell's Eco-marathon Americas event and Powering Progress Together roundtable. You can read part one here.
A number of prominent thought leaders in the areas of energy and transportation gathered in Detroit to discuss the future of mobility at an event hosted by Shell.
The afternoon session opened with Valerie Brader, executive director of the Michigan Agency for Energy. She shared her concerns from a government perspective.
Many of the policies in place today were written with the idea that renewables would cost more, Brader explained. That’s no longer the case. Conversations are key.
This is a point that kept coming up throughout the day. Here you have these huge entities -- state governments, oil companies, auto companies -- all with large budgets, but none nearly large enough to prepare for all possible scenarios. In a sense, all of them are at the mercy of a future that is emerging quickly enough to need to plan for, but not quite quickly enough to be able to see yet. At the same time, none of these actors are in a position to control it.
A panel discussion on mobility in a net-zero-emissions world was moderated by Jules Kortenhorst, CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute. It featured Wolfgang Warnecke, Shell’s chief scientist for mobility; Kristin Schondorf, global auto and transportation leader for professional services firm EY; and Shelley Poticha, who heads up urban solutions for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Asks Kortenhorst: "Look around, what’s new?" Experts cited a large uptake in biking in NYC, public-private shared vehicle partnerships, and the conversion of all taxis at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport to Teslas. China plans to have 5 million electric vehicles by 2020, and Holland will sell only EVs by 2025. India plans to make its entire government fleet electric by 2030, they continued.
But, says Warnecke of Shell, let’s not overlook the continued potential of the internal-combustion engine. Is he just being loyal to his company? Liquid fuels have many advantages, which is why they hung around for so long. What if we can find a way to make them carbon neutral? It's certainly not out of the question.
Uncomfortable with the uncertainty, some government entities are betting it all on one horse: the EV. Will that tip the global scale? What if they are wrong? (Remember Betamax?)
Autonomous vehicles, smart cities and the future of mobility
The younger generation is less interested in owning cars, especially when they have many other options. NRDC is partnering with the University of California, Berkeley, on a study of the national implications of car sharing. Seventy-seven small and mid-sized cities will compete in the Department of Transportation's Smart City challenge. How do we make this transition without losing the character and vitality of cities?
What will be the impact of autonomous vehicles? Once the technology becomes established, will people buy them, or simply use them as a service? In the U.S., cars are typically held for more than 11 years. Will autonomous vehicles change that?
Lots of questions: How do you ensure safety? Maintenance? AI is considered a driver. Will we travel more and if so, does that defeat the purpose?
The role of policy cannot be ignored. Look at biofuels today; that was another government bet. Was it a good one? Is it too soon to say?
NRDC looked at the market dynamics around dropping from two vehicles per household to one. Cost savings were estimated at $8,000 per year. Can these services enhance public transportation? Ride share can take you to the transit hub where you get on something that acts like a bus. Cars as assets are utilized only 5 percent of the time. Original equipment manufacturers are thinking a lot about this. New jobs. New opportunities. Who is going to win? We talk a lot about cars, how is freight going to be moved?
Martin Haigh, Shell’s senior energy advisor, spoke about energizing the transition. The Sustainable Development Goals are simultaneously asking for more energy for the millions who don’t have access and aggressively combating climate change.
The Shell team developed two scenarios: Mountains and Oceans. Both achieve net-zero emissions by the end of the century, but by very different paths. The Mountains scenario imagines a world in which energy policy is shaped predominantly by government, where the Oceans scenario envisions a landscape shaped predominantly by market forces and civil society. An enormous amount of effort will be required to “bend the curve,” as Mark Barteau pointed earlier in the event. Transformations in cities will be essential.
According to Shell's predictions, while renewables will dominate, fossil fuel energy with some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will still account for 25 percent of the energy mix. In addition to CCS, for its part, Shell will focus on biofuels and hydrogen. Still, developing scenarios and predicting the future is difficult, since some new technology may yet come along, “from the edge,” and change the picture completely.
21st-century urban development: A case study in Detroit
There followed a discussion about Detroit and the progress being made in rebuilding that city. It featured Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Shell Chairman Charles Holliday and Penske Corp. Chairman Roger Penske.
Some signs of progress include the Super Bowl's return to the Motor City, as well as the return of Indy racing on Belle Isle. But perhaps the bigger news is the fact that millennials are moving in.
Drawn by the low housing prices and the opportunity to play a significant role in designing the community, the signs of Detroit's younger residents are widespread, whether it’s the appearance of organic food markets or vinyl record stores. There is innovation around derelict housing, and community gardens are popping up on vacant lots.
At the same time, the area is home to 375 mobility R&D centers, and companies like Quicken have moved in. That means opportunities are there to attract even more urban pioneers.
In his closing remarks, Shell's chairman said: “We started out this morning saying, 'There is no easy fix.' But coming out of a day like today, you know we can solve these problems. We can improve our economy, improve the lives of people, and deal with these longer-term environmental problems at the same time.”
Click here for more TriplePundit coverage of Shell's 'Powering Progress Together' event.
Image credit: Eric Kilby:Flickr Creative Commons
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Airbnb Ups the Ante on Refugee Commitment
Words by Leon Kaye
A federal judge suspended portions of U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban on Friday. The ban, issued via executive order almost two weeks ago, may be held up in the courts for a while. But press accounts still relay scenes of confusion as travelers from the seven nations in question scramble to arrive here while they still can.
Last week Airbnb said it would strive to provide free housing to people affected by the U.S. travel ban. And over the weekend the home-sharing company doubled down on its commitment to refugees and displaced persons, with a goal to provide short-term housing to 100,000 people over the next five years.
Those “people in need,” as defined by Airbnb, will initially include refugees, disaster survivors and humanitarian aid workers. In an email to members, the company also pledged to donate $4 million to the International Rescue Committee to support displaced citizens around the world.
In the meantime, Airbnb is still calling on hosts and guests to either open up their homes or send a donation to organizations that are working with refugees or other displaced people.
Intertwined in this latest email to Airbnb users is the message of acceptance, as showcased in the short-term rental service’s hotly discussed Super Bowl advertisement. Noting that some Airbnb users have suffered discrimination in the past, the company’s leadership implied that they wanted the conversation to continue on social media with the hashtag #WeAccept. As of press time, that hashtag is still trending on Twitter, although interspersed in the discussion are the lamentations of Atlanta Falcons fans along with support for Trump’s hardline immigration policy.
Airbnb’s dive into the immigration debate comes at a time when the travel industry is grappling with how to respond to the administration.
Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1978 as Iran moved closer to revolution, told employees in an email that Trump’s executive order positions the U.S. as “inward-looking versus forward-thinking, reactionary versus visionary.” And in December, well before Trump took office and started issuing his executive orders, a poll revealed that 1 in 5 French and British travelers, along with 1 in 3 German nationals, said they had become less inclined to visit the U.S.
Meanwhile Airbnb joined 96 companies, mostly in the technology sector, to file a brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco. The amicus curiae filing, which was signed by companies including Microsoft, Netflix, Intel, eBay and Apple, describes the travel ban as an attack on immigration.
Immigration, the signatories say, is “a key reason why the American economy has been the greatest engine of prosperity and innovation in history.” The brief also claims the executive order “inflicts significant harm on American business, innovation and growth as a result.”
As both the U.S. travel and technology sectors push back against the ban, others see opportunities in the controversy. More Canadian technology startups and entertainment companies are openly discussing how they could benefit by inviting stranded talent north of the border.
Image credit: Airbnb
Leon Kaye
Leon Kaye, Executive Editor, has written for Triple Pundit since 2010. He is also the Director of Social Media and Engagement for 3BL Media, and the Editor in Chief of CR Magazine. His previous work can be found at The Guardian, Sustainable Brands and CleanTechnica. Kaye is based in Fresno, CA, from where he happily explores California’s stellar Central Coast and the national parks in the Sierra Nevadas.
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Pennsylvania Federal Court Finds That Plaintiff’s Trade Secret Misappropriation Allegations Hold Up
By James Billings-Kang on December 17, 2018
Posted in Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Defend Trade Secrets Act, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
A Pennsylvania federal court recently denied Defendant Synchrony Group, LLC’s motion to dismiss a trade secret lawsuit filed by Plaintiff Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Jazz”) holding that Plaintiff sufficiently stated a trade secret claim. Jazz Pharms., Inc. v. Synchrony Grp., LLC, No. 18-602, 2018 WL 6305602 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 3, 2018).
Jazz alleged that Synchrony had breached a contract, the duty of loyalty and fiduciary duty, in addition to violating the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) and the Pennsylvania Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“PUTSA”). Id., at *1. In response to the complaint, Synchrony raised a number of defenses on a motion to dismiss, most to no avail. First, it argued that, because it had complied with the conditions of an agreed-upon preliminary injunction and returned all information owned by Jazz, the case was moot. Id., at *3. Next, the defendants maintained that the complaint failed to allege a breach to sustain a breach-of-contract claim. Id., at *4. Third, the statutory counts should fail, according to Synchrony, because the allegations were vague and speculative and raised, at most, the potential for a future violation, which should fail to pass statutory muster. Id., at *5–6.
The Honorable Cynthia M. Rufe rejected each of these arguments. She did, however, dismiss the claims that Synchrony had violated a fiduciary duty and duty of loyalty allegedly owed to Jazz, relying upon the gist-of-the-action doctrine. Id., at *7.
A California manufacturer of sleep medications, Jazz, had hired Synchrony, a Pennsylvanian marketing company, to expand the reach of its medication Xyrem, an FDA-approved medicine designed to treat narcolepsy. Id., at *1. The parties executed a Master Services Agreement (“MSA”) on March 1, 2012, that, upon an amendment, would terminate on March 1, 2018. Id. The MSA included provisions mandating the protection of Jazz’s confidential information and the return or destruction of such information once the relationship ended. Id. During this engagement, Synchrony reviewed and obtained non-public drug sales data, information related to physician-prescribing habits and patient habits and preferences, analyses comparing Jazz’s products to others’, as well as marketing strategies, tactics to promote Jazz’s products, risk analyses, and mitigation strategy research and information. Id.
More than three months before the MSA was to expire, Synchrony informed Jazz of its intentions to work with a competitor to promote its new narcolepsy drug. Id. After a week had passed, Synchrony then notified Jazz in writing of its intention to terminate their relationship. Id. According to Jazz, despite Synchrony’s denial, Synchrony never returned all of Jazz’s confidential information. Id., at *2. As a consequence, Jazz filed suit against Synchrony, who responded with a motion to dismiss. Id.
Legal Analysis
Mootness
Prior to the filing of the motion to dismiss, the parties had stipulated to a preliminary injunction. Id., at *3. By virtue of this, Synchrony argued that there no longer existed a live controversy requiring the continuation of the lawsuit, which had become moot. Id. In other words, a change in circumstances had ended any ability by the Court to grant any further relief and afforded the plaintiff no stake in the outcome of the lawsuit. Id. (citing Knox v. Serv. Employees, 567 U.S. 298, 307 (2012) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted); Camesi v. Univ. of Pittsburg Med. Ctr., 729 F.3d 239, 247 (3d Cir. 2013) (quotation and citation omitted); N.J. Tpk. Auth. Jersey Cent. Power & Light, 772 F.2d 25, 31 (3d Cir. 1985)).
The Court found this defense unpersuasive for a number of reasons. First, because Jazz had requested a permanent injunction, including the ending of Synchrony’s relationship with Jazz’s competitor, the Court could grant additional relief. Therefore, the controversy was still live. Id. Second, questions remained whether Synchrony had fully complied with the stipulated preliminary injunction, to wit: whether it had returned all of Jazz’s confidential information and affirmed that it would not disclose the information. Id. Indeed, Synchrony’s denial that it had disclosed any information “is only a self-serving denial, insufficient to resolve the issues of fact.” Id. n.26 (citing NVR Inc. v. Davern, No. 15-5059, 2015 WL 9450831, at *3 (D.N.J. Dec. 23, 2015)). Third, Jazz had also sought monetary relief, including punitive damages. “Thus, even if injunctive relief were considered moot in this case, Jazz’s other claims are not.” Id. n.28 (citations omitted).
Under California law, which applied to the MSA, Jazz’s burden was to sufficiently allege (1) the existence of a contract, (2) plaintiff’s performance or excusable non-compliance, (3) breach, and (4) damages caused by the breach. Id., at *4 (citation omitted). Only the latter two elements were at issue: Synchrony maintained that Jazz failed to aver that a breach had occurred that caused any damages. Id. The Court found this unavailing. Jazz alleged that Synchrony disclosed its trade secrets without authorization, failed to return its confidential information, and simultaneously worked with a competitor in violation of MSA’s inherent duty of loyalty—all plausible breaches, if later proven. Id. Thus, Jazz met its burden to overcome Synchrony’s motion to dismiss its breach-of-contract claim. Id.
DTSA and PUTSA
Similarly, Synchrony failed to dismiss Jazz’s allegation that the defendants had misappropriated its trade secrets, in violation of the DTSA and PUTSA. Id., at *6. A “trade secret” is “information that: (1) the owner has taken reasonable means to keep secret; (2) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from being kept secret; (3) is not readily ascertainable by proper means; and (4) others who cannot readily access it would obtain economic value from its disclosure or use.” Id., at *5 (citing, inter alia, 18 U.S.C. § 1839(5); 12 Pa. Cons. Stat. Ann. § 5302). Taken as true for purposes of considering Synchrony’s motion, Jazz’s alleged confidential information met this definition: Jazz apparently used safeguards to protect this information, which was of significant value if placed in the hands of a competitor, especially since the information was the culmination of years of refinement and costs. Id. n.42.[1]
Because Jazz plausibly alleged a trade secret, it was entitled to injunctive relief if it could later show an actual or threatened misappropriation, which occurs when an entity (1) acquires the information knowing or with reason to know it was obtained by improper means or (2) uses or discloses the trade secret without any express or implied consent. Id. (citing, inter alia, 18 U.S.C. § 1836(b)(3)(A); 12 Pa. Cons. Stat. Ann. § 5503(a)).
The Complaint sufficiently alleged misappropriation in two ways. First, based on information and belief (a qualifier appropriate in the Third Circuit if the relevant information is “peculiarly within the defendant’s knowledge or control”), id., at *6 n.50 (citations omitted), Jazz pleaded that the defendants had disclosed its trade secrets to acquire the competitor’s business and thereby passed along this information without any authorization. Id. Second, under the inevitable-disclosure doctrine, the Third Circuit holds that where there is substantial overlap between Jazz and its competitor—based on the same role, industry, and geographic region—a Court may find that there will likely be disclosure of the confidential information to Synchrony’s detriment. Id. (citing Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. v. Botticella, 613 F.3d 102, 111–12 (3d Cir. 2010)). Synchrony had offered no assurances that it would sequester its personnel who had worked with Jazz from working with the competitor, which plausibly moved the allegations beyond speculation, thereby warranting a denial of the defendants’ motion to dismiss these statutory counts. Id., at *7.
Breach of Duty of Loyalty and Fiduciary Duty
While its motion failed to dismiss these previous counts, Synchrony did succeed in knocking out Jazz’s tort claims that it had breached the duty of loyalty and fiduciary duty owed to Jazz as a result of a special relationship between the two. Id. Citing the gist-of-the-action doctrine, the Court found that, where the allegations underlying these tort counts are the same ones supporting the contractual claim, these counts could not survive. Id. (citing DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc. v. Globus Med., Inc., 259 F. Supp. 3d 225, 234 (E.D. Pa. 2017)). That is, a party cannot cloak as a tort claim what is, in fact, a contract claim. Id. (quoting DePuy Synthes Sales, 259 F. Supp. 3d at 236). Here, because Jazz could not identify a source of these duties beyond the MSA itself, the Court granted Synchrony’s motion to dismiss the tort counts.
[1] Notably, Judge Rufe denied Jazz’s argument that its employee names, which were apparently disclosed by Synchrony to the competitor, were trade secrets. Id., at *6. Even assuming it did not waive this argument by raising it for the first time in its opposition, Jazz neglected to identify how it kept these names a secret through reasonable measures, nor did it substantiate how the names qualified as a trade secret under either statute. Id.
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Petra Kvitova ready for ‘on fire’ Naomi Osaka in Australian Open final
Naomi Osaka, left, and Petra Kvitova meet for the first time in the Australian Open final. Picture: AFP
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Naomi Osaka is aiming to show there is a new serial champion in town in the Australian Open final against Petra Kvitova.
The unpredictable nature of the women’s game means the last eight grand slams have all been won by different players.
Should Kvitova triumph, that would become nine but an Osaka win would not just stop the run but see the 21-year-old become a back-to-back champion after her maiden title in New York.
Osaka said: “I love grand slams. This is a place I think is worth all the training. When you’re little, you watch the grand slams, you watch all the players play the legendary matches here. For me, this is the most important tournament. There’s only four of them a year, so of course I want to do the best that I can.”
Unusually, the match will be a first career meeting between Osaka and 28-year-old Kvitova, with the added spice that the winner will also take the world No 1 ranking. Osaka added: “To have the opportunity to play her for the first time in a final of a grand slam is something very amazing.
“I’ve watched her play the Wimbledon finals. I know what a great player she is. It’s definitely going to be very tough for me.”
Kvitova said: “I need to play my best tennis. Naomi is on fire. She’s an aggressive player, which I am as well. So I think it will be about who is going to take the first point and push the other a little bit.”
Much has been made of the fact this is 2011 and 2014 Wimbledon champion Kvitova’s first slam final since a knife attack in 2016 that almost ended her career. She said: “There were moments and days where I didn’t really think very positively that I can be in the final of a grand slam any more. It took me five years to get there. That’s probably the best thing that I proved, that I didn’t give up.”
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Kevin Johnson Immigration
Posted Tue, February 21st, 2017 9:55 am
Argument preview: Removal of an immigrant for “sexual abuse of a minor”
Posted Tue, February 21st, 2017 9:55 am by Kevin Johnson
Over the last few years, the Supreme Court has decided a number of criminal-removal cases. Next week, the justices will hear oral argument in another one, Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions, which stems from the government’s effort to remove a lawful permanent resident for a “sex crime.”
The facts of the case sound like an episode of “Law and Order SVU.” In 2000, Juan Esquivel-Quintana’s parents lawfully brought him to the United States and settled in Sacramento, California. When he was 20 years old, Esquivel-Quintana had consensual sex with his 16-year-old girlfriend. He later pleaded no contest to violating California Penal Code § 261.5(c), which criminalizes sex with a person “under the age of 18 years” when the age difference between the parties is more than three years. Esquivel-Quintana was sentenced to 90 days in jail and five years’ probation. After his release from jail, he moved from California to Michigan, a state in which the conduct underlying his criminal conviction would not have been a crime.
An “aggravated felony” conviction generally requires mandatory removal of an immigrant from the United States and renders the immigrant ineligible for most forms of relief from removal. 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43) defines an “aggravated felony” to include the “sexual abuse of a minor.” Claiming that Esquivel-Quintana’s conviction constituted an “aggravated felony,” the U.S. government initiated removal proceedings in Michigan. In 2008, before Esquivel-Quintana’s conviction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit had held en banc, in Estrada-Espinoza v. Mukasey, that a conviction under the California law in question did not constitute “sexual abuse of a minor” under the immigration laws and was not an aggravated felony. Although Esquivel-Quintana asked the immigration judge to apply the 9th Circuit’s reasoning to his case, the immigration judge declined to do so, accepting the government’s argument that the removal proceedings were occurring within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit – Esquivel-Quintana’s new home. The immigration judge ordered Esquivel-Quintana removed from the United States. The Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed his appeal, noting that it was not bound by 9th Circuit law because the case arose in the 6th Circuit, which had not ruled on the definition of “sexual abuse of a minor” in this context.
Applying the Supreme Court’s 1984 decision in Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. National Resources Defense Council, Inc., the 6th Circuit deferred to the BIA’s interpretation of “sexual abuse of a minor” and upheld the removal order. The dissent would have applied the “rule of lenity,” a judicial doctrine under which ambiguities in criminal law are resolved in favor of the defendant, to the interpretation of the criminal-removal provision in the immigration law and would have found that Esquivel-Quintana’s conviction was not an aggravated felony.
The question presented to the Supreme Court is whether Esquivel-Quintana’s conviction constitutes an “aggravated felony” as “sexual abuse of a minor” under U.S. immigration law.
Esquivel-Quintana contends that because there is no “readily apparent” uniform definition of “sexual abuse of a minor,” the court must compare the elements of the California crime against “[t]he prevailing view in the modern codes.” Such a comparison, he argues, reveals that “federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 43 states consider the least of the acts criminalized under Cal. Penal Code § 261.5(c) – consensual sex between a 21-year-old and someone almost 18 – to be entirely lawful. Six of the seven remaining states deem it not sufficiently serious to be treated as ‘sexual abuse.’” California is the exception.
Esquivel-Quintana goes on to assert that because the statute is not ambiguous, the BIA’s determination that his conviction was an aggravated felony does not warrant Chevron deference. Even if the statute were ambiguous, he points out, in cases such as Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr, in 2001, the court has espoused “the longstanding principle of construing any lingering ambiguities in deportation statutes in favor of the alien.” Moreover, the rule of lenity also requires ambiguities in statutes with criminal applications to be narrowly construed. Finally, he maintains, the BIA’s interpretation here would not be entitled to deference because it is unreasonable.
A “friend of the court” brief in support of Esquivel-Quintana submitted by the Immigrant Defense Project and two other immigrant groups takes a slightly different approach to interpreting the relevant statute. The amici argue that when there is a “readily apparent” federal definition of an offense, the Supreme Court will apply it, as it did in in Taylor v. United States, in 1990. They contend that just such a definition exists in this case: The phrase “sexual abuse of a minor” in the statute refers to the offense of the same name described in the Sexual Abuse Act of 1986, as amended in 1996, the same year “sexual abuse of a minor” was added as an aggravated felony to the immigration statute. That federal offense applies only to minors under 16 and not to all forms of consensual sexual contact. Under that “readily apparent” federal definition, Esquivel-Quintana’s conviction therefore would not constitute an aggravated felony requiring removal.
Defending the 6th Circuit’s ruling, the federal government contends that Esquivel-Quintana’s conviction is an aggravated felony under the plain language of the immigration statute or, alternatively, under the BIA’s reasonable interpretation of that provision. The government first asserts that the statutory language – “sexual abuse of a minor” – clearly encompasses all crimes involving sex with minors. In light of that clear statutory language, the government maintains, the court need not engage in the kind of time-consuming surveys of state law that are found in Esquivel-Quintana’s brief.
The government goes on to argue that, even if the court determines that the term “sexual abuse of a minor” is ambiguous, Chevron mandates deference to the BIA’s reasonable construction of that phrase. Any canon of statutory interpretation, such as the rule of lenity or the rule that ambiguities in deportation statutes should be construed in favor of the noncitizen, only comes into play as an interpretive method of last resort. In the government’s view, Chevron deference, not canons of statutory construction, carries the day in this case.
In setting a series of records for numbers of removals during President Barack Obama’s first term, the government focused its removal effects on noncitizens convicted of crimes. President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that, if implemented, would expand crime-based removals. This case illustrates some of the complexities associated with reliance on state criminal convictions in federal removals, which can lead to a lack of uniformity in the application of the U.S. immigration laws. The disparities between the states in areas of criminal law frequently relied on for removal, such as state marijuana laws, are growing, and are likely to pose interpretive challenges in the future for the federal courts in criminal-removal cases. It remains to be seen whether the justices will focus on these issues during the oral argument next week.
Posted in Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions, Featured, Merits Cases
Recommended Citation: Kevin Johnson, Argument preview: Removal of an immigrant for “sexual abuse of a minor”, SCOTUSblog (Feb. 21, 2017, 9:55 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/02/argument-preview-removal-immigrant-sexual-abuse-minor/
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GOP chair sees opportunity in Grant County
SILVER CITY >> If the three members of the Grant County Board of County Commissioners, all Democrats, decide to...
GOP chair sees opportunity in Grant County SILVER CITY >> If the three members of the Grant County Board of County Commissioners, all Democrats, decide to... Check out this story on scsun-news.com: http://scsun.co/1F81Re2
Randal Seyler, SilverCity Published 8:10 a.m. MT Aug. 19, 2015
State Chairperson of the Republican Party Debbie Maestas, left, and Todd Johnson, political director, were in Grant County on Monday visiting with local GOP leaders. Randal Seyler - Sun-News(Photo: )
SILVER CITY >> If the three members of the Grant County Board of County Commissioners, all Democrats, decide to increase the board size to five members next week, local Republicans will be ready to seek those seats in 2016.
Deborah Maestas, chairwoman of the New Mexico Republican Party, says the expanded panel would offer the chance for a more diverse representation of Grant County residents.
"It absolutely would be an opportunity," she said. "Expanding the board would be a positive thing for Grant County and would allow for more opportunities for elected officials to serve the county."
Maestas, 43, was elected chairwoman of the state GOP in December 2014, and she made visiting all the 33 counties in New Mexico one of her priorities. Her visit to Grant County on Monday wrapped up her statewide tour, in which she met local Republican Party elected officials, party officers, and rank-and-file members.
"We are getting ready for 2016 and we have a lot of really good Republican candidates and officials in New Mexico," Maestas said.
She is no stranger to politics, serving in 2014 as deputy campaign manager for her father, Allen Weh, in his bid as a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.
Maestas she was responsible for all back office functions, negotiating with vendors, and keeping campaign expenditures within budget, according to the Republican National Committee website, gop.com.
She also provided management oversight to internet based fundraising, and was an integral member of the media working group that made decisions on all paid media.
A native New Mexican, Maestas graduated high school from St. Pius X in Albuquerque. She lives in Albuquerque with husband Steve and daughter, Addison.
Maestas is an active member of the Young Presidents Organization, Delta Gamma Alumni, and Texas Christian University Alumni Association. Her community involvement includes Samaritan's Purse and Calvary of Albuquerque's Reload Love Ministry.
As chairwoman of the New Mexico GOP, Maestas said she wants to be there to support Republicans who might find themselves stranded in a "blue" county and keep them focused on the big picture.
"We want to support our party members and help field good candidates. Mainly we are traveling the state asking how can we support and help our local parties."
Maestas said she is also finding conservative Democrats constitute a large population in New Mexico, and that population may not feel it is being represented by the mainstream Democratic Party, especially in the 2016 presidential race.
"We have a diverse field of candidates," Maestas said of the 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls.
She said that if a primary was held today in New Mexico, many of the early Republican candidates would have support, but said it was too early to pick a leader in the GOP presidential race.
"The state of New Mexico is like the country as a whole, it is a very diverse population, with diverse interests," she said.
For New Mexico, the Republican Party is focusing on the state races, especially the State Senate races, in 2016.
Currently there are 24 Democrats and 18 Republicans in the State Senate. If the Republicans can gain four Senate seats, then the GOP will have control of both the House of Representatives and Senate in Santa Fe.
"You know we took the state House in 2014 for the first time in 62 years," Maestas said. "We want to keep that momentum going forward and gain more Senate seats next year."
Maestas said she wants the GOP to be part of the solution to problems, both at the local level as well as the state and national levels.
"We want to keep people excited and involved," she said, even those Republicans who might find themselves living in a Democrat-dominated territory, such as Grant County.
"My goal is for the state is to support our local Party members and officers, and our elected officials," Maestas said. "We have to be positive, and I want to encourage all of our members to stay active and engaged."
Randal Seyler can be reached at 575-538-5893 (ext. 5803).
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JUUL joins UKVIA
JUUL Labs UK has joined the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA), according to a joint press note issued yesterday.
Since the UKVIA was formed by top vaping brands in 2016, it has been at the forefront of spreading the positive public health message about vaping to the UK’s smokers.
“The UKVIA is a partnership of the leading most respected vaping brands in the UK,” John Dunne (pictured), director of the UKVIA was quoted as saying.
“We only allow companies to become members if they share our ambition to set high standards for the industry and our aim to help the UK’s seven million adult smokers make a life changing switch to a safer alternative.
“Our new code of conduct confirms the standards that all of our members follow every day as they work to grow and expand the dynamic vaping industry.
“That’s why we are delighted that JUUL have decided to join the Association in recognition of our shared aims and values. We are excited to work with them to achieve the ambitious aims of the UKVIA.”
Meanwhile, Dan Thomson, JUUL Labs UK’s MD said the UKVIA’s new code of conduct had been a crucial part of JUUL’s decision to join the Association.
He made special note of the UKVIA’s Challenge 25, which was aimed at restricting youth access – a key policy that JUUL had enforced since it launched in the UK last year.
“This is alongside a wider program of responsible measures that we have implemented exceeding regulatory or legal requirements, including sanctions for any non-compliant retailers on Challenge 25; two-factor authentication for purchase online; a limited range of adult-focused flavours; marketing which is entirely focused on adult smokers over 30 years; and zero presence on social media,” he said.
“JUUL’s mission is to improve the lives of the world’s one billion adult smokers and to achieve this we are committed to having an open dialogue with government and stakeholders to promote vaping and its benefits over combustible cigarettes. Greater collaboration across the sector will provide both the wider industry and the UKVIA with a more credible voice to achieve our mission.”
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Ken Hanson was second on Wednesday and said...
Matthew Beaudin
In homecoming Tour, second not quite good enough for Hanson
California local narrowly misses in Santa Barbara and will take the sting and the lesson to Thursday's Avila Beach finale
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (VN) — Ken Hanson (Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies) said all the right things after the finish of stage 4 at the Amgen Tour of California on Wednesday: he was happy with his team, he was happy with his result, and he was happy to do well in front of a home crowd.
His team did work well enough, unfurling a swift leadout in the final kilometer of the 134-kilometer stage. And Hanson should be happy with his result; second at a major race like the Amgen Tour is an enormous result for a rider from a domestic squad. And, with the finish in his former hometown of Santa Barbara, fans shouted louder than normal for a runner-up.
But after finishing second to Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Sharp) in stage 4, Ken Hanson clearly wanted more. Very clearly, he seemed to have expected more.
“I was a little too impatient and went a little too soon, and Farrar had good finishing speed,” Hanson said. “I lived here for so long. I have such good friends here, it feels like coming home. I was really, really motivated for the stage here. And I just came up a little short. Just was a little too impatient for the sprint. I think I could have gotten maybe 50 meters more out of my last leadout guy, [Alex] Candelario. But I was afraid of getting swarmed and pinched in, and kind of went a little early and hugged the barriers, and Farrar was able to come by me in the last 50 meters. It was close, and I’m happy, but I’m still really hungry.”
Hanson is one of America’s top domestic pros on one of America’s strongest teams, the Minnesota-based Optum squad. The team has recently bolstered its European racing regime, and is putting that strength to work. In a drag-race of a sprint today into Santa Barbara, the team had the best leadout inside the final kilometer, but was perhaps just a rider short. Farrar stole a seat on the tracks and barreled by Hanson, the most prolific winner in North America last season, and a winner at a race in Portugal, the Classica Aveiro-Fatima, earlier this spring. In California today, Hanson was close, but not close enough.
It wasn’t a win for Hanson, but it was far from a loss. And he knows it, though the sprinter in him has a hard time calling a second-place result a success.
“You know. It’s tough,” he said. “The timing couldn’t have been any better. I’ve got really good teammates supporting me … I think I was just a little too impatient. I think I could have waited a little bit longer to start my sprint. Three hundred meters is a little long. I had momentum, and just kind of went for it. Maybe a little bit more patience and one more guy, you know?”
The Tour of California is nearly a home race for Hanson, who seems to have done time all along its route, at one point or another. He was born and raised in Sierra Madre, and now lives in San Diego, though he used to live in Santa Barbara and went to college in the state as well. When he rolled through the finish straight after the podium presentation, Hanson was greeted with loud cheers from a mass of fans. The pressure, then, to do well, is present, even if he rides for one of the smaller teams.
“In the grand scheme of things, we’re a really small team, and we don’t even have all our best leadout guys here,” he said. “As you see, we’re just as good as the ProTour teams when we get organized,” he said. “I’m really motivated for tomorrow’s stage as well.”
He should get another crack on Thursday, when the peloton heads from Santa Barbara to Avila Beach. The fifth leg of the race is 51km longer than Wednesday’s stage and every bit as tailored to a bunch finish, but Hanson will almost certainly be more patient when he winds up his kick a day after his career best Amgen Tour result.
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Photo: Tim de Waele/Getty Images (File).
DS White confident Chaves can get back on top
The young Colombian climber lost six months to Epstein-Barr, but now team officials say he's ready to return to the front of the GC field.
Mitchelton-Scott management is bullish that Esteban Chaves will return to his grand tour podium-challenging ways in 2019.
The 28-year-old climber went from finishing on two grand tour podiums in 2016 to flaming out of contention at the 2018 Giro d’Italia. After a six-month stop to recover from Epstein-Barr, Chaves confirmed his return to the peloton with a season debut slated at the Vuelta a la Valenciana in Spain in early February.
Mitchelton-Scott’s sport director Matt White said the team is quietly confident Chaves is fully recovered and will soon regain his spot as a grand tour candidate in the coming season.
“We’re hoping that be the middle or end of [2019] he’ll be even better than he was in 2016,” White said. “That’s a viable target.”
The Colombian hasn’t raced since the end of the Giro in May when he was diagnosed with Epstein-Barr, a debilitating virus that can wipe out a cyclist’s career if it’s misdiagnosed or if a return to competition is rushed. Other riders, such as former Sky rider Beñat Intxausti and top sprinter Mark Cavendish, have struggled to regain their former status after bouts with the virus.
Chaves enjoyed a breakout season in 2016, finishing second in the Giro d’Italia and third at the Vuelta a España before barnstorming to victory at the Giro di Lombardia. After emerging as a grand tour contender, a string of injuries and other setbacks hampered his progress in 2017, but it wasn’t until Chaves flamed out of the 2018 Giro that doctors figured out what was up.
After Chaves limped into Rome a distant 72nd despite winning a mountain stage and defending second place on GC into the second week, the team put Chaves through a battery of tests and doctors diagnosed the culprit as Epstein-Barr.
Looking back, White surmises that Chaves might have had the virus as early as 2017 when a knee injury and other illnesses kept them from detecting the underlying issue.
“The most important thing now is that we know what was the problem,” White said in a telephone interview. “Before we couldn’t put our finger on it. He’d be flying for 10 days and then the wheels would fly off. We knew something was wrong.”
To recover, Chaves spent two months completely off the bike. That was followed by a steady two-month transition to slowly build up his mileage. Doctors continue to monitor his immune system, but indications are that Chaves has put the setback behind him.
Team officials confirmed Monday that Chaves will return to Europe early in 2019 and make his debut at Valenciana in Spain. Though final calendars have yet to be determined, it’s likely Chaves will race the Giro in May.
“He will approach the season like any other,” White continued. “His training now is business as usual and there are no restrictions at the moment. Fingers crossed that everything will go as planned and he can start off the season in February with a bang.”
Having a fully healthy Chaves, who also won the Giro di Lombardia in his breakout 2016 season, would make Mitchelton-Scott one of the most formidable grand tour teams in the peloton.
Simon Yates, already a confirmed grand tour winner at the Vuelta a España, and his twin brother Adam give the Aussie outfit one of the deepest multi-pronged GC attacks in the peloton. With the departure of Caleb Ewan, the team’s entire resources are now focused on the GC. Only Team Sky and Movistar can bring as many legitimate GC contenders to the grand tours.
White will huddle with Mitchelton-Scott directors and riders at an upcoming team camp to finalize plans for 2019. Simon Yates has already said he has “unfinished business” with the Giro while brother Adam will likely headline the team’s Tour de France effort. While not confirmed, it’s also likely that Simon Yates would return to the Vuelta to defend his title, perhaps with Chaves and his brother Adam as support.
With that kind of firepower, Mitchelton-Scott will be a GC contender in any grand tour it starts. White is hoping Chaves will be back to his smiling ways in 2019.
Chaves finds life metaphor in Giro stage victory
Giro d’Italia stage 19: Chaves bounces back to victory
Giro d’Italia stage 17: Peters solos to victory while Movistar consolidate
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Global Challenge - Non-Communicable Disease
Non-communicable diseases are emerging as a major challenge to global health and development. In this unit students will investigate and critique responses to the non-communicable disease epidemic through public health interventions. Trends in non-communicable diseases and their impact globally, including in low and middle-income countries will be analysed. The determinants of non-communicable diseases and the challenges faced in researching and controlling these conditions will be viewed through the lens of nutrition and active living. . The consequences of non-communicable diseases on the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities and their effect on national economic growth and development is examined.
Credit points:
HMG7120
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On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Critically review the epidemiology and burden of non-communicable diseases in the global context and predict their impact on the health and well-being of various populations;
2. Conceptually map and commentate on the evolution of the global non-communicable disease epidemic considering political, social and economic influences;
3. Investigate the causal pathways to non-communicable diseases, particularly relating to nutrition and physical activity; and
4. Survey and evaluate public health strategies to control non-communicable diseases and interrogate the evidence-base required to implement policy.
Annotated Bibliography Evolution of global non-communicable disease epidemic (1,000 words) 20%
Essay Evolution of global non-communicable disease epidemic (2,500 words) 40%
Assignment Report on public health policy to control non-communicable disease (2,500 words) 40%
Sick Societies: Responding to the Global Challenge of Chronic Disease 1st ed.
Stuckler, D. & Siegel, K., (2011)
Oxford, Oxford University Press
Master of Public Health (Global Nutrition and Active Living)
Study a single unit
This unit may be available as a single unit of study.
Find out more about how to apply for single units of study at VU.
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33 dead as Iraq tribal leaders attacked
By - The Washington Times - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber struck Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders touring a market after a reconciliation meeting west of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 33 people in the second major attack in the capital area in two days.
Despite the ongoing violence, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said he does not believe the Iraqi government will ask Americans to remain in the country past a 2011 deadline set by a security agreement between the two countries.
The bombing — which left clusters of bodies lying piled near the shabby market stalls lining the road — was part of a spike of violence that comes as the U.S. military begins to draw down its forces.
The bomber detonated an explosives belt as the tribal leaders were walking through the market in the town of Abu Ghraib, accompanied by security officials and journalists, according to the Iraqi military.
Shakir Fizaa, the mayor of Abu Ghraib, blamed al-Qaida in Iraq. He said the tribal leaders had just left his office along with security officials after a reconciliation meeting and were talking to constituents in the market when the bombing occurred.
He said some people were wounded when police opened fire after the attack.
“This terrorist attack was aimed at stopping reconciliation and the improvement in the security situation,” he told The Associated Press. “The criminal attack bears the fingerprints of al-Qaida, but we will not be deterred by the acts of the vicious group against innocent civilians.”
Two Iraqi television journalists from the privately owned Baghdadiya station were among those killed in the attack, and a reporter from the state television was wounded.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but suicide operations are the hallmark of al-Qaida in Iraq. The U.S. military has said the terror network appears to be stepping up its campaign of bombings as it tries to make a comeback after being battered by recent U.S.-Iraqi military campaigns.
A suicide attacker killed 30 people on Sunday near the police academy in east Baghdad.
Abu Ghraib is a mainly Sunni district that also is the site of the prison where U.S. soldiers were photographed abusing inmates, igniting a scandal that was one of the biggest setbacks to American efforts to win the peace in Iraq.
The area was once one of the most dangerous in Iraq but has seen a sharp decline in violence after a decision by local Sunni tribal leaders to turn against al-Qaida in Iraq.
Recent high-profile attacks have marred an announcement on Sunday by the U.S. military that 12,000 American troops and 4,000 Britons will be withdrawn from the country by September — the first step in fulfilling President Barack Obama’s pledge to end America’s part in the war by the end of 2011.
U.S. troops are to leave the cities by the end of June, and the attacks raise questions about whether Iraqi security forces will be able to cope with the persistent violence.
The 2011 deadline was set in a security agreement that took effect on Jan. 1. There has been speculation the Iraqis may ask the U.S. for an extension.
But Gen. Ray Odierno told The Associated Press in an interview that he has received no indication that Iraqi leaders want that to happen.
Odierno left the door open to the possibility, however, saying “never say never.”
The reconciliation meeting the Sunni and Shiite sheiks were holding before they were attacked was one of many the Iraqi government has been encouraging to heal the rifts between the Muslim sects after years of sectarian violence that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, last week went so far as to call on Iraqis to reconcile with former supporters of Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-dominated regime who have been shunned by the Shiite government that rose to power after the U.S. invasion.
The speech appeared aimed at making political inroads into Sunni areas ahead of national parliamentary elections expected later this year. The prime minister’s allies gained little support in Sunni areas in the Jan. 31 provincial elections.
The Iraqi officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information, said 33 people were killed and 46 were wounded in Tuesday’s attack.
But the Iraqi military spokesman’s office put the toll slightly lower, at 28 people were killed and 28 wounded. Conflicting casualty tolls are common in the chaotic aftermath of bombings.
Associated Press Writers Lara Jakes, Sinan Salaheddin and Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report.
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By John McCaslin - The Washington Times - Wednesday, March 11, 2009
If you didn’t get caught up in traffic bottlenecks caused by Angelina Jolie, whose been in town (accompanied by husband and fellow traffic-stopper Brad Pitt) this week filming the CIA thriller “Salt,” perhaps the movie set of “Fair Game,” a future flick surrounding the outing of former CIA officer Valerie Plame, will slow motorists down when it arrives in Washington to start filming next week.
Given President Obama’s lifting of federal funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List of pro-life women, Marjorie Dannenfelser, is set to announce a major initiative Thursday.
All she will say now is that what took place in the stem cell arena this week “is proof that those of us involved in upholding pro-life initiatives need to quickly move forward with definitive strategic plans to go on offense in order to protect the unborn. Our announcement is one that we are very excited about and pro-life Americans will be extremely pleased with the news.”
NEW CONCLUSIONS
Former Time magazine Washington bureau chief-turned-deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott, who now heads the Brookings Institution, has written a new conclusion for his soon-to-be-released paperback version of “The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation.”
Taking readers through the election of Barack Obama, Mr. Talbott is calling on the new president to launch an array of nonproliferation initiatives, starting with one directed to Moscow. (We doubt Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s wrongly worded gift presented last week to Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was what Mr. Talbott had in mind).
Politically speaking, Mr. Talbott also provides his take on Republican Sen. John McCain’s failed bid for the White House:
“On the basis of what I knew - or thought I knew - of McCain, I expected that, once he had feinted right and had the nomination locked up, he would move back to the center and take the high road as a unifier at home and an established statesman abroad. While I could hardly have been more wrong, McCain paid a huge price for proving me so. His divisive strategy in the general-election campaign backfired spectacularly.”
“Johnny, last week I asked if you had a message you’d like to send Rush Limbaugh. The response was overwhelming. We received tens of thousands of submissions, and we picked the top five:
” ‘Americans didn’t vote for a Rush to failure’
” ‘Hope and change cannot be Rush’d’
” ‘Failure is not an option for America’s future’
” ‘We can fix America, just don’t Rush it’
” ‘Rush: Say yes to America’
“Now, we’re putting it up for a vote. Decide which slogan Rush will see in his home town. The slogan with the most votes will be put on a billboard where Rush can’t miss it. It’s up to you to let Rush know that Americans reject his desire to see President Obama - and our country - fail.
“Vote for your favorite slogan now:
“Thanks, Jen O’Malley Dillon , executive director, Democratic National Committee.”
GORED AGAIN
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is up in arms all over again about former Vice President Al Gore’s red-meat diet.
We wrote last year when PETA said the meat industry is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions, and Mr. Gore’s “a-steak-or-more-a-day habit isn’t helping.”
“Mr. Gore’s own addiction to meat is adding to the very crisis he’s devoting his life to stopping,” noted PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich.
A United Nations report confirms that raising animals for food generates about 40 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, ships and planes in the world combined. PETA says a meat-based diet causes eight times more greenhouse gas emissions than a vegetarian diet.
Now, the animal rights group has filed an application with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in support of a new domain: OffsetAlGore.eco.
It would seek to make people aware of the harm Mr. Gore is personally causing to the environment.
• John McCaslin can be reached at 202/636-3284 or e-mail John McCaslin.
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Dr. Sherif R. Aboseif, Urinary Incontinence and Reconstruction & Sexual Dysfunction
Dr. Aboseif in China teaching how to perform sacral nerve stimulator for voiding dysfunction
Dr. Sherif R. Aboseif is a national and international leader in the field of urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction, genital and pelvic floor reconstruction. Dr. Aboseif completed his general surgery and Urologic training at the University of California, San Francisco and a fellowship in Neuro-Urology and Reconstructive Surgery at University of Texas, after which he returned to University of California, San Francisco as an assistant professor of Urology. Dr Aboseif has been trained under world renowned experts in the field of urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction and reconstructive surgery. Devoting considerable time to teaching and research, Dr. Aboseif has over 100 publications and over 200 national and International presentations. He received numerous awards and recognition from various organizations throughout his career and participated in many clinical studies testing new and innovative urological technologies that have helped many patients. He is an expert reviewer for many prestigious national and international journals, including the American Journal of Urology and the British Journal of Urology International. He has been an invited speaker both Nationally and Internationally.
Dr. Aboseif teaching residents
Dr. Aboseif is certified by the American Board of Urology and is a member of many Urologic societies including the American Urological Association, Western-section of American Urological Association, International society of Urology.
Urinary incontinence is Dr. Aboseifs clinical specialty, along with sexual dysfunction, pelvic and genital reconstruction both in men and women. He utilizes the state of the art equipments in his center to achieve the proper diagnosis prior to any surgical treatment. He has been involved with the management of the most complicated and challenging cases of urinary incontinence and genital and pelvic reconstruction in both men and women.
Email: sheriff.aboseif@CHW.edu
Dr. Kelvin Wong, Robotics & Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery
Dr. Wong on a medical mission in Honduras
Dr. Kelvin Wong completed his general surgery and urology residency at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He then completed a fellowship at the University of Southern California, where he gained subspecialty training in robotics and minimally invasive surgery in the treatment of benign and malignant urologic conditions. He has given many presentations at both regional and national conferences, and published several scientific articles in the field of urology. He is a member of the American Urological Association.
Dr. Kelvin Wong believes in an informative and patient-centered decision-making process. He is available to treat general and oncologic conditions, including kidney stones, enlarged prostate (BPH), voiding dysfunction, incontinence, infertility, erectile dysfunction, prostate cancer, kidney cancer, and bladder cancer, among others. Robotic surgery applications include radical and simple prostatectomy, pyeloplasty, nephrectomy (partial and radical), ureteral reimplantation, and cystectomy with urinary diversion.
Urologic issues can be complicated and anxiety provoking. Regardless of your particular concern, please feel free to schedule an appointment where we can tackle these issues together!
Email: kelvin.sc.wong@gmail.com
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Sutton Named Honorary Chair of 2018 POSSE Auction
July 3, 2018 by OSU Athletics
(STILLWATER, Oklahoma / July 3, 2018) – Former Oklahoma State head coach Eddie Sutton will be the honorary chairperson at the 2018 POSSE Auction on Saturday, Aug. 11 in Gallagher-Iba Arena.
“We are extremely honored to have our legendary coach as the honorary chair of this year’s POSSE Auction,” said Larry Reece, OSU’s Senior Associate AD/Development. “Coach Sutton and the Cowboys produced so many magical moments in Gallagher-Iba Arena, and I know our fans will really enjoy being a part of another.”
Sutton led the Cowboys for 16 seasons and piled up a 368-151 (.709) record that included runs to the NCAA Final Four in 1995 and 2004. Under his guidance, Oklahoma State advanced to postseason play in 15 of his 16 seasons in Stillwater, including 13 NCAA Tournament appearances, and he won 20 games or more 13 times.
In 37 years as a head coach, Sutton posted 804 wins at Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, OSU and San Francisco.
The POSSE Auction is OSU’s biggest and most exciting fundraiser of the year, and features live and silent auction items and a first-class dinner and entertainment experience. This year’s auction items include exclusive OSU experiences, memorabilia and autographs from your favorite Cowboy and Cowgirl greats.
To attend or donate an auction item call the POSSE office at 405-744-7301 or visit okstate.com/auction.
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Next Geography & The Environment
Next Regional & Area Planning
Regional & Area Planning 9780754637868-01-000 9780754637868-01-000 9780754637868
https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/the-tva-regional-planning-and-development-program-the-transformation-o/david-a-johnson/hardback/9780754637868-01-000.html
The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program The Transformation of an Institution and Its Mission
By David A. Johnson (Author)
https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/the-tva-regional-planning-and-development-program-the-transformation-o/david-a-johnson/hardback/9780754637868-01-000.html £105.00
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a world-renowned model for regional planning and development. Based along the Tennessee River and its series of hydro-electric power stations, dams and reservoirs, the TVA development program envisioned a broad regional planning program. The program focused on development opportunities and problems around the array of TVA dams and their reservoirs. It also created new 'model' towns and pioneered land-use planning bringing together federal, state, and local agencies, farmers, foresters and industrial firms to further the economic, social, and physical conditions of what had been one of the most seriously lagging regions of the U.S. This book is based on the memoirs and experiences of Aelred J. Gray, former planner with the TVA, who saw the 'big picture' and introduced much of the pioneering work of the agency. Gray worked as a staff planner at the TVA for nearly 40 years including a decade as its chief planner, overseeing numerous changes and developments to the Authority's program. As well as building up the regional industrial development and the foundation of state parks, he also had a strong interest in the region's cities. In the 1950s he introduced TVA's landmark Flood Prevention Program, which became a national model. His review of how this innovative and influential regional development agency functioned and changed through the decades will be of value to all those interested in planning practice, planning history, and regional politics.
David A. Johnson is Professor Emeritus at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
Contributor: David A. Johnson
Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Series: Urban Planning and Environment
Biography: David A. Johnson is Professor Emeritus at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
David A. Johnson
https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/the-tva-regional-planning-and-development-program-the-transformation-o/david-a-johnson/hardback/9780754637868.html £105.00
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Lost chance for fixing British certificates market -- Government pulls solution after criticism from renewables industry
As prices for renewable energy in the UK reach new heights, the government's main support mechanism -- the Renewables Obligation (RO) -- has come in for yet more criticism for keeping costs to the consumer high. The latest damning verdict on the cost of the RO comes from the parliament's Public Accounts Committee (next story).
Despite the criticism, proposals released last month by the Department of Trade and Industry under its review of the RO fall far short of the measures needed to keep prices from spiralling while at the same time maintaining confidence in the mechanism beyond 2015. Moreover, the government's favoured fix of the RO for achieving both those requirements, which had been much discussed in renewables circles, is surprisingly absent from the latest proposals.
The watered down government thinking was revealed by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as it starts the statutory consultation stage of its long-winded RO review. The Renewables Obligation requires electricity retailers to supply a rising percentage of their power from renewable energy sources, demonstrating their compliance with the RO by the acquisition of Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs). The level of the RO began at 3% in 2002, in the current year it stands at 5.5%, and it will rise to 15.4% in 2015-16.
But a major concern of the renewables industry is what will happen to the RO after 2015-16. The fear is that if the level stays at 15% after that date -- and if renewables capacity continues to rise to meet the 15% target -- the value of the certificates will fall to zero as the target is reached. Since wind generation projects in Britain are largely financed on the basis of ten to 15 year contracts with electricity retailers for the sale of power and ROCs, the vision of worthless future ROCs undermines the foundations of the market, according to some industry observers.
Investors and project developers cannot put money into new projects with confidence given the future uncertainty of ROC prices, they argue. Market players likely to fall fastest off the cliff edge will be higher cost technologies like offshore wind, yet government is banking on offshore wind to help deliver its renewable energy targets.
No action
A majority in the renewables industry would like to see increases in the RO percentages out to 2020 or beyond. This would improve confidence in the ROC market and drive forward additional renewables developments, they say. Fixing RO levels in the long term was discussed by the DTI in its preliminary consultation earlier this year, but the department has now decided against taking any action to deal with the problem -- at least, not for the next few years. Indeed, the proposals outlined in its statutory consultation document last month reveal the government is confining its tinkering with the RO mechanism to a bare minimum.
In the current climate of criticism about the cost of the RO, the DTI has reason enough to reject the industry's call for raising RO levels further. Prices being paid for wind energy are running at around £0.09/kWh (EUR 0.13/kWh), compared with a range of about EUR 0.07-0.09/kWh on the European continent. Raising the level of the RO could cost the consumer an extra £500 million annually in later years, the DTI says. Raising it would also be premature given that the low level of renewables build means the RO targets are far from being met.
Even so, the DTI had been seriously considering a solution to the RO's failings -- until the renewable energy lobby objected to it in informal discussions with government officials. The DTI favoured setting the level of the obligation from year to year after 2015 so that it remains a fixed percentage, say 2%, above the volume of renewables generation achieved.
The DTI had hoped an annual increase to provide headroom would reduce the shortfall between installed capacity and the level of the RO and, importantly, bring prices down by removing a large element of the risk which is contributing to keeping them high. Fearing the cliff edge, providers of project loans want to see up to 35% of a project's cost as equity before they are prepared to lend the remainder. To attract equity under those terms, high returns to equity investors of 15-20% must be on offer, pushing up the cost of wind power.
From the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA), Gordon Edge sees attractions in the DTI proposal and its guaranteed headroom: developers could build with confidence and financiers would know almost exactly what ROC prices will be doing ahead of time, he says. But Edge has reservations too. The industry would need to be assured, he says, that the green power percentage would never be set lower than the previous year; this would ensure that even if there is a significant gap between generation and the 15% level of the obligation come 2015-16, the obligation would not be reduced, which would cause ROC values to fall precipitously.
Edge fears the mechanism could even be a victim of its own success. By guaranteeing the obligation is always above the amount of generation, renewables capacity will be completely unlocked from targets. This could lead to a rush to build with an increased burden on the consumer. "If you eliminate price risk from the market there is a danger that everyone will go bananas and the government, worried by the cost, could pull the plug," he says.
From the Renewable Power Association (RPA), Gaynor Hartnell thinks guaranteed headroom in the RO above the renewables generation built would be a "bad idea." The association worries it could lead to a fall in ROC prices come 2015-16. Like Edge, she fears the link between the green power electricity retailers must supply and the government's renewables targets would be broken.
"The ROC price effectively becomes a slowly decreasing feed-in tariff," according to the RPA. It is referring to the setting by government of a fixed tariff for wind, as in Germany.
best idea
Ian Temperton of Climate Change Capital disagrees. He thinks the DTI's idea was the best political compromise it could suggest within the constraints of the review. He believes the department was genuinely trying to improve confidence in the RO without extending targets further. "We should not expect the RO to increase to 20% by 2020; we are still falling behind the yearly RO target," he says. "I do not think renewables has the blank cheque it used to have. There is a lot of nervousness in government nowadays about setting targets that might not be delivered."
Although not over-enthusiastic about it, Temperton says the guaranteed headroom idea could "probably" work. "It's fair play to the DTI for being inventive and the industry should be more constructive in its dialogue than it has been," he says. "Our big concern is that this review does not address the issue of offshore wind."
Edge believes the DTI headroom proposal could still be on the table. Nuances in the consultation document suggest the decision is merely being deferred, he says. The government is widely expected to conduct a review of energy policy some time in the next few years, he points out. This may be the opportunity for revisiting the mechanics of the RO as well.
Meantime, lower cost renewables like onshore wind and landfill gas are enjoying a bonanza -- receiving prices for their power well above the cost of generating it. From consultants Garrad Hassan, Alex Tindal believes that wind generators already operating under the RO are entitled to enjoy their profits. "People making money now are the people who had the guts to develop wind farms in a very different climate with no support mechanisms in place," Tindal says.
He argues that ROC prices need to be attractive to encourage wind developers to put time and effort into building projects. "If building renewables was easy we would be ahead of the RO curve by now," he says. "The carrot needs to be quite big to get the capacity built to meet the country's targets." He adds that while prices paid for wind generated electricity have risen, so too have upfront costs of development and getting projects through the site permitting process, as well as the cost of the hardware.
Tindal also points out that the rise in prices being paid for renewables electricity is linked to the rise in electricity prices generally as a result of hikes in oil and gas prices. "Suddenly electricity is worth a lot more compared to a few years ago when it was worth next to nothing," he says.
Meantime, the DTI's statutory consultation document holds few surprises. All the government proposes is making some changes to the eligibility of power generated from waste, simplifying administrative arrangements -- including for smaller generators -- and reducing support after 2009 for low-cost technologies, in particular landfill gas. In the case of onshore wind, the DTI does not believe the technology is ready yet for support to be reduced, but asks for views on the best approach to tailoring support for future onshore wind projects.
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Assessing potential for offshore wind off Taiwan
Taiwanese utility Taipower says it is assessing the potential for offshore wind to contribute to Taiwan's goal for 10% of its electricity demand, or 2150 MW, to come from renewable energy sources by 2010. According to a preliminary site selection study, Yunlin, Changhwa and Penghu Island show "excellent" potential. Yunlin and Changhwa could accommodate up to 91 and 294 turbines, respectively, with each machine rated at 3.6 MW, to give a total installed capacity of 1386 MW, says Taipower. The utility plans to choose one site to do a full feasibility study, with a view to completing it in 2007 so construction can start in 2009. Taipower's head of wind power development, Chen Wu-hsiung, adds that Penghu Island is one of the best sites for wind farms, but development there is restricted by poor transmission. The company is evaluating installation of a 200 MW undersea cable connecting Penghu and the Taiwan mainland before the end of 2011. With the cable installed, Penghu's wind potential is up to 240 MW, it says, with about 40 turbines onshore and up to 50 offshore.
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HomeGigsTHE KILLERS + Special Guest LEWIS CAPALDI Announced for BELSONIC on June 25th 2019
THE KILLERS + Special Guest LEWIS CAPALDI Announced for BELSONIC on June 25th 2019
March 25, 2019 Mark Millar Gigs, News 0
US rock giants, The Killers are pleased to announce a return to Belfast with their biggest ever Northern Irish headline show at Belsonic on Tuesday 25th June 2019, joined on the night by number 1 charting Lewis Capaldi. The Killers, who have sold over twenty-five million albums worldwide, and headlined all of the world’s top festivals (Coachella, Lollapalooza, Glastonbury), released their newest studio album, Wonderful Wonderful , in September 2017, where it landed at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart the week of its release, as well as topping the charts in the U.K., Mexico, and Australia. The album is the band’s fifth consecutive number one in the U.K., and Brandon Flowers’ seventh U.K. number one overall.
Tickets go on sale Friday March 29th @ 9am from Ticketmaster outlets and www.ticketmaster.ie
The Killers are a Las Vegas-based four-piece who formed in 2003, featuring the talents of singer/keyboardist Brandon Flowers, drummer Ronnie Vanucci, guitarist Dave Keuning and bassist Mark Stoermer. The band has received countless accolades for their artistic achievement, including multiple Grammy nominations, American Music Award nominations, MTV Video Music Awards, NME Awards and more. Their first album, Hot Fuss, was released in 2004 to worldwide acclaim. The album contained the singles “Mr. Brightside” and “Somebody Told Me,” in addition to the anthemic song “All These Things That I’ve Done,” which has since been referenced by the likes of U2 and Coldplay. The band toured for two years straight behind Hot Fuss, playing more than four-hundred shows, and eventually returned to Vegas to begin to work on the follow-up album with legendary producers Alan Moulder and Flood.
The result, a love letter of sorts to their hometown entitled Sam’s Town, was released in 2006 and spent forty-two weeks on the Billboard Top 200. A b-sides collection entitled Sawdust was released in 2007, followed by their third studio album, Day & Age, which was released to widespread critical praise in 2008, anchored by massive single “Human.” The Killers released Battle Born in September 2012, which saw them expanding their world tour into countries they’ve never visited before, and finally were honored to perform at the world-renowned Wembley Stadium, one of the most monumental and significant shows of their career. After a decade of making music, in November 2013, The Killers released a “Best Of” collection, Direct Hits, which featured two incredible new songs alongside classics from the band’s revered catalogue.
About Lewis Capaldi
Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi recently SOLD OUT his biggest headline Belfast show to date at the Ulster Hall on Friday 22nd November 2019. Lewis’s new track Someone You Loved, from the Breach EP, is his fastest- growing streaming track to date. Lewis is in the Top 400 GLOBAL artists on Spotify, with Someone You Loved having been added to their Hot Hits UK playlist, the biggest in the country. It’s also been added to Apple Music’s top list, Today’s Hits. The single has been number 1 in the UK singles chart for several weeks now and continues to hold its position.
Belsonic
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What is a Portable Defibrillator?
A portable defibrillator can be used to restart a heart that has stopped due to conditions such as ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
Written By: J.M. Densing
Edited By: R. Halprin
A portable defibrillator is a lifesaving device that administers an electric shock to a person's heart to help it regain a normal rhythm when he or she is in sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital setting. It is also known as an automatic external defibrillator or AED, and its availability in public places is increasing. These devices are usually automated to a high degree, with the ability to diagnose the patient and deliver the correct treatment or to withhold inappropriate treatment. The portable defibrillator usually talks the user through the entire process with step-by-step instructions, allowing the device to be generally used safely with little to no training, although basic training is preferred.
A portable defibrillator is generally a self-contained unit weighing less than five pounds (2.2 kg) that is used in non-hospital settings. It has an electrocardiogram (ECG) for monitoring heartbeat and software complete with automated voice prompts to analyze the patient's condition and instruct the operator in use, along with a shock generator. These components are all enclosed in a case with buttons for operation, a display, speaker, leads, and electrode pads.
If a person has collapsed and is unresponsive without a pulse or respiration, treatment with a portable defibrillator may be attempted. Upon activation, the unit will ask the operator to confirm these symptoms, and then instruct the operator to place the electrodes on the heart attack victim's chest. The unit will then instruct all others in the area to stay clear of the while the unit's software analyzes the heart activity.
If defibrillator treatment is inappropriate, the unit will halt the process, but it can still be used to monitor the patient's condition with the ECG. If treatment with shock is indicated, the unit will instruct the operator to make sure the area is clear and deliver the electric shock by pressing a button. After the shock has been administered, the unit will analyze the patient's condition and direct the operator in further treatment if necessary. Once the patient is stabilized, he or should be brought to the nearest hospital immediately for further evaluation.
Portable defibrillator units are becoming increasingly available in public places such as airports, malls, schools, and many other settings. They are designed to be easy to use so that a someone in cardiac distress can be treated immediately without having to be transported to a hospital first. Training is recommended, however, but not required. Studies have shown that prompt treatment with these devices can save lives.
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Historian says US backed “efficacious terror” in 1965 Indonesian massacre
By John Braddock
The United States and British governments, supported by Australia, were deeply complicit in the murder of more than half a million alleged communist sympathisers in the wake of the 1965 Indonesian coup, a prominent historian told an international conference in Singapore last month.
Brad Simpson, Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at Princeton University and author of “Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and US-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968”, said the US and British governments did “everything in their power” to ensure that the Indonesian army would carry out the mass killings.
The conference, entitled “The 1965-1966 Indonesian Killings Revisited”, held at the National University of Singapore from June 17-19, was a rare forum on the subject. The event, co-hosted by the university, the Asia Research Institute and the Australian Research Council, involved some 30 scholars from around the world.
Within Indonesia, the history of the political slaughter carried out between October and December 1965 has been suppressed for decades. The massacre of at least 500,000 people, the jailing without trial of about a million others and the widespread use of torture and rape, ranks as one of the great crimes of the twentieth century.
Despite the official secrecy surrounding the events, the consequences still reverberate within the country’s social and political life. The current ruling elite can trace its history back to the 1965 events. President Susil Bambang Yudhoyono, for instance, is a former general while his father-in-law, Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, was an Australian-trained officer who led the killings in Central Java.
No such conference could be held in Indonesia and most of the participants were non-Indonesian. Since the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998, tentative attempts to examine the coup have foundered on opposition from the military. A truth and reconciliation commission set up by parliament never got off the ground and the Constitutional Court has now ruled it unlawful. School textbooks reflect the military propaganda, which maintains that the killings were part of a “patriotic campaign” against communism. Marxism remains officially proscribed.
The Age interviewed two elderly survivors of the massacre, Sumini and Anwar Umar, who maintain a weekly vigil across the road from the president’s offices in Jakarta. Sumini, a former kindergarten teacher was arrested, tortured and imprisoned for ten years for being a member of Gerwani, a women’s movement linked with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). Anwar, who had been secretary-general of a civil servants union, spent 12 years in prison and was also tortured. Even after their eventual release, their identity papers were marked to show they were former political prisoners and they were unable to work.
The coup followed a period of sustained political upheaval following World War II. The Indonesian masses were determined to throw off the desperate poverty and oppression that had been imposed for over 350 years, firstly by the Dutch, then the Japanese. During the struggles for independence, hundreds of thousands of workers had joined the Stalinist PKI, erroneously believing that it still represented the revolutionary socialist traditions of the Bolshevik revolution.
Following independence, President Sukarno precariously balanced between the various demands of the ruling elites and widespread social unrest among workers and the poor. Posturing as an “anti-imperialist” and a “man of the people”, Sukarno increasingly relied on the PKI to contain the demands of masses.
In 1957, foreign domination over the economy was shaken by a massive eruption of workers and peasants who seized or occupied factories, plantations, banks and ships. Sukarno relied on the PKI to ensure that the property was handed over to the army, which was sent to suppress the movement. Following further unrest in 1962, and again in early 1965, Sukarno brought the army commanders and PKI leadership into his cabinet.
In the midst of the Cold War, as it became involved in Vietnam, Washington was increasingly concerned at the PKI’s size and influence. In 1965, however, as preparations for a military coup became evident, the PKI continued to subordinate the masses to Sukarno, in line with the reactionary Stalinist theory of a “two-stage” revolution, and insisted on the “peaceful road” to socialism, promoting deadly illusions in the armed forces. Even as Sukarno banned all strikes, the PKI blocked any independent movement of the working class, thereby encouraging the military to act with the backing of the US and its allies.
According Simpson’s paper, “Capitalists come back! The Political Economy of the 1965-1966 Killings,” there was “a lot of evidence that the US was engaged in covert operations ... to provoke a clash between the army and the PKI ... to wipe them out.” Even at the height of the massacre, and while harboring deep reservations about the military’s willingness to enact the sweeping political and economic changes Washington deemed necessary, US officials and their regional allies were “weighing the conditions under which they would resume assistance to Jakarta”.
In an interview with the Darwin-based Southeast Asian Times on June 7, Simpson said US and other Western officials viewed the mass killings as “efficacious terror”, an essential building block of the “quasi neo-liberal policies that the West would attempt to impose on Indonesia after Sukarno’s ouster”. They viewed the wholesale annihilation of the PKI and its supporters as “an indispensable prerequisite to Indonesia’s reintegration into the regional political economy and international system, the ascendance of a military modernising regime and the crippling or overthrow of Sukarno”.
Immediately after the coup, the US administration rushed to express political support for the Suharto regime. It provided covert monetary assistance to the Indonesian armed forces, while the CIA organised arms from Thailand. The US government also provided communications equipment, medicine and a range of other items, including shoes and uniforms.
“The United States was directly involved to the extent that they provided the Indonesian Armed Forces with assistance that they introduced to help facilitate the mass killings,” Simpson told the conference. The British government also extended an emergency loan of 1 million pounds to Indonesia in late 1965 and promised not to attack Borneo if Indonesia withdrew soldiers engaged in a conflict with British-backed Malaysia, Simpson said.
While Simpson claimed that he found “zero evidence” that the US government masterminded the coup itself, it is unlikely that the military plotters proceeded without assurances from the US and its allies. The full story of US involvement remains to be told.
The pretext for the coup was the kidnapping and murder on September 30 of six generals, allegedly at the PKI’s instigation. Suharto swiftly rounded up the “rebels”, took control of the capital and launched his anti-communist pogrom, which was designed to exterminate every known member and supporter of the PKI, along with thousands of trade union members and ordinary workers, peasants and students.
US diplomats and CIA officers, including the former US ambassador to Indonesia and Australia, Marshall Green, subsequently admitted working hand-in-glove with Suharto and his butchers in carrying through the massacres. They personally provided the names of thousands of PKI members from CIA files for the death lists.
In another paper to the conference, David Jenkins, former foreign editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, said that the Australian, British and US embassies were aware of the mass killings, but did not raise a single protest to the systemic slaughter. All the embassies knew the PKI had not initiated the coup but did nothing to protect the victims from the military.
Archive documents released in Australia in 1999 proved that the Johnson administration in Washington was actively agitating for the formation of a military regime, and urging its embassy in Jakarta to co-ordinate closely with the army and insist that the generals act ruthlessly to crush the PKI. When, at the end of October, Washington determined that Suharto should establish a military government, it did so in close consultation with both the British and Australian governments (see “US orchestrated Suharto’s 1965-66 slaughter in Indonesia”).
Other conference speakers highlighted the significant role played by the Muslim organisations Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah in the killings. These right-wing organisations, acting at the behest of and at times organised by the military, willingly participated in the eradication of workers and peasants who were seen as a threat to traditional landowners and vested religious interests.
Historian Greg Fealy from the Australian National University cited instructions from NU leaders to its members exhorting them to physically eliminate all traces of communism. According to Fealy, “they made frequent references to terms such as menumpas [eradicate or annihilate], membersihkan [cleanse], mengganyang [crush], and mengikis habis [eliminate].” Muslim clerics played central roles in overseeing and directing the killings, and coordinated with military officers.
The killings were notable for their gruesome character. Many victims were either beheaded, garrotted or had their throats slit with knives or machetes wielded by the Islamic militias. “It was done face-to-face,” Fealy said. Unlike the “mechanical” processes employed by the Nazis, or Pol Pot’s farms, the executions were “done by hand”.
American anthropologist Mark Woodward said that in Yogyakarta, leaders of Muhammadiyah, the dominant Islamic group in the area at the time, issued statements declaring the destruction of the Communist Party an individual religious obligation, not just a collective one. Katharine McGregor of the University of Melbourne said that following the killings, NU members touted their participation as “a form of patriotic service to the nation” and reminded Suharto’s New Order regime of the debt owed to the religious community.
In 2000, President Abdurrahman Wahid, who was a senior member of NU, issued an apology to people affected by the violence and proposed to officially lift the ban on communism. The move met vehement opposition from senior NU members and the military. During a recent interview conducted by McGregor, NU chairman Hasyim Muzadi declined to comment on the role of NU in the 1965 violence, saying “all that happened must be considered history and not opened up again, otherwise another civil war might occur.”
The sensitivity of the Indonesian ruling elites to the airing of these terrible crimes underscores the need for workers and young people to learn the political lessons of the PKI’s betrayal that led to this strategic defeat for the working class.
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Baby Aardvark The Newest Arrival at Bioparc Valencia
On May 12, Bioparc Valencia announced a rare birth: a baby Aardvark was born!
The baby joins a family of mom, dad, and two siblings. For now, mom and baby have private living quarters so they can properly bond and rest. Keepers report that mom and baby appear to be doing well, and they check on the pair often during these critical early weeks. Twice a day, the baby is inspected and weighed to make sure it is gaining weight at a steady pace.
Photo Credit: Bioparc Valencia
Eventually, mom and baby (who keepers suspect is a female) will join the family in the outdoor habitat, where they spend the evenings digging holes in search of insects as they would in the wild.
At birth, baby Aardvarks weigh about three pounds and have droopy ears and hairless, wrinkled skin. As the baby grows, the wrinkles gradually disappear and the ears are held upright. Body hair starts to appear at five to six weeks of age.
Aardvarks are native to sub-Saharan Africa and spend their days hidden in burrows. At night, they emerge and search for ants and termites to eat. Aardvarks’ huge claws dig small trenches in the soil as they sniff and listen for insect activity. Using the long, sticky tongue, Aardvarks lick up thousands of ants and termites – as many as 50,000 per night.
Bioparc Valencia houses the only reproductive group of Aardvarks in Spain.
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Prague Zoo’s New Aardvark on Exhibit with Mom
Prague Zoo announced that visitors might be able to catch a glimpse of the zoo’s new baby Aardvark. The cub was born on April 22 and will now be on-exhibit, with mom, for a few hours each day.
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The Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal that is native to Africa. Elephant Shrews, Hyraxes, and Elephants are among the closest living relatives of the Aardvark.
It has a long pig-like snout, which is used to sniff out food. It is a nocturnal feeder and subsists mainly on ants and termites, which it will dig out of their hills using its sharp claws and powerful legs.
The Aardvark also digs to create burrows in which to live and rear its young.
After a gestation of about seven months, females generally give birth to one cub. At around nine weeks of age, the youngster is able to leave the burrow to accompany mother in search of food.
Although they are not considered common anywhere in Africa, their large range allows them to maintain sufficient numbers. The IUCN currently classifies the Aardvark as “Least Concern”; however, they are a species in a precarious situation. Since they are so dependent on such a specific food source, if a problem arises with the population of termites, the species as a whole would be affected drastically.
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Aadorable Aardvark Born at Cincinnati Zoo
Meet the latest “aaddition” to the Cincinnati Zoo: a little male Aardvark! Born on December 21 to mom Ali, the newborn is healthy and weighs just over four pounds. For now, the baby is bonding with Ali behind the scenes.
Photo Credit: Cincinnati Zoo
Aardvarks are mammals, so the babies nurse from their mothers. They are nocturnal creatures, emerging from burrows at sunset to feed on ants at termites all night long. Aardvarks are found in all types of habitats south of Africa’s Sahara Desert.
The Aardvark’s long snout is held close to the ground while foraging for food. Once ants or termites are detected, they Aardvark uses its strong foreclaws to dig out enough dirt to reveal the insects. Using its long, sticky tongue, the Aardvark can collect up to 50,000 insects in a single night. The large ears remain upright, helping to detect predators while the Aardvark is feeding.
Aardvarks are not listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being under threat, but some believe their numbers may be declining.
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Aardvark Arrives for Bioparc Valencia’s Anniversary
On January 28, an Aardvark was born at BIOPARC Valencia in Spain. The birth increased the number of this particular family at the park to a total of five, which includes the parents and two other females (also born in the park).
The new mom is taking excellent care of the new cub, and staff reports that supplemental care and feeding are not required for the new Aardvark. However, keepers constantly monitor the cub’s weight and work to assure that the appropriate temperature and humidity are provided in the new families den. Every night a thorough review of the animal takes place and the cub is cleaned, weighed and its skin is moisturized.
If the cub continues the current healthy pattern of growth and development, he may be placed on-exhibit in time for the park’s 9th anniversary. (In February, BIOPARC Valencia celebrates 9 years of love for nature and will show their appreciation to the public by offering discounted admission rates.)
Photo Credits: BIOPARC Valencia
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New Aardvark Cub for BIOPARC Valencia
BIOPARC Valencia is the first zoo in Spain to breed the Aardvark. On March 4, they welcomed a new member of this rare species.
The new cub spends valuable time with his attentive mother, but zoo staff follow special protocol in monitoring the new baby. Keepers work to ensure the proper cleanliness of the baby and also provide special care for his skin, which includes needed moisturization and a special humidifier. During the day, while mother is sleeping, staff keep a careful eye to maintain that the baby is nursing every two hours.
The new cub was the zoo’s first baby for the month of March. The cub and mother are currently off-exhibit, but, with the continued healthy progress of the baby, staff anticipate visitors being able to view them very soon.
The Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal that is native to Africa. It is the only living species of the order Tubulidentata.
According to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature): “Aardvarks were originally thought to be congeneric with the South American Anteaters (Myrmecophaga), until they were put in their own genus: Orycteropus. After 1872, Aardvarks were also put in their own order: the Tubulidentata. But this order was long considered to be closely related to the Xenarthrans and the Pangolins in the now obsolete clade "Edentata" (Lehmann 2007). It is only since the beginning of the 20th century, that Aardvarks have been considered to be basal "ungulates". It was also at this time that the seven then recognized species were merged into the single species Orycteropus afer (Shoshani et al. 1988). Since then, Tubulidentata is the only order of Mammals to be represented by a single living species. To date, 18 subspecies have been described (Meester 1971). However, their validity is doubtful and studies in this regard are ongoing. Finally, at the turn of the millennium, molecular phylogenetic analyses integrated the Aardvarks into the new super-cohort Afrotheria, next to Elephants, Hyraxes, Sea-cows, Sengis, Tenrecs, and Golden Moles.”
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Baby Aardvark's Big Adventure
A baby Aardvark born last summer at the Prague Zoo recently explored his outdoor enclosure for the first time with his mother, Kvida.
Photo Credit: Prague Zoo
The baby, named Kito, munched on some tasty mealworms - an Aardvark favorite - during his big adventure. Kito’s expedition took place on a recent sunny winter day, and keepers report that Kito was very curious about his surroundings. He climbed over logs and squeezed in between rocks, testing his skills. Weighing nearly 50 pounds, Kito is strong and healthy. In the wild, baby Aardvarks remain with their mothers for about a year before moving off to live on their own.
Aardvarks are native to Africa, where they emerge from burrows at night to feed on ants and termites. They break open termite mounds using powerful font legs, and insects are taken up using their long, sticky tongue. Up to 50,000 insects can be consumed in one night.
At this time, Aardvarks are not under threat, and so are listed as a species of Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
New Aardvark for the New Year at Burgers’ Zoo
Burgers’ Zoo, in the Netherlands, recently welcomed an adorable wrinkled new resident. A baby Aardvark was born the beginning of February!
The cub is healthy and has been tended carefully by mom and monitored by zookeepers.
Burgers’ Zoo, under the authority of the EAZA, manages the European breeding program for the Aardvark. They are the only zoo in the Netherlands to house this special species.
Photo Credits: Burgers' Zoo
The Aardvark is stout with a prominently arched back and is sparsely covered in coarse hair. The limbs are moderate length, with the rear legs being longer than the forelegs. Their weight is typically between 130 and 180 lbs. (60 and 80 kg). Their length is usually between 3.44 and 4.27 feet (105 and 130 cm). They are typically 24 inches tall (60 cm). The Aardvark is pale yellowish gray in color and often stained reddish brown by soil it sorts through. The coat is thin, and the skin is tough.
The Aardvark is nocturnal and feeds almost exclusively on ants and termites. They will emerge from their burrow in late afternoon and forage for food over a range of about 6 to 18 miles from home. While foraging, they keep the nose to ground and ears pointed forward. When concentrations of ants or termites are detected, the Aardvark digs into the mound with powerful front legs and will take up the insects with their long, sticky tongue. It is possible for the animal to take in as many as 50,000 ants and termites in one night.
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‘A’ Is for Aardvark at Burgers’ Zoo
Burgers’ Zoo, in the Netherlands, recently welcomed a new Aardvark cub! The healthy baby was born the end of July and has been carefully monitored by zookeepers.
The Aardvark is mostly quiet, but will make soft grunting sounds as it forages and louder grunts when engaged in burrowing.
Aardvarks have a gestation of about seven months. They generally give birth to a single cub from May to July. When born, the young have flaccid ears and many wrinkles. After two weeks, the folds of skin disappear and after three weeks the ears are upright. At 5-6 weeks, body hair starts growing. They are weaned by about 16 weeks, and can dig their own burrow by 6 months of age. The young often remain with the mother till the next mating season.
The Aardvark is currently classified as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List. However, they are a species in a precarious situation and are declining in number as their food supplies begin to dwindle.
Colchester Zoo Welcomes Last Newborn of 2014
On December 22, 2014, Colchester Zoo’s Aardvark, ‘Oq’, gave birth to a healthy baby!
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The exciting new arrival was the Zoo's last newborn of 2014 and is doing well! Both mom and keepers have a close eye on the baby during these early days.
The Aardvark is a unique animal, only found in Africa. They are almost exclusively nocturnal and love to sleep during the day, curled in a tight circle in their burrow.
Aardvarks, such as Colchester Zoo’s group, have thick skin which is sparsely covered by hairs and varies in color from brownish grey to a pale sand. The newest little one is currently a hairless light grey, but within 12 months, it will be fully grown, just like its mother, and will soon be venturing out of the burrow.
Aardvarks enjoy a diet mainly made up of insects, such as ants and termites. Once fully grown, an adult Aardvark can eat up to 50,000 of insect prey in one night!
The new arrival also joins the Zoo’s two other resident females ‘Puq’ and ‘Skyla’, and its dad ‘Adela’ can be seen at Colchester Zoo’s Aardvark Burrow.
With the latest arrival this group continues to be the most successful breeding group in the UK and one of the most successful groups in Europe.
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Aardvark Aarives at Detroit Zoo
A female Aardvark born at the Detroit Zoo on February 11 weighed less than four pounds at birth and has since more than quadrupled in size. The baby, named Kaatie, is the third offspring for 10-year-old Rachaael and 11-year-old Mchimbaji.
Photo Credit: Tom Ray
“Kaatie is healthy and adorable, and seems to be enjoying her time with mom, nestling in close and nursing throughout the day,” said Detroit Zoological Society Curator of Mammals Elizabeth Arbaugh.
Animal care staff have been monitoring Rachaael and Kaatie closely since the calf was born. Aardvarks are small and fragile at birth, and the mothers are sometimes clumsy and can accidentally injure their little ones. “We are ready to intervene should mom decide to roll over or get up for a snack,” said Arbaugh.
The Aardvark is an African mammal whose name derives from the Afrikaans word “earth pig.” The animal’s unusual appearance plays a role in its success as a forager. Its large ears point forward, enabling it to hear tasty insects during nocturnal feeding forays. The snout is long and filled with hair that acts as a filter, letting scents in and keeping dirt out. Strong limbs and spoon-shaped claws can tear though the sturdiest of termite mounds, allowing the Aardvark to trap insects with its sticky tongue, which can be up to 12 inches long.
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Do opposites attract?
Why are we attracted to some people and not to others? Sophie and Neil discuss love at first sight
Neil And I’m Neil. So, Sophie, the subject of today’s show is attraction - do you believe in love at first sight?
Sophie No, I don’t. I think it takes time to get to know somebody well enough to know if you love them. But I have a friend who says when she saw her husband for the first time…
Neil That was before they got married?
Sophie That’s right - when they met for the first time, that was it: a bolt out of the blue. And they got married three months later.
Neil A bolt out of the blue means something totally unexpected. Well, that sounds very romantic. And leads me on to today’s quiz question. Sophie, what percentage of Americans said they believe in love at first sight? Is it… a) 26%? b) 56%? Or c) 86%?
Sophie I’m not an old romantic like you Neil, so I’m going to go for a) 26%.
Neil Well, we’ll find out later on in the show if you’re right to be sceptical or not, Sophie. And sceptical for those of you who don’t know, means to have doubts about something.
Sophie I think you can be physically attracted to somebody straight away. I just don’t think you can fall in love with somebody so easily. Love is about other things: compatibility, personality and a good sense of humour.
Neil Yes, humour is important, but apparently, Sophie, for men it’s all about the waist-hip ratio. According to research, the ideal waist-hip ratio for women is 0.7 - where ratio means the relationship between two sizes - and you get this figure by dividing the waist measurement by the hip measurement.
Sophie I see. And why do men find 0.7 so irresistible?
Neil Well, let’s listen to Dr Anna Machin, an Evolutionary Anthropologist from the University of Oxford, explaining what a man is looking for.
INSERT Dr Anna Machin, Evolutionary Anthropologist, University of Oxford He’s going to look for signs for fertility and what we call fecundity and good health. And the major indicator of that in women is the waist-hip ratio. And the waist-hip ratio - the absolute ideal - what men find most attractive regardless of culture - this has been tested in many different cultures round the world - is 0.7 and that’s really your classic hourglass figure. And the reason why that universally is attractive is because it’s tied to the health of that individual. There’s a very strong relationship between someone circulating oestrogen and testosterone - obviously you want the oestrogen to be high and the testosterone to be low for a woman to be fertile, and also her general health, so .7 is linked to lower risk of heart disease, lower risk of diabetes and certain sorts of cancers.
Neil So a waist-hip ratio of 0.7 correlates - or has a strong relationship - with good general health and fertility in women.
Sophie And men find this attractive because it identifies fertile women - women who will be able to conceive - or get pregnant - and have babies successfully.
Neil Dr Machin also mentions that 0.7 is the classic hourglass figure - which means curvy!
Sophie Do you like curves, Neil?
Neil Mind your own business, Sophie. But all this waist-hip theory of attraction isn’t very romantic, is it?
Sophie You’re right, it isn’t. And whilst we do judge people by the way they look - we also use our sense of smell to sniff out our ideal mate - or sexual partner. Apparently, we can detect whether people are genetically different to us by the way they smell. And parents who have different immune systems create healthier babies.
Neil So it’s back to having babies again - all biology and chemistry - and not about feelings at all.
Sophie Well, let’s leave chemistry behind for a moment and listen to Professor David Perrett, at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at St Andrews University in Scotland. He talks about other factors that play a role in attraction.
INSERT David Perrett, Professor at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at St Andrews University in Scotland Plastic surgery really doesn’t count for much in the end. You could be with somebody who’s aesthetically very beautiful but if they don’t smile or react then that counts for much less. So we can change our faces by interacting with others and doing so in a pleasant manner, and that will aid our attractiveness and make others interested in us.
Neil What does aesthetically mean, Sophie?
Sophie It means judging something by the way it looks. And whilst we all enjoy a pretty face, most of us are looking for more than that. We are looking for people who appear friendly and approachable, and who we share interests with.
Neil Exactly - and personally, I think kind eyes are very important - with a bit of a twinkle. What about you, Sophie?
Sophie I like a good sense of humour.
Neil Very good. Now, remember I asked you, Sophie: What percentage of Americans said they believe in love at first sight? Is it… a) 26%, b) 56% or c) 86%?
Sophie I said 26%.
Neil Sorry, that’s the wrong answer, Sophie. 56% of Americans believe in love at first sight, and the percentage is even higher for married people and those in relationships, according to a poll conducted by the website CBS.com in 2013.
Sophie Well, Americans are a romantic bunch.
Neil Me too, and I’m British. Now, here are the words we heard today. bolt out of the blue sceptical ratio correlates fertile conceive hourglass figure mate aesthetically
Sophie Well, that’s the end of this edition of 6 Minute English. Join us again soon! Meanwhile, visit our website: bbclearningenglish.com, where you’ll find guides to grammar, exercises, videos and articles to read and improve your English.
Neil And we are on social media too. Make sure to visit our profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
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