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Dodge, Fiat Models Receive J.D. Power APEAL Awards
Dodge Charger ranks highest in the Large Car segment for third consecutive year
Fiat 500 leads the City Car segment
Ram Truck brand is the highest ranking non-premium brand in the industry
Chrysler 300 ranks third in the Large Car segment
July 24, 2013 , Auburn Hills, Mich. -
The 2013 Dodge Charger and Fiat 500 lead their segments in J.D. Power’s 2013 U.S. Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) Study™, while the Ram Truck brand ranks as the highest non-premium brand in the industry.
The APEAL Study measures how gratifying a new vehicle is to own and drive, based on customer evaluations of 77 vehicle attributes of new 2013 model year vehicles. Customers are surveyed after 90 days of ownership at the same time as J.D. Power’s Initial Quality Study (IQS). According to J.D. Power, the most appealing vehicles have greater owner loyalty, command higher transaction prices and spend less time on dealer lots before purchase.
“The vehicle characteristics measured in the APEAL study are just as relevant to owners’ overall quality impressions as the issues identified in the IQS survey,” Doug Betts, Senior Vice President - Quality, Chrysler Group LLC said. “A vehicle’s subjective appeal is what really sets it apart from the competition and strengthens a customer’s willingness to recommend their car or truck. We are constantly investing in product upgrades to improve all aspects of quality and customer satisfaction.”
This is the third consecutive year the Dodge Charger has led its segment in the APEAL Study. The Chrysler 300 ranked third in the segment in the study.
The Fiat 500 led the City Car segment.
The Ram Truck brand was the highest ranking non-premium brand in the APEAL Study. Premium brands traditionally rank higher in the APEAL study and hold the top 10 rank position in this year’s study.
About Dodge Charger: Iconic design with available 300 horsepower and best-in-class V-6 fuel economy of 31 mpg highway
The Dodge Charger provides the ultimate combination of dramatic Dodge heritage styling, award-winning premium interior, the reassurance of an IIHS Top Safety Pick and full-size spaciousness with the fuel efficiency of a mid-size car.
With its iconic character, contemporary fastback four-door coupe proportions, world-class performance, award-winning interior craftsmanship and refinement and state-of-the-art connectivity features with available Uconnect 8.4-inch touchscreen system, the new Dodge Charger proudly delivers premium, world-class sedan precision at an incredible value, starting at a U.S. MSRP of only $25,995.
About Fiat 500: A small car that lives big
The FIAT brand stands for discovery through passionate self-expression. It encourages people to be in charge of their lives, live confidently and celebrate the smallest of things with infectious excitement. That philosophy is embodied by the North American introduction of the iconic Fiat 500 or Cinquecento — a small car that lives big. Italian at heart and rooted in a rich heritage, the Fiat 500 is synonymous with modern, simple design blending form, function and a pride of ownership that is genuine.
Reminiscent of the original Cinquecento, the Fiat 500 and Fiat 500c (Cabrio) build on the vehicle’s global popularity. Since its initial launch in 2007, more than 1,000,000 Fiat 500 vehicles have been sold in more than 100 countries around the world.
About Chrysler Group LLC
Chrysler Group LLC, formed in 2009 to establish a global strategic alliance with Fiat S.p.A., produces Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Mopar, SRT and Fiat vehicles and products. With the resources, technology and worldwide distribution network required to compete on a global scale, the alliance builds on Chrysler Group’s culture of innovation, first established by Walter P. Chrysler in 1925, and Fiat’s complementary technology that dates back to its founding in 1899.
Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Mich., Chrysler Group’s product lineup features some of the world's most recognizable vehicles, including the Chrysler 300 and Town & Country, Jeep Wrangler, all-new Dodge Dart, Ram 1500, Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 and Fiat 500. Fiat contributes world-class technology, platforms and powertrains for small- and medium-size cars, allowing Chrysler Group to offer an expanded product line including environmentally friendly vehicles.
Chrysler Group products named in the JD Power and Associates Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL)Study.
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SEC: Here Is When Loss Contingencies Must Be Disclosed and Reserved
By Stephen G. Stroup
When confronted with government inquiries, public companies commonly grapple with the issue of when events have escalated to the point that they are subject to disclosure obligations—or, further yet, require recognition as a loss reserve in the financial statements. Is one or both of these requirements triggered when the government initially informs the company of the inquiry’s existence? When the magnitude and frequency of the government’s informational requests provide reasonable notice of a full-blown investigation? When the government rejects the company’s efforts to discontinue the investigation? Or when the government and company commence settlement discussions? While the seminal moment when each of these obligations solidifies can be quite fact-specific, the Division of Enforcement provided its own guidepost last week as to when disclosure and loss recognition become necessary.
On September 27, 2019, the SEC filed charges against pharmaceutical company Mylan, N.V. for allegedly failing to timely disclose and account for loss contingencies that materially impacted the company’s periodic filings in 2015 and 2016. SEC v. Mylan N.V., No. 1:19-cv-2904 (D.D.C. 2019). These purported failures derived from a DOJ probe into whether Mylan had significantly overcharged Medicare for EpiPen, the company’s largest and most profitable product, by classifying the product as a “generic” drug under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, rather than a “branded” drug. Without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations, Mylan concurrently settled alleged violations of Sections 17(a)(2) and 17(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, Sections 13(a), 13(b)(2)(A) and 13(b)(2)(B) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Rules 12b-20, 13a-1, 13a-11 and 13a-13 thereunder. The company also agreed to a $30 million civil penalty.
This enforcement action centered on the two particular points in time when, from the SEC’s perspective, the DOJ investigation ripened into loss contingency obligations under GAAP. Pursuant to Accounting Standard Codification 450 (ASC 450), an issuer must disclose a material loss contingency—such as (a) required actual or possible claims or (b) pending or threatened litigation—if a loss is at least reasonably possible. A loss is considered “reasonably possible” when the chance of the future event or events occurring is more than remote but less than likely. Additionally, ASC 450 requires an issuer to record an accrual for a material loss contingency as a charge against income in its financial statements, if a loss is probable and reasonably estimable. “Probable” means the future event or events are likely to occur.
As alleged in the SEC’s complaint, the timeline of key events surrounding the DOJ probe of Mylan occurred as follows:
3Q2013 to 2Q2014: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) send emails questioning EpiPen’s classification as a generic drug; Mylan responds with its explanation; Mylan expresses internal uncertainty about this classification
4Q2014: CMS objects to Mylan’s explanation and requests that the company reclassify EpiPen to a branded drug; Mylan retains generic classification; Mylan receives DOJ document subpoena seeking documents relating to EpiPen classification
1Q2015 to 3Q2015: Mylan receives additional DOJ document subpoenas and a civil investigative demand (i.e., interrogatories) seeking information relating to the government’s potential damages; DOJ takes testimony from a Mylan employee involved with government price reporting
3Q2015: DOJ rejects Mylan’s responsive arguments and request to close investigation; Mylan agrees to toll statute of limitations
4Q2015: Mylan provides DOJ with an estimated range of potential government damages for one fiscal quarter during the relevant period; Mylan continues to produce documents and information to DOJ during the “following months”
2Q2016: Mylan provides DOJ with an estimated range of potential government damages in 2015; Mylan agrees to continuation of the tolling agreement
3Q2016: Mylan makes settlement offers; DOJ provides counteroffers
4Q2016: Mylan and DOJ reach a settlement in principle; Mylan makes initial public disclosure of the DOJ investigation and of the company’s liability from classifying EpiPen as a generic drug
The SEC’s interest in pursuing this enforcement proceeding probably stemmed in large measure from what it perceived as Mylan’s delinquency in providing the investing public with any notice that the DOJ probe existed until it effectively had been resolved. However, rather than simply alleging in its complaint that the company failed to satisfy its reporting obligations under GAAP, the SEC elected to provide greater specificity as to when it believed the collective circumstances definitely had caused the prospect of loss to be “reasonably possible” and, then later, “probable and reasonably estimable.”
The SEC claimed, “by at least the filing of its Form 10-Q for the third quarter of 2015, Mylan knew or should have known that the likelihood of a material loss relating to the EpiPen classification and DOJ investigation was reasonably possible,” thereby requiring Mylan to disclose the investigation and the “best estimate of the range of loss.” In singling out the filing date (rather than quarterly end date), the complaint seemingly sought to capture Mylan’s preliminary government damages estimate, which occurred early in the fourth quarter, and thus would have been subject to subsequent event disclosure. According to the SEC, the absence of any mention of the DOJ probe in the Form 10-K and Forms 10-Q from the third quarter of 2015 through the second quarter of 2016 rendered these public filings materially false and misleading.
The SEC further alleged, “by at least the filing of the Form 10-Q for the second quarter of 2016, Mylan knew, or should have known, that a material loss resulting from the DOJ investigation and claims that Mylan incorrectly classified EpiPen was probable…. [and] reasonably estimable, as Mylan had sufficient information in its possession to estimate a range of losses.” Again, the complaint presumably applied the filing date in order to capture settlement offers exchanged early in the third quarter. Accordingly, the SEC asserted that Mylan’s reported earnings in the second quarter 2016 Form 10-Q (and in its Form 8-K reporting results for that quarter) were materially overstated because of the company’s failure to accrue for the loss.
Although this settlement should not be interpreted as bright-line guidance for when public companies need to address contingent losses in their public filings, it is nonetheless instructive in that it extends beyond GAAP’s textbook definitions and offers to public companies a real-world example of when the SEC believes that these obligations definitively arise. As evidenced by the complaint, the SEC apparently considers the “reasonably possible” threshold crossed when the company is unable to convince the government to close its investigation while able to estimate the government’s possible damages (or at least for a portion of the relevant period). The complaint also seemingly indicates that the SEC deems a company’s demonstrated willingness to settle coupled with the exchange of settlement offers, as sufficient proof that the contingent loss is both probable and reasonably estimable. Naturally, where caution remains after this particular settlement is whether the SEC might argue under a different factual predicate that one or both of these obligations should attach at some earlier juncture during a government investigation.
Stephen G. Stroup
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Harbor of Spies: A Novel of Historic Havana A presentation by Robin Lloyd
bySB Maritime
Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 07:00
Harbor of Spies: A Novel of Historic Havana is an historical suspense novel set in Cuba at the height of the Civil War. Havana, one of the most important foreign ports for the Confederacy, was then alive with blockade runners, spies and slave traders. The protagonist is a deeply conflicted young man who was kicked out of the Naval Academy in the middle of the Civil War and who goes to Cuba to find a way forward. Bitter, resentful and confused, he travels to Cuba, as the first mate and then captain of a merchant ship, looking for answers about his own life and some trace of his recently deceased mother’s past. As soon as he arrives, he rescues a man from the sea outside Havana harbor who turns out to be a prison escapee. This one act of kindness draws him into dangerous matters beyond his control. He gets ensnared in a mystery about an English diplomat who was murdered years earlier in his home in Havana. This murder of George Backhouse in 1855 was real and was never solved.
Robin Lloyd’s illustrated talk with period paintings, lithographs, and photographs will reveal the history and inspiration behind his new seafaring novel, and show period images of old Havana, its harbor, the ships that formed the Naval blockade in the Gulf of Mexico, and those that dared to try to pass through it. The talk will tell the story of Cuba’s role in the American Civil War and reveal why Havana was one of the most important foreign ports supplying the Confederacy.
Robin Lloyd has worked in television journalism for over 40 years. As a former foreign correspondent for NBC News, he reported from conflict zones in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. He won an Overseas Press Award for his coverage of the wars in Central America, and four regional Emmys for his documentary work as an independent news producer. His knowledge of maritime history brings to life a forgotten epoch when colonial Havana was flush with sugar wealth and filled with signs of the American Civil War. His first novel, Rough Passage to London, was inspired by the adventures of his seafaring ancestor, Captain Elisha Ely Morgan, who spent thirty years at sea, making more than one hundred voyages across the Atlantic. Lloyd and his wife divide their time between Chevy Chase, Maryland and Camden, Maine.
Since 2000, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum has featured many artifacts and stories to share the history of the Santa Barbara Channel with more than 40,000 visitors annually and provides year-round experiential maritime history and marine science education for local youth. Featuring the impressive First-Order Fresnel Lighthouse Lens from Point Conception, SBMM's current exhibits explore the History of Oil in Santa Barbara Channel & Chumash Use of Asphaltum, the Honda Disaster, and Wives and Daughters: Keepers of the Light.
SBMM is located at the historic Santa Barbara Harbor at 113 Harbor Way, Suite 190, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Visit sbmm.org or call (805) 962-8404 for details
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Houghtaling & Downey Bill Expanding Issuance of Alcoholic Beverage Licenses Clears Assembly
Legislation sponsored by Assembly Members Eric Houghtaling and Joann Downey to help revitalize shuttered military bases in Monmouth County by providing additional liquor licenses was approved Thursday by the General Assembly.
The bill would authorize the issuance of additional alcoholic beverage licenses to a project area in three municipalities where a federally owned or operated military installation is closed and transferred to a government entity for the purpose of conversion, redevelopment, or revitalization.
The three towns impacted by the bill are Oceanport, Eatontown and Tinton Falls.
Under the current law, a municipality may issue one plenary retail consumption license, for bars and restaurants, for each 3,000 of its population. This bill provides that an increase in population resulting from residential development in a formerly federally owned or operated military installation would not be included in the calculation issued to new licenses.
“By allowing additional alcoholic beverage licenses to be distributed in our municipalities, we are bringing an ample amount of opportunities to Monmouth County,” said Assemblyman Houghtaling. “It will promote small businesses, encourage tourism, and create jobs for our constituents.”
“To put it simply, this piece of legislation is an opportunity for economic growth both in Monmouth County and in New Jersey,” said Assemblywoman Downey. “By rebuilding our closed military bases, such as Fort Monmouth, and providing alcoholic beverage licenses to these areas, we will be revitalizing the 11th District.”
The bill (A-3888) provides that each of the three municipalities located within a project area may, by ordinance or resolution, issue a specific number of special licenses.
Following the three year period, a host municipality that has not issued a license may have up to two years to transfer the license, for a fee, to another host municipality for issuance within a premises located within a project area.
A license is to be issued without being designated for a site and remain inactive until the property upon which the license is to be sited is transferred from the government entity to a private entity. In addition, the bill prohibits the licenses from being transferred to a premises located outside of the boundaries of the project area until the authority overseeing, administering, and implementing the plan for the project area has been dissolved. Following the dissolution of the authority, the special licenses may be transferred for use in connection with any premises located within the host municipality.
The bill was approved 64-3-0 and now awaits further consideration by the Senate.
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JulyJul 11, 1929
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Late Irish actor best remembered as Grandpa Joe in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He was also known for his roles in Stardust, Into the West, and The Jigsaw Man.
He studied watercolor art after graduating from The Abbey School of Acting.
He won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Film and Television Awards in 2005.
He married Laurie Morton in 1961. The couple had two children named David Jr. and Miriam.
He co-starred in the 2001 comedy Mean Machine with Vinnie Jones.
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This Friday, November 17, Eric Schlosser’s best-seller, “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal,” hits the big screen. Directed by Richard Linklater of “A Scanner Darkly,” fame, the film takes audiences on a tour of the real ingredients in American fast food, and none of them are beef.
By Kathryn Tuggle 1 minute Read
Unlike Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me,” “Fast Food Nation” is not a documentary, it’s a drama. “Fast Food Nation” wasn’t designed to make consumers feel good about indulging in the occasional Big Mac. On the contrary — critics claim this film has the potential to change the fast food industry as we know it. I’m not ashamed to admit that as soon as the “Super Size Me” credits rolled, I ran to the nearest McDonalds to load up on artery-clogging (but otherwise totally harmless) burgers and fries. But “Fast Food Nation” portrays problems that are much bigger than the Hummers McDonalds passes out in happy meals.
Like the book, “Fast Food Nation” focuses on the human elements of America’s quest for immediate gratification and transfat. Thanks to Schlosser’s book, transfat is now a four-letter word and is being eliminated from almost all restaurants and food products. Now, many say the movie’s social commentary has the potential to quell the exploitation of illegal workers who fuel the fast food industry. Their struggles are portrayed by a young immigrant couple who come to America in classic Upton Sinclair “The Jungle” fashion — full of hopes and dreams that crumble when the couple meets with horrific working conditions in a meat-packing plant.
What do you think? Are we, as Americans, comfortably resigned that fast food restaurants are trying to kill us as well as the American dream? Or must we stand up for our rights to guilt-free fast food? If Fast Food Nation changes people’s minds about the industry, what will happen next?
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RWE and LetterOne agree on Sale of RWE Dea
édité le 17/03/2014 - Plus de news de "RWE" - Voir la fiche entreprise de "RWE"
RWE Aktiengesellschaft and LetterOne Group (Alfa Group Consortium’s investment company) have agreed terms for the sale of RWE Dea AG at an enterprise value of ca. 5.1 billion Euro and on the major contractual conditions.
They will clarify the further details shortly in order to enter into the sale and purchase agreement. The transaction will be subject to the approval of the Supervisory Board of RWE Aktiengesellschaft and of authorities in several countries.
The enterprise value includes ca. 0.6 billion Euro in assumed liabilities.
About RWE Dea
RWE Dea AG, headquartered in Hamburg, is an international company engaged in the exploration and production of natural gas and crude oil. The company deploys state-of-the-art drilling and production technologies and puts its many years’ experience acquired to good use in its activities. RWE Dea has set new standards in the fields of safety and environmental protection.
RWE Dea has stakes in production facilities and concessions in Germany, the UK, Norway, Denmark, Egypt and Algeria, and holds exploration licenses in Ireland, Libya, Mauritania, Poland, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and Turkmenistan. Moreover, in Germany RWE Dea operates large subterranean storage facilities for natural gas. RWE Dea is part of the RWE Group, one of Europe’s largest energy utilities.
About Alfa Group
Founded in 1989, Alfa Group Consortium is one of Russia’s largest privately owned investment groups, with interests in commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, retail trade, water utilities, as well as special-situation investments. The Group typically focuses on value-oriented, longer-term opportunities, primarily in Russia and the CIS, but also invests in other markets which form part of the Group’s strategic business objectives.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed receives Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
By Euronews with EFE • last updated: 10/12/2019
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali poses with medal and diploma after receiving Nobel Peace Prize during ceremony in Oslo City Hall, Norway December 10, 2019. -
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday at Oslo's City Hall for his efforts to resolve the conflict with Eritrea.
"I accept this award on behalf of Ethiopians and Eritreans, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice," Ahmed said during his, at times emotional, lecture.
He retraced his past from "young soldier when the war broke out" to his current position as the country's leader, affirming "I have been there and back. I have seen brothers slaughtering brothers on the battlefield."
He praised Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki — who has been in power since 1993 — for his role in securing peace.
"We understood our nations are not enemies and that instead we were the victims of a common enemy called poverty," he went on, adding: "our commitment to peace between our two countries is ironclad".
Ahmed, who only assumed power in April 2018, also called on the global community to "invest in peace", stressing that "there is a big price for enduring peace" and that while "it takes a few to make war, it takes a village and a nation to nurture peace".
Since his election last year, Ahmed, 43, resumed talks with Eritrea, negotiated a peace agreement and agreed on the borders set by an international commission in 2002, as well as playing a key role in other processes in the region, according to the Nobel Committee's ruling.
The ceremony, presided over by the Norwegian royal family, will begin at 13:00 local time (12:00 GMT), and will be preceded by a children's event organised by the NGO Save the Children at the Nobel Peace Centre, which Ahmed will not attend.
The Ethiopian government did not give a press conference yesterday at the Nobel Institute, a decision that has been criticised in Norway.
The director of the Nobel Institute Olav Njølstad has described the situation as "very problematic", and has speculated that it may be due to the difficult situation in Ethiopia as ethnic tensions have increased during the past months.
After the handover ceremony, Ahmed will later take part in the torchlight procession through the centre of Oslo, and attend the banquet with Norwegian kings and other authorities.
Ahmed succeeds Congolese physician Denis Mukwege and Iraqi Yazidi Nadia Murad as Peace Prize winner. They were honoured in 2018 for their struggle to end the use of sexual violence "as a weapon of war and in armed conflict".
The Peace Prize is the only one of the six prizes awarded outside Sweden, in Oslo, at the express wish of Alfred Nobel, as Norway was part of the Swedish kingdom at the time.
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East Dunbartonshire or bust: Seeing the decline of Jo Swinson
By Orlando Crowcroft • last updated: 13/12/2019
As soon as the exit polls landed at 10.30 pm in East Dunbartonshire, predicting that the Scottish National Party would repeat their clean sweep of Scotland in 2015 and seize as many as 55 seats, the campaign of Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson was on damage control.
A campaign spokesman told journalists that the party did not hold much stock by the polls, especially considering that pollsters visited just 12 Scottish constituencies out of 144 nationally. But we were also told, with no uncertainty, that Jo ‘would not be doing interviews’.
As the results began to come in showing huge SNP swings in marginal seats and massive majorities for candidates such as Mhairi Black, in nearby Paisley, it began to look like the exits were - as they have generally tended to be in previous elections - strikingly accurate.
With a majority of over 5,000, Swinson’s seat was not as marginal as some here in Scotland, but the SNP had poured resources into East Dunbartonshire and its 27-year-old candidate Amy Callaghan, and was clearly looking for a prominent scalp north of the border.
On the TVs dotted around the Leisuredome complex just outside the town of Kirkintilloch, in Glasgow’s commuter belt, the results steamed in and then, around 1.30 am, Jo Swinson was filmed getting into her car at her home nearby and heading to the count.
The press pack, at least a dozen strong, gathered three deep in the narrow entrance, with microphones, cameras and film crews jostling for position. They waited, and waited... and waited. By 2.10 am there was still no sign of the Liberal Democrat leader.
At 3 am, officials at the leisure centre milled around the lobby telling journalists that the count was expected in 15 minutes - ten minutes later, Swinson finally arrived, forcing her way through the press pack as journalists shouted: “Will you lose your seat Ms Swinson”.
The deadline for the count then came and went. At 3.30 am, the SNP took the marginal constituency of Fife and the nationalists win north of the border started to look like a rout. In the lobby, we saw a Swinson campaigner pacing, talking on the phone, then shaking his head.
Eight minutes later, it was all over - Swinson had lost by just 149 votes. In a heartfelt speech, she paid tribute to her opponent but also warned about the perils of nationalism on both sides of the border, and her disappointment that Boris Johnson had seized a majority in parliament.
“We were honest about what we believe in and what we were trying to achieve, “ she said.
“This is clearly a setback for liberal values. But there are millions of people across the country who believe in them. By coming together to fight for them, we can create a positive future."
Swinson is only 39, and this may not be the end of her political career. But unlike many MPs, she is actually from the constituency, born and raised in East Dunbartonshire and this is the second time in four years that she has lost her seat to the SNP.
Given Johnson’s sizeable majority in parliament after last night’s poll, it will likely be at least five years before the UK has another election. That means that Swinson, alongside Chuka Umunna and Sam Gyimah, who were also defeated last night, will be out of the game for some time.
There will be much reflection on who is to blame for demolition of the Liberal Democrats - and, indeed, Labour - north of the border on December 13. Jeremy Corbyn announced that he was stepping down as leader least night, as the party lost all but one of its seats in Scotland.
Paul Sweeney, a rising star of the Corbynite left, was defeated in Glasgow North East while Matt Kerr, another Labour Scot from the left of the party, was comfortably beaten in Glasgow South West. Only Edinburgh was willing to elect a Labour MP, Ian Murray, last night.
In promising to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit, Jo Swinson had been hoping to rally remainers to her cause - and while there are far more of them in Scotland than in England, it didn’t help her that Nicola Sturgeon’s anti-Brexit message was stronger and better articulated.
True to her campaign’s earlier promise, Swinson gave no interviews as she left the Leisuredome in East Dunbartonshire in the early hours of this morning. After just a few months in the limelight, she left through a side door, into the rain, chill and darkness of the Glasgow dawn.
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Never mind records, Hamilton already in a league of his own
03/11/2019 at 20:52Updated 03/11/2019 at 22:36
Lewis Hamilton is now one step away from joining Ferrari great Michael Schumacher at the top of Formula One's list of champions but some would already place the Mercedes driver in a league of his own.
The Briton moved up a notch in Sunday's U.S. Grand Prix, finishing second in Texas to take the title with two races to spare and join seven-times champion Schumacher as the only drivers ever to win six crowns.
Hamilton already has plenty of records, including 87 pole positions and 33 successive scoring finishes, and his 83 wins put him on course to surpass Schumacher's record tally of 91 next year.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has said he can see the 34-year-old going on to shatter the German's milestones.
David Coulthard, championship runner-up to Schumacher in 2001 and replacement for Ayrton Senna at Williams in 1994 after the great Brazilian's fatal crash, suggested that would not be what really sets Hamilton apart, however.
"Can he win seven (titles) or surpass Michael? Yes, is the answer, of course he can," the Scot told Reuters. "But I don’t think he has to, or needs to.
"I think he’s already cemented his place in absolute top notch history in Formula One and the thing I think that really sets him apart from the greatness of Senna or Schumacher is his sporting ethics.
"I think that Lewis is an absolute through-and-through sportsman."
While both Schumacher and the late triple champion Senna drew widespread adulation, with their racing brilliance often on another level to rivals, their actions courted controversy on numerous occasions.
Hamilton far less so, with the main blot on his copybook coming in 2009 when he was caught up in a scandal over lying to race stewards that cost McLaren sporting director Dave Ryan his job.
The champion has created many other headlines, inevitable for a driver who broke the mould by emerging from a non-racing and under-privileged background to become the sport's first black champion, and remains a polarising figure.
The real respect and friendship of track rivals such as Ferrari's four-times champion Sebastian Vettel, however, speaks volumes.
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"I’ve always had this really strong feeling about what is a sports person and that is sporting integrity and following the rules," said Coulthard of Hamilton.
"I think we are lucky to be witnessing greatness. And we’re British, so we don’t always appreciate that as much as we should."
Hamilton has been a race winner in all 13 of his seasons in Formula One and was the youngest world champion until Vettel's first in 2010.
He has led more races than any driver and averaged 10 wins a season for the last six years. The hunger and motivation appears as strong as ever.
The Briton, with his varied interests and life story of triumph over adversity through talent, has also taken Formula One to new audiences well beyond traditional motor racing enthusiasts.
Hamilton has gone vegan, used his social media platform of 13.4 million instagram followers to speak out on protecting the environment and animal welfare and pursued high-profile interests in fashion and music.
He is also very much a part of a closely-knit group of men and women, whose bonds have been forged over seven intense years of competition.
"He was very much at the beginning a fighter for his own cause, as most racing drivers are, and he has changed the pattern of how a racing driver is viewed in the team," said Wolff, whose outfit have won the championship double for an unprecedented six years in a row.
"Racing drivers are normally viewed as contractors, but he has become a team member," added the Austrian, when discussing the likelihood of Hamilton staying at Mercedes beyond 2020 and the expiry of his current contract.
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"Racing drivers will always go for the best opportunity, sporting and financial, but I think with him relationships matter."
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Shots fired in West Manheim Township lead to arrest warrant for a Florida man
A 76-year-old Florida man was charged and has a warrant issued for his arrest after police say he shot at two of his family members.
Shots fired in West Manheim Township lead to arrest warrant for a Florida man A 76-year-old Florida man was charged and has a warrant issued for his arrest after police say he shot at two of his family members. Check out this story on eveningsun.com: https://www.eveningsun.com/story/news/2019/07/23/florida-man-shot-at-west-manheim-township-pa-couple-dispute-over-deceased-family-member-will/1802888001/
Kaitlin Greenockle, Hanover Evening Sun Published 10:37 a.m. ET July 23, 2019 | Updated 11:53 a.m. ET July 23, 2019
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A 76-year-old Florida man has a warrant issued for his arrest after police say he shot at two of his family members over disputes about a deceased family member's will.
Donald Melvin Laughman, of Pasco, Florida, allegedly shot three bullets at Scott Sanders and Jennifer Sanders in West Manheim Township on July 21, according to an affidavit filed with District Judge Jeffrey Sneeringer.
At about 7 p.m., Jennifer Sanders called 911 to report the shooting in the first block of Hillcrest Drive, stating that Laughman had shot at Scott Sanders with a firearm and then fled in a red Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck with a Florida license plate.
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When police arrived, both Scott and Jennifer Sanders said they were not struck by any of the bullets, but police saw two bullet holes in the windshield of a Jeep Cherokee parked in the driveway, the affidavit states.
Scott Sanders said that he was hiding directly behind the Jeep when Laughman fired two shots at him.
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The Sanders identified Laughman as a disgruntled family member from Florida, who they had been in disputes with about civil actions from a deceased family member's will, police said in the affidavit.
They both said they believed that their lives were in danger and Scott Sanders told police he believed Laughman was trying to kill him.
Scott Sanders also said that when Laughman initially tried to shoot him he thought the firearm misfired and that's when Scott Sanders ran behind the Jeep, the affidavit states.
Surveillance footage from the garage shows a Silverado pull into the driveway and the driver, reportedly Laughman, speak with Scott Sanders for several minutes.
It also shows Laughman pull out a firearm, stick it out his driver side window, fire shots at Scott Sander and then flee the area, police said in the affidavit.
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Police did a criminal history check on Laughman, which showed he is a convicted felon and unauthorized to be in possession of a firearm.
Laughman currently has a warrant out for his arrest and awaiting a preliminary hearing.
He is charged with criminal attempt of criminal homicide, possession of a prohibited firearm, aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person, according to online court documents.
In other police news:
Hanover Borough Police log
2:35 p.m. Suspicious male subject reported loitering in the 300 block of Wilson Avenue was gone from the area before police arrived.
3:48 p.m. Harassment by communications involving unwanted phone calls was reported in the 600 block of East Walnut Street.
6:36 p.m. Rachael Stough, 30, of Stewartstown, was arrested and charged with retail theft following an incident reported in the first block of Baltimore Street. She was turned over to the York County Sheriff’s Office for further disposition.
6:58 p.m. Disturbance involving an argument between a man and a woman was reported at Wilson Avenue and Gateway Drive.
12:56 a.m. Suspicious male subject reported loitering in the 300 block of Wilson Avenue was gone from the area before police arrived.
7:35 a.m. Domestic argument between a man and a woman was reported in the 100 block of Baltimore Street.
11:10 a.m. No injuries were reported and towing was required following a crash reported in the 200 block of George Street. A 1998 Chevrolet S10 operated by G. Thomas Hagarman, of Hanover, struck a 2003 Ford Ranger owned by Kurt Janke, of Hanover.
2:43 p.m. Domestic argument between a man and a woman was reported in the 200 block of Frederick Street.
4:08 p.m. Retail theft was reported at a business in the 100 block of Carlisle Street involving a male and a female who shoplifted items and left the area before police were called.
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4:11 p.m. Suspicious male subject reported knocking on the door to a business in the 200 block of Dart Drive was located and checked out OK.
4:50 p.m. Disturbance involving a disorderly male subject was reported in the first block of Fifth Street.
11:12 p.m. Disturbance involving an argument between two women was reported in the 200 block of North Franklin Street.
1:44 a.m. Disturbance involving a fight between several subjects was reported in the 300 block of North Franklin Street.
2:55 a.m. Harassment between a man and a woman was reported in the 300 block of East Walnut Street.
7:45 a.m. Domestic argument between a man and a woman was reported in the 300 block of West Walnut Street.
11:48 a.m. Edward Davis, 56, of Hanover, was arrested and charged with retail theft following an incident reported in the 100 block of Carlisle Street. He was turned over to the York County Sheriff’s Office for further disposition.
11:48 a.m. Retail theft was reported at a business in the 100 block of Carlisle Street involving a male who shoplifted items and left the area before police were called.
12:35 p.m. Domestic argument between a mother and son was reported in the 100 block of High Street.
5:05 p.m. Domestic argument between a mother and daughter was reported in the first block of Hamilton Street.
5:42 p.m. Disturbance involving a neighbor dispute was reported in the first block of Third Street.
6:09 p.m. Domestic argument between a man and a woman was reported in the 100 block of High Street.
6:37 p.m. Charges for disorderly conduct are pending against a 40-year-old man and a 47-year-old man, both of Hanover, following an incident reported in the 500 block of Baltimore Street.
8:12 a.m. Theft of a bicycle was reported in the first block of East Walnut Street.
8:25 a.m. Criminal trespass was reported in the 300 block of Pine Street where a male subject loitered on private property and was warned.
8:38 a.m. Domestic argument between a man and a woman was reported in the first block of Stock Street.
9:05 a.m. Theft was reported where a wristwatch, money, and a cellphone were taken sometime overnight from a vehicle parked in the 700 block of Carlisle Street.
11:54 a.m. Suspicious circumstances reported in the 800 block of Grant Drive involved a resident hearing a suspicious noise.
11:54 a.m. Theft of credit cards and prescription medication was reported in the 200 block of North Franklin Street.
3:58 p.m. Harassment between two men was reported in the 500 block of Broadway.
6:10 p.m. Criminal trespass was reported in the 1100 block of Carlisle Street where several subjects loitering on private property were located and warned.
6:39 p.m. Disturbance involving a disorderly subject was reported in the 100 block of Frederick Street.
7:34 p.m. Domestic argument between a man and a woman was reported in the 200 block of York Street.
8:16 p.m. Harassment between an unknown subject and a juvenile was reported in the 200 block of North Railroad Street.
8:18 p.m. Domestic argument between a man and a woman was reported in the 300 block of Pine Street.
8:50 p.m. Disturbance involving an argument between two men was reported in the 500 block of Broadway.
8:53 p.m. Suspicious circumstances involving residential lighting were reported in the first block of McAllister Street.
10:05 p.m. A charge of harassment is pending against a 41-year-old man, of Hanover, following an incident reported in the 300 block of Baltimore Street.
10:17 p.m. Suspicious person reported loitering on private property in the first block of Baltimore Street was located and warned.
10:35 p.m. Domestic argument occurring between two sisters was reported in the 700 block of Broadway.
1:06 p.m. Julie Gutridge, 26, of Hanover, was cited for public drunkenness following an incident reported in the 300 block of Carlisle Street.
5:48 p.m. Domestic argument between several members was reported in the 200 block of Frederick Street.
6:52 p.m. Robert Wolf, 54, of Hanover, was arrested and charged with public drunkenness following an incident reported at Centennial Avenue and West Walnut Street. He was turned over to the York County Sheriff’s Office for further disposition.
8:58 p.m. Harassment by communications involving unwanted text messages was reported in the 200 block of Second Avenue.
10 p.m. Domestic argument between a man and a woman was reported in the first block of Fulton Street.
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Penn Township police log
8:11 a.m. Police assisted probation take two juveniles into custody in the 100 block of Mussetta Street.
1:15 p.m. Report of a verbal domestic in the 800 block of McAllister Street between boyfriend and girlfriend.
5:24 p.m. Police assisted the Adams County District Attorney's Office in the 300 block of Fame Avenue.
7:30 p.m. Report of loud dirk bikes in the area of the first block of Allen Drive. They were not located.
9:45 p.m. A three-vehicle crash at Westminster Avenue and Fairview Drive. One minor injury was reported.
10:01 p.m. A two-vehicle hit-and-run crash in the first block of Charles Avenue.
6:31 a.m. Report of an alarm in the 1100 block of Carlisle Street. All checked out OK.
7:11 a.m. A subject in the 1400 block of Baltimore Street was arrested for DUI following a complaint.
8 a.m. Report of a loose dog on Wirt Avenue. It was not located.
Noon Found property was turned over to police at the station.
3:30 p.m. Police assisted with information exchanged in the first block of Wilson Avenue after a minor vehicle crash.
4 p.m. Dispute about property in the 400 block of South High Street.
4:04 p.m. Questions about a case in the first block of North Blettner Avenue.
4:18 p.m. Report of a theft of a gas grill in the first block of Lafayette Street.
4:20 p.m. Report of a residential alarm in the first block of Allen Drive. All checked out OK.
4:22 p.m. Report of a vehicle blocking the roadway in the 500 block of Baltimore Street. It was not located.
5:13 p.m. A two-vehicle minor crash in the 800 block of York Street. Parties exchanged information.
7 p.m. Questions about a case in the first block of North Blettner Avenue.
11:04 p.m. Report of loud music in the first block of Mustang Drive. It was quiet on police arrival.
12:05 a.m. A subject was arrested for DUI after a one-vehicle crash in the 800 block of Black Rock Road. No injuries were reported.
11:20 a.m. Police assisted another department in the 600 block of Frederick Street with a possible runaway. The subject was not located.
2:48 p.m. Report of a customer in the 100 block of Wilson Avenue not happy with their service.
3:54 p.m. Police responded to assist the fire department in the 500 block of Baer Avenue with an appliance fire. No assistance was needed
4:55 p.m. A vehicle was repossessed on Charles Avenue.
6:24 p.m. Found property in the 900 block of York Street was turned over to police.
6:33 p.m. Police made contact with someone in the first block of Black Rock Road for Pennsylvania State Police.
7:29 p.m. Report of loud music in the 5000 block of Grandview Road. It was not located.
9:22 p.m. Numerous firework complaints made at the station. No violations were found.
10:17 p.m. Report of fireworks in the area of the 900 block of Baer Avenue. The subject was located and warned for violations.
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2:51 a.m. A 19-year-old was cited for underage drinking in the 500 block of South Franklin Street following an incident in the area.
11:17 a.m. Report of an alarm in the 600 block of Locust Street. All checked out OK.
11:49 a.m. Report of a domestic in the 300 block of Beck Mill Road where family members were arguing. They were advised to keep the peace.
12:11 p.m. A vehicle struck a garage in the 500 block of York Street causing minor damage.
2:42 p.m. A two-vehicle crash at Baltimore Street and Clover Lane. No injuries were reported.
4:01 p.m. Two subjects were cited in the 100 block of Hirtland Avenue for pushing and striking each other during a dispute.
6:30 p.m. Numerous weather related issues in Penn Township.
7:18 p.m. Police assisted West Manheim Township Police in the first block of Hillcrest Drive with a case.
7:37 p.m. Alarm in the 400 block of Moulstown Road. It checked out all OK.
9:32 p.m. Report of a subject yelling in the 100 block of Cypress Lane. Nothing was located.
10:22 p.m. Report of a loud party in the 100 block of Mussetta Street. It was turned down on request.
12:18 a.m. An alarm in the 1100 block of Baltimore Street. It checked out all OK.
7:30 a.m. Report that a township vehicle in the 900 block of Wilson Avenue had damage from the storm.
9:18 a.m. An alarm in the 500 block of Meade Avenue. It was checked out all OK.
9:28 a.m. Report of scattering rubbish in the first block of Beck Mill Road. Furniture was picked up along the roadway.
10:55 a.m. A vehicle owner in the first block of Newberry Street was requested to move their vehicle for road work.
12:22 p.m. Report of a theft of power tools in on Oneill Avenue.
2:58 p.m. A subject in the first block of Bowman Road wanted to report an issue with an ex-boyfriend.
3:15 p.m. Criminal mischief was reported at Hanover Foods where a vehicle was damaged in the parking lot.
3:27 p.m. A brown pit bull was found running loose in the first block of Meadowview Drive. It was gone on police arrival.
3:43 p.m. Report of animals being mistreated in the first block of Edward Street.
3:45 p.m. Neighbor problems were reported in the 100 block of Northview Drive.
4 p.m. A subject was warned to stay away from a property in the first block of North Blettner Avenue.
4:18 p.m. Report of a phone scam in the first block of Wilmar Drive.
4:54 p.m. Animal abuse was reported in the 800 block of Baltimore Street to the SPCA.
6:39 p.m. A two-vehicle crash at Grandview and Black Rock roads. Both vehicles were towed and no injuries were reported.
Links to other Hanover-area police logs:
West Manheim Township Police Department
McSherrystown Borough Police Department
Southwestern Regional Police Department
Eastern Adams Regional Police Department
Gettysburg Borough Police Department
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By Olivia Minnock . Aug 28, 2018, 11:03AM
South Africa has announced its latest plans and goals for adding more renewable sources to its energy mix and decreasing its reliance on coal by 2030.
The Department of Energy has published an updated Integrated Resource Plan, which states that overall renewable energy resources are set to grow to 26% of total energy over the next 12 years.
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At present, 80% of energy in South Africa comes from coal-fired plants which according to Mail and Guardian are around 40-50 years old. Therefore, the country is taking steps to move away from the high-emission fuel as well as diversifying its energy production.
The goals are to reach 11.5GW capacity of onshore wind, 8GW capacity of solar PV and 600MW capacity of CSP (concentrated solar power) by 2030. This will involve the addition of 5.6GW in PV capacity and 8.2GW of wind.
Notably, the country has dropped initial plans to increase nuclear output. On Monday as the plans were released, Energy Minister Jedd Radebe stated: “There will be a study to determine if more nuclear is needed after 2030. But until then, there is no increase in nuclear generation envisaged.”
Following 60 days for the public to comment on the proposal, it will be sent to cabinet to be signed off.
Since their discovery in 2015 by Italian energy company, Eni, Egypt’s vast reserves of natural gas have become a key element of its plan “to establish itself as a key energy exporter and revive its flagging economy”, according to a report by News24.
Former Egyptian oil minister, Osama Kamal, has confirmed that the country “has a plan to become a
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The French energy company, EDF, has announced its partnership with the UK-based utility firm, BBOXX.
The firms have launched operations in Togo, working on an off-grid electricity project. The companies target a 35% market share in the nation by 2024.
Under the
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Accra Brewery is the oldest brewery in Ghana as well as a proud member of the AB InBev family. For this month’s cover feature we caught up with Wil Fameni, Head of
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Search Engineers
Creating a new page for online job seekers.
Laura Tiffany
This story appears in the April 1999 issue of Business Start-Ups magazine. Subscribe »
A swarm of students surrounds a brightly painted bus parked in the middle of the campus quad. Is this a local radio station promo? Nope. Call it a Web-based resume workstation, if you will.
So how does a successful Web site fit in to this scenario? Combining low-tech marketing (the bus) with a high-tech business (the bus is equipped with laptops linked to their Web site) is just one way Sara Sutton and Rachel Bell stay in touch with the college students who search for jobs through their company, JobDirect.com.
Instead of just posting resumes and job listings on its site, JobDirect.com allows employers to search for qualified candidates in its database. Those candidates are notified via e-mail and can decide if they want their resume forwarded to the interested company. "It takes the inefficiency out of job searching," says Sutton, 24, who started the Stamford, Connecticut, business with her childhood pal, Bell, 24, in 1995.
Sutton and Bell began their venture while in college, and though they put their degrees on hold when the company took off, the pair haven't forgotten what it's like to be a student. Job-seekers post their resumes on the database for free, and all revenue--$3 million in 1998--comes from companies who pay up to five figures monthly for access to entry-level applicants. Marketing efforts, including a job drive and student reps who earn money for collecting resumes, give the company its "grass-roots feel." Says Sutton, "It's a great way for us to keep in touch with the student population."
Where the wild watches are.
The courage of a lion. The tenacity of a beaver. The cunning of a wolf. Combining these qualities with a keen business sense and a lifelong passion for entrepreneurship, Billy Darnell, 24, found his niche with Zoobees, playful watches that feature animal photos on the faces and vinyl or animal-print bands.
In the summer of 1994, before he entered Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Darnell was inspired by a talk show segment on watch entrepreneur Jeff Walsh, whose timepieces feature fine art. Revealing an assertiveness that would eventually bring his idea to fruition, Darnell called Walsh for advice.
Darnell's next step was to find quality photos for his watch faces. He soon discovered renowned nature photographer Art Wolfe and, knowing Wolfe's quality photos would give his company instant recognition, approached him for the exclusive rights to use his photos. Wolfe agreed on one condition: that the watches be a quality product--something Darnell secured when he struck a deal with one of the world's top watch manufacturers. In 1997, Darnell's work paid off when he finally began selling Zoobees while still in college.
Today, Zoobees are stocked in virtually every zoo in the United States, Disney's Animal Kingdom and the Endangered Species retail chain. Darnell hopes to expand his $250,000 company, Zoobee Inc., internationally, as well as introduce new watches to the line, including an aquatic series. "I love animals," says Darnell, who contributes 1 percent of his sales to the Wildlife Conservation Society. "I always knew I wanted to create a product that would give back to society."
When Texas Christian University (TCU) student Ash Huzenlaub took a semester of independent study to find his life path, he instead found a mission. After meeting successful TCU alumni entrepreneurs and visiting several schools of entrepreneurship, he began Endeavor: Entrepreneurship@TCU, with the goal of establishing a TCU entrepreneurial program. Members hope university leaders will reach a decision this fall. To lend support, visit http://www.tcuendeavor.com
Contact Sources
Endeavor: Entrepreneurship@TCU,ash@ashcoventures.com
JobDirect.com, (203) 327-2201, http://www.jobdirect.com
Zoobee Inc., (214) 675-9963, http://www.zoobee.com
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Envistacom Named Top 10 Fastest-growing Georgia Company for Third Consecutive Year
The Atlanta Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth® names Envistacom the fifth-fastest growing company in Georgia’s upper-middle-market.
ATLANTA, Ga., June 25, 2018 – Envistacom today announced that the company was named the fifth-fastest growing company in Georgia’s upper-middle-market by the Atlanta Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth’s® (ACG) 2018 “Fast 40 Awards”, marking the third-consecutive year that Envistacom has been recognized as a top ten fastest-growing company on ACG Atlanta’s annual list.
“I am delighted to announce that Envistacom has once again secured our place as a top ten fastest-growing upper-middle-market company in the state of Georgia,” said Alyssa Carson, president, Envistacom. “This honor would not be possible without the support and dedication of our employees around the world who work tirelessly to help our customers equip American warfighters. In just the past year, we have expanded our team of experts as well as our Atlanta footprint with the expansion of the Envistacom Innovation Center, and we are excited about what is ahead for 2018 and beyond.
The ACG is a global professional organization focused on middle-market growth, mergers and acquisitions, and private investment and, every year, the Atlanta Chapter honors the top 40 fastest-growing middle-market companies in the state of Georgia.
“We would also like to thank ACG Atlanta, our customers and Georgia public officials for their efforts to bolster Georgia’s growth in the defense sector,” said Carson. “We will continue to work with the ACG, its members, the state of Georgia and the local technology community in support of the state of Georgia’s commitment to defense technology leadership.”
The Fast 40 award is yet another demonstration of Envistacom’s rapid growth in the state of Georgia and beyond, with an expanding global footprint that includes a presence in six U.S. states and 11 countries. In May 2018, Envistacom was named a top 10 fastest-growing private company in the Atlanta Metro Area by the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s annual Pacesetters awards.
About Envistacom
Envistacom is a privately held, Hispanic woman-owned technology company that provides counterterrorism, cyber and communications solutions to U.S. and coalition partners in the aerospace, defense, and intelligence communities. Customers rely on Envistacom for innovative technology and subject-matter expertise to achieve their missions in identifying and defeating global threats. Envistacom is a trusted partner in protecting military, civilians and critical infrastructure around the world. For more information, please visit www.envistacom.com.
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Is The Voice Season 17 the Most Talented Season Yet?
by Lauren Piester | Tue., 17 Dec. 2019 4:03 PM
"The Voice" Coaches Share Favorite Moments Ahead of Finale
It's a big night for The Voice.
For the first time in seven seasons, as Carson Daly reminded us at the start of last night's show, all four coaches have a singer in the finale, making it a true competition for both the singers and the coaches. It's also the first season without Team Adam Levine in the mix, so it's like a whole new ballgame in season 17.
Kelly Clarkson tells E! News that this is also one of the most talented seasons she's seen since she joined the show as a coach.
"Collectively, this is like the most talented season I've been a part of, as a whole," she says. "There have been some amazing people to come out of different seasons obviously, I just mean collectively, this has been a really talented group."
She spent last season on the bench for the finale, while Blake Shelton has only ever not had a contestant in the finale once, as far as he remembers.
"You know how stupid you felt last season? I felt like that once, years ago...I was embarrassed for you," he joked, and Kelly had but one beautiful response: "Suck it. Just a real hard suck it."
The Voice Coaches Weigh In on the Top 8 and the Best Advice They Can Give
John Legend and Gwen Stefani were much nicer to each other over in their portion of the interview, while they mostly just couldn't stop gushing about their contestants.
Gwen has Rose Short, who worked in a prison before pursuing a music career. John has Katie Kadan, who has perfected not just her sound but also her incredibly distinct look. Blake has Ricky Duran, who he claims is the most talked-about contestant he's ever had, and Kelly's competing with country boy Jake Hoot.
All four are incredibly talented and finale-worthy, but we gotta say we've been a lot more excited about Rose and Katie, who are just as charming as they are great performers. Of those two, it's hard to look away from Katie, who has been a fully-formed artist from the beginning. Her original song she debuted last night, "All Better," has already gotten stuck in our head, and actually made us google it to make sure it wasn't already a song we've been listening to on repeat.
She feels both old school and fresh at the same time, and after watching her sing "Merry Christmas Baby" with John Legend last night, we'd like to request a Christmas variety special from the both of them (plus Chrissy Teigen obviously).
That said, all of this season's finalists are definitely talented, and it feels like Katie Kadan might still have a bright future in this industry even if she doesn't win.
Hear from the contestants below (minus Jake, who skipped interviews), and tune in tonight!
"The Voice" Top 4 Contestants Share Best Advice From Coaches
The Voice's final four will find out which of them will win season 17 tonight in the three-hour live finale, starting at 8 p.m. on NBC.
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May 20, 2017 SOURCE: PR NewsWire
Raytheon and Saudi Arabia Military Industries announce strategic partnership
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- In a ceremony witnessed by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and U.S. President Donald J. Trump, Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and the Saudi Arabia Military Industries Company today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on defense-related projects and technology development.
The agreement will enable continued global growth for Raytheon in key market areas such as Air Defense Systems, Smart Munitions, C4I Systems and Cyber Security of Defense Systems and Platforms. This partnership will also contribute directly to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's localized defense ecosystem with regional expert capabilities, and will provide a long-term foundation for Saudi Arabia's economic development.
"This strategic partnership is the next step in our over 50-year relationship in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and a strong indicator of our continued global growth," said Thomas A. Kennedy, Raytheon Chairman and CEO. "By working together, we can help build world-class defense and cyber capabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."
As part of this new agreement, Raytheon today announced plans to establish Raytheon Arabia, a Saudi legal entity wholly-owned by Raytheon that will focus on implementing programs to create indigenous defense, aerospace and security capabilities in the Kingdom. The new company will be based in Riyadh and is expected to include in-country program management, supply and sourcing capabilities, improved customer access and centralized accountability. These programs will positively impact Saudi and U.S. economies including job creation.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2016 sales of $24 billion and 63,000 employees, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions. With a history of innovation spanning 95 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration, C5I((TM)) products and services, sensing, effects, and mission support for customers in more than 80 countries. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Follow us on Twitter.
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Corporate-PR@raytheon.com
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/raytheon-and-saudi-arabia-military-industries-announce-strategic-partnership-300461082.html
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Cash help for Kirklees community groups who want to tackle climate change
One Community to support environmental projects
Roger Greenwood
Community energy activist Hugh Goulbourne. Pic by: Thomas O'Donoghue
Campaigners have teamed up with a Kirklees charity to help tackle climate change.
Earlier this year Kirklees Council announced it had declared a climate emergency.
The United Nation’s Panel on Climate Change recently said that we have 12 years to make the necessary changes to limit a rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees centigrade.
In response to this three community energy activists, Hugh Goulbourne, Kate Gilmartin and John O’Grady, have established the ‘Collective Power Fund’, with One Community, the Kirklees Community Foundation.
This new fund will help local voluntary and community groups in areas of high deprivation, and provide funding grants to tackle a range of green issues, focusing on using energy more efficiently and taking care of the environment.
• Replacing old lighting and installing energy efficient LED lighting in community buildings;
• Developing new green spaces, such as tree planting on a former brown field site, or creating a wildflower meadow outside a community centre;
• Supporting the costs of training courses, to help community groups who want to develop their energy efficiency and/or environmental ideas, such as training as an Energy Heroes Leader to promote and instigate good energy practice.
Hugh said: “We are all aware that climate change is the biggest challenge we face today, requiring changes to every aspect of society.
“We need to ensure that this industrial revolution does not leave the poorest communities behind and so this fund is intended to provide local groups with a means to access new technology, create new green spaces and use energy more efficiently.”
These are the 137 playgrounds Kirklees Council is set to rip the equipment out of
Paul Johnson, general manager of One Community, said: “In April this year, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough warned of a ‘catastrophe’, and said we faced “irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies” - if we did not tackle climate change.
“With this in mind, we welcome the launch of this new fund, which enables local groups to make a positive difference in their communities. As well as helping to tackle climate change, funded projects could also enhance local areas with the planting of trees and development of new green spaces.”
Local groups are invited to submit funding applications (visit www.one-community.org.uk or call 01484 468397) of between £500 and £1,000. The Collective Power fund opens to applications on Tuesday, July 2 and closes on September 17.
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Texas has third-highest property tax rate for single-family homes, study finds
Allie Morris April 9, 2019 Updated: April 9, 2019 12:06 p.m.
Gov. Greg Abbott, center, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, right, and Speaker Dennis Bonnen have made property tax relief a priority this session.
Photo: Ricardo Brazziell /Associated Press
AUSTIN — Texas had the third highest property tax rate in the nation last year, according to a new study. The study by ATTOM Data Solutions found the average effective tax rate in Texas last year was 2.18 percent, trailing only New Jersey and Illinois. Unlike other states in the top tier, however, Texas has no income tax and relies heavily on property tax revenue to fund public schools and local government.
At the 2.18 percent tax rate, the owner of a $200,000 home in Texas paid $4,360 in property taxes a year, on average. The rates were 2.25 percent in New Jersey and 2.22 percent in Illinois.
This legislative session, Texas lawmakers are trying to rein in property tax growth by pouring billions more dollars of state funding into education, while capping what cities and counties can raise each year in property taxes. Debate continues, however, over how to do it.
Related: With 149-0 vote, Texas House stands firm on education, taxes
The House and Senate are divided over how to limit property tax hikes by local school districts, which typically make up the largest chunk of the tax bill. The House wants to reduce the tax rate by four cents per $100 of a home’s value, which would save the owner of a $200,000 house about $80 a year.
The Senate, on the other hand, has proposed limits on how much local school districts, cities and counties can raise in property taxes each year without voter approval.
Allie Morris covers politics and policy in Austin. Read her on our free site, mySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com. | amorris@express-news.net | Twitter: @MorrisReports
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Federal court issues decision holding that US Stem Cell clinics and owner adulterated and misbranded stem cell products in violation of the law
FDA News Release
U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro of the Southern District of Florida granted the government’s motion for summary judgment against US Stem Cell Clinic LLC, of Weston, Florida, and US Stem Cell Inc., of Sunrise, Florida, and their Chief Scientific Officer Kristin Comella, Ph.D. The court held that the defendants in that case adulterated and misbranded a stem cell drug product made from a patient’s adipose tissue.
“Cell-based regenerative medicine holds significant medical opportunity, but those in this field who do not operate in compliance with the law can potentially cause serious harm to patients,” said Acting FDA Commissioner Ned Sharpless, M.D. “We support sound, scientific research and regulation of cell-based regenerative medicine. The FDA has advanced a comprehensive policy framework to promote the development and approval of regenerative medicine products. But at the same time, the FDA will continue to take action—such as issuing warning letters or initiating court cases—against clinics that abuse the trust of patients and endanger their health with inadequate manufacturing conditions or by manufacturing and promoting products in ways that make them drugs under the law, but which have not been proven to be safe or effective for any use. It is our responsibility to promote and protect public health, and we take this responsibility seriously.”
The U.S. Department of Justice, on FDA’s behalf, initiated this action against US Stem Cell Clinic LLC and US Stem Cell Inc., and Comella in May 2018, seeking a permanent injunction to stop the defendants’ illegal behavior after several attempts to provide the clinic and the individual defendants the opportunity to work with the agency to come into compliance with FDA regulations and protect patients from harm.
“In the case against US Stem Cell Clinic, the clinic and its leadership have put patients at serious risk through their disregard of the law and prior FDA warnings. This decision today is a victory for the FDA’s work to stop these bad actors and to protect patients,” said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “We are committed to continuing to pursue actions against those who put patients in harm’s way by marketing unapproved stem cell products that skirt FDA’s regulations and federal law.”
The FDA initially raised concerns about US Stem Cell in a warning letter issued in 2017 for marketing stem cell products without FDA approval and for significant deviations from current good manufacturing practice requirements, following an FDA inspection of the facility that found that the company was administering its product intravenously or via other methods of administration to treat a variety of serious diseases or conditions, including Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease and pulmonary fibrosis. The FDA has not approved any biological products manufactured by US Stem Cell Clinic for any use. The clinic was also cited for its failure to establish and follow appropriate written procedures designed to prevent microbiological contamination of products purporting to be sterile, which puts patients at risk for infections. Following these steps, a U.S. court previously entered a consent decree of permanent injunction agreed to by the FDA and defendant Theodore Gradel, a former manager of US Stem Cell LLC that requires Mr. Gradel to notify the FDA if he intends to re-enter the biologics industry and to comply with any corrective actions ordered by the FDA.
In a separate action, the FDA is also seeking a permanent injunction to stop California Stem Cell Treatment Center Inc., with locations in Rancho Mirage and Beverly Hills, California; Cell Surgical Network Corporation of Rancho Mirage, California; and Elliot B. Lander, M.D. and Mark Berman, M.D., from marketing to patients cellular products without FDA approval. That litigation is ongoing. In addition, to date, the FDA has taken numerous other steps to bring clinics and other companies or individuals manufacturing stem cell products with known or potential violations into compliance by issuing warning letters, untitled letters and other letters of correspondence to firms.
This case and other actions taken recently by the FDA support the agency’s comprehensive regenerative medicine policy framework, and the FDA’s risk-based approach to enforcement of cell-based regenerative medicine products, taking into account how products are being administered as well as the diseases and conditions for which they are intended to be used. The FDA has repeatedly noted that it does not intend to exercise such enforcement discretion for those products that pose reported safety concerns or potential significant safety concerns, such as US Stem Cell Clinic’s products.
The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.
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Researchers attack cancer with sustained siRNA delivery
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There's a considerable amount of work being done in the lab to test the use of innovative nanoparticles to deliver siRNAs for a range of diseases.
At the University of Texas Health Sciences Centre in Houston a research team was presented with a problem: Using lipid nanoparticles to deliver a load of targeted chemotherapy drugs required a long course of twice-weekly injections to deliver the sustained dose necessary to treat cancer. So they developed nanoporous silicon particles to deliver siRNAs to mice which were engineered to develop ovarian cancer. The tumors in the mice shrank and toxicity levels were low or nonexistent.
"The multistage delivery system is revolutionary in that it allows the therapeutic payloads to cross the biological barriers in the body and reach their target," said team leader Mauro Ferrari, who is chairman of the Department of NanoMedicine and Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas Medical School.
A second research team drawn from the University of Washington and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, meanwhile, used nanoporous particles to deliver a sustained dose of CTLA-4 antibodies. The team felt they could use the particles to create a "reservoir" or antibodies that could provide a sustained release of the therapy over a long period of time. They reported that tumor suppression endured for a month with no signs of toxicity.
- here's the report from In-Pharmatechnologist
- and here's the report from Pharmaceutical Business Review
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Windows 10 is releasing in 30 days from today, here is a look back at how it evolved
by AshwinJune 29, 2015
Windows 10 is releasing in 30 days from today, and lets step back in time, to see how the operating system has evolved.
Microsoft released the first “Technical Preview” of Windows 10, in October 2014.
The company delighted users, by bringing back the Start Menu in Windows 10.
The Redmond Company announced in January, that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for Windows 7, and 8.x users. Along with that bot of great news, it also demoed a new light weight browser, codenamed as Project Spartan. It was released to the public in March, and was later christened as Microsoft Edge.
In April, the company began pushing a Windows Update to computers running on the older operating systems. This update enabled an app called GWX (Get Windows 10), which would download Windows 10 on the computers. We reported about this when the app began asking users to reserve their free upgrade.
If you haven’t got the GWX app on your PC yet, follow this simple guide to enable the app.
Only users with a valid license of Windows 7 or 8.x, will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. There was a long standing debate, on whether the members of the Windows Insider Program, would be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10 or not.
Several reports indicated that Microsoft would allow Insiders, to upgrade to the final build of Windows 10, even if they do not have a valid license for Windows 7 or 8.x. The Redmond Company finally broke its silence, and revealed that this was not the case.
Windows Insiders will not get a free upgrade to Windows 10, but they will continue to receive Windows 10 Preview Builds beyond the launch date of the final release of the operating system. These preview builds will also auto-expire after a certain time, if the user does not update to a more recent preview build.
Windows 10 will be launched on July 29th. If you updated from a previous licensed version of Windows (7 or 8.x), to Windows 10 Insider Preview, you should sign in to your <Microsoft Account on the PC, and you are all set to receive the update.
If you installed Windows 10 as a clean install, you are in for a rough ride. You will have to downgrade back to your previous version of Windows, and need to activate it. After doing so, you may stay on the older OS, until July 29th, and upgrade directly to the final release of Windows 10. Or you can just upgrade to a preview build again.
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Charles Haynes
Charles Haynes was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and earned a bachelor’s degree in business process management from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in 2003. Upon graduating, he lived in Indianapolis for a year before relocating to Ohio and working as an associate for an investor relations firm. After five years in Ohio, Charles moved to New Orleans, where he earned his Juris Doctor from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2011.While in law school, Charles served as Print Editor of the Loyola University New Orleans Journal of Public Interest Law, the Director of Technology for the Student Bar Association, and a teaching assistant for the legal research and writing lab. He also interned for the Louisiana Workforce Commission as a clerk for a workers’ compensation judge and worked in the office of the general counsel for the New Orleans Saints.Charles now lives in Atlanta, Georgia, is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, and is admitted to practice law in Georgia and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
At Fleschner, Stark, Tanoos & Newlin, Charles focuses his legal practice on representing Social Security Disability claimants at hearings before Administrative Law Judges in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He is dedicated to client service and believes client priorities always outweigh firm priorities.
When he’s not at the office, Charles enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and their dog.
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£1.4 million settlement for 30-year-old man knocked off his motorbike
HomeNews & UpdatesMotorcycle Accident Related£1.4 million settlement for 30-year-old man knocked off his motorbike
A 30-year-old man has been awarded £1.4 million after being knocked off his motorbike.
The man who is from Worcester Park in Surrey was going through a set of traffic lights, which were on green, when a car turned into a side road across his path.
The Defendant was prosecuted for driving without due care and attention.
Primary liability was admitted by the defendant; however, contributory negligence was raised. The defendant alleged that the claimant was travelling at speed and failed to act to avoid the collision.
The claimant was admitted to hospital with fractures to the neck, shoulder and ribs.
On further investigation, the claimant had sustained a brachial plexus injury to the left arm, affecting range of movement and strength.
Following surgery to attempt to regret the nerves, the claimant underwent an intensive rehabilitation programme. Unfortunately, the claimant will be unable to regain full movement in the arm.
He becomes easily fatigued, needs to wear a sling through the day to support the arm, and has had to reduce his working hours and role at work to accommodate his physical limitations.
Emma Jackson, Litigation Executive and Julia Eyton, Head of Serious Injury at Fletchers Solicitors acted for the client.
The parties attended a settlement meeting in October 2019 and agreed a settlement figure of £1.4 million.
It was a pleasure to act on behalf of the claimant for this case. After a lengthy four and a half years of litigation, it was great to see him achieve such a fantastic settlement.
The claimant said:
I am very happy with the service Fletchers have given. Organising reports and meetings with specialists were very easy and done very quickly.
The support I got from the team with any questions I had was brilliant and answered quickly.
I felt very comfortable and reassured that I had a team behind me doing everything possible for me. Very professional and very welcoming and friendly which from the outset set me at ease with the whole process.
Nicola Kenyon
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Andrew Yang Wants To Make Psychedelic Mushrooms ‘More Freely Available’
Tom Angell Contributor
I cover the politics and policy of cannabis here and at Marijuana Moment.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says the U.S. should loosen its ban on psychedelic mushrooms.
“We should explore making psilocybin mushrooms legal for medical and therapeutic use particularly for veterans,” the 2020 contender tweeted on Saturday after meeting with a military veteran in Iowa who told him that the psychedelic substance is the “only treatment he found effective for his depression after returning home.”
On Sunday, Yang followed up by quote-tweeting a CNN article about a study suggesting that psilocybin can be safely administered as a treatment for depression.
“We should pursue this - anything that makes people stronger and healthier should be more freely available,” the candidate said.
Pushing to upend policies prohibiting so-called “magic mushrooms” is the latest bold drug policy reform position for Yang, who has previously called for decriminalizing opioids and using federal funds to support safe injection sites where people could consume illicit substances under medical supervision.
He also backs legalizing marijuana, a position shared by most other Democratic presidential candidates, which the exceptions of former Vice President Joe Biden and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Yang’s campaign has sold a collection of cannabis-themed merchandise, including hats and shirts.
Psychedelics reform has taken major strides in the U.S. this year. In May, Denver voters approved a ballot measure making their city the first in the country to decriminalize psilocybin. The Oakland City Council soon followed by passing a resolution decriminalizing not only psychedelic mushrooms but also other entheogenic substances such as ibogaine, ayahuasca and mescaline.
Now, activists in nearly 100 other U.S cities—including Chicago, Portland and Santa Cruz—are pursuing similar far-reaching psychedelic reform measures.
Meanwhile, Oregon activists are currently collecting signatures to place a measure on the state’s 2020 ballot that would legalize psilocybin for therapeutic use, and advocates in California are working on an initiative to more broadly legalize the psychedelic fungus.
In September, Johns Hopkins University announced the launch of a new research center dedicated to studying the effects of psychedelics.
Although Yang has previously said he doesn’t support removing criminal penalties for substances beyond marijuana and opioids, presidential rival South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg is on board with decriminalizing possession of all drugs, as is Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).
Meanwhile, although Yang says he would consider legalizing psilocybin for military veterans, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs currently won’t even allow its doctors to fill out recommendation forms for medical cannabis, including in states where its use is legal.
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I'm a 20-year veteran of the cannabis law reform movement, and I know where to look to spot the most interesting legalization developments. I'm the editor of the cannab...
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FIA Thursday press conference - Azerbaijan
Force India Azerbaijan Valtteri Bottas Romain Grosjean Stoffel Vandoorne Mercedes McLaren Kimi Raikkonen Toro Rosso Ferrari FIA Esteban Ocon Daniil Kvyat Haas
PART ONE: DRIVERS – Daniil KVYAT (Toro Rosso), Kimi RÄIKKÖNEN (Ferrari), Stoffel VANDOORNE (McLaren)
Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Ferrari in the Press Conference at Formula One World Championship, Rd8, Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Preparations, Baku City Circuit, Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday 22 June 2017. © Sutton Images
Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL) McLaren in the Press Conference at Formula One World Championship, Rd8, Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Preparations, Baku City Circuit, Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday 22 June 2017. © Sutton Images
Daniil Kvyat (RUS) Scuderia Toro Rosso in the Press Conference at Formula One World Championship, Rd8, Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Preparations, Baku City Circuit, Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday 22 June 2017. © Sutton Images
Q: Kimi, if we can start with you. We’re back at a street track this weekend. You took pole position in Monaco a couple of races ago - how confident are you of a repeat here?
Kimi RÄIKKÖNEN: Unfortunately it doesn't give you any guarantees. It’s in the past, and a completely different circuit. Not really any similarities than Monaco, but nevertheless I think we have a good car everywhere. We'll see how it goes, we can only give our best. Hopefully we’ll be at the front again; we’ll see what happens.
Q: Pirelli are turning up this weekend with slightly harder tyre compounds than in Monaco. How do you think that’s going to affect the battle between Ferrari and Mercedes?
KR: I don’t know. It’s been close, more or less every race this year. Obviously, like I said, the circuits are so much different and it’s not a big surprise that the tyres are slightly different here. I don’t know. I’m not really interested in guessing what will happen, but I guess it's going to be close like it's been at other races; I’m surprised if it’s only one team is way ahead of another.
Q: You don’t want to guess what’s going to happen this weekend, but after the technical problems you had in Canada last time out, do you feel you’re due a lucky break here?
KR: No, not really! It’s not something you can count on it. I’ve had some not so good luck for quite a few times, but it’s an unfortunate thing to happen, something completely new that we never found out and it’s fixed now. Things usually go wrong when it’s the worst time it could happen, but at least we managed to finish the race and at least score some points. Obviously it was far from ideal, but that’s how it goes sometimes.
Q: Thank you Kimi, good luck this weekend. Stoffel, if we could come on to you now. This is your first time in Baku. Can you give us some insight into how you prepare for a track you’ve never races at? Is it more time on the simulator? Has Fernando given you any tips?
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Definitely spend some time in the simulator, like I do before every grand prix. A lot of laps in there. At least our simulator is reliable, so I managed to do a fair amount of laps there! And then also last year; I watched a lot of the races that happened here, GP2, Formula One as well. Some stuff on onboard videos. That’s about everything I did.
Q: Is Fernando generous with his advice?
SV: So far I’ve not had a chance to chat to him, but I'm sure I will do over the weekend.
Q: You were quiet outspoken about the car’s performance in Canada -- fuel saving, you referred to being ‘a sitting duck’ on the straights. Given the nature of this track layout, what are your expectations coming into this weekend?
SV: It is a street circuit as well, but like Kimi said it’s very different to a circuit like Monaco -- here we reach very very high top speeds, I think similar to Canada. I don’t think we have high hopes, but we’ll try our best from our side. We have some penalties already to start the weekend, which isn’t ideal, but it’s the situation we’re in, so we’ll try our best, focus maybe a bit more on race runs, and hopefully we can play a bit during the race.
Q: Just to be clear on that, we knew about Fernando’s penalty coming into this weekend. Have you had penalties as well?
SV: Yeah, I will have a penalty as well. We’re probably competing to start at the back of the grid.
Q: Good luck this weekend. Daniil, thank you for waiting. Coming on to you, you had a very frustrating race in Canada. Having had time to reflect on what happened, what’s your version of events?
Daniil KVYAT: It was a frustrating race; it brought us zero points. It all started on the formation lap when we couldn’t get away, so we lost a lot of time. Then, trying to recover positions I was already side by side with the cars I had to overtake … had to take the start from the grid, and we got a penalty for that -- two, actually -- and then, of course we couldn’t with the pit stop, yeah... It was all a bit of a spiral: when it starts to go bad, it goes bad. We did 55 laps on one set and we were on course for a point, but still???
Q: Let’s hope you have better luck this weekend. Talking specifically about Baku, you qualified sixth here last year. Are you confident of being a Q3 contender again in 2017?
DK: I think, once again, last year there are two different stories. Of course we had a good qualy last year, but quite different, you know, circumstances, cars, even though conditions will be similar. Car has been similarly competitive between most of the tracks, so hopefully we’ll be in a similar place to usual. Also here, this is one of the longest straights of the championship; it’s still not our favourite part of the track, but we’ll try to minimise the laptime loss through there and try to be competitive in the other parts of the track and try to really be strong.
Q: Simon Lazenby (Sky Sports) Question to Stoffel. Stoffel, we’ve heard your management, senior management, teammate be very outspoken about the relationship with Honda just now. Perhaps it was the first time in Canada we heard you reiterating the woes. It’s obviously making your first full season in the sport very difficult. Which direction would you like to see McLaren take with any future engine partner?
SV: To be honest, it’s not up to me to take such a decision. Yes, it’s been a difficult start to the season; it’s definitely not an ideal situation for everyone. We’d like to be fighting much higher up the grid, but as McLaren we’re trying to put McLaren’s interest at the top, and that’s what’s the most important for us now. We need to fight back, and I’m pretty sure the team is moving in the right direction. Hopefully at some point we will be competitive again, and hopefully that is sooner rather than later.
Q: (Ben Edwards - Channel 4) Question for Kimi, the situation in the championship between Mercedes and Ferrari is obviously pretty tough; it’s very tight at the moment. Are you in a position where you have to play a support role to Sebastian now in the way that in the past things have happened when you’ve been at Ferrari? Obviously Felipe helped you a bit in 2007, you returned the favour in 2008. Are you in that position now of having to help Sebastian?
KR: I think we have very clear roles in the team -- what we’re allowed, what we’re not allowed, and what the team wants us to do. You know, it goes by those rules and, I don’t know. I don’t know if I have any interest of, to do, to tell what we talk inside the team in here. I think Maurizio has said something and nothing has changed and we know exactly when things will go either way. That’s fine, that’s how it’s always been, at least in the teams where I’ve been. When I don’t have a chance mathematically anymore to fight for the championship, for sure I will help him. I have no issues with that, I never had in the past. I think it’s just a very easy decision for all of us, at least in our team, and obviously the first thing is to try to make sure that we can be on the top with Ferrari. That’s the most important thing. And then obviously if Seb can win, then fine. If I don’t have any chance then that’s how it goes. The first thing is to work for Ferrari, to put them in the best possible position.`
Q: (Livio Orrichio - Globosport.com) Kimi, using the same subject. In your view, what is the reason for the difference in points? You have some difficulty with this car? You were unlucky in some races? Because it’s big difference.
KR: It’s a big difference. When you have bad races, you adapt, and obviously Seb has done very good races so far and has been strong everywhere. I was not starting very well the first races -- I was not too bad, but I was not where I want to be. Here and there little problems, we have one DNF, the last race was not ideal. That’s how it goes, unfortunately. When your teammate is on the podium more or less every time, a lot of points quickly. That’s racing.
Q: (Alex Popov – Match TV) For Daniil. You just posted a very special video of your training – close combat training – on social media. It’s a message to somebody, or it’s just a coincidence?
DK: No, it’s not a message! Training for sure, I do it in Monaco, it’s my hobby and I have a very good trainer there for that sport and really interests me a lot and very enjoyable. It’s not easy to find time with the Formula One calendar for some other specific training. Usually it’s either running or cycling and everything else gets quite boring – so tried something else for once and really liked it, so like to do it, so simple as that.
Q: Daniil, for people who haven’t seen the video can you just elaborate what it is you’re doing?
DK: Come to see my video! No, I just like to train, I got to know a very good boxing trainer in Monaco and because in my gym there is a ring, they can put you in to train. I just ask him to help me a bit to learn it. Very interesting. Very interesting sport, very exhausting for 12 rounds to be there. Very interesting.
Q: (Simon Lazenby – Sky Sports) Question to Dany – I suppose that could come in very handy if you have any more disagreements with Carlos? Speaking of which, what happened in Canada with a couple of penalties, the retirement for you and then the disagreement over the towing issue in qualifying. Have you got to the bottom of that? How have you resolved it?
DK: Starting with that double penalty, I think we spoke behind closed doors after it with the correct people. With Charlie Whiting, with Jean Todt. It was all very straightforward, all very simple and everyone said his opinion and everyone understood perfectly and the end of the conversation was very positive and everything has been said on that matter. So everything is clear now. Regarding the other matter which you just mentioned, everything has been told already as well and everything will be tried to keep inside the house. That’s what I hope for, at least, from my side.
Q: (Ben Edwards – Channel 4) Question for Stoffel. You mentioned you’re going to have to carry some engine penalties this weekend. Are the engine bits that are going to be on the car this weekend going to give you any more performance or reliability from the bits that will be on there?
SV: Difficult to say, to be honest. I think it’s probably more a question for Honda. I don’t think there’s many new introductions this weekend, so I don’t think it will be too different.
Q: Just as a follow up to the towing in qualifying that Daniil was asked about, is it something, given the length of the straight here this weekend, that you’re going to work with your team-mates during qualifying to get a tow to improve your lap-time? Kimi, perhaps you could answer that one?
KR: No, we haven’t had any plans. I mean, we haven’t really done it in any place so I don’t see that’s going to happen. Probably the biggest reason is that it’s very difficult to manage with all the cars you get. The most important thing is to try to get the free lap for yourself. When you try to plan it like that it’s actually quite difficult to make it happen every time and it can easily make more harm than good for both of you. So…
Valtteri Bottas (FIN) Mercedes AMG F1 in the Press Conference at Formula One World Championship, Rd8, Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Preparations, Baku City Circuit, Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday 22 June 2017. © Sutton Images
Esteban Ocon (FRA) Force India F1 inthe Press Conference at Formula One World Championship, Rd8, Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Preparations, Baku City Circuit, Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday 22 June 2017. © Sutton Images
Romain Grosjean (FRA) Haas F1 in the Press Conference at Formula One World Championship, Rd8, Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Preparations, Baku City Circuit, Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday 22 June 2017. © Sutton Images
PART TWO: DRIVERS – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes), Esteban OCON (Force India), Romain GROSJEAN (Haas)
Q: Valtteri, if we can start with you. There’s no doubting the speed of this year’s Mercedes – the four wins are testimony to that – but it has proved tricky to set up. Can you predict how competitive you’re going to be this weekend – particularly as there’s no ultrasoft tyre? Or is it something you’re only going to find out when you take to the track tomorrow?
Valtteri BOTTAS: No, I can’t predict. As we’ve seen it’s been extremely close in some races, well, most of the races between us and Ferrari, so it is very difficult to predict, especially on a track like this. Some sections, a bit like Monza, some a bit like Monaco. I think it’s going to be close again but, like you said, we sometimes had a bit of difficulty to get the car set up well and get the real confidence with the car and also to get all four tyres to work with each compound. So, impossible to predict.
Q: Do you think the harder tyre compounds this weekend will help you?
VB: I don’t think it’s going to help us in any way. The tyres are going to be the same for everyone, it is up to us to get them to work well and that is going to be through the set up.
Q: Your boss Toto Wolff said this week at the FIA Sport Conference in Geneva that you’re in an uncomfortable position at the moment: still without a drive for 2018. Do you feel uncomfortable in this situation?
VB: I feel normal – because every single year in Formula One for me I’ve had the same situation. I’ve had no idea at this point what’s going to be next year. So, for me it’s a normal situation.
Q: Has the team told you when they’ll let you know?
VB: Yeah. I know some kind of plan, when they’re planning to have things sorted – but that is between us. There’s no rush.
Q: Esteban, Force India were attracting a lot of headlines after the Canadian Grand Prix, specifically about team orders. Can you just talk us through the closing laps from your point of view.
Esteban OCON: Yeah. At that moment I had a different strategy than Sergio. I did push on the first stint a bit later, so I changed my tyres later than Sergio and I was a bit quicker. But the team took the decision to let us race, both, which is respectable, and great also to see that they trust us and let us race. So no, we had a good discussion after the race in the debrief. And I also called Sergio during the week when everyone was relaxed, and discussed our points. We’re all good now. All set for a new weekend and there is no tension between us.
Q: So Sergio is still on your Christmas card list?
EO: Yes! No problem.
Q: Vijay Mallya said after the race in Montreal that there would be some new rules of engagement starting in Baku. So, having had those discussions in the debrief, can you tell us what those rules of engagement are?
EO: You know what the headline… what Force India always does it let both drivers race. Of course, if there is a big difference of speed between the cars then they will for sure try to do something to always benefit the team at the end. But they didn’t really want to do that in Montreal, which I think is very respectable, as I said. Now we will see if we get other opportunities here to do a great result.
Q: So if there is a role-reversal this weekend and you’re ahead and are asked to let Pérez through, would you do that?
EO: I always respect team orders if there are.
Q: Romain, it’s been a really encouraging few races for you. You’ve scored in three consecutive races for the first time in your Haas career – so where can you and the team go from here?
Romain GROSJEAN: Afternoon. It’s a good question. I think from the first year we’ve shown that we’ve gained consistency and that the team is growing up and capitalising on good calls, good strategy, getting the best of the situation even though maybe the performance in Canada, for example, was not really good – but in the race it was a very aggressive strategy and, with a bit of luck at the end, we managed to score points. Monaco, we were pretty fast where we struggled last year. So I think we’ve moved a long way. Every time I look back and see what we’re doing I’m very proud of the team and kind of myself, because I was in there since day one and everything we’re achieving today is actually work that we’ve all done together. It’s a very special experience to build a team around you.
Q: Just looking at this weekend specifically, you said in the team’s preview to this weekend that Baku is a mix of Monaco and Monza. Can you just elaborate what you mean by that and give us some insight into the set up challenges that this track presents?
RG: Well, I think you’ve got the first sector, first part of the track where you’ve got a big, straight line, big braking and low speed corners which is what you’ve got in Monza: so, top speed and braking stability is important. Then from Turn Five onwards you’ve got much trickier sections: bumpy, up and down, tight, up and down again which is more like Monaco type of corners, so yeah, it’s a pretty tough one to set up the car: which compromise do you do? Which parts to you… yeah, get better? We’ve seen last year that some teams reduced a lot of the downforce for quali performance but then in the race after a few laps the tyres were gone. It’s just finding the right, and the sweet spots in between that quali pace and the race pace and where you’re going to set up your car.
Q: And I guess you’re hoping for no plastic bags this year…?
RG: That would be lovely! It didn’t help much our race last year.
Of course, it got stuck in the radiator, didn’t it?
Q: (Jerome Pugmire – AP) Question for Esteban, you said you rang Sergio to discuss things. Can I just ask why you felt the need to do that if you’d already had a debrief beforehand?
EO: Well, first of all we had a plane to catch just after so we were in a bit of rush to debrief. It’s always good to do it a little bit after, to talk when you know everyone’s relaxed and the weekend’s finished. To have a further talk was quite important I think. And we just discussed our points, discussed freely, just us both, together. I think it was important to do that. As I said, now everything is settled-down and we are ready to attack that race.
Q: (Simon Lazenby – Sky Sports) Romain, just following up on Tom’s question there with regard to Haas and where you are at the moment. When you first came into the team you said you were happy, they’re building a team around you but right now do you think you’re ahead of the curve, 15 points, eighth in the championship? And at what point does your frustration - if you like - with wanting to become competitive boil over? For example, with the relationship with Ferrari, do you feel you would be first in line should a seat become available?
RG: Well, good question. I don’t know. I don’t know the answer. Life is full of surprises and if you ask Valtteri what he was doing on the 15th of December I’m sure he would say yeah, I’m going to go again with Willliams and next thing you know, you’re in a World Champion’s car. So it’s a phone call and the best we can do is to do the best job on track. I’m frustrated sometimes because I love winning and that’s all that matters to me in Formula One and obviously you come from other categories where you’ve won everything and then you come to F1 and you don’t get the chance to win a race because it’s like you were starting the race ten seconds behind the others. It’s done. But it’s great as well to see that we can start from zero – a new team – and we can build and we can surprise a lot of people. Everyone was ‘ah yeah, Haas coming into Formula One and they’ve got four years fulltime in the wind tunnel and they could be great’ and then last year we struggled a bit and then people were like ‘yeah, you know...’ That’s normal for Formula One but actually the whole process was to prepare for 2017 and we’re already on 2018 and trying to get better every year, and that’s finding resources, the effort and do what it takes to get there; it’s pretty important. I think the year started well, the problem of this year is that there are two Mercedes, two Ferraris and two Red Bulls in the first six positions and they’re already locked so the race kind of starts from P7 onwards and then Williams and Force India have been very fast recently so you’ve got one spot, maybe two spots in the top ten to score points so it’s pretty tricky. We lost a fair amount of points in Melbourne as well because of the issue in the power units when we were ahead of the midfield but generally I think we are working hard and I’m hoping that we can join a bit more the fight for bigger points.
Q: (Livio Oricchio – GloboEsporte.com) Valtteri, last year you reached 370/380kph here, the highest speed in a Formula One race. Do you think that with these new cars with more downforce it will be difficult to reach this speed?
VB: I don’t think we’re honestly going to see that kind of speed now that the cars are more draggy, so it would nearly be a miracle if we can hit those kind of speeds with these bigger tyres and bigger wings. That’s my opinion.
Q: (Livio Oricchio – GloboEsporte.com) Lap times?
VB: I think lap times will be quicker, I think it will be quicker. We are quite a lot quicker in the corners and apart from the two kilometre straight it is a lot of corners and that’s where you need the grip and downforce.
Q: (Jerome Pugmire – Associated Press) Valtteri, with regards to your future, you said there’s no rush. When do you think you will know, when do you want to know by?
VB: I don’t know when I will know. The timeline is quite flexible but like I said, there’s no rush really. For sure discussions will be opened soon, because as a driver, at some point, it’s always nice to know what you’re going to do next year but no more to say than that really. It’s still a bit early days for that and for sure I’m keen to have a long term relationship with Mercedes, that is my target, and that’s why every day I work hard and try to make the most out of every single situation and the race weekend.
Q: Valtteri, are you in discussion with other teams, just in case?
VB: No.
Q: (Livio Oricchio – GloboEsporte.com) On the same subject, if you were a team principal and you had a new driver who is in a top team for the first time and makes pole position and win races in six rounds of the championship, until now, would you keep the driver?
VB: Of course! Yeah.
Q: Would you re-sign yourself?
VB: Of course.
Q: (Ben Edwards – Channel 4) Valtteri and Romain, can you just give a bit more comment from both of you about driving this circuit, the challenge of driving this track and the sort of combination of types of corner, not just from a set-up point of view but from the driving point of view? And turn 15? We saw quite a lot of action in turn 15 last year. Is that still a critical corner here?
VB: So yeah, it is definitely a challenge here. It is one of those places like Monaco or Singapore that you just can’t afford any mistakes when you’re going so close to the walls, sometimes even slightly touching them, so that’s always a challenge and there’s nice excitement as a driver and it’s one of those places where if you put in a nice qualifying lap for example, it’s really satisfying and you need to take some risks, can’t lose focus at all. I think the high speed section, leading to the main straight, those corners, last year, with new tyres, low fuel, they were just about flat out but this year it will be easier so I think in qualifying for example, it’s not going to be a big challenge to make them flat out but in the race, high fuel, worn tyres, following other cars, it’s still a challenge over there.
RG: I think turn 15 is a tricky one from the nature of the corner, coming up the crest and then downhill and then it’s kind of a blind corner and the braking zone is not straight. It’s fairly tricky to find the right braking point and you’re in the corner and then you’ve got the off-camber feeling when the car’s on the edge and you go above that and you can lose the rear end. Turn 8, the tiny one, was surprisingly safe last year because I think it’s slower and when you get the line it’s a bit easier but with the wider cars this year you just need to be a bit careful because 20cms around there is a like a good 40 on normal corners.
Q: A lot of people were predicting incident and accident in last year’s Grand Prix here but that didn’t happen. Eighteen of the 22 cars finished. Are you guys going to take more risks this year?
VB: We were kind of lucky, you know, after seeing all the GP2 races, now F2, how many safety cars and virtual safety cars they had whereas we actually had none and there was not much action. I think it is a track that normally with this type of track things will happen so my guess is that we’re going to see a bit more of a mess than maybe before but who knows. We’re always taking risks and always calculating risks, how much you take and there’s no other from last year to this year that you...
RG: It depends how the race goes. Rosberg last year was far ahead and then Lewis was at the back having various issues and then there were many fights in the field. We’re human beings; after seeing all the GP2 races everyone I guess was like yeah, let’s take it 99 percent and not 101 and that’s why the race went very smoothly.
Q: (Simon Lazenby – Sky Sports) I know it was a long question, my last one Romain, but sorry to press you on it but can I just clear up with you what your relationship is with Ferrari right now and whether your people are talking to their people about your future?
RG: I’ve got an engine, a gearbox, suspensions so... I think it’s early days and we’re not even in July. Who knows what the F1 grid is going to be like next year. Valtteri is of course waiting on Mercedes, then there’s the Kimi case, what is he going to do? Everyone thinks he’s going to be out of Formula One since 2010 and here we are in 2017 and he’s 38 and he’s still here doing a decent job. So I don’t know. If there is an opportunity, if there is a seat, I believe I’m in a good position but it doesn’t necessarily mean anything.
Q: (Jerome Pugmire – Associated Press) Esteban, just before the Monaco Grand Prix you were speaking, you said you were confident you could get a podium fairly soon. Given the last race, how encouraged are you that this is just around the corner, the podium for you?
EO: Yeah, this is my target to be scoring a podium before the end of the season, that’s the goal I’ve set myself and that’s what I want to achieve and I’m pretty pleased with my progression since Melbourne. I’ve been feeling more and more comfortable with the car and just improving step by step and now I’m starting to feel really well and I think if we have a great car here why not, we can achieve it. I will definitely push for that so we will have to see where we are after practice but if it’s not here, I will keep pushing 100 percent to get it later.
WATCH: Drivers face the press in Azerbaijan
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Mass. pastor leaves the pulpit to learn music
DIANE BRONCACCIOThe Recorder
SHELBURNE FALLS, Mass. — A lifelong singer, the Rev. Paul Bombardier was driving to a music recital rehearsal about two years ago, "when I decided it was my turn," he says, of a revelation that would change his life. "All these years, I've told people to follow their dreams," he said, in explaining why he'll be leaving St. Joseph's Parish this summer to earn a master's degree in music. "I decided it was my turn to give it a try." Last month, Bombardier was among 220 students from at least 31 countries who were accepted to the conservatory program of the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge.
Bombardier, 58, has been pastor of St. Joseph's in Shelburne Falls, St. John's in Colrain and St. Christopher's in Charlemont, for almost four years. He will be leaving in August, taking a two-year leave of absence as a priest, while he lives as a college student and studies music.
Parish members of St. Joseph's have often heard "Father Paul" sing hymns during Mass. But his new venture will include singing opera and secular "art songs" from the early 19th century.
Bombardier says he's been singing for "well over 40 years" and has been playing recorder and a viola da gamba (a bowed, string instrument related to the guitar) since 1980.
But for most of his life, music has taken a back seat to other realities. Bombardier, who grew up in Holyoke, and who "hated talking in public" as a young teenager, according to one of his sermons, sang in both church and civic choirs.
When he went to college, he studied biology, then returned to school to earn his bachelor's and master's degrees in religious study from Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
"It was always a dream of mine to study music," he said, "but my voice didn't really settle in, until I was in my mid 20s, and got my proper singing register."
"Even as a senior in high school, I wanted to minor in (vocal) music. I've always kept my finger in music, but life intervened," he said.
Since 1999, he has been a student of the Five College Early Music Collegium, which performs early music concerts. The musicians include college students and faculty from the Five Colleges as well as community members.
He also started taking voice lessons about six years ago, he said.
To gain admission to the Longy school requires an audition, and Bombardier began learning his musical pieces last June, with the help of his voice teacher: One song was in Latin, one in German and one in Italian.
But the audition was "a cross between a nightmare and a train wreck," Bombardier says, because his accompanist didn't show up; so Bombardier had to sing with a harpsichordist he had never rehearsed with. But the student's harpsichord was in an unfamiliar pitch — so the first song was shaky, as Bombardier remembers it.
"It felt like I was accepted despite my worst efforts," he said. But he was able to adjust to the difference in later songs.
"Unlike an instrument, your singing voice is part biology, part human anatomy and part technique," he said. "What you got is what you got."
"Most of what I do is sacred music — a good chunk of early music songs are sacred music," he added.
The difference between singing hymns and singing ballads is "a difference of mindset, that ends up showing up in your voice," he said. Within the context of a Psalm, he said, "a respect for the text is going to inspire a reverent attitude, which is going to show up in your voice."
In contrast, when singing a song of lost love, "there's a longing that's going to be there," he said.
Bombardier said that learning early 19th century love songs by Franz Liszt, Francis Poulenc and Robert Schumann gave him "another area of my voice that I never explored. It allowed my voice to bloom out."
Bombardier is looking forward to learning opera music — something he's never done before — and "art songs," which are vocal compositions, that can include folk songs, poetry set to music or "song cycles" that tell a story.
"The biggest challenge — that really scares me — is just being a college student again, because I've been out of the classroom for 30 years," he said.
Bombardier said it's unlikely he'll return to the Shelburne Falls parish after college, because he will probably be reassigned somewhere else after such a long absence.
He is hoping to organize a farewell concert before he leaves. Also, Bombardier is happy he'll still be here when the new labyrinth, built on St. Joseph's grounds, is completed and dedicated this spring.
He said he is also pleased with a "prayer shawl ministry" he started in the church, in which parishioners have knitted and given away at least 70 shawls to people who are ill or who are unable to leave their homes. Besides music, Bombardier is a weaver and knitter, who also spins his own wool from fleece.
He said he'll miss the people and the natural beauty of Shelburne Falls. When asked what he's accomplished in his four years here, he said, "I think my biggest accomplishment is to just keep encouraging the generosity of spirit these people have."
When asked if the new degree will help him when he returns to ministry, the bearded priest shrugs.
"I'm really doing this just for me — because I've really wanted to do it. I figure, whatever happens, happens. I'm leaving it up to God, to either point or push me in the right direction."
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Rock 'n' Kids: A Pioneer in Kids Music & Movement
Jamie Puffpaff has an origin story that so many Fox Valley working moms can relate to.
In 1995, when Jamie was mother to a 1 and 4 year old, she decided to leave her cushy full-time job to start her own business in order to be more available to her kids while pursuing her passion for working in early childhood. Rock 'n' Kids was born.
What Is Rock 'n' Kids?
In 1995, oursourced classes and activities for kids were a novel concept, so Jamie's new venture, Rock 'n' Kids took off right way. Her company brings 30-40 minute music and movement classes for 1-5 year olds to park districts, preschools, childcare centers and conducts private events like birthday parties and corporate functions. They service 60-70 locations across the Chicagoland suburbs and strive to be the best at what they do. Here's a flyer they graciously shared with our readers:
A Stand Out Experience for Tots
While getting the word out in the beginning was fairly easy, today there are a lot more options for outsourced education for kids. Despite the vast amount of activities out there, Rock 'n' Kids has remained a staple in Fox Valley and throughout the suburbs by being committed to delivering the best experience for kids and providers.
"This is all we do, so we put all our efforts into making it high quality and great!" - Jamie Puffpaff
Here are 5 ways this fun program stands out:
1. Variety
Kids will likely never take the same class twice. This is because each Rock 'n' Kids session is based on an ever changing theme, which is not repeated for 4-5 years. For example, a theme could be "All Around Town" or "Taking a Trip to the Zoo." The variety ensures a unique experience every session.
2. Holistic Education
Children experience a wide spectrum of educational components in one single class, including music and rhythm, imagination, fine and gross motor skills, sensory play, socialization (ex. sharing) and academic learning (ex. colors, numbers).
3. Superior Instructors
Jamie has set a high standard when it comes to her staff. She takes the time to find highly committed, talented team members and then takes 3-6 months to fully train them before they teach independently. Because of this, their organization has a long standing reputation for delivering quality programs.
4. Structured Programs
The Rock 'n' Kids program is not free play, but it is fun. Classes take a highly structured teach-through-play approach that ensures maximum educational benefits. However, the kids are having such a great time, they aren't even aware they are learning!
5. Locally Owned & Operated
Jamie's company is not a franchise, she is the sole owner. She's a local resident, mom and now grandmother who still remains the heart and soul of the company. She pours her passion into the business and, given the longevity of the company, it shows.
How to Host a Class or Enroll Your Child
If you have a child that you would like to register into a Rock 'n' Kids class, you can view their current class schedule online. Registrations are done through the facility that is hosting the class.
If you are a daycare center, school, park district, community organization, corporation or private family that is interested in hosting a class at your facility or event, you can contact Rock 'n' Kids online, by email or by phone.
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Over 100 million Skylanders toys sold
Activision reveals new sales milestone for real-world toys sold in the United States since launch in 2011.
By Eddie Makuch on February 7, 2013 at 1:32PM PST
Over 100 million Skylanders toys have been sold across the United States, Activision announced at the Toy Fair 2013 this week (via Destructoid). In total, the franchise has generated over $500 million since launch in 2011.
The Skylanders series was created by Activision subsidiary Toys For Bob, which developed the original Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure and its sequel Skylanders Giants.
A third entry in the franchise, called Skylanders: Swap Force, is due out this fall from Vicarious Visions. As its name suggests, Swap Force will feature toys whose tops and bottoms are interchangeable.
Activision will have competition in the "toys to life" space this summer when Disney launches the first of its yearly Disney Infinity installments. Activision is unfazed by Disney's entry into the market, saying it is confident Skylanders will remain the top-selling game.
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Home Crust Ancient weakening of Earth’s crust explains unusual intraplate earthquakes
Ancient weakening of Earth’s crust explains unusual intraplate earthquakes
Distribution of intraplate earthquakes in central and eastern North America with respect to ancient faulting from the assembly of supercontinent Rodinia and the Grenville orogeny (red lines) and from the breakup of Rodinia and opening of the Iapetus Ocean (green lines). Credit: Thomas and Powell
New research reveals that mysterious pockets of earthquake activity in the middle of North America all have one thing in common: Earth’s crust in these zones underwent significant deformation hundreds of millions of years ago, creating weak areas that are more susceptible to earthquakes. These fracturing features could help explain why some regions in central and eastern North America are more seismically active than others.
Earthquakes typically happen along fault lines, like California’s San Andreas fault, where the edges of Earth’s tectonic plates scrape against each other, releasing enough energy to shake the ground. Some seismic activity occurs in the middle of tectonic plates, but these earthquakes are generally random, occur rarely and are poorly understood.
But a few spots within the North American tectonic plate – thousands of kilometers away from the plate’s boundaries – experience earthquake activity frequently.
Seismologists have found geological evidence of past earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 in some regions in the eastern U.S. and Canada. For example, from December 1811 to February 1812, three magnitude-7 earthquakes shook southeastern Missouri, knocking down trees, damaging homes and disrupting the Mississippi River current.
Seismologists don’t know why these pockets of earthquakes occur in the middle of tectonic plates, but a new study suggests they happen in places where Earth’s crust experienced ancient fracturing events on top of old, buried fault lines.
It is important to better understand these intraplate seismic zones since the earthquakes associated with them have the potential to deal significant damage, said Christine Powell, a seismologist at the University of Memphis Center for Earthquake Research and Information in Memphis, Tennessee and co-author of the new study accepted for publication in Tectonics, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
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While California’s infrastructure is built to withstand large tremors, construction in central and eastern North America typically does not account for strong earthquakes. If a magnitude 7 earthquake happened within the North American tectonic plate today, communities would sustain serious injuries and face multi-billion-dollar damages to property, Powell said.
“We have to understand as much as we possibly can about why the earthquakes are here,” she said. “All of that information can then be used to help public safety and building construction.”
Waking up ancient faults
Seismologists know that many intraplate seismic zones overlap with ancient fault lines. But only parts of old fault lines in central and eastern North America show frequent earthquake activity. Unlike California, where earthquakes occur along the entire San Andreas Fault line, central and eastern North America experience seismic hiccups on only specific segments of old faults. The rest of the inner-North American faults are seismically inactive.
In the new study, Powell and her co-author Bill Thomas, an emeritus professor of geology at the University of Kentucky and now at the Geological Survey of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, reviewed the most active seismic spots in eastern and central North America to determine what geologic features may be involved with intraplate earthquakes.
Thomas and Powell examined three places in particular: the Charlevoix Seismic Zone (CSZ) in southeastern Canada, the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (ETSZ), and the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) along the Mississippi River valley between southeastern Missouri and western Tennessee. They surveyed the known geological characteristics of the three regions and soon realized each zone had experienced significant fracturing compared to other areas along the old faults.
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The researchers reason that fracturing events from hundreds of millions of years ago have lowered the ability of Earth’s crust to withstand high levels of stress in these regions. This means that a weaker crust has a higher chance of breaking under the pressure of various geological forces, resulting in more seismic activity.
For example, roughly 357 million years ago, a large meteor hit the Charlevoix Seismic Zone, shattering rocks within the crust, likely creating the perfect conditions along the ancient fault to host future seismic activity, according to the researchers.
“You can look up and down the rest of those long faults and you don’t see the earthquake activity in other places. It’s just where that big meteorite smacked it,” Powell said.
An old fault line running through the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone is bent instead of straight, which created additional fracturing in the area as the North American Plate moved over time. The New Madrid Seismic Zone encompasses a segment of ancient fault lines where the two sides of the North American continent began to pull apart, but stopped short of making a significant break. The plates instead crunched back together, leaving the crust significantly faulted and fractured.
In each case, crustal deformation has weakened the crust along ancient fault lines, according to the researchers’ findings.
Past research has examined intraplate seismic zones individually, but no study has yet made an overall comprehensive attempt to explain all of them, Thomas said.
“This is the first [study] that actually answers the question: why do [intraplate earthquake zones] happen where they do,” Powell said.
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The researchers point out that there are other spots within eastern and central North America that may have concentrated crustal deformation but lack significant seismic activity. Therefore, they suspect that crustal deformation is necessary for creating intraplate seismic zones, but intraplate earthquakes occur only in places with the right present-day crustal forces.
“If the various forces acting on the crust are oriented in the right direction, those faults down there will be reactivated,” Powell said.
This story is republished courtesy of AGU Blogs (http://blogs.agu.org), a community of Earth and space science blogs, hosted by the American Geophysical Union. Read the original story here.
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ABC iView finally comes to Android
ABC's iView now available on selected Android smartphones and tablets
Ross Catanzariti (Good Gear Guide) on 18 December, 2013 10:20
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has finally made its catch up TV service, iView, available on Android smartphones and tablets, but the service is currently only compatible with selected devices.
The ABC iView app for Android.
ABC hopes to bring iView to Android by the end of the year
The network announced the iView for Android app yesterday, claiming the highly anticipated app has a "bold new design".
The iView Android app will initially be compatible with a selected range of smartphones and tablets running Android OS 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich and above.
ABC says the app will be rolled out to wider range of Android devices "following initial user feedback and quality assurance testing".
Current supported smartphones include the Samsung Galaxy S II, S III & S4, the Samsung Galaxy Note and Note II, the Nexus 4 and 5, the HTC One and the Sony Xperia Z.
Compatible Android tablets include the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and 10.1, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 and 10.1, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0, 8.0 and 10.1, the Nexus 7 2012 and Nexus 7 2013, the Nexus 10, and the Sony Xperia Tablet Z.
ABC's Controller TV Multiplatform, Arul Baskaran, said iView for Android has been the company's most requested service.
"ABC iview on Android has been the most requested service since the launch of ABC iview on iPad and iPhone."
"The demand is reflective of the explosive growth of the mobile internet. More than half of iView's record 19 million monthly plays are now occurring on tablets and phones."
ABC says the new iView design featured in the Android app will be rolled out to the company's website and iOS app in "early 2014."
The company says the new interface enables faster browsing through featured TV programs, and includes a new search function.
What do you think of ABC iView for Android? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
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Barry Loudermilk
Rep. Barry Loudermilk’s 2016 Report Card
Representative from Georgia's 11th District
These statistics cover Loudermilk’s record during the 114th Congress (Jan 6, 2015-Jan 3, 2017) and compare him to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Aug 24, 2017. The statistics were updated on Jan 20, 2017 and Aug 24, 2017 to improve how we counted enacted laws. Originally published on Jan 7, 2017.
A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Loudermilk’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.
Got the 2nd fewest cosponsors on their bills compared to Georgia Delegation
Loudermilk’s bills and resolutions had 58 cosponsors in the 114th Congress. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills »
Compare to all Georgia Delegation (7th percentile); House Freshmen (33rd percentile); House Republicans (14th percentile); All Representatives (14th percentile).
Got influential cosponsors the 11th most often compared to House Freshmen (tied with 1 other)
5 of Loudermilk’s bills and resolutions in the 114th Congress had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.
Those bills were: H.R. 1633: DHS Paid Administrative Leave Accountability ...; H.R. 1764: United States Chief Technology Officer ...; H.R. 4401: Amplifying Local Efforts to Root ...; H.R. 5049: NSF Major Research Facility Reform ...; H.R. 5636: National Institute of Standards and ...
Compare to all Georgia Delegation (57th percentile); House Freshmen (82nd percentile); House Republicans (73rd percentile); All Representatives (71st percentile).
Supported government transparency the 10th most often compared to House Republicans (tied with 5 others)
GovTrack looked at whether Loudermilk supported any of 40 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Loudermilk 4 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills.
Loudermilk sponsored H.R. 1764: United States Chief Technology Officer ...
Loudermilk cosponsored H.R. 1615: DHS FOIA Efficiency Act of ...
Compare to all Georgia Delegation (79th percentile); House Freshmen (83rd percentile); House Republicans (94th percentile); All Representatives (78th percentile).
Was 14th most absent in votes compared to House Freshmen (tied with 1 other)
Loudermilk missed 2.6% of votes (35 of 1,325 votes) in the 114th Congress. View Loudermilk’s Profile »
Compare to all Georgia Delegation (57th percentile); House Freshmen (77th percentile); All Representatives (54th percentile).
Joined bipartisan bills the 21st least often compared to All Representatives
Of the 194 bills that Loudermilk cosponsored, 5% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills »
Compare to all Georgia Delegation (14th percentile); House Freshmen (9th percentile); House Republicans (8th percentile); All Representatives (5th percentile).
Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 16th fewest bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 15 others)
In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 1 of Loudermilk’s 7 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in the 114th Congress.
Compare to all Georgia Delegation (14th percentile); House Freshmen (11th percentile); House Republicans (6th percentile); All Representatives (5th percentile).
Got their bills out of committee the 40th most often compared to All Representatives (tied with 9 others)
Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Loudermilk introduced 5 bills in the 114th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.
Those bills were: H.R. 1633: DHS Paid Administrative Leave Accountability ...; H.R. 3371: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park ...; H.R. 4401: Amplifying Local Efforts to Root ...; H.R. 5049: NSF Major Research Facility Reform ...; H.R. 5636: National Institute of Standards and ...
Compare to all Georgia Delegation (79th percentile); House Freshmen (88th percentile); House Republicans (81st percentile); All Representatives (89th percentile).
Introduced the 51st fewest bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 20 others)
Loudermilk introduced 7 bills and resolutions in the 114th Congress. View Bills »
Compare to all Georgia Delegation (21st percentile); House Freshmen (15th percentile); House Republicans (13th percentile); All Representatives (11th percentile).
Cosponsored the 101st fewest bills compared to All Representatives
Loudermilk cosponsored 194 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills »
Compare to all Georgia Delegation (29th percentile); House Freshmen (35th percentile); House Republicans (34th percentile); All Representatives (23rd percentile).
Loudermilk introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 114th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law.
Compare to all Georgia Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).
The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill.
The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 0 of Loudermilk’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the Senate. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.
Loudermilk held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Loudermilk’s Profile »
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The President of the United States Doesn't Seem to Understand What a War Crime Is
Donald Trump again shows that he has no interest in the welfare of people who are not white.
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Most of the words uttered by the president on a day-to-day basis, offensive though they may be, are uninteresting, in the sense that they add little context to our understanding of what Donald Trump is: an insecure Manhattan socialite who learned everything about being a leader from watching cocktail party acquaintances play one on television, and who has otherwise absorbed no new information about the world since 1983.
Nestled delicately into a Washington Post report on discord within the White House over the continued presence of American military forces in the Middle East, though, is the rare moment in which we are afforded meaningful insight into how Trump's brain actually works. On the his first day in office, the Post says, he was dismayed to learn that under President Obama, the CIA had begun winding down its involvement in military operations targeting enemy combatants. This abdication, in his view, made little sense.
Later, when the agency’s head of drone operations explained that the CIA had developed special munitions to limit civilian casualties, the president seemed unimpressed. Watching a previously recorded strike in which the agency held off on firing until the target had wandered away from a house with his family inside, Trump asked, “Why did you wait?” one participant in the meeting recalled.
The suggestion that the United States should purposefully commit war crimes as a matter of course is not new. When asked to outline his foreign policy agenda on Fox & Friends in December 2015, Trump did everything but don a ten-gallon hat and fire an antique pistol into the air. "The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families," the then-candidate told his soon-to-be informal advisors, complaining that the war against ISIS was a "politically correct" one. "When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families." Ainsley Earhart, who had attempted to cut off her guest several times by then, quickly pivoted to questions about illegal immigration.
This position is indefensible and amoral, but at the time he offered it, his candidacy was still presumed to be a guerrilla marketing campaign for a Trump-branded, subscription-based streaming news service to be launched in the aftermath of his eventual primary loss to a Respectable Republican or, at worst, his general election shellacking at the hands of Hillary Clinton. Trump was a cartoon villain reading dutifully from the script of a no-budget, straight-to-Redbox action flick. Since so few people would pay to see the finished product, the substance of even his most bombastic lines seemed to be of little consequence.
Twenty-eight months and one election later, this stilted movie dialogue has morphed into the expressed policy preference of the President of the United States. It is not only that Trump goes on television and argues for what would be a flagrant breach of international law in order to earn plaudits from Islamophobic Twitter. It is that even behind the scenes, he genuinely does not understand why adherence to the Geneva Conventions matters for a sovereign nation, or why he should deign to respect the human dignity of people who are not white. The most powerful man in the world has no qualms about the commission of war crimes, since he never bothered to learn of their existence in the first place.
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Gravesend Reporter
Witnessing parliamentary history
PUBLISHED: 11:41 21 May 2009 | UPDATED: 10:43 23 August 2010
Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin walks in a procession during the State Opening of Parliament in the Member's Lobby of the Palace of Westminster in London, on December 3, 2008. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the British government's legislative programme for the next year Wednesday, with the emphasis likely to be on bolstering the economy against further mayhem. Ministers are under heavy pressure to introduce measures which would force Britain's banks -- some of which are now part state-owned -- to do more to help businesses weather the financial storm. AFP PHOTO/Matt Dunham/WPA POOL (Photo credit should read MATT DUNHAM/AFP/Getty Images)
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ARRIVING at Westminster, Parliament Square is crammed with hundreds of angry protesters calling for politicians to come to the aid of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, writes Jason Goodyer. But no matter how loud they shout the date will be written large in the a
ARRIVING at Westminster, Parliament Square is crammed with hundreds of angry protesters calling for politicians to come to the aid of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, writes Jason Goodyer.
But no matter how loud they shout the date will be written large in the annals of history for a different reason for it was the day the Speaker of the House of Commons resigned.
On Tuesday, for the first time since Sir John Trevor was forced out after being found guilty of accepting a bribe in 1695, Michael Martin stepped down from his post as the Speaker. He has been under pressure for more than 12 months after fighting in court to keep MPs' expenses claims secret. Two weeks ago, when the details were released by the Daily Telegraph, he angered MPs further by apparently being more concerned with finding out how they were leaked than with the claims themselves.
In the moments before the afternoon parliamentary session was opened a mix of sightseers, passers-by and members of the press gathered in the Central Lobby to watch Martin make his final procession from the Palace of Westminster to the Commons. Flanked by his staff and dressed in his black ceremonial robes he looked flustered as he stepped deliberately behind the Sergeant at Arms and into the chambers.
There was an air of tension as he delivered his brief speech to the House followed by the cold, hard realisation that the expenses scandal had just claimed its most high profile scalp.
"Since I came to this House 30 years ago, I have always felt that the House is at its best when it is united," he said.
"In order that unity can be maintained, I have decided that I will relinquish the office of Speaker on Sunday June 21. This will allow the House to proceed to elect a new Speaker on Monday June 22.
"That is all I have to say on this matter."
With that the session resumed and save for the odd member who approached Martin to shake his hand as they left it was business as usual.
But there can be no doubt the expenses scandal has rocked British politics to its core. Elsewhere among the wood-panelled corridors of parliament, under the watchful eyes of the Prime Ministers from days gone by immortalised in paintings and sculptures, there is an undeniable tension hanging in the air. Even as a visitor you can feel it. Whether strolling through Westminster Hall past the tourists and schoolchildren to the sound of teachers' voices echoing off the flagstone floor or soft-footing across the homely Axminster on route to discuss the issues of the day in the committee rooms, members seem a little jumpy and perhaps the famous British stiff upper lip is starting to quiver.
Speaking on the terrace of the Commons cafeteria Dr Howard Stoate, MP for Dartford, said: "I think everyone is really anxious about this. I don't think we realised just how angry the public are.
"There's a huge amount of public anger about the way the expenses system has been managed. The message has got through loud and clear.
"This is the biggest crisis for probably 100 years. It's a major constitutional crisis and it has got to be fixed."
The MP says he has even noticed a change in mood on the street as public trust in politicians is at an all-time low, adding: "There definitely is a reaction on the doorstep. There's undoubtedly a degree of hostility.
"We are all deeply concerned to make sure we put things right so that confidence in politics can be restored."
With an independent review headed by sleaze watchdog Sir Christopher Kelly underway and the complete details of the claims to be released in July it is uncertain how long it will take for the House to recover.
But one thing is clear - an awful lot of damage has already been done.
There is an air of deep concern amongst those who have led our country for years and years.
The timid nature the MPs stroll around the corridors, far removed from the usual heckling of Question Time, you can sense that although Michael Martin is one of the first to go he is almost certainly not going to be the last.
jason.goodyer@archant.co.uk
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IU professor says the university can’t fire him. He’s right. Here’s why.
November 26, 2019 by Arika Herron
The words “Fire Eric Rasmusen” were painted on an Indiana University bridge, but experts say the controversial professor’s job is likely safe.
Rasmusen, a tenured professor of business economics and public policy at the IU Kelley School of Business, came under fire recently for social media posts denigrating women, people of color and gay men.
IU officials said they’ve been flooded with demands for Rasmusen’s dismissal after one of his tweets, suggesting men were more intelligent than women and questioning the role of women in academia, went viral.
Rasmusen defended his views in a lengthy rebuttal posted to his personal website and said that if the university did try and fire him, "they'd lose in court."
Provost Lauren Robel said in a letter posted to the IU website that Rasmusen would not be fired "for his posts as a private citizen, as vile and stupid as they are, because the First Amendment of the United States Constitution forbids us to do so."
That’s exactly right, said Will Creeley, senior vice president of legal and public policy at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. FIRE is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that defends the rights of students and faculty members at America’s colleges and universities.
Creeley said “faculty outrage” cases are fairly common on college campuses but that there is clear legal precedent protecting the free speech rights of government employees – including professors at public universities.
Recent instances include a Rutgers University professor who caused an uproar after he wrote on Facebook that he hated white people and was resigning from the white race due to frustrations with gentrification in his Harlem neighborhood and a professor at California State University, Fresno who called Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” and war criminal and criticized mourners after the First Lady’s death.
Both kept their jobs and their universities issued statements citing the professors’ First Amendment rights.
“It can seem counter-intuitive for those who work for private employers,” Creeley said, “but over the last five decades the Supreme Court has recognized that when you work for the government, you don’t completely lose your First Amendment right to express yourself over matters of public concern.”
While Rasmusen does have tenure, IU officials have said it's his First Amendment right, and not his tenure, that is at issue here.
"While the tenure matter keeps coming up, it’s actually not something that keeps us from firing anyone," said Chuck Carney, a university spokesperson. "Tenured faculty can be fired. This is purely a protected speech matter, not a tenure matter.”
According to IU’s faculty tenure policy, the program exists to help the university meet its responsibility to “attract and retain a faculty of outstanding quality.”
“To that end the University safeguards academic freedom and economic security by its policy of faculty tenure,” the policy states.
The policy does lay out the reasons for which a tenured faculty member can be dismissed: “incompetence, serious personal or professional misconduct or extraordinary financial exigencies of the school.”
This is fairly standard practice at colleges and universities across the country, said Michael Poliakoff, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. Professors are usually hired in on a tenure-track contract and a decision made after a probationary period that’s usually six years, as is the case at IU.
“If that person has met all the criteria set by the institution, which typically include teaching, research and service, that person will be given an indefinite appointment that can only be terminated for very clear cause,” Poliakoff said.
At its best, he said, tenure gives faculty the security to pursue ambitious projects and take academic risks.
Too often, institutions fail to regularly check in with tenured faculty, Poliokoff said, to ensure they’re continuing to meet those expectations. ACTA advocates for institutions to do “post-tenure” performance reviews and most, including IU, have adopted some sort of post-tenure review policy.
There are some schools that don’t offer tenure and have moved toward long-term contracts, instead. Poliakoff said those institutions tend be at a competitive disadvantage, though, when it comes to attracting faculty.
Tenure is designed, at least in part Poliakoff said, to protect people with views on the margins who otherwise might be pushed out by their peers with differing, more mainstream opinions.
He said that IU did the right thing in Rasmusen’s case, defending the professor’s right to free speech while condemning what he said.
"By protecting the First Amendment rights of an individual,” he said, “we don’t give up our own.”
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The danger ignorance of history poses to the future of a free society
Communities Digital News
April 22, 2018 by Allan C. Brownfeld
WASHINGTON: An April study reveals that 41 percent of those asked could not identify Auschwitz as a Nazi concentration or extermination camp. The ignorance of history in high schools, colleges and universities is dangerous to the future of a free society.
The purpose of the camps was the extermination of Jews, Poles, homosexuals, and gypsies.
That education is ignoring history is to ignore that during the Holocaust millions were murdered by the Nazi regime. Including:
Jews: up to 6 million
Soviet civilians: around 7 million (including 1.3 Soviet Jewish civilians, who are included in the 6 million figure for Jews)
Soviet prisoners of war: around 3 million (including about 50,000 Jewish soldiers)
Non-Jewish Polish civilians: around 1.8 million (including between 50,000 and 100,000 members of the Polish elites)
Serb civilians (on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina): 312,000
People with disabilities living in institutions: up to 250,000
Roma (Gypsies): 196,000–220,000
Jehovah’s Witnesses: around 1,900
Repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials: at least 70,000
German political opponents and resistance activists in Axis-occupied territory: undetermined
Homosexuals: hundreds, possibly thousands (possibly also counted in part under the 70,000 repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials noted above)
Millenials are dangerously ignorant of history
Among millennials, it was even worse: 66 percent could not identify Auschwitz. The survey found that 11 percent of American adults had not heard of the Holocaust. Furthermore, 22 percent of millennials are ignorant of the event.
It is not only the history of World War ll which Americans understand only vaguely. The knowledge of all American history has become a wasteland. The reason is that we are no longer teaching it.
‘Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.’ – writer and philosopher George Santayana
The failure of a history curriculum in schools
A recent survey attempting to gauge knowledge of U.S. history produced some discouraging results:
*More Americans could identify Michael Jackson as the composer of “Beat It” and “Billie Jean” than could identify the Bill of Rights as a body of amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
More than 50% of respondents attributed the quote, “From each according to his ability to each according to his needs,” to either Thomas Paine, George Washington or Barack Obama. The quote is from Karl Marx, author of “The Communist Manifesto.”
More than a third did not know the century in which the American Revolution took place. Half of the respondents believed the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation or the War of 1812 were before the American Revolution.
More than half misidentify the system of government established in the Constitution as a direct democracy, rather than a republic. However, this is a question that immigrants qualifying for U.S. citizenship must correctly answer.
A 2014 report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that an abysmal 18 percent of American high school kids were proficient in US history. When colleges such as Stanford decline to require Western Civilization classes or high schools propose changing their curriculum so that history is taught only from 1877 onward (this happened in North Carolina), it’s merely a blip in our news cycle.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) found that only 23 undergraduate history programs at the U.S. News and World Report’s top 25 national universities, top 25 public institutions and top 25 liberal arts colleges, require a single U.S. history class. Even students who major in history take not one single course of U.S. history or government at the overwhelming majority of America’s most prestigious institutions.
College graduates lacking a basic US and World history education
In 2012, 2014 and 2015 ACTA commissioned the research firm GfK to survey college graduates’ knowledge of American history. It found the same dispiriting results each time:
*Less than 20% could accurately identify—in a multiple choice survey—the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. *
Only 42% placed the Battle of the Bulge in the history of World War ll.
*One-third of college graduates were unaware that FDR introduced the New Deal.
*Nearly half did not know that Teddy Roosevelt played a major role in the construction of the Panama Canal.
*Over one-third could not place the American Civil War in the correct 20-year time-frame.
*Nearly half could not identify correctly the term lengths of U.S. senators and representatives.
When ACTA commissioned a Roper survey of seniors at the “Top 50” colleges in the U.S. in the U.S. News and World Report rankings:
Only 29% could identify, in a multiple choice survey, the definition of “Reconstruction.”
Little more than half could identify the purpose of The Federalist Papers.
Only 23% could name James Madison as the Father of the Constitution.
Only 22% could match the phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people” with the Gettysburg Address.
The cost of forgetting history education is at the cost of our individual freedoms
The lack of knowledge of our history, and of the philosophy of individual freedom is apparent. Just look at the troubling way that today’s students view fundamental aspects of our nation’s structure of law and government.
A 2016 Gallup poll shows that:
27% of college students supported “restricting the expression of political views that upset or offend certain groups.”
Another 49% believed it’s right to prevent reporters from covering protests held on college campuses if they believe the reporters will be “unfair.”
Clearly, those who do not know our history are much more likely to view our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms with indifference. It is for this reason that free speech is under attack at so many of our colleges and universities.
Forgetting history is forgetting those that fought for America’s freedom and liberty
The distinguished American historian David McCullough, author of such award-winning books as “Truman,” “John Adams,” and “1776,” laments the decline in the teaching of our history:
“We are all part of a larger stream of events, past, present, and future. We are the beneficiaries of those who went before us, who built the cathedrals, who braved the unknown, who gave us their time and service, and who kept faith in the possibilities of the mind and the human spirit.”
McCullough, now in his mid-eighties, notes:
“I know how much these young people, even at the most esteemed institutions of higher learning, don’t know. History is often taught in categories, women’s history, African-American history, environmental history, so that many of the students have no sense of chronology. They have no idea of what followed what. Many contemporary textbooks are so politically correct to be comic. Very minor characters that are currently fashionable are given considerable space, whereas people of major consequence farther back are given very little space or none at all. History gives us a sense of proportion. It is an antidote to a lot of unfortunately human trends, like self-importance and self-pity. I think that in some ways I knew more American history when I finished grade school than many college students know today. And that’s not their fault, that’s our fault.”
American high schools, colleges, and universities big fail
American high schools, colleges, and universities do our students, and our country, a disservice by not transmitting our history, culture and values to the next generation. Unless those who understand the very fragile nature of our civilization and the uniqueness of the tradition upon which free institutions are based, the rise in defense of that culture, it may well be swept away.
If this takes place, all of us will be the losers. Not least the various groups in whose name such an assault on our culture has been launched.
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Missing In ActionDecember 5, 2019
It doesn't sound like Jordan Spieth is going to be watching much of the Presidents Cup
Alex Myers
Chung Sung-Jun
This year's Hero World Challenge is doubling as a team-building experience for most of the American golfers in the field. But while Jordan Spieth hasn't let that fact spoil his week yet, he acknowledged he's going to be feeling a bit down once the big charter flight heads Down Under without him.
"No, I don't really feel that because they haven't left. I'm sure next week will be tough for me at home," Spieth said after Thursday's second round in the Bahamas. "I'll try and honestly just get away while the tournament's going on because you never want to miss those events when you've kind of been a part of them for a number of years. But this week, that hasn't hit me at all."
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Aside from not being in the matches and not playing Royal Melbourne, Spieth said he'll also miss the intra-squad chatter.
“I’m probably out of a lot of group texts,” Spieth said. “All those guys in Florida play all the time together, so I don’t even know — it might all be the same group text. But it sucks because there was always good banter on those and I always liked the lead-in and the playing practice rounds together, preparing to be a team representing your country. It’s tough.”
“When it’s being played without being there, that’s when I’ll probably be like, man, I took it for granted,” he added.
Spieth had played on the previous six U.S. teams, beginning with the 2013 Presidents Cup. But after going winless for a second consecutive season, Spieth failed to qualify for the biennial event on points and was passed over when Tiger Woods made his four—and ultimately, five with Brooks Koepka's knee injury—captain's picks.
Considering Spieth's incredible early-career résumé and his competitive drive, it's no surprise to hear him sound so sad about not competing with the U.S. squad at Royal Melbourne. But his comments were a lot different from those of Phil Mickelson, who will miss his first team competition in more than a quarter century.
“I’ve always thought this would be one of the most exciting events to watch,” Mickelson recently told Golf Digest's Dave Shedloski. “No, I’m excited. I’m pulling for the guys. I want to see us get another win.”
Spieth will undoubtedly be "pulling for the guys" as well, but it certainly doesn't sound like he'll be glued to his TV watching.
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For now, Spieth is looking to end 2019 on a high note. And despite his Presidents Cup comments—credit to him for such candid answers, by the way—he was upbeat about his game for the most part following a second-round 70.
"I'm actually really confident about what 2020 holds for me," Spieth said. "I feel things starting to get on the right track, it's just timing stuff and again, some visuals. But over the ball, I'm seeing a lot—it's not really relating into necessarily the scores yesterday. I had like two bad drives. I drove the ball really well the whole day, but that kind of stuff I'll fine tune and it will certainly get better as I hit more shots."
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Climate change: Too many people?
Simon Butler
Last week, Green Left Weekly published an article arguing that population reduction schemes provide no answers to the threat of climate change.
Population-based arguments wrongly treat population levels as the cause, rather than an effect, of an unsustainable economic system. This means they tend to divert attention away from pushing for the real changes urgently needed, the article insisted.
Campaigning for such measures as the rapid introduction of renewable energy and the phasing-out of fossil fuels, along with a shift to sustainable agricultural methods, should instead be the highest priority of the environmental movement.
Strategies to reduce human population also end up blaming some of the world's poorest people for the looming climate crisis, when they are the people least responsible. Instead, it is the powerful, vested interests that profit most from the fossil-fuel economy who pose the real threat to the planet. They must be confronted.
A section of those who accept the idea of population reduction on environmental grounds would protest that their own ideas aren't designed to substitute for the introduction of renewable energy, but to complement it.
Others would be indignant at the suggestion that their views have anything in common with the overt racism expressed by the likes of prominent US population theorist Garrett Hardin.
Hardin (himself a father of four) argued against providing food and medical aid to countries in the Third World facing famine. Such humanitarian aid only encourage more babies to survive, driving up "overpopulation" and resulting, he said, in further environmental destruction.
Population theories still retain their appeal to people who are genuinely worried about the threat of global warming, are concerned with enduring poverty in the global South and would reject Hardin's callous conclusions.
The rapid world population increase over the past two centuries appears to offer a plausible explanation of how the world got itself into ecological distress — reducing world population seems like a plausible solution.
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is an example of an environmental group that couches its population reduction arguments in the framework of a professed humanitarian response to the perils of climate change.
A "key document" published in 2007 by SPA and available on its website predicts a depressingly dire future for humanity. According to SPA: "Without a planned humane contraction, this century will see social chaos and human suffering on an unprecedented scale." If population reduction schemes are not implemented, they warn, then population reduction will be inflicted on us anyway — in the form of famine, war and disease.
SPA supports the introduction of renewable energy, believes foreign aid should be increased, opposes immigration selection on racial grounds and argues wasteful and excessive consumption in the big polluting countries in the First World must be reduced.
But they contend that the environmental benefits of these measures will not be enough. Any gains, SPA asserts, will be wiped out by increased human consumption unless a planned world population reduction occurs as well.
SPA concludes the "most important single action … governments should take is to begin at once to implement humane strategies to reduce population".
But SPA's "humane" position still fails to provide either an effective, or a truly humane, strategy to avert the consequences of climate change for a number of reasons.
There is no factual basis to the SPA's claim that a shift to renewable energy could be simply negated by population increases. Clearly, in a zero-emissions or low-emissions economy, population levels will impact on the environment in a very different, more sustainable way. SPA simply does not take this into account.
Furthermore, the argument still serves to divert attention away from the genuine, urgent need for widespread renewable energy by insisting population reduction schemes should take number one priority.
This is dangerous because it dovetails with the message coming from the advocates of "business as usual" policies who imply, against the evidence, that renewable technology is not advanced enough to replace fossil fuels today.
SPA recommends a global average of one child per family as part of its strategy for a sustainable world. Yet they fail to examine the case of China, which has enforced a one-child policy on its population for three decades.
There are many problems with this far-from-humane policy. But if assessed solely on sustainable climate outcomes then China's population reduction scheme can only be considered to be a spectacular failure.
To sustain their emphasis on population control, SPA has to downplay the inconvenient truth that the world's rate of population growth is actually declining, not blowing out of control. The growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions, however, is expanding dangerously today.
While there is no direct link between population increase and greenhouse gas emissions there is a clear and obvious link between expanding fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas increases.
In common with other populationist arguments, SPA fails to tackle the question of political power in society. That's why SPA's "humane" argument is couched largely in terms of containing, or mitigating, the apparently inevitable effects of environmental destruction.
There's little in SPA's position that gives hope that the climate justice movement can actually win the political battle for social justice and a safe climate in time. Population control measures assume the absolute worst case scenario from the outset — a future world so harsh and so polluted they hold it will become more "humane" to stop people in the global South from being born at all!
There is a kernel of truth in this apocalyptic scenario. Left unchecked, human-induced climate change is a serious threat to life on the planet. But the challenge this poses, however, is to fight for an alternative model of development based on meeting the needs of people and the planet, before it is too late.
Part of the problem is that groups such as SPA tend to see the people of the global South as passive victims of climate change — not as potential agents of sustainable change.
Environmental movements in the Third World are active, growing and involving far greater numbers than the movements in the First World. Millions are fighting for a sustainable world today, so their children and grandchildren can have hope for a decent life in the future.
As Walden Bello, executive director of Focus on the Global South, has pointed out: "The challenge facing activists in the global North and global South is to discover or bring about those circumstances that will trigger the formation of a global mass movement that will decisively confront the most crucial challenge of our times."
Population control theories all relegate the billions of people in the global South to being just a part of the problem. But this outlook is radically false. They are, in fact, what Bello calls "the pivotal agent in the fight against global warming".
The populations of the global South are not responsible for climate change. Rather, they are an essential component of a safe climate solution. Our strategy should be to join up with them in this fight for the future — not draw up plans to reduce their numbers.
Green Left Weekly provides an important source of news and analysis, often straight from those who are at the forefront of grassroots activism, which makes this newspaper a unique resource.
As a historian of transnational activist movements, I also find that Green Left's archive richly documents, and continues to remind us of, the decades of campaigns for social change in Australia and elsewhere.
Dr Vannessa Hearman
Historian, and lecturer in Indonesian Studies at Charles Darwin University
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City of Cape Town ordered to buy land for Marikana residents
30 August 2017 By Ashleigh Furlong
Court ruling ensures that 60,000 people will not be evicted from their homes
The Western Cape High Court ruling ensures that some 60,000 residents of the Marikana informal settlement in Cape Town will not be evicted. Photo: Masixole Feni
30 August 2017 - By Ashleigh Furlong
The City of Cape Town has been ordered to negotiate with the owners to purchase the land on which the Marikana informal settlement is located. Judge Chantal Fortuin handed down this landmark judgment in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday, ensuring that about 60,000 people will not be evicted from their homes in Philippi East.
The City has between one and two months to negotiate with the various owners of the land and needs to report back to the court immediately after this.
Fortuin dismissed all the eviction applications against the residents of Marikana. She said that in deciding this matter she was “faced with a historical, social and economic situation which cannot be ignored”.
“The occupiers moved to these properties after being evicted from various areas where they lived under desperate conditions. Unlike other people from Cape Town, these occupiers did not, at the time, and at present, have the luxury of choosing where to settle with their families. They settled on these properties out of desperation,” she stated.
In her judgment, Fortuin also said that the City, and national and provincial ministers of housing had infringed on the landowners’ constitutional right to property. In addition, the City, and the national and provincial ministers of housing had also infringed on the occupiers’ rights to housing, by failing to provide land.
A number of people own various portions of the land that has come to be known as Marikana, but all the owners had asked for the state to purchase the land from them. Most of the Marikana residents, who were represented by the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI), wanted the land to be purchased by the City, or expropriated if an agreement on purchasing couldn’t be reached. None of the owners favoured expropriation.
In her judgment, Fortuin said it was undisputed that the City could not provide alternative accommodation for the occupiers. But, she said, she agreed with the occupiers “that none of the state respondents have given an acceptable reason why, instead of moving such a large number of people, they cannot simply acquire the land the people are currently occupying”.
The court has to perform a “balancing act”, she said, in ensuring that the occupiers’ rights to housing are enforced without encroaching on the rights of the owners to property, or by overstepping the boundaries of the doctrine of separation of powers.
The judgment differed slightly for each of the owners of the land. Fortuin said that one owner, Iris Fischer, could not be treated the same way as the other owners. She had not acquired the property for commercial reasons and “is an elderly woman who is bearing the responsibility of the state by providing land” to the occupiers.
In the case of Fischer, Fortuin ordered that if the City and Fischer cannot reach an agreement on the sale of the land in a month, they must return to court. Here, they must detail their negotiations, in particular, why the value of the property was not determined on the basis of the property being vacant land “thereby disregarding the informal settlement”.
In the case of the owners of the rest of the land, if they cannot reach an agreement with the City within two months, they must report back to the court explaining whether expropriation of the properties was considered, and if not, why not.
In the case of all the owners, if the City is unable to afford to purchase the land, the national and/or provincial ministers of housing have been ordered to provide the funds to do so.
The costs of the applications are to be paid by the City and the national and provincial housing ministers.
More about Marikana Philippi East court case
Does Marikana really have 60,000 people? 01 September 2017
Life in Cape Town’s most controversial informal settlement 17 February 2017
Marikana: Judge must rule whether to compel state to buy, compensate or evict 15 February 2017
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The Astana peace process represents the most important initiative to date to bring an end to this horrific conflict. Russia, Turkey and Iran have all played significant roles in trying to bring peace to this war-torn land. All three nations have made compromises to bring peace to the region and come to common ground in order to end this conflict.
For example, President Putin has made a lot of efforts to bring security to the region, which turned into a hotbed of conflict and terrorism. Having seen Russia subjected to fragmentation in the early 1990's following the Cold War as well as having experienced significant economic dislocation, President Putin managed to find smart ways to connect with the leaders of the Middle East and even President Trump of the United States. As per many Middle East analysts and journalists, President Putin is considered to be the winner of the Syrian war.
In terms of Russia's foreign relations, President Putin could well be regarded as a leader who uses strategic factors in the best way possible. He uses the right sources at the right time with the right partners. Concerning Turkey, even though their relations hit rock-bottom due to the downing of a jet at the end of 2015, they are now becoming strategic partners as signatories to end the conflict in Syria. Not long ago, they signed giant energy deals such as Turkish Stream, which has disturbed the Western powers. Turkey has also agreed to purchase the S-400 defense missile system from Russia. These two states, along with Iran, are working together to find bring an end to the war in Syria. President Putin's appearance with Assad on TV the night before the Sochi Summit is further proof of his being one of the major players to stop the conflict. He held phone conversations with President Trump, King Salman and Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu to inform them about recent developments in Syria and the outcome of the Sochi Summit.
Concurrently, President Putin has re-established relations with Egypt by reaching a preliminary agreement to authorize Russian military aircraft to use both its airspace and bases. This would provide Russia its deepest presence in Egypt since 1973 if both states complete this deal. With reference to Saudi Arabia, even though Russia was at odds with the Saudis during the Cold War era, they have signed 15 cooperation contracts in terms of oil, military and space exploration; the Saudis even stated they would purchase the Russian S-400 defense system during King Salman's visit to President Putin, which was the first official visit of Saudi monarch to Moscow. To indicate the significance of this new relationship, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, interpreted this visit by stating that Saudi-Russian relations "reached a new qualitative level".
In terms of the outcomes of the Sochi Summit, the three participant countries determined priorities for further cooperation on Syria. President Putin stated the following in the Sochi Summit regarding the future of Syria: "The Syrian people will have to determine their own future and agree on the principles of their own statehood. It is obvious that the process of reform will not be easy and will require compromises and concessions from all participants, including of course the government of Syria." The nexus also made an agreement for a Syrian national dialogue congress to be held in December in Russia, intended to help establish a new constitution for Syria and for new presidential elections to take place in which Assad is also included.
However, there is one red line for Turkey in this agreement and that is the Syrian national dialogue congress must not include the PYD terrorist group at the negotiating table. Even the possibility of the PYD's participation in the peace talks, the PYD being a dark mafia-like organization which has taken countless lives in the Middle East for 40 years, is extremely dangerous in terms of the integrity of Syria and the protection of the different ethnicities living in Syria. The PYD's efforts to legitimize itself as the so-called representative of the Kurds, simply in order to continue terrorizing the Syrian people, must not be allowed in any way, shape or form. A terrorist organization cannot be the representative of any people, nor can it be allowed to hide behind its so-called veil of legitimacy.
It should be noted that the PYD does not represent the Kurds. On the contrary, it is a bloody terrorist organization that brutally oppresses the Kurdish people and destroys any Kurd who doesn't agree with their views, even those that bring up an opposing point of view within the organization. They caused great suffering for the Kurds living in the region, killing thousands of religious Kurdish people; thousands more have taken shelter in neighboring countries to escape the persecution of the PYD. The PYD was only able to establish a canton in the northern part of Syria, which predominantly consists of Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen population, through armed oppression. Since the PYD desires to establish a communist state in Syria, it is exerting pressure on the local Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen populations. Just as how bloody terrorist organizations such as ISIS and Al-Nusra are not invited to the negotiations, the terrorist organization PKK's Syrian extension, the PYD must also not be invited to the talks as well.
Via the Astana talks and the Sochi Summit, we once more realize how forming a strategic alliance is significant to end bloodshed in the region. It is extremely important to act in unity and take bold and wise steps in foreign policy for the security of this region. Even though the war in Syria is about to end, the war-torn country will not be able to go back to how it was overnight. A new transitional government elected by its own people should be established rapidly. It is vital for Russia, Turkey and Iran to participate in the reconstruction process. Turkey can act as a pioneer due to its success in the construction sector since it is vitally important to build residences, hospitals and schools for the refugees to be able to return their homeland. Above and beyond that, in order for the Syrians who have experienced war and lost their family members to be able to return to a normal life, there should be intense ideological or moral training programs suitable for people from all strata of society. A great responsibility falls on the shoulders of this alliance to protect the region so that it does not experience a similar destruction again. Everyone should keep in mind that peace can be attained only by working together.
Adnan Oktar's piece in Pravda (Russia):
http://www.pravdareport.com/hotspots/conflicts/04-12-2017/139283-war_syria-0/
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Philip A. S. Franklin, Chairman, Shipping Control Committee to Henry H. Raymond, Commissioner, Shipping Control Committee, 6/1/1918
Philip A. S. Franklin, Chairman, Shipping Control Committee to Henry H. Raymond, Commissioner, Shipping Control Committee
Chronological Copy. File No. <42/2/4>
Cablegram Received June <1, 1918.> 23101 RES
Origin Opnav Washington Ser. No. 6740
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6740. Following for H. H. Raymond Shipping Control Committee from Franklyn. Nothing new here<. R>elying upon your optimistic view regarding ability of French Ports to turn steamers in 12 days we are continuing to load a large volume of traffic but we are rather alarmed at number of steamers now French ports and poor despatching they are receiving. Kindly develope whether something cannot be done to improve despatching as our information majority steamers delayed number of days each port before reaching discharge berth which wasteful of tonnage particularly considering serious demand for tonnage in other directions. Inform of your future movements. 12001. 6740.
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Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 517B.
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander-in-Chief, Southern Ireland, 6/1/1918
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Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 6/3/1918
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Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander, Naval Forces, Southern Ireland, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/4/1918
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Diary of Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, Little, 6/4/1918
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Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Bureau of Ordnance, 6/5/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, Captain Hutchinson I. Cone, Commander United States Naval Aviation Forces, Foreign Service, 6/5/1918
Lieutenant Commander Allan S. Farquhar, Commander, U.S.S. Sterett, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/5/1918
E. J. Stackpole, Sr., President and Editor-in-Chief, Harrisburg Telegraph, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/5/1918
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Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based in France, 6/6/1918
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Atlantic Coast Naval District Commandants, 6/6/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, Despatch to All Navy Forces in the Atlantic, 6/6/1918
Lieutenant Commander Kenneth M. Whiting to Colonel H. A. Williamson, R.A.F, 18th Air Group, 6/7/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Major General John J. Pershing, U.S.A., Commander, American Expeditionary Force, 6/7/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 6/7/1918
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Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Herbert O. Dunn, Commander, Azores Detachment, 6/7/1918
Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander, Battleship Division Nine, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 6/8/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Forces Based in France, 6/8/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Richard H. Jackson, United States Staff Representative, Paris, 6/8/1918
Lieutenant Commander Robert A. Dawes, Commanding Officer, U.S. Destroyer Wainwright, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based in France, 6/9/1918
Captain Richard H. Jackson, United States Staff Representative in Paris, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/9/1918
Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based on Gibraltar, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/10/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, 6/10/1918
Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, Commander, Cruiser and Transport Force, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 6/10/1918
Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, to Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, 6/10/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 6/10/1918
Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Ireland, to Secretary of the British Admiralty Sir Oswyn A. R. Murray, 6/10/1918
Memorandum on Submarine Chaser Operations from Captain Richard H. Leigh, Operations Section, U.S. Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/10/1918
Captain Hutchinson I. Cone, Commander, United States Naval Aviation Forces, Foreign Service, to Captain Noble E. Irwin, Director of Naval Aviation, 6/10/1918
Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, Little, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/10/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 6/10/1918
Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotilla, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/10/1918
Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotillas, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/11/1918
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Captain Richard H. Leigh to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/11/1918
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French Ambassador to the United States Jean Jules Jusserand to Secretary of State Robert Lansing, 6/11/1918
George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, 6/11/1918
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Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 6/12/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 6/12/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 6/12/1918
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, 6/12/1918
George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, 6/12/1918
George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, and George Rublee, Presidential Advisor, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, 6/12/1918
Lieutenant Colonel James C. Breckinridge, U.S.M.C., Naval Attaché at Stockholm, to Office of Naval Intelligence, 6/12/1918
Assistant Secretary of War Benedict Crowell to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 6/12/1918
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to All Navy Bureaus, 6/13/1918
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Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt to All Navy Bureaus, All Naval Districts, and All Navy Yards, 6/14/1918
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Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/15/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Lieutenant Commander Allan S. Farquhar, Commander, U.S.S. Sterett, 6/15/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Commander Frank D. Berrien, 6/15/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Lindon W. Bates, Chairman of Engineering Committee, The Submarine Defense Association, 6/15/1918
War Diary of Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, 6/15/1918
Commander Louis H. Maxfield, Commander, U.S. Naval Air Station, Paimboeuf, France, to Captain Hutchinson I. Cone, Commander, U.S. Naval Aviation Forces, Foreign Service, 6/15/1918
Bureau of Navigation to Captain Hutchinson I. Cone, Commander, United States Naval Aviation Forces, Foreign Service, 6/15/1918
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Bureau of Steam Engineering, 6/15/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander-in-Chief, Southern Ireland, 6/15/1918
Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander-in-Chief, Southern Ireland, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/15/1918
Rear Admiral Edwin A. Anderson, Commander, American Patrol Detachment, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 6/15/1918
Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander, Battleship Division Nine, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 6/15/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters. To the Office of Naval Intelligence, 6/16/1918
Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based in France, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/16/1918
Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, Mine Force, Atlantic Fleet, to the Bureau of Ordnance, 6/17/1918
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Based in European Waters, 6/17/1918
Lieutenant Commander Garrett L. Schuyler, Senior Officer, Naval Railway Battery, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/16/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Herbert O. Dunn, Commander, Azores Detachment, 6/18/1918
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/18/1918
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet and Capt. Edwin A. Anderson, Commander, American Patrol Detachment, 6/18/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 6/19/1918
Press Conference of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 6/19/1918
Captain William V. Pratt, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/19/1918
Captain Nathan C. Twining, Chief of Staff, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, second cable of the day, 6/20/1918
Captain Nathan C. Twining, Chief of Staff, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 6/20/1918
George Rublee, Presidential Adviser, to James A. Salter, British Director of Ship Requisitioning, 6/20/1918
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Captain Frederick L. Oliver, Commander, Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut; and to Naval District Commandants, 6/20/1918
Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, and Herbert Hoover, Director, Food Administration, to Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council, 6/20/1918
Diary of Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, U.S. Destroyer Little, 6/21/1918
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to All United States Naval Forces, 6/21/1918
Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, Patrol Squadron Based on Gibraltar, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/21/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, second cable of the day, 6/21/1918
Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to the Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/21/1918
Captain Nathan C. Twining, Chief of Staff for Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotilla, 6/22/1918
Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, Mine Force, Atlantic Fleet, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/22/1918
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Various Officers in the Western Hemisphere, 6/22/1918
Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, U.S. Destroyer Little, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/23/1918
Raymond B. Stevens, Vice-Chairman, United States Shipping Board and United States Representative, Allied Maritime Transport Council to Edward N. Hurley, Chairman, United States Shipping Board, George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, Philip A. S. Franklin, Chairman, Shipping Control Committee, and Mr. Watrabord, 6/23/1918
Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, R.N., Commander-in-Chief, Southern Ireland, to the British Admiralty, 6/23/1918
Captain Richard H. Jackson, United States Staff Representative in Paris, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/24/1918
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Naval District Commandants, 6/24/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, United States Patrol Squadron Based at Gibraltar, 6/25/1918
Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/25/1918
Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotilla, to Commanding Officers, Destroyer Flotilla, 6/26/1918
Diary of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 6/26/1918
Captain Hutchison I. Cone, Commander, United States Naval Aviation Forces, Foreign Service, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/26/1918
Commander Charles R. Belknap, Director, Naval Overseas Transportation Service, to Naval Overseas Transportation Service, 6/27/1918
Commander Rufus F. Zogbaum, Jr., Commander, U.S.S. Stevens, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/27/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Charles P. Nelson, Commander, United States Forces Based at Corfu, Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, Commander, United States Forces Based at Gibraltar, and Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, 6/28/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, Commander, Mine Force, Atlantic Fleet, 6/28/1918
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Destroyer Flotillas Operating in European Waters, 6/29/1918
Admiral Sir Alexander E. Bethell, R.N., Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth Station, to Commander Theodore G. Ellyson, U.S. Navy Base, Plymouth., 6/29/1918
Diary of Commander, Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, Little, 6/29/1918
Lieutenant Commander Walter A. Edwards, Aviation Section, Staff of Vice Admiral William S. Sims, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 6/29/1918
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, 6/29/1918
Commander Richard D. White, Commander, Oriziba, to Rear Admiral Albert T. Gleaves, Commander, Cruiser and Transport Force, 6/30/1918
Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, United States Naval Forces in France, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/30/1918
Captain Richard H. Leigh, Commander, United States Submarine Chaser Base, Corfu, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 6/30/1918
Memorandum from Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 6/30/1918
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For decades, pro-abortionists have painted pro-lifers as a bunch of rich old white men intent upon controlling women’s bodies and lives. Their websites and blogs repeat endlessly what Anne Nicol Gaylor said in her 1975 book Abortion is a Blessing:
Had the proponents of legal abortion had the access to money, to schools and churches, and to the media that the antis have had, the only proponents of a ban on abortions in this country today would be those zealots who oppose not only abortion but contraception, and in the final analysis, sex itself.
We pro-lifers know from experience that we are greatly outspent by pro-abortionists, but we have not been able to prove our assertions ― until now.
This article summarizes the results of a study of 21,155 IRS Forms 990 done to determine just how much comparative income is generated annually by groups that support the Culture of Life and the Culture of Death.
There are four steps to this comparison. Each step “widens the circle” by examining a larger sphere of influence:
The first step is a direct correlation between the incomes of single-issue pro-life and pro-abortion groups.
The second compares the incomes of pro-family and anti-family groups.
The third examines population control groups.
The fourth covers those groups which have other primary missions, but which cooperate with and support the Culture of Death.
1. Pro-Life vs. Pro-Abortion Finances
Let us begin by examining the comparative incomes of single-issue pro-life vs. pro-abortion and “family planning” organizations in the United States.
Non-profit pro-life groups in the USA raised about $1.06 billion in 2010. About 80% of this total was generated by the approximately 4,000 crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) located in every one of our fifty states. Most of these CPCs work under the umbrella organizations Birthright International, Heartbeat International, and Care Net. The average income of the CPCs was about $209,000 in 2010.1
By comparison, number one on the pro-abortion moneymaking list is the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which made more money in 2010 than every pro-life group in the country combined ― $1.52 billion. 34 of PPFA’s affiliates generated more than $10 million of income in 2010, and PPFA has received more than ten billion dollars of our tax money since Roe v. Wade.2
Sixteen Planned Parenthood affiliates have a greater income than the leading pro-life fundraiser, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), and 33 have a greater income than the second-ranked pro-life moneymaker, Priests for Life.
The incomes of other large single-purpose pro-abortion groups in 2010 included:
National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy ($31.7 million)
NARAL Pro-Choice America ($21.8 million)
Ms. Foundation for Women ($20.8 million)
Feminist Women’s Health Centers chain of abortion mills ($18.2 million)
Center for Reproductive Rights ($16.9 million)
Emily’s List ($16.9 million)
Guttmacher Institute ($16.2 million)
“Catholics” for [a Free] Choice ($11.4 million)
The great advantage the “family planners” have over pro-life organizations is that they have tangible and very popular products to sell. The great majority of Americans have been conditioned to believe that contraception is essential for their lifestyles, and that abortion must remain available as a backup for those “rare and regrettable cases” where birth control fails.
But it is very difficult for pro-life and pro-family organizations to sell values and virtue to a world that is fixated on self-fulfillment and self-gratification. Even when we do successfully get our point of view across, there is no monetary gain in doing so. This reflects the altruistic nature of pro-lifers ― we aren’t in this for ourselves, but for God and for the good of other people.
However, the pro-abortionists and “family planners” have a triple-tiered interlocking moneymaking system that would make even the most unscrupulous used-car salesman green with envy:
To recruit new “customers,” sex educators sell our children on the idea that sexual activity is permissible, enjoyable, even inevitable ― and that sex is “perfectly natural” and good, but just so long as they practice “safe(r) sex” and use condoms or some other form of birth control. It is impossible to know how much money is spent on textbooks and other materials for the millions of school children in the United States who receive comprehensive sex education, but the amount must be in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Then the “family planners” sell us birth control devices to support the sexual activities recommended to us by the sex educators. Money made by the contraceptive/abortifacient industry in the United States dwarfs abortion income. About 22 million American women use abortifacient or contraceptive methods of birth control each year, generating a 2010 income of $6.99 billion. We can add to this total the money made from 1.2 million annual surgical male and female sterilizations, which is about $2.96 billion.3
Finally, when these birth control methods fail (as they do more than two million times per year in the USA), the “family planners” stand ready to provide abortions, which makes them $825 million more per year.3
This means that the amount of money generated by the “family planning” consortium in the United States is at least $10.8 billion per year.
If we add the $312 million income received by pro-abortion advocacy organizations (which do not provide the above services), we arrive at a total 2010 income of about $11.1 billion.3
If we compare this to the $1.06 billion raised by pro-life organizations in the same year, we can see that the single-purpose pro-abortion groups out-raised the single-purpose pro-life organizations by a ratio of more than ten to one in 2010.
2. Pro-Family vs. Anti-Family Groups
Now we turn to the second step of the comparison ― pro-family and anti-family organizations.
All attentive Christians are acutely aware of how many influences are eroding the very hearts of our families today ― The “gay rights” and New Age movements, gambling, drinking, drugs, pornography, no-fault divorce, prostitution, euthanasia and all of the hundreds of groups striving relentlessly to eradicate all traces of religion from the public square.
Yet we should not lose hope, because there are powerful and well-organized interests standing up for the rights of the family. In fact, non-profit pro-family organizations in the United States raised a total of about nine billion dollars in 2010. The largest of these include the Knights of Columbus, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), and Focus on the Family.
Anti-family organizations include homophile groups, which raised $633 million in 2010; pro-euthanasia organizations, which raised $10 million; and self-described “Catholic” groups attempting to undermine and subvert the teachings of the Church regarding sexual morality, which raised $81 million. This adds up to $724 million for anti-life advocacy groups.3
But once again we must consider the “products” that anti-family and anti-religious organizations peddle to the public. These fall into three primary categories:
The pornography industry, which sold a minimum of $15 billion in filthy books, movies and other products in 2010.4
Prostitution, which generates about $8 billion in income annually.5
“New Age” products and activities that generate about $12.4 billion every year, including books, tapes, seances, fortune telling, astrology, cryptozoology and channeling.6
We can see from the above that anti-family and anti-Faith groups and activities raised about $36.1 billion vs. $9.0 billion for pro-family groups, or a ratio of about four to one.
3. Population Control Groups
Now we proceed to the third step of this analysis. Nowhere is the struggle between life and death more unequal than it is on the international arena.
United States funding for “population assistance” in 2010 was about $4.6 billion. This includes $593.5 million for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and $55 million to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).7 Also in 2010, $7.5 billion was contributed by the 83 major U.S.-based population control lobbying groups such as the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and the Population Council. Population control groups use this money to generate massive propaganda campaigns, set up sterilization camps and quotas, dump billions of condoms and birth control devices on Asian, Latin American and African countries, and lobby for legalized abortion worldwide.
There are only four small U.S.-based organizations which oppose the international population agenda. These groups have a combined 2010 income of only $11.2 million.
In summary, the American government and U.S.-based population control organizations had $12.1 billion dollars of in income in 2010, outspending pro-life groups by a factor of more than a thousand to one.
A summary of these three categories shows that, in 2010, the non-profit sector of the Culture of Death generated $59.3 billion of income in 2010, compared to $10.1 billion for the Culture of Life, a ratio of about six dollars to one.
However, the above analysis takes into consideration only single-purpose organizations, and does not paint a complete picture of the situation regarding pro-life and pro-family vs. anti-life and anti-family funding. In fact, the situation is so complex that it is impossible to do more than make a rough estimate of incomes.
Still, these hard numbers show that anyone complaining about “rich” pro-life groups is either ignorant or completely out of touch with reality.
4. Finances of Broader Groups
The fourth and final part of this analysis examines the contributions to the Culture of Death by organizations with missions not directly connected to the life issues.
The greatest advantage the Culture of Death has over the Culture of Life is the thousands of groups that appear to be neutral on the life issues, but in reality are not.
Often these organizations do good work, and their primary mission is not directly related to sanctity of life or family issues. However, they support the destruction, inhibition or perversion of human fertility through the distribution, promotion or support of surgical or medical abortion, abortifacients and contraceptives, surgical and chemical sterilization, destructive embryonic stem cell research (ESCR), fetal tissue experimentation and transplantation, illicit means of artificial reproduction, and practices that undermine the foundation stone of society ― the family, here defined as marriage between a man and a woman. These groups exert enormous influence over their members and contributors by publishing and disseminating information that heavily favors a philosophy that supports the Culture of Death.
To begin with, there are thousands of community planning groups, health care systems, family health councils, hospitals, clinics, community action agencies and health centers in the United States, and only a very tiny fraction (less than 1%) do not perform or refer for abortions and sterilizations or distribute contraception. Hundreds of billions of dollars pass through our health care systems every year, and their impact on public policy and private practice cannot be overestimated.
The amount of money flowing through other cooperating organizations is colossal. The nonprofit organizations collaborating with and supporting the Culture of Death generated more than $114 billion of income in 2010.
These organizations possess tens of millions of members in the United States alone, and they influence public opinion and policy in many ways.
The American Bar, Diabetes, Heart, Library, Lung, Medical, Nurses, Psychiatric, Psychological and Public Health Associations are all stridently pro-abortion, and bring in more than $2.8 billion a year, as well as directly influencing the abortion opinions of millions of lawyers, doctors, librarians, psychiatrists and psychologists. Dozens of professional groups have signed on to letters opposing abstinence-only education, and supporting fetal organ harvesting and experimentation and embryonic stem cell research.2
Many groups cooperate with or promote the Culture of Death in specific ways to targeted audiences. For example, the American Association of Retired People (AARP) publishes soothing articles promoting physician-assisted suicide to its 39 million members, and recommends the Netherlands as the best place to grow old, while completely ignoring its runaway euthanasia program.3
Many organizations avoid undue attention because of their neutral-sounding names, such as “Advocates for Youth,” “National Partnership for Women and Families,” or “Political Research Associates.” Most people have never heard of many of these organizations, but they are pernicious in many ways. Although some of them do good work, they also subtly warp the morality of the tens of millions of people they influence through the promotion of anti-life practices, both in the United States and overseas. One can even argue that they do far more damage than single-issue pro-abortion groups because they do not possess the harsh and abrasive public personas of NOW, NARAL or Planned Parenthood.
These organizations contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to anti-life politicians annually through their political action committees, often through coercive dues-paying mechanisms. This is a particular problem with the AFL-CIO, which generated an incredible $22.6 billion in 2010 through its thousands of local unions. They often generate a culture of fear among rank-and-file leadership, and anyone who dares write a pro-family article or even says anything pro-life is ostracized, shunned, and sometimes even fired.
The anti-life strategists have made certain that they have infiltrated and subverted the original values of the Girl Scouts of America and the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). These are logical high-priority strategic targets, along with the Boy Scouts of America, which thus far has stood firm in the face of continuous assaults by homosexual activists and other anti-family forces.
Interestingly, there is not a single large public nonprofit organization that openly promotes the Culture of Life. It seems that even those groups that should naturally support life have either been infiltrated and corrupted by anti-lifers, or are simply too intimidated to promote the cause of life. They know that if they support the pro-life movement in any way, even through such innocuous means as crisis pregnancy centers, the media will instantly lead a screaming charge of feminists condemning them as “anti-woman” and “fanatics.” The pro-abortionists have done a wonderful job of establishing networks of sympathetic contact points at all of these associations, and virtually none of their rank-and-file members realize that their groups are signing on to the endless statements, press releases, manifestos and declarations supporting anti-life practices.
The momentum has become so great that, if a mainline medical, legal or other professional group does not sign an anti-life document when asked, pro-abortionists and the media denounce it.
With such crushing advantages, why has the Culture of Death not simply obliterated the Culture of Life and all it stands for?
The answer is the three “Ds:” Democracy, demography and Deity.
To begin with, the Culture of Death is virulently anti-democratic. It flourishes in environments where absolute government power is concentrated in the hands of a very few, as in Communist and Socialist regimes. Since many people are basically good and recognize evil when they see it, the Culture of Death has usually advanced its causes through the court system rather than by public referenda or state legislatures, as with abortion and homosexual “marriage.”
Secondly, there is the question of demographics. The more a people, country or nation embraces life-destroying activities such as abortion, contraception, sterilization, euthanasia and homosexual acts, the sooner it will die out and give way to people who love life and children. The obvious example is Europe, which is losing more than two million native Europeans a year as Muslims, who generally oppose abortion and homosexuality, are having the children that Europeans refuse to have.
But these secular influences, of course, do not provide the complete answer. God sustains us, even if His Church does not always do so. It is a constant source of frustration and pain to pro-life and pro-family activists that the one entity that could end abortion today simply is not doing its job.
To be sure, there are several great bishops and many strong priests and ministers in the United States, but the Christian Church is not effectively addressing the greatest social issues of all time, even though most people belong to denominations that are, at least in name, pro-life and pro-family. The great majority of priests and ministers rarely preach against abortion and never preach against contraception and sterilization.
This struggle began with the ejection of Lucifer from Heaven, and will only end when our Lord wills it. What should our attitude be until He does will it?
St. Paul spoke not only to the Corinthians of centuries ago, but directly to us, when he said, “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain” [1 Corinthians 15:58].
Telephone conversations with Susan Dammann, R.N., of Heartbeat International on November 7, 2012, and with Kay Sanford of Care Net on November 9, 2012. There are 1,177 CPCs affiliated with Care Net, and they had an average income of $223,000 in 2011. Adjusted to 2010 values, the total of 4,000 CPCs in the United States had a total income of $878 million in 2010 based on the Care Net numbers.
For calculations and references, e-mail Brian Clowes at bclowes@hli.org and ask for Excel spreadsheet F-19-B.XLS, “Tax Dollars Consumed by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1973-2012.”
For calculations and references, e-mail Brian Clowes at bclowes@hli.org and ask for Excel spreadsheet Facts-B.XLS, “Comparative Incomes of the Culture of Life and the Culture of Death in the United States, 2000-2010.”
The income of the pornography industry in the United States was $12.62 billion in 2005 and $13.33 billion in 2006 [“2006 and 2005 Pornography United States Industry Revenue Statistics,” Jerry Ropelato. “Internet Pornography Statistics,” Top Ten Reviews]. These seem to be the most recent numbers available. If we assume the curve of income growth flattened out somewhat, we can determine that the income of the porn industry in 2010 would be about $15 billion, although it is impossible to pin this number down precisely. Also see Johanna Dasteel. “Porn Producers in Uproar over New L.A. Health Ordinance.” LifeSite Daily News, November 9, 2012.
The study of “sexonomics” is notoriously imprecise, because prostitution is mostly illegal. However, based on the average income of part-time and full-time prostitutes and an estimate of the number of prostitutes in the United States, we arrive at an average estimate of about $8 billion annually [one source of information is Juliann G. Sebastian and Angeline Bushy. Special Populations in the Community: Advances in Reducing Health Disparities [Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1999], page 78].
There are many estimates of how much Americans spend on New Age nitwittery each year. There are about 200,000 active American neopagans, and about 12 million Americans buy one or more New Age products each year. These include self-help books, channelers, psychics, palm readers, and other practices. One of the median estimates is about $12 billion spent on New Age products and activities annually [Sarah Pike. New Age and Neopagan Religions in America [New York: Columbia University Press], 2006].
For calculations and references, e-mail Brian Clowes at bclowes@hli.org and ask for Excel spreadsheets 18-05.XLS, “Population Control Donations by “First World” nations, 1996-2012,” and 18-C.XLS, “United States Donations to USAID and UNFPA, 1965-2010.”
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Scott May 15, 2019 at 10:21 AM - Reply
You are looking at the family planning organizations as a whole. You should also be looking at pro-life as a whole. Pro-life is one of the central themes of the Republican Party and most organized religions. Noticeably and suspiciously absent from your diatribe is an analysis that includes all the spending of the churches and the Republican Party in promoting pro-life.
HLI Staff May 30, 2019 at 3:03 PM - Reply
Thank you for your comments. Actually, we are not associated with the Republican Party. In fact, there are many pro-abortion politicians that are Republican, and as Catholics, we believe that we most vote for the candidate, regardless of party, who is the least guilty of “intrinsic evil.” Abortion is considered a particularly grave sin in the taking of human life.
As for the Church, any Church is allowed according to the IRS to promote its beliefs. You will not find the Church lobbying organizations or politicians, or giving millions to governments to bribe them to alter their laws for the pro-life cause. Our priests speak from the pulpits, our people work at low pay for non-profits extra hours to try and help women in crisis pregnancies, and yes, of course, bishops, cardinals, the Pope, all speak in the defense of Life to anyone who will listen. If you can point to a pro-life group that is problematic, we would be interested. If you will forgive the comment, our organizations work nothing like pro-abortion organizations. When was the last time you saw them pray to God for the woman and her child? Follow the money trail. Abortion is all about money, it is not about women’s “health” because abortion is not health care (and yes, I am a woman).
Tre October 18, 2019 at 12:08 AM - Reply
Thank you, as a woman and mother. The death cult seems to be taking over and most humans regardless of religious believes seem to not see this. I find young woman and men who think education and careers are more important than family. Are being brainwashed by the very schools that should be teaching career building skills, not anti life politics. At 18 I was unwed and pregnant being told by “family” and “friends” to kill my unborn baby. I married my baby father and had my baby. Now 27 years later we are still married and have two beautiful daughters. It was the best choice I could have ever made.
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Beware, parents. "Baby Shark" is not swimming away anytime soon. In fact, it's about to make a splash on Nickelodeon.
That's right. The actually kind of violent campfire song that was turned into an animated children's hit is now spawning a TV show based on the Shark family. Nickelodeon announced that it was partnering with Pinkfong, the team behind the viral video, to create the series.
"'Baby Shark' has captured the imagination of millions of fans around the world, so it’s no surprise it’s one of the top 10 most-viewed videos on YouTube ever," Ramsey Naito, executive vice president of Nickelodeon Animation, said in a statement. “At the heart of any popular piece of content is a terrific character, and we have a great opportunity to further explore the world of 'Baby Shark' and follow this family through some great animated adventures on Nickelodeon.”
Not sure what Baby Shark and his family will be up to in the show, but it's probably not what they were doing in the original camp version (that is, eating unfortunate beach-goers).
Besides becoming a constant presence in any home with a child under 6, the song spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and launched the viral #BabySharkChallenge. No word yet on when the "Baby Shark" show will debut.
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Michael P. Norton and Colin A. Young State House News Service
BOSTON — With 28 days until it becomes legal to grow marijuana in Massachusetts, some in the medical marijuana industry are growing concerned about the slow launch of a new industry without a regulatory scheme in place.
Nicholas Vita, chief executive officer of Columbia Care, which holds three medical marijuana licenses in Massachusetts, raised concerns this week over the quality and oversight of unregulated home-grown marijuana and potential safety hazards posed by a surge in the use of special indoor lighting used to grow marijuana.
The existing medical marijuana industry is subject to guidelines aimed at preventing impurities in marijuana products and inspections designed to detect contaminants, including mold, mildew, heavy metals and the presence of non-organic pesticides.
While retail operations are much further off, the ballot law approved Nov. 8 authorizes on Dec. 15 the use of marijuana by individuals 21 and older, and authorizes people to possess up to one ounce of marijuana outside of their residences and up to 10 ounces of marijuana inside their residences, to grow up to six marijuana plants in their residences and to give one ounce or less of marijuana to a person at least 21 years old without payment.
"There's a lot of soul searching that needs to occur to make sure this is done properly," Vita told the News Service. "We're sort of in a very grey zone here where we don't really know what's going on."
It appears legislative leaders are ready to dig into the marijuana debate since several have indicated they hope to change the law. But near-term changes -- including alterations to the home-grown marijuana provision -- do not appear imminent since the Legislature is not scheduled to return to formal sessions until January and typically start sessions slowly. The ballot law calls for a Cannabis Control Commission under Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, but that regulatory body has not yet been established or funded.
During an appearance Sunday on WCVB's "On the Record," Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, who voted for legalization, said that in considering the tax rate in the law he hopes to learn how much it will cost to implement the law, public safety and public health costs, and the possibility of using marijuana as a "revenue source" for other expenditures. He also wants lawmakers to consider "challenges" associated with marijuana edibles and beverages in addition to the potential to limit levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, the component of marijuana responsible for the high it delivers.
"When I said that I was going to vote for the ballot question I also said that we had to go in and fix it and perfect it," Rosenberg said. He added, "We have to follow the will of the voters. But we also have to be responsible here. On a ballot question this complicated, people are voting on the principle, they're not voting on all the fine details."
Rosenberg said home-grow provisions are already in place in connection with medical marijuana. "I don't believe people will be willing to get rid of home grown, but there may be some changes that would have to occur in that," he said.
The state's medical marijuana law, approved by voters in 2012, allows a "patient or the patient's personal caregiver to cultivate a limited number of plants, sufficient to maintain a 60-day supply of marijuana," if the marijuana is grown and stored in an enclosed and locked area.
Gov. Charlie Baker, who led the opposition to the ballot question that legalized marijuana, told the News Service on Thursday that he expects the home-grown provision to take effect on Dec. 15 as anticipated.
"Well, you gotta remember that when the Legislature is in informal session it just takes one (lawmaker) to stop something from getting done. So, I mean, as a practical matter I think it's pretty unrealistic to assume that that wouldn't go into effect as it's scheduled to go into effect in December," he said. "That was one piece of that 6,000-word ballot question that I think a lot of people understood straight out of the gate."
Baker said he still believes there is "work that needs to be done on that ballot question to ensure public safety and public health," but said his focus is now on implementing the law that about 54 percent of voters approved.
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By Miranda Etkind • Nottingham Contributor October 21, 2016 at 10:33pm
Her Campus caught up with the bubbly and vibrant Flora Maier, this year’s Student Union Women’s officer to discuss how the SU plans to make UoN a more inclusive place.
Name: Flora Maier
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Hometown: Vienna, Austria
What is the role of a students’ union officer?
The main role of the students’ union is to protect every student’s interests within the University. Inclusion is probably the main thing that the Students’ Union aims provide for the University. For example a big step we have taken was trying to provide more ways to include international students, such as introducing the use of WeChat.
What does your position entail?
I work in conjunction with other networks such as disabled students, LGBT+ etc. I also act as a representative for the students, and am able to direct people to other sources to get the help or information they need.
What do you want to accomplish through your time as women’s officer and why did you decide to take this position up?
As a young woman there are so many things you can campaign for, things that sometimes seem to go unnoticed. I wanted to take advantage of the resources and diverse student body that the university has to make improvements.
Do you feel that University of Nottingham is an all-inclusive place?
I think there still is a lot more to be done. The uni is so diverse, and we already have in place many networks that represent so many different people. Even though it is great that people can find a group of people they can connect with, this sometimes can make the university a bit sectioned off. I think it would be beneficial to create more fluidity between these student networks.
How can this be improved?
One of the things I am planning for spring is panel discussion between the different universities in the area on feminism and being a woman within different religious groups. I am interested in discussing if how you are seen as women directly effects how you view yourself. I also find it really interesting to see how feminism is viewed from a variety of perspectives. An example like this enables people with different backgrounds, interests and so on to come together and be able to speak freely on issues they feel are important.
How do you combat misconceptions people have about the feminist movement?
I think people need to reset the prejudices. Feminism is not just a bunch of white women waving their bras in the air. There is a lot to it, however we have come a long way. When it comes down to it, it is education and becoming aware of the world. When people say they don’t need feminism, I say that’s great that you have achieved a sense of equality, however this doesn’t mean that other people also have.
Now for a bit of fun…
Favourite spot on Campus?
Someone told me that the tower is a really cool place. I haven’t been there but if I had it would probably be my favourite. The studio is also a nice place to hang out; it has good lighting.
Go to song for when you’re having a bad day?
“Ophelia” by the Lumineers
Best food in Nottingham?
The Nottingham Doughnut Company. They make all the doughnuts by hand. It’s so great and so cheap.
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(Bhattacharyya), Nandini Bhaduri, Department of Pathology, B S Medical College, Bankura-722102, West Bengal, India
,, Shahin, Department of Community Medicine, SHKM Govt Medical College Nalhar (Mewat) Haryana India
., Aiswary, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India (India)
., Akanksha, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, S.N. Medical College, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
., Akansha, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gujarat Adani Institute of Medical Science, Bhuj, Kutch, Gujarat, India
., Akanshamani, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhojipura, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
., Alakananda, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gauhati Medical College, Guwahati, Assam, India
., Amrita, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCMS and GTB Hospital, Delhi, India
., Amrita, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Delhi-110095, India
., Augustine, Department of Medical Social Works, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India (India)
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Jean Naggar, Contributor
Egypt's Forgotten Jews
12/07/2012 01:21 pm ET Updated Feb 06, 2013
When I was 19 years old, I left my home in Egypt, permanently blown into a larger life and wider world by fierce winds of change. A mere footnote to history, the Suez crisis of 1956 is little known in the larger world, and less remembered. But the shock waves it created uprooted my family, scattered hundreds across the world, leaving them with no support systems, few possessions, and a history no-one understood. It decimated the deeply rooted, ancient Jewish communities of Egypt, some 80,000 strong and centuries old. In a climate of profound stress and fear, we had instantly become the enemy.
Within months, only 400 remained. Now, some 50 years later, there are fewer than 100. Recent history has also wrenched Jewish communities from other Arab countries, ejecting them, tragically destitute, into unfamiliar lands. Far-flung from the life they knew and understood, sprinkled across continents and oceans, many close-knit extended families have since been separated for years by geography, language, and economic restrictions.
As most of us did, I packed childhood memories away and moved forward with my life. I worked hard to spread roots somewhere, somehow, for decades skirting the deep gulf I camouflaged under the dense foliage of reinventing a life. Years passed, and I realized I needed to clear off the foliage and confront my childhood, to create a path for children and grandchildren to own a way of life which had been mine. They needed to know the community and the vibrant individualistic family members who wove the fabric of my own childhood into a raft to sail me safely through uncharted seas.
My mother's Smouha family had deep roots in the Middle East, probably going back to the first Diaspora. Her mother came from Damascus, Syria. Her father was born in Baghdad. They met and married in Manchester, England, and began to raise a family there. Business for the British government took my grandfather, Joseph Smouha, to Egypt, where he eventually settled with his family, contributing his vision and his integrity to the city of Alexandria, draining the mosquito-infested Hadra lakes to build a fine development still known as Smouha City.
My father's Mosseri family, prosperous merchants in Toledo, Spain, arrived in Egypt in the 18th century, tracing a path back to the Spanish Inquisition of the late 1400s. They fled Spain for Livorno, Italy, where they reinvented their lives and traded across the Mediterranean. Eventually, some decided to settle in Cairo, Egypt. Once again reinventing themselves, the Mosseri family wove their lives into the social, economic and cultural fabric of Egypt. They embraced the multi-cultural, post-colonial world in which they found themselves and were in turn embraced by it, creating networks across national and religious lines that led them to live peaceably and productively alongside their Egyptian neighbors, producing eminent financiers, journalists, jurists and real estate developers. As time went on, their many achievements enabled them to undertake the establishment of hospitals, schools, orphanages and community centers.
In 1948 with the emergence of the State of Israel, the balance between Arabs and Jews underwent a profound change. In 1956, I watched my father become unwelcome in his own life. An official summoned him to government offices to pick up an expulsion notice to leave Egypt immediately. Glancing at the address, my father was dumbfounded by the irony: compelled to leave his homeland and the lifework of five generations forever, he was summoned to offices located on the very street that a grateful Egyptian government had named for his father.
My grandchildren hold the key to the future, but I held the key to their past, to a time before economics, politics and war blew entire families, like thistledown, across the face of the world to forge a future in foreign soil. So I wrote a memoir, "Sipping from the Nile, My Exodus from Egypt," to give my children and grandchildren a glimpse at a past from which they were forever excluded.
But I also wrote it in the hope that a profound disenfranchisement so little acknowledged by the larger world would not disappear without trace. The Suez crisis - that footnote in history - hurled Egypt's Jewish communities into exile, leaving homes, businesses, social structures, lifelong friendships and fortunes behind.
Over the past 50 years, much ink has been lavished on the displacement of the Palestinians from their homes, but barely a passing glance has been accorded the displaced dispossessed Jewish communities of Egypt and other Arab lands. We were expected to move forward. We expected it of ourselves. As our ancestors have done from time immemorial, we reinvented ourselves. No international outrage from the nations of the world took up our cause. No effort at compensation was made. And so now, 50 years later, the forgotten Jews of Egypt and other Arab lands have begun to mine their own lives, exposing bittersweet memories and remnants of a beloved past to lead their children and grandchildren fully equipped into the future. It is time for the world to take notice, too.
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Would you pass the British Citizenship test facing Meghan Markle? 1 in 3 people fail...
See if you would pass the British Citizenship test
DEBORA ARURHIAN LUBIN
In order to settle in this country you need to pass the British Citizenship test - a challenge now facing Prince Harry's new fiancee, Meghan Markle.
But one in three people fail it.
Across England 125,925 tests were taken in 2016, with 36 per cent of people failing.
Passing the citizenship test, also known as the 'Life in the UK' test, is one of the criteria for becoming a British citizen or settling in the UK.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, London
You must also have spent a certain period of time in the country, pass an English language test, and not have any criminal convictions.
The test was taken far fewer times in England in 2016 than it was in 2015, when it was taken 164,702 times.
The Life in the UK test has 24 questions that must be completed within 45 minutes and the applicant needs to get at least 75 per cent of questions right to pass.
QUIZ: Would you pass a Yorkshire citizenship test?
The test includes questions on a range of aspects of British culture and history.
People who failed can take the test over and over again but each attempt to pass the test costs £50.
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Key legal information for shareholders in Norsk Hydro ASA
Below is a summary of certain Norwegian legal issues related to shareholding in Norsk Hydro ASA.
This summary does not purport to be a comprehensive description of all the legal rights and obligations that may be relevant to the shareholders in Norsk Hydro ASA, hereby referred to as the Company, and does not address legal issues regulated by other than Norwegian law. The summary is based on applicable Norwegian laws, rules and regulations, as they exist as of the date set out below. Such laws, rules and regulations are subject to change. The summary is solely intended to provide brief introductory information and does not address all aspects that may be relevant. The information in this summary is subject to change without notice.
Dated: September 7, 2012
Home-state – Norway
The Company’s home-state for requirements for periodic information according to the Norwegian Securities Trading Act chapter 5, disclosure requirements of acquisitions of large shareholdings, rights to shares and voting rights according to chapter 4, approval of EEA- prospectus according to chapter 7, is Norway.
Norwegian Corporate Shareholders – tax exemption method
For Norwegian corporate shareholders the so-called tax exemption method is applicable for investment in the shares of the Company. Corporate shareholders comprise limited liability companies and certain similar entities. Norwegian shareholder refers to the tax residency and not the nationality of such shareholder.
Norwegian take-over regulations
The Company is subject to the take-over regulations of Norway and take-over bid supervision by Oslo Børs. Below is a brief introduction to the Norwegian take-over rules.
Norwegian take-over regulations and shareholding disclosure requirements
Trading in the shares in the Company is subject to the shareholding disclosure regulations of Norway. Below is a brief introduction to the obligations imposed on shareholders under these rules.
Take-Over Regulation
Norwegian take-over regulation is applicable in relation to the Company. The relevant rules are set out in chapter 6 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act and chapter 6 of the Norwegian Securities Regulations.
Translation into English of the full text of this legislation is available at the web sites listed below:
The Norwegian Securities Trading Act
The Norwegian Securities Regulations
Norway has implemented the EU Takeover Directive (Directive 2004/25/EC). The take-over supervisory authority is Oslo Børs.
The Norwegian take-over rules distinguish between voluntary and mandatory offers. A voluntary offer is an offer that, if accepted by the recipients of the offer, triggers a mandatory offer obligation for the offeror. A mandatory offer for the remaining shares in the Company is triggered if the offeror (either through a voluntary offer or otherwise) becomes owner of more than 1/3 of the voting rights in the Company (with repeat triggers at 40% and 50%).
Mandatory Offer Requirement
The Mandatory Offer Threshold
Any person, entity or consolidated group who becomes the owner of shares representing more than 1/3 of the voting rights of in the Company (with repeat triggers at 40% and 50%) must within four weeks, make an unconditional general offer for the purchase of the remaining shares in the Company. A mandatory offer obligation may also be triggered where a party acquires the right to become the owner of shares which together with the party’s own shareholding represent more than 1/3 of the voting rights in the Company and the take-over supervisory authority decides that this must be regarded as an effective acquisition of the shares in question.
Disposal of Shares
The mandatory offer obligation ceases to apply if the shareholder sells the portion of the shares that exceeds the relevant threshold within four weeks of the date on which the mandatory offer obligation was triggered.
When a mandatory offer obligation has been or will be triggered, the relevant shareholder shall immediately notify the take-over supervisory authority (who will publish the notice) and the Company accordingly. The notification shall state whether an offer will be made to acquire the remaining shares in the Company or whether a sale will take place. As a main rule, a notification to the effect that an offer will be made cannot be retracted.
Approval by the Take-over Supervisory Authority
The offer and the offer document are subject to approval by the take-over supervisory authority before the formal offer is launched.
The Offer Price
The offer price per share must be at least as high as the highest price paid or agreed by the offeror for the shares in the six-month period prior to the date the threshold was exceeded. However, if it is clear that the market price was higher when the mandatory offer obligation was triggered, the offer price shall be at least as high as the market price. If the acquirer acquires or agrees to acquire additional shares at a higher price prior to the expiration of the mandatory offer period, the acquirer is obliged to restate its offer at such higher price. A mandatory offer must be in cash or contain a cash alternative at least equivalent to any other consideration offered.
In case of failure to make a mandatory offer or to sell the portion of the shares that exceeds the relevant threshold within four weeks, the take-over supervisory authority may force the acquirer to sell the shares exceeding the threshold by public auction. Moreover, a shareholder who fails to make an offer may not, as long as the mandatory offer obligation remains in force, exercise rights in the Company, such as voting in a general meeting of shareholders, without the consent of a majority of the remaining shareholders. The shareholder may, however, exercise the right to dividend and pre-emption rights
Voluntary Offers
A decision to make a voluntary offer must be notified to the take-over supervisory authority and the Company once the decision is made and shall be published by the take-over supervisory authority. The voluntary offer must be made within reasonable time following a decision to make the offer.
The Consideration
The offeror may offer consideration in the form of cash, securities, a combination of cash and securities or other forms of consideration.
Completion of the offer may be made subject to conditions.
The offer and the offer document required are subject to approval by the take-over supervisory authority before the offer is submitted to the shareholders or made public.
Subsequent Mandatory Offer and/or Compulsory Acquisition
If completion of a voluntary offer triggers a mandatory offer obligation for the offeror, then a mandatory cash offer for the remaining outstanding shares must be made. However, if the offeror holds more than 90% of the shares and votes in the Company following a voluntary offer, a squeeze-out of the remaining minority shareholders can be carried out without a preceding mandatory offer.
Compulsory acquisition (squeeze-out right and sell-out right) in respect of the shares in the Company is regulated by section 4–25 of Norwegian Public Limited Companies Act and section 6-22 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
The Norwegian Public Limited Companies Act
Compulsory acquisition is not subject to supervision by the take-over supervisory authority.
The Threshold for Compulsory Acquisition
A shareholder who, directly or through subsidiaries, acquires shares representing more than 90% of the total number of issued shares in Company, as well as more than 90% of the total voting rights, has a right, and each remaining minority shareholder of the Company has a right to require such majority shareholder, to effect a compulsory acquisition for cash of the shares not already owned by such majority shareholder. Through such compulsory acquisition the majority shareholder becomes the owner of the remaining shares with immediate effect.
Compulsory Acquisition Following a Voluntary Offer
If a shareholder acquires shares representing more than 90% of the total number of issued shares, as well as more than 90% of the total voting rights, following a voluntary offer, a compulsory acquisition can, subject to the following conditions and approval by the by the take-over supervisory authority, be carried out without such shareholder being obliged to make a mandatory offer: (i) the compulsory acquisition is commenced no later than four weeks after the acquisition of shares through the voluntary offer, (ii) the price offered per share is equal to or higher than what the offer price would have been in a mandatory offer, and (iii) the settlement is guaranteed by a qualified financial institution.
A majority shareholder who effects a compulsory acquisition is required to offer the minority shareholders a specific price per share. Where the offeror, after making a mandatory or voluntary offer, has acquired more than 90% of the voting shares of the Company and a corresponding proportion of the votes that can be cast in the general meeting, and the offeror completes a compulsory acquisition of the remaining shares within three months after the expiry of the offer period, the redemption price shall be determined on the basis of the offer price, absent specific reasons indicating another price. A minority shareholder may, within a specified deadline of at least two months' duration, object to the offer price and request that the Norwegian courts determine the offer price.
Shareholding disclosure obligations
Shareholding disclosure obligations applicable to shares in the Company are regulated by chapter 4 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act and chapter 4 of the Norwegian Securities Regulations.
The Thresholds for Disclosure
If a person’s, entity’s or consolidated group’s proportion of shares and/or rights to shares in the Company reaches, exceeds or falls below the respective thresholds of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25%, 1/3, 50%, 2/3 or 90% of the share capital or the voting rights of the company, the person, entity or group in question has an obligation to notify Oslo Børs immediately, who will publish the notice. The same applies if the disclosure thresholds are passed due to other circumstances, such as a change in the company’s share capital.
Notifications shall be made immediately following agreement on the transaction and can be sent to Oslo Børs by e-mail, who will publish the notice.
Notifications that have been published are available at newsweb.
Additional Requirements for Primary Insiders
There are additional disclosure obligations for so-called primary insiders in the Company (i.a. management, directors and shareholders represented on the board), regardless of the number of shares held.
FSAN Circular 28/2011 - Securities Trading Act – comments to Chapter 3 and Chapter 4
These shareholding disclosure obligations are supervised by the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway (FSAN). FSAN has published a detailed circular that addresses a number of different issues of the shareholding disclosure obligations (Circular 28/2011 Securities Trading Act – comments to Chapter 3 and Chapter 4).
The circular in translation into English
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Kenosi, Lekoko Sylvester and Olefhile Mosweu. "A Framework for a Good Recordkeeping System." Handbook of Research on Heritage Management and Preservation. IGI Global, 2018. 213-234. Web. 29 Jan. 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-3137-1.ch011
Kenosi, L. S., & Mosweu, O. (2018). A Framework for a Good Recordkeeping System. In P. Ngulube (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Heritage Management and Preservation (pp. 213-234). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-3137-1.ch011
Kenosi, Lekoko Sylvester and Olefhile Mosweu. "A Framework for a Good Recordkeeping System." In Handbook of Research on Heritage Management and Preservation, ed. Patrick Ngulube, 213-234 (2018), accessed January 29, 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-3137-1.ch011
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A Framework for a Good Recordkeeping System
Lekoko Sylvester Kenosi (Qatar National Library, Qatar) and Olefhile Mosweu (University of South Africa, South Africa)
Source Title: Handbook of Research on Heritage Management and Preservation
A good record keeping system has a number of components that should be in place for the record keeping system to work optimally for the proper management of records in an organisation. This chapter presents and discusses the components of a recordkeeping system that include a records policy, people or staff, classification system, tracking, capturing business processes and controls, physical handling and storage, preservation, retention and disposition, Compliance monitoring and auditing, vital records protection and disaster preparedness, access, and training.
A system can simply be defined as a set of interconnected components assembled to accomplish given specific purpose. The University of Toronto Archives and Records Services (UTARMS) says a system is an array of components that interact to achieve some objective through a network of procedures that are integrated and designed to carry out a major activity (UTARMS, 1999). Ackoff (1981) suggests that a system is a set of two or more interrelated elements with the following properties:
Each element has an effect on the functioning of the whole.
Each element is affected by at least one other element in the system.
All possible subgroups of elements also have the first two properties
Every profession has its own understanding of what a system should be with an inclination towards the key tenets of that profession. Within the record keeping profession Horsman (2001) defines a record keeping system as the whole of people, resources, methods, procedures, data and knowledge with which an organization moulds into concrete the required quality of its records. The University of Tasmania (2015) defines it as a system which captures, manages and provides access to records through time. Recordkeeping systems can be either electronic or paper-based.
The International Council on Archives (ICA) defines a recordkeeping system as “an information system developed for the purpose of storing and retrieving records, organized to control the specific functions of creating, storing, and accessing records, to safeguard their authenticity and reliability” (ICA, 1997). ISO 15489 (2016) adopts a similar definition to that of international records body preferring to describe a records system as an information system which captures, manages and provides access to records through time.
The words recordkeeping and records management are used interchangeably in the context of this chapter. McKemmish (2000) indicates that in the context of Australia, recordkeeping systems comprise systems that manage both current records and records with archival value. This is largely due to the influence of the thinking behind the records continuum (Piggott, 1988; Upward, 2000; Flynn, 2001). In this context, recordkeeping thus include:
The creation of records in the course of business activity and the means to ensure the creation of adequate records.
The design, establishment and operation of recordkeeping systems.
The management of records used in business (traditionally regarded as the domain of records management) and as archives (traditionally regarded as the domain of archives administration).
The term records management is synonymous with paper records (Yusuf & Chell, 2000; Ngoepe, 2008) as influenced by the records life cycle concept whose development is credited to Theodore Schellenberg of the National Archives of the USA in 1934 (Shepherd & Yeo, 2003). In developing countries such as those in Africa’s Eastern and Southern Africa region, the life cycle concept is popularly used as a framework for managing public sector records (Ngulube & Tafor, 2006). The dominant use of the term records management in developing countries such as those in Africa stems from the dominant management of paper based records systems.
Record: Documents produced or received in the course of undertaking business activities.
Framework: A guiding structure with requisite components.
System: An entity made of sub parts that make up a whole and these sub parts work together in a relationship to make the whole complete.
Recordkeeping: All of processes, people, technology and other components of a records management programme necessary for successful records management.
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Florida Artists Hall of Fame member James F. Hutchinson will be celebrated at the Backus Museum and Gallery in Fort Pierce Feb. 22 through April 26, 2020. The exhibit will feature works from the artist’s own collection, such as this 2014 oil painting, Jacaranda Island. JAMES F. HUTCHINSON
The upcoming art season promises a colorful mix of creative works from near and far
BY CATHERINE ENNS GRIGAS
Sunday by Edward Hopper (1882-1967), oil on canvas. The exhibit “From Homer to Hopper: American Art from The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC” will run Feb. 1 to May 31, 2020 at Vero Beach Museum of Art. THE PHILLIPPS COLLECTION
From one of the most interesting artists working on the international scene to beloved local artists who gained fame painting the area’s natural beauty to an interactive exhibit focused on the human body, Treasure Coast art museums promise something for everyone this upcoming season.
Visitors to Vero Beach Museum of Art can look forward to exhibitions including iconic names in American art such as Edward Hopper and Winslow Homer, French poster art from the “Belle Époque” and a display of gilded bronze sculptures by renowned Chinese artist and political activist Ai Weiwei.
The A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery in Fort Pierce opens its season with an exhibition featuring pop culture portraits by a husband and wife duo, then delves into familiar but popular territory with an exhibition of Highwaymen paintings that includes a nod to the 50th anniversary of the death of Alfred Hair, a central figure of the group. Hair was killed in a barroom brawl at the age of 29. Later, James Hutchinson, a Florida Hall of Fame artist, whose long career began as a student of A.E. Backus, will be honored with an exhibition of his works that include Florida and Hawaii landscapes as well as portraits of Seminole Indians.
The Elliott Museum will be showing “Magnificent Me,” a traveling exhibition from the Discovery Network that examines the biology of the human body with a host of hands-on activities. Showing in conjunction will be “In Her Image,” an exhibition by local artists from Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties, using discarded mannequins as a form to create their art.
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART
3001 Riverside Park Dr., Vero Beach
“L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters”
Oct. 19 to Jan. 12, 2020
Holmes Gallery
This exhibition features 62 posters and ephemera by five grand masters of the medium: Jules Chéret, Eugène Grasset, Alphonse Mucha, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The posters date from 1875 to 1910, the spirited era in France known as the Belle Époque. These pioneering artists reigned in Paris during this period of artistic proliferation, defining a never-before-seen — and never forgotten — art form. “L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters” was organized by The Richard H. Driehaus Museum and is toured by International Arts & Visual Artists, Washington, D.C.
Washington Arch, Spring, by Childe Hassam (1859-1935), oil on canvas, an example of the American impressionist’s fondness for city life, will be on display at Vero Beach Museum of Art this spring. THE PHILLIPPS COLLECTION
Wonka for Donuts and other portraits of modern icons made out of donuts by contemporary artist Candice CMC will be on display at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery Nov. 26 to Dec. 29. The exhibit will also feature works by her husband, James Ceravolo. ART LINK INTERNATIONAL
“Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold”
Now through Dec. 12
Stark Rotunda
A dozen gilded bronze sculptures representing the animal symbols of the traditional Chinese zodiac face visitors in the museum’s rotunda. Ai Weiwei was inspired by twelve zodiac heads originally located at Yuanming Yuan (Old Summer Palace), an imperial retreat built in the 18th and 19th centuries outside of Beijing. In 1860, Anglo-French troops looted the original zodiac heads during the Second Opium War. The seven heads known to exist (rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, horse, monkey and boar) have been returned to China. Ai Weiwei based seven of his sculptures on these originals while the remaining five (dragon, snake, goat, rooster and dog) are the artist’s reimagining of the missing sculptures.
“Fred Wilson, The Way the Moon’s in Love with the Dark (2017)”
Post Front Rotunda Fred Wilson’s chandelier creation engages visitors from the moment they enter the museum. It is over 8 feet high and 5 feet wide and is made of black murano glass, brass and steel.
“From Homer to Hopper: American Art from The Phillips Collection”
Feb. 1 to May 31, 2020
Holmes and Titelman Galleries
“From Homer to Hopper” presents some of the most important American paintings and sculptures from The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. The exhibition explores the history of American art from the late 19th century through the 1960s, as the country was establishing its artistic identity and setting its course for modern art. The selection of works encompasses the exacting realism of Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer, the impressionist paintings of Childe Hassam and John Henry Twachtman, the evocative images of Edward Hopper and Charles Sheeler, and continues with the bold modernist abstractions of Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove and Georgia O’Keeffe.
Artist James F. Hutchinson spent years living with Seminole people and painted numerous portraits, including this one of Lucy Tiger from 1993. JAMES F. HUTCHINSON
A. E. BACKUS MUSEUM AND GALLERY
500 N. Indian River Dr., Fort Pierce
“Double Feature: Contemporary Icons”
Nov. 26 through Dec. 29
Husband and wife artists James and Candice Ceravolo, who go by the names Ceravolo and Candice CMC, explore themes of popular culture. Ceravolo’s works are richly colored images of cowboys, spacemen and celebrities. Candice CMC makes large scale portraits of famous people, made up entirely of tiny images of doughnuts. The exhibition is presented in cooperation with ArtLink International.
“Driving Force: Alfred Hair and the Florida Highwaymen”
Jan. 8 through Feb. 16, 2020
The distinct work of the African-American artists known as the Highwaymen is explored in an exhibition that focuses on Alfred Hair (1941-1970). As a young artist, Hair saw the landscape paintings he made as not only an artistic endeavor, but a commercial enterprise, and he is credited with encouraging the incredible output of the Highwaymen. The guest curator is Highwaymen art collector Roger Lightle. The exhibition leads up to the museum’s annual Highwaymen weekend celebration and the city’s Highwaymen festival.
“James F. Hutchinson: Visionary Truths”
Feb. 22 through April 26, 2020
As a teenager, James Hutchinson (born 1932) developed his artistic skills in the studio of A.E. “Bean” Backus and grew to become a renowned painter in his own right. This exhibition, drawn from his own collection, presents the artist’s story through his journey describing the beauty of places where he painted, including Florida, Jamaica and Hawaii. He is also known for his portraits of the Seminole people. Among a lifetime of honors, in 2011, Hutchinson was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
The human body will be explored in “Magnificent Me,” an interactive exhibition Dec. 19 to March 15, 2020, at the Elliott Museum in Stuart. ELLIOTT MUSEUM
A discarded mannequin becomes a work of art by Fort Pierce artist Jon Neprud. ELLIOTT MUSEUM
Through the Eye of the Camera
May 8 through June 19, 2020
This popular yearly competition focuses on the best works of photography as art with a juried exhibition that includes cash prizes for the winning exhibitions.
THE ELLIOT MUSEUM
825 N.E. Ocean Blvd., Stuart
“Between the Tides”
Now through Dec. 1An exhibition by artist Ron Garrett that explores the state’s maritime heritage includes mixed media sculptures, paintings and linocuts, along with etchings of marine life and shipwrecks discovered from Biscayne National Park up to the Treasure Coast.
“Magnificent Me”
Dec. 19 through March 15, 2020
The wonders of the human body are explored in this interactive exhibition from the Discovery network that is appropriate for all ages. Different medical technologies enable viewers to see the working of human systems, such as seeing, hearing, moving and thinking.
“In Her Image”
A juried exhibition focusing on women’s issues, Treasure Coast artists are invited to make a statement using discarded mannequins supplied by the Treasure Coast Art Association as the medium. Interested artists can find the prospectus on the Fort Pierce Art Club website, treasurecoastartassociation.org. The deadline for entry is Dec. 7. For more information, contact Jeanne Johansen at 772.579.1529 or email fortpierce.artclub@gmail.com.
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CultMin Gheorghiu on Romania's participating in Venice Biennale: Romania has a privileged place
Published by Agerpres on Tue, 01/28/2020 - 14:05
Romania has a privileged place in terms of visibility at La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale), Romanian Culture Minister Bogdan Gheorghiu said on Tuesday. "Here, I have two arguments. One would be the visitor inflow, which is a huge one. For instance, last year over 600,000 people visited the Arts Biennale, and two years ago, almost 300,000 persons visited the Architecture Biennale.
Three-month interbank offered rate rises to 3.18 ppa
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PM Orban attends 75th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp's liberation
Prime Minister Ludovic Orban attended, on Monday, the 75th anniversary of liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
President Iohannis on IT sector tax exemption: We must consider the introduction of taxes, maybe progressively
President Klaus Iohannis said on Monday that the idea of the equal tax treatment is "basically true", but in the case of the IT sector, where salaries are exempt from the income tax, the authorities need to take into account the fact that this sector has increased in the past ten years from "something insignificant to 6 per cent of the GDP." The head of state was asked if the tax exemption for
Iohannis: I think it is right for the private, public systems to provide healthcare services together
President Klaus Iohannis supports a project released by the Ministry of Health that allows privately operated hospitals in Romania access to national healthcare programmes. "The government has to provide all healthcare services, but in Romania there is also a private system that operates up to good parameters.
Three schools close in Romania due to flu
Romania's Education and Research Minister Monica Anisie announced on Monday that three schools - two in Bucharest and one in Sibiu - are closed due to respiratory infections or influenza. "The ministry has sent to all school inspectorates and schools a note requesting to monitor illnesses due to respiratory infections or influenza.
Special access line opens in Romania for airport passengers coming from China
Romania's Health Minister Victor Costache said on Monday that special access lines for passengers coming from China were established at international airports. "For several days now, a special access line has been operating at international airports for passengers coming from China, as well as for Chinese passengers. We also have a database and we know their location in Romania.
EximBank finalises Banca Romaneasca's takeover
EximBank has finalized the acquisition of Banca Romaneasca SA (BROM), with the submitted bid being part of the agreement concluded in June 2019 between EximBank and National Bank of Greece (NBG) on the purchase of the latter's 99.28 percent stake in BROM, the bank said in a release.
Increasing flexibility among EU funds, a gov't goal, says PM Orban
One of the government's goals is to increase flexibility among the European funds, from 5 percent to 15 percent so as to be able to allocate the money to Romania's priorities from other programmes, on Wednesday said Prime Minister Ludovic Orban at a briefing at the Victoria Palace. "I said that they [the European funds for the transport infrastructure, ed.
Romania takes over BSEC chairmanship-in-office
On January 1, 2020 Romania took over the chairmanship-in-office of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organisation (BSEC), with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (CCIR) taking over the chairmanship-in-office of the BSEC Business Council for six months.
Tecau-Rojer duo advances to Australian Open men's doubles second round
Tennis duo Horia Tecau of Romania and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands on Wednesday progressed to the second round of the men's doubles event at Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year, after defeating Dominic Inglot (GB)/Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pak) 6-1 3-6 6-2. Seed number eight prevailed in an hour and 36 minutes.
MAE: Secretary of State Iulia Matei underscores importance of strengthening economic cooperation with Sweden
Secretary of State Iulia Matei underscored the importance of strengthening and diversifying economic cooperation with Sweden, according to a press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). The Secretary of State for European Affairs, Iulia Matei, on Monday welcomed Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to Romania Therese Hayden, on a courtesy visit.
Director Radu Jude first Romanian with three productions at Berlinale 2020
Director Radu Jude is the first Romanian to be present at the Berlin International Film Festival with three productions, informs a press release issued on Monday for AGERPRES.
As many as 534,278 female shareholders/business associates in Romanian companies as of late Nov. 2019
The number of female shareholders or business associates in Romanian companies was, at the end of November 2019, 534,278, or 37.48% of the total shareholders or associates. According to data with the National Trade Registry Office (ONRC), male shareholders or associations were 891,129, in the 982,976 operating companies in Romania.
Crown Custodian Margareta: Before coming to Romania, 30yrs ago, I felt like a person without a shadow
The Custodian of the Romanian Crown Margareta stated on Saturday that, before coming to Romania 30 years ago, she felt like "a person without a shadow," for she didn't feel complete far from her country.
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A world at risk? A role for evaluators in strengthening Global Health Security.
‘We are not prepared for the threat of a fast-moving respiratory pandemic that could spread across the globe within 36 hours and eventually kill up to 80 million people.’
These chilling words called for action in a recent annual report on global preparedness for health emergencies by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), an independent group of 15 experts convened by the World Bank and WHO after the first Ebola crisis. The report said that “all parts of society and the international community have made progress in preparing to face health emergencies” but also cautions that “current efforts remain grossly insufficient”[1].
History of pandemics
Pandemics have occurred throughout human history, the deadliest probably being the Bubonic plague, also known as the ‘Black Death’, that killed between 75 to 200 million people between 1347 and 1350, and the so-called ‘Spanish Flu’, that infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide in 1918, 10% of which died as a result[2]. The risk of rapid spread of infectious diseases across national borders is however at an all-time high today, due to the ever-increasing pace of globalisation and international travel.
Epidemics in the 21st century
In the first two decades of the 21st century alone, we have had outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), meningitis, chikungunya, influenza, cholera, measles, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Ebola, Zika, and yellow fever which has spread across different countries[3].
In addition to tragic levels of mortality and morbidity, a pandemic could cause widespread panic, destabilise national security (due to increasing looting and violence), destroy already fragile health systems, and seriously impact the global economy and trade.
Low-and Middle-Income Countries are paying the highest price
Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) are at the same time more at risk of outbreaks and would bear the highest costs in case of a widespread pandemic. They are at higher risk for a number of reasons: countries in the tropics are at more at risk of vector-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria because mosquitoes and other insect vectors thrive in these regions. Many LMICs are also at higher risk of zoonotic disease because of common farming practices such as keeping chickens and pigs in backyards, and lastly, these countries often have weak health systems and are less prepared to prevent or swiftly detect or respond to outbreaks.[4]
All of this means that, in the event of a large epidemic, the human costs for LMICs would be catastrophic. It is estimated for example that if a pandemic like the 1918 Spanish Flu were to hit today, 96% of the deaths would be in LMICs[5]. A pandemic of this sort would likely undo decades of development efforts.
So what does the report suggest?
In the face of such a gloomy scenario, the recent GPMB report urges countries, regional and multilateral institutions to:
Commit to preparedness by implementing their binding obligations under the International Health Regulations [(IHR (2005)][6] prioritising and dedicating sufficient domestic resources and recurrent spending for preparedness.
Lead by example by following through on their political and funding commitments for preparedness and agreeing to routinely monitor progress.
Build strong systems and to prioritise community involvement in all preparedness efforts, building trust and engaging multiple stakeholders.
Be prepared for the worst by ensuring adequate investment in developing vaccines and therapeutics, broad-spectrum antivirals and other appropriate non-pharmaceutical interventions.
Link preparedness with financial risk planning. Funding replenishments of the International Development Association (IDA), The Global Fund and Gavi should include explicit commitments regarding preparedness.
Create incentives and increase funding for preparedness for the poorest and most vulnerable countries to “close financing gaps for their national actions plans for health security as a joint responsibility and a global public good”.
Strengthen coordination mechanisms through the United Nations under the leadership of WHO to mobilise the wider national, regional and international community since the earlier stages of an outbreak[7].
The role of evaluation in strengthening Global Health Security
Itad, as a leading provider of monitoring, evaluation and learning services across multiple thematic areas including Public Health and Global Health Security, is providing strategic advice to some of the key players currently involved in efforts to increase LMICs’ capacity to prevent, detect and respond to disease outbreaks of any size and nature. The box below presents a few examples. This work supports interventions so that they can maximise their contribution to their intended impact and be even more effective in building capacity to respond to the next big pandemic.
While we can only anticipate to a limited extent where and when an outbreak that could cause the next big pandemic may occur, based on our experience in the sector, we agree with the GPMB report in that national, regional and international institutions should continue to work together and invest resources to ensure that the world is adequately prepared to detect and respond to the next outbreak, whenever that will occur. This requires deep thinking about how change occurs in a complex, ever more closely connected world, where one actor’s interventions may be necessary but are unlikely to be sufficient to affect the changes necessary in the time we have left. Evaluators in this field have a big role to produce and communicate insights, analysis and suggestions in a robust, timely and useful way so that interventions to contribute to Global Health Security efforts are as efficient, effective and equitable as they could possibly be.
Itad’s work in strengthening Global Health Security
Itad is currently playing a role as third party monitoring and evaluation agent of Public Health England’s IHR Strengthening Programme which aims to build health system capacity in a number of countries in Africa and Asia[1]. The programme aims to improve global health security by supporting and strengthening national and regional (supra-national) health protection systems. By strengthening these systems, they are more able to prevent or detect, and respond to public health threats before they become potential cross-border emergencies reportable under the International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005. At key learning moments in the evaluation, Itad is bringing together stakeholders to reflect on how, why and to what extent the supported interventions are addressing the problems they were designed to combat, and contributing to wider strengthening of the use of evidence for decision-making. In addition to this internal learning function, we will also support key decisions at key such as upcoming HMG spending reviews and provide learning for the wider sector.
Itad has also been contracted to conduct a performance evaluation and ongoing independent monitoring to support programme delivery for the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST), or what Bill Gates has referred to as “a heroic supergroup of scientists who deploy to outbreak zones to help local governments stop infectious diseases”[2]. The UK-PHRST is a consortium formed of Public Health England and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, with the University of Oxford and King’s College London as academic partners. Funded by UK Aid from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), the UK-PHRST supports low- and middle-income countries’ ability to investigate and respond to disease outbreaks. Since November 2016, it has responded to over ten requests from organisations such as WHO GOARN to support responses to disease outbreaks including the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As an external partner, our role is to provide a critical and constructive review of programme delivery, recommend improvements, evaluate results and complement the UK-PHRST’s internal monitoring processes.
Given that the increase in drug-resistant bacteria can make disease outbreaks more difficult to control and can increase the burden on health systems, tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is, of course, crucial to preparedness as well. In 2016 Itad was contracted by DHSC to be the Fleming Fund Independent Evaluation Supplier. The Fleming Fund[3] is a £265 million One Health programme, to support LMICs in tackling AMR to prevent a potential ‘Drugmageddon’ that could cause 10 million deaths globally per year by 2050[4]. To that end, the Fleming Fund support countries generating the data they need to inform policies and practices which will optimise the use of antimicrobial medicines. Itad’s role is to assess the Fund’s plausible contribution to changes in policy, regulations, attitude and practice around the use of antibiotics, through the generation of more and higher quality data on AMR. We also provide learning at key stages during the evaluation, to support adaptive management and inform decision-making for this and AMR programmes.
Itad is also very much involved in supporting donors’ efforts to build strong and resilient health systems, which increase the likelihood of preventing, detecting and successfully responding to any epidemic. In 2017, for instance, Itad was asked to conduct a Formative Evaluation of UNICEF’s approach to Health Systems Strengthening. The evaluation examined two separate but inter-related domains of UNICEF’s engagement in HSS – namely, how UNICEF as an organization is supporting the changes sought in its approach, and how program implementation is supporting HSS at country level. The findings and recommendations put forth by the evaluation aimed to influence strategic direction and partnerships/advocacy as well as programme strategies to achieve the results and targets outlined in UNICEF’s Health Strategy 2016-30.
[1] https://itad.com/projects/uk-public-health-rapid-support-team-performance-evaluation-and-independent-monitoring-agent/
[2] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Meet-the-virus-hunters?WT.mc_id=04_30_2019_09_Epidemics_BG-FB_&WT.tsrc=BGFB&linkId=66760513&fbclid=IwAR2d9YsOhrM0aG5PZZm9-WspGfpopqP9ixkzSVuvv3RYCYeKeX9I7F8LxfA
[3] https://www.flemingfund.org/
[4] https://www.itad.com/no-time-to-wait-evaluating-the-fight-against-drugmageddon/
[1] http://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf
[2] https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/disease-outbreaks/1
[6] These regulations describe an obligation for all authorities to develop, strengthen and maintain certain minimum core public health capacities for surveillance and response to outbreaks. These include the ability to detect, assess, notify, and report events and to respond to any public health emergency of international concern. https://www.who.int/ihr/publications/9789241580496/en/
Giada Tu Thanh, September 2019
Image Credit: IFRC & DFAT
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He is a software developer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems. He graduated in 1990 from MIT with a degree in computer science. After graduation he worked in the Information Systems (IS) department at MIT until 1999, where among other things he was project leader of the Kerberos V5 team. After MIT IS he went to work for VA Linux Systems for two years. Starting December 2001, he was employed by IBM, working to improve the performance and scalability of the Linux kernel. In December 2007, he went to work for The Linux Foundation. He initially served as Chief Platform Strategist at the foundation. In December 2008, he was appointed to Chief Technology Officer of the organization. He is now employed by Google, working on kernel, file system, and storage. He is the primary developer and maintainer of e2fsprogs, the userspace utilities for the ext2 and ext3 file systems, and is a maintainer for the ext4 file system. He served as Treasurer for USENIX until June 2008, and has chaired the annual Linux Kernel Developers Summit. He is a Debian Developer, maintaining several packages, mostly filesystem-related ones, including e2fsprogs since March 2003. He was a member of the Security Area Directorate for the Internet Engineering Task Force, and was one of the chairs for the IPsec working group. He was one of the founding board members for the Free Standards Group, and currently serves that organization as its Chairman. He was awarded the Free Software Foundation's 2006 Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
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Jess Varnish evidence to be heard at Manchester Employment Tribunal
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Jess Varnish will call British Cycling's controversial former chief medic Dr Richard Freeman to give evidence to a tribunal on Tuesday. The 28-year-old sprinter's case against British Cycling and UK Sport is set to begin as she claims unfair dismissal. The tribunal will consider if, as an athlete in receipt of UK Sport funding, she was self-employed or an employee. Should it be ruled that Varnish was an employee, the parties would reconvene for a tribunal in 2019. The hearing in Manchester is expected to last until 17 December. Freeman, who is the subject of a General Medical Council investigation, is one of three witnesses Varnish is set to call to give evidence. The others are her boyfriend and ex-GB BMX champion Liam Phillips and her agent James Harper. Freeman was the doctor who received a mystery medical package for Sir Bradley Wiggins at a race in France in 2011. Last year he pulled out of giving evidence to a parliamentary committee hearing on Team Sky due to ill health. He denied any wrongdoing in an interview with BBC Sport in July after resigning from British Cycling because of a stress-related illness in October 2017. Simon Fenton, representing Varnish, said her case is "she was an employee (or worker), with the right not to be discriminated against". He added: "This case comes in a line of decisions from the cases of Uber, Addison Lee and Pimlico Plumbers which show how tribunals are looking at what actually happened in practice rather than simply accepting what is said in the contractual documentation. And they are deciding that the individuals are workers." On Monday both sides in the dispute spent the first day of their employment tribunal reading each others' paperwork, with Varnish's camp receiving 4,000 pages of documents from their opponents on Sunday. Varnish was omitted following the 2016 Track Cycling World Championships in London, after the two-woman, two-rider team sprint squad she was part of failed to qualify for the Rio Olympics. She alleged sex discrimination against Shane Sutton, then the technical director of British Cycling, who was found to have used sexist language towards her. Sutton resigned but was later cleared of eight of nine allegations. A UK Sport spokesperson told BBC Sport the organisation had been "advised that we are unable to comment while these legal proceedings are taking place". British Cycling said it had no comment to make before the hearing. Analysis Dan Roan, BBC sports editor Varnish will call three witnesses as she and her lawyers try to show that she was subject to the kind of control and restrictions that meant she was effectively an employee of British Cycling - and therefore should have had protection against discrimination. British Cycling and UK Sport will seek to show the tribunal that publicly-funded athletes are self-employed, and not afforded such rights. This could be just as important a landmark case to British Olympic and Paralympic sport as the Bosman ruling was to football back in 1995 when it allowed players to be free agents after their contracts expired If the tribunal finds in Varnish's favour, not only could she be awarded compensation for lost earnings - it may have major repercussions for hundreds of other athletes. UK Sport may become liable for backdated pensions and tax contributions of other athletes - and then have to cut the numbers who receive support. UK Sport currently treats athlete funds as if they are student grants - with no tax having to be paid. But all that could change if Varnish prevails. In terms of medals, the current funding system has proved highly successful, but critics say it leaves athletes too vulnerable, and it is now under threat like never before.
Football gossip: Hazard, Fabregas, Man, Slimani, Neves, Almiron
Chelsea playmaker Eden Hazard, 27, has again hinted at a move to Real Madrid and says he does not know when he will decide on his future. But the Belgium forward admits talks over a new contract at Stamford Bridge have stopped. (RMC Sport via Express) AC Milan sporting director Leonardo has confirmed the Serie A club have approached Chelsea about the possibility of signing Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas, 31. (London Evening Standard) Tottenham have joined Manchester United in pursuit of Romania forward Dennis Man, the 20-year-old who plays for FCSB, the club formerly known as Steaua Bucharest. (Sun) Manchester United are leading the chase for Lyon's 21-year-old France midfielder Tanguy Ndombele, who is also a target for Barcelona, Manchester City and Tottenham. (Mirror, via France Football) Spurs are facing a further delay to the opening of their new stadium due to difficulties in staging test events over the Christmas period. (Times - subscription required) Fulham boss Claudio Ranieri is ready to move for Leicester's record signing Islam Slimani in January. Ranieri signed the 30-year-old Algeria striker during his time as Foxes manager. (Telegraph) Fulham have also made an enquiry for Deportivo La Coruna's Portuguese striker Pedro Martelo, 19. (Mail) The agent of Wolves' Portugal midfielder Ruben Neves is pushing for the 21-year-old to move to Juventus. (Calciomercato - in Italian) Miguel Almiron's father has claimed Newcastle are in prime position to sign the 24-year-old Paraguay midfielder from Atlanta United in the January transfer window. (Newcastle Chronicle) The Football Supporters' Federation is unhappy at the scheduling of FA Cup third-round matches, but the Football Association has defended the fixtures by highlighting the benefits of a new overseas deal starting for the competition. (Mail) Arsenal midfielder Matteo Guendouzi, 19, says Paris St-Germain were interested in him but he chose to move to the Gunners because of incoming manager Unai Emery and the fact so many French players had played a "big role" at the London club. (Star) Leeds and Aston Villa will attempt to sign Newcastle goalkeeper Karl Darlow next month. The 28-year-old has lost his place, featuring in only one match this season. (Sun) Former England defender and BT Sport pundit Rio Ferdinand described Manchester City's 28-year-old right-back Kyle Walker a "liability at the top level" in off-air comments circulated during Saturday's 2-0 defeat against Chelsea. (Independent) Former Cardiff defender Greg Halford, 34, has been training with West Brom and could be offered a short-term deal by the Championship side. (WalesOnline) Manchester United were recommended Netherlands players Frenkie de Jong, 21, and Matthijs de Ligt, 19, before they made their first-team debuts with Ajax but chose not to pursue them, according to the club's former head of youth recruitment, Derek Langley. (Manchester Evening News) Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says he will not be managing in Italy any time soon and laughed off suggestions Napoli made an offer for him during his time in charge at Borussia Dortmund. (Liverpool Echo) Bayern Munich's former Netherlands winger Arjen Robben, 34, says he will retire if the "ideal offer" does not materialise when his deal ends this summer. (Goal) West Bromwich Albion are interested in signing Leicester and Wales midfielder Andy King, 30, on loan in January. (Mail) Liverpool are weighing up a move for Borussia Monchengladbach midfielder Thorgan Hazard. The 25-year-old Belgium player - brother of Chelsea forward Eden - could join the Reds in January. (Liga Financial) Napoli's Belgium forward Dries Mertens, 31, says he will not be fazed by the atmosphere at Anfield for their Champions League decider against Liverpool on Tuesday as "football in Italy is crazy and the people are very crazy too so I think we are used to it". (Times - subscription required) Middlesbrough have asked Wolves if they can sign Adama Traore on loan in January, four months after the 20-year-old Spanish forward left Teesside. (Teamtalk) Bayern Munich's France winger Kingsley Coman, 22, says he could retire if he suffers another serious injury that requires surgery.
Barcelona scrap plans to face Girona in Miami in January
The Catalan club had proposed the 26 January fixture would take place in the US city and had support from La Liga. But the Spanish Football Association (RFEF) and players' union (AFE) were vocal in objecting to the move. Barca said it had "agreed to withdraw" the proposal, adding: "This project will not prosper until there is agreement between all parties." A club statement added: "FC Barcelona were and remain willing to play a La Liga game in Miami, and accepted that income from the game would be shared among all Primera Division and Segunda Division clubs, following the same criteria of television rights money distribution." La Liga has signed to play one game a season in the US as part of a 15-year deal with media company Relevent. Catalan neighbours Girona and Barcelona had agreed to move their game to the Hard Rock Stadium. La Liga said it was still planning to stage a league match outside Spain. "We regret to disappoint our fans in the US and will work to, in the shortest possible time, stage an official La Liga game in the US," a statement read. "La Liga will continue the planned action so an official game can be played outside of Spain." The Spanish top flight had filed a lawsuit with a civil court in Madrid in a bid to force the RFEF to approve the match, while David Aganzo - president of the country's players' union - believed the fixture would not go ahead in 2019 but could be "possible" in the future. The match also needed the approval of Uefa, US Soccer and the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf). La Liga had previously said it would go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport if Uefa blocked the move.
Aaron Rai and Shubhankar Sharma: 'Rise of duo could have huge effect on golf'
Fresh from the victory of Wolverhampton's Aaron Rai at the recent Hong Kong Open, Shubhankar Sharma became the youngest Indian to wrap up the Asian Tour's Order of Merit. Both players are capable of stimulating interest in largely untapped markets of vast potential. After playing all four majors and the full set of World Golf Championships in 2018, the 22-year-old Sharma has also been named Rookie of the Year on the European Tour. "This year has been a huge learning curve for me," Sharma said. "I've played in some of the biggest events I could ever imagine and learned a lot. "I know I have the game to be among the best in the world and I just want to keep playing well and give my best shot." If Sharma comes close to fulfilling the promise he has shown in his fledgling career, the implications could be massive. "The effect will be absolutely mind blowing," Jas Athwal, a Yorkshire-based campaigner, told BBC Sport. "Especially in India, to have a major winner from that continent would be great. This young man seems to be fantastic and seems to have all his game together, just like Aaron. "So you keep your fingers crossed and as long as he keeps working hard I'm sure he will be in with a shout." Athwal started the burgeoning Waterstone Park Golf Society and has run community programmes in the Yorkshire area to introduce golf to inner-city schoolchildren of Asian descent. "It would be a big boost in the arm for Asian golf which we have been championing for 20 odd years," he said. "To give us a role model for the kids to look up to would be fantastic." Immediately after last month's victory in Hong Kong, which has made him the early leader of the Race to Dubai, the 24-year-old Rai told BBC Sport of Sharma's potential impact. "An amazing player, a great symbol for India and already a superstar," he said. "Then you've got Julian Suri from America who also has Indian origins from his father's side, and Jack Singh Brar, who is British Asian and has just had an incredible year on the Challenge Tour. He will have a great career ahead of him." But despite this, there are fears that golf's administrators will fail to maximise the benefits of successes from this constituency of players. "These guys might open up the doors because previously no one has ever listened to us with regard to promoting golf," said Athwal, who was the UK's first Sikh golf club captain. "Nothing has changed for the last 30 odd years, there's no involvement with the R and A or anybody else, so we just carry on with ourselves." Nevertheless, he has witnessed a significant increase in interest among British Asian golfers, bucking overall participation trends. "It's grown immeasurably," Athwal said. "Up and down the country there are now hundreds of societies, people holding tournaments just like ours which started with us way back in the day. "Where there was hardly anybody playing, now we have to turn people away from our events and likewise other events. "This community has grown golf where golf has been [otherwise] stagnant in memberships and so on and so forth. They are trying to find innovative ways to make golf more sexy but the thing that's in front of them and the community that's growing it, they are ignoring." In the professional game there has been a steady stream of talent emerging from the Indian sub-continent; the likes of Jyoti Randhawa, SSP Chowrasia, Arjun Atwal, Jeev Milkha Singh and Anirban Lahiri. Now it feels as though there is real momentum and we can add the exciting Sharma and, from a UK perspective, Rai into the mix. Their impact has the potential to stretch way further than that of most 20-somethings emerging on the scene. Athwal would like to think they might prompt renewed interest in the sort of projects he has been running for the past two decades. "Hopefully Aaron and people like that make people sit up think 'ooh bloody hell - these guys have been doing it for 20 years, let's find out what they've been doing and what their ideas are about golf,'" he said.
Anyika Onuora: Olympic medallist on body image confidence issues as a young athlete
The 34-year-old, who won 4x400m relay bronze at Rio 2016, struggled with body image confidence as a youngster having gone to a predominantly white school. As an athlete, she was often told she was "fat" because her body was naturally bigger than many peers. "At times you would feel objectified," said Onuora, who has Nigerian parents. "I had an adult body at such a young age - I had hips, quite a big backside, and I didn't know what to do with it or how to feel about it." Onuora - who started her athletics career as a 100m and 200m sprinter before moving to the longer distance - was speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's The Sista Collective podcast. She said she used to avoid wearing crop tops and short shorts while training because "no-one had the same body", and chose to wear black clothes to avoid drawing attention to herself. "When I was younger, I used to wear a big coat to cover my whole hips and backside, and my friends and family always used to ask me why I was covering up," said the 2015 World Championship bronze medallist. "It was because you have moments where people feel the need to just grab it, they feel entitled to touch because they are curious and it's not something they see." She added: "When you're around a bunch of white girls and their bodies look the same, and then there is yours, it messes with your self-esteem so much." Onuora, a two-time European champion, claims she was told to lose weight by athletics bosses despite her muscular figure, and says she was often compared with the now-retired Christine Ohuruogu even though, she says, they are "not really the same size". She now wants to use her experiences to help instil body confidence in young girls. "I remember being told a couple of times that I was fat, which was tough to go through at such a young age when you want to perform your best," she said. "But being told by the people at the top that maybe you need to lose weight, in reality because of what they perceive that someone who is small and petite is going to run fast, you're not their ideal fit. "I go into schools and do public speaking, and I have no issues with that because I know, as a black woman, I have been in the exact same position where you're told 'your body features aren't good enough', 'you're too fat', or 'you need to put your body parts away'. "Even as elite female athletes, we can be the best in the world but it doesn't mean we don't have the same problems. "I have seen the growth in myself over the years. Now, I love my body and I love what I do, I work hard for this, this is my job, my body is my engine."
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BASF focuses on chemistry's role in a sustainable future
BASF, the world's largest chemical company, has a new slogan. The new claim - 'We create chemistry' - echoes the company's, "We create chemistry" strategy, which was announced in 2011. "Since we launched this strategy, BASF has been increasingly focusing on offering its customers functionalized products and solutions based on chemistry as a clever combination of compounds," explained Kurt Bock, chairman of the board of executive directors of BASF. "It is therefore the right time to make the next step and move from 'the chemical company' to 'We create chemistry.'"
Chemistry, in this case, refers not only to science but also to the chemistry between people. "This is at the core of BASF and its brand," stated Bock. The new slogan will initially be used in the logo in circumstances directly related to the company's 150th anniversary. As of January 1, 2015, the start of the anniversary year, it will be applied broadly throughout BASF.
An important facet of BASF's 'We create chemistry' strategy has been the development of a new process for steering its portfolio based on sustainability criteria. Called the Sustainable Solution Steering method, it is an externally validated process that is used to systematically review and evaluate the sustainability aspects of the approximately 50,000 relevant product applications in the company's portfolio, by measuring the products' contribution to sustainability within their various markets and industries. The process also looks at the steps that are necessary in order, where possible, to increase this contribution.
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Advocate: Robideaux already signed “letter of intent”
Posted: 12:09 PM, Jul 19, 2018
By: Site Administrator
Although Lafayette Mayor-President Joel Robideaux has spent the last several days saying he’s talking with several companies interested in buying LUS, our media partners at the Advocate report he has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to pursue a deal with the Bernhard Capital Partners group.
Under the deal in the letter, a Bernhard affiliate, NextGen, would assume all responsibility for operating LUS and also would be entitled to all income from LUS. In return, NextGen would pay the city $246 million in cash and assume more than $200 million in debt; would pay the city $64 million every three years if LUS’s base rate revenue grows at least 2.1 percent annually; and NextGen and the city would split any base rate revenue growth that exceeds 2.1 percent.
To read the story and see the entire letter for yourself, click here.
Robideaux told reporters Tuesday that any sale or management agreement with another company would have to go to LPUA, then to the City-Parish Council for approval, but would not need to go to voters if another company were to manage LUS. There’s an entire section of the Lafayette City-Parish Charter that deals with the subject. You can read the entire charter for yourself by clicking here. But, here’s the entire text of that section:
A. The Lafayette Public Utilities Authority shall not sell, lease or in any manner dispose of the utility system or any substantial part thereof without approval by a majority vote of the qualified electors residing within the boundaries of the City of Lafayette voting in an election called for that purpose. This shall not be construed to prevent the disposal, with the approval of the consulting engineers, of property which has become obsolete, unserviceable and not necessary for the efficient operation of the utility system. The proceeds of the sale of such property shall be used to purchase or construct other capital improvements for the utility system.
B. In the event of the sale or lease of the public utility, the proceeds shall be used for capital improvements in the City of Lafayette.
Robideaux is scheduled to appear before the LPUA on Tuesday to explain his discussions. KATC has spoken with most council members since the news broke and none have said they knew anything about Robideaux’s "negotiations."
Although Robideaux said other electric companies have approached him with the same interest — including Entergy and the firm that bought Cleco — Bernhard has shown the most serious interest, he said.
Robideaux said Tyron Picard, of the governmental consulting firm the Picard Group, made the introduction. The Picard Group represents Bernhard.
Our investigative team uncovered ties between the Robideaux administration and the company.
Campaign finance records show Bernhard and its subsidiaries have contributed at least $8,500 to Robideaux since his 2015 campaign for mayor-president.
Bernhard is also represented by the Picard Group whose senior director of state affairs is former state senator Mike Michot.
Michot and Robideaux are long-time political allies who served in the legislature together. In 2009, the two founded a PAC together. Michot served as chair of Robideaux’s transition team before he took office.
Michot remains on that PAC, which has helped push tax propositions on the mayor’s behalf.
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On Sale in 2011: Air-Powered Car from Zero Pollution Motors
I enjoy science fiction, but I must admit that I’ve never read any of the works by Jules Verne. I know. It’s terrible, but I have never really taken to reading. I think it’s because books don’t come alive to me, as they did for Bastian Balthazar Bux (the kid from The Never Ending Story movie. Or was that a book? Sheesh!). Anyways, I always wished that reading would appeal to me, but I have not been hooked…yet. [Note: I’m hoping one day I will be a reader of many books. Sometimes I think reading is an acquired taste, while other times I just figure that it’s a lot like taste buds – they change over time. One day you love a certain food and hate another type. Five years later and there you are loving the food(s) you once hated. But I digress. Big time.]
Back to Jules Verne. Here are a couple of quotes from Jules Verne:
The Mysterious Island (1874): “Water decomposed into its primitive elements (Hydrogen and Oxygen), and decomposed doubtless by electricity, which will then have become a powerful and manageable force. Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as a fuel.”
Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863): “Our modern cities, with streets a hundred meters wide and buildings three hundred high, and which are always maintained at the same temperature, and with the sky furrowed by thousands of aero-cars and aero-buses!”
Jules Verne predicted a lot of stuff. Water used as a fuel. Water-powered vehicles. Aero-cars. Aero-buses. In Paris in the Twentieth Century, Verne even predicts the internet (in telegraph form), televisions, the electric chair, calculators and high-speed trains which run on compressed air. Sounds like a bunch of 20th century hogwash, right? I jest. Many of his predictions have become a reality, and now it seems that Zero Pollution Motors has realized the vision of using compressed air as a fuel for automobiles. Here are some of the designs of the first air cars, cars powered by gas and air:
Air Car Designs from Zero Pollution Motors
I know. I know. It’s more weird car designs. There must be some scientific law that states: “All cars with new fuel technologies must look really weird.” Regardless, ZPM is hoping to sell these cars in the United States as early as 2011, and the price tag will be $18,000-$20,000. That’s pretty good for a car that gets about 100 mpg and runs on compressed air and a small conventional engine. I dunno. I think it’s pretty cool. You can read more about it here if you want.
How the Air Car Works
I like the idea of all of these energy efficient cars, but I’m still waiting for a perfected version of Mr. Fusion. Just imagine if Doc Brown hired the ShamWow guy to sell Mr. Fusion. I’d own four of them like five months ago!
Doc Brown Pours Beer into Mr. Fusion in Back to the Future
I mean, I can run on beer. Why can’t a car? Just kidding. I don’t run. And I don’t drink beer. But I still think the notion of using trash as fuel is terrific!
Bonus: Just because you may want to know who invented the compressed air technology for cars – it was a dude named Guy Negre. Here he is, standing between two air cars from ZPM:
Guy Negre and 2 Air Cars from ZPM
They don’t call this thing an Air Pod for no reason. It looks like an escape pod from a submarine. If only submarines had such awesome escape pods.
MDI Air Pod (Air Powered Car)
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Westside Wildcats win Pop Warner Super Bowl at the finish
The Times-Union
Yet another football championship is coming back to the First Coast.
The Westside Wildcats won the Pop Warner Super Bowl Saturday afternoon, defeating the Far West Jets of Arizona 19-18 and winning the team's first national title in the youth football competition at the Wide World of Sports Complex in Kissimmee.
It took a stunning finish for that to happen.
Nikko Bates threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Hylton Stubbs as the clock ran out to tie things at 18-all. Bates’ keeper conversion run broke the tie and gave Westside the championship in a game that went back and forth throughout.
Westside had defeated the East Bay Warriors (24-14) and Hoffman Estates Redhawks (26-0) to reach the championship game.
The Wildcats play at the Division I Pee-Wee level, for children from age 9 to 12.
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Jana’s Campaign Receives National Award
Hays (KAN) – Jana’s Campaign, Inc. has received national recognition for its teen dating violence prevention program. In January, the Mary Byron Project of Louisville, Kentucky, awarded Jana’s Campaign with the “Commended Program Award” as part of their Celebrating Solutions Awards program.
“We are thrilled to be the recipients of this award and honored to be recognized by the Mary Byron Project,” said Christie Brungardt, co-founder of Jana’s Campaign. “We know that prevention of gender and relationship violence is critical work and we are grateful for and humbled by this award.”
The “Commended Program” honor includes a cash award for Jana’s Campaign. These resources will be used to expand the organization’s teen dating violence prevention activities for students, teachers, coaches, parents and administrators across Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska. The program’s ultimate goal is to help adolescents and young adults recognize and understand the difference between caring, supporting relationships and those that are controlling, manipulating or abusive.
“Our work in secondary education is crucial,” said Kelley Parker, Executive Director of Jana’s Campaign. “As young people enter into relationships, they need to be able to recognize unhealthy relationship behaviors. We are excited to continue our work with secondary schools in implementing effective prevention programming across the region.”
In the past three years, Jana’s Campaign has worked with more than 300 middle and high schools to implement gender and relationship violence prevention programming, including faculty/staff training, classroom curriculum implementation, school assemblies, bystander intervention training and more. Jana’s Campaign was created in honor of the late Jana Mackey who lost her life to dating violence in 2008. Mackey was a law student at the University of Kansas at the time of her death. A year later a committed group of activists created Jana’s Campaign, Inc. with the single mission of reducing gender and relationship violence. Mackey was a 2000 Hays High (KS) graduate.
The Mary Byron Project was established in 2000 in memory of the young woman who was tragically murdered by a former boyfriend. Her murder led to the creation of automated crime victim notification technologies. The Mary Byron Project created the Celebrating Solutions Awards to showcase and applaud local innovations that demonstrate promise in breaking the cycle of violence.
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Want to work for the 2020 Census? Here's how
Officials are looking for census takers in Oregon. The work is flexible, part time, and temporary.
Author: Morgan Romero
Published: 6:33 PM PDT October 22, 2019
Updated: 2:40 PM PST January 23, 2020
PORTLAND, Ore. — Can you believe it's almost 2020?
With this new year comes a once-in-a-decade count that shapes your community's future: the 2020 U.S. Census.
There are events in the Portland-Metro area and all over the country this week as part of a week-long U.S. Census Bureau recruitment kick-off campaign.
Nationally, the Census Bureau needs to hire about 500,000 census takers. Those people will be from the communities where they're counting.
Along with census takers they need recruiting assistants, office staff and supervisors. They are looking for U.S. citizens who are 18 and older, have a valid e-mail address and a valid Social Security Number.
As a census taker in Oregon, you'll make $14.50 to $18 an hour depending on the county you're in and job type. Some jobs with the 2020 Census pay $20 an hour.
It's flexible, part time, temporary work. You will likely have to work evenings and weekends because that’s when people are home.
READ: After verifying addresses, Census Bureau is hiring thousands
Some who work for the census feel it's their civic duty to make sure everyone is counted, especially because our area has grown so much since the last census ten years ago.
“Portland has grown so much and other population centers have grown and gentrified so it’s really going to make an impact with funding,” a local field supervisor, Brett Duesing, said, “Federal funding, state coffers get a piece of that; pretty much all local governments, school districts are going to rely on this data to say we need more help here, we need more infrastructure and more services.”
Census results help determine how billions of federal dollars are allocated to your state and community, and set congressional districts.
But under-reporting is a major issue; many populations are hard to count, such as young kids, the elderly, various ethnic groups, immigrants, and the homeless.
This is the first census that will mostly be done online, however you can still self-report over the phone or by mail. Census takers are crucial in making sure everyone is counted, since not everyone self-reports.
“I would argue [census takers are] hugely important because there’s a system where everybody will be asked to do it on their own without a census taker – ideally most will do it on our own, fill it out and send it in – but then to try to get those last percentages to get everybody counted, it’s huge,” three-time census taker Scott Moshier said.
“And the idea, I think, that it comes from the community is a really big part of it. It’s like having folks that know the area, that understand people’s schedules. I think having local people be apart of it is really important.”
You can learn details about the jobs and what they require in the Job Details section of the 2020 Census website.
If you want to help shape your community's future or make some extra cash now, you can apply here.
READ: VERIFY: Is this survey from Republican National Committee part of the official US Census?
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BIM agreement
By Sandy Guthrie2017-01-25T11:54:00+00:00
Three UK construction industry bodies are aiming to clear up what they see as growing confusion over the process of standardising product information for use in Building Information Modelling (BIM).
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA), the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), and the Construction Products Association (CPA) have agreed on the respective roles of the LEXiCON and BIMHawk tools in developing standardised product data parameters and structures.
They said this should resolve the apparent confusion over whether the two initiatives competed with or complemented each other.
CIBSE has been leading an industry consortium for development of BIMHawk, a project to collect and structure product information in standardised product data templates (PDTs).
The CPA – with the support of the BIM Task Group and UK BIM Alliance – has been developing LEXiCON to create, define and record parameter names in a uniform and standardised way, and to make those parameters available to all those creating structured data, initially focusing on product data.
According to the CPA, a PDT allows manufacturers to demonstrate the features and describe the properties of a product using standard parameters in support of the design, construction, operation and maintenance of buildings. LEXiCON is a process for defining and publishing that information using a single source of terms, so the organisations have agreed to work together.
By aligning with the LEXiCON methodology, CIBSE said it would ensure that PDTs could feed directly and seamlessly into the delivery process.
The LEXiCON methodology is said to provide the governance to ensure the properties defined were the correct ones, and these would then be aligned with the buildingSmart Data Dictionary, which is being developed by buildingSMART International in association with the International Standards Organisation (ISO).
CIBSE will also become a Senior Relevant Authority for LEXiCON to enhance further development of parameters for mechanical, electrical and plumbing product data. BESA, CIBSE and the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA) are already working together with many interested parties in the building services sector, and said this agreement would extend the level of co-ordination and collaboration across the sector further.
BESA’s David Frise said, “This is just what the industry has been waiting for.”
He pointed out that it was more than six months since the passing of the government’s deadline for BIM to be mandatory on public sector projects, and that there was an urgent need to drive forward the process for gathering and transmitting project relevant data.
“This collaboration is, therefore, just what we need to move the whole process on to the next level,” said Frise.
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Trump administration to seek Britain trade deal after Brexit
by: MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press
Posted: Aug 7, 2019 / 10:28 AM PDT / Updated: Aug 7, 2019 / 01:18 PM PDT
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefs the media at a press conference following annual bilateral talks with Australian counterparts in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will pursue a free-trade agreement with Britain as soon as possible after it leaves the European Union, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday as the country’s new foreign secretary made his first official visit to the United States.
Pompeo also thanked the government of new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for agreeing to join a U.S.-led maritime security initiative in the Persian Gulf.
Speaking at a news conference with visiting British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, Pompeo said the Trump administration remains committed to respecting whatever Britain’s final decision on Brexit is and is eager to conclude a trade deal.
“We support the United Kingdom’s sovereign choice, however Brexit ultimately shakes out and we’ll be on the doorstep, pen in hand, ready to sign a new free trade agreement at the earliest possible time,” Pompeo said.
Raab said Johnson and his Cabinet are “absolutely resolved, determined” to leave the EU at the end of October with or without a deal to soften its effects.
He said he hoped to conclude a new trade deal with the U.S. “as soon as possible after we leave the EU on Oct. 31.”
Pompeo lauded Britain for signing onto the U.S.-led maritime security mission to protect international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The secretary of state said Britain’s decision to participate “is a victory for meaningful, effective multilateralism.”
The British Defense Ministry announced Monday that Royal Navy vessels will work alongside the U.S. Navy to escort vessels through the busy strait, which has become a flashpoint for tensions between Iran and the West. The U.S. has been asking its allies to take part in a naval mission to protect shipping in the strait, though other European nations have expressed reservations.
Britain has been giving U.K.-flagged vessels a naval escort since Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seized a British oil tanker last month.
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Home » FDA and FTC Issue Joint Warning Letter For CBD Products and Senator Schumer Applies Pressure on FDA to Regulate CBD
FDA and FTC Issue Joint Warning Letter For CBD Products and Senator Schumer Applies Pressure on FDA to Regulate CBD
Posted in Cannabis, CBD/Hemp
By Tonya M. Esposito and Renee B. Appel
Seyfarth Synopsis: Businesses should take note of recent developments in the CBD space. Consumer protection regulatory agencies issued another joint warning to a company selling CBD products making allegedly unsubstantiated claims. And, the FDA continues to stick to its public position that it is working toward both understanding the impact of CBD on users and crafting an effective regulatory framework. Despite this activity, Congressional leaders are still nipping at the heels of the FDA. Senator Chuck Schumer called on the FDA to issue and implement its CBD regulatory framework as soon as possible, and to report back to his office on its progress to date. In the interim, businesses will be left wondering what the rules of the road are.
Joint Warning Letter
Issued on October 10, 2019, the FDA and FTC partnered together to issue a joint warning to Rooted Apothecary LLC (“RA”), of Naples, Florida, for illegally selling unapproved CBD products that claim to solve a variety of health issues. RA has been accused of, among other things, claiming on its website that its products treat pain in infants, autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.
In their joint letter, both regulatory agencies made clear that RA’s purportedly fraudulent acts are illegal under statute. The FTC warned that such acts are illegal under the Federal Trade Commission Act, which makes it illegal to advertise products that can deceive consumers. Moreover, the FTC cautioned that any claims of treatment of diseases in humans must be backed by “competent and reliable scientific evidence.” Meanwhile, the FDA noted that under the Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act, RA has 15 days to respond to both the FDA and FTC on how it will correct these violations.
In its joint letter, the FDA made clear that it was “working quickly to further clarify our regulatory approach for products containing cannabis and … CBD.” To that end, it has called on the public to report adverse reactions to CBD products to the agency’s MedWatch program. The FDA stated that in evaluating potential regulatory solutions, it holds public health as its prime goal, one that is achieved through “science-based decision-making.” Dr. Amy Abernethy, Principal FDA Deputy Commissioner, previously stated that the FDA would report on its inquiry into the science behind CBD in late summer/early fall of 2019. No report has been issued yet.
Schumer’s Call to Action
Senator Chuck Schumer’s call to action for the FDA stems from the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill. In his public statements last month, Senator Schumer explained that the CBD space, which is already sizeable in New York, is poised to grow into a billion-dollar industry. In light of this, Senator Schumer notes that businesses within his state are eager to join the CBD craze, but cannot act without rules of the road. He indicated that it is “imperative” that regulations be issued and implemented as soon as possible, and that the FDA’s efforts thus far have been “woefully” inadequate. Senator Schumer requested that within 90 days of his letter to Acting FDA Commissioner, Norman Sharpless, the FDA is to provide Senator Schumer’s office an outline of “agency’s current plans for a specific regulatory framework related to CBD along with a timeline for when comprehensive enforcement policies for CBD products will be finalized and implemented.”
Repeated calls to action from various parties (ranging from former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, to members of the public at large, and now Congressional leadership) have urged the FDA to provide guidance in the CBD space. As Senator Schumer recognized, CBD has the potential to become a billion dollar industry in New York state alone. The importance of this appears not lost on the FDA, but it reiterates the need for adequate scientific data in order to move forward. In the interim, the public and business continue to wait for regulatory clarity and are left trying to navigate muddy waters.
Seyfarth’s Cannabis practice has a deep bench of experienced attorneys who actively counsel clients in this space. Seyfarth will continue to monitor developments and report them as they become available.
Tags: CBD, FDA, hemp, Schumer
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Assamese Community of Kuwait
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I KNOW MY ASSAM# 15
Q1. It is a traditional form of entertainment played as a Drama in Assam. The story generally depicts some initial superficial triumph of evils over good, but it shows the ultimate victory of good with intercession by the Gods. This type of drama depicts the victory of truth at the climax, generally using fictitious or mythological kings, queens, demons, Gods, soldiers etc. Real men and women play the roles of different characters. They speak dialogues in an artificial language called Brajawali/ Brajabuli (often in lyrical form). The good and bad characters indulge in fighting, depicted with ancient weapons like bow and arrow and swords. The entire drama is performed in the middle open space of Namghar.
Name this type of traditional drama of Assam?
IDENTIFY THE CHARACTERS
2A. Identify the character depicted from the traditional drama of Assam.
2B. Identify the character depicted from the traditional drama of Assam.
2C. Identify the character depicted from the traditional drama of Assam.
Sohel - 3 Correct
Q1. Between 1817 and 1826 the Ahom Kingdom in Assam was under the control of the Burmese rulers. The period ended with the defeat of the Burmese and the subsequent annexation of the kingdom to British territory. This was the peace treaty that ended the First War between the British and the Burmese. According to the treaty, the Burmese agreed to cede Assam and other regions to the British. The treaty ended the longest and most expensive war in British Indian history. Fifteen thousand European and Indian soldiers died, together with an unknown (but almost certainly higher) number of Burmese. The campaign cost the British five million pounds sterling (roughly 18.5 billion in 2006 US dollars) to 13 million pounds sterling; this expenditure led to a severe economic crisis in British India in 1833.
1A. Name this Important treaty which changed the history of Assam?
1B. How did the treaty get its name?
2A. Identify this edible flower
2C. Identify this Pitha from Assam
2B. Identify this dress
2D. Identify this Pitha from Assam
Sohel - All 6 Correct
Rizwan - All 6 Correct
Nehal - 4 Correct
Scene from the film
The shooting at the Chitraban studio started in April 1934, but was initially delayed as director Jyotiprasad could not at first find a suitable girl to play the role of the heroine of the film or several other members which would be suited to the role. He floated newspaper advertisements for actors and actresses, mentioning brief outlines of the film and descriptions of the characters. His idea was to get ‘types’ for his characters, not seasoned artists, even offering remunerations for successful candidates. One of his preconditions was that potential actors needed to be from ‘respectable’ family backgrounds. After a prolonged search and detailed interviews, he discovered a girl to play the lead role of the film in a remote village near Golaghat, who became the first actress of Assamese cinema. He then brought together the other chosen actors to acquaint them with his characters, few of which had ever even seen a film. Jyotiprasad went ahead and completed the film in August 1934.
Interestingly, the girl in the lead role remained unmarried because she called her co-actor Bongohordeo (husband) in the film.
Name 1a) The Movie and 1b) The girl in the lead role
2A. Identify this common vegetable from Assam
2B. Identify this dance from Assam
2C. Identify this animal from Assam
1.Rizwan - All 5 correct
4. ANCHITA RAJKHOWA
(4 correct)
5. DIPIKA ROBIDAS
(4 Correct )
2.Nehal - All 5 Correct
3.Sohel - 4 Correct
Q1. This Medical College was formally established on November 3, 1947. It was, however, earlier founded in 1900 by the British. It has the distinction of being the first medical college in the entire North-eastern region of India. Some buildings are modifications of the original British architecture, although several new constructions have come up recently under the joint collaboration of both the North Eastern Council and State Government to upgrade the college to a premier medical institution of Asia once again.
Name this Medical College of Assam as it is known now.
Also Name this institution as it was known earlier during the British rule.
2A. Identify this fishing contraption from Assam
2B. Identify this fishing contraption from Assam
2C. Identify this Contraption
Sohel - All Correct
Nehal - All Correct
Anshuman Dev Choudhury - 3 correct
Rizwan - All Correct
Q1. Name this special Dish from ASSAM.
First we take a local Banana (Bheem Kol) and then remove the peel, which is then sun-dried. Then we burn the peel retaining the precious ashes. A muslin cloth is used to drain the extract; traditionally a coconut shell is used to strain the same. Plain drinking water is poured over it and in an hour or so you get this clear liquid which is stored at room temperature for months. It is of a very strong strength so very little quantity is used at a time(1 tbs approx). A dish is made using this special liquid using vegetables such as a raw papaya or cucumber or bottle gourd and cooked in medium heat. This special dish is a traditional favorite amongst the Assamese community. It has got a lot of medicinal properties too – It is a natural antacid and helps in healing of sore throats.
2A. Name this special ritual from an Assamese wedding.
2B. Identify this edible Item from Assam
Swareena - All Correct
Rizwan - 2 Correct
Q1. Name this special Pitha.
PITHAS are special delicacies prepared in many forms by various methods like steaming, frying or by baking over a hot plate. A very special delicacy of Assam is prepared by using pieces of cut bamboo. Bora Sawul (a special type of rice) is used for stuffing inside the bamboo. The ends of the cut pieces of bamboo are covered by tying banana leaves. It is cooked in a slow flame over several hours. The bamboos are sliced open to take out these pithas. This Pitha is considered as a special treat on the day of Bihu and consumed with either milk or curd and sugar or gur as a sweetener.
Q2. IDENTIFY THESE TWO SPECIES FROM ASSAM WHICH ARE ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION.
2A. A very special Bird from Assam
2B. A Very Special Fish from Assam
I KNOW MY ASSAM# 9
1. Prior to the making of this bridge over Brahmaputra the entire North Bank of the Brahmaputra Valley was connected to the rest of the country through a rail-cum-road bridge at Saraighat, which was built in 1962 by Indian Railways. This second bridge over the River Brahmaputra near Tezpur was constructed from 1981 to 1987 and connects Sonitpur on the north bank with Nagaon District on the south bank. The length of this bridge is 3015 meters. This road bridge has been named after an illustrious Ahom General.
Name the Ahom General and the bridge?
Q2A. IDENTIFY THIS COMMON FISH FROM ASSAM
Q2B. IDENTIFY THIS COMMON FISH FROM ASSAM
Swareena
1. This is the largest river island in India. Originally the total area of this island was 1250 sq. kms., But having lost significantly to erosion it had an area of only 421.65 square kilometres in 2001. The island is formed by the Brahmaputra river in the south and the Kherkutia Xuti, an anabranch of the Brahmaputra, joined by the Subansiri River in the north. The island is about 200 kilometres east from the state's largest city — Guwahati, and is accessible by ferries from the town of Jorhat. The island was formed due to course changes by the river Brahmaputra and its tributaries, mainly the Lohit. This island is also the abode of the Assamese neo-Vaisnavite culture. Name this famous River Island?
Q2A. IDENTIFY THE LEAF WITH BUD
Q2B. IDENTIFY THIS COMMON FLOWER FROM ASSAM
1. Assam produces three unique varieties of silks, the Golden Muga, the White Pat and the warm Eri Silks. These are utilized in on one of the world's largest weaving villages often called the Manchester of the East. The entire population here is engaged in weaving exquisite silk fabrics. This place is a renowned Centre of silk production, particularly known for Muga - the golden silk of Assam which is not produced anywhere else in the world. This is the textile center of Assam. Muga silk and Pat silk along with Eri silk and Endi cloth from this region is famous for its quality. Mekhela chadors and Gamosas made from these indigenous materials is in demand throughout Assam as well as other parts of India. Name this famous Village?
Q2A. IDENTIFY THIS COMMON FRUIT
Q2B. IDENTIFY THIS STAPLE CEREAL
I KNOW MY ASSAM#6
1. This Temple on Nilachal Hill, eight km west of the Guwahati city, is believed to be an ancient 'Khasi' sacrificial site. It has been a part and parcel of Assamese life and culture from ancient times. The temple dedicated to a Goddess is one of the oldest and most sacred centre for Shakti worship and Tantric Hinduism. The sikhara or spire is in the shape of a beehive and it has the nymph motifs and the long turtle back hall. The stone images and other relics found around the temple have been dated by archaeologists to the eighth century onwards. It attracts pilgrims from all over India, especially during the Ambubachi Festival which usually falls around July. The ponds here are home to some giant turtles. There is a majestic view of the city and the Brahmaputra river from the hill top. Name this Temple?
Q2. IDENTIFY THE ITEMS IN THE PICTURES.
Q2A. IDENTIFY THIS LEAFY VEGETABLE
Q2B. IDENTIFY THIS FRUIT.
Swareena Rajkhowa
1. The Battle of Saraighat was fought in 1671 between the Mughal empire (led by the Kachwaha king, Raja Ramsingh I), and the Ahom Kingdom on the Brahmaputra river at Saraighat, now in Guwahati. Although much weaker, the Ahom Army defeated the Mughal Army by brilliant uses of the terrain, clever diplomatic negotiations to buy time, guerrilla tactics, psychological warfare, military intelligence and by exploiting the sole weakness of the Mughal forces—its navy. The Battle of Saraighat was the last battle in the last major attempt by the Mughals to extend their empire in to Assam.
The Ahoms were led by a commander and Borphukan (councilor) in the Ahom kingdom known for his leadership that thwarted a drawn out attempt by Mughal forces. He was the son of Momai Tamuli Borbarua,the first Borbarua (Governor of upper Assam and Commander-in-Chief of the Ahom army) under Prataap Singha. He was educated in humanities, scriptures and military skills. The best passing out cadet of National Defence Academy in India, is conferred a medal named after him. Who is he?
Q2. IDENTIFY THIS FRUIT?
NEHAL HUSSAIN
1. This great Vaishnavite saint and reformer was born in Alipukhuri of Batradova, Nagaon, in 1449.He was a great scholar and literary genius. He was also a poet, dramatist, painter and sculptor. The philosophy of his religion is enriched with the essence of Vedanta, Bhaktism, monotheism, spiritualism and humanism. His eminent literary creation is the “Kirton-Ghosa”, an early Assamese poetical work. In “Gunamala” he had cryptically described the manifold qualities of Lord Krishna in a day to impress the Koch King Naranarayana. The Xatras set up by him had an important role to play in the religious and spiritual life of the people. The “Xatras’ and “Namghars” gradually turned into religious and social institutions for congregation and prayer. Who is he?
Q 2. IDENTIFY BOTH THE ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY WOMEN FROM RURAL ASSAM
Identify both the activities by these pair of ladies
1. IDENTIFY THE BUILDING
It was the royal palace of Ahom kings when Garhgaon was their kingdom's capital.
The monument is four- storied building and arranged in gradually receding tiers. The top floor has dome like roof with a chamber. It had four watch towers originally of which now only two can be seen. The ground floor has three west facing halls and provided with a front and rear chamber. The palace was well secured by digging canals around it and then building fort like walls on the canals bank with soil, which is called 'Garh'. The place was named as Gargaon after the huge 'garh'. There were four main gates to the palace called as 'Singhduar'(Lion's Gate). What is the name of this building?
Abhilash Bora
1. He was born on 17 June, 1903 in Tamulbari Tea Estate. He was a playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker from Assam. He is an Assamese cultural icon, deeply revered for his creative vision and output and is popularly called the Rupkonwar of Assamese culture. He established the Chitraban Studio at the Bholaguri Tea Estate and began filming the movie Joymoti around the end of 1933. This was the first film from Assam. He is regarded as the founder of Assamese cinema for Joymati (1935). The film, released in 1935, was based on a play by Laxminath Bezbarua about a heroic Ahom princess imprisoned and tortured by a repressive Ahom Swargadeo. In 1941 he participated in the freedom movement, and in 1942, he went underground to escape British repression. His death anniversary (January 17) is celebrated as Silpi divas (Artists' Day) in his honor.
Who is this great man?
2. He was born in Dhaka on 31 January 1909. He was a multifaceted artist and revolutionary singer of Assam. In 1951, after the death of Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, he became the president of the Assam branch of Indian Peoples' Theatre Association (IPTA). His work Bano Kobang is a masterpiece which contains valuable information about ethnic groups of Asom. He was an established singer. He had learnt Borgeet of Shrimanta Shankar Deva and gave the genre a new significance for the modern times. There are more than hundred songs composed by him. Some leading numbers include ‘Xurore Deulore, ’Bilote Halise’, 'Para jonomor khubho logonor', 'logon ukali gol', 'roi roi keteki' ,'tilai tilai',' kurua botah' and many more. He was a great actor. He used to perform dramas at Bann theatre of tezpur which is regarded to be one of the oldest cultural activity centers of Assam. His paintings are still preserved in his residence at Tezpur. His art works are considered to be master piece, as it were worked on with such a great perfection even at that time.
Who are we talking of?
Reemon
Shreya Kashyap
1. He was the Prince who quarreled with his brother and left the kingdom in the Tai state of Mong Mao in Yunan Province, in the 13th Century to settle down in Charaideo, Assam. He had a following of three queens, two sons and a daughter, five nobles and 9,000 men, women and children. He had with him two elephants and 300 horses. He founded the Ahom kingdom in Assam. In reverence to his position in Assam's history the honorific Chaolung is generally associated with his name. He was one of the most romantic figures in the history of Eastern India. He was extraordinarily enterprising and brave. He plunged into a risky adventure to found a kingdom in a land which was wholly unknown to him.
2. This division of the Kachari Family of North East India engaged in gold panning of river sand, during the reign of the Ahom kings. The great king Boli Raja, mentioned in Bishnu Purana, who was exiled to Patal Puri by Lord Bishnu, is said to be their ancestor. They are predominantly inhabitants of Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Tinisukia and Dibrugarh district of Assam.
Name this tribe?
Ronit Bhattacharya
Nehal & Arfan
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Greek Orthodox bishop convicted of hate speech resigns
by: DEMETRIS NELLAS, Associated Press
Posted: Aug 18, 2019 / 05:19 AM CDT / Updated: Aug 18, 2019 / 07:39 AM CDT
FILE – In this Feb. 4, 2018 file photo, Greek Orthodox Bishop Amvrosios takes part in a rally against an agreement with neighbouring Macedonia over its name, in Athens, Greece. The Metropolitan Amvrosios of Kalavryta, a fiery conservative Greek Orthodox bishop known for criticizing, often in intemperate terms, those who he believed acted in a “non-Christian” or “non-Greek” way, including gays, migrants and politicians, has resigned, it was reported on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019. (Christos Bonis/Eurokinissi via AP, File)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Metropolitan Amvrosios of Kalavryta, a fiery conservative Greek Orthodox bishop known for criticizing, often in intemperate terms, those who he believed acted in a “non-Christian” or “non-Greek” way, including gays, migrants and politicians, resigned Sunday.
Amvrosios, 81, announced his resignation Sunday at Mass. He has served in the diocese of Kalavryta, in southern Greece, since 1978.
The Metropolitan achieved notoriety for his support of the far-right, anti-immigrant Golden Dawn party. A blog post he wrote about gays in 2015 — calling them “the scum of society” and urging people to spit on them — led to his being convicted by a local court of hate speech in January 2019. He was given a seven-month suspended sentence.
In October 2017, he directed priests in his diocese to ring church bells each day, at noon for three minutes and for one week, to protest what he called an “anti-Christian and anti-Greek” law making it easier for people to officially change their gender.
Last year, he declared that a deadly wildfire near Athens was God’s punishment for the “atheist” left-wing Greek prime minister at the time, Alexis Tsipras.
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12.31.12 - Owen Receives Global Health Award
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Several North Carolina women – including author and poet Dr. Maya Angelou – were honored for their work to improve the lives and health of women and girls around the world during the Maya Angelou Center for Women’s Health and Wellness inaugural “An Evening Celebration of Women” which was held September 29, 2012 at Forsyth Medical Center. Proceeds from the event will be used for education and early detection programs at the center and concluded our three-day health summit, which attracted more than 200 participants to join international health experts to explore pressing health issues.
Dr. Angleou received The Lifetime Achievement Award for her encouragement of women to be their own advocates and for her partnership with Forsyth in establishing the Center for Women’s Health & Wellness, which opened in July.
Medge Owen, a professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine and an obstetric anesthesiologist at Forsyth Medical Center, received The Global Women’s Health Award for her KYBELE organization, which works to support safe childbirth practices at a minimal cost in locations internationally.
Also honored were:
Charlotte entrepreneur Molly Baker, founder of Girls on the Run, won the National Women’s Health Award for her success in building self-esteem and active lifestyles among girls in communities across the country and beyond.
Raleigh’s Camille McGirt, a public health major at UNC Chapel Hill, was given the Regional Women’s Health Award for her organization, Healthy Girls Save the World, which promotes healthy minds, bodies and relationships in North Carolina girls ages 8 to 15.
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California’s Business Community Reacts to Dynamex
On behalf of Larson & Gaston, LLP | Aug 10, 2018 | Employment Litigation
On April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court upended the state’s independent contractor market with its decision in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court. The Court’s ruling changed the way the law will determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor. The case discards the decades-old test of S. G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations (Borello) and replaces it with a new “ABC Test.” We initially discussed the difference between these cases in a May 2018 post.
While the decision itself is limited to California’s Industrial Welfare Wage Orders it is still open as to how it will apply to other issues. This leaves businesses of all kinds wondering what the future holds for their independent contractors. With the uncertainty and potential change ahead, it is no surprise that some businesses that could be strongly impacted are aiming to take action.
Initially, some of the leading “gig economy” business, such as Uber, have quickly begun lobbying California lawmakers to protect them from the new ruling. Ridesharing and delivery services such as Uber and Postmates are at the heart of the new gig economy, which relies seemingly entirely on an independent contractor model. The new ABC Test could bring that to an end in California. No small problem for these companies operating in one of the largest economies in the world. This could also be an issue to watch heading into the November elections, particularly with these companies urging outgoing Governor Brown, or the new incoming Governor, to take action.
The implications are already beginning to take hold against these companies. Shortly after Dynamex, San Francisco issued subpoenas to Uber and Lyft requiring them to prove their drivers satisfy the new independent contractor requirements. New lawsuits against these companies have also popped up since Dynamex.
In the real estate field, there is also some concern about the impact Dynamex could have on the industry. Currently, many real estate agents are treated as independent contractors. However, they are also required to be supervised and may struggle to meet all three prongs of the ABC Test. It has been suggested that agents will need to argue for a special exception (something truckers are looking to do).
Health care is another industry that is keeping a wary and watchful eye on Dynamex and its progression. Some medical groups initially hire practitioners as independent contractors. In some cases, these individuals work alongside employees. While this has been noted as tricky under the prior law, it appears to clearly violate Dynamex. This leaves the healthcare industry as another that may see large changes due to the ABC Test.
Understanding the impact of Dynamex on a business using independent contractors is challenging. Good employment and business lawyers can help.
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“Family Guy” to Embrace New Ownership with “Disney’s The Reboot” Episode
by Laughing Place Disney Newsdesk | Oct 16, 2019 1:57 PM Pacific Time
Tags: 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox TV, Family Guy, Fox
The upcoming episode of Fox’s hit animated series Family Guy will focus on the show adapting to its new ownership after Disney’s recent acquisition of Fox, according to Entertainment Weekly.
The October 20 episode of Family Guy will be titled “Disney’s The Reboot” and will feature the network overlords demanding the show be taken in a fresh direction.
That will lead to three new reboots of the show in this one episode and, according to executive producer Rich Appel, “One of them is Family Gal – it’s Lois-centric, very timely and pandering. Another is our version of something like Riverdale or a teen-angst drama, called The Q. And the final one is After Family Guy, which, as we explain, is starring the only actors who didn’t go on to bigger movie careers. The premise is Chris is now married to Tricia Takanawa, and they’re raising Joe.”
Each of these new Family Guy reboots will be critiqued by a focus group within this fourth-wall-breaking episode.
Executive producer Alec Sulkin revealed a bit about the episode, saying “Peter storms in angry at the focus group and they say, ‘I don’t get who Family Guy is for, and he says, ‘It’s easy! You just have to be a teenager, but born in the ’80s.’”
According to Appel, it didn’t take long for the Family Guy writers to decide to use Disney’s acquisition to their advantage: “It just seemed to give new life to an idea of how to make Family Guy fresh, and a new reason to think we’d have the always-helpful focus group to guide us.” He added: “we’re trying not to fall in love with the new versions of Family Guy that would make us feel like, ‘Oh my God, Seth is wrong – we should have done The Q with the teens.’”
Sulkin went on to explain that the acquisition does not mean we’ll be seeing Disney characters in their future episodes. “Unfortunately that’s not quite the case, although this is not us getting annoyed at Disney because clearly they know what they’re doing,” he said. “Part of their M.O. – and it’s obviously worked very well for them – is to be protective of their different brands and in a way to keep them separate. So if we went to them and said, ‘Hey, we want to do a Marvel–Star Wars crossover episode,’ I think that would probably be the fastest ‘no’ we’ve heard around here in awhile. Which seems at odds with 10 years ago, we’re doing Star Wars episodes with the full endorsement of Lucasfilm. But Disney acquired all these properties, and they have a vision for where they want them to go, and where they want them to go is not making poop jokes on Family Guy.”
Appel wouldn’t let that go by without poking a little fun at it though, saying “That said, Chris takes Moana to prom next season, and we’re very, very excited.”
And finally, When Appel was asked how the Disney brass might react to this episode, his response was simple. “They’ll see it as .0004% of the content for Disney++ to be launched in 2031,” he joked. “So I think they’ll be fine.”
Family Guy airs Sundays at 9/8c on Fox.
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Lawyers urged to encrypt data following Snowden revelations
Lawyers are being urged to encrypt their data following revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden that the sector is among those at high risk of surveillance threats.
‘What last year’s revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe. Any communications should be encrypted by default,’ he told the Guardian.
Responding to the interview, Law Society president Andrew Caplen said a review of the ramifications of surveillance for lawyers is currently underway. ‘I will be writing to other professional bodies to discuss the impact spying is having on members’ confidential communication with clients or patients,’ he said.
‘I will also be writing to relevant academics, civil liberties groups, lawyers and other experts both nationally and internationally, to invite them to collaborate with us in addressing wider issues on surveillance and the rule of law,’ he said.
The society has also raised concerns about the possible effects of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill that was rushed through parliament by the government last week.
At a Law Society event on cloud computing earlier this month, experts warned that the legal sector should do more to protect its data, as more information is becoming increasingly available online.
Jonathan Goldsmith, secretary general of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, said ‘without question’ City firms will have been targeted by cyber-attackers to get access to valuable client information.
‘For example if you had a recent takeover of a big pharmaceutical company, there must be people who are interested in that information and who are attempting to access it though the lawyers.’
According to research from document collaboration company Workshare, 70% of employees could be exposing businesses’ most confidential information by failing to remove sensitive information when forwarding emails.
Nearly half of the 800 respondents were from the legal sector.
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they're not complacent. they just agree with him. the growing conservatism in the black community is apart of the overall trend. the thing that makes me sad is that we as black people are digging our own graves and we don't even know or if we know, we don't care. its like that quote about the holocaust--when they came for me, there was no one left to protest...
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Do I Really Need to Answer This Question
Lacoste most government agencies will only hire a recent law school grad through one of their intern/associate programs.
Would you want someone who had no experience in economics or finances/accounting handling your investments? Would you want someone who only had experience baking cakes to build your home? Probably not.
Gonzalez and Dubya are systematically shutting down the Civil Rights division and civil liberties.
Faith and MD you have to remember that Lacoste is still in denial, inexperienced and has not entered the real world. I recall we had a discussion about this 100s of pages ago.
They came first for the Communists..
but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews...
but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Unionists...
but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Unionist.
Then they came for the Catholic...
but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me...
and by that time...
there was no-one left to speak up for me.
Rev. Martin Niemoller
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Johan Santana for President
Quote from: faith2005 on July 25, 2006, 07:47:28 AM
perhaps segregated schools in north carolina should be re-instated.
Ha. Thanks for the personal slight. That's like saying anti-Iraq war folks (myself included) think perhaps Saddam should have gassed more children in Kurdish regions. Doesn't work that way.
AshyLarry
Let me hold some lotion!!
SYDNEY, Australia - A driver stranded on a remote stretch of Australian highway Wednesday tried to summon help by playing dead in the middle of the road, a police officer said.
A woman who was driving with her two children spotted the man and had to swerve to avoid hitting him, said Doug Backhouse, a detective with the Western Australia state police.
"She drove around the body — which didn't move at all — and got to the nearest phone," Backhouse said.
Local police arrived with an ambulance and found the man alive and well, but with car troubles.
"The best way he thought to get a vehicle to stop was to lay down in the middle of the road and pretend to be dead," Backhouse said, adding that the man didn't think anyone would stop if he were standing up.
Police said they told the man that lying in the road was "a stupid thing to do" but didn't charge him with any offense.
The incident occurred near Esperance, about 450 miles southeast of the state capital, Perth.
© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
pikey
Did ya do it? Then why are ya sorry?
NICOSIA (Reuters) - An England football jersey gave away a Senegalese man attempting to enter Cyprus on a forged French passport, police on the Mediterranean island said on Monday.
Suspicions were aroused when the man appeared at a checkpoint supervising crossings from the Turkish Cypriot north to the Greek Cypriot south of the divided island, wearing the England shirt and presenting a French passport.
"Being a football fan, the officer found it highly unlikely that a Frenchman would want to wear an England football jersey," a police source said.
"That was his first suspicion prior to the proper check on the passport, which turned out to be a fake," said the source.
The 22-year-old man, who has not been charged, was remanded in custody for six days pending further inquiries.
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He Who Cast the First Stone Probably Didn’t
By DANIEL GILBERT
LONG before seat belts or common sense were particularly widespread, my family made annual trips to New York in our 1963 Valiant station wagon. Mom and Dad took the front seat, my infant sister sat in my mother’s lap and my brother and I had what we called “the wayback” all to ourselves.
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In the wayback, we’d lounge around doing puzzles, reading comics and counting license plates. Eventually we’d fight. When our fight had finally escalated to the point of tears, our mother would turn around to chastise us, and my brother and I would start to plead our cases. “But he hit me first,” one of us would say, to which the other would inevitably add, “But he hit me harder.”
It turns out that my brother and I were not alone in believing that these two claims can get a puncher off the hook. In virtually every human society, “He hit me first” provides an acceptable rationale for doing that which is otherwise forbidden. Both civil and religious law provide long lists of behaviors that are illegal or immoral — unless they are responses in kind, in which case they are perfectly fine.
After all, it is wrong to punch anyone except a puncher, and our language even has special words — like “retaliation” and “retribution” and “revenge” — whose common prefix is meant to remind us that a punch thrown second is legally and morally different than a punch thrown first.
That’s why participants in every one of the globe’s intractable conflicts — from Ireland to the Middle East — offer the even-numberedness of their punches as grounds for exculpation.
The problem with the principle of even-numberedness is that people count differently. Every action has a cause and a consequence: something that led to it and something that followed from it. But research shows that while people think of their own actions as the consequences of what came before, they think of other people’s actions as the causes of what came later.
In a study conducted by William Swann and colleagues at the University of Texas, pairs of volunteers played the roles of world leaders who were trying to decide whether to initiate a nuclear strike. The first volunteer was asked to make an opening statement, the second volunteer was asked to respond, the first volunteer was asked to respond to the second, and so on. At the end of the conversation, the volunteers were shown several of the statements that had been made and were asked to recall what had been said just before and just after each of them.
The results revealed an intriguing asymmetry: When volunteers were shown one of their own statements, they naturally remembered what had led them to say it. But when they were shown one of their conversation partner’s statements, they naturally remembered how they had responded to it. In other words, volunteers remembered the causes of their own statements and the consequences of their partner’s statements.
What seems like a grossly self-serving pattern of remembering is actually the product of two innocent facts. First, because our senses point outward, we can observe other people’s actions but not our own. Second, because mental life is a private affair, we can observe our own thoughts but not the thoughts of others. Together, these facts suggest that our reasons for punching will always be more salient to us than the punches themselves — but that the opposite will be true of other people’s reasons and other people’s punches.
Examples aren’t hard to come by. Shiites seek revenge on Sunnis for the revenge they sought on Shiites; Irish Catholics retaliate against the Protestants who retaliated against them; and since 1948, it’s hard to think of any partisan in the Middle East who has done anything but play defense. In each of these instances, people on one side claim that they are merely responding to provocation and dismiss the other side’s identical claim as disingenuous spin. But research suggests that these claims reflect genuinely different perceptions of the same bloody conversation.
If the first principle of legitimate punching is that punches must be even-numbered, the second principle is that an even-numbered punch may be no more forceful than the odd-numbered punch that preceded it. Legitimate retribution is meant to restore balance, and thus an eye for an eye is fair, but an eye for an eyelash is not. When the European Union condemned Israel for bombing Lebanon in retaliation for the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, it did not question Israel’s right to respond, but rather, its “disproportionate use of force.” It is O.K. to hit back, just not too hard.
Research shows that people have as much trouble applying the second principle as the first. In a study conducted by Sukhwinder Shergill and colleagues at University College London, pairs of volunteers were hooked up to a mechanical device that allowed each of them to exert pressure on the other volunteer’s fingers.
The researcher began the game by exerting a fixed amount of pressure on the first volunteer’s finger. The first volunteer was then asked to exert precisely the same amount of pressure on the second volunteer’s finger. The second volunteer was then asked to exert the same amount of pressure on the first volunteer’s finger. And so on. The two volunteers took turns applying equal amounts of pressure to each other’s fingers while the researchers measured the actual amount of pressure they applied.
The results were striking. Although volunteers tried to respond to each other’s touches with equal force, they typically responded with about 40 percent more force than they had just experienced. Each time a volunteer was touched, he touched back harder, which led the other volunteer to touch back even harder. What began as a game of soft touches quickly became a game of moderate pokes and then hard prods, even though both volunteers were doing their level best to respond in kind.
Each volunteer was convinced that he was responding with equal force and that for some reason the other volunteer was escalating. Neither realized that the escalation was the natural byproduct of a neurological quirk that causes the pain we receive to seem more painful than the pain we produce, so we usually give more pain than we have received.
Research teaches us that our reasons and our pains are more palpable, more obvious and real, than are the reasons and pains of others. This leads to the escalation of mutual harm, to the illusion that others are solely responsible for it and to the belief that our actions are justifiable responses to theirs.
None of this is to deny the roles that hatred, intolerance, avarice and deceit play in human conflict. It is simply to say that basic principles of human psychology are important ingredients in this miserable stew. Until we learn to stop trusting everything our brains tell us about others — and to start trusting others themselves — there will continue to be tears and recriminations in the wayback.
Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard, is the author of “Stumbling on Happiness.”
Quote from: MoniLi on July 25, 2006, 10:10:33 AM
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Think. Wait. Fast.
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i posted this yesterday. usually people have been posting articles on the main board. I've continued to do that, even though most of the time someone posts the same article in a separate thread the next day. just like this one.
in the past it wasn't the president's prerogative. as a matter of fact, civil service posts used to be insulated from the president b/c of the worry that he would try to grab power. All of this presidential oversight is new. I don't think hiring someone without experience in Anti-trust makes sense for the DOJ anti-trust division. Similarly, if you don't have any civil rights experience, you shouldn't be hired for the civil rights division. He has probably put up some conservative civil rights attys and thats all well and good--but people who are partners in private firms don't have the relevant experience and what he's trying to do is stop complaints from being filed. I personally can't understand a black person who doesn't think that civil rights attys are important. perhaps segregated schools in north carolina should be re-instated.
Exactly Faith....Lacoste, it may have been okay if he were hiring attorneys fresh out of law school. But if you're going to hire a seasoned attorney, shouldn't he be seasoned in the area you are hiring him for?
What scares me is the complacent attitude that some of us seem to have. Instead of calling Bush out on his outlandish behavior, we try to play devil's advocates and "see where he might be coming from" Hell no! By the time we're done doing that, his actions will start to affect us, and then maybe we'll stop being so indifferent about it!
Mdlaw, I'm making this my new sig
Quote from: _BP_ on July 25, 2006, 10:54:58 AM
Wow BP I'm honored! I actually made your signature Forget law school, I'm set!
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Humphrey sworn in with bipartisan support
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Jan 3, 2019 at 2:59 PM Jan 3, 2019 at 2:59 PM
Chris Humphrey was sworn in Thursday at Lenoir Community College as the new N.C. House District 12 representative for Lenoir and Pitt counties.
Humphrey was sworn in by Dawn Stroud, Lenoir County Clerk of Superior Court, in the auditorium at LCC that was packed with bipartisan state, county and city elected officials, and educators, supporters and family.
When Humphrey, a Republican, decided to throw his hat in the ring a year and half ago Humphrey said he had no idea how much time would be involved in the run or the amount of money it would take.
“Those days were long,” he said. “But I loved every minute of it.”
It was a thrill and an honor when he won, he said.
Republican John Bell, N.C. House majority leader, gave Humphrey some advice, adding to Pastor Chris Truett’s advice that Humphrey should let the Lord give him guidance.
“Well, I hope you listen to the good Lord,” Bell said. “But if you don’t, and look, if you see me doing this right here. (he made a scissor cutting gesture). That means I’m going to cut your microphone cord. So don’t worry. Chris is going to be fine. We’re not going to let him talk a lot. It’ll be great.”
After the laughter settled down Bell said Humphrey would be able to work with a lot of quality people in the General Assembly who represent Lenoir and Pitt counties.
“Sen. (Don) Davis and I have that opportunity to work across the aisle on many issues affecting Eastern North Carolina, and especially rural North Carolina, and you’re going to find that same partnership there. So Don and I are going to take care of you, to avoid the landmines and do what is right for the folks. We’re glad to have you on board.”
Bell said Humphrey has already made an impression in Raleigh and was elected the new freshman whip of the House.
Lenoir County Commissioner Mac Daughety, took a moment to thank Bell for all he has done for Lenoir County, things that would not have been done without his help.
When the Republican Party was looking for someone to replace Bell because the districts were being changed, they knew Humphrey would be as strong an advocate for the Lenoir and Pitt counties and Eastern North Carolina as Bell was, Daughety said.
“Because these are challenging times for all rural communities, including Lenoir
County and Pitt County,” he said. “But these are very challenging times also for
Eastern North Carolina as there seems to be a disconnect between metropolitan and rural areas in Eastern North Carolina.”
The next two years will be very critical for Eastern North Carolina, Daughety said in reference to looking after the needs of the rural areas.
“And it was so important, so critical, that we get the right man elected into this position,” he said. “To be an advocate for us…We found that man in Chris Humphrey.”
Eric Rouse, Lenoir County commissioner, said Humphrey “checks all the right boxes” with his dedication to the Lord, his children and fiancee.
“It doesn’t take much to check the right box and be born in Lenoir County but he did decide to stay here and he decided to represent us and become an integral part of the community,” Rouse said.
Some of Humphrey’s strong points is he had the dedication to become an Eagle Scout, he’s a small business owner and he has the experience as a former county commissioner, Rouse said.
“I can’t think of anybody better that we could have serving us,” he said.
James Perry, campaign advisor, said an election campaign requires time and unfortunately money. But Humphrey was able to raise $130,000 for the race, he said.
Perry said it was going to take everyone pulling together to make Eastern North Carolina prosper.
“It is up to us to realise that we are stronger together than we are apart and we must come together as a community as we move forward,” he said. “We must support all of our elected officials so that our community can prosper in the future.”
Khayyam Shepherd, senior pastor of Sons of Issachar Ministries, said he does not have an allegiance to any political party but he believes in character, integrity and honor and he found those characteristics in Humphrey.
“And to top it all my mother-in-law has insurance with him,” Shepherd said, causing everyone to laugh. “...So we want to keep mama happy.”
Shepherd said he believes in Humphrey and believes the best is to come.
Humphrey, a Republican, won the seat in November against Democratic incumbent George Graham with 56.8 percent, or 3,405 votes.
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Leaflets of the Russian Revolution: Socialist Organizing in 1917
Haymarket Books
New translations of the most important documents from socialist parties, soviets, and worker militias in Petrograd during 1917
When workers and peasants rose up across Russia and smashed the centuries old Tsarist autocracy their actions reverberated across the world, and continue to inspire activists to this day. This carefully assembled and expertly translated collection of documents from the Petrograd socialist movement in 1917 provides contemporary readers with a firsthand glimpse into the revolutionary ferment as it unfolds.
In Leaflets of the Russian Revolution, Barbara Allen selects and introduces the pamphlets and other agitational material that give life to the debates, disagreements and perspectives that animated the masses during the revolution.
”An indispensable collection. These texts, and Barbara Allen's expert curation and explication, bring to vivid life the astonishing tussles, turns and transformations of 1917, Russia's revolutionary year.” China Miéville, author of October
"Authentic human voices are what we hear in these leaflets from the Russian Revolution of 1917. The leaflets, emanating from different socialist parties and workers' organizations, recreate all the vividness and excitement of contemporary debates, while the helpful introduction and notes provide the necessary historical context." Sheila Fitzpatrick, author of The Russian Revolution
“In this valuable volume, Barbara Allen furnishes all those interested in the Russian revolution with an important collection of political leaflets reflecting the epoch-defining struggle for power in 1917 Russia. Allen’s fine translations and insightful introductions add to the value of the collection.” Alexander Rabinowitch, author of The Bolsheviks in Power
“The leaflets, nicely translated, take the reader into the fervent debates between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks during the 1917 revolution. Allen pays particular attention to Alexander Shlyapnikov, a level-headed Bolshevik metal worker who was involved in party and union organizing. She also provides clear, comprehensive introductions to the materials. The result is a collection that goes beyond the party luminaries and into the ranks of lower ranking activists. Most of these materials heretofore have been available only in Russian.” Barbara Clements, author of A History of Women in Russia
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Calls for safety improvements after man dies at accident blackspot
Police officers continue to carry out their investigation into the cause of the crash as the vehicles are removed from the scene. PACEMAKER BELFAST 14/08/2017
Calls have been made for safety improvements at a “notorious accident blackspot” after a 50-year-old man was killed in a three-vehicle crash yesterday.
The victim has been named by police as 50-year-old Gary Wilson from the Lisburn area.
Mr Wilson was the driver of one of the vehicles involved in the crash at the junction of Old Ballynahinch Road and Comber Road, on the outskirts of Lisburn, which happened shortly before 7am.
Three ambulance crews were dispatched and a doctor also attended the scene.
Firefighters used specialist cutting equipment to free Mr Wilson, who was trapped in one of the vehicles.
Tragically, he was confirmed dead at the scene.
Lagan Valley MLA Edwin Poots, who lives close to the scene of yesterday’s crash, said it happened at a “notorious accident blackspot”.
He added: “Sadly, this is not the first death to have happened at this junction. It is a particularly fast section of road and the sight lines are not the best.
“Some improvements have been made by Roads Service in the past, but more needs to be done.
“My thoughts and prayers are with this man’s family.”
DUP Councillor Uel Mackin said: “We don’t know exactly what caused this crash as yet, but this is a very dangerous junction.
“There have been a series of accidents and sadly some fatalities at this blind crossroads over recent years and myself and my colleagues have been lobbying for safety improvements to be carried out.”
Tributes have been paid to Mr Wilson by his son, Gary, and on social media.
Pedestrian remains in hospital following incident involving a car
Mr Wilson’s death was the third to happen on Northern Ireland’s roads since Friday.
A 66-year-old man died following a two-vehicle crash in Newry on Sunday afternoon.
The fatal collision, involving a motorcycle and a Land Rover Discovery SUV towing a caravan, happened on the Warrenpoint Road shortly before 12.30pm.
On Friday, three-year-old Christopher Ward died after being struck by a vehicle in Bessbrook, Co Armagh.
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Infibeam could have tapped other sources of funding such as private equity at this stage instead of going public, say analysts. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint
Infibeam shares make meagre gains on debut
4 min read . Updated: 05 Apr 2016, 01:10 AM IST Ami Shah
Shares, with Rs360-432 price band, opened at Rs458 on BSE and closed at Rs445.70; experts say price set to drop further
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Mumbai: Shares of Infibeam Incorporation Ltd eked out meagre gains on Monday, the company’s first day as a public firm, following a lukewarm response to its 450 crore initial public offering (IPO) last month, and analysts expect the price to drop from here, owing to their expensive valuation.
The Ahmedabad-based company is India’s first e-commerce firm to go public.
According to its share sale document, Infibeam is an e-commerce firm focused on developing an integrated and synergistic e-commerce business model.
Infibeam, which had set an IPO price band of ₹ 360-432, had priced shares at the upper end of ₹ 432. Its shares opened at ₹ 458 on the BSE, and hit a low of ₹ 439.90 and a high of ₹ 466.90, before closing at ₹ 445.70, up 3.17% from the issue price. The benchmark Sensex rose 0.51% to close at 25399.65 points.
“We believe the issue is more than fairly priced. It is very difficult to make more money than this in this issue," said Dhananjay Sinha, head of research at Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd, adding that he expects the stock to drift lower in days to come.
“The differentiating factor compared to peers is minimal, and they are adding to concerns over the still evolving Indian e-commerce industry," said Sinha.
The Indian e-commerce sector is fiercely competitive. It is currently facing several headwinds, including funding, and many companies are battling severe stress on valuations.
While Infibeam is much smaller than Flipkart and Snapdeal, India’s biggest online retailers, it is still among the few profitable Internet companies.
The company, founded by former Amazon executive Vishal Mehta, however, had a brush with problems even before the launch of the issue, with two of the four domestic investment banks opting out over concerns about pricing and timing.
Kotak Mahindra Capital Co. Ltd and ICICI Securities Ltd withdrew as bankers to the issue, leaving SBI Capital Markets Ltd and Elara Capital (India) Pvt. Ltd to manage the offer.
The issue managed to get fully subscribed, but only on the last day of the listing. In an advertisement in The Financial Express on Monday, the company said its issue had been subscribed 1.3 times at its issue price, with the portion reserved for qualified institutional buyers subscribed 1 time, and that meant for retail investors filled 1.5 times.
According to data from National Stock Exchange (NSE) and BSE, which computed subscription data on the basis of the lower end of the price band, the issue was subscribed 1.1 times at close.
“We expected it (the listing) to be lukewarm, and it is in line with our expectations. I would not have been surprised if it closed 3% lower than the issue price," said Amar Ambani, head of research at IIFL Holdings Ltd.
Infibeam had managed to turned profitable in the first six months of 2015-16, and posted a revenue of ₹ 171.3 crore and a net profit of ₹ 6.6 crore for the six months ended September 2015.
However, it reported a revenue of ₹ 288.2 crore and a net loss of ₹ 9.8 crore for the year ended 31 March 2015.
Ambani, who had an “avoid" rating on the IPO, said that if the prices were to fall 15-20% below ₹ 360, the lower end of the price band, he could look at reviewing the stock again.
“For any company that wants to list, the message is that, going forward, given the market and liquidity conditions, they need to price it more reasonably, like the Equitas IPO," added Ambani.
Equitas Holdings Ltd’s IPO to raise nearly 2,176 crore opens on Tuesday. The Chennai-based micro-finance lender has priced its shares in the range of ₹ 109-110, and at the upper end of the price band, the IPO values the company at almost ₹ 3,700 crore.
Infibeam’s issue was not rated by many equity brokerage firms. Apart from IIFL, Angel Broking Pvt. Ltd had rated the issue. The latter had a “neutral" rating on the offer.
The grey market for the issue was lacklustre as interest in Infibeam was weak, and hardly any deals were struck, dealers said.
Infibeam owns and operates the Infibeam BuildaBazaar e-commerce marketplace, which provides value-added services to enable merchants to set up online storefronts. It also operates Infibeam.com, a multi-category, e-tail website.
The company also launched .ooo domain registry, and has set up a joint venture company with Sony Entertainment Ltd to develop, build and own software applications by offering downloading and streaming of licensed digital music content.
Analysts are of the view that Infibeam could have tapped other sources of funding such as private equity and venture capital at this stage, instead of going public.
“For e-commernce companies, they should look for other routes for funds, and not target an IPO, which includes retail investors," said Ambani of IIFL.
“And if you are keen on an IPO, you should leave enough on the table for the retail investor," Ambani added.
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Anil S Nair steps down as L&K Saatchi & Saatchi CEO, Paritosh Srivastava named MD
1 min read . Updated: 21 Nov 2019, 12:34 PM IST Saumya Tewari
Nair was one of the co-founders of Law & Kenneth, and took over as CEO & managing partner of L&K S&S in 2014
Nair will be pursuing passion of riding and building the biking community in India
Publicis Communications India, the creative hub of the Publicis Groupe, on Thursday announced that Anil S Nair has stepped down from the role of chief executive and managing partner, L&K Saatchi & Saatchi. He will remain with the agency as an advisor.
Paritosh Srivastava, currently chief operating officer (COO), Publicis Ambience and Publicis Beehive will take over the role of L&K Saatchi & Saatchi as managing director with effect from 2 January, 2020.
Nair was one of the co-founders of Law & Kenneth, and took over as CEO & managing partner of L&K S&S in 2014. Being an avid biker for many years, he will be pursuing passion of riding and building the biking community in India.
On Nair stepping down and moving to an advisor role Saurabh Varma, chief executive, Publicis Communications, India & South Asia, said, “After evaluating a number of candidates both internally and externally, we found Paritosh to be an incredible fit for this role. His powerful business acumen skills and his ability to deliver on the “Power of One" through cross-functional collaboration and integration is why we believe Paritosh to be the perfect fit."
With two decades of experience across agencies such as Ogilvy, Rediffusion Y&R and Publicis Worldwide, Srivastav joined Publicis Groupe in 2011. He took over the role of COO, Publicis Ambience in 2014. In 2018, he was given additional responsibility of leading Publicis Beehive as COO.
“I’m looking to garner support from all our expert partners for LKSS and bring solutions that make a difference to our clients," Srivastava said.
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Both Mumbai and Delhi rank low across the four parameters of digital, infrastructure, health, and personal security. (Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint)
Indian cities rank low according to Safe Cities Index
2 min read . Updated: 29 Aug 2019, 01:05 PM IST Pretika Khanna
Both Mumbai and Delhi rank low across the four parameters of digital, infrastructure, health, and personal security
Tokyo continues to remain at the top for the third year in a row as Singapore and Osaka take second and third places, respectively
Safe Cities Index
New Delhi: Mumbai ranks 45th and Delhi 52nd on the Economist Intelligence Unit's Safe Cities Index, which ranks 60 countries worldwide across indicators including digital, infrastructure, health and personal security. Cities in the Asia-Pacific region make up six of top ten safest cities.
According to the index, India and China will see the fastest rise in population-- of 1.4% --over the next decade. This comes weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised concern over the explosive growth in population in the country.
Tokyo continues to remain at the top for the third year in a row as Singapore and Osaka take second and third places, respectively. Lagos in Nigeria and Caracas in Venezuela rank in the bottom two positions.
Both Mumbai and Delhi rank low across the four parameters of digital, infrastructure, health, and personal security. Mumbai and Delhi share the 47th rank on digital security, and are among the bottom ten cities in health and infrastructure security. Mumbai, however, ranks high in personal security.
On health parameters, according to the survey, South-east Asia and India still enjoy low obesity rates, at least when compared with Western nations.
“Our research shows that a city’s region does not have any statistically significant relationship with Safe Cities Index 2019 performance. Although Asia – Pacific cities such as Tokyo, Singapore and Osaka continue to rank within the top three cities in the Index, the region also hosts some of the lowest scoring cities in the world, with Yangon, Karachi and Dhaka close to the bottom of the list," Naka Kondo, senior editor of The Economist Intelligence Unit, and editor of the SCI2019 report said.
Given the growing rate of population, the index warns that the best demographic estimates may have trouble keeping up with the speed of urbanisation. According to the survey, New Delhi city planners in 2014 could have been expected to address requirements of 6.7 million more residents between 2020 and 2030. However, that figure has now grown to 8.7 million.
“In 2014 and 2018, the UN Population Division projected the likely increase in the number of urban residents between 2020 and 2030. During that four-year period, demographers increased their earlier estimates for China, India and Sub-Saharan Africa by 10% to 15%. For specific cities, this will mean the already very large challenges are now expected to be even bigger," the study said.
Modi, in his Independence Day speech on 15 August, flagged a new priority for his administration’s second term in office — controlling the explosive growth in population. He said that if left unchecked it could go against efforts to bring millions of people out of poverty and undo the benefits of higher welfare spending for the poor.
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How Visuals Can Help Deaf Children 'Hear'
By John Varrasi 2014-07-25T06:16:34Z
Pre-kindergarten children at the American Sign Language and English Lower School in New York City are using an interactive light studio designed by engineers at The Cooper Union to understand the intricacies of sound.
(Image: © The Cooper Union; American Sign Language and English Lower School )
John Varrasi is a senior staff writer for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
The Cooper Union in New York City is combining engineering and acoustics to create a unique learning environment for deaf and hearing-impaired schoolchildren. The college has installed an interactive light studio at the American Sign Language and English Lower School in New York City. The studio, comprising a 270-square-foot space, is equipped with a wall-mounted digital-projection system that works in conjunction with specially designed computer programs to display entertaining images and graphics on an interactive screen. The pre-kindergarten children using Cooper Union's interactive light studio learn through their interactions with the moving images and light pulses — the displays enable the kids to actually understand the intricacies of sound, despite their hearing impairments.
"We are creating a learning environment in which deaf and hearing-impaired children can explore and appreciate the various qualities of music and sound through the interplay of light and vibration," said Melody Baglione, a professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, who advised and mentored seven students on design aspects of the interactive light studio. "We have developed technologies enabling the children to visualize sound." [Science As Art: Soundscapes, Light Boxes and Microscopes (Op-Ed )]
Interactive projector system
At the core of the interactive light studio is a series of computer programs specially designed to inspire curiosity and fun among the children. One of the programs is a virtual fish tank, in which images of fish follow and respond to the movements of children in front of the screen. Baglione's students wrote the program, which incorporates an Xbox Kinect sensor along with the em>Open Frameworks programming language to detect the contours of the moving children.
The second program uses sound from a microphone, musical instrument or prerecorded song as inputs. When a child stands in front of a target, a component of a digitized song — such as the keyboards, percussion or vocals — plays. When all of the targets are triggered, the full song plays. In this way, the children can create their own music composition by moving their bodies.
"Both hearing-impaired and deaf children can participate in creating sound inputs and visually seeing the responses," said Baglione, who along with her students used a grant from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to launch the studio. "By creating discrete visual responses to different frequencies and sound levels, the children begin to understand sound and music in quantifiable terms."
Sound to light, talking flowers
In another program, Cooper Union students adapted a wall with images of "talking sunflowers" that transform sound to light. The flowers have embedded microphones that trigger different colored lights, depending on the frequencies of the sound in the room.
After exploring several options for converting audio input to visual input, Cooper Union students selected the "colorganic spectralizer," a type of spectrum analyzer equipped with a microphone and able to operate on standard AA batteries. The Cooper Union students installed seven colorganic spectralizers, modifying each with surface-mount soldering to accommodate five-volt capability that brightens the LED lights. The main benefit of the devices, according to Baglione, is the full interactivity the analyzer provides for the children.
"Deaf and hearing-impaired students, in particular, benefit from the design of a sound-to-light installation employing microphones to provide visual feedback," says Baglione.
Electronic fireflies
One wall in the studio incorporates an interactive, electronic simulation of fireflies that the schoolchildren can move around while observing pulses of light. Each of the fireflies is a self-contained circuit board that synchronizes its flashing with other fireflies in the immediate vicinity, a mode of nonverbal communication enabled via infrared sensors and other electronics. When the flash of a neighboring firefly is detected, the voltage across a capacitor experiences a sudden impulse, advancing the firefly's charging cycle closer to its neighbor's. In interacting with the electronic fireflies on the wall, the children are engrossed in play, arranging and rearranging the fireflies according to the patterns of flashing lights.
"Interacting with the fireflies entertains the children and teaches the kids about the emergence of visually intriguing patterns and rhythms," said Baglione. "The program encourages the children to move and investigate cause and effect."
Students at The Cooper Union built more than 60 circuits, and introduced children's books relating to the subject, which enabled teachers to incorporate lessons.
The Cooper Union's interactive light studio enables deaf and hearing-impaired children to experience sound in unique ways and to overcome the limits of physical disabilities. But the studio brings other tangible benefits, according to Baglione — it enables the children to experience and appreciate the wonder of science and engineering, possibly inspiring future career pathways in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM ).
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"The strong STEM component in the interactive light studio rendered the project suitable for funding under the ASME Diversity Action Grant program," said Tatyana Polyak, director of Student and Early Career Programs at ASME.
The studio also had a direct positive impact on the student designers at The Cooper Union.
"The interactive light studio demonstrates the role of technological innovation in helping disabled persons," said Baglione. "The project offered undergraduate engineering students an opportunity to improve their technical and professional skills and develop a broader appreciation of the contribution of engineers in improving society."
Author's Note: Melody Baglione and most members of the design team on the interactive light studio are members of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Follow all of the Expert Voices issues and debates — and become part of the discussion — on Facebook, Twitter and Google +. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. This version of the article was originally published on Live Science.
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Published: March 15, 2014, 8:47 am
Tags: Local, News, Entertainment
Black Archives to host Super Bowl LIV party at Lyric Theater
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Dancing With the Stars starts Monday
Diana Nyad tweets about the competition
Season 18 of Dancing with the Stars starts this Monday.
The dancing competition airs right here on Local 10.
This will be the first season with new co-host Erin Andrews.
Andrews replaces Brooke Burke-Charvet.
Also, this will be the first season featuring the switch up.
That allows viewers at home to vote for dance partners to switch sometime in the season.
The cast this year including actors, reality TV stars, musicians and athletes including Olympic swimmer Diana Nyad.
Nyad become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage.
She tweeted a photo with the caption "I've wanted to do this show since the first day it aired. It's simple. I want to leave this show a dancer.
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Welcome to London Center for Policy Research website
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New York commentator Deroy Murdock is a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a Senior Fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, a supporter of about 400 free-market think tanks in some 80 countries world-wide. Mr. Murdock’s column — “This Opinion Just In…” — reaches approximately 400 newspapers across America each week, including the New York Post, The Washington Times, the Boston Herald, and The San Francisco Examiner. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, CNN, C-Span, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and other TV and radio outlets. As a popular public speaker, he has lectured or debated at Boston College; the Cato Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations; Harvard Medical School, the Heritage Foundation; the National Academy of Sciences; Dartmouth, Stanford, and Tulane universities; and various fora, from Bogota to Buenos Aires to Budapest. He is a native of Los Angeles, a graduate of Georgetown University, and a resident of New York City, where he earned an MBA from New York University. His MBA program included a semester at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Dancing On Ice star Andy Whyment vows:¿‘I won’t ever quit Coronation Street’
While he’s been showing off a rather different side as a skating star on ITV’s Dancing On Ice, Coronation Street favourite Andy Whyment tells me there’s no fear of him ever giving up the day job.
Andy Whyment and dance partner Vicky Ogden
Andy proved such a hit on the celebrity skating show that he’s been signed up to take part in the live tour of the show which heads out to arenas across the UK next week.
But once his skating stint is over, he says he can’t wait
to head back to life as
lovable loafer Kirk Sutherland on Corrie – and would
NEVER consider quitting the street.
He says: “I’ve always said I’ll stay at Corrie as long as they’ll have me, I’ve been there 12 years now and I can honestly say I enjoy it as much today as I did the very first day when I started.
“I don’t know what’s going to be next for Kirk, but it’d be nice to have a bit of a storyline to be honest when I go back. I just enjoy working there, and whatever they give me I’ll be happy with.”
Andy adds that his Corrie bosses gave him their blessing for him to take part in Dancing On Ice – and gave him an extra five weeks off to take part in the tour, which calls at the Manchester Arena on April 18 and 19.
“I really enjoyed the show, it was hard work, I knew I had no chance of winning after seeing how good Matthew Wolfenden and Jorgie Porter were though.
“I was just really pleased with what I achieved – I never imagined I’d be picking a girl up and holding her above my head – let alone on ice!”
He reckons Emmerdale star Matthew was the worthy winner of the show after his stunning Singin’ In The Rain performance in the grand final.
He says: “I thought it was the best final we’ve ever had, but Matthew deserved to win in the end, as good as both Jorgie and Chico were.”
And dad-of-two Andy says he’s looking forward to competing with his fellow celebs during the tour – where every night the audience will text vote for a new winner.
It means Andy is now practising his own version of Torvill and Dean’s famous bolero routine in case he’s picked as a winner.
He laughs: “I don’t think I’ll get to skate it that much, I think my only chance to skate the bolero in Manchester, I’m hoping to get a bit of hometown support!”
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Police calls: Man bites police officer's leg
Police calls: Also in another police report, man orders prescription, goes to aisle. eats two protein bars, steals dental mouth guard and cell phone.
Police calls: Man bites police officer's leg Police calls: Also in another police report, man orders prescription, goes to aisle. eats two protein bars, steals dental mouth guard and cell phone. Check out this story on mansfieldnewsjournal.com: https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/2019/07/29/police-calls-man-bites-police-officers-leg/1851654001/
From public records Published 2:49 p.m. ET July 29, 2019
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Rite Aid, 875 Lexington Ave. - An employee Sunday told officers that a 33-year-old man came to the store and ordered a prescription. He then went into an aisle and ate two protein bars, stole a dental guard and a cell phone. The employee said the man appeared to be on drugs while he was inside the store. A copy of his prescription was forwarded to records. The security footage also was to be made available to police.
100 block of North Walnut Street - Police responded to a report of shots fired early Sunday morning. A single bullet hole was found in the door of a man's vehicle, and the windshield was found to be cracked as well.
10 block of Dunbilt Court - A man and woman were arrested and charged with drunkenness, disorderly conduct and obstructing official business early Sunday morning after police responded to a report of a domestic dispute. Their 1-year-old child was found crying while unattended in a living room. The report will be forwarded to Richland County Children Services.
OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital, 335 Glessner Avenue - A 66-year-old woman was arrested and charged with criminal trespass early Sunday morning for refusing to leave the hospital after she had been discharged, police said.
Family Dollar, 431 Ashland Road - Police were called Saturday evening for a possible break-in. The glass of the front main entrance door had been smashed. All the other doors were found to be locked. Security footage showed that two juveniles had stood by the door earlier that night. One of them picked up a rock and threw it through the front door. The manager said she believes she has seen the two juveniles before. Police told the manager to call them if they come back to the business.
300 block of Glessner Avenue - A man reported Saturday evening that someone had broken into a house and taken copper pipe from the basement.
90 block of Bowman/West Fourth Street - A 33-year-old man was arrested and charged with obstructing official business, resisting arrest, felonious assault, and failure to comply Saturday afternoon. When police attempted to conduct a traffic stop, the man refused to stop and a short pursuit ensued. Police say the man then jumped out of the vehicle's window and fled on foot. The passenger, a 34-year-old man, was held at gunpoint and detained, according to police. The 33-year-old man was caught in the 300 block of West Fourth Street and while he was being placed in handcuffs, police say he bit an officer's leg. The man was left in the care of hospital staff due to the injuries he sustained from an officer's use of force to place him in handcuffs. Charges will be forwarded to the Richland County Prosecutor's office. The passenger of the vehicle, before he was released, told police that he just needed a ride and didn't know the man.
300 block of Superior Street - A 54-year-old man told police Saturday afternoon that he had accidentally shot a 41-year-old woman in the hand, in addition to shooting the family dog in the nose. Police obtained a search warrant and collected several pieces of evidence from the man's residence.
600 block of Oak Street - An 18-year-old man reported Saturday morning that someone had spray-painted the word "pervert" on the passenger side of his vehicle.
100 block of West Blanche Street - A 57-year-old woman reported to police late Friday night that a 43-year-old man came into the backyard of a residence, punched her in the face, and then dragged his 27-year-old ex-girlfriend by the hair into a nearby alley. The two women, who had visible bruises and cuts, were sitting in the backyard by a campfire. The area was searched for the man but he could not be located. A felony warrant was prepared.
Kroger, 1240 Park Avenue West - A woman reported her purse was snatched by another woman in the parking lot Friday night while she was putting groceries into her car. Someone chased the woman down and was able to return the purse, which had nothing taken from it. The purse snatcher ran away, police said.
100 block of South Linden Road - A man and woman were arrested and charged with drug paraphernalia and possession of drugs Friday evening. Police pulled over their vehicle for a marked lanes violation. A search of the vehicle yielded a crack pipe and methamphetamine.
100 block of South Franklin Street - A 23-year-old man was arrested and charged with domestic violence Friday afternoon. A 26-year-old woman said the man punched her in the eye and on top of her head. A 1-year-old child was present during the altercation, police said. The man, who fled the residence when police arrived, was located a short distance away.
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St Macarius the Great of Egypt
St Macarius the Great of Egypt, the Lamp of the Desert (Commemorated 19th January) St Macarius is one of the founding fathers of monasticism. He was born in the fourth century AD in the village of Jijber, Egypt. From a young age, he realised his calling from God was to apply himself to a life of ascesis and prayer. Having dwelt in the Nitrian desert for three years, he went to Saint Anthony the Great and became his devoted disciple and follower. St Macarius struggled against demonic attacks. As his apolytikion states “By fasting, vigil and prayer thou didst obtain [...]
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St John Chrysostom (Commemorated 13 November) St John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, is one of the most influential and important Fathers of our Church. In addition to writing the Divine Liturgy, which we celebrate most Sundays, he gave countless sermons to the people, of which more than 1,400 are available today. His words have inspired and shaped countless Christians and, for that reason, his Apolytikion begins with the words, “the grace of your words illuminated the world like a shining beacon.” Indeed, his great eloquence earnt him the title of “Chrysostom” (“goldenmouth” in Greek), and he is regarded as one [...]
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St Maximus the Confessor (Commemorated 13th August)
St Maximus the Confessor (Commemorated 13th August) In a world where leaders turn their backs on our faith in the interests of “just getting along” Saint Maximus the Confessor is a moving example of how a wise, steadfast servant of the Church can defend our faith despite unimaginable pressures. Born in 580 and receiving an exemplary education in philosophy, mathematics and the sciences, Maximus rose to become a powerful Court official. However he eventually forsook the secular positions in the world to embrace the life of a simple monk, where he was able cultivate his special gifts in combining his [...]
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St Athanasius the Athonite (Commemorated 5th July)
St Athanasius the Athonite (Commemorated 5th July) St Athanasius the Athonite is attributed the honour of being the founder of monastic (Κοινοβιακό) life on the Holy Mountain (Mt. Athos) in Greece. He was born in Trepezond (or Trabzon) in modern North East Turkey around 920AD, and was given the name Abraham. Orphaned at a young age, Abraham was adopted by a pious nun who taught him ascesis through fasting and prayer. Finding himself at the Byzantine court, and under the tutelage of the great orator Athanasius, Abraham excelled in his studies surpassing even the expertise of his tutor. Recognising [...]
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St Achilles, the Miracle Worker (Commemorated 15th May)
St Achilles, the Miracle Worker (Commemorated 15th May) Born around 270AD to an imperial patrician family in Cappadocia, St Achilles received a good education, especially in philosophy. On the death of his parents, he sold all his property, gave the money to the poor, and went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Lands and then onto Rome. He became a monk and finally settled in Larissa, Thessaly. In recognition of his holiness of life St Achilles was made Bishop of Larissa. He was present at the 1st Ecumenical Council (325AD) where he challenged the Arians: “If Christ is a creature [...]
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Don’t be troubled if you don’t feel the love of God in yourself, but think about the Lord, that He is merciful, and guard yourself from sins, and the grace of God will teach you.
— St. Silouan the Athonite, Writings, IX.16
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Technology Innovation and Financial Performance Played Key Roles in MadCap’s Selection
La Jolla, CA – April 21, 2008 — MadCap Software, the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft XPS, today announced that it has been named as a finalist for the 2008 Red Herring North America 100 Award.
Each year Red Herring recognizes the 100 North American private companies that best exemplify strong financial performance, quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development. Out of some 1,200 applicants for this year’s award, MadCap is one of 200 finalists that will now go on to the final round.
“This year's impressive list of finalists demonstrates that North American companies continue to raise the bar and produce innovative technologies that benefit the global technology sector,” said Red Herring Editor-in-Chief Joel Dreyfuss. “The exceptional accomplishments of these technology startups are a testament to extraordinary technological innovation and the drive to bring products to fruition.”
The winning 100 companies will be announced at the Red Herring North America conference being held May 12-14, 2008, at the Fairmont hotel in San Jose, CA. The CEOs of the winners will present their innovative ideas and technologies to an audience of leading entrepreneurs, financiers and corporate strategists.
“From the start, our mission has been to deliver the ultimate customer experience through next-generation solutions that address an enterprise’s complete documentation and content authoring needs,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap CEO. “We are greatly honored to be recognized as a Red Herring North America finalist for our success in delivering on that goal through breakthrough products, whose rapid adoption has led to early profitability and accelerated growth. Thousands of documentation specialists are switching from traditional tools to our native XML MadCap documentation family to leverage the latest in Web and software technologies—and equally important, receive support by the most knowledgeable documentation experts in the industry.”
About Red Herring Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.
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MadCap Software is a trusted resource for more than 20,000 companies around the globe for single-source, multi-channel authoring and publishing solutions designed to streamline the process of developing and delivering training content, learning and development programs, technical documentation, online Help, knowledge bases, and more. From authoring, publishing and translation, to cloud-based project and content management, to contribution and review in the cloud, you can streamline content delivery and manage the entire content development lifecycle with MadCap Software. MadCap Software’s services include product training, consulting services, translation and localization, and an advanced developer certification program. Headquartered in San Diego, California, with offices in Austin, TX, MadCap Software is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the content development industry.
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Russian foreign minister lambasts US over arms control
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's foreign minister said Friday that the world is becoming increasingly unstable because the U.S. doesn't want to abide by arms control regimes. Speaking at a conference on disarmament in Moscow, Sergey Lavrov accused the U.S. of seeing arms control treaties as a constraint to its efforts to boost its military.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a joint news conference with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias following their talks in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Lavrov and Dendias spoke for closer cooperation between Russia and Greece.
"In the past few years, strategic stability has degraded to a point that is unprecedented in modern history," he said. "The U.S. has continuously moved toward destruction of the international arms control system. It has become a drag for Washington, an undesirable restriction that limits the U.S. ability to expand its military potential around the world."
Earlier this year, Russia and the U.S. both withdrew from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The U.S. said it pulled out because of Russian violations, a claim the Kremlin has denied.
Lavrov reaffirmed Russia's pledge not to deploy missiles banned by the treaty until the U.S. does so, and criticized NATO allies for refusing to make a similar pledge. He also noted that the U.S. appears reluctant to extend the New START treaty, the last remaining arms control deal between Russia and the U.S., which expires in 2021.
"Its extension would prevent the total collapse of the arms control mechanism and would give time to study approaches to control new military technologies," Lavrov said. "Washington, however, has shunned serious talk and publicly sent negative signals about the treaty's prospects."
Russia-U.S. ties have sunk to the lowest levels since Cold War times amid the conflict in Ukraine and other tensions. Lavrov noted that the expansion of the U.S. missile defense, Washington's plans to deploy weapons in space and its efforts to develop low-yield nuclear weapons are among other top threats to strategic stability.
He named the U.S. reluctance to ratify a global nuclear test ban as a "major problem." "That threatens the fate of that pivotal document, which is the only verifiable international agreement on ending nuclear tests," the minister said.
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was adopted in 1996 but never entered force as eight nations, including the United States, haven't ratified it.
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November 11, 1940: 79 years ago
A bittersweet specimen, in more ways than one...
This specimen of American bittersweet (Celastrus scandens) is the most recent record of the species in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. It was collected on November 11, 1940 by Ellen Mason on "railroad property" in Thornburg, just west of the city of Pittsburgh.
Can American bittersweet be found in Allegheny county? It has largely been taken over by the invasive Oriental bittersweet from East Asia. The main differences between the two species are leaf shape (invasive species has more rounded leaves, native species are more elongated) and fruit (invasive species has fruit all along base of many leaves, whereas the native species has clusters of fruit at the end of each branch, as seen in this specimen).
Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus) really didn't become prevalent in our area until a few decades ago. But it sure it prevalent now. It is also said to hybridize with the native American bittersweet, probably further swamping out the native.
American bittersweet has beautiful orange/red fruits that hang on into fall/winter long after their leaves have dropped.
Keep a look out for American bittersweet.
June 14, 1965: 54 years ago
Not all bittersweet vines are invasive to Pennsylvania. This specimen was collected on June 14, 1965 by botany curator Leroy Henry in Clearfield county, along Rt 969. American bittersweet (Celastrus scandens) is a woody vine that blooms in June, which turn to beautiful clusters of orange/red fruit in late summer/fall. The species is native to eastern USA, found along open thickets/edge of woods.
American bittersweet (Celastrus scandens) might be easily confused with the much more common Asian bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus). There are two major visual differences between the species: 1) flower/fruit -- native species has single terminal cluster of many flowers/fruits at tips of branches, whereas the invasive has flowers/fruits at axils of leaves (where leaves connect to stem; and 2) leaves -- native species' leaves are more elongate, whereas the invasive species' leaves are more round, often even circular ('orbiculate').
American bittersweet is no longer common in Pennsylvania, most likely taken over by the closely related Asian bittersweet. Asian bittersweet is a relatively newer addition to the flora of Pennsylvania, not showing up in western PA and the Pittsburgh region until the 1980s. Given its abundance and distribution throughout the region now, it is hard to fathom it was not present only several decades ago.
Research over the past decade has shown that the invasive species hybridizes with the native, likely contributing to the decline of the native American bittersweet.
Keep a look out for American bittersweet in our region. (I have not seen it in Allegheny county, although we have historic records)
This specimen image is now publicly available online:
http://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=12131436&clid=0
June 1830: 189 years ago
This is a special specimen. The Carnegie Museum herbarium is full of specimens of scientific and historical importance. And this is a notable one, collected in June 1830 by William Darlington in West Chester, Pennsylvania. William Darlington (1782-1863) was an important figure in the history of Pennsylvania botany. Darlington was a physician, politician (US House of Representatives 1815-1823), and as you might guess – a botanist! At the University of Pennsylvania, Darlington studied botany under Benjamin Smith Barton, a well-known botanist who also trained Meriwether Lewis (of the Lewis & Clark Expedition). Darlington wrote several He spent most of his life in West Chester, PA. He wrote some of the earliest botanical works, including a flora of Chester County in 1826 and others on agriculture. Many of his specimens are among the earliest documentation of Pennsylvania’s flora and are preserved in the William Darlington herbarium at West Chester University.
This particular specimen is of the native shrub Euonymus americanus, commonly called “strawberry bush.” Despite the name, it is not related to strawberries, but in the bittersweet/spindle family, Celastraceae. You may recognize some similarities with the related species from East Asia, burning bush (Euonymus alatus), which is commonly planted for its bright red fall color (around Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh, and many other places). However, burning bush should not be planted, as it is invasive, spreading into natural areas.
In the Carnegie Museum herbarium, there are 62 specimens collected by Darlington between 1828 and 1840, mostly from Chester County, PA.
How’d some of Darlington’s specimens end up at the Carnegie Museum? This specimen was part of Jacob Wolle’s personal collection, who was the grandfather of William Holland, the first director of the museum.
This specimen image is now publicly available online: http://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=12131484&clid=0
Read more about Darlington and other influential figures in the history of Pennsylvania botany at Herbarium World: https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/william-darlington-and-the-pennsylvanica-botanical-circle/
January 5, 1985: 33 years ago today
Even though it was collected in Japan, this specimen might look familiar in Pennsylvania. This specimen of wintercreeper (Euonymus fortunei) was collected by M. Togashi in Japan in 1985. Native to East Asia, wintercreeper (also called Fortune’s spindle or climbing euonymus) was introduced to North America in 1907 for use as a ground cover. In fact, it can be found just outside the Carnegie Museum, around the parking garage. It can escape cultivation, to establish and become naturalized (sometimes invasive) in the Eastern United States. Wintercreeper is a fast-growing woody vine which has evergreen leaves. Wintercreeper is recognized as invasive by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (PA DCNR), with potential to cause ecological harm in natural areas (link).
Herbarium specimens are valuable resources to study invasive species -- not only to monitor changes through time (since introduction) and to track its spread across the US, but also to compare to populations growing in the native range. Much untapped potential in herbaria worldwide for understanding species invasions.
Stumbled upon this neat little book from 100 years ago in the Botany library, which promotes the use of this plant as an ornamental. The book was published in 1917, ten years after wintercreeper was introduced to the US. Many states (including PA) now recognize this species as problematic or having the potential to become invasive. [note: Evonymus radicans is a synonym for Euonymus fortunei var. radicans]
Below: Euonymus this morning outside the museum. Probably not much photosynthesis happening this winter morning, given it is 0 °F (feels like -18°F)!
January 12, 1935: 82 years ago today
Collected on this day in 1935, this eastern wahoo (Euonymus atropurpureus) specimen was found near Connellsville Pennsylvania by John Franklin Lewis.
Eastern wahoo is native to midwestern states and parts of Pennsylvania.
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The influence of pioneering architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh can be seen in all kinds of tourist souvenirs, but this is the real thing, a modern design icon. Open tours 11am, 2pm.
The School of Oriental and African Studies, part of the University of London, appears to be the only institution in the UK currently offering an Africa-specific Masters degree in contemporary art.
The school takes an organic approach to learning, teaching habits of open-minded inquiry that can help student be resourceful when faced with life’s challenges, big and small. Art classes for kids, nurture the whole child, creating the foundations for the well-rounded adults they will grow up to become.
For the enthusiasts and consumers of classical music at the UW, Priday’s appointment promises to reward audiences with an.
Taken collectively, Sheila Rennick and Amanda Doran could be described as members of the Fleabag school of contemporary Irish painting. It’s reasonable to see her work as being aligned with other.
The collection of modern and contemporary art at the Gallery is noteworthy for exemplary works from the 20th century and the early years of the 21st century. Particular strengths are an exceptional group of avant-garde artworks from 1920 to 1940 represented in the Société Anonyme Collection, as well as an outstanding collection of mid-20th.
The DMA is one of the largest art museums in America, located in the nation’s largest arts district in downtown Dallas.
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) an art college in Portland Oregon, offers MFA, MA, and BFA programs in art and design, plus youth and adult art classes. Exhibitions through Center for Contemporary Art and Culture. A platform for.
Contemporary School Psychology has recently published an article by first. which will be hung in the BU Wheelock lobby at Two Silber Way. The art was painted by one of his favorite Chilean artists.
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Its extraordinary exhibitions and collection of modern and contemporary art are dedicated to helping you understand and enjoy the art of our time. Caption: The Museum of Modern Art…
The MA in Modern Art welcomes applicants who wish to study 20th- and 21st-century art. For the free-standing MA in other fields or periods of art and architectural history, Columbia offers a regular MA in Art History. Columbia University also hosts the MA-Paris Exchange Program open to full-time MA students.
Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way.
A new Bauhaus museum in Dessau tells the story of how the socially-engaged school of architecture and design flourished briefly until growing pressure from the Nazis forced it to leave for Berlin.
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Introduction "Modern art" is a broad term which refers to art produced during the years 1870-1970.Some historians prefer to limit "modern art" to the 20th century, but, it is more customary to take Impressionism as the starting point, while the 1960s are usually seen as the transition between "modern art" and its successor "postmodernist art".
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High School of Contemporary Arts is ranked 904-1,204th within New York. Students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® coursework and exams. The AP® participation rate at High School of.
The objective of the Kemper Museum school tour program is to engage students in discussion about modern and contemporary art and how it relates to.
Internationally esteemed as a school of art and design, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) offers a comprehensive college education centered in the visual and related arts.
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KSMOCA holds workshops where globally feted talents collaborate with King Elementary students. Each workshop culminates in an exhibit displayed along one of the grade school’s hallways.
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This book arrives in advance of a swathe of publications, which, in 2019, will celebrate the centenary of the Bauhaus, the German art school that created the model for a modern approach to the.
Considered a foundational painting for a new era of modern art, it portrays a nude white prostitute reclining. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School.
Established in 1918, Otis College of Art and Design is a national leader in art and design education. The College mission is to prepare diverse students of art and design to enrich our world through their creativity, skill, and vision.
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MoMA PS1 presents today’s most experimental, thought-provoking art. Founded in 1971, it is the first nonprofit arts center in the US devoted solely to contemporary art.
The Art School is located on the fourteen-acre Lake Austin site of historic Laguna Gloria, a natural setting conducive to the creation of art. Our studios have direct access to the outdoors, and we encourage you to explore the grounds while working on class projects. Our goal is to foster your creativity, enhance your visual awareness, and.
Brandeis is one of New England's premier arts centers, featuring live music and theater year-round, one of the nation's foremost collections of modern art. the Brandeis community and introduced new music to Waltham public school children.
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In 1977, legendary musician Dizzy Gillespie visited Cuba in search of the nation's Jazz scene, rumored to be one of the world's best, but unknown to the general American public because of the tenuous relations between the two countries. He needed someone to take him to the smoky clubs and side streets where the true beating heart of soul-stirring Afro-Cuban rhythms could be heard. So when a young trumpeter offered to lead the tour, he readily accepted. At that point he had no idea that he was in the presence of his future protégé. But that realization would come just a while later, when Arturo Sandoval hit the stage and bust out with one of his extraordinary trumpet grooves.
The winner of four Grammys, Sandoval has performed with Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys, and was the subject of an HBO film based on his life. He defected from Cuba in 1990 while on concert in Spain. Cuba's loss is the Miami Symphony Orchestra's Festival Miami and Season Opening Concert's gain on Sunday.
"Arturo Sandoval is fluent in at least four musical languages," says Miami Symphony Orchestra's director, composer, and conductor Eduardo Marturet. "He can burn through an Afro-Cuban groove, tear up a bebop tune, soar over a Mozart concerto and soothe you with a luscious ballad--with equal power and grace."
The Latin Jazz legend will headline the month-long music festival's special concert for the world-premiere of a piece titled Rivera's Concierto de Miami for Trumpet and Orchestra. The symphony will also perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, and Ravel's Bolero.
The concert is part of Daniel Pearl World Music Day--a day of "harmony for humanity" started by a conductor who was friends with Daniel Pearl, a reporter murdered by kidnappers in Pakistan. The conductor, George Pehlivanian, chose to go on with his scheduled concert the next day despite his grief and later declared, "As the orchestra played Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, I finally understood the triumph of hope over despair."
The Miami Symphony Orchestra's Festival Miami and Season Opening Concert takes place this Sunday at 8 p.m. at Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center (1300 Biscayne Blvd., Downtown.) Tickets cost $20 to $150. Call 305-275-5666 or visit themiso.org.
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Multiphase Environmental Chemistry in the Atmosphere
by Sergey A. (Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of AirUCI, Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of AirUCI, Univ Nizkorodov
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This book is based on a selection of presentations given at the very successful symposium < Multiphase Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosols> held at the 2017 ACS Fall meeting and attended by a large number of researchers. This symposium provided an excellent opportunity to hear about multiple aspects of atmospheric multiphase chemistry from a diverse spectrum of presenters, including laboratory and field experimentalists and modelers. Similarly, by presenting the material in a single edited book, we hope to encourage cross-disciplinary thinking among these topics so that more scientists can imagine solutions to the challenges of understanding and mitigating the effects of atmospheric aerosols. The chapter authors begin with introductory material addressing scientists who may work in a broad range of disciplines, and then move to more specific details for the experts in the field. Therefore, this book should be an excellent resource for those just starting in the field of atmospheric chemistry and for those who want to initiate new research directions with a mix of basics and some of the newest advances.
Publication date: 16th October 2019
Author: Sergey A. (Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of AirUCI, Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of AirUCI, Univ Nizkorodov
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About Sergey A. (Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of AirUCI, Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of AirUCI, Univ Nizkorodov
Sherri W. Hunt received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Minnesota. After a postdoctoral research position with Barbara Finlayson-Pitts at University of California, Irvine, Hunt spent two years as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow. In 2006, she joined the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a physical scientist in the Office of Research and Development. Her work involves research planning and coordination for agency scientists and the extramural STAR grants program. Research expertise and topics include understanding, monitoring, and modeling air pollution and its ...
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The Islamic Republic of Pakistan sit within the southern portion of Asia to the west of India and the east of Afghanistan. It is the sixth-most populated nation in the world, and is known as a rapidly developing country that is quickly growing into one of the world's largest economies. Pakistan also boasts the 10th largest labor market in the world. It is one of the world's largest producers of natural resources as well. This thriving economy is appealing to some who wish to study business and work in business fields throughout Asia.
Business Studies in Pakistan
To study business in Pakistan, students would need to attend classes in one of the colleges or universities within the country. The Pakistani education system after high school is divided into two levels. Students start in the Degree Colleges, which offer basic degrees similar to the American community college. After graduation from a degree college, students attend a university. The country currently has 132 universities, many of which have excellent business programs. Classes are typically taught in regional languages, English and Urdu.
Students who are earning a bachelor's degree should plan to spend around four or five years studying. For those pursuing a master's degree, such as a MBA, the program requires an additional two years. the academic calendar may vary depending on the university in which a student is studying, but typically the school year is broken down into two semesters, beginning in August and running through January and then beginning again in January and running through April or May. Because Pakistan is an Islamic nation, many universities observe Islamic holidays.
The cost to study in Pakistan varies depending on the school chosen. Some of the top universities in the country charge between $4,000 and $8,000 a year for their education course offerings. While international students are welcome in Pakistani universities, the universities have historically favored male applicants. While this is slowly changing, female applicants may find it harder to get accepted in this particular country. The country of Pakistan is committed to investing into its higher education system, and in recent years the effects of that investment are being seen in the quality of the education.
Upon graduation, students who have earned a business degree in Pakistan will enjoy the benefit of being educated in one of the world's up and coming economies. They will also be well poised to pursue business endeavors in the Asian world.
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Paula Keays appointed President of McKesson Canada
St-Laurent, Quebec, November 28, 2016 - McKesson Canada today announced the appointment of Paula Keays as president, effective immediately. In her new role, Keays will lead 4,000 employees and be responsible for McKesson’s distribution solutions offerings in Canada, including pharmaceutical distribution, pharmacy technology, specialty pharmacy and infusion, procurement, and independent retail banner solutions. Keays, who will report to Paul C. Julian, executive vice president and group president, will be responsible for driving sales, marketing and operations for the business.
“I have worked alongside Paula for over 15 years, I’ve been impressed by her vision, drive, and commitment to operational excellence,” said Julian. “Our customers, business partners and employees will be well served by her leadership style, deep understanding of health care and passion for customer service.”
Prior to this appointment, Keays served as McKesson Canada’s senior vice president, Pharmaceutical Distribution and Operations. In this position, she led one of McKesson Canada’s largest portfolios and was responsible for sales, marketing, and operations. Under Keays’ leadership, McKesson Canada successfully advanced its network optimization, which has helped deliver significant operational efficiencies and improvements to the overall business. She also drove the design and introduction of important sales and operations team initiatives which has enhanced customer service, strengthened business partnership and created shared success for customers across Canada.
Since joining McKesson in 2000, Keays has held increasingly senior positions, including vice president and corporate controller, vice president and chief financial officer, and senior vice president, chief financial officer and Six Sigma.
“I am honoured to be taking on my new role as president of McKesson Canada,” said Keays. “Canada’s health care environment is becoming increasingly complex. Together with our people and our partners I’m looking forward to leading through an important moment in our history as we focus on our customers to deliver better value and patient care for Canadians from coast-to-coast.”
Until a new senior vice president, Pharmaceutical distribution and Operations is appointed, Keays will continue to oversee the operations of the Pharmaceutical distribution and Operations portfolio in addition to her responsibilities as president.
McKesson Canada partners with insurers, hospitals, physicians’ offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting.
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Founded more than 100 years ago, McKesson Canada is dedicated to delivering vital medicines, supplies and information technologies that enable the health care industry to provide patients with better, safer care. Our solutions empower pharmacies, manufacturers, hospitals and other health care institutions by enabling them to get closer to the millions of patients they serve every single day, while contributing to the quality and safety of care in Canada. For more information, visit www.mckesson.ca.
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Elikngton and Co- 'Pure Brilliant'!
Britain today, is marketing itself as manufacturers of quality in a number of industries. Just think of Rolls Royce and it is easy to understand why. This is not a new thing and in the Victorian and Edwardian eras it was Elkington and Co that was the beacon of unrivalled quality. Indeed, between 1840 and 1914, no other manufacturer was as well represented at the world's great exhibitions.
Elkington and Co is synonimous with silver and more importantly the electroplating of silver on metal. The process of using electric to bind silver to a base metal was invented by John Wright in the 1830's, but the patent was won by George Elkington in 1838 and was in full production as G.R.Elkington by 1840.
In 1842, Josiah Mason came into the partnership and the firm became Elkington, Mason and Co. This only lasted until 1861 when the partnership ended and the firm became Elkington & Co for the next one hundred and two years, until 1963.
Elkington & Co, produced the finest quality wares for aristocrats, politicians and royalty. In fact, as Elkington & Co it produced wares for every single monarch in its history.
In 1963, the firm merged with Mappin and Webb and became British Silverware Limited, which is it's current name. A quick glance at the website leaves you in no doubt the importance of the firm today. Making notable silver wares such as the football Carling Cup.
On Tuesday 26th August, in 'The Silver Auction' at McTear's are three astonishing examples. Lot 1 in the sale is an important political silver presentation casket (£1200/1800). Lot 20A is an electroplated centrepiece, believed to be made for Glasgow City Hall, who were so impresssed with it that they commisioned a silver copy (£700/1000). Finally, there is a page turner made specifically for the 1901 Glasgow Exhibition (£80/100).
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SYSCO Sales Up 6.7% in 3Q
SYSCO Corp., Houston, TX, reported sales for the third quarter fiscal 2008 were up 6.7% to $9.15 billion, from last year's third quarter.
Profit was up 9% to $240.9 million. Food cost inflation, as estimated by the change in SYSCO's cost of goods, was 6.2% for the quarter.
Year-to-date, sales increased 7.7% to $27.79 billion from the same period last year, and profit was up 10.7% to $772 million. Food cost inflation, as estimated by the change in SYSCO's cost of goods, was 6.0% year-to-date in fiscal 2008.
In a challenging business environment where restaurant sales growth appears to have been flat to down, we continued to grow and we leveraged that growth to our bottom line, particularly in the Broadline segment," said Richard J. Schnieders, SYSCO's CEO.
Foodservice distributor SYSCO had $35 billion in sales in fiscal year 2007.
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What is a fracture?
Medically reviewed by William Morrison, M.D. on December 14, 2017 — Written by Yvette Brazier
What is a bone fracture?
A bone fracture is a medical condition where the continuity of the bone is broken.
A significant percentage of bone fractures occur because of high force impact or stress.
However, a fracture may also be the result of some medical conditions which weaken the bones, for example osteoporosis, some cancers, or osteogenesis imperfecta (also known as brittle bone diseases).
A fracture caused by a medical condition is known as a pathological fracture.
Fast facts on fractures
Here are some key points about fractures. More detail and supporting information is in the main article.
Most bone fractures are caused by falls and accidents.
Bone fractures caused by disease are referred to as pathological fractures.
A compound fracture is one that also causes injury to the overlying skin.
There are a number of different types of fractures, including avulsion, comminuted, and hairline fractures.
Bone healing is a natural process, treatment revolves around giving the bone optimum conditions to heal itself.
Fractures can occur in any bone of the body.
The word "break" is commonly used by lay (non-professional) people.
Among doctors, especially bone specialists, such as orthopedic surgeons, "break" is a much less common term when talking about bones.
A crack (not only a break) in the bone is also known as a fracture. Fractures can occur in any bone in the body.
There are several different ways in which a bone can fracture; for example, a break to the bone that does not damage surrounding tissue or tear through the skin is known as a closed fracture.
On the other hand, one that damages surrounding skin and penetrates the skin is known as a compound fracture or an open fracture. Compound fractures are generally more serious than simple fractures, because, by definition, they are infected.
Most human bones are surprisingly strong and can generally stand up to fairly strong impacts or forces. However, if that force is too powerful, or there is something wrong with the bone, it can fracture.
The older we get, the less force our bones can withstand. Because children's bones are more elastic, when they do have fractures they tend to be different. Children also have growth plates at the end of their bones - areas of growing bone - which may sometimes be damaged.
There is a range of fracture types, including:
Avulsion fracture - a muscle or ligament pulls on the bone, fracturing it.
Comminuted fracture - the bone is shattered into many pieces.
Compression (crush) fracture - generally occurs in the spongy bone in the spine. For example, the front portion of a vertebra in the spine may collapse due to osteoporosis.
Fracture dislocation - a joint becomes dislocated, and one of the bones of the joint has a fracture.
Greenstick fracture - the bone partly fractures on one side, but does not break completely because the rest of the bone can bend. This is more common among children, whose bones are softer and more elastic.
Hairline fracture - a partial fracture of the bone. Sometimes this type of fracture is harder to detect with routine xrays.
Impacted fracture - when the bone is fractured, one fragment of bone goes into another.
Intraarticular fracture - where the break extends into the surface of a joint
Longitudinal fracture - the break is along the length of the bone.
Oblique fracture - a fracture that is diagonal to a bone's long axis.
Pathological fracture - when an underlying disease or condition has already weakened the bone, resulting in a fracture (bone fracture caused by an underlying disease/condition that weakened the bone).
Spiral fracture - a fracture where at least one part of the bone has been twisted.
Stress fracture - more common among athletes. A bone breaks because of repeated stresses and strains.
Torus (buckle) fracture - bone deforms but does not crack. More common in children. It is painful but stable.
Transverse fracture - a straight break right across a bone.
Symptoms of a bone fracture can vary wildly depending on the affected region and severity.
The signs and symptoms of a fracture vary according to which bone is affected, the patient's age and general health, as well as the severity of the injury. However, they often include some of the following:
discolored skin around the affected area
angulation - the affected area may be bent at an unusual angle
the patient is unable to put weight on the injured area
the patient cannot move the affected area
the affected bone or joint may have a grating sensation
if it is an open fracture, there may be bleeding
When a large bone is affected, such as the pelvis or femur:
the sufferer may look pale and clammy
there may be dizziness (feeling faint)
feelings of sickness and nausea.
If possible, do not move a person with a broken bone until a healthcare professional is present and can assess the situation and, if required, apply a splint. If the patient is in a dangerous place, such as in the middle of a busy road, one sometimes has to act before the emergency services arrive.
Most fractures are caused by a bad fall or automobile accident. Healthy bones are extremely tough and resilient and can withstand surprisingly powerful impacts. As people age, two factors make their risk of fractures greater: Weaker bones and a greater risk of falling.
Children, who tend to have more physically active lifestyles than adults, are also prone to fractures.
People with underlying illnesses and conditions that may weaken their bones have a higher risk of fractures. Examples include osteoporosis, infection, or a tumor. As mentioned earlier, this type of fracture is known as a pathological fracture.
Stress fractures, which result from repeated stresses and strains, commonly found among professional sports people, are also common causes of fractures.
Medical intervention focuses on supporting the bone as it heals naturally.
A doctor will carry out a physical examination, identify signs and symptoms, and make a diagnosis.
The patient will be interviewed - or friends, relatives, and witnesses if the patient cannot communicate properly - and asked about circumstances that caused the injury or may have caused it.
Doctors will often order an X-ray. In some cases, an MRI or CT scan may also be ordered.
Bone healing is a natural process which, in most cases, will occur automatically. Fracture treatment is usually aimed at making sure there is the best possible function of the injured part after healing.
Treatment also focuses on providing the injured bone with the best circumstances for optimum healing (immobilization).
For the natural healing process to begin, the ends of the broken bone need to be lined up - this is known as reducing the fracture.
The patient is usually asleep under a general anesthetic when fracture reduction is done. Fracture reduction may be done by manipulation, closed reduction (pulling the bone fragments), or surgery.
Immobilization - as soon as the bones are aligned they must stay aligned while they heal. This may include:
Plaster casts or plastic functional braces - these hold the bone in position until it has healed.
Metal plates and screws - current procedures may use minimally invasive techniques.
Intra-medullary nails - internal metal rods are placed down the center of long bones. Flexible wires may be used in children.
External fixators - these may be made of metal or carbon fiber; they have steel pins that go into the bone directly through the skin. They are a type of scaffolding outside the body.
Usually, the fractured bone area is immobilized for 2-8 weeks. The duration depends on which bone is affected and whether there are any complications, such as a blood supply problem or an infection.
Healing - if a broken bone has been aligned properly and kept immobile, the healing process is usually straightforward.
Osteoclasts (bone cells) absorb old and damaged bone while osteoblasts (other bone cells) are used to create new bone.
Callus is new bone that forms around a fracture. It forms on either side of the fracture and grows toward each end until the fracture gap is filled. Eventually, the excess bone smooths off and the bone is as it was before.
The patient's age, which bone is affected, the type of fracture, as well as the patient's general health are all factors which influence how rapidly the bone heals. If the patient smokes regularly, the healing process will take longer.
Physical therapy - after the bone has healed, it may be necessary to restore muscle strength as well as mobility to the affected area. If the fracture occurred near or through a joint, there is a risk of permanent stiffness or arthritis - the individual may not be able to bend that joint as well as before.
Surgery - if there was damage to the skin and soft tissue around the affected bone or joint, plastic surgery may be required.
Delayed unions and non-unions
Non-unions are fractures that fail to heal, while delayed unions are those that take longer to heal.
Ultrasound therapy - low-intensity ultrasound is applied to the affected area daily. This has been found to help the fracture heal. Studies in this area are still ongoing.
Bone graft - if the fracture does not heal, a natural or synthetic bone is transplanted to stimulate the broken bone.
Stem cell therapy - studies are currently underway to see whether stem cells can be used to treat fractures that do not heal.
Heals in the wrong position - this is known as a malunion; either the fracture heals in the wrong position or it shifts (the fracture itself shifts).
Disruption of bone growth - if a childhood bone fracture affects the growth plate, there is a risk that the normal development of that bone may be affected, raising the risk of a subsequent deformity.
Persistent bone or bone marrow infection - if there is a break in the skin, as may happen with a compound fracture, bacteria can get in and infect the bone or bone marrow, which can become a persistent infection (chronic osteomyelitis).
Patients may need to be hospitalized and treated with antibiotics. Sometimes, surgical drainage and curettage is required.
Bone death (avascular necrosis) - if the bone loses its essential supply of blood it may die.
Nutrition and sunlight - the human body needs adequate supplies of calcium for healthy bones. Milk, cheese, yoghurt, and dark green leafy vegetables are good sources of calcium.
Our body needs vitamin D to absorb calcium - exposure to sunlight, as well as eating eggs and oily fish are good ways of getting vitamin D.
Vitamin D plays a role in maintaining healthy bones.
Physical activity - the more weight-bearing exercises you do, the stronger and denser your bones will be.
Examples include skipping, walking, running, and dancing - any exercise where the body pulls on the skeleton.
Older age not only results in weaker bones, but often in less physical activity, which further increases the risk of even weaker bones. It is important for people of all ages to stay physically active.
Menopause - estrogen, which regulates a woman's calcium, drops during menopause, making calcium regulation much more difficult. Consequently, women need to be especially careful about the density and strength of their bones during and after the menopause.
The following steps may help reduce post-menopausal osteoporosis risk:
Do several short weight-bearing exercise sessions each week.
Do not smoke.
Consume only moderate quantities of alcohol, or don't drink it.
Get adequate exposure to daylight.
Make sure your diet has plenty of calcium-rich foods. For those who find this difficult, a doctor may recommend calcium supplements.
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Canada vs. Radical Islam: Harper's Mixed Record
by Kathy Shaidle
https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/31878/canada-vs-radical-islam-harper-mixed-record
A warning to those who believe that electing a "conservative" government automatically will inspire tougher measures to fight radical Islam: Canadians know from experience that this formula does not always work as planned.
When Canadian voters again rejected the nation's "natural ruling party" — the Liberals — and handed the Conservatives their second minority government in the fall of 2008, Islamist Watch asked some prominent Canadians how Prime Minister Stephen Harper would tackle creeping Shari'a and other manifestations of homegrown radical Islam.
Two years later, it is time to revisit those questions.
In 2008, Ezra Levant, a lifelong Conservative Party supporter, had just emerged as the country's premier critic of Islamist lawfare, having been hauled before a government tribunal for publishing the infamous "Muhammad cartoons." Back then, Levant said that he was optimistic about the government's commitment to battling domestic Muslim belligerence.
Today, he admits that "progress is slower" than he had hoped, but Levant remains encouraged by what he has seen. For example, he lauds the Conservatives' refusal to bow to international progressive pressure to somehow rescue "child soldier" and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, who currently is being held at Guantanamo and just pleaded guilty to murdering an American medic during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.
On the home front, Levant reports that through sharp criticism and even funding cuts, "the government continues to marginalize the worst groups out there, such as the Canadian Islamic Congress" (CIC) — the Islamist body that unsuccessfully attempted to silence Mark Steyn — "and the Canadian Arab Federation," a peddler of anti-Semitism and 9/11 conspiracy theories.
However, the ruling government faces a continuous uphill battle when instituting even moderate reforms such as those, due in large part to Canada's particular parliamentary structure.
"The main problem for deep reform remains the minority government," Levant explains. "For example, a few months ago when there was evidence of niqab-clad women boarding a plane without revealing their faces, the Conservatives called for the matter to be discussed at a parliamentary committee. The [left-leaning] opposition parties, which together have a majority on all committees, blocked that discussion."
Salim Mansur agrees that any analysis of the Harper government's successes and failures must take mundane political realities into account. However, the author of Islam's Predicament: Perspectives of a Dissident Muslim is not willing to excuse the Conservatives for failing to embrace necessary reforms.
Mansur accuses Harper of holding back on reforms because the prime minister fears alienating Muslim and centrist voters. Yet Mansur is convinced that if the Conservatives were bolder in their opposition to radical Islam, they would gain more overall votes than they would lose.
"It looks to me," says Mansur, that Harper "wants to win the majority without in any way rousing any controversy over the subject of Islamist jihad that he fears will make him lose centrist votes, hand the opposition a political stick to beat him up with, allow the mainstream media to paint him as a redneck, and drive him out of leadership if he cannot win the next election with a majority. So Harper is playing safe politically and he is betting that this subject will not turn into the make-or-break issue in the next election."
One of the issues that Mansur says Harper is trying to avoid is immigration reform. It has not escaped the average Canadian's notice that Omar Khadr's parents were immigrants, as were members of the Toronto 18 terrorist group and leaders of the lawfare campaigns targeting Levant and Steyn. Stories about Toronto's "welfare harems" and Quebec's proposed burqa ban also have been widely reported.
Yet bizarrely, just as voters and even the media have begun openly discussing this "third rail" of Canadian politics, the Conservative Party seems determined to ignore immigration reform. One exception did come late last year, when the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration unveiled a new guidebook for immigrants. At least in theory, all newcomers are required to read Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship, which advises them that "Canada's openness and generosity do not extend to barbaric cultural practices that tolerate spousal abuse, 'honor killings,' female genital mutilation, or other gender-based violence." However, the ministry took some heat for appearing to tone down references to gay rights in the guide, presumably to avoid offending the same constituency being warned about honor killings.
David Harris, the director of the International and Terrorist Intelligence Program for INSIGNIS Strategic Research, seconded the need for immigration reform back in 2008, insisting that "immigration must be brought under immediate control. … Bringing over a quarter of a million people a year into Canada is unconscionable in this threat environment, and it should be no surprise that our few thousand security officials are overworked."
It seems that Harris' warnings have gone largely unheeded by the Conservative Party. He now observes, "Unfortunately, events of the last year or two point to a shifting of the Conservative government in favor of the promiscuous immigration approaches that place vote banks first, and safety and security a distant second."
Harris notes the mixed messages being sent by the Harper government. On the one hand, it has declared that it is distancing itself from groups like the Canadian Islamic Congress. Yet, at the same time, Harris points out, "the executive director of the CIC was a featured speaker at a Department of Foreign Affairs event put together by the Muslim Communities Working Group in 2008. The Working Group is a clearinghouse for all things Muslim, has no equivalent relating to any other religion or ideology, and came into existence early in the Harper government's tenure."
When the executive director of the CIC was scheduled to speak at an event in October 2010 — a celebration of "Islamic History Month" at the Department of National Defence (DND) — the outcome was markedly different. Canadian bloggers learned of it and asked why the head of the CIC, Zijad Delic, had been accorded such an honor and why a powerful state agency was granting one religion special recognition. As public pressure mounted, the DND canceled Delic's speech, but the rest of the Islamic history event went on as scheduled.
More mixed messages were sent, notes Harris, when Immigration Minister Jason Kenney addressed a breakfast meeting of the Islamic Society of North America Canada (ISNA Canada) in November 2008. Continues Harris, "ISNA Canada is apparently the Canadian arm of the American Islamist organization that was designated an unindicted co-conspirator by the United States Justice Department for the purposes of the Holy Land Foundation trial, a successful U.S. terror-funding prosecution."
Further, Harris had called on the new Conservative government in 2008 to ensure that radical Muslim groups "are never engaged in 'outreach' activity by police and security organizations." Yet even today, nine years after September 11, says Harris, institutions like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) remain clueless about the groups and individuals that they embrace.
"Earlier in its outreach program," Harris explains, "the RCMP set up a flurry of roundtables — for adults and youth — and their periodic get-togethers under this rubric have, according to some participants, come to be dominated by Muslim members and concerns. The tendency seems to have been to accept almost anyone as participants, a situation that lends itself to those wishing to gain the imprimatur of a prestige law enforcement organization."
Harris points out that the RCMP has regularly cited "notoriously inaccurate CAIR-CAN [Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations] studies" for "scare statistics" in their public briefings, which spread the myth that "Islamophobic" hate crimes are on the rise.
"This police blunder was the natural result of welcoming CAIR-CAN operatives into outreach activity," Harris says. "Not only has little discernibly been done about the situation, but the Conservative government appears to be allowing things to deteriorate."
Hence, the Young Muslims Canada website boasts of graduating from the Mounties' "Citizen's Academy" on one page, then showcases an essay by Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, on another.
When considering this environment of either inexcusable ignorance or cynical pandering by Canada's elites — even under the Conservative government of Prime Minister Harper — it is no wonder that Salim Mansur is pessimistic about the future of his adopted country.
"So you see I am fearful of where we are headed," he explains, "and how badly we need courageous political leadership that can speak to the people without fear about Islamism and the need to push them back now and not when it might be too late. We don't have that leadership in the West — and we don't have it in Canada."
Kathy Shaidle blogs at Five Feet of Fury. This article was sponsored by Islamist Watch.
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