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You are here: Home > The Safety of Bioidentical Hormones
Are Women’s Bio-identical hormones Safe?
by Jeffrey Dach MD
Bio-identical hormones exist naturally in the human body, so it is axiomatic that these are safe. However, we are interested in a slightly different question. What is the safety of bio-identical hormones as routinely used in medical practice? Let’s try to answer this question.
Left Image: Water with Droplets Courtesy of Wikimedia
The Safety of Water compared to Bio-Identical Hormones
Water is safe, beneficial and healthy. Yet, even so, drinking excess amounts of water causes death from Fatal Water Intoxication.(1) Similarly, just like water, bio-identical hormones are safe and beneficial when used at proper dosages. Like excessive water, excessive hormone dosage may result in their own adverse side effects. Excess estrogen, for example, causes fluid retention, breast sensitivity and enlargement, and disturbed mood.
Humans Have Bio-Identical Hormones – Ask Darwin
Another answer to the safety question is that bio-identical hormones are found in the human body naturally. Any harmful substance in the human body would impair survival, and over millions of years of evolution would be eliminated by natural selection. This is the basic concept of Darwinian evolution which is accepted by mainstream medical science.
A 50 Million Year Medical Experiment
Consider the following medical experiment, performed over the last 50 million years with the help of our friend, Charles Darwin and Darwinian evolution.(2) Bio-Identical Hormones have been present in the human body for 50 million years, and we humans are still here on the planet. I would consider that a successful medical experiment, wouldn’t you?
Either Excess or Deficiency of Anything Can be Harmful
One of our routine labs tests called the Chem Panel measures electrolytes and glucose levels in the blood. The body automatically maintains these within narrow ranges to maintain health. If levels deviate above or below these normal ranges, this causes a serious health disturbance. For example elevated potassium levels causes cardiac arrest. Magnesium deficiency causes muscle spasm and arrhythmia. Excessive amounts of Vitamins A and D are toxic. Hormones levels enjoy a considerably wide range of acceptable limits. Even so, a deficiency or an excess of women’s bio-identical hormones can produce adverse symptoms. This is called estrogen deficiency/excess, and progesterone deficiency/excess, and they each have typical signs and symptoms easily recognized.(3)
Common Signs of Estrogen Deficiency (4)
Mental fogginess
Minor anxiety
Mood change
Difficulty falling asleep
Temperature swings
Day-long fatigue
Reduced stamina
Decreased sense of sexuality
Lessened self-image and attention to appearance
Dry eyes, skin, and vagina
Loss of skin radiance
Feel balanced 2nd part of cycle
Sagging breasts and loss of fullness
Pain with sexual activity
Increased back and joint pain
Episodes of rapid heartbeat
Gastrointestinal discomfort
Common Signs of Excess Estrogen (takes longer to notice)
Breast tenderness or pain
Increased breast size
Water retention, fingers, legs
Impatient, snappy behavior, but with clear mind
Pelvic cramps
Common Signs of Progesterone Deficiency
No period at all (no ovulation)
The period comes infrequently (every few months)
Heavy and frequent periods (large clots, due to buildup in the uterus)
Spotting a few days before the period. (Progesterone level is dropping)
Cystic breasts
Painful breasts
Breasts with lumps
Most cases of endometriosis, adenomyosis, and fibroids.
Anxiety, irritability, nervousness and water retention
Above list courtesy of Uzzi Reiss MD OB GYN. (4)
No Reported Adverse Events from Bio-Identical Hormones
Over-the-counter pain pills (NSAIDs) such as aspirin, naproxen and ibuprofen are considered fairly safe. After all, you don’t need a prescription to buy them, yet they cause an estimated 16,500 deaths in the US annually, mostly from gastric bleeding.(5) Compare this to no reported adverse events from bio-identical hormones last year, according to an FDA Press Conference on Bioidentical Hormones Jan 2008. (6)
Do Bio-Identical Hormones Cause Breast Cancer?(7)
Left Image: Eiffel Tower Paris France Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
According to the French Cohort study, there is no increase in breast cancer in women using bio-identical hormones.(8) However, having said that, avoiding excess environmental estrogens as well as excessive estrogen levels from any source, is the key to preventing breast cancer.(9) My previous article covers our program for breast cancer prevention which includes iodine supplementation, Indole-3-carbinol and fiber. To read about this, see: Breast Cancer Prevention and Iodine Supplementation by Jeffrey Dach MD.(10)
What Causes Cancer ?
If bioidentical hormones do not cause cancer , What Does? The answer is known for many years. Carcinogenic chemicals in the environment , water and food supply cause cancer. Here is a partial list of carcinogens in our food supply– Bisphenol A (BPA)
Phthalates, Pesticides, Styrene , Vinyl Chloride, etc. The list of environmental carcinogens is almost endless.
Do Bio-Identical Hormones Cause Heart Disease ?
Again, the answer is NO. A study of CAT calcium scores by JoAnn E. Manson in the June 2007 JAMA actually showed less heart disease in the women taking unopposed estrogen (they had hysterectomies and were not given the synthetic progestins).(11) These same results had already been published 2 years previously in a calcium score study by Budoff in J Womens Health 2005. (12)
A Closer Look at the Women’s Health Initiative WHI Study
Understanding the Women’s Health Inititative (WHI) study is not difficult, and is very important to answer the question of hormone safety. The WHI study was the large NIH sponsored medical study which compared synthetic hormones to placebo in two large groups of women. The WHI study consisted of two arms. The first arm used the synthetic hormones Premarin and Provera, and the second arm used Premarin alone.(13)(14)
What is Premarin and Provera?
Premarin and Provera are not bio-identical hormones. Premarin is a hormone obtained from pregnant horses, which contains Equilin, a horse hormone not found in humans.(15) Provera is a synthetic hormone which is not found anywhere in the natural world (see provera diagram below).(16) The Premarin and Provera combination is called PremPro, a synthetic hormone pill commonly prescribed by mainstream medicine. Prempro was the hormone preparation used in the first arm of the WHI study.(13)
WHI study First Arm:
The WHI study (first arm published in JAMA 2002) was terminated early because the combination of premarin and provera (Prempro) caused increased breast cancer and heart disease.(13)Immediately after this study was published, there was a massive switch by women to bio-identical hormones which resulted in a 4 billion dollar loss for Wyeth, the maker of Prempro. Wyeth is still trying to recoup that money by manipulating the FDA. They want the FDA to ban their competition, the bio-identical hormones or their components.(36)(37)(38) Use this easy tool to email your Congressman and voice your opposition to Wyeth’s attempts to ban estriol and other bio-identical hormones.(17) While you are at it, tell your Congressman that synthetic hormones are chemically altered monsters that should be banned.
WHI Study (Second Arm):
All the women in the second arm of the WHI study had prior hysterectomies (uterus absent), so they did not need the synthetic progestin, provera commonly given to prevent endometrial cancer. Rather, they were only given Premarin (the horse hormone, also called CEE, for Conjugated Equine Estrogen). Unlike the first arm of the study, these women had no increase in breast cancer risk.(18) (see chart below)
Above Left Chart: This chart shows data from the second arm of the WHI in JAMA 2004.(14)
The blue bars represents adverse events in the placebo group. The red bars represents adverse events in women (ages 50-59) on premarin only, with no Provera (progestin). Note that the Red bars are all Lower than the Blue bars. The Red bar (Premarin-only) group shows LESS heart disease, LESS breast cancer and LESS Mortality when compared to placebo (blue bar). Chart Courtesy of Susan Ott MD Bone Physiology.(19)
Premarin causes endometrial cancer, so the mainstream medical system always gives Provera (progestins) to prevent endometrial cancer, unless of course, the uterus is absent from prior hysterectomy.(20)
The WHI Culprit was the Synthetic Progestin (an altered form of Progesterone)
Back to the first arm of the WHI which used Prempro, it is clear from the data that the culprit which caused breast cancer and heart disease was Provera, a synthetic monster hormone. This is nothing new. For years, Provera has been known to cause heart disease and breast cancer.(21)(22)(39)
Provera Proven to Cause Breast Cancer
In fact, medical studies prove that Provera causes breast cancer. In these studies, Primates were treated with either Progesterone or Provera showing that the Provera causes breast cancer, while the Progesterone provides protection from breast cancer.(22)
Monster Hormones are Chemically Altered
Chemically altered hormones were used in the WHI study, and are routinely handed out by the medical system. These altered hormones are monsters that should never have been approved for marketing to the American people. They should be banned.
Image Left: Another Monster: Boris Karloff from Frankenstein 1931.Courtesy of Wikimedia.
The Media Says Hormones Cause Cancer and Heart Disease
If bio-identical hormones are so safe, then why do the newspapers say that women’s hormones cause breast cancer and heart disease?(23)
The answer is that the media and the medical profession routinely confuse synthetic chemically altered monster hormones with the bio-identical hormones. The drug companies intentionally create this confusion because they want to hide the fact that synthetic hormones are monsters that should be banned.
Chemically altered hormones were made because of a quirk in our legal system which grants patent protection for chemically altered versions of a natural substance. The natural hormones were chemically altered so that they could be patented to protect profits from competition. Naturally occurring bio-identical hormones by law cannot be patented.
Examples of monster synthetic hormones are provera, all progestins, and birth control pills which are never found in nature. These are the monster hormones.
A Listing of a Few Monster Hormones:
Chemically Altered forms of progesterone:
Dienogest, Desogestrel, Drospirenone, Dydrogesterone, Ethisterone, Etonogestrel, Ethynodiol diacetate, Gestodene, Gestonorone, Levonorgestrel, Lynestrenol, Medroxyprogesterone, Megestrol, Norelgestromin, Norethisterone, Norethynodrel, Norgestimate, Norgestrel, Norgestrienone, Tibolone
Chemically altered forms of estrogen:
Dienestrol, Diethylstilbestrol, Ethinylestradiol, Fosfestrol, Mestranol
Chemically alered hormones in BCP’s Birth Control Pills:
levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol [oral contraceptive] (ALESSE 28, AVIANE, NORDETTE, SEASONALE, TRIPHASIL, TRIVORA-28); norethindrone and ethinyl estradiol (COMBI PATCH, LOESTRIN FE 1/20, NEOCON 1/35, ORTHO-NOVUM 7/7/7, OVCON 35); norgestimate and ethinyl estradiol (ORTHO-CYCLEN, ORTHOTRI-CYCLEN, TRINESSA); norgestrel and ethinyl estradiol (LO/OVRAL 28, LOW-OGESTREL), desogestrel and ethinyl estradiol (DESOGEN, MIRCETTE, ORTHO-CEPT), drospirenone and ethinyl estradiol (YASMIN)
Chemically altered forms of testosterone:
Androstanolone, Fluoxymesterone, Mesterolone, Methyltestosterone
How to make a Monster Hormone, Add a Side-Chain (in Red below)
Below Images: Courtesy of wikimedia commons.
Human Progesterone Provera – the Monster Hormone
Take a good look at human bio-identical Progesterone (Upper left), and the chemically altered version (upper right) Provera (medroxyprogesterone). The added side-chain is labeled in RED on the right side of the Provera molecule. This side-chain (in red) has been added in order to make a totally new structure that can be patented, and is the only difference with progesterone (upper left). In the process of adding this side-chain, a Monster was created. In the opinion of John R Lee MD, “to prescribe a chemically altered version of progesterone called Provera is medical malpractice”, and yet this practice is common in mainstream medicine.
An Illustration which Explains the Problem with Synthetic Chemically Altered Drugs
Supposing a biochemist working for a drug company has an idea to alter the chemical structure of vitamin C so a patent can be obtained. The biochemist adds a chlorine molecule to the vitamin C carbon ring, and gives is a new name “super-Vitamin C”, which is really a chlorinated version of vitamin C. Next they do a one year medical study with 5,000 people taking the chlorinated vitamin C tablet every day, and another 5000 people taking a placebo. After the year is up, they count a .5 per cent incidence of heart disease events in the Super Vitamin C group and a 1.0 percent in the placebo group. FDA approval is easily obtained based on reduction in heart disease events by 50 per cent (.5 per cent is 50% of 1.0 %). The drug company is at liberty to spend million dollars on television advertising designed to rake in millions more for the new heart prevention miracle drug. This absurd scenario is now the norm for our medical system. Why would anyone want to spend money for a monster version of vitamin C when the real thing is available for pennies? Why use a monster hormone when human hormones are available? Compared to their monster counterparts, Bio-Identical Hormones are more effective, have fewer adverse side effects, and are less costly.
High Hormone Levels of Early Pregnancy Confer Protection from Breast Cancer.
During the 16th century in Italy, breast cancer was quite rare. An Italian doctor, Bernardino Ramazzini, noted in 1713 the relatively high incidence of breast cancer in nuns and wondered whether this was related to celibate lifestyle.(24) Recent studies confirm that early pregnancy and multiple pregnancies confer protection from breast cancer, while no pregnancies (as in the nuns) leads to increased risk of breast cancer.(25) This protection is thought to be confered by high levels of progesterone. This was confirmed in a 2007 study by Rajkumar who showed that hormone treatment protected genetically engineered mice from developing breast cancer.
Left image Pregnancy, courtesy of wikipemedia commons.
Progesterone, the Great Protector
Progesterone is so safe, it is available over the counter without a prescription. In addition, a deficiency of progesterone is associated with an increase in breast cancer risk.(27) Progesterone is known to be protective and prevents breast cancer.(28)
Why Don’t Birth Control Pills use Natural Progesterone?
Birth Control Pills, BCP’s, are very effective at preventing pregnancy by suppressing ovulation. However, BCP’s contain synthetic hormones which have adverse side effects.(29)(30)(31) To avoid these monster hormones, the IUD (intra-uterine device) is available.
Here is a listing of people involved in the early development of birth control pills: Russell Marker, Percy Lavon Julian, Carl Djerassi, Luis E. Miramontes, George Rosenkranz, Gregory Pincus, Min Chueh Chang, John Rock.(32)
In the future of medicine, I predict that progesterone will replace progestins as oral contraception . The bio-identical hormone, Progesterone, will be used in the birth control pills of the future. Early research on contraception was done with progestereone, and research was switched to synthetic progestins to obtain a patent and make a profit. Another consideration was ease of use of the oral tablet, at the time available only as a progestin. Bio-Identical progesterone suppresses ovulation and was the original agent investigated in early research for a contraceptive agent. However, timing and dosages were never officially worked out, so we currently are left with the synthetic birth control pills by default. Again, the IUD can be used instead to avoid the monster hormones. I predict that new research outside the US in the next decade will establish progesterone as the hormone of choice for birth control. Most likely, funding for this research will come from a foreign government agency, in a country with universal health care which has economic incentives to make a healthier pill.
More on Breast Cancer and Hormone Levels
If high estrogen levels were the primary cause of breast cancer, we would expect to find more breast cancer mortality in women with higher hormone levels at age 30, and less breast cancer in women with low hormone levels at age 60 (post-menopausal). However, what we find is the exact opposite. According to the CDC, mortality from breast cancer is 7 times higher in the older women aged 60 (0.7 per cent), compared to younger women aged 30 (0.1 per cent). Mortality from breast cancer is 700 % higher in post-menopausal women with low hormone levels.(link)
In conclusion, bio-identical hormones used at appropriate dosages are safe, effective, and beneficial for health. On the other hand, any chemical alteration of a human hormone creates a monster hormone, which is not bioidentical. These monster hormones should never have been approved for marketing and sale to the American people. These monster hormones are unsafe, causing cancer and heart disease, and should be banned immediately.
Articles With Related Interest
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Morning Rounds With Steven Economou MD
Don’t Monkey With My Hormones
Waking Up from the Synthetic Hormone Nightmare
HRT Does Not Cause Breast Cancer
Three Excellent Articles on the Safety of BioIdentical Hormones
(1) For a good summary and explanation of the issues, I recommend the article, The Case for Bioidentical Hormones Steven F Hotze MD. 2008.(33)
(2) Another excellent article is The Safety of Bioidentical Hormones — the Data vs. the Hype by Jacob Teitelbaum, MD From the Townsend Letter June 2007.(34)
(3) A third excellent article: Bioidentical vs. Synthetic HRT, A Review of the Literature
by the Bio-Identical Hormone Inititiative, Erika Schwartz MD, David Brownstein MD, Kent Holtorf MD.(40)(41)
Recommended Reading: books by John R Lee MD (35)
WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT MENOPAUSE: The Breakthrough Book on Natural Progesterone (Warner Books, 1996)(35)
WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT PREMENOPAUSE: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty (Warner Books, 1999)(35)
WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT BREAST CANCER: How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life, (Warner Books, 2002)(35)
Jeffrey Dach MD
www.jeffreydach.com
www.naturalmedicine101.com
www.truemedmd.com
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http://www.johnleemd.com/store/premenstrual_syndrome.html
Excerpted From: WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT BREAST CANCER:
Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty. PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE. How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life. by John R. Lee, M.D., David Zava, Ph.D. and Virginia Hopkins. Warner Books 2002
(4) http://www.uzzireissmd.com/
Natural Hormone Balance for Women: Look Younger, Feel Stronger, and Live Life with Exuberance. by Uzzi Reiss MD
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(6) FDA Press COnference on Bioidentical Hormones Jan 2008
Transcript of FDA Press Conference on FDA Actions on Bio-Identical Hormones
FTS HHS FDA Susan Cruzan January 9, 2008
(7) http://www.womentowomen.com/breasthealth/estrogenbreastcancer.aspx
Causes of Brea6t Cancer- the Estrogen Controversy, Dixie Mills MD
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Breast Cancer Book Intro. WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT BREAST CANCER. How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life
By John R. Lee, M.D., David Zava Ph.D., and Virginia Hopkins INTRODUCTION
http://jeffreydach.com/2007/05/05/jeffreydachdrdachiodine.aspx
Breast Cancer Prevention and Iodine Supplementation by Jeffrey Dach MD
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Estrogen Therapy and Coronary-Artery Calcification. NEJM Volume 356:2591-2602 June 21, 2007 Number 25. JoAnn E. Manson, M.D., et al.
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(15) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarin
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(16) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medroxyprogesterone
Provera, Medroxyprogesterone, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(17) http://homecoalition.org/TakeAction
Take Action. Write a letter to your elected officials using our online advocacy tool.
Act now to defend your right to bio-identical hormones! Please contact your
congressional representative, senators, and the White House immediately.
HOMECoalition.org.
Effects of Conjugated Equine Estrogens on Breast Cancer and Mammography Screening in Postmenopausal Women With Hysterectomy. Marcia L. Stefanick, PhD et al. for the WHI Investigators. JAMA. 2006;295:1647-1657. Conclusions Treatment with CEE alone for 7.1 years does not increase breast cancer incidence in postmenopausal women with prior hysterectomy.
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(23) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1002897,00.html
The Truth About Hormones Monday, Jul. 22, 2002 Time Magazine. By CHRISTINE GORMAN AND ALICE PARK
(24) http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/04/17/hlsa0417.htm
AMA Medical NEws. Collecting clues: Cancer registries might have an answer. By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli, AMNews correspondent. April 17, 2006.
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(30) http://www.worstpills.org/results.cfm?disease_id=26
Oral Contraceptives on Worst Pills.org. The pill can cause many adverse effects. Some of them are merely a nuisance, while others can be life-threatening. The pill can cause headaches, bloating, nausea, irregular bleeding and spotting, breast tenderness, weight gain, or vision changes. Other more serious adverse effects that can occur from a few months to a few years after starting oral contraceptives include high blood pressure, gallbladder disease, liver tumors, depression, and metabolic disorders, such as diabetes. Temporary infertility has been associated with the period of time right after pill use is stopped. But the two most dangerous risks associated with taking birth control pills are blood clots and cancer.
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Wyeth and the FDA
(36) http//:naturalnews.com/022595.html
FDA’s Assault of Bioidentical Hormones Demonstrates Pro-Pharma Loyalties, Disregard for Consumer Choice Tuesday, February 05, 2008 by: Mike Adams
(37) http://www.drerika.com/blog?action=viewBlog&blogID=-751271156172620113
February 16, 2008. Women, Doctors Wage Crucial Battle With FDA To Save Bioidentical Hormones From Wyeth’s Wrath. A major coalition of informed women and their doctors have launched an all out war on the Federal Drug Administration’s (FDA) cynical and corrupt decision to ban compounded hormones containing Estriol.
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FDA Declares War on BioIdentical Hormones by Jeffrey Dach MD
Provera and Heart Disease
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Kent Holtorf, M.D. Dr. Holtorf is the Medical Director of the Holtorf Medical Group, Inc, Center for Hormone Imbalance and Fatiguing Conditions in Los Angeles, specializing in CFS, FM, hypothyroidism, chronic illness and the treatment of complex endocrine dysfunction. He is board certified and is a Board Examiner for the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. He is also chief of the Medical Advisory Board for the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers, Inc.
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Woman dies after water-drinking contest
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Natural and synthetic substances related to human health. The dubious honor of being the most powerful toxic substance goes to a protein produced by the bacterium, Clostridium botulinum. This protein is responsible for fatal food poisoning—botulism—being produced when the bacterium grows in the absence of oxygen in canned or preserved food. 2002 IUPAC, Pure and Applied Chemistry 74, 1957–1985
Synthetic Hormones and Breast Cancer
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Menopause Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer. National Women’s Health Network
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History of the American People (HIST 204)
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My first and only time at the AHA
Although I am a historian, I have been to the American Historical Association, the largest organization (by far) of my field, exactly once: January 2007 in Atlanta. I was ABD at the time, but I didn’t go to Atlanta for a panel or a job interview. Rather, Jim Turner, who was serving a one-year term as chair of the history department, added a graduate student to each search committee. I don’t know if my former department maintained this practice, but Jim said it was standard at University of Michigan, his employer before Notre Dame. There were two searches that year: an Americanist search and, for the first time ever, a South Asianist search. Tim Gloege was asked to serve in the first search and I in the second.
I suppose I was the natural choice for the second search for the reason that I had done comps primarily in U.S. history but was working on Vietnamese history for the dissertation. In other words, I was the only graduate student in residence working on a subfield in Asian history. I didn’t know much about South Asian history–and still don’t. But none of the faculty in the committee did either: French historian Tom Kselman, Russianist Alex Martin, and Chinese historian and committee chair Dian Murray. (Dian was also a member of my dissertation committee.) Pretty quickly, and mostly from these three faculty search members, I learned that a successful search depends much less on specialization than it does on experience, intuition, communication, division of labor, ability to work well together, and one or two other things.
On that note, I remember that at the onset of the search, Dian was very determined to make it a successful search. “These searches are expensive,” she said, and she might have added that they are time-consuming too. Unsuccessful searches didn’t happen often, but they happened. During my first years in grad school, for example, there was a search for a different field that ended in deadlock . In any event, I learned my first lesson early on. It’s good to have the academic equivalent of the political will during a search, for it translates flexibility and compromise so to avoid deadlock and achieve the desired outcome of filling a position.
Like other members of the search, I read many applications and files during the fall semester. In retrospect, it is a surprise that there weren’t more applications. If memory serves, there were a little over seventy applications, which are large yet relatively small in comparison to some of the searches, especially in American history, that yielded 150 or more applications. The first number probably reflects the smaller size of the South Asian field at the time. It was certainly smaller than the field of Chinese history. There were some assistant professors among the applicants, but the majority were fresh PhDs or ABDs.
Because writing samples were required of each application, I read many dissertations chapters, a few full dissertations, and even one or two published monographs. Not surprisingly, the Partition figured large in many of these writings while most of the rest was about India under colonialism. There were also a few samples on pre-colonial Indian history and on religious topics from applicants trained in religion departments. It was the only period of my academic life so far that I read that much about the history of India and, to a lesser degree, Bangladesh.
O’Shaughnessy Hall, home to the department of history at Notre Dame ~ pc tour.nd.edu
I don’t have data to compare, but I have a hunch that in the last twenty years, 2006-2007 was among the best years for South Asianists to be on the job market. Even before we decided on about a dozen candidates to invite to interviews at the AHA, one applicant emailed to notify that she had accepted a position at an Ivy League university. There was at least one other applicant who would have made the AHA round but also took a position late in the fall semester. In the end, Dian scheduled a dozen applicants for interviews over two full days in Atlanta.
The AHA finally arrived and gave me a chance to get away from cold Indiana for a few days. During the short flight from South Bend to Detroit, I happened to sit next to Sophie White, a faculty in American Studies. She, too, was serving in a search committee for her department. I remember chatting with her about her work and her British origin, among other things.
Interest on academic conferences, even the largest ones like the annual AHA, is usually confined to attendants. The AHA meeting in 2007, however, made national news because of the arrest of the historian Felipe Fernandez-Arnesto for, I kid you not, jaywalking. A faculty at Tufts University at that time, Fernandez-Arnesto was already well known among historians for his scholarship on world history and among general readers for several popular global histories. In a twist of sorts, he joined Notre Dame two years later. The Spaniard-British historian made a deal with Notre Dame to spend the fall semester in South Bend and the spring at Notre Dame’s London Program. (I attended his job talk, a brilliant presentation on linguistic construction among a group of people in the Caribbean.)
In downtown Atlanta, I roomed with fellow graduate student Angel Cortes, who was starting to look into the job market. I brought jackets, dress pants, and dress shoes but, stupidly, not a tie. Thanks to Angel, who loaned me one of his ties. Another lesson, but I bet you already knew it.
Service as a search committee member at the AHA was expectedly very busy. I don’t remember seeing much of downtown at all. I did come to the Notre Dame reception on one of the evenings. On the last day of the conference, when all interviews and meetings were over, Tom Kselman and I attended a panel on French Catholicism. This panel was organized around an important book on republican ideas of French colonialism by Alice Conklin (Ohio State University), who was invited to chair it. One of the presenters was Charles Keith, then in graduate school at Yale, who gave a paper on Indochina. Still, a lot of the time was spent in the suite that Dian booked for the interviews. I was completely impressed by the look of that suite when I first came in. I could see for myself what Dian had meant by “these searches are expensive.”
In the end, the search was successful. We made recommendation of three finalists to the faculty and brought them to campus. The faculty deliberated and voted on the order of offers. (I think the final vote was the only thing that graduate search members didn’t participate.) The search brought to my former department not only its first South Asianist but also the first person to teach a course on world history at Notre Dame. A native of India, he was already a very active researcher and, apparently, a terrific teacher known known for responding to student emails very quickly. In fact, he was one of the reasons that I acquired the habit of prompt email responses. Six or seven years later, he went back to India to lead a historical institute. From the department’s website, I saw that there is another South Asianist among the faculty.
Because of the Internet, service on search committees has changed somewhat since 2007. There have been fewer searches, especially in the years immediately following the 2008 crash even though it seems there are same number candidates on the market each year. Many search committees are forced to cut cost and, instead of the AHA, they conduct interviews over Skype, Zoom, or Facetime. Worst of all, a small number of liberal arts institutions have merged or declared bankruptcy or shut their doors permanently.
Still, there are at least some searches each year even in history and other disciplines from the humanities. I am serving in one such committee this year, my first since that search in graduate school. It is different in many ways from my involvement in 2006-2007. Yet there is no doubt that that experience helped to train me towards being a well-rounded academic down the road. Hats off to my former department, to the faculty members of that search committee, and to Jim Turner for instituting the addition of graduate students!
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Steve in Pudsey10,494 posts since 4 Jan 2003 15 January 2020 1:10pm
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Coincidentally, on this subject I've just seen a Facebook post from a BBC outlet referring to "the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall".
Technically correct but not the normal phrasing.
Edit: ah they've got the wrong names totally, it's the Cambridges
Last edited by Steve in Pudsey on 15 January 2020 1:15pm
Write that down in your copybook now.
Schwing231 posts since 13 Oct 2004 15 January 2020 2:11pm
Stuart posted:
Diana was either 'The Princess of Wales' (or Princess Charles - which was never used), then after her divorce 'Diana, Princess of Wales', which was less stuffy than the more formal 'Dowager Princess of Wales'.
Meghan is 'The Duchess of Sussex'. Referring to her as 'Meghan, Duchess of Sussex' is a form of address following a divorce (as with Diana) or death of her husband. This is to differentiate her from any future wife of Harry (or wife of his son) who would hold the title 'The Duchess of Sussex'.
The term 'Dowager Princess of Wales' could not be used following her divorce. A dowager is - by definition - a widow. A divorce terminates any form of dower right.
The use of 'X, Duchess of Y' is problematic. It does not exist officially. In order to use the form of 'X, Duchess of Y', Letters Patent of HM The Queen are required (as in the case of both Diana, Princess of Wales, and Sarah, Duchess of York). The problem is the Royal Family itself . They use the terms quite freely. Statements issued by Buckingham Palace, Clarence House, St James's Palace and Kensington Palace refer to the both 'The Duchess of Y' and/or 'X, Duchess of Y'. It isn't a new phenomenon; both the Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Gloucester have been referred to by the first name followed by their title since the 1970s. The Countess of Wessex is referred to as such today.
thegeek5,194 posts since 1 Jan 2002 15 January 2020 2:23pm
London London
Any wife during his Father's lifetime would be 'The Countess of Dunbarton'.
I realise this one is probably just a typo, but it should be Dumbarton. Dumbarton is in West Dunbartonshire. I have no idea why this is so confusing.
Stuart and Lou Scannon gave kudos
Neil Jones5,793 posts since 23 Dec 2001 16 January 2020 9:59am
Central (West) Midlands Today
Daily Fail up to its usual half-arsed research standards again:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7891741/Ulrika-Jonsson-52-returns-present-weather-Good-Morning-Britain.html posted:
Ulrika [Johnson] chatted [about] her old job as a weather presenter on TV-am, having been one of the main stars of the show before it was re-branded as GMTV
Also seems to claim she stopped being a weather presenter to do Gladiators...
JAS844,315 posts since 26 Aug 2010 16 January 2020 10:21am
Yorkshire Look North (E.Yorks & Lincs)
Blame Wikipedia for that.
Eva Ulrika Jonsson (born 16 August 1967) is a United Kingdom-based Swedish television presenter and model. She became known as a TV-am weather presenter, moved on to present Gladiators,
But if she was still on TV-am at the end, then the timing is just a coincidence, since Gladiators started in 1992 and TV-am ended a couple of months later.
Neil Jones5,793 posts since 23 Dec 2001 16 January 2020 10:54am
Yes but Gladiators first aired in October 1992 and I believe it would have been recorded most probably in the summer of 1992 at the latest, more likely late Spring?
Actually Jonsson doesn't appear far as I can see in the "last minutes of the last TV-am" video that AP Archive uploaded to YouTube (or any of the other footage from that edition on the Gavin Martin channel that I've just had a very quick scoot through) so maybe she did leave earlier in 1992 than I recall?
Not going to forgive the "TV-am rebranded as GMTV" thing though, that is sloppy research if nothing else, but on the other hand that's how it would have looked to the viewers so...
Brekkie32,965 posts since 4 Jan 2003 16 January 2020 11:47am
HTV Wales Wales Today
Did Ulrika ever get a chance hosting TV-am?
I preferred the internet when it had a sense of humour.
Whataday10,406 posts since 13 Sep 2001 16 January 2020 3:22pm
Neil Jones posted:
You must have had your eyes closed as she's quite clearly next to Mad Lizzie in the clip you mentioned:
There's also quite a famous clip Bobby Davro doing the weather dressed as her, before she shoves him off screen, and that happened on the last day too. She was definitely there as a guest though. She sat on the sofa chatting alongside Davro and a few other guests.
Neil Jones5,793 posts since 23 Dec 2001 16 January 2020 6:31pm
Notice use of "as far as I can see" in my post... and look at the back-peddling I'm doing
Steve in Pudsey gave kudos
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The Shannara Chronicles: Season Two Planned But Finale Will Have Closure
by Jessica Pena, February 26, 2016
The first season of The Shannara Chronicles is ending next week, and showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar already have season two in mind. The two recently spoke with Collider about the series’ upcoming season one finale and their plans for season two of the MTV TV show.
The Shannara Chronicles stars Austin Butler, Poppy Drayton, and Ivana Baquero as three unlikely heroes on a quest to defeat a demonic army.
Speaking to Collider, Gough said the season one finale will have a sense of closure, but it will also leave room for another season:
Hopefully, it will be both. There’s certainly a sense of closure, but you see the doors open for subsequent seasons.”
Millar added:
We liked the idea that it was a contained season, following the story of theElfstones, and it has an amazing ending that’s a really bold way to end the season. But, it also opens it up for future seasons. We leave a lot of people in jeopardy.”
The season one finale of The Shannara Chronicles airs next Tuesday, March 1st, at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
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I absolutely loved this show! I will be crushed if they decide to not go any further!! Come on Season 2!!
I would really love to see a season 2. I don’t want it to veer away from the characters from season 1 though.
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Great show one of the better series I’ve seen in awhile.hope it continues
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please bring it back
Would like to see a season 2. Where do they go from here?
Would like to see the series continue.
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I really enjoyed the first season and am a huge fan of these books. These were done tastefully and had plenty of effects to make it worth viewing. If season two is available I will watch.
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My husband and I have read all of Terry Brooks Shannara Chronicles including Armageddon’s Children. I have to say I was highly sceptical about this series, considering MTV’s series history. Although this was not 100% by the books, it was still extremely entertaining and gave you the understanding of how the books all tie together. It gave you the real sense that all of these supposed different worlds were all actually tied into our own reality. I am a skeptic to the core, but this presentation was an excellent film representation of the message I felt Mr. Brooks was trying… Read more »
hell yeah do I want more seasons!!! I enjoyed the first season.
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Drakes, Brighton
Reviews / November 2, 2015
Contributor/ Sophie Coughlan
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Drakes of Brighton is as famous for its ever-growing list of celebrity guests as it is for its prime location on the pier front. With famous fans ranging from Kylie Minogue to Benedict Cumberbatch and from Woody Allen to Cate Blanchett, this is a hotel with some serious star credentials.
Created by award-winning architect Michael Phillips and interior designer Tim Shepherd, drakes of Brighton is a boutique hotel with style. With nods to its original Georgian townhouse roots, you’ll fall in love with its sweeping staircase, free-standing baths and unrivalled sea views. You won’t be left disappointed by the restaurant, either; its nabbed the highest score of all restaurants in Brighton for the 7th year in a row in The Good Food Guide 2015 – and for good reason.
An eclectic mix of visitors means there’s always something – or someone – interesting to see here. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a glimpse of a starlet exiting into a waiting cab. If you’re not, you’ll still see plenty of bohemian couples and friends mixing with more well-heeled visitors; this is clearly the place to see and be seen. Service is with a smile, and the charming staff are as keen to show off the hotel as you will be to try it out.
Inside the Hotel – 9/10
drakes of Brighton features just 20 guestrooms, each bespoke and most with a pretty impressive sea view. Those lucky enough to book one with floor to ceiling windows will find it hard to drag themselves away, and the hotel’s made it even more difficult by furnishing them with expansive baths directly in front. If you can wrestle yourself away from the most indulgent bubble bath you’ll take all year (coupled with a bottle of champagne, naturally), you’ll find yourself pretty impressed with the huge beds, Egyptian cotton sheets and flat screen TV with Sky, too (in case you don’t want to leave your room). Star gazers will be delighted if they’re staying on a particularly clear night too, as many rooms come equipped with a telescope.
The reception bar continues to capitalise on its enviable location, offering killer views out to the sea, and a good perspective of everyone checking in and out of the hotel – perfect for people watching. But it’s the restaurant which comes most recommended; elegant, highly acclaimed and serving the likes of local partridge and slow cooked loin of monkfish – what’s not to love?
If you’re in a rush heading back to commute to London like we were the next morning, don’t think you need to miss out on a classic hotel breakfast – arguably a highlight of any overnight stay away from home. We were blown away by the sheer speed at which they launched into making us some of the finest Eggs Benedict we’d ever had – from kitchen to table in under 7 minutes flat. Talk about Power Breakfast.
Outside the Hotel – 9/10
The cobbled streets, cute cafes, pebbled beach and infamous pier – all within just over an hour from London, make this a firm favourite for those after an achievable weekend getaway. Whether you fancy eating fish and chips on the beach with friends, beating your boyfriend at the coconut shy, clubbing with your queens at Legends or impressing your wife at The Salt Room, there’s something for everyone.
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Sophie Coulthard
Sophie Coulthard is a PR consultant and freelance writer based in London. She was bitten by the travel bug after spending her early years growing up in Asia, and has been unable to quell her wanderlust ever since. Follow Sophie @s_coulthard Or read more about her Contributor page
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In a time of great tumult for The United Methodist Church, UMComm considered going quiet with its advertising and marketing efforts. LOOMIS encouraged them to embrace the moment to reach out to the seeker audience.
“Seekers” have an interest in spiritual matters or seek something better spiritually in life, but they do not yet attend church, or have lapsed. If they’re looking, they often felt discouraged that they haven’t found the right community for them or their families. Millennials between the ages of 21 and 38 struggle with loneliness more than any other segment and are in search of a welcoming community where they can make friends and find support.
We wanted to show how involvement in The UMC community can make a real impact on Seekers’ lives. The campaign not only shows moments in life that everyone struggles with, but also links these moments to a counterpoint within The UMC community. We’re all in this together and being part of the Church helps us get through trying times.
Seekers are on a journey to find something bigger than themselves. It’s the Church’s desire to develop a relationship with Seekers and guide them along this spiritual journey. Our digital strategy reflects that journey with purpose. But inviting someone into the Church is not a simple 1:1 transaction as in the retail or e-commerce space. Through brand-awareness channels (ConnectedTV, Programmatic Video and Social), we led Seekers to a library of content on the Church’s website where they can explore blogs, videos and social content designed to help them connect with the UMC community. We expanded the invitation through The Compass newsletter, which explores the spiritual impact of trending topics and offers further community engagement opportunities. Then we drove sign-ups through retargeting.
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A Hertfordshire Trail…
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THE PRIORY INVESTIGATES: QUEST NUMBER NINE
St Marys Church: Therfield
St Faith’s Church: Kelshall
Minsden Chapel: Chaplefoot
All Saints Church: Little Munden
St John The Baptist Church: Royston
ST MARYS CHURCH THERFFIELD: This was to be our first port of call of the day, for Quest Number Nine; for what was to prove to be a very busy and fascinating quest. Upon arriving at Therfield Church one cannot fail to notice the proliferation of Templar and Masonic gravestones covering the burial ground, adorned with much ‘Old Craft’ symbolism that we have now grown to expect.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therfield
An interesting church which was funded directly by the Fordham Family (one of our lead researcher’s pedigree lines). It is said that Edward King Fordham, (1750-1847) is the protector here (i.e. the Guardian of Secrets). There have been reports of his hauntings and of his ghostly apparitions here since 1853, yet oddly they only started 6 years after his death.
A nice church, but a wee bit of a red herring for us and our quest…. Interesting though that the Vicar, Richard came over and took our head researcher directly to the grave of John Henry Fordham, who of course had connections to the masonic lineage, which is no surprise. Such a shame we did not have a chance to record here, as who knows what potential for EVP could have occured.
ST FAITH’S CHURCH KELSHALL: Situated in a very quiet corner of Hertfordshire, one hundred metres above sea level on the chalky Chiltern ridge, where the parish land sweeps northwards down to the well known Icknield Way. As is usual nothing can be seen of an earlier church building, but a late 14th century preaching cross still stands in the churchyard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelshall
This is a ‘Key’ area of the Fordham Line, with major signs and placards very evident in the Church itself, to the Fordams. What was more interesting: The K.e.y Line of our head researcher, (the Neville Line) which tracks back to Noah and beyond; i.e. the beautiful and inspiring ‘Grail Kingship Shield’ (shown here) hangs proud and high just within this church over the entrance. Built on top of a Saxon Church, but more importantly; encompassed by Pyramid Energy, also with great potential for EVP.
Note: Edward King Fordham is our head researcher’s 5 x Great Grandfather from the Fordham Line.
Please see our Youtube link to take a tour around the church to learn more about the Fordham line and the symbolism within the church:
KELSHALL: THE FORDHAM LINE
MINSDEN CHAPEL CHAPLEFORD: So our next destination was right off the beaten track, literally in the middle of nowhere, where a bridle way is the only indication that something might be hiding in the woods. It was quite an uphill trek and a worthy battle with nettles and brambles; for this small chapel with a very fascinating history sits within a copse, atop of a mound overlooking the Hertfordshire countryside. From looking at other video clips of the chapel it is now a lot more innaccesable than it has been in previous years and very difficult to get to and even to see properly through the overgrowth of vegetation. It is now very difficult to see much of the chapel walls as leafy bushes and trees have now sprung up everywhere, obscurring the view.
First of all, it was interesting to note that the pub we had enjoyed a lovely late lunch in and which had been renamed, was the pointer we were indeed looking for and yet could not find; the Chapelfoot Farmhouse itself ! Now known as The Rusty Gun; not easily recognizable these days as areas look so different as the seasons move on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsden_Chapel
Minsden Chapel was built in 1368, yet the mound (Hill) is more sacred and powerful than even Stonehenge… Reginald Hine, an historian from Baldock born 25th September 1883, knew of its significance and was burdened with the duty of sealing the area to stop evil spreading out. Signs of witchcraft and sacrifice are evident here today, so not a spot for the faint-hearted! There is a memorial stone somewhere on the chapel site for Reginald but i guess the ground covering was so dense it was not easy to find and we missed it. A site personally ticked off by our head researcher, whom vows NEVER to re-visit and firmly believes that it is best to be forgotten; for when the oceans rise it shall be returned to the sea from whence it came… A clear and definite presence was cetainly felt here with many tales of whispers unfolding and an atmosphere which gradually became denser, so much so that members of our team reported pressures on the front of their heads and headaches….
Important to note the ‘odd sign’ of warning of which Reginald wrote, upon receiving his lifetime lease from the Diocese:
TRESPASSER AND SACRILEGIOUS PERSONS TAKE WARNING,
FOR I WILL PROCEED AGAINST THEM WITH THE UTMOST RIGOUR OF THE LAW,
AND, AFTER MY DEATH AND BURIAL, I WILL ENDEAVOUR, IN ALL GHOSTLY WAYS,
TO PROTECT AND HAUNT ITS HALLOWED WALLS
How interesting too, considering that over and above the circular portal entrance is the out-mould of a strange human face forever staring down and keeping watch…
Take a look around the Chapel via our link below nd learn of some of its mysterious history first hand:
SACRED MINSDEN CHAPEL
As an interesting footnote, which goes along with not being welcomed by ‘The Guardian’ of the site, and the fact that the site is well and truly hidden under trees and is not mentioned anywhere as a place to visit…. while we were in a nearby carpark assessing how to find Minsden Chapel, a couple seemed to appear from a leafy footpath over the road that seemed to go nowhere in particular, yet complete with map in hand. They professed to know where we needed to go but strangely the directions they gave were not where the chapel actually was……
ALL SAINTS CHURCH LITTLE MUNDEN: After travelling across pretty countryside we next found ourselves at All Saints Church, Little Munden. We expected it to be closed as the hours of opening had passed by, so a search around the burial ground was all we were expecting but never the less we were in for a few suprises…
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol3/pp129-135#h3-0007
It is an interesting church, and although as said it was locked upon our arrival (given the time of evening at 7:30 at night), enough was experienced to confirm the placement of a ‘tablet’. We all heard noises and a voice from the lower chambers, just right of the church porch, together with a cold, very dark feeling energising fear, emanating from the bottom of the steep and crumbling stone steps. At the bottom of the steps and to the left where there was pitch blackness, one could just make out the shape of the iron bars of a (cell?) door and upon peering through them, there was total darkness and a strong sense of an utter foreboding; an all encompassing void, the nature of which can only be described as ‘not nice’ in any way and a wind above that blew in three different directions at the same time. Built in 1385, though the older structure was built in the year 897.
There are reports of ghostly apparitions of Ralph Fordham; the protector, the Guardian of Secrets; see the link below…
LITTLE MUNSDEN: GHOSTLY HAPPENINGS
ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH ROYSTON:
Upon arriving at this church it was easy to see how it differed from the ‘out of the way’ villages we had previously visited on our quests. The church takes pride of place in this busy and well known tourist town; it is set amidst stunning gardens and immaculate manicured lawns. The town itself is also well know for having two ancient thoroughfares that cross each other here; the previously mentioned Icknield Way and Ermine Street, also very well known. Most famously, it is known for The Royston Cave; which is said to have Knight Templar connections.
http://roystonparishchurch.org.uk/index.php/about-us/church-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royston,_Hertfordshire
http://www.roystoncave.co.uk/
There is a connection here at this church to Elias Fordham (1762 – 1838), who is said to roam the grounds of this quite plain yet, interesting church. What was of great interest to us was that William Henry Clarke whom we expected to be mentioned at the Church memorial in Shipdham, Norfolk, was in fact mentioned here at Royston, on the Great War (1914 – 1918) memorial just outside the Church…. This makes a direct connection between the Clarke and Fordham Lines that originate as such: the Fordham Line from Limerick Ireland and the Clarke Line from Plympton in Devon. No great surprise as Limerick to Plympton is not a major distance at all – just across the water in fact!
ROYSTON: ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, PEELING BELLS
Royston War Memorial showing the Clarke family name and the church itself showing the very prominent ‘Entwined Serpent’ symbol (The emblem of the ‘Serpent Priesthood). Very interestingly displayed on a ‘christian’ church….
To join us in our future quests: especially if you love history, if you love a mystery, if you see beyond the mundane or simply if you love a good day out, please contact us via this webpage or email me here: ‘moon.willow@ntlworld.com’
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“The Grail Kingship is merely seasons in front. So be it that all those whom disbelieve shall cease to remain”
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Snow Scenic By Train
Posted by theresagreen in Nature of Wales, North Wales
scenic train journeys, train route from Holyhead to London
Thursday, March 1st 2018
The first day of meteorological spring, but with temperatures falling as low as -11C (12F) in parts of the UK, winter was not giving up easily. Now we had another storm rolling in from the Atlantic, Storm Emma, which joined forces with the ‘Beast from the East’ from Siberia to bring about further widespread snowfall and temperatures that dropped as low as -16C (3F) last night. Fortunately for us here on this North-East stretch of the coast of Wales we were not as badly hit as much of the rest of Britain, but those of us that live up here had a family ‘do’ planned in London tomorrow that we didn’t want to miss. The plan had been to drive down there today, but reports of just how bad the weather and road conditions were in the Midlands caused a rethink and we decided to take the train instead.
Friday, March 2nd 2018
I travel this route every few weeks to visit family, so not an ‘everyday trail’ it’s a fairly frequent increasingly familiar one, but seen through the seasons, I never tire of the amazing scenery along the way. Beginning on the north-east coast of Wales across and travelling down through the West Midlands to the south-east of England, the railway slices through no less than 10 counties, so I anticipated this journey would be a great opportunity to see the pattern of snow cross-country between here and there. It was bitterly cold with a strong wind blowing in off the sea this morning, but we’d had no further overnight snow here, so everything crossed we set off to nearby Colwyn Bay railway station to catch the 09.47 Virgin Holyhead to London direct train. It was on perfect time.
0948-Porth Eirias
The train we would be boarding had started at Holyhead in the north of Anglesey, crossed the Menai Strait into Gwynedd (formerly Caernarvonshire) then into Conwy County where we got on at Colwyn Bay station. For the next forty minutes or so the railway line sticks closely to the coastline and unfolds not only glorious scenery but also presents a picture of the wider geography and gives glimpses of several significant landmarks. Minutes after leaving the station we were passing our newest landmark building, Porth Eirias on Colwyn Bay. The tide was high, the sea rushing in wildly and despite the proximity of all that salt, snow coated the Promenade and grass verges.
View to the Little Orme from the Viaduct
A bit further on waves were crashing over the sea wall, flooding the Promenade and the road alongside. This stretch of road will probably be closed off if it hasn’t been already – the sea spray often holds stones & pebbles delivered at force that could easily break a windscreen or cause injury to a person!
Stormy Irish Sea splashing over the wall
Ten minutes later we’re approaching Rhyl, crossing over the river/afon Clwyd in full flood. This tidal river flows mainly through Denbighshire and forms the border between Denbighshire and Conwy County here at its mouth.
River/afon Clwyd flows into the Irish Sea at Rhyl
Next to the mouth of the river is Marine Lake, a 12 hectare man-made recreational lake. This is the only salt water lake in North Wales.
Snow surrounds Marine Lake, Rhyl
We stop at Rhyl station, then six minutes later we are passing the dunes at Talacre, an important ecological area for a number of reason, not least of which is for its protected population of Natterjack Toads. They also serve as protection for a colony of not-so-rare holiday homes. There is still only a light covering of snow.
Taking photographs through the window of a moving train is a hit-and-miss affair. No time for focusing, just point, shoot and hope for the best! I rather like the effect of this view through a tree which wouldn’t be a view at all when it has leaves. You may have noticed I leave marks & highlights on or caused by reflections from the glass of the carriage windows: this is deliberate as a reminder that I was on a train!
We stop again at Prestatyn then cross into Flintshire and pass the alien-looking Point of Ayr Gas Terminal.
Still following the coastline the next stop is the county town of Flint.
Here is the wild, flat coastline of the Dee Estuary, where receding tides expose vast mud flats that attract huge numbers of wading birds. Not exactly a place you’d expect to see a beached ship! Undoubtedly the most curious local landmark this is the Duke of Lancaster, at Llanerch-y-Mor on the River Dee, near Mostyn Docks. It has been re-purposed several times since it ‘landed’ here in 1979, but has been abandoned long since.
The dry powdery snow didn’t settle as a uniform blanket like wetter snow does. It settled into hollows and against furrows and ridges and was caught in drifts along hedges and banks accentuating every contour of the landscape. Usually full of birds, there wasn’t a single one to be seen today, hardly surprising!
Sheep, looking a rather grubby white against the brilliance of the snow were doing their best to graze on the snow-covered salt-marshes. The raised bank between the sea and the sheep field gives some protection and is also the line of the Wales Coast Path.
Sheep on snow-covered salt-marshes
At Connah’s Key there are two power stations – I think this is the Deeside Power Station as the other one only has four chimneys. Don’t take that as gospel though, my sense of what’s north and south is not always reliable, especially when travelling at speed.
Another iconic landmark is the Flintshire Bridge, it is the largest asymmetric cable-stayed bridge in the whole of Britain and when seen properly is elegant and impressive, not at all like my hasty photograph. The bridge spans the Dee Estuary, linking Flint and Connah’s Quay to the shore north of the River Dee at the southern end of the Wirral Peninsula. It carries part of the A548 road and is known locally as ‘the bridge to nowhere’.
At 10.30 we were at Chester. This is a lovely old station with some fascinating features, but today for some reason I was drawn to photograph the old iconic red phone box. A lot of people got on here, so we probably weren’t the only ones not wanting to risk the drive. Some would be leaving the train at Crewe, a major hub station, to get connections to Manchester and other parts of the country.
1030-Chester Station
As you will have worked out, we were now in England and already in county number 4, Cheshire of course as we’d just left Chester and travelling towards Crewe. Not so much snow here, just a light scattering but enough to highlight the textures and patterns of the fields.
10:41 – Cheshire
From here on there are some great views of sections of our nationwide network of canals, in parts paralleled along their route by the railway line. It gets a bit confusing up here as there are several waterways that join into one another, but I think this is probably part of the Shropshire Union Canal that runs between Chester and Crewe. Still not a lot of snow evident, but the surface of the water is clearly frozen.
Frozen canal
10:54 – We arrived at Crewe station where a lot of people did indeed ‘de-board’.
From Crewe the train doesn’t stop again until we get to Milton Keynes, so I’m not altogether sure which way we went, but possibly towards Stafford, which is straight down going directly south. From there the line goes off at what looks like a 45° angle in a straight line directly to London. There are other permutations, but all end up in the same place and we pass through county number 5 – Staffordshire.
11:04 – More frozen water
I have noticed this yellow brick building almost every time I travel this way and I’d love to know what it is! I thought it might be a crematorium as it has that really tall chimney, but this is the best photograph I’ve managed and it clearly isn’t. It has that odd bunker-looking building on this side of it and the plain white van has some kind of aerial on top of it, so I’m more intrigued than ever now. If anyone knows or has a clue, please let me know!
11:05 – Mystery building
Now in the West Midlands it became clear we’d made a sensible decision in deciding not to drive. There was a significant amount more snow and cloudy skies warned more was imminent.
The next county, number 6, is Warwickshire, where we pass through Rugby station.
11:12 – Reed-fringed pond frozen around the edges
Then we cut across the south-west corner of Northamptonshire,county number 7, the county in which I was born and grew up. More canal views here – now the Grand Union Canal and I believe we pass close by Stoke Bruerne, home of the Canal Museum. Barges weren’t moving, probably frozen in place!
11:15 – Barges frozen in place
11:54 – It’s snowing
Another canal view.
11:55- Barge on canal in the snow
From Northamptonshire we cross into Buckinghamshire, county number 8 and one of the five Home Counties that surround Greater London.
Approaching Milton Keynes you see can a church tower on the horizon. I’ve no idea where it is, but it’s big and I wonder if it could be the cathedral-like St Paul’s Church at Bedford.
12:00 – Big church on the horizon
12:03 – We arrive at Milton Keynes, the final stop before London Euston station. An announcement informs us we are 12 minutes behind schedule.
It was snowing heavily now and there wasn’t much to see as the weather closed in and obliterated much of the landscape, so no more photographs today. Parts of the remaining 40 minute journey are usually scenic – from Buckinghamshire we cross briefly into another of the home counties, Hertfordshire, county number 9, and pick up the Grand Union Canal again, passing through the towns of Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead. Then we are soon into Greater London, county number 10, passing by the iconic Wembley Stadium shortly before arriving safely and not too far off schedule into London Euston station.
From here I was on my own to make my way across town to Surrey in the south-west. We’d already been warned that train services in that direction had been affected by snow and stormy weather, and indeed arriving via the Underground at Vauxhall to pick up the overground train to Surbiton, I saw several trains were delayed or cancelled. Buying my ticket I was told the station would close at 8pm tonight! It was freezing cold here and snowing, but lucky for me, I got more or less straight onto a train that had been delayed by 20 minutes and reached my destination in good time. Later on in the day many people were stranded in the City or had to find other ways home.
Thanks be to the Travel Gods!
7 thoughts on “Snow Scenic By Train”
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Brent Lynam said:
Hi Theresa. Thanks for another interesting travel post. The mystery building you mention is (I think) Hatton Pumping Station, a fine example of Victorian engineering to provide water to Stoke-on-Trent and now converted to luxury housing. Here’s a bit more info for you https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/hatton-pumping-station-10-10-06.9718/
theresagreen said:
Hi Brent, Thank you so much for solving my mystery! As you probably gathered I’d made everything from an Asylum to a Crematorium and Spy Central! Don’t think I’d have thought of Pumping Station, it looks so grand! Glad they left it and converted it rather than demolish it. Thanks again & for the link. Best wishes
paulamcquoid said:
Hello Theresa. Enjoyed so much going with you through all your different Counties. Fantastic. and seeing snow in so many. The poor animals, bless their hearts. Hard times for all nature and our farmers. Thanks again xx
It’s always a scenic and interesting journey Paula, but quite special in that snow. I’m glad it’s confining itself to the mountain tops now though. I think we and our wildlife are more than ready for Spring now xx
I love a long train journey, it’s like watching a travel documentary without the narrative. I just wish they had signposts along the tracks so it was easier to work out where you are! I bet your London to Cornwall is fascinating in the daylight, what a shame to miss it.
Emily Scott said:
Quite a trip! I am happy on a train if it’s daytime and I have a good view. I regularly travel from London to Cornwall but unfortunately only in the evenings when all the gorgeous countryside is in the dark.
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Newsletter: What Comes Next for Ghost Kitchens? Plus, Third-party Delivery and At-home Agtech
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I’m not gonna lie: putting together our market map on ghost kitchens was hard. The concept as we know it is relatively new, and the lines between the different categories of ghost kitchen might be easy enough to draw in a graphic but are never as solid in real life. For example, CloudKitchens provides kitchen space but it’s also a network of virtual restaurants. Starbucks runs its own kitchens but relies on Alibaba’s Heme supermarkets to provide the space. Grubhub, Uber Eats, and DoorDash deliver food but also operate in other areas of the stack.
That overlap, though, is a big part of what makes this area of the restaurant industry such an interesting one to watch. Not only is the 2019 ghost kitchen redefining the restaurant experience as we know it, it’s also redefining the way restaurants operate, the technology they use to do that, and even what their menus offer in any given area. Fat Brands, for example, uses Fatburger locations on the West Coast to also fulfill delivery-only orders for sister brands that would normally only be available to customers in the East.
As we head into the next year, we can expect the overlap of companies and categories to increase as more multi-unit chains try their hand at ghost kitchens, more kitchen infrastructure providers try out their own virtual restaurants, and literal mobility (kitchens on wheels) becomes more commonplace.
Head over to The Spoon for more predictions on what comes next for ghost kitchens (RIP POS?) and to download the map. And since this is such a nascent market that changes weekly, expect more iterations of this map to hit your inbox in the future.
Third-party delivery is staying put. Sort of.
It’s no secret that consumer appetite for delivery is driving the growth of off-premises orders. And while they may be controversial, third-party services like DoorDash and Postmates are a big part of this growth.
The biggest part, by some accounts. This week, CBRE Group noted in a new report that 70 percent of delivery orders will come from third parties by 2022. That’s a no-brainer. These services provide the tech infrastructure, logistics, and actual drivers that are often too expensive for restaurants to operate on their own. Third-party delivery may be expensive for restaurants and paddling through a sea of bad press lately, but it is in many ways necessary for businesses who want (need, actually) to offer off-premises ordering for customers.
Like ghost kitchens, this is a messy, fast-changing market whose model will continue to evolve as restaurants adopt hybrid strategies and new laws are passed regulating how these companies do business.
At-home vertical farms: Big convenience or big expense?
If you still prefer the old-fashioned method of actually cooking food for yourself, Miele’s latest news will be of some interest. As my colleague Chris Albrecht reported this week, the German appliance-maker known for everything from washing machines to coffee systems has acquired Agrilution, a Munich, Germany-based agtech startup known for its Plantcube indoor vertical farm.
As Chris notes, the Plantcube looks like one of those at-home wine fridges, and like any vertical farm uses software to regulate temperature, climate, water levels, and nutrient delivery to crops. The system grows a variety of leafy greens and fits right inside your existing kitchen infrastructure.
Question is, Do people want vertical farms built into their kitchens?
Potentially.
No, setting up a grow system in your home is not as convenient as buying a bag of kale from the store. For those so inclined, though, an at-home vertical farm like Agrilution’s means being able to pick fresh, better tasting ones right out of their own cabinetry. Those living in dense urban areas, where the fire escape is the closest thing to outdoor space, could have an actual at-home garden.
First, though, we have to get over the cost hurdle. Right now, price points of various at-home vertical farming systems go for anywhere between roughly $500 (Ponix Systems) and $3,000-plus (Miele). What we don’t have is abundant data on how much these farms cost consumers in terms of electricity, water, or repairs if the system breaks down. There is also the issue of space. Agrilution’s Plantcube may fit nicely into the under-counter space of a single-family home in Nashville. Your average New York apartment, on the other hand, would be hard-pressed to accommodate one.
Still, it’s a great sign that a major appliance-maker like Miele is showing interest in getting cabinet-to-table greens to more homes in the future.
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Open letter calls on UN Relief Chief to deliver aid to families sheltering in basements near Damascus
More than 50 medics, rescue workers, activists and residents from Eastern Ghouta sent a letter to the United Nations relief chief today during his three-day mission to Syria.
The letter asks UN Relief Chief Mark Lowcock to help hundreds of thousands of people living under siege in Eastern Ghouta, where supplies of baby milk are running dangerously low and disease is on the increase. Without the fast delivery of humanitarian aid, families will continue to go hungry and remain in dire need of urgent medical care.
The letter says:
“Thousands of families in Eastern Ghouta neighbourhoods are hiding in their basements to escape the bombs that have fallen almost daily for months now. They can’t leave their underground shelters to buy food, get water or seek medical care. You can no doubt hear the bombs from where you stay and you will drive past our homes many times during your visit.
“The only thing more painful than hunger is the knowledge that UN warehouses full of lifesaving aid are a short drive from us.”
The letter says that although Security Council resolutions have sanctioned aid delivery to areas under siege, such as Eastern Ghouta, the United Nations continues to seek the Syrian government’s permission to provide aid to the area.
“In Eastern Ghouta families are organising collections and a handful of brave women are cooking lentils, delivering them under the safety of darkness, because the UN is not there,” it says.
“This time two years ago the world was shocked by images of starving children in Madaya. This time last year it was Aleppo. Now, as the head of the UN body responsible for negotiating, coordinating and deciding aid access, you have a responsibility to help us in Eastern Ghouta. This time, we are asking you to change the story.”
Read the full letter here
For more information or to organise an interview contact The Syria Campaign (London) on +44 (0)7849 205772 or at [email protected]
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Day 2 - All Day [clear filter]
Entrepreneurial Empowerment: Female Founders and Access to Opportunities
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"Entrepreneurial Empowerment" is designed to educate and engage women as they identify their purpose, their passion, and their desire to launch and/or expand their entrepreneurial ventures. This inspiring day-long gathering will leverage the knowledge and experiences of diverse leading female entrepreneurs, and cultivate strategies and share tools to empower women through various activities, including panels, experiential exercises, and mentoring.
Dr. Elissa Grossman, Associate Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship, Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, USC, Marshall School of Business
Dr. Sharoni Little, Professor of Clinical Business Communication, University of Southern California,
Marshall School of Business; CEO, The Strategist Company, LLC
Jeymi Choi, Associate Director, MS in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, USC, Marshall School of Business
Jackie Yu, Center Coordinator, Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, USC, Marshall School of Business
Elaine Low, Investor’s Business Daily
This will be an engaging and interactive day of learning, networking, mentoring, and empowerment. Parking is available for $12 and there is convenient access to public transportation.
Elissa Grossman
Associate Professor, USC Marshall School of Business
Dr. Sharoni Little
Sunday May 6, 2018 9:00am - 4:00pm
Day 2 - All Day, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Host Organization USC, Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Marshall School of Business
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Wintour’s Earliest Style Moments Are Just Golden
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by Ant Eksiler
There are many elements of Charlotte D’Alessio’s life that read like a teenager’s fairy tale. Instagram didn’t exist when I was in high school, but I imagine I’d be pretty fascinated by the beautiful, leggy 17-year-old with more than 174,000 followers and a Wilhelmina Models contract, too. For the legions of aspiring Cool Teens™, D’Alessio, who has been modeling full-time for the last year, is living the dream — though her Cinderella story has been anything but conventional.
At Coachella in 2015, pictures of D’Alessio (above, right) and her friend, 18-year-old model Josie Canseco (left), flooded the Internet, winding up on places like the festival’s official Twitter and The Cobra Snake’s Instagram, among others. BuzzFeed spoke to D’Alessio soon after, resulting in a viral article that has since garnered 1,479,600 views. Wilhelmina reached out to D’Alessio from there, and the rest is history. In the 12 months since D’Alessio was discovered, the Canada native has landed a slew of commercial campaigns, left Beverly Hills High School to pursue homeschooling and launched a YouTube channel with her friend and fellow model, Abby Champion. And with a secret project in the works for this summer, I imagine that D’Alessio’s stake in the California modeling pantheon will only deepen.
On the eve of Coachella 2016’s first weekend, I hopped on the phone with D’Alessio to get caught up on the last year of her life, from her social media strategy to her dream campaign.
You obviously gained a lot of attention at Coachella last year. What can you tell me about your experience there?
I went with my friend Josie — it was my first year going — and we barely took photos. I think we took 10 photos, but people really responded to them. They ended up everywhere. I saw them on Facebook, and not just [from] friends, but random people posting them. And then The Weeknd and the Coachella Twitter reposted [one of their photos]. It was so surreal because I was just a normal girl from Canada who was going to Coachella. I had, like, 16,000 [Instagram] followers, and now it’s [174,000].
Coachella really got me started in modeling. Wilhelmina reached out to me from the [BuzzFeed] article — that’s how they saw me.
Fragrance is great, but it’s hard to write or read about because your computer screen isn’t scratch and sniff—also because I can’t talk about base notes or top notes without feeling like a fancy sommelier. I prefer to think of fragrance in terms of anthropology, which is much more fun. Have you ever thought about your personal fragrance history? Well, here’s mine.
And when Wilhelmina reached out to you, how did you feel about going forward with the process?
Basically every single one of my friends in L.A. is a model, with Next or Wilhelmina or whatever it is. I was the non-model in the friend group because I wanted to go to UCLA. I didn’t have that much of an interest — well, I had an interest, but I didn’t think I would be successful so I didn’t really pursue it.
When they asked me to come in, I went with my dad because I was 16. I almost didn’t sign because I was so scared. But I’m happy I ended up signing with them, because they’ve been a really great agency. I had the contract in my room for two days — like, I was scared they were going to tell me to cut my hair or lose weight or something like that, but they’ve been so supportive. They never told me to change anything.
Fifth Grade: Tommy Boy
I’m not kidding, I won Tommy Boy after I aced a quiz contest in Sunday School. The ultimate bounty. If you find yourself deep in the attic of my parent’s house, and you pay close attention, you might be able to smell it.
Puberty: Abercrombie and Fitch Fierce
Don’t even pretend like you didn’t.
College: Kenzo Homme Sport
My college years were timed with the heyday of the Kenzo sweatshirt, so this was a very fancy scent to own. You can now buy it for $30 on Amazon.
I can look back at them like a tiny museum of me that smells really good—literally, because I still have them all. But enough about me and how (great) I smell. I want to know your fragrance history—tell me what scents you love and why you love them. Tell me when you wear them, and how you apply them, and why they’re special to you. Tell me everything.
—Brennan Kilbane
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Florida Literary Agency and Publisher Reaches Settlement on FDUTPA Litigation with Florida Attorney General
In Absolute Write, Absolute Write Water Cooler, Ann "A.C." Crispin, Ann Crispin, Ann Crispin DEAD, Atlanta Nights, Attorney, Attorney General, Attorney Victor Cretella, Author, Author Boycott, Author Contracts, BARBARA BAUER, BARBARA BAUER LITERARY AGENCY, Bauer vs. Glatzer, Cretella v. Kuzminski, Criminal History, Crispin, Crispin Dead, David L. Kuzminski, DEFAMATION: Cretella v. Kuzminski: The Case Against Preditors & Editors David L. Kuzminski, defamatory, James D. MacDonald, Jenna Glatzer, Jim C. Hines, John Scalzi, John Steinbeck, Legal Issues, Lisa L. Spangenberg, MacAllister Stone, Making Light, Mark Coker, P.N. Elrod, Passion Blew, PASSION BLEW II: The Case Against Victoria Strauss, Passion Blew!: Scamming the John Steinbeck Estate: The Case Against Attorney Charles E. Petit The Former Attorney for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Passion Blue, Patrick Niclsen-Hayden, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Price Of Freedom, Preditors & Editors, Randi Shapiro, Randy Dotinga, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, Self-Published, Self-Publishing, State of Florida Inspector General, Steve Gould, Steven Gould, Strategic Book Group, Strategic Book Publishing, strategic book publishing and rights agency, Strauss, Subpoena, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, The Write Agenda, The Write Agenda: Top 10 Blog Posts for 2011, The Write Company to Keep, Theodore Beale, Vanity, Vanity Press, Victor Cretella, Victoria Strauss, Watchdog, Whatever, Writer Beware, Writer Beware & Others, Writers, Yog's Law on March 17, 2014 at 9:44 pm
Robert Fletcher, CEO, Successfully Overcomes Damaging Allegations and Declares that Settlement is a Victory When Dealing with any Government Agency.
“Anytime a business settles litigation with a government agency with no admission of guilt and no violation of the law, it can be considered a victory,” said Robert Fletcher, the CEO of a group of companies that have been dealing with government litigation for over six years.
“Unfortunately, most consumers believe that litigation equals guilt, but that simply isn’t true. This suit should never have been filed,” Mr. Fletcher continued. “If the litigation had any merit, they would have pushed it harder and not taken six years to deal with it. Furthermore, the attorney who filed against us was asked to leave her job for ethical and competency issues. Mr. Fletcher went on to say that, “settlement was the best action for our constituents as it allows us to concentrate on the future and not continue to pour money down the legal drain hole of America’s quasi-political legal process. Most importantly, we want our authors to realize that this litigation did not include our current businesses. The suit was only directed at older companies that had a completely different business model and had already been dissolved”.
Mr. Fletcher concluded by looking to the future. “With this settlement, our family of authors and employees can rest assured that our business principles are sound and fair. I am extremely happy for our authors, clients, and employees who have had to deal with the uncertainties of this misguided litigation for the last six years. We have now formally put this behind us and we feel stronger than ever. Let’s get back to business. We have our clients’ books to publish and sell and distribute around the world. And we would like any potential client that turned away from us because of this issue to please reconsider joining us.”
Therefore, the witch hunt perpetrated by Victoria Strauss, Ann “A.C.” Crispin, Writer Beware and the SFWA has been discredited; the The Florida Attorney General is NOT ACTIVELY collecting complaints and information.
So, the question is, will Robert Fletcher again pursue legal action against Victoria Strauss, SFWA, Writer Beware & others?
Florida Attorney General Investigated by the Florida State Inspector General – Strategic Book Publishing Prepares Countersuits.
Florida State Inspector General’s Final Report
BREAKING NEWS: Florida AG Set to Begin Trial Against Strategic Book Publishing et al
In Attorney General, Florida, Randi Shapiro, Robert Fletcher, Strategic Book Group, Strategic Book Publishing, strategic book publishing and rights agency on June 1, 2013 at 10:36 pm
Strategic Book Publishing: Florida AG Set to Begin Trial
Randi Shapiro, Financial Investigator, Consumer Protection Bureau, Office of the Florida Attorney General has confirmed to The Write Agenda that the case against Strategic Book Group, Robert Fletcher et al is “on the docket for [a] three month time period .” It is not expected to run through the month of September. The exact date is unknown at this time. However, it is expected t0 go to trial anytime after July 1st, 2013. Most likely it will not be until after July 4th.
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The B of the Bang
Music. For people with ears.
WANDER (THROUGH THE NIGHT)
I better get a bit of a wiggle on as I don’t want to be writing about this stuff after Chrimbo. Let’s get cracking.
So ‘Wander…’ was our first single of the album. I think, in the same way ‘Alfred…’ did on the first album it sort of summed up in succinct fashion everything about the band at that point. Harmony guitars, weird time signature, little bit heavier, creepy lyrics. It also has a Westlife-style key change in it. What more can you want in a song?
The words themselves are very stalker-y. Seemed to come naturally that part. Not sure what that says about me. We made a lovely video (see below) with our pal Joe Watson who fronted the excellent Attack! Vipers. They also split at Southsea Fest this year though. The TBOTB curse strikes again? Sorry about that. The vid itself was filmed in the round tower in Old Portsmouth where I’m fairly sure we weren’t allowed to be so in vaguely rock and roll style we got in and out before THE ROZZERS COULD GET US. I doubt the rozzers would have really given a toss.
It got a wee bit of radio play on 6music specialty shows and Amazing radio (where the esteemed Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins/Bella Union gave it a spin…probably a career highlight for me personally…) and also gave us a bit of a fright when we got the test-pressing of the vinyl back from the plant as there were 3 suspicious scratches at the end of the song. Turns out it was when we recorded Elliott’s lighter for some reason and I’d forgotten that we bunged it on the recording. There was a reason for it but it escapes me now….I also recall myself and David doing a reworked, quiet acoustic version live on Express FM. It was hideous.
on December 19, 2014 at 11:25 am Leave a Comment
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G-G-G-G-G-G-G-GO!
It’s all go-go-go here in BangLand at the mo so not many words today but some pretty pictures and audio for you….
Firstly – we’re playing an acoustic instore set at our lovely headquarters http://www.pieandvinyl.co.uk this Saturday 20th April for http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk – Band of Skulls will be making an appearance too…
Secondly, the day after (Sunday 21st April) we will be having our big album 2 launch gig/mini-festival at The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth with support from some of our very favourite bands…it’s going to be a truly special day and we’d love to see you all there….tickets and details available here: http://tinyurl.com/BangWedge
Thirdly, we’ve been announced to play at the splendid looking Victorious Festival http://victoriousfestival.co.uk in August alongside The Cribs, Maximo Park, Nine Black Alps, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Mike Skinner, Katy B…..and more excitingly….LEVEL 42! Yes indeed.
Fourthly (I know…!), our new album will be out Monday 22nd April (although we will have vinyl on us for Record Store Day and the album launch) and it has had a couple of lovely early reviews here:
http://recordoverplayed.co.uk/cdreviews/botb_tremors13.html
http://www.mrteethreviews.com/the-b-of-the-bang-tremors-and-nosebleeds-melodies-of-a-malady/
AND FINALLY…..our very own Wit appeared on BBC6 Music’s Radcliffe and Maconie Show yesterday cramming in as much info about all the stuff above as possible whilst fulfilling a lifetime ambition appearing on their ace feature ‘The Chain’. His song choice? John Grant’s ‘Pale Green Ghosts’ (from The Walker Brothers ‘Make it Easy on Yourself’ – Ivor Raymonde arranged the strings for it and his son is Simon Raymonde who runs the Bella Union label…which John Grant is on). Listen again here (2 hours 14 minutes in):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rsz1y
PHEW!!!
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Soundwave from Transformers….
…you know the fella. He was always my favourite. He transformed into a tape player. Why would the Decepticons need that? In case – whilst attempting to destroy the Autobots/the Earth/anyone getting in the way of their general evil shenanigans – they fancied throwing on a bit of Maxi Priest to soundtrack their malevolent wrong-doings?
Odd.
Is there an equivalent in the animated-robofolks-from-Cybertron’s cartoon antics today? Does he download MP3’s in an evil fashion (p’raps dodgy copies?) and fling them at Optimus and co? Would being slapped in the face with an MP3 hurt? Am I talking too much about Transformers?
Yes. Yes I am.
So…the very tenuous link here is that, we’ve been played on the radio a bit. Which is nice (did Soundwave have an FM tuner built in…? Sorry.) You can hear some of these shows again via the wonders of the internettings.
First up – splendid long-time supporters BBC Introducing: The South whipped out a bit of ‘Sharks of the Atomic Atoll’ last Sunday. Thankyou kindly folks. (1hour 15 in…)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00s8wst/BBC_Introducing_The_South_27_05_2012/
Secondly – ‘Wander (Through the Night)’ was played on Amazing Radio by none other than Bella Union head-honcho and former Cocteau Twin bassmeister Simon Raymonde on Monday. This was a special honour for us as BU are my fave indie label ever and have released some of the best records of the last 15 years. If you like good music, you’ll likely own something by them. (59 mins in…)
http://amazingrewind.amazingtunes.com/tunes/119971
Special thanks too for the Leigh and Joel In The Morning Show on Express FM as they played us last week too. Unfortunately there’s no listen again feature for them but here’s a link to their most excellent show – they’re great supporters of the local music scene here in sunny Southsea…check em oot…
http://www.expressfm.com/programmes/leighandjoel/
I believe Amazing Radio are playing us again on Aaron Phillips Rock Show this Saturday from 8pm too so if you’re not out covered in bunting, gin and tea for the Jubilee then try and tune in eh?
www.amazingradio.co.uk
Speaking of the Jubilee – we’re headlining the 2nd Stage at this – http://www.victoriousvintage.co.uk/ on Sunday night. It’s free and, if you don’t fancy the chirpyness of The Lightning Seeds, we’ll be sending out our misery-pop and Transformer-based anecdotes at 9.30pm. Go on the Saturday night too cos our Elliott’s other band will be making a gentle racket. And they’re up against Dodgy. Nuff said.
http://www.retrospectivesoundtrackplayers.blogspot.co.uk/
Have a good weekend Ma’am.
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Tag Archives: Connolly & Callaghan
GOTCHA! YOU NAME ‘EM, WE SHAME ‘EM!
All was not well in the department of endless lies and cover-ups run by Bristol City Council housing boss GILLIAN “Irma Grese” DOUGLAS after our last issue.
We hear Ms Grese was less than pleased at our REVELATION that her department was slyly signing off eviction threats to homeless families who had fallen behind on a dodgy service charges demanded by Grese’s favoured landlord for the city’s most vulnerable – Connolly & Callaghan (Bristolian 40).
We’re reliably informed that an especially sour-faced Grese marched long suffering managers and supervisors into a meeting room and began waving a copy of The BRISTOLIAN above her head while screeching, “THERE’S BEEN A LEAK, THERE’S BEEN A LEAK.”
The scene, we’re assured, was “completely and utterly hilarious and it was hard to keep a straight face as this ludicrous Scottish banshee whined her dismal song of the thoroughly EXPOSED.”
Meanwhile, over in HR, President Assad look-a-like, HR Director Mark “BASHAR” Williams has been telling anyone who will listen (which isn’t many) that, “The BRISTOLIAN has been giving me sleepless nights.”
No, we’ve no idea why either. But if your caring, sharing BRISTOLIAN is inducing nervous breakdowns in pointless Bristol City Council middle managers, who are we to complain?
Heard a boss whinging about The BRISTOLIAN? Get in touch.
This entry was posted in News and tagged Connolly & Callaghan, Gillian Douglas, Housing, HR, Mark Williams on May 18, 2018 by thebristolblogger.
ON THE DEATH OF MARTIN CONNOLLY, LANDLEECH & PARASITE
It was with great sadness that The BRISTOLIAN heard last week about the passing of Martin Connolly, former owner of Bristol’s CONNOLLY & CALLAGHAN property speculators – or “a family-run property business, creating homes that make a difference to people’s lives” as their online spin-waffle goes.
We are told he died of a heart attack, no doubt brought about by the sheer volume of cash being emptied into his bank account by Bristol City Council’s “strategic directors” for all the neoliberal landleeching that C&C is doing for it. Surely The Reverend Mayor could have been more considerate to the health of BCC’s favourite outsourced “emergency housing provider”, and avoided the shock that such a vast increase in his profit margins would cause him?
The BRISTOLIAN would like to remind readers of some of the qualities and contributions Mr Connolly brought to us in his long and illustrious career. Where does one start? Is it in the rip-off prices and spurious service charges he charged and his “family run-business” CONTINUES to charge BCC to house the homeless?
Is it the mothers evicted from C&C properties at Carpenters Place, Knowle West, in 2016? Is it the financial collapse of the “charity” he funded called Bristol Housing Foundation (BFH) in 2013? Or is it the ongoing sale of community space at Hamilton House on Stokes Croft by C&C to build luxury apartments?
“But we don’t stop there”, as the marketspeak on the C&C website attests, so perhaps the crowning achievement of Mr Connolly’s “strong social ethos” and will to “provide shelter for the vulnerable” had to be that North Street homeless hostel in 2016 where the basement was running with raw sewage, the bedrooms overrun with vermin, where exposed electric cables dangled, and holes in the outside wall were so big you could stick your arm through. Now that’s what you call really making a difference to people’s lives.
DISCLAIMER: In case of confusion we must establish that, despite his name, Martin Connolly bears NO relation whatsoever to James Connolly, the revolutionary socialist, trades unionist, syndicalist and Irish freedom fighter murdered by the British army in Dublin, 1916.
This entry was posted in News and tagged Bristol City Council, Bristol Housing Foundation, Carpenters Place, Connolly & Callaghan, Emergency housing provider, Hamilton House, Homeless Hostel, Housing, Martin Connolly, Marvin Rees, North Street, Raw sewage on May 10, 2018 by thebristolblogger.
A HARPY NEW YEAR FROM CONNOLLY & CALLAGHAN!
Word reaches The BRISTOLIAN that Bristol City Council’s Housing Department are issuing EVICTION NOTICES TO HOMELESS FAMILIES that they have emergency-housed in rented flats owned by private property vultures Connolly & Callaghan. This is in order to try and recoup some of the enormous payouts that ROBBER BARONS Connolly & Callaghan are demanding from BCC as ransom.
BCC Housing Department are currently sending out THREATENING LETTERS to homeless families in Connolly & Callaghan properties who have fallen behind on what’s euphemistically termed a ‘service charge’. But there’s no precedent for people on BCC’s homeless list being compelled to pay charges for electricity, gas etc – and by rights, if the council insists on using the C&C shark pool as its ‘emergency accommodation’, THEN THEY SHOULD COVER THIS COST THEMSELVES.
C&C are already raking in £545 PER WEEK, PER FAMILY in their COUNTS LOUSE HOLD UP, and instead of BCC telling these GANGSTER SWINE where to get off, management came up with this sneaky ruse to swindle it out of the daily survival benefits and minimum wages of the TRAUMATISED RESIDENTS that they put in there!
The BRISTOLIAN has obtained a copy of the draft letter BCC are sending out:
What next? Is interim BCC housing manager Dorian ‘Grey’ Leatham going to carry through on these questionable legal threats and EVICT FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN just so they can be MADE HOMELESS ALL OVER AGAIN? All while C&C waltz off with their ILL-GOTTEN GAINS to the Cayman Islands and then come back greedy for more?
And what do Paul ‘Wolfie’ Smith and The Reverend have to say about this FUCKING OUTRAGE going on right under their noses and on their watch?
STAY TUNED: this story is only going to get bigger…
This entry was posted in News and tagged Bristol City Council, Connolly & Callaghan, Dorian Leatham, Eviction, Families, Homeless, Housing, Housing director, Marvin Rees, Notice, Paul Smith on February 6, 2018 by thebristolblogger.
44 RICHMOND TERRACE: NO HEALTH RISKS FROM SEWAGE ANNOUNCES COUNCIL BOSS
Victorian man: Drooper
Finally word arrives from Housing Service Director, Nick “Drooper” Hooper, on this small matter of the RAW SEWAGE in the basement of one his private sector homeless hostels showered with public money that he personally authorises.
Drooper confirms that, yes, there was indeed a load of human shit in the basement of the hostel. However, – possibly exposing a few flaws in his expensive education here – he goes on to claim “there are NO HEALTH RISKS from what was found.”
Really? No health risks from raw sewage you say? You’d probably have to go back to the 19th Century to find the over-privileged and powerful so IGNORANT on matters of human sanitation and the poor.
On the matter of the poor quality building work at the hostel – where two buildings have been joined together so uselessly you can put your hand through the outside wall and into the kitchen – Drooper appears to have forgotten to respond!
Odd, when the first line of his email claims it will deal with the “OUTSTANDING ISSUES”. Except the ones it doesn’t presumably? However, rest assured we’ll be chasing Drooper up about this.
What will his response be? That the hostel is fully compliant with 19th Century building regulations as they apply to the poor?
Drooper also managed to address the vexed issue of Anthony Palmer’s housing priority as an ex-serviceman. He claims:
“We changed our allocation scheme in 2013/14, following extensive consultation, and this was introduced in May 2015. We give additional preference (increase by 1 band) if someone has served in the forces and had been discharged within the last 5 years and also come within a reasonable preference category.”
Alas, we’ve read Drooper’s Bristol HomeChoice Allocation Scheme a few times now and find no mention of this five-year limit on ex-services receiving additional preference. Neither does it appear in the Housing Act (1996) or its Amendments (2012) as Drooper’s staff have claimed.
Where on earth is this five-year mystery clause of Drooper’s? It’s almost like he’s making it up!
Here’s latest Drooper’s email and Steve Norman’s response:
From: Nick Hooper <nick.hooper@bristol.gov.uk>
Sent: 23 May 2016 09:49
To: ‘steven norman’
Cc: Mary Ryan
Subject: FW: RE:RE: MR ANTHONY PALMER
Mr Norman – further to my e-mail below to you I am now able to advise you on the outstanding issues.
We have checked Mr Palmer’s services record. This confirms that he was 16 when he signed up. He left the Army on 21/6/2007 (8 years 11 months ago), a week before his 18th birthday. Regulations were introduced in 2012 which said that local authorities should give additional preference to applications from certain serving and ex-members of the armed forces (and reserve forces) who come within what are called the ‘reasonable preference’ categories. We changed our allocation scheme in 2013/14, following extensive consultation, and this was introduced in May 2015. We give additional preference (increase by 1 band) if someone has served in the forces and had been discharged within the last 5 years and also come within a reasonable preference category.
With regard to the puddle of sewage water at the North St property this has been inspected by our private housing team. Their finding was that there was a small puddle of sewage in the basement (1m by 100cm by 1cm). The leak had been fixed some days before. The small puddle of sewage did not smell. The door to the basement had a padlock on it so access could not be by an unauthorised person. There was no one living in the basement and it was not being used for storage. The puddle was cleaned up last week by the property manager. There are no health risks from what was found.
Nick Hooper
Service Director – Housing Solutions & Crime Reduction
People Directorate
100 Temple Street
BS1 6AN
Email: nick.hooper@bristol.gov.uk
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:53 AM, steven norman <s-norman123@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
Dear Nick,
Thank you for your latest email, which I’ve now had time to consider and consult the Allocation Scheme you refer to.
To make this easy, I’ve attached a copy of the scheme. Perhaps you could print this off, mark the section which says you only give additional preference (increase by 1 band) if someone has served in the forces and had been discharged within the last 5 years, scan the document again and return it to me by return (say, within 24 hours) with this simple proof?
I’ve checked the scheme and I can find no reference to a 5-year limit.
The section relevant to Anthony appears to be ‘4.4 Band 1’:
k) Armed Forces Personnel (Additional Preference)
Applicants that meet The Housing Act 1996 (Additional Preference for Armed Forces) (England) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2989) and one of the reasonable preference categories in band 2 are given additional preference in priority by one band.
With reference to your claim in relation to raw sewage that “There are no health risks from what was found”, I find this surprising. The health risks of raw sewage are well known. Your knowledge of science appears even more limited than your knowledge of your own Allocation Scheme.
Mr Stephen Norman
This entry was posted in News, Protest and tagged 44 Richmond Terrace, Anthony Palmer, Avonmouth, Bristol HomeChoice Allocation Scheme, Connolly & Callaghan, Eviction, hostel, Housing, Housing Act 1996, Nick Hooper, North Street, Occupation, Sewage, Steve Norman on May 23, 2016 by thebristolblogger.
HOW HOOPER’S DUMPED OUR VULNERABLE IN THE SHIT
As the council threatens to evict the occupiers of 44 Richmond Terrace – including homeless ex-serviceman Anthony Palmer and his 18 month son – perhaps now is the time to reveal the conditions Bristol City Council Housing Director, Nick “Drooper” Hooper on £90k a year expects the city’s vulnerable to live in.
The photo below shows the basement of the North Street hostel that the council is paying slum landlords Connolly & Callaghan £260 a week to house Anthony Palmer and his 18 month old son in. And yes, that’s raw sewage in the basement of the building, which is directly beneath the hostel’s main kitchen.
The second photo shows a bodged attempt by cowboy builders to join two buildings together. You can actually put your hand through the wall and into the kitchen of the hostel! Health and safety? Warmth and security? Not for this city’s vulnerable, not on Hooper’s watch.
All this raises the question: who’s getting the backhanders to house our vulnerable and homeless in these shithouse conditions?
This entry was posted in News and tagged 44 Richmond Terrace, Anthony Palmer, Avonmouth, Bristol City Council, Connolly & Callaghan, hostel, Housing, Nick Hooper, Sewage on May 12, 2016 by thebristolblogger.
ANTHONY PALMER UPDATE: COUNCIL IN THE SHIT?
Anthony Palmer and his 18 month old son have been dumped by Bristol City Council in a revolting, cockroach infested hostel run by a notorious local slum landlord firm, Connolly & Callaghan.
Since 20 April Anthony and his son have been supporting the occupation of 44 Richmond Terrace, Avonmouth – the former council home sold by Mayor No More to a private investor – while campaigners draw attention to his plight.
Here’s the latest communication to Bristol City Council housing boss Nick “Drooper” Hooper to update you about what’s going on (or not).
Look out for our photos of raw sewage washing around a city council funded hostel coming soon …
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:50 AM, steven norman <s-norman123@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
Dear Mr Hooper,
Thank you for your email, the contents of which have been noted. I attach for your reference the requested updated signed Form Of Authorisation.
There have been a number of developments since my last correspondence, which have left me somewhat perplexed and I feel it appropriate that I bring these to your attention in order that you can address all matters together.
At the meeting I attended with Anthony, Linda Tasker offered a hostel in Southmead – Windermere – as an alternative to the current hostel and informed Mr Palmer he could be put on the list for a place.
Not the ideal solution but a move in the right direction. I have since been informed by Mr Palmer that this offer has been withdrawn as an option because there has to be three people to reside there. f
Firstly why was this offered in the first place if that is the criteria? Surely the housing officer should know the criteria? Secondly, I have concerns as to whether or not this is the true reason. Only I have a very good friend who is a single man and was housed in Windermere prior to being housed at Antona Court. That person being a Mr Donald Baker.
Mr Palmer then received either a telephone call or visit from Lynette Benjamin where I believe he was told he was being moved to Trinity Hostel, Montpelier. A move Mr Palmer was not prepared to accept as it was a shared bathing situation and – with due respect – not much better than what he has now.
He was then informed his refusal could affect his housing application. Will you please clarify if it is now a case of bullying tactics by your department? As it seems Ms Benjamin raised some concern over the length of time Anthony had been in the hostel at Bedminster.
I assume your department was hoping it would then be able to start the length of time Anthony and his son have been in hostel afresh? Which, I believe – according to BCC Policy – is no longer than 4 Months. Mr Palmer is now entering his sixth month in hostel.
I have in my possession a number of photographs which I will shortly be releasing to the press including one that shows raw sewage spilling on to a floor of the North Street hostel just below the kitchen and living area. A further one shows an attempt to join two buildings together where you can put your hand through the wall into the kitchen of the hostel.
I can only reiterate my position. Would you be happy for your son or grandson or any other member of your family to live in such a place and why are we rewarding such hostels with substantial sums of tax payers money?
I look forward to your email addressing all things raised to date
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Review: Heroes Are On Both Sides in Marvel’s ‘Star Wars: Tie Fighter #1’ by Jody Houser
Discussion in 'Star Wars: Books & Comics + Legends' started by SWNN Probe, Apr 18, 2019.
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In the first issue of the five-part mini-series, writer Jody Houser (with artists Rogé António, Michael Dowling, Arif Prianto, and Lee Loughridge) presents the Galactic Civil War through a different perspective than we’re used to. A companion story to the upcoming novel Alphabet Squadron, Star Wars: TIE Fighter tells the story of the TIE squadron “Shadow Wing” as they struggle to put an end to the treasonous Rebellion against the Empire. Read on for the full review. Spoilers ahead…
I honestly haven’t thought twice about this series up until now. I thought it looked moderately interesting, but this series and the upcoming Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed have sort of flown under the radar and caught me off guard. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Houser’s series introduces us to the five members of the elite Shadow Wing squadron and shows us a glimpse into the everyday life of an Imperial pilot during the Age of Rebellion. Our “heroes” are the veteran Second Lt. Commander Teso Broosh, the romantically involved flight officers Ganem Kahi and Zin Graw, the no-nonsense Senior Lieutenant Jeela Brebtin, and Lieutenant Lyttan Dree (one of the Dree brothers who trained at the academy with Han in Han Solo: Imperial Cadet).
Shadow Wing is the fifth squadron of the 204<sup>th</sup> Imperial Fighter Wing under the command of Commander Nuress, whom the squad affectionately calls “Grandmother”. When Grandmother gives the squad a new mission to escort the hyperdrive-impaired Star Destroyer Celerity to protect it from Rebel attack, the squadron is up to the task.
This issue provides a glimpse at the motivations behind some of the pilots, along with their concerns and dedication to the Empire and their views of the Rebellion. Rumor is that the war is nearly over, and Ganem is very hopeful that is indeed the case. Ganem definitely comes across as an idealist – a good soul who doesn’t realize that the Rebellion is actually trying to restore the Republic to what it once was.
He still views the Empire through Republic-tinted lenses, and like Grandmother, thinks of the Rebels as being more akin to the Separatists during the Clone War. He understands that some of their grievances are legitimate, but he can’t get past the fact that their methods are nothing short of terrorism, especially after the destruction of the Death Star which he equates to an act of mass murder (which is ironic when you consider what the station itself did to Jedha City and Alderaan).
Zin warns her boyfriend against sharing any views that may be mistaken for Rebel sympathy. She knows that he remains loyal, but you never know who may be listening, as Jeela had pointed out earlier during their discussion in the mess hall.
When the squadron arrives later at the Kudo system to escort the Celerity, they soon realize that they may be a little late to the party. When an ion blast fires from the Celerity itself, their worst fears become reality – the Rebels seem to have already taken control of the ship and its TIE Fighter wings. They should have brought more pilots.
In the epilogue, we meet another pilot of the 204<sup>th</sup> named Lieutenant Quell as she has a conversation with Zin (several days prior to the mission with the Celerity) about the dangers of going up against the Rebels. She points out that the pilots appear to be trained in the Imperial Navy given the skills and instincts she’s seen them employ in dogfights. What makes them even more dangerous is that the ships the Rebels are using are a little more formidable than a TIE Fighter in one-on-one encounters. Zin remarks that these pilots should be flying with them and not against them.
After their conversation, Zin sneaks off to a supply closet and sends a mysterious message to someone on the other end. She’s ready. But for what exactly that is, we’ll have to wait until next month to find out. Could Zin be a Rebel spy in the Imperial ranks? The evidence is certainly pretty damning, but there could be more than meets the eye going on here as well.
At the end of the comic, there is also a bonus excerpt from the upcoming Alphabet Squadron novel. In the excerpt, Lieutenant Yrica Quell (whom we met in the epilogue) appears to be defecting from the Empire. The reprogrammed Imperial torture droid serving the Rebel Alliance is not buying her story, however. Is Quell telling the truth, or is she an Imperial agent attempting to embed herself in the ranks of the Rebellion? We’ll have to wait until June to find out when Alexander Freed’s novel hits the shelves.
My excitement for issue #2 of Star Wars: TIE Fighter cannot be overstated, especially after I wasn’t expecting to get sucked into this one so hard. One of my favorite aspects of the new Star Wars canon is how the stories paint a more gray picture of the Empire and the Rebellion. It’s not all black and white anymore, and there are indeed heroes on both sides. As Obi-Wan once said, “Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view,” and that is certainly true here as this comic is a great example of that concept.
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#1 SWNN Probe, Apr 18, 2019
Great Post x 2
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Well this looks like something I should pick up tomorrow when I visit my local comic shop
& it also looks like I have found my new avatar that cover is gorgeous
#3 Addi Ras, Apr 19, 2019
Cool x 1
Rogues1138 Jedi General
Whenever Jody Houser writes a Star Wars story I tend to get sucked in pretty quick.
#4 Rogues1138, Jun 13, 2019
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China Warns Vietnam to Not ‘Complicate’ South China Sea Dispute By Seeking Legal Arbitration
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Beijing warned Hanoi to not “complicate matters.”
By Ankit Panda for The Diplomat
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On Friday, China pushed back on a suggestion from a senior Vietnamese official that the country would be willing to pursue international arbitration over its disputes with Beijing in the South China Sea.
On Wednesday, Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung, speaking at a conference, said that Hanoi would look to arbitration and litigation if negotiations with China did not yield any solutions.
Trung spoke on other possible measures beyond negotiations that Vietnam might pursue in the South China Sea. “We know that these measures include fact-finding, mediation, conciliation, negotiation, arbitration and litigation measures,” Trung said on Wednesday.
“The UN Charter and [United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea] 1982 have sufficient mechanisms for us to apply those measures,” he continued.
Vietnam “needs to avoid taking actions that may complicate matters or undermine peace and stability in the South China Sea as well as our bilateral relations,” Geng Shuang, a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Friday, responding to a question on Vietnam possibly pursuing arbitration.
“The core of the South China Sea issue is territory, a matter related to the occupation of China’s Nansha Islands by Vietnam and other countries concerned. I hope the Vietnamese side will face up to the historical fact, keep to our high-level consensus and resolve differences through dialogue and consultation,” he also said. China refers to the Spratly Islands as the Nansha Islands.
The two countries experienced their most serious face-off in the South China Sea since 2014 this summer after a Chinese seismic survey ship conducted weeks of activities in Vietnam’s claimed exclusive economic zone despite protests from Hanoi. Both countries claim the Paracel Islands and the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
In July 2016, a Hague-based international tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration issued a historic award in a case filed by the Philippines against China in 2013—one year after the two countries faced off over Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. The award was largely in Manila’s favor and declared, among other things, that China’s capacious nine-dash line claim in the South China Sea had not validity under international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of Sea.
China regarded the arbitral tribunal’s proceedings and award as invalid. The tribunal’s five judges issued the award unanimously.
Other countries around the world had varied responses to the 2016 South China Sea ruling. The United States and many of its allied and partners insisted on the legally binding nature of the award on China and the Philippines.
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New to Streaming: Parasite, Asako I & II,Pain and Glory & More
Jessica Chastain, Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead & More Land New Roles
Nick Newman○ July 16, 2013
The two would have shared a credit just some months back, but Terrence Malick excised her appearance from To the Wonder. Now, bringing them together falls to J.C. Chandor: according to Variety, Jessica Chastain will take the second lead in A Most Violent Year, to which Javier Bardem (most recently seen in this spring’s divisive romantic journey) has been attached since last month. While the actress’ part goes unlisted, we at least know that, for his next feature, the All Is Lost helmer is tackling a 1983-set drama centered on “a successful businessman who is obsessed with maintaining his oil empire.” Nevertheless, as that initial description had made note of the protagonist’s wife, there’s reason enough to expect Chastain in a spousal position.
A Most Violent Year will begin shooting in a few months’ time, with 2014 likely bringing a release.
Next up, TheWrap have learned that Ben Whishaw — off a (thus far) career-best year with Skyfall and Cloud Atlas — could be taking residency aboard the ship of Ron Howard‘s In the Heart of the Sea. As the project’s been filling out for some time now — building a lineup that includes Chris Hemsworth, Brendan Gleeson, Cillian Murphy, Benjamin Walker, and Tom Holland — you may already be aware of its general, true-to-life plot, wherein a ship (the Essex) was destroyed by a whale — serving as the central inspiration for crew member Herman Melville when shaping Moby Dick.
And, thus, there’s a big role in store for Whishaw, who’s been approached to portray the scribe. (Harry Potter actor Frank Dillane is, too, circling the title.) Nothing’s been signed, on his own part, though the attraction between a rising star and a studio mapping out one of their “prestige” pictures ought to be strong; don’t count on this one falling through.
Scripted by Charles Leavitt — as adapted from Nathaniel Philbrick‘s eponymous account — In the Heart of the Sea is expected to begin shooting in September.
In one of the more preferable formats for news delivery this writer has yet seen, Jon Favreau has announced, on Vine, that the great Dustin Hoffman will take some part — at this time, a detail-free sort — in the currently shooting Chef. As far as all else goes, the director will also take the role of star, playing Carl Casper, a former big-time chef who loses his job and starts a food truck in Los Angeles.
Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Bobby Cannavale, and Sofia Vergara will also be seen in the movie, hitting next year.
According to Deadline, Mary Elizabeth Winstead has made for the latest addition to Kill the Messenger, a quickly developing drama led by Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Barry Pepper. Detailed here, the fact-based drama centers on the trials of journalist Gary Webb, who had committed suicide after a smear campaign by the CIA ruined his professional career; Winstead has been tapped for the part of Dawn Garcia, his editor at San Jose Mercury News. Michael Cuesta (Homeland) will direct, having at hand a screenplay from Peter Landesman (this fall’s Parkland).
Bluegrass Films and Renner‘s own The Combine are to produce Kill the Messenger.
Also at TheWrap, it’s said that the Will Smith-led Focus has found a female replacement. While Kristen Stewart was recently attached, the aforementioned star’s own addition forced WB and helmers Glenn Ficarra & John Requa (Crazy, Stupid, Love.) to nab a co-star closer to his own age. In her place, all involved parties actually found someone a few months younger: Margot Robbie, an Australian star most recently seen in the trailer for Martin Scorsese‘s The Wolf of Wall Street (don’t worry: she’ll be in the final picture) and the preferred choice over “several higher-profile actresses including Jessica Biel.” No word as to why that age qualification was thrown out the window, though it speaks well for this up-and-coming performer.
Should a signing take place, movement on Focus will pick up speed in short time.
Finally, TheWrap have been told that former Beastie Boys member Adam Horovitz (or Ad-Rock) is making a rare onscreen turn for Noah Baumbach. The writer-director, in preparing While We’re Young, has nabbed the musician to portray “a married friend of [Ben] Stiller and [Naomi] Watts‘ characters who just had a baby and can no longer relate to the childless couple or why they feel the need to hang out with twentysomething hipsters.” Said “hipsters” — to be portrayed by Adam Driver (Baumbach‘s Frances Ha, Girls) and Amanda Seyfried — shake up an older couple’s lives once both sides start a friendship.
While We’re Young should commence production in the fall and arrive next year.
Which project are you anticipating most greatly? How do these recent changes affect your hopes?
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Speaking to the press from Ottawa. where the final debate on the election campaign will be held tonight. Jagmeet Singh recalled his election promises on six issues that he says require urgent who can not wait another four years. He listed:
The creation of a national drug plan and a national dental plan for the poorest households;
Measures to make housing more affordable. including massive investment and a tax on foreign speculators;
The fight against student debt. which would involve the elimination of interest on loans. current and future;
A plan to combat climate change including the end of subsidies to oil companies;
A new tax on Canadians holding more than $ 20 million and closing tax loopholes;
A price cap for cellular communication plans.
Mr. Singh added that the desire to reach a reconciliation with the First Nations must be the foundation of all government actions. and that he would also seek. in the longer term. to change the single-member voting system in the current round. in force.
The NDP leader did not fail to point out that he is primarily seeking to become prime minister of Canada. but his comments leave no doubt that the NDP could play a role in a minority government.
These are the priorities on which we will tell any government. these are [our] commitments. if you need our help. these are the six commitments we want to make. in addition to reconciliation [with the First Nations] and proportional representation.
This possible minority government – an uncertain but real prospect. in the opinion of all pollsters – should however be liberal. Jagmeet Singh having already indicated that he could not ally himself with the conservatives of Andrew Scheer. because of their environmental position.
Eleven days from the end of the campaign. Singh said he anticipates that Liberal leader Justin Trudeau will increasingly try to convince Canadians to vote for his party by scare them in different ways. He urged voters not to fall into this trap.
When you vote because you are afraid. you do not get what you want he pleaded. Vote for something you believe. If you vote for enough New Democrats. we will fight for these things.
Elizabeth May’s Greens and Yves-Francois Blanchet’s Bloc Quebecois are the other parties that could hold votes allowing a minority government to maintain the confidence of the House of Commons and stay in power.
However. it is expected that the NDP will win more seats than the Green Party. and the Bloc ensures that it will negotiate its support for the play. based on Quebec’s interests.
Thursday morning’s exercise also revealed that the NDP is juggling what it defines as its priorities in this campaign.
In British Columbia. several days ago. Mr. Singh said his three priorities were the creation of a pharmacare plan. a dental plan. and measures to make housing more affordable.
In interview at Telejournal with Celine Galipeau Earlier this week. he said his priority issues would be the fight against climate change. the introduction of a proportional voting system and expanded access to health care.
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You can pay several pro golfers for a custom video on the Cameo app
You may have heard of the Cameo app, which is a platform where everyday people can pay celebrities from various walks of life to make a custom video to send to them for a fee.
The fees range from a few bucks to hundreds of dollars, but celebrities, athletes, influencer types and others are flocking to the platform in hopes of cashing in on fans' desire for the illusion of some kind of personal connection with them.
Professional golfers and some of your favorite Instagram golf girls are on Cameo, and they're ready to make you a personalized video if you pony up the cash.
Among the pro golfers you'll recognize are former world No. 1 Luke Donald, who will command a $200 fee for a video. Graeme McDowell, who just won the PGA Tour opposite-field event in the Dominican Republic as well the 2010 US Open at Pebble Beach, will give you a hollar in a video for $100.
PGA Tour newcomer Jim Knous will make a video for a much more reasonable $15. World Long Drive champion Justin James is asking for $30. LPGA star Sandra Gal will make a selfie video for $50.
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today Jun 18, 2019
Whether in the lavish gardens of Villa Palmieri, on the Fiesole hill overlooking Florence, home to the Givenchy show, or the Villa Reale royal park in the heart of Milan, the venue of Monday morning’s Fendi show, the Italian menswear week has returned to its glitz of old, with a yearning for summer, imagination and elegance.
Dolce & Gabbana, Spring/Summer 2020 - © PixelFormula
A warm breeze blew through the Italian menswear week, whose latest edition kicked off in Florence on Monday June 11 with the Pitti Uomo event, and ended on Monday June 17 with the last day of catwalk shows in Milan. Both literally and figuratively, as temperatures soared, fuelling an irresistible urge for sun-drenched vacations. Milan in particular offered the best surprises, straying from the beaten path by staging shows in unexpected venues like the disused Falck steelworks for Ermenegildo Zegna, the park beneath the city’s ring road for Sunnei, or the underground for Palm Angels.
“The city of Milan was extremely supportive, enabling fashion labels to take over unusual venues. This generated a great deal of energy, in addition to the collections’ sheer quality. The fashion week also confirmed the promising growth of emerging labels like M1992, Magliano, Sunnei and Palm Angels, among others,” said Carlo Capasa, president of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI, the Italian fashion chamber).
The same festive-chic mood was reflected in the collections, notably in the strong comeback of formal wear, though it is now infused with a more relaxed attitude, while sportswear is clearly on the wane, generally coming across as less sporty and more understated. Only a few dared to present sweaters, and those that did went the chic route, like Zegna with its leather sweatshirt.
Suit-and-tie looks were nearly ubiquitous, though garment construction has become less stifling, striking a perfect balance between comfort and elegance. Destructured jackets are the norm, often oversized and made in ultra-light, high-tech fabrics, matched to ample, comfortable trousers, slit at the ankle to ensure greater freedom of movement, occasionally offering a glimpse of underwear above the waist.
Ermenegildo Zegna, Spring/Summer 2020 - © PixelFormula
Jacket and trousers outfits come in basic monochrome hues, mostly in neutral, traditional colours like white, beige, grey, black, slate grey. Check suits with a slight retro feel are very popular, and so are those in beige cotton, sometimes sporting oversize shorts in colonial explorer style. In the same bourgeois-chic spirit, boat shoes are back, and so are slim pullovers draped over the shoulders, white socks and ties. Whether in a floral pattern or more formal colours, the way to wear the latter in summer 2020 is untied, a little loose.
However, summer 2020 isn’t without a nod to adventure, with mini man-bags worn across the shoulder, coveralls galore and military-style outfits with camo jackets and cargo trousers. Khaki is the predominant colour, often veering into gentleman-farmer hues. Lightly quilted gilets, ultra-lightweight windbreakers and raincoats, and hemstitched knitwear complete men’s casual wardrobe for next summer.
A wardrobe that is also heatwave-ready. Jackets are preferably worn over bare chests, trekking and safari hats come equipped with a protective veil over the back of the neck, while thinly-striped, light cotton shorts look like boxers.
Bathrobes and beach towels are always within reach, printed with patterns inspired by torrid tropical lands, with the jungle as leitmotif. Leopards, huge exotic flowers and parrots feature in bright colours on silk shirts, shorts and trouser sets, while the occasional blonde bombshell design pops up on some muscular chests, or printed on a shirt.
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Universal Credit internal report – now published
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 10 Comments
By Tony Collins
Below is the Universal Credit Starting Gate review report that the Department for Work and Pensions refused to publish under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Treasury defines the Starting Gate review as a report on the “deliverability of major new policy and/or business change initiatives prior to public commitment to a project”.
The Starting Gate report on Universal Credit was obtained from the House of Commons’ library by Conservative MP Richard Bacon. It appears that the Cabinet Office’s Chief Operating Officer Ian Watmore asked the DWP to release the report to the Public Accounts Committee after Bacon’s request.
This is the first time all the sections of the report have been published on a website. The report is dated March 2011. No later assessment of the IT aspects of Universal Credit is available. UC is the government’s biggest IT-based project based on agile principles.
Starting Gate review: Universal Credit
Version number: Final
Date of issue: 8 March 2011
Name of Sponsor
(Senior Responsible Owner) Terry Moran, Director-General Universal Credit,DWP
Department: Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)
Review dates: 28 February 2011–4 March 2011
1 The White Paper “Universal Credit: welfare that works”, published on 11 November 2010, sets out the Coalition Government’s plans to introduce legislation to reform the welfare system by creating a new Universal Credit (UC). The main policy intent is a radical simplification of the system to make work pay and to combat worklessness and poverty.
2 On16 February 2011the Welfare Reform Bill was introduced to Parliament. The Bill introduces a wide range of reforms to make the benefits and tax credits system fairer and simpler by:
creating the right incentives to get more people into work by ensuring work always pays;
protecting the most vulnerable in society;
delivering fairness to those claiming benefit and to the tax payer.
The aim is to introduce UC from October 2013.
3 The delivery of Universal Credit has a core dependency on HMRC’s Real Time Information (RTI) programme which will collect Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) and other earnings information from employers dynamically as they run their payroll system. To realise UC objectives, theRTItimetable has been designed to enable a controlled “go-live” from April 2012 and start a phased migration of employers.
Starting Gate review
4 This is a Starting Gate review report. Starting Gate is an assurance tool of the Major Projects Authority in the Cabinet Office designed for Government Departments, their Agencies and NDPBs. Starting Gate reviews are intended to help Departments working on major high risk policy initiatives before these reach the stage of formal delivery projects or programmes. The aim is to provide an independent, constructive snapshot assessment of key issues and risks, and proposals or recommendations to enhance the prospects of successful implementation.
5 The Review Team (RT) would like to thank the SRO and Programme team for the excellent logistical support and documentation which has helped us in our evaluation.
Scope of review
6 The scope of this review is to assess the overall deliverablity of the Universal Credit programme with a specific focus on:
project structure and governance;
the dependency on HMRC’sRTIprogramme, and contingencies if that is delayed;
changing customer behaviour (ie increased use of on-line services):
testing the risks and benefits of applying the Agile methodology (eg the promise of completed products of lasting value at each stage; the fit with normal business cycle; and the rules on accountability).
Recommendation Section Page
The programme, in conjunction with the wider business, develops a roadmap depicting how existing benefits will be managed in the future, specifically but not exclusively, Housing Benefit for Pensioners, Disability Living Allowance. Scope of programme 5
The programme reviews their project governance structures to ensure the optimal board structure is in place, providing a hierarchy of decision making bodies, from the Agile design workshops to the Programme Board. Ensure each board has clear terms of reference, are aware of their decision making powers and the correct escalation route. Structure and governance 6
The programme should formally assess themselves against the NAO list of common causes of project failure to identify potential ‘danger zones’ that they can plan to mitigate. Also use the expertise gained by HMRC andASDas a valuable insight to successful delivery and avoiding past mistakes. Communications strategy 6
The programme to establish a comprehensive communications strategy and supporting plan. Although customers and staff were highlighted above the strategy should include all interested parties, and specifically those with a dependency on or to the programme. Communications strategy 6
The programme to work closely with other government departments to identify where there may be opportunities to link with their activity in order to enhance UC’s chances of success. Dependencies 7
The programme to set up a working group to look at the set of complex cases to see if there are alternative handling options for these cases but with the ultimate payment coming through Universal Credit. Changing customer behaviour 8
DWP, with guidance and assistance from the MPA, produces an Integrated Assurance and Approvals Plan (IAAP) by the end of March 2011. Agile 9
7 The SRO requested the RT’s overall views.
8 The review team finds that the Programme has got off to an impressively strong start given the demanding timetable and complexity of the design and interdependency with other departments. This involves liaison with HMRC in particular, but also with CLG and local government in respect of the replacement of Housing Benefit as part of the Universal Credit. We found that the foundations for a delivery Programme are in place – clear policy objectives, a coherent strategy, Ministerial and top management support, financial and human resources – with no obvious gaps. The strong working relationship with HMRC and the inclusive approach with other key stakeholders within and outsideDWPhave quickly established a high level of common understanding. All this gives a high degree of confidence that, notwithstanding the inherent challenges, the programme can deliver Universal Credit.
9 There is a greater degree of uncertainty around the achievability of the intended economic outcomes because of factors which are not within DWP’s control e.g. the general state of the economy and availability of jobs. There are other risks which derive from trying new approaches: the Agile methodology offers much promise but it is unproven on this scale and scope. The actual response of different customer groups to UC may pose a risk to its transformational impact if, for example, factors other than net pay turned out to be a greater barrier to take up of work than expected. The development of a range of approaches to contingency planning (which could be beyond changes to UC) could cover off unintended customer behaviour, whether “no change”, or “change for the worse”.
Scope of programme
10 The Review Team (RT) recognises the challenges that delivering into an organisation already undergoing substantial change through restructuring presents. In order to have the best chance of determining the most appropriate delivery model and developing credible and effective transition plans to deliver a ‘world class’ service, early decisions on the shape of the organisation would be immensely helpful.
11 There is a very real danger that due to a number of factors, including restructuring, headcount reductions, and uncertainty about the delivery model, the department may lose some of the expertise that it will need in order to deliver Universal Credit successfully. There is also the challenge of maintaining staff morale during a period of uncertainty, to ensure the quality of service for the existing service is not impacted. The review team felt that this was sufficiently visible to the Programme and that the risk was being managed at this stage. Once the delivery model is known and the Programme moves nearer to transition, this risk will need more focus.
12 During the review, a number of interviewees raised the topic of the scope of both the Universal Credit and the Universal Credit IT platform and associated systems. What was not obvious was whether there was a consensus on whether the Universal Credit platform was being designed as a strategic platform with potential for re-use across a number of other DWP payments, or whether it was solely a platform to pay Universal Credit.
13 Given the Coalition Government’s desire to see re-use built into IT systems from the outset, it would be prudent to consider opportunities for this now. The review team felt that a roadmap, identifying what was definitely within the Universal Credit boundary, what could be paid by the Universal Credit platform at a future date, and what was definitely out of scope, would be beneficial. The roadmap should also indicate how the ‘out of scope’ payments are to be handled and assign ownership. This would be a useful departmental tool to provide clarity to stakeholders both within the Department and those that are impacted outside of DWP.
The Programme, in conjunction with the wider business, develops a roadmap depicting how existing benefits will be managed in the future, specifically but not exclusively, Housing Benefit for Pensioners, Disability Living Allowance.
Project Structure and Governance
14 The importance of the programme is evidenced by the amount of commitment and support it received during the review. The appointment of dedicated, experienced and well respected personnel into the key programme roles is seen as very positive and welcome.
15 In terms of structure the proposal to keep the programme’s core team to a minimum whilst commissioning involvement and support from key areas as necessary was generally well supported, However, the impact of any organisational redesign to meet the SR challenges was raised as a key risk to delivery. As mentioned above, this is an issue the programme is aware of within their risk log.
16 It is recognised in order for the programme to get to their current position is has been necessary to establish a Programme Board which allows all interested parties a voice. The review team found the time was now right to review the membership and frequency of the Programme Board and supporting structures to allow empowered decisions to be taken at the right level.
17 In reviewing the programme structure it is important that stakeholders retain a voice although not a decision making responsibility. There was evidence that the programme board had recognised this and consideration was being given to a stakeholder forum.
The programme reviews their project governance structures to ensure the optimal board structure is in place, providing a hierarchy of decision making bodies, from the Agile design workshops to the Programme Board. Ensure each board has clear terms of reference, are aware of their decision making powers and the correct escalation route.
Communications Strategy
18 Communications are key to the successful delivery of the programme on many levels, the review highlighted concerns in three specific areas:
a) Lessons Learned – The scale and complexity of the programme is recognised as a key risk, however there are many sources of information which could help minimise this risk. These include the recent NAO review “Assurance of High Risk Projects” which produced a list of the top reasons for project failure; the lessons learned by HMRC with the introduction of Tax Credits and more recently the PAYE modernisation programme; and the very recentASDexperience of using Agile as a development tool.
The programme should formally assess themselves against the NAO list of common causes of project failure to identify potential ‘danger zones’ that they can plan to mitigate. Also use the expertise gained by HMRC and ASD as a valuable insight to successful delivery and avoiding past mistakes.
b) Customers and Customer Groups – The valuable work already undertaken by the Customer Insights team was greatly applauded and there was a recognition that this should definitely continue and grow. Concerns were raised about the need to ensure communications with customers and those groups representing customer interests were started early, dispelling myths and unfounded concerns whilst providing the foundations for the cultural and behavioural changes that will be needed.
c) Internal Staff – The uncertainly of the operational delivery model and the known efficiency challenge highlighted concerns about the need to engage with staff, providing up to date, clear information about what decisions had been taken, what were planned and the timescales.
The programme to establish a comprehensive communications strategy and supporting plan. Although customers and staff were highlighted above the strategy should include all interested parties, and specifically those with a dependency on or to the programme.
19 Successful delivery also involves the active management of key relationships and dependencies. It is recognised by all parties that there is a need for the programme to work with colleagues in DWP, HMRC and Local Authorities. The foundations for these relations are established and embedded in the membership of the key stakeholder and governance boards.
20 Whilst the review highlighted a number of inter-dependencies between Universal Credit and the existing DWP change portfolio, specifically Automated Service Delivery, Transforming Labour Market Services, IB Reassessment and the Work Programme, it is recognised that work has already been commissioned to provide an impact analysis assessment for the Investment Committee.
21 The review did however highlight areas where the programme could potentially utilise (or extend existing engagement with) the expertise and activities of other Government departments:
Cabinet Office: continue the engagement on cyber security to ensure security features are built in from the start. The RT noted the involvement of the appropriate agencies.
HMT: work to understand the Labour Market forecasts/trends which will provide information on the wider environment.
BIS: work to provide information on skills sought by employers.
The programme to work closely with other government departments to identify where there may be opportunities to link with their activity in order to enhance UC’s chances of success.
HMRC’s Real Time Information (RTI) programme
22 The RT finds that bothDWPand HMRC are clear that timely delivery of RTI is a hard dependency for UC. The joint framework established between the two departments at strategic, policy and operational levels has worked well to date to achieve rapid progress on areas of shared concern. There is a Universal Credit high level programme delivery plan including RTI; a common change control mechanism is under discussion; the Welfare Reform Bill team has contact details for key HMRC officials and should be encouraged to engage them wherever needed during the passage of the Bill. This is a strong foundation for the further detailed work that is needed such as a clear and agreed critical path showing key decision points.
23 The RT notes a strong commitment by Ministers and top management engagement in and support for this framework – a known critical success factor for major programmes in both the public and private sector. Such support will be ever more important as the challenges of delivery increase in a timetable which, all acknowledge, is tight and poses a significant risk. A restructured Programme Board (see section on governance), overseen by the Ministerial and top management Group, will be essential to maintaining collaborative management.
24 Detailed work is underway to develop a model for scaling up the non PAYE-RTI solution – a self-reporting system for the self-employed – as a contingency for delay of the required RTI service. (This will need to include the impact of the delivery model for UC, on which a decision is expected before Easter.) The customer journey work will enable the identification of categories of customer claims which could, in principle, offer early “success stories” from a policy perspective and be processed under a non RTI-dependent system. These options are work in progress and will need to be costed.
25 Contingency has been provided for in respect of other anticipated risks. For example, the RTI testing period, envisaged to start in April 2012, has some “stretch” to allow for changes to the RTIBuild specification which could arise from the completion of the RTIDesign phase which runs beyond the letting of the Build contracts in May, or in response to late amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill.
Changing customer behaviour
26 The review team felt that the work that has been undertaken through the Customer Insights Team and the User Centre Design activity was a positive indicator that the customer feedback was being taken seriously from the outset, and was helping to shape both the policy and the system with which to deliver the policy. It was seen by the review team as essential that this engagement with the customer base continues throughout the process. The department however, should not underestimate the challenge to its staff in taking on a new customer base (i.e. working customers) and every effort should be made to transfer the learning and experience of those already dealing with these customers into the new delivery model.
27 Although the desire is to encourage customers to change their behaviour and to make the transition into work easier, this cannot be done through the implementation of Universal Credit in isolation. A sustained programme of education and support through wider welfare reform activities will be needed to achieve this and the Programme should maintain links with those other areas of activity throughout. One risk with any programme of work designed to change behaviour is that in an attempt to encourage people to make the move one way, there is an unintended consequence and behaviour is driven in the wrong direction. The Programme should use the Customer Insights Team and the user centre design activity to provide an early warning of the likelihood of this happening.
28 One of the key principles of the new Universal Credit is simplicity and the importance of this was reiterated to the review team on a number of occasions. One of the biggest challenges for the Programme is to maintain that simplicity but to still make provision within the system to deal with the most difficult and complex cases. It is not feasible to have a system which does not cater for the customer base in its entirety but the Programme may wish to consider whether there are alternative ways of handling the minority group of customers with the most extreme complex cases in order not to compromise the integrity of the system and the over-arching simplicity of Universal Credits.
The programme to set up a working group to look at the set of complex cases to see if there are alternative handling options for these cases but with the ultimate payment coming through Universal Credit.
29 Another challenge for the programme is the desire to move the majority of customers to on-line services. This will present some difficulties and it may be beneficial to engage other organisations that have achieved this to understand the methodologies or tools they have used.
30 The challenging timetable for delivery of UC meant that DWP elected to use an Agile approach to the delivery. There is no evidence of such a methodology being used on a public sector programme of such scale and during the course of the review it was evident that there had been some initial scepticism to the use of such a methodology with a programme of this scale. However, during the review there was overwhelming evidence of buy-in to the methodology at all levels up to and including the highest levels. DWP have set about thoroughly educating all involved on what can be expected from them and there was clear evidence within the interviews that this is being taken up enthusiastically.
31 There was a view that policy decisions being made later in the programme would pose a problem for delivery. This was countered by the view that the methodology should allow decisions to be made when they need to be made, which is in contrast to fixing requirements early in more traditional (‘waterfall’) methodologies. On balance, the review team found that the use of the chosen methodology here was judged by interviewees to provide greater assurance of delivery in such an environment. The review team agrees with this finding.
32 In terms of the use of Agile within Government,DWPalso have the best current experience via their Automated Service Delivery (ASD) Programme, which used a slightly less ‘lean’ version of the methodology based on an Accenture interpretation. However, there are still valuable lessons that can be transferred from this programme and there exists experience that is being directly deployed on UC. The review team felt that whilst effectively piloting this methodology on a programme such as UC did pose a risk, this was acceptable in view of the risk of delivery out of line with expectations, for example in terms of timing or quality of service to the public.
33 Accenture remain involved in UC, although DWP have brought in consultants (Emergn) to provide an independent methodology not based on any ‘out of the box’ methodologies, but rather one that Emergn have tailored. New contracts supporting this development are due to be awarded in June 2011 and DWP state that their use of this independent methodology will serve to remove any supplier advantage.
34 There was evidence that DWP have understood the need for decision-making delegated to the level at which the expertise exists, with the appropriate empowerment supported within the planned governance re-design. There was also an acknowledgement that the right domain/business knowledge needs to be made available at the workshops that will drive the detailed design processes. It was also accepted that there is a continuing need for this knowledge to be made available and also that it will need to keep pace with the changing policy.
35 One key risk identified by DWP is how an Agile methodology will interact successfully with the various approvals processes that will come into play across the programme – most especially the ICT Spend Approval process (formally known as the ICT Moratorium Exception process). Engagement has begun already with the Major Projects Authority (MPA) on designing the Integrated Assurance and Approval Plan (IAAP) that will ensure the correct internal and external assurance is brought to bear for the identified approval points. The production of this plan is seen by the review team as a key mitigating factor for the risk identified and it is recommended that this is produced, with MPA guidance, by the end of March 2011 at the latest. This may need fine-tuning as approval points are finally agreed.
DWP, with guidance and assistance from the MPA, produces an Integrated Assurance and Approvals Plan (IAAP) by the end of March 2011.
36 As noted earlier, there are contracts that are relevant to this development that are being re-competed at this time, with a wish to award in June 2011. There was some evidence that the design of contracts to deliver in an Agile environment will require a different design in order to draw out supplier behaviour in line with an accelerated delivery environment.
37 There is a always the risk that any development methodology will fail to deliver and whilst this methodology itself provides early warning of failure, there is recognition that in such a circumstance the prioritisation of customer journeys with high-value returns would be needed.
38 There was much evidence of the reliance of UC on successful delivery of the HMRC PAYE Real-Time Information (RTI) programme. There was also recognition that whilst ‘just-in-time’ decisions as a consequence of policy development could be made within UC, the RTI requirement would need to be more rigidly fixed as the traditional ‘waterfall’ development methodology in use cannot so easily absorb such changes without consequence.
39 There was some concern that fraud would remain a major issue for UC and appropriate Information Assurance should be built into the requirement from the outset – rather than being a ‘bolt-on’. Also, as UC and its interface with PAYERTI will become part of the UK Critical National Infrastructure, appropriate discussions should be maintained. There was evidence that DWP have gripped these requirements.
40 Overall, the use of an Agile methodology remains unproven at this scale and within UK Government; however, the challenging timescale does present DWP with few choices for delivery of such a radical programme. That said, there has been evidence of strong support at all levels and DWP do have some expertise within their own organisation that they can call upon from the outset. The review team not only felt that an Agile development is an appropriate choice given the constraints, they also believe that DWP are well placed with their level of support, knowledge and enthusiasm to act as a pilot for its use at such a scale.
Compound failure
41 DWP has made a strong start in identifying risks to delivery. This could be developed further by thinking through the likelihood and impact of a number of risks being realised simultaneously (eg lack of synchronisation between reduced income and UC top-up, plus wrong employer data plus labour market downturn).and what the responses might be. The programme could extend its preparedness by drawing on a wider range of experience the elements of recovery and their prioritisation; and test their robustness in advance, including an early warning system for Ministers.
Next independent external assurance
To be identified in the Integrated Assurance and Approvals Plan (IAAP) to be presented to the Programme Board w/b 21 March.
The Programme is scheduled for formal internal DWP “Gate zero” acceptance at an Investment Committee (IC) meeting on 21 April.
Thank you to Richard Bacon for obtaining a copy of the Starting Gate review. Bacon had requested a copy from Joe Harley, Government CIO and CIO at the DWP. Ian Watmore, Chief Operating Officer at the Efficiency and Reform Group, Cabinet Office agreed to supply Bacon with a copy as per the following exchange at a hearing of the Public Accounts Committee on 16 May 2011:
Bacon: “You sounded quite confident about universal credit. Will you send us the initial gateway review for universal credit?”
Harley: “The starting gate review?”
Watmore: “The starting gate review. I don’t have a problem with that.”
After the hearing when the DWP refused our FOI request for a copy of the UC Starting Gate review report, it said that publication was not in the public interest. We can see nothing in the report that justifies the DWP’s claim. That said accountability and transparency are not the DWP’s defining characteristics.
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Geraint Morgan | September 27, 2013 at 21:19 | Reply
“Also use the expertise gained by HMRC and ASD as a valuable insight to successful delivery and avoiding past mistakes.”
Oops – ASD was cancelled in 2012 and never went live. Still, I hope they learnt from the mistakes.
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Kris | October 13, 2011 at 12:31 | Reply
Nice to be able to see one of these at a relatively early point in the project lifecycle. Extremely pleased that the NAO’s publication on previous of IT project failures is actively being mentioned at this very early stage. Agile is an interesting approach for them; more than a little concerning given previous failures by Government to work with less progressive methodologies but at least the risks are outlined and apparently being logged and hopefully managed too. Be good if we can continue to receive other Gateway review material on this project to see how it is proceeding. All quite positive sounding so far.
dmossesq | October 10, 2011 at 22:50 | Reply
“Thank you to Richard Bacon for obtaining a copy of the Starting Gate review” – seconded
“DWP refused our FOI request for a copy of the UC Starting Gate review report, it said that publication was not in the public interest. We can see nothing in the report that justifies the DWP’s claim” – seconded
Para.29 is a beaut: “Another challenge for the programme is the desire to move the majority of customers to on-line services. This will present some difficulties …” – it certainly will (present some difficulties), see GDS.
No mention of the Cabinet Office plans for centralising and standardising all government data centres and providing timesharing services to individual departments, who would all be sharing the same data. (These plans used to be called G-Cloud. G-Cloud went off the radar in August. It is expected to come back at the end of the month. Under what name is not known.)
If those plans don’t include HMT and DWP, there’s not much point. And if UC and RTI don’t have the timesharing model built in from the start, timesharing won’t happen. Is the Cabinet Office yet again being ignored?
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beurocracy and exclusivity in the caving community
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Keris82
I'm probably going to cause some controversy with these comments but it saddens me that it exists in this community
I have noticed that there seems to be so much beurocracy and exclusivity between clubs. There should be more collaboration and encouragement to join several clubs and networking should be encouraged. And we should encourage younger people to join. If they continue in this old fashioned manner the sport could be all but lost in 10 years would be very sad as caving is a dying sport.
I understand that some clubs want to restrict access for the sake of conservation which is fine. But why not welcome members from other clubs to join trips? Why aren't there more reciprocal agreements to stay at other clubs around the country?
I'm not pointing fingers or blaming anyone in particular. I just want to provoke some thought around the subject.
blackshiver
Re: beurocracy and exclusivity in the caving community
I have seen many changes in caving since 1974. There have been post SRT driven peaks and education driven (legal influenced) declines.
But quite frankly I think Caving at this point in time is at a high point.
Witness the explosion in exploration, university clubs coming back into the scene and the excellent Eurospeleo UK. The recent sell out of the Northern Explorers Forum is also case in point.
I'll also cite York Caving Club and its relationship with the NPC / YUCPC (and Imperial) as a fantastic example with trips all over the country, healthy relationships with other clubs, use of many caving clubs huts over booked weekends and a mixture of youngsters + oldies having great fun both above and below ground. This makes a very pleasant change from the era (late 80's) where myself and another guy were quietly ticking off SRT trips alone with little involvement in the wider caving community.
Just my opinion - hopefully positive.
I have a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a Weasel.
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WMRG
Generalising from a specific experience, blackshiver.
My recollections of the mid-late 80's (which include YUPCP) are very different. YUCPC and other clubs were very welcoming even then.
But there was a lot less national/regional beurocracy.
No longer 'Exceptionally antagonistic' 'Deliberately inflammatory'
Pitlamp
I'm with Blackshiver on this; I think you're wrong Keris82 - certainly as far as the north of England is concerned.
He mentions the close association between the NPC and the York folk - but this sort of thing has always been the case (e.g. the NPC has also had excellent relations with Imperial College, Cambridge Uni, Coventry Uni, Nottingham Uni - and several others, over several decades. Only this weekend just gone I was chatting with some students from Newcastle Uni staying at the NPC and they confirmed they'd felt very welcome.
The CPC and BPC have a joint meet on their meets lists each year. In fact folk from different clubs routinely cave with each other, without even thinking about it. It's the norm.
So I'm perplexed by your post Keris. Out of interest, which area do you mainly cave in?
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I'm glad to see some positive comments on the subject. It might just be my perspective but I'm just going by my own observations. I mainly cave down saaf where I have seen a lot of beurocracy.
I just want to make clear that this isn't aimed at anyone in particular and not my club. I love my club! I have experienced difficulties gaining access to some caves down south.
Thanks Keris - I'm less familiar with how things happen down south. All I can say is my experience of Mendip cavers is they're genuine folk and always very welcoming to me at least.
If you've experienced a disproportionate amount of difficulty with access in the south, maybe make contact with the access controlling body directly, to see what can be done. Just be aware though that they'll be volunteers - and trying to do their best against constraints which you may not be aware of. Best of luck!
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Dave Tyson
WCG/UCET
North Wales is one caving area where there have been problems with information flow. In the
past various clubs have done a lot of exploration, but kept the information and surveys strictly
for their membership and this still seems to be the case.
Cris Ebbs site 'Caves of North Wales' provides useful information. UCET also have a knowledge bank
with more info, but finding surveys and mine exploration plans is hard...
I cannot see the situation changing anytime soon...
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Quote from: Dave Tyson on March 27, 2019, 06:59:13 pm
North Wales is one caving area where there have been problems with information flow.
Yes i have heard there have been some access issues and secrecy around certain parts if Wales too. However saying that we got on some great trips with UCET last year and have made some friends we have regular contact with now
NewStuff
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I'll echo Daves experience of issues like this in North Wales. Dave is far more polite about the situation than I am though. It's problematic, and sadly, appears to be trickling down to newer members of clubs that are, shall we say, less enthusiastic about exchanging information and access. UCET are a good bunch. Other clubs would do well to take some ideas and attitudes on board.
Permission? Wassat den?
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PeteHall
Quote from: Keris82 on March 27, 2019, 04:53:12 pm
Sorry Keris, but I just can't agree with any of this.
Loads of people are members of several clubs, particularly if they regularly cave in different regions. I've never heard of anyone being dissuaded from joining another club, the suggestion seems pretty far fetched.
Sure, there might be rivalries (normally friendly), between different clubs in one region, but there's no hurt in that.
Most clubs with a hut have reciprocal arrangements with at least one other club in each region.
I can't speak for every region, but on Mendip, there are many cross-club events and socials. Wessex Challenge, Digfest, Mendip Migration etc.
Then of course there is the CHECC forum, not to mention Hidden Earth and now Cavefest.
As for encouraging young people, the BCA youth and development working group are doing loads on this front, as are CHECC, all supported by many regional clubs.
As for control of caves by particular clubs, I don't like this sort of thing, but I've never had an issue getting access to a cave. They might ask you to jump through a few hoops, but I've never heard of access to a cave being barred to other clubs. Perhaps active dig sites, but that is another matter and to be honest, I've never heard a digger turn away an offer of help.
The only exception I can think of is that there seems to be a lot of secrecy with some mine explorers, perhaps because they are worried about mineral collectors?
I'd be interested to hear what unfortunate experience you have had to form the view above. Appreciate that you don't want to name names, but perhaps at least the cave, or region would help others understand where you are coming from and hopefully rectify the situation for next time you visit.
PS. I should caveat the above by saying that I have never caved in North Wales (are there even any caves there?), but I did go to a slate mine once... Sounds like things might be a bit different there...
The distance between stupidity and genius is measured only by success.
I too have only ever found other clubs to be welcoming and have gate crashed the TSG's Christmas party, Red Rose's BBQ's, invited ourselves along to Digfest to name just a few. Often we have had members of other clubs join us on 'our' trips and vice versa.
We aren't backward in contacting others and drink beer.....erm I mean networking, when staying in the various caving area's and at socials like Hidden Earth and very much take the approach you don't get if you don't ask.
Perhaps your perception is justified when taken in relation to your own experiences, but also perhaps you haven't pushed yourself forward?
alastairgott
I've recently moved to a (slightly) different area, I put a form into the local club in question and within a week or so I (think) I've been accepted. Despite one of the members saying they would "black Ball" me. which took some working out...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackballing
The comment was definitely in Jest.
It does help that I knew quite a few members before joining, and those that didn't know me might have at least seen me. I think I listed at least 10 names of members on my application.
In my mind Reciprocals are a red herring, I'd say it's how you feel like you've been treated when your there that is the main thing.
I think i'm an honorary member of the Guscott pot digging crew or that could be the laziest member, I can't remember...
And we should encourage younger people to join. If they continue in this old fashioned manner the sport could be all but lost in 10 years would be very sad as caving is a dying sport.
I'm always interested in hearing the reasoning behind these sort of comments. What is The Sport? And why should we be concerned about it's future?
Quote from: Kenilworth on March 28, 2019, 01:45:52 am
I'm not naming any names here. By 'the sport' i mean caving. I've had conversations with many cavers who have said it is a dying sport because there are less younger people being introduced to it in some areas and it would be a great shame to see access lost because the legacy hasn't been passed on to younger generations. As i said earlier on I'm just going by my own observations.
Mendip Caving Group
One of the reasons there are so many clubs in each area is that someone disagreed with members of others... things are generally a lot friendlier nowadays.
There was a survey recently which showed the age of the majority of cavers is over 50. It would be great to see more younger people get in to caving. I'm glad to hear that up north there are uni students who are encourage to cave
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To my surprise the Wessex Caving Club recently accepted me as a new member without any sort of iniation ceremony or references from my bank manager. Joining a club is less restictive now than it has ever been. Possibly the university clubs have dwindled a bit as have clubs associated with a large profession like the police. Yes, we had a local police and college caving group many years ago. This is understandable as anyone with a long term caving interest usually joins a club relative to their area of interest. Others move away from college or rise within their profession. In saying all of that I am not a typical club person. I cant think that I have ever been on a club trip or dig. ( The Wessex no longer have what is called " Club Digs " ) . My caving and digging has been with like minded friends who belong to various clubs. Back in the early 70's I was a club chairman and editor for a while but cannot say that I enjoyed it. Same with the diving club where I was the boat officer. ( That meant wrecking the clutch on my car dragging the club inflatable up the steep hill at Lyme Regis and panicking when the wheel fell off the trailor. Any sort of responsibility is not really for me ).
I am not at all keen on burocracy but in this day and age it is sadly a necessity. Landowners, conservation bodies etc can only be dealt with by such a route. The days of scruffy individuals knocking on a farmers door for access permission are long gone. Dog and stick farming has gone also to be replaced by a business model whose members wish to know the legal ramification of your proposed endeavours. Now people like Longleat Estates ( who partly own Cheddar Gorge including Reservoir Hole ) see such things as caves as an asset. The same goes for Hobb's Quarries who still own Fairy Cave Quarry. I get fed up hearing that Reservoir Hole is a " closed shop ". It is not but we have been entrusted by the landowner to look after their " asset " so some guidelines must apply. ( note well those that do not like gated caves.) Mendip is mainly private farm land so down here we have a differant scenario than up norf. We still have closed caves like Lamb Leer and Twin Titties because of land owner refusal for access. Fairy Cave Quarry was closed to cavers for many years until a minor local " burocracy " was formed to contol access on behalf of the landowner.
I have an odd attachment with clubs. On the whole I find them restrictive as they have rules . ( Rules are for Fools in my book but of course a necessity ). I remember when BSAC put a limit on Sports Divers at 30m. I hated that as some very good Sports Divers never wanted to be Dive Leaders and take novices on dives. My mate could not drive the club inflatable as he did not have the the BSAC qualification but was a qualified yacht rigger with a big boat of his own. Well, perhaps things have changed for the better since then.
I am not so sure about exclusivity. Yes, it does exist in certain instances. Certainly within our group at Vurley as we still do not allow visitors to the cave or co opt other diggers. You do get that with some digging groups on Mendip. Vurley has about 15 members of a consortium from various clubs who have funded the project by thousands of pounds. We have a new landowner and are in an SSSI. Lets say that we are still treading carefully though at the moment there is no rush as we are investigating a long term problem with CO2 which has meant no digging since Summer last year. If there is such a thing as " exclusivity " there is usually a good reason for it. As for access controlled caves on Mendip exclusivity is a bit of a myth. Maybe there are a few ground rules like BCA insurance, experience or party size but I feel there is no harm in that. If a cave has a " leader " ( I would rather say " Conservation Warden ") thats fine too. Unrestricted access to fragile cave environments can only be a bad thing in terms of conservation ( So yup, The cave has a gate. How else can such a thing be achieved ? ). Other digging groups like that at Cutlers welcome any help on digging evenings and often advertise as such on social media. Secrecy may be a myth also. Yes there are some very interesting finds on Mendip recently but it would not be my right to mention them here. Cave diggers have the right to introduce their efforts in the way of their own choosing. Hopefully by club journsl, Mendip Cave Registry , Digging Awards or Hidden Earth. Ultimately such things a very short term.
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Just as many uni clubs in the south as the north:
https://checc.org/member-clubs/
andrewmc
EUSS, BEC, YSS, prov. SWCC...
Quote from: mikem on March 28, 2019, 10:32:07 am
13 in the Southern list, 10 in the Northern, although Nottingham appear in both lists so if you put them in the North (just for balance purposes) it would be 12-10
Aberystwyth is North Wales 11-11....
Quote from: Keris82 on March 28, 2019, 08:05:11 am
Caving is an activity. What do you mean by "the sport"?
Caving cannot die because caves aren't going away and people aren't going to stop wanting to explore them, with or without encouragement. If fewer people go in caves, why is that a problem? If clubs disintegrate, who suffers? If access is lost to anyone, it's their responsibility to regain it if they want it, especially younger generations, who would rather whine than do anything for themselves. You're expecting a "legacy" and the power of a mob to make your activity responsibility-free.
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It's not a sport in the competitive sense but is a legacy of all pastimes being called sports back in the day - UK caving expeditions were even supported by the Sports Council.
& caves here are in danger of being demolished or filled in by landowners, due to the crowded nature of our isles...
« Last Edit: March 29, 2019, 10:56:48 am by mikem »
BradW
Very philosophical, Kenilworth, and I can't help but agree with you. But Keris82 was primarily asking something else (albeit expressing concern about a dying sport): our experience of interactions with other clubs and groups than our own. And as in all walks of life, experience will depend entirely on which groups you interact with.
caves here are in danger of being demolished or filled in by landowners, due to the crowded nature of our isles...
I'd suggest that's not just 'crowding' but also the attitude of some cave users.
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New Year travel deals: Fly Jetstar to Hawaii from $259
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Keiron Higgins
Keiron Higgins is a Punk Poet (and self proclaimed "Punk With a Northern Soul") from Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Coming from a creative background which over the years has seen him in his hometown of Halifax be a former DJ, music producer and radio presenter, Keiron started doing spoken word as a secondary outlet to music production in 2013 after seeing the likes of close friend and fellow punk poet Cayn White over the years, and being spurned on by attending Genevieve Walsh's first spoken word night.
His poems usually told at a rapid pace (quoted by the Firm Of Poets as been as "Halifax's Lyrical Machine Gun)" usually contain themes about the love of his ever growing vinyl collection, outlooks of life and general humorous outlooks of current world events.
During in his 3 years of performing his prolific CV has seen him be a supporting poet for acts for the likes of Attila The Stockbroker and ex. Crass member Steve Ignorant. He is a regular at open mic nights in Sowerby bridge is often welcomed with praise and respect from his peers and headlining acts.
With popularity growing and encouragement from friends and family in 2017 he published his first collection "Rebel Without A Prose: The Writings Of A Working Class Fake.
"Keiron's poetry is as sharp as his dress sense. Staccato rhythms that penetrate and empower. Pure punk" -Toria Garbutt
Halifax Festival of words: Keiron Higgins
Start: 20/10/2018, 19:15 o'clock
Location: Halifax Borough Market, Halifax
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Inter-Arts Festival Perfomance and Display
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There will be a display of my work from my book "The Punk With A Northern Soul" 12th August and then a performance on the 17th August.
"The Punk With A Northern Soul" book launch
Location: The Grayston Unity, Halifax
We are delighted to welcome Keiron Higgins to launch his book 'The Punk With A Northern Soul and give selected readings and Haligonian tales. Weather permitting this will take place outdoors.
Keiron Higgins is a Punk Poet (and self proclaimed "Punk With a Northern Soul") from the aisle of Halifax, West Yorkshire.
His poems usually told at a rapid pace (quoted by the Firm Of Poets as been as "Halifax's Lyrical Machine Gun)" usually contain themes about the love of his ever growing vinyl collection, outlooks of life and general satirazation of current world events. during in his 3 years of performing his prolific CV has seen him be a supporting poet for acts for the likes of Attila The Stockbroker and ex. Crass member Steve Ignorant. He is a regular at open mic nights in Sowerby bridge is often welcomed with praise and respect from his peers and headlining acts.
The Punk With A Northern Soul – The second collection of poetry by an unusual poet
„Keiron Higgins invites readers of “The Punk With A Northern Soul” on an unusual poetic journey.“
“The Punk With A Northern Soul” by Keiron Higgins
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Rebel Without a Prose
„In his new book “Rebel Without A Prose”, Keiron Higgins takes a lighthearted and sometimes comical outlook on everyday life.“
Source: Connecticut Chronicle
Confessions of a vinyl addict (parts 1 and 2) live at the Inter-Arts Festiva;
A short poem about my love of records, performed at The Inter Arts Festival which i had a display of my poetry for everyone to read and then to perform at.
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Rebel Without A Prose: The Writings Of A Working Class Fake
Punk Poetry & Urban Haligonian Tales
The Punk With A Northern Soul
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US welcomes Imran's desire for peaceful borders
Pakistan has a critical role to play in the stabilisation of Afghanistan, says Ambassador Wells
US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells. PHOTO: FILE PHOTO
A senior United States diplomat on Monday welcomed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement calling for peace on Pakistan’s eastern and western borders.
“We welcome the words of PM Imran in which he discussed the importance of peace on both sides of Pakistan’s borders,” said US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells during a news briefing.
CPEC’s timely completion is Pakistan’s priority, Imran tells
Ambassador Wells maintained that Pakistan “has a critical role to play in the stabilisation of Afghanistan” and appreciated efforts taken by the two countries to improve their bilateral relations.
The US statement comes as hostility intensifies in the war-torn country with the Taliban on a general offensive in many regions of the country.
“We have encouraged Pakistan to take stronger steps to ensure that the Taliban either come to the negotiating table or are expelled back into Afghanistan rather than enjoy a safe haven outside of the country,” said the US envoy while reiterating the role the country wants Pakistan to play in Afghanistan’s future.
The statement by the senior US diplomat came after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s provisional declaration of a three-month ceasefire with the Taliban in a televised broadcast on Sunday.
The announcement followed a bloody week of fighting across Afghanistan which saw the Taliban launch a massive assault against the provincial capital Ghazni.
Anticipation had been mounting ahead of Ghani’s speech following mixed signals from the presidential palace over whether the government would offer a fresh truce – following a brief, unprecedented ceasefire earlier in June.
NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg tweeted: “I encourage the Taliban to demonstrate their concern for Afghans by respecting it.”
Ghani’s announcement was also swiftly welcomed in neighbouring Pakistan, which has long been accused of fostering links with the Taliban’s leadership and providing sanctuary to its fighters.
But it is ordinary Afghans who have borne the brunt of the violence in the grinding conflict, especially in Kabul, which the United Nations has said is the deadliest place for civilians in the country.
Local artists welcome newly-elected Prime Minister Imran Khan
The Taliban did not immediately respond to the offer but in a message from its leader published over the weekend to mark the upcoming Islamic holiday of Eidul Azha the group continued to push for direct talks with the US.
Washington has repeatedly refused, saying negotiations must be Afghan-led.
Last month, however, Taliban representatives met US officials for talks in Qatar, though little is known about the details of the meeting.
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I have never collected pension from Rivers govt – Rotimi Amaechi
By Abiodun Jamiu On Dec 5, 2019
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi
Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has refuted claims he is collecting pension from the River State government as ex-governor while serving as minister.
Recall that on Wednesday, December 4, a Federal High Court in Lagos ordered the Federal Government to “recover pensions collected by former governors now serving as ministers and members of the National Assembly, and directed the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN to challenge the legality of states’ pension laws permitting former governors and other ex-public officials to collect such pensions.”
The suit which was filed under number FHC/L/CS/1497/2017 by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) is in the face of the invalidation of pension law for former governors and other ex-public officers in Zamfara State.
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In the judgment, Justice Oguntoyinbo said: “The Attorney General has argued that the States’ laws duly passed cannot be challenged. With respect, I do not agree with this line of argument by the Attorney General that he cannot challenge the States’ pension laws for former governors.”
Justice Oguntoyinbo also said: “The question that comes to mind is: who should approach the Court where a particular law is not in the best interest of Nigeria as a country or National interest? Who should approach the Court where a particular law is detrimental to the interest of the country? Who should institute actions in court for the purpose of recovering public funds collected?
In answering the questions, Justice Oguntoyinbo said: “In my humble view, the Attorney General should be interested in the legality or validity of any law in Nigeria and how such laws affect or will affect Nigerians, being the Chief Law Officer of the Federation.”
Reacting to the suit on Twitter, the minister of transportation who served as the fifth Governor of River State from 2007 to 2015 said he had never requested nor collected a dime from the state government. He added that should he be given the entitlement, he would honorably decline it and referred the entitlements to pensioners in the state who need it.
“I have never requested for or collected one pension from R/state Govt. If offered, I will politely decline and requested that the money should be given to River State Pensioners. I do not believe that I should receive pension as ex-gov of R/State while serving as a minister” he tweeted.
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Brook Taking Inspiration from Sugar Ray Leonard
Date: 15th July 2016 at 6:21pm
The announcement that Kell Brook was stepping up in weight to take on Gennady Golovkin caught most of us by surprise and even more so when we were all following the speculation relating to Chris Eubank Jnr being the next opponent for the dominant middleweight champion.
Since the announcement was made, opinion has been split. Some pundits are of the opinion that Brook will be blasted out inside the distance whilst others believe Brook?s speed and skill could be the deciding factor.
But, the last time we saw a British fighter take the leap from welterweight to middleweight, we saw Amir Khan knocked clean out, could something similar happen to Brook?
However, as you?d expect, Brook remains supremely confident that he can be the first man to defeat Golovkin in in a battle of two unbeaten fighters.
In fact Brook is drawing inspiration from a Boxing legend when it comes to the task ahead, remarking,
‘The greats have gone on, like Sugar Ray Leonard, to win titles in the heavier divisions.
‘To be a great fighter, you have to do great things. For me, a welterweight, to step up against one of the most feared fighters in the world, I’ll have to do everything right. If I don’t, I’ll come up short.
‘We’re going to put the hard work in in training. We will go through hell in that training camp but that’s what you have to do to reach greatness.
‘When it was floated, I jumped at the chance. I’m doing it for the fans.’
Having seen Golovkin in action, I reckon Brook will be the third British boxer to lose to Golovkin, following in the footsteps of Martin Murray and Matthew Macklin.
But that?s only my view, what?s yours?
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This M’sian Made A Card Game That Lets You ‘Walk’ Through George Town's Historical Walkways
One great thing about creatives is that they can take inspiration from almost anything and turn it into a consumable product in the form of various media.
Sometimes inspiration can come from something (seemingly) as mundane as walking along pedestrian footpaths through George Town, which is exactly the premise of the card game Kaki Lima.
But there’s more to it than just being a walking simulator in card game form, and Vulcan Post got the lowdown from its creator, Goh Choon Ean herself.
Finding Something Special In The Everyday
Originally from Petaling Jaya, Choon Ean left for Penang in 2011 and founded LUMA, an organisation that provides its services to arts and culture NGOs, organisations and communities such as Arts-ED, Hin Bus Depot as well as individual artists.
The foundations of Kaki Lima were laid when she programmed for one of Arts-ED’s Youth Arts Camp workshops in which 13 to 15-year-olds would visit a heritage site in George Town and learn an art form, which in that case was board game design.
Choon Ean promoting Kaki Lima in Kinokuniya, KLCC / Image Credit: Rojak Culture
Before she could run the workshop, she had to have an example of a simple game that could be created on a phone.
As she thought about the theme while walking in George Town, an idea struck her.
“I’ve always been inspired by the five-foot ways there and had wanted to work on an art project about it for years, so why not a card game?” Choon Ean said.
“So I went around to take photos and thought of a simple game—players could be pedestrians, just walking around and going to the places that they need to go using the five-foot ways.”
A five-foot way (kaki lima) is a roofed continuous walkway commonly found in various East and Southeast Asian countries, Malaysia included.
When the British built George Town, they enforced a law to have a covered 5-foot walkway for pedestrians since walking was the main mode of transport then.
“However, today 20% of kaki lima in George Town are blocked,” Choon Ean stated.
Blocked kaki lima (in Melaka) / Image Credit: Kaki Lima
“There’s a lack of awareness that kaki lima is a shared space. Many think it’s a private space—they compare it to a terrace house or gated community where the porch area is private.”
This issue is reflected in Kaki Lima’s gameplay, so when players come up against the many blocked five-foot ways, they have to figure out how to overcome them.
After the workshop was over, Choon Ean wanted to fine-tune the game. During a few play sessions with friends, she noticed that gameplay of the initial prototype was missing interaction among players.
Nobody was talking to each other throughout the game, and she felt that this wasn’t reflective of George Town’s great sense of community.
What a full setup of Kaki Lima looks like / Image Credit: Kaki Lima
In Malaysia, the ajak (invite) culture is common, where you’ll invite people to come along with you, meet you somewhere or do something together.
So, Choon Ean brought this mechanism into Kaki Lima with the concept of collaborating to clear blocked walkways and casual walking together towards a destination.
“Once that mechanism was in place, it just felt like a better game, talking about not just the accessibility of the walk space, but also reflecting community,” she said.
An Avid Tabletop Gamer Since Young
Choon Ean has been playing boardgames since she was about 7. Boggle (the word game) was one of her childhood favourites.
“I disliked games that eliminated people like Monopoly, but realised I was attracted to the concepts in ‘Euro games’ where everybody gets equal opportunities or number of turns, where randomness is kept to the minimum, and where there’s emphasis on managing resources,” she shared with us.
Besides being her gateway into modern board games, Carcassonne was also the game that hooked her onto expanding her collection.
Today, she’s collected over 80 different games and organises monthly boardgame nights (GameGeeks) at LUMA.
Image Credit: Kaki Lima
Kaki Lima is the first board game she’s designed, and it took her 22 months and 15 prototypes before she was satisfied with the end product.
“Designing a game is like a game in itself. You get to connect what works, and what doesn’t work,” she commented.
In a brief overview of the game, ‘pedestrians’ (players) should aim to strike a balance between completing tasks on their Pi Mana? cards, exploring different places in town, meeting other pedestrians, and clearing blocked paths.
The cards are photos of real places in George Town taken on Choon Ean’s iPhone, and the playable characters are also inspired by real people, ‘regulars’ whom her teammates observed in the area.
It’s meant for 3 to 8 players of ages 8 and above, and gameplay can last for 30 to 80 minutes.
What the game hopes to highlight is that kaki lima is actually a shared space, not an individual space. “It’s everyone’s responsibility to take care of it and ensure its accessibility,” Choon Ean added.
It also wants players to realise that they won’t get very far if they don’t care about the community.
Kaki Lima has 16 components to it, but don’t be too intimidated by it as its rulebook is fairly comprehensive, and Choon Ean has also taken the liberty to thoroughly explain how to play it with these videos.
Retailing for RM168, about 100 units have been sold thus far, and it can be found in various online and offline stores in both Penang and KL, the full list of which you can find here.
One of its distributors is Lepak Game creator Rojak Culture, whose co-founder Trixie became friends with Choon Ean through the Tabletop Game Designers of Malaysia (TTGDMY) community.
As for future game ideas, Choon Ean replied, “A game about cultural transmission. For example: how a tradition or trade is or isn’t passed down from one generation to the next, or a game about how soya sauce is produced.”
She also teased the idea of expansion for Kaki Lima about building, renovation, conservation and disaster management in a world heritage site.
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Some athletes take guaraná, which contains caffeine, during their training, although there is no scientific research to support this use.
Some athletes take guaraná during their training; however, there is no scientific research to support this use. Guaraná contains caffeine . Another caffeine-containing herb sometimes used during training is kola nut.
Guaraná contains caffeine, and the indigenous people of the Amazon rain forest have used crushed guaraná seed as a beverage and a medicine to decrease fatigue.
Caffeine and the closely related alkaloids theobromine and theophylline make up the primary active constituents in guaraná. Caffeine's effects are well known and include stimulating the central nervous system, increasing metabolic rate, and having a mild diuretic effect. The indigenous people of the Amazon rain forest have used crushed guaraná seed as a beverage and a medicine to treat diarrhea, decrease fatigue, reduce hunger, and to help arthritis.
Guaraná contains caffeine and the closely related alkaloids theobromine and theophylline, these compounds may curb appetite and increase weight loss.
The herb guaraná contains caffeine and the closely related alkaloids theobromine and theophylline ; these compounds may curb appetite and increase weight loss. Caffeine's effects are well known and include central nervous system stimulation, increased metabolic rate, and a mild diuretic effect. In a double-blind trial, 200 mg per day of caffeine was, however, no more effective than a placebo in promoting weight loss. Because of concerns about potential adverse effects, many doctors do not advocate using caffeine or caffeine-like substances to reduce weight.
Traditional Use (May Not Be Supported by Scientific Studies)
The indigenous people of the Amazon rain forest have used crushed guaraná seed as a beverage and a medicine. Guaraná was used to treat diarrhea , decrease fatigue, reduce hunger, and to help arthritis.1 It also has a history of use in treating hangovers from alcohol abuse and headaches related to menstruation.
Caffeine and the closely related alkaloids theobromine and theophylline make up the primary active constituents in guaraná. Caffeine's effects are well known and include stimulating the central nervous system, increasing metabolic rate, and having a mild diuretic effect.2 One preliminary trial found no significant actions on thinking or mental function in humans taking guaraná.3 Guaraná also contains tannins, which act as astringents and may prevent diarrhea . However, this action has not been studied in human clinical trials.
A cup of guaraná, prepared by adding 1/4–1/2 teaspoon (1–2 grams) of crushed seed or resin to 1 cup (250 ml) of water and boiling for ten minutes, can be consumed three times per day.4 Each cup may provide up to 50 mg of caffeine .
Interactions with Supplements, Foods, & Other Compounds
At the time of writing, there were no well-known supplement or food interactions with this supplement.
Certain medicines interact with this supplement.
What Are Drug Interactions
Guaraná (Paullinia cupana) is a plant with a high caffeine content. Combining caffeine drug products and guaraná increases caffeine-induced side effects.
The Drug-Nutrient Interactions table may not include every possible interaction. Taking medicines with meals, on an empty stomach, or with alcohol may influence their effects. For details, refer to the manufacturers' package information as these are not covered in this table. If you take medications, always discuss the potential risks and benefits of adding a supplement with your doctor or pharmacist.
As with any caffeinated product, guaraná may cause insomnia , trembling, anxiety , palpitations, and urinary frequency.5 Guaraná should be avoided during pregnancy and breast-feeding.
Guaraná for Sports & Fitness
Guaraná for Weight Control
1. Duke JA. CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1985, 349.
2. Leung AY, Foster S. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, 2d ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996, 293-4.
3. Galduroz JC, Carlini EA. The effects of long-term administration of guaraná on the cognition of normal, elderly volunteers. Rev Paul Med 1996;114:1073-8.
5. Gruenwald J, Brendler T, Jaenicke C, et al. (eds). PDR for Herbal Medicines. Montvale, NJ: Medical Economics, 1998, 1017-8.
The information presented by Healthnotes is for informational purposes only. It is based on scientific studies (human, animal, or in vitro), clinical experience, or traditional usage as cited in each article. The results reported may not necessarily occur in all individuals. For many of the conditions discussed, treatment with prescription or over the counter medication is also available. Consult your doctor, practitioner, and/or pharmacist for any health problem and before using any supplements or before making any changes in prescribed medications. Information expires December 2019.
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Winter Nakasendo Way
7 Days , 6 Nights
Nagoya / Matsumoto
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Winter walk centred on the Kiso Road section of the Nakasendo Way.
The winter rendition of the classic walking tour of Japan, the Nakasendo Way. Guided tour to Gifu and Nagano Prefectures in the footsteps of travellers over the centuries. A beautiful region that takes on a special wintry hue. Warm accommodation and generously hearty food aside the old highway and on the Kaida Plateau.
December - March.
The Winter Nakasendo Way is a fully-guided tour suitable for anyone who can walk at a gentle pace for three to four hours in comfort. In general, the route is gently undulating but it also includes some short, steeper climbs. The lower temperatures of winter include the probability of snow at some points along the route, hence the slightly higher difficulty rating than our regular Nakasendo Way tour. Please bear in mind, however, that roads and alternative transport are never far away, should we encounter difficult weather conditions. Please read more on Tour Levels here.
A 7-day, 6-night tour starting in Nagoya and finishing in Matsumoto. Accommodation is mainly in traditional Japanese inns and a hotel. The maximum group size for this tour is 12 persons. We have no minimum size. If we accept a booking we guarantee to run the tour.
Timed to include both the Western and the Chinese New Year holiday periods, Walk Japan's Winter Nakasendo Way tour provides modern-day walkers with a comfortable taste of Edo Period Japan in winter. We cross several high passes, where encountering snow is likely, but the emphasis is on comfort and each day we find warm welcomes and surroundings in Japanese inns. Here we can relax, on one occasion around an open hearth fire, and enjoy the excellent meals of locally sourced produce that are a feature of all Walk Japan's tours. Thermal hot spring baths are another feature of the Winter Nakasendo Way. Always a joy and a great way to wind down at the end of any day, these are particularly enticing during the winter months.
We begin our tour on the lowlands of Nagoya then transfer by train to the Nakasendo Way’s mountainous central section, which is also often known as the Kiso Road. Here, in the depths of the Japanese countryside, we begin our walk. On the first day we pass by farming communities, stepped fields and bamboo groves before a last stretch along a preserved section of ishidatami stone paving that brings us to our first inn. Over the following days, we walk through the picturesque post-towns of Magome and Tsumago, traverse farmlands and forests, stay in an atmospheric traditional village inn, continue our walk over a high pass and visit a historic barrier station of Kiso-Fukushima.
We visit Kaida Kogen, a high plateau that is, with good reason, self-styled as one of the most beautiful areas in Japan. Our walk continues over another pass on the Hida Way, which connected Takayama with the Nakasendo Way. The pass provides spectacular views of Mt. Ontake, a sacred peak and active volcano. We walk to our inn for the night which has its own natural thermal hot springs. The next day we return to the Nakasendo Way and another lovely walk over a high pass to the post town of Narai. The tour finishes in the city of Matsumoto, ideally situated for those who wish to travel on to Tokyo or Kyoto, as well as those who would like to continue their winter adventures in the Central Mountains of Nagano Prefecture, host of the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Our Winter Nakasendo Way tour follows some of the most scenic and enjoyable sections of the old highway – this is a walking tour, rather than a trek, and average daily walking distance is a moderate 10km (6.2 miles). Forward transport, however, can be arranged for those who desire a more relaxed day. Our main luggage is sent ahead each day and you need only carry what you require for each day’s walk.
More information about the history of the Nakasendo highway is available at our complementary website Nakasendo Way: A Journey to the Heart of Japan.
This itinerary for the Winter Nakasendo Way trip is ground-only, beginning in Nagoya and ending in Matsumoto. From Matsumoto it is an easy train journey to either Tokyo, Nagoya or Kyoto. Prior to the tour, Walk Japan will provide detailed instructions for travelling to the meeting point at Nagoya Station from Osaka's Kansai Airport (KIX), Tokyo's Narita Airport (NRT) and Chubu (Nagoya) International Airport.
Day 1 Nagoya - Ena
The tour meets in Nagoya Station at 2pm for transfer by train to Ena for our our first Japanese inn experience of the tour. The Walk Japan tour leader holds the briefing here over dinner, a beautifully presented kaiseki traditional dinner.
Accommodation: Japanese inn.
Meals: Dinner provided.
Total walking: N/A.
Total elevation gain: N/A.
Day 2 Ena - Magome
After breakfast, we visit a charming local museum before transferring to the start of our walk on the outskirts of Nakatsugawa, a former post town and now a pleasant regional town. In the afternoon, we continue along the old highway, passing quiet residences with carefully tended gardens, farmhouses and stepped paddy fields as we begin our climb to the Magome Pass, which we reach tomorrow. Wonderful views over the surrounding countryside make today memorable and an ideal way to begin walking together.
We reach our accommodation, set in a delightful location aside the old road, after a long climb, which we negotiate at a gentle pace. A warm welcome from our hosts awaits us at the top.
Meals: Breakfast & dinner provided.
Total walking: 10km (6.2 miles).
Total elevation gain: 288m (944 ft).
Day 3 Magome - O-tsumago
From our accommodation, ahead lies the Kiso Road, the central section of the Nakasendo Way, which weaves through the beautifully verdant Kiso Valley. A short walk brings us to Magome, a delightful hillside post town that was home to Shimazaki Toson. Toson wrote Before the Dawn. Set in the days of Japan's change from a feudal country dominated by the samurai to a fledgling industrial nation, the book is considered to be Japan's first modern novel.
From here we continue on over the Magome Pass for the classic hike of the old highway through forests, aside fast-flowing streams. There is a reasonable probability that snow will cover our route as we descend from the Pass to our inn for the night in the hamlet of O-tsumago. Prior to dinner, we visit an onsen thermal hot spring bath for a relaxing end to the day.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner provided.
Total elevation gain: 461m (1,512 ft).
Day 4 O-tsumago - Kiso-Fukushima
Walk onto Tsumago and spend time exploring this beautifully maintained, traditional post town. We visit the excellent Waki-honjin high-class inn and attached museum before walking 4.5km (2.8 miles) to Nagiso. Here, an interesting footbridge provides us with a hint of two colourful people once associated with the area; a geisha, who appeared on the front of Harper's Bazaar magazine in 1900, and her tycoon partner. We catch a train to Kiso-Fukushima, where we have lunch. The exploration of this town that follows includes a visit to the reconstructed barrier station that stood here during the Edo Period. Our accommodation in the centre of town is a Japanese inn with thermal hot spring baths.
Total walking: 9km (5.6 miles).
Day 5 Kiso-Fukushima - Kaida Plateau
After breakfast, we transfer to the beginning of our walk through the snowy landscapes of the Kaida Plateau. The plateau, regarded as one of the most beautiful areas in Japan, has a distinct alpine feel and we reach over 1,300 metres (4,265 ft.) as we crest our pass for the day. Clear weather will provide us with views to Mt. Ontake (3,007 metres, 9,865ft.), the active volcano that dominates the area. Depending on snow conditions, we may use snowshoes to make our way. Our accommodation, another with onsen baths, is set in a small hamlet on the plateau.
Day 6 Kaida Plateau - Matsumoto
We transfer to Yabuhara for our walk today over the Torii Pass, through forests to the lovely post town of Narai. Depending on the snow depth, we may use our snowshoes again today to crest the pass. There is some free time to explore, relax in cafes and shop in Narai before travelling onto Matsumoto and our hotel, a charming and comfortable establishment in the centre of the city, where we enjoy our last meal together.
Accommodation: Hotel.
Day 7 Matsumoto
After breakfast a guided visit to Matsumoto's impressive castle, one of only four listed as national treasures in Japan. The Winter Nakasendo Way tour ends after visiting the castle, but your Walk Japan tour leader will be on hand to help you purchase your train tickets for your onward journey within Japan. Travel to Tokyo, Nagoya or Kyoto is easily accomplished from here by train.
Accommodation: N/A.
Meals: Breakfast provided.
This itinerary is subject to change.
The itinerary for the Nakasendo Way: The Kiso Road tour is ground-only, beginning in Nagoya and ending in Matsumoto.
The airport closest to the tour’s start at Nagoya is Nagoya’s Central Japan Airport. Transport is also easily made from Osaka’s Kansai International Airport and both Tokyo’s Narita and Haneda International Airports.
FROM NAGOYA’S CENTRAL JAPAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (NGO)
From Nagoya’s Central Japan International Airport, Meitetsu Line trains depart to Nagoya. The journey costs about JPY1,340, per person and takes approximately 40 minutes.
FROM OSAKA’S KANSAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (KIX)
From Osaka’s Kansai International Airport, Haruka Express trains depart to Shin-Osaka Station, where Shinkansen bullet trains then depart for Nagoya. The journey costs about JPY8,300 per person and takes approximately 2 hours.
FROM TOKYO’S HANEDA AIRPORT (HND)
From Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport, Keikyu Line trains depart to Shinagawa Station, where Shinkansen bullet trains then depart for Nagoya. The journey costs about JPY11,090 per person and takes approximately 2 hours.
FROM TOKYO’S NARITA AIRPORT (NRT)
From Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, Narita Express trains depart to Tokyo Station, where Shinkansen bullet trains then depart for Nagoya. The journey costs about JPY13,470 per person and takes approximately 3 hours.
The pre-tour pack includes detailed instructions, including a map, for travel to the accommodation at the start of the tour.
Tour participants are advised not to book themselves out on an early morning flight at the end of the tour, as the journey from Matsumoto to the nearest international airport takes approximately 3 hours 30 minutes.
PRICE JPY 314,000 ～
Single supplement: Available on a limited basis at JPY20,000. Please contact us for more details.
Included: Walk Japan tour leader; 6 nights' accommodation; 6 breakfasts, 4 lunches and 6 evening meals; luggage transfers; entrance fees; travel from tour start point to tour finish point.
Group size and guarantee: The maximum group size for this tour is 12 persons. We have no minimum group size. If we accept a booking we guarantee to run the tour. See Booking Conditions.
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Kyle Crawford uses a shopping cart to carry bags of ice he purchased days after Hurricane Florence in Wilmington, N.C. Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Florence death toll climbs to 37; Trump visits stricken area
September 19, 2018 - 12:41 pm
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — The death toll from Hurricane Florence climbed to at least 37, including two mental health patients who drowned when a sheriff's van was swept away by floodwaters, and North Carolina's governor pleaded with thousands of evacuees not to return home just yet.
President Donald Trump, meanwhile, arrived in storm-ravaged North Carolina on Wednesday and helped volunteers at a church in the hard-hit coastal town of New Bern.
"How's the house?" Trump was heard asking one person as distributed plastic foam containers of food, including hot dogs, chips and fruit. "You take care of yourself."
Wilmington, population 120,000, was still mostly an island surrounded by floodwaters, and people waited for hours Tuesday for handouts of food, water and tarps. Thousands of others around the state waited in shelters for the all-clear.
"I know it was hard to leave home, and it is even harder to wait and wonder whether you even have a home to go back to," Gov. Roy Cooper said.
After submerging North Carolina with nearly 3 feet (1 meter) of rain, the storm dumped more than 6.5 inches (16.5 centimeters) of rain in the Northeast, where it caused flash flooding.
Cooper warned that the flooding is far from over and will get worse in places.
"I know for many people this feels like a nightmare that just won't end," he said.
Addressing roughly 10,000 people who remain in shelters and "countless more" staying elsewhere, Cooper urged them to stay put for now, particularly those from the hardest-hit coastal counties that include Wilmington, near where Florence blew ashore on Friday.
Roads remain treacherous, he said, and some are still being closed for the first time as rivers swelled by torrential rains inland drain toward the Atlantic.
At least 27 of the deaths happened in North Carolina.
In South Carolina, two women died on Tuesday evening after a van taking the mental health patients from one facility to another was overtaken by rising floodwaters near the Little Pee Dee River, authorities said.
The risk of environmental damage mounted, as human and animal waste was washed into the swirling floodwaters.
More than 5 million gallons (18 million liters) of partially treated sewage spilled into the Cape Fear River after power went out at a treatment plant, officials said, and the earthen dam of a pond holding hog waste was breached, spilling its contents. The flooding killed an estimated 3.4 million chickens and 5,500 hogs on farms.
In Wilmington on Tuesday, workers began handing out supplies using a system resembling a giant fast-food drive-thru: Drivers pulled up to a line of pallets, placed an order and left without having to get out. A woman blew a whistle each time drivers had to pull forward.
Todd Tremain needed tarps to cover up spots where Florence's winds ripped shingles off his roof. Others got a case of bottled water or military MREs, or field rations. An olive-drab military forklift moved around huge pallets loaded with supplies.
Brandon Echavarrieta struggled to stay composed as he described life post-Florence: no power for days, rotted meat in the freezer, no water or food and just one bath in a week.
"It's been pretty bad," said Echavarrieta, 34, his voice breaking.
About 3,500 vehicles came through for supplies on the first day they were available, county officials said in a Facebook post.
Supplies have been brought into the city by big military trucks and helicopters,
At Fayetteville, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) inland, near the Army's sprawling Fort Bragg, flooding from Cape Fear River got so bad that authorities closed a vehicle bridge after the water began touching girders supporting the span's top deck.
Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin said it was unclear if the bridge was threatened.
"We've never had it at those levels before, so we don't really know what the impact will be just yet," he said.
Waggoner reported from Raleigh, North Carolina. AP photographer Gerry Broome in Lumberton, North Carolina; Gary Robertson in Raleigh; Alex Derosier in Fayetteville, North Carolina; and Jay Reeves in Atlanta contributed to this report.
Follow Martha Waggoner on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mjwaggonernc
For the latest on Hurricane Florence, visit https://www.apnews.com/tag/Hurricanes
This story has been corrected to show the death toll in North Carolina is 27, not 29.
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USGS 01398000 Neshanic River at Reaville NJ
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
County of Hunterdon, New Jersey
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
LOCATION.--Lat 40°28'24", long 74°49'40" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Raritan Township, Hunterdon County, NJ, Hydrologic Unit 02030105, on left bank 50 ft downstream from bridge on Everitts Road, 0.6 mi southwest of Reaville, 1.5 mi downstream from Third Neshanic River, and 2.2 mi upstream from Back Brook.
DRAINAGE AREA.--25.7 mi2.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--Continuous-record discharge station June 1930 to current year.
REVISED RECORDS.--WSP 1552: 1933, 1934(M), 1936(M), 1938, 1940(M), 1942(M), 1945-46, 1951, 1952(M). WDR US-2011: 1971, 1972(M), 1973(M), 1979(M), 1989(M), 1992(M), 1994(M), 1996(M), 1997(M), 1999, 2004(M), 2006(M), 2007(M), 2008(M), 2010(M).
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder with telemetry. Concrete control since Sept. 26, 1935. Datum of gage is 109.46 ft above NGVD of 1929.
REMARKS.--Records good, except estimated discharges and discharges less than 2.0 ft3/s, which are fair. Occasional regulation possibly due to irrigation pumpage.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--Maximum discharge, 9,020 ft3/s, Sep 16, 1999, gage height, 15.33 ft, from high-water mark in gage house; minimum discharge, 0.00 ft3/s, many days.
WATER-QUALITY RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD.--Water years 1957, 1962, 1979 to current year.
PERIOD OF DAILY RECORD.-- WATER TEMPERATURE: October 1997 to August 1998.
REMARKS.--Discrete water-quality data were collected as part of the New Jersey Ambient Surface-Water-Quality Monitoring Network.
Peak Flood Chart
National Weather Service flood stage for this gage is 6.5 ft.
This station managed by the New Jersey Water Science Center.
Most recent instantaneous value: 16.0 01-17-2020 08:15 EST
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URL: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nj/nwis/uv?
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Imperial March: Dorfman and Mattelart’s ‘How to Read Donald Duck’
Ben Schwartz / 2 days ago January 15, 2020
Ben Schwartz / January 15, 2020
The hectic, global nightmare of early 2020 seems like a good time to reappraise our perception of Disney, an increasingly powerful demigod in the media-saturated hellscape we live in. Outlets and organs of multiple disciplines put out breathless articles about the conglomerate’s “unprecedented” success last year. A brain-thudding stream of MCU, Star Wars, remakes, a streaming service, sequels, even the long-anticipated arrival of Kingdom Hearts III: it’s a constant content deluge that runs to hundreds of hours and billions of dollars. And this is the new standard, not a freakish exception. Disney continues to run unchecked, requisitioning more and more head- and life-space with gleeful juggernauting rapaciousness. Thus the recent-ish reappearance, in English, of How to Read Donald Duck (Para Leer Al Pato Donald) by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, couldn’t come at a better (worse) time.
Originally published in 1971 in Chile during the brief tenure of socialist Salvador Allende and the Unidad Popular government, How to Read Donald Duck scrutinizes the sociopolitical messaging in Disney comics disseminated throughout Chile by the US. The book was first published by Editorial Quimantú, a UP-owned publishing house focused on cultivating literacy and cultural awareness with domestic rather than imported media. Quimantú produced comics of its own, including Cabro Chico and La Firme, that attempted to depict authentic Chilean experience rather than promulgate a mediated American one.
Donald Duck exposes the culture of Disney comics as a quiet inculcation of imperialist doctrine. Disney characters like Donald Duck are imprisoned in a candy-colored vision of capitalist reality: a world full of isolated individuals, unconnected from one another but endlessly kinetic, rocketing from one situation into another—into jobs, feuds, foreign countries (inevitably portrayed as backwards)—in an attempt to grasp some nebulous brass ring that, inevitably, they lose in the extended gutter between the end of one comic and the start of the next.
Dorfman and Mattelart—the former was, at the time, a cultural advisor to Allende, and the latter a Vatican-appointed demographer turned media analyst—grok the “clast” in “iconoclastic”; there’s a destructive glee in Donald Duck, a cheerful violence lobbed at Disney’s insidious, facile world, which punctures many of the hilariously inflated conceptions about Disney. The “Uncle, Buy Me a Contraceptive…” chapter, for my money, murders once and for all the Parent Question. If you’re unfamiliar, the question is: why do so many Disney characters not have parents? You can find film historians, YouTuber film critics, and general Disneyphiles somberly attributing the answer to tragedies in Walt Disney’s own life, mythological reference, and/or attempts to create independent thinkers out of children. Dorfman and Mattelart see something much more sinister:
In Disney, characters only function by virtue of a suppression of real and concrete factors; that is, their personal history, their birth and death, and their whole development in between, as they grow and change. Since they are not engendered by any biological act, Disney characters may aspire to immortality: whatever apparent, momentary sufferings are inflicted upon them in the course of their adventures, they have been liberated, at least, from the curse of the body.
A Disney character comes ready-made, optimized to function eternally in the false worlds created for him. In the comics under examination, that world is a capitalist, imperialist vacuum. Capitalism is fundamentally prudish, obsessed with order, control, regulation. Rejection of biological origin neatly eliminates the messy reality of human interdependence and community. Imperialism inherently fears being beholden to someone or something external, precisely because that’s the relationship it imposes on everything around it. So, parentless as any product, Disney characters don’t owe anybody anything. They’re free to define themselves exclusively through their actions, however hollow those actions might ultimately be. This is one example among many in this slender little fulgurant. Donald Duck is literally packed with figurative explosives of equal brisance. For six chapters, Dorfman and Mattelart keep digging and dynamiting their way through the Disney mythos. Naturally, they attack the easy targets with scholastic thoroughness and writerly aplomb: the racism, sexism, and jingoism prevalent in Disney comics. But they go far beyond that and arrive at a diagnosis of the (very contagious) American Sickness:
The threat [of the comics to Chile] derives not so much from their embodiment of the ‘American Way of Life,’ as that of the ‘American Dream of Life.’ It is the manner in which the U.S. dreams and redeems itself, then imposes that dream upon others for its own salvation, which poses the danger for the dependent countries.
That dream is one of Innocence, a vision of eternal, misremembered childhood simplicity projected by prudish, frightened, powerful adults. The American impulse careers manically toward simplicity, a reduction of everything to Good or Bad, Positive or Negative, Profit or Deficit, Winner or Loser. And as an imperialist force, when its binary worldview doesn’t map onto reality, it’s the fault of the franchisee, not the franchiser. This, Donald Duck says, is the central falsity of Disney, as dangerous as a hundred other American fantasies: the Noble Loner, the War Worth Fighting, the Good Cop.
In Chile, Disney, like the US, is an invasive species. What crosses borders as an innocent entertainment is in fact a foreign contagion working to assimilate the local hosts. This happens literally as well as figuratively. Disney comics are subcontracted to domestic printers and writers. Thus, in 1974, a year after Pinochet’s junta took over, there was this explicitly pro-violence, anti-Allende Disney comic in the Chile Monitor:
As Dorfman and Mattelart point out, the messaging isn’t always this explicit, but it extends logically from the values instilled by US-made Disney comics. As How to Read Donald Duck’s English translator David Kunzleman says, “The native contributes directly to his own colonization.”
The domestic-undomestic Disney comic is a particularly ugly metaphor for the relationship between the US and Chile in the ‘70s. It’s no secret that American interests were firmly against an Allende presidency, and it’s a safe bet that US politicking and influence at the very least exacerbated the conditions that led to the Pinochet junta. From there it’s not a very long mental walk to some umbrageous extrapolations regarding the present-day situation in Chile and the protests and struggles going on there (already forgotten by the magpie US media).
Donald Duck is a timely book for this very ugly present moment. But too, it finds universality in its particularity. In its depiction of subsumed messages in Disney comics it reveals the threat of brain colonization facing any human consuming media. To some degree, this process is inevitable, involuntary. As an adult I hate Disney, hate everything it’s ever done and all of its glittering, superficial, asinine media properties. But after decades of exposure, much of it “willing” when I was a child, some residue remains inside me that reverberates to the sterile Disney fantasy: its cleanness, its simplicity, its comfort and ease.
So, among the lessons to be found in Donald Duck are: Everything Says Something; and also: Everything Leaves a Mark. Directly and indirectly, people are shaped by what they read, watch, hear, play. Indiscriminate consumption leaves wounds, and neglecting to consider the Hows and Whys of what we take in, whether that’s the latest curlicued Disney confection or the Kojiki is, in very real ways, socially and morally irresponsible. Discriminate consumption also leaves wounds, but if we’re conscious of what we’ve consumed, if we’re vigilant about what it can do to us and others, maybe we can, somehow, become better. As it was upon its initial release, How to Read Donald Duck is an exhilarating taste of sanity in an ugly, ugly time.
OR Books released How to Read Donald Duck in 2018 for first time in the US since the original 1975 edition was seized by Customs at the behest of Disney. It includes a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman in addition to the original preface to the English edition by Dorfman and Mattelart, as well as the introduction to the English edition by David Kunzleman. As mentioned above, Kunzleman did the English translation and it is excellent. A new appendix includes a piece by John Shelton Lawrence called “Donald Duck vs. Chilean Socialism: A Fair Use Exchange,” which is also well worth reading.
Ben Schwartz is a freelance writer working out of Ohio.
January 15, 2020 in Books & Literature. Tags: Features, Reviews
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Florida dentist accused of performing unwanted procedures, abusing children
Posted 2:27 PM, May 21, 2015, by WGN Web Desk
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Florida dentist is accused of harming the most vulnerable of patients, young children. Meanwhile, he is accused of collecting millions of dollars in Medicaid payments for procedures that his patients didn’t need or want, according to CNN.
Editor’s note: Details in this story may be disturbing to some viewers.
Going to the dentist can be a terrifying experience for children, but some parents say they were horrified when they found out what happened to their kids at the hands of 78-year-old Howard Schneider.
For the past three weeks, there have been protests outside his Jacksonville practice. One patient was so angry that she was seen attacking him outside his office. However, Dr. Schneider says he has done nothing wrong.
The firestorm started after Brandi Motley wrote about the day she took her 6-year-old daughter, Briel, to the dentist to have one tooth pulled.
On the day of surgery, Motley says she was told that she could not sit with her daughter.
“The nurse suggested that it’s best, that kids act better when parents aren’t in the room. So they said, ‘We don’t like parents back here for the procedures,” said Motley.
Motley said she sat in the waiting room for three hours until the waiting turned to worrying.
“Finally, the nurse came and got me and she said there had been an incident. She was hyperventilating. She had marks all over her, blood all over her,” said Motley.
She was angry and unable to get a clear explanation of what happened, Motley says she and her daughter left and rushed to the emergency room.
“In the parking lot, she takes her gauze out and I notice that all of her teeth were gone,” said Motley.
Motley said Dr. Schneider had pulled not one tooth but seven.
“What happened to all of her teeth?” Motley said.
“What happened to all of her teeth?” Motley told WJXT.
According to Motley, Briel says Dr. Schneider hit her and choked her.
Police were called twice and although department records indicate officers responded, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office told CNN that “no report was written on this incident.”
“That’s when I decided to put her pictures on my Facebook and tell everybody what happened,” said Motley.
Her story went viral, and other parents started sharing their children’s horror stories.
“I kept reading and reading until the name Dr. Howard and I knew that was the same dentist,” said Amanda Barry.
Amanda Barry is deaf, and her 5-year-old son, Dominic, is blind in one eye. Barry says Dominic was referred to Dr. Schneider for a crown in March. Now, Dominic is part of a civil suit accusing Schneider of assault and battery.
According to the complaint, “two front teeth were removed for unknown reasons.”
The complaint also alleges that Dominic was “terrified and told stories of the dentist choking (him.)”
“I screamed for my mom,” Dominic said.
“That’s what bothers me the most. Because I’m deaf, I can’t hear anything- and to know that my child was calling for me and my name and I couldn’t help him, it makes me feel, like, lousy. It makes me feel lousy. Do you know I’m always here for you?” she asked Dominic.
“Until the dentist appointment, the mean dentist appointment, we were apart. I was feeling, like, sad because I wasn’t with you,” Dominic said.
Briel’s family was part of that same lawsuit, but has since withdrawn and filed a medical malpractice suit.
“Medicaid paid him per tooth. So, can I cap a tooth twice? Yes. Can I then pull it? Yes. Can I then successfully obtain benefits for all three? Absolutely,” said Gust Sarris, an attorney.
State records show that Schneider has received nearly $4 million in Medicaid reimbursements in the last five years.
The Florida Attorney General’s Office has launched a criminal Medicaid fraud investigation and is looking into claims that stretch back for decades.
A 1995 malpractice suit was settled out of court, claiming Dr. Schneider unnecessarily placed 16 crowns in the mouth of a 3-year-old.
The boy’s family was paid $7,500 as part of the settlement agreement.
A second malpractice suit was filed that year, but the documents from that case have been destroyed and the outcome is unclear.
“Somebody who is performing procedures that children don’t need, pulling teeth that he knows should be in the child’s mouth. In some cases, we even have where many procedures were done, except what they came in for,” said Sarris.
Sarris filed a potential class action suit against Schneider, claiming “patterns of abuse of his child patients.”
It’s an accusation that CNN reported has been made in the past.
According to a 2013 police report, the mother of a 5-year-old patient was allowed to sit with her daughter. She told officers that Schneider “grabbed her daughter’s face” and “slapped her face several times.”
However, the doctor denied those accusations and was not arrested.
Despite the investigation, Dr. Schneider is free to practice and his license is clear.
“To go to jail, to never work on any other kids, to shut his doors so he can never do this again,” said Barry.
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Jacin Carreiro
Death Penalty.
Let the parents pull out his teeth!
Lousy dentist, but do I want him killed after reading one news story? Should we chop his head off in the city center? A lot of six year olds present with extensive decay needing multiple teeth extracted (not saying this was one of them)..maybe dentists should let these kids suffer…sure better than worrying about getting the death penalty!
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You are a absolute screwball. A 3 yr. old child needs all that work done? NO WAY! How dare you say that the children need to suffer. It is ok for a man to punch a little girl in the mouth and knock out 7 teeth? I wish i could knock yours out buddy. I would do a great job. Then you would be toothless for the rest of your life.
Sure! It’s easy; one single bullet is a lot easier on the taxpayer than prison time. Hell, the fervor of the public would probably produce volunteers with their own time, guns and ammunition :)
No we shouldn’t chop his head off in the city center. He should be killed execution style.
Doctor how did you get on this forum, did you pay off cops with all the medicare scam. Did you get jollies abusing children.Your the one who needs a lot extracting, like the pharoahs, brain through the nose.
They cannot tell you that you cannot sit with your child. If they try, leave. There are other dentists.
Dentists are as dirty and deceptive as slimeball mechanics, but this guy is extreme to say the least!! He should be locked in solitary after ALL his teeth are knocked out!!!
nenamatahari
How was he able to get away with this for so long?
Because mothers are “too nice”. It’s true. They need to get tougher.
=( Yeah. Sometimes women are so afraid to offend others that it makes us targets.
Authorities also covered up for him, cops came and went without a report!. Im sure there were complaints with everyone and ignored. John Wayne Gacy detective was stifled by politicians when he tried to investigate him. Drew Petersen 1st wife drowned in a dry bathtub, covered up by state police, until they couldnt cover for his 2nd wife. Corrupt drug cops in NY and Chicago were allowed to continue when enough complaints were there. SAME CASE, Throw the incompetents agencies in jail with the crooks when they didnt pursue it.
Not a good week for dentists!
Seems like this dentist…is mentally ill. Anyone screen him? He is physically abusing children…
Don’t burden this on the mentally ill. This guy is evil. Through and through.
Dont these parents file complaints with the dental board? There are soooo many bad yelps its ridicoulous…how can anyone not report such abuse at all levels. Its crazy.
Police were called twice but never made a report. When the weapon can be used justifiably, it doesnt happen. Who are the police protecting here.
Mother witnessed abuse of her daughter by the dentist, police came he denied anything, so he wasnt arrested. Are you kidding, the bruised patient came that way. His medicare fraud paid off cops? There needs a lot more investigation, but it wont happen. This is your government.
Any adult that was involved and did nothing failed these children! Parents who did not ring the bell, nurses and or assistants that were not only part of these violent acts but were aware of what was happening and did nothing said nothing but gladly collected and cashed their paychecks every week and lets not forget the police which also cash their paychecks every week to serve and protect. Really?
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Arbitraging Twitter vs Facebook
The Faceoff between the Interest Graph and the Social Graph
In February of 2009 I mentioned to Fred Wilson (www.avc.com) that I wished it were possible to arbitrage the stock of private companies, specifically Twitter and Facebook. At the time Twitter was valued at $250 million and Facebook at $10 billion. The trade would have been; long 40 units of Twitter and short 1 unit of Facebook (40/1) to make it $10 billion against $10 billion (or fractions thereof). The most current valuations are $80 Billion for Facebook and $10 Billion for Twitter, or 8/1. So far the hypothetical trade has been hugely profitable. But the trade isn't completely played out yet, not by a long shot. Here's why:
IMO Twitter will eventually eclipse Facebook in terms of market capitalization. It's not a matter of if, but when - and the reasons are pretty straightforward. The Social Graph is far less monetizable than the Interest Graph, and symmetrical relationships don't represent the complexity or richness of real life like asymmetrical relationships do. This isn't good news for Facebook, because Facebook = Social / Symmetrical, and Twitter = Interest / Asymmetrical.
Don't get me wrong; I think Facebook will continue to be a very large and important player. But its revenue generating potential will ultimately be constrained by the nature of the relationships it was built to facilitate. As Judy Shapiro wrote in December of 2010; "Commerce happens in communities of interest - not social networks." Because of this and other factors, I fully expect that Facebook's "One Identity", increasingly AOL circa 1998 platform will eventually cede its leadership position to Twitter, both in users and revenues.
Update December 13th 2012: Facebook has a current market cap of ~ $68 billion, Twitter $12 billion. Expect the valuations to continue to converge in earnest throughh 2013.
Update November 4th 2013: Twitter is about to go pubic on November 7 and its valuation is expected to be in the $15 - $20 billion range while Facebook's current valuation is approximately $118 billion. That means the ratio between the two has narrowed only marginally in 2+ years, which I attribute to the fact that Twitter is still struggling to create more utility for its users, especially new users. Onboarding for new users is still a complete mess and deep media integration created to increase advertising revenue will take the platform only so far. Twitter still has a chance to become the most used and most valuable social network ever created, but unless and until they start concentrating on becoming a true information utility (rather than a media/advertising company) they will drastically limit their potential and unnecessarily leave themselves open to competitors and disruption.
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The Probability of Facebook Acquiring Twitter is Exactly 0.0%
The WSJ ran a piece yesterday entitled 'Twitter as Tech Bubble Barometer' in which they reported executives at both Google and Facebook have had "low level talks" with executives at Twitter about a potential acquisition of Twitter. In the very next sentence they state that "the talks have so far gone nowhere". Ok let me get this straight: Low level talks that went nowhere - wow, that's quite a scoop! Their fascination though was on the rumored $8 - $10 billion dollar valuation of Twitter and on whether Twitter would be more likely to end up with Facebook or Google. Well let me answer that question, at least partially:
The probability of Facebook acquiring Twitter is exactly 0.0%.
The only thing that Facebook and Twitter really have in common is the status update. However, the respective environments in which these updates are created, exchanged, and acted upon are radically different. Twitter is a public space and Facebook is a private (or semi-private) space. It's almost incomprehensible to imagine how a combined entity would resolve these two spaces in to anything that would provide any real value to its users. In short, a Twitter/Facebook combination would be a functional / experiential train wreck.
An acquisition by Google on the other hand is an entirely different matter. Twitter's orientation around the "Interest Graph" makes it ultimately much more monetizable over time than does Facebook's Social Graph, and it dovetails quite nicely with Google's subject-matter / intent-based value proposition. Twitter and Google are in this sense highly complimentary. No such synergistic relationships exist between Twitter and Facebook.
If Twitter ever figures out that its primary value proposition is in its broadcast / notification capabilities and starts to re-orient its product around the channel metaphor as outlined by Joshua Kerievsky at Industrial Logic, they (Twitter) have the opportunity to ultimately become substantially more valuable than Facebook. Unfortunately the Twitter product has essentially drifted sideways for the last two years. Until they get someone on board who has a strong vision toward driving the product (and revenue) beyond the "Promoted" suite of ad products, they risk falling disappointingly short of realizing their full potential value.
For the time being I don't see Twitter entertaining any acquisition overtures. They have $300 million in the bank which gives them plenty of runway to figure some things out. If they can re-orient the product in the next year like I hope they will, they'll have no problem getting to an IPO. And remember, neither Twitter's current nor former CEO are especially fond of Google - both had their companies acquired by Google (Evan Williams with Blogger / Dick Costolo with Feedburner) only to watch Google essentially bleed them to death.
The only way that Twitter sells to anyone is if Dick can't get the revenue machine cranking on all cylinders within the next 12 - 24 months. If he can't, I think the board takes it out of his hand and takes an offer from Google at between $15 - $25 Billion dollars. My bet (and hope) however is that Twitter eventually finds its groove and goes it alone.
UPDATE: Felix Salmon from Reuters wrote an excellent piece today entitled "Understanding Twitter's Valuation". I highly recommend it, especially if you've wondered how a rational person could value a company with relatively meager revenues of less than $50M at an enterprise valuation of $10 Billion dollars.
The Inevitability of Facebook, and other Fairy Tales
I don't believe in the "inevitability" of Facebook or Jack in the BeanStalk, although they're both great stories. To me Facebook is simply AOL circa 1998 dressed up in new Web 2.0 clothes. Don't get me wrong, I do think they'll end up being a very profitable company - just not as profitable and all-encompassing as many believe. Here's why....
What's happening now is the money-making limitations of being a Social Graph hub are being exposed, and Facebook has been forced to bastardize it's privacy policy and perform emergency business model surgery because of it. The hockey stick expectations of Facebook's future revenues need to be adjusted to reflect these limitations. In fact, if it were possible to arb Twitter against Facebook (Long Twitter at $1.5B and Short Facebook at $15B) I would do it immediately. Long 10 units of Twitter against short 1 unit of Facebook at current valuations to make $15B against $15B. It's the ultimate bet that the Interest Graph oriented platform monetizes better than the Social Graph oriented platform over the long term - and that Twitter's management is superior to that of Facebook's.
And therein lies the irony of Personal Graph monetization (I'm defining the Personal Graph as the combination of one's Social and Interest Graphs): People wont pay to communicate with people they already know, but they will pay (in one form or another) to connect and interact with people and content they're interested in but not currently unaware of, or are hard to find. You see, Facebook's decision to initially orient around a user's social graph is what will ultimately constrain it's ability to monetize at scale. At a certain point your symmetric "friends and family" Social Graph constrains your expression and exploration in a way that asymmetric, distributed Interest Graphs do not.
With that as a backdrop I wanted to pass along Loren Feldman's post on his decision to quit Facebook. I know a lot of people feel like Loren does - that Facebook is redundant and/or of little use outside of keeping in touch with friends and relatives. BTW, there's nothing wrong with keeping in touch. It just doesn't make Facebook the $100 billion dollar company that many predict it will inevitably be.
Anyway, I'll have much more to say on this going forward. For now, here's Loren's post:
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I Quit Facebook
So I quit Facebook. I did it for a few reasons. None of them particularly "heavy". I spoke about them on my site. I'll explain a little more here.
I never used it. I really never did. It was just too much. I have time to spit out bullshit to twitter in between other shit. It's easier.
It was impossible to figure out how to use whenever I did try and use it. Simply the worst interface ever. All the different fucking settings and walls and pages and profiles. Is it all cross posting? What's the difference with all this shit anyway? It was impossible to figure out.
I don't trust them. It's well documented how umm maybe less than honorable with people's data and privacy Mark Zuckerberg really is. Do a quick search on the matter if you are unfamiliar. His sister Randi is Julia Allison's best friend, need I say more?
It's not going to hurt my business one bit. It's not. I'm bigger than Facebook. I don't mean that arrogantly I'm just saying that I think my brand is established and I have a really cool site that I control. It's where my AUDIENCE and COMMUNITY is. I am Loren Feldman of 1938media.com. I am not facebook.com/lorenfeldman.
So that's basically it. No big deal really. What is a big deal though is this newsletter. I've been enjoying writing lately and I'm going to do more of it here.
As always thanks for the support.
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The seeds of Biosphere 2 sprouted in the 1970s at Synergia, a desert ranch in New Mexico where John Allen and a handful of dreamers united to create a self-reliant utopia centered on ecological work, study, and their traveling experimental theater troupe, "The Theater of All Possibilities." At a time of growing tensions in the American environmental consciousness, the Synergians took on varied projects around the world that sought to mend the rift between humans and nature. In 1984, they bought a piece of desert to build Biosphere 2. Eco-enthusiasts competed to become the eight "biospherians" who would lock themselves inside the giant greenhouse world for two years to live in harmony with their wilderness, grow their own food, and recycle all their air, water, and wastes.
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". . . impeccably researched . . . Reider sees Biosphere 2's complicated success and failure as far more than a clash of science and myth or data and personality. She writes a fable of epic dreams burdened by superegos and drama that could not be contained. Riveting, surprising, and in the end devastatingly human, this is a saga for the ages."—Booklist, starred review
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Lisa manages the statewide strategic planning and implementation of all resource development, marketing, and communications operations of Uplift Family Services. With more than 25 years of experience in fund development and nonprofit management, she specializes in case development, solicitation strategies, corporate and foundation relations, capital campaigns, strategic planning, capacity building, board recruitment and engagement, research and grant writing. Lisa is a creative and visionary leader with extensive nonprofit management experience and a passion for improving the lives of impoverished children exposed to traumatic childhood experiences.
Lisa manages a statewide team of eight talented, experienced and committed staff to further the advancement of the agency’s mission by securing over $3 million annually to fund charitable programs, fill program funding gaps and provide additional resources for growth and development. Upon joining the agency in 2014, she successfully led a cross departmental project team of 22 staff, various executives, board members and consultants through the name change and rebranding from EMQ Families First to Uplift Family Services in July of 2016.
Prior to joining Uplift Family Services Lisa held the position of president and chief executive officer at Pacific Lodge Youth Services, a nonprofit residential intensive treatment program for juvenile probation youth referred by the Department of Children and Family Services and Juvenile Courts. Here she oversaw an $8 million budget and managed contracts with DCFS, DMH and SAPC. Lisa garnered recognition from the board, staff, community and the probation department as a first time CEO leading an 80 plus year residential treatment program from financial jeopardy to solvency with a sustainable and balanced annual budget. She led the fundraising efforts of over $5 million to invest in a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure, and made extensive capital improvements to the buildings and grounds.
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Two dogs found dead after eating poisonous mushrooms from owner's yard
Updated: 4:47 AM CDT Mar 26, 2018
A North Carolina woman has a warning for other pet owners after two of her dogs died from eating poisonous mushrooms in her yard.WRAL reports the dogs belonged to Janna Joyner, who worked for a Wake County nonprofit that helps foster dogs. She also had six of her own dogs. "Her pack was incredibly tight, and she loved every one of them," said Joyner's friend, Nicole Kincaid.On Sunday, Joyner came home to find Drago, a 3-year-old Saint Bernard, and Adoni, an 8-year-old lab retriever mix, dead. Her four other dogs were stumbling and vomiting. Joyner told WRAL that her dogs were like her children. "Adoni was her first baby. She adopted him from Wake County Animal Shelter. Drago was a foster of hers. We call it a ‘foster fail’ when they don't adopt the dog out and they keep it for themselves," Kincaid said.Joyner took her dogs to the hospital where blood tests showed traces of Amatoxin, a toxin found in poisonous mushrooms.“The really toxic ones are called Amanita mushrooms,” said David Dorman, a toxicology professor at N.C. State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.Amanita mushrooms, nicknamed Death Cap or Death Angel, can cause liver failure. There is no available antidote, but owners who see their dogs eating mushrooms should rush them to the vet, where vomiting can be induced. “A dog that consumes those mushrooms can go from healthy to very clinically sick to dead within 24 to 48 hours. So it’s a very rapid disease syndrome,” said Dorman.Since the mushrooms can vary in size and color, Dorman recommends getting rid of all of the mushrooms in your yard. “(It’s) always best to cut them, bag them and throw them away. And then wash your hands yourself so you don’t get exposed,” he said.Joyner and Kincaid hope people will hear her tragic story and possibly save their own pets. “She didn’t know they were there, they were under the mulch. It’s just scary to know how close it was to home and how it can happen to any dog,” said Kincaid. “That’s what we’re really hoping, that we can educate people.”
Wake County, North Carolina —
A North Carolina woman has a warning for other pet owners after two of her dogs died from eating poisonous mushrooms in her yard.
WRAL reports the dogs belonged to Janna Joyner, who worked for a Wake County nonprofit that helps foster dogs. She also had six of her own dogs.
"Her pack was incredibly tight, and she loved every one of them," said Joyner's friend, Nicole Kincaid.
On Sunday, Joyner came home to find Drago, a 3-year-old Saint Bernard, and Adoni, an 8-year-old lab retriever mix, dead. Her four other dogs were stumbling and vomiting.
Joyner told WRAL that her dogs were like her children.
"Adoni was her first baby. She adopted him from Wake County Animal Shelter. Drago was a foster of hers. We call it a ‘foster fail’ when they don't adopt the dog out and they keep it for themselves," Kincaid said.
Joyner took her dogs to the hospital where blood tests showed traces of Amatoxin, a toxin found in poisonous mushrooms.
“The really toxic ones are called Amanita mushrooms,” said David Dorman, a toxicology professor at N.C. State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
Amanita mushrooms, nicknamed Death Cap or Death Angel, can cause liver failure. There is no available antidote, but owners who see their dogs eating mushrooms should rush them to the vet, where vomiting can be induced.
“A dog that consumes those mushrooms can go from healthy to very clinically sick to dead within 24 to 48 hours. So it’s a very rapid disease syndrome,” said Dorman.
Since the mushrooms can vary in size and color, Dorman recommends getting rid of all of the mushrooms in your yard.
“(It’s) always best to cut them, bag them and throw them away. And then wash your hands yourself so you don’t get exposed,” he said.
Joyner and Kincaid hope people will hear her tragic story and possibly save their own pets.
“She didn’t know they were there, they were under the mulch. It’s just scary to know how close it was to home and how it can happen to any dog,” said Kincaid. “That’s what we’re really hoping, that we can educate people.”
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* Wolfgang Jeltsch: Declarative Programming of Interactive Systems with Grapefruit. [http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/Stc Software Technology Colloquium of Utrecht Universiteit]. May 29, 2008.
** [http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/bin/view/Stc/DeclarativeProgrammingOfInteractiveSystemsWithGrapefruit abstract]
** [http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/bin/view/Stc/DeclarativeProgrammingOfInteractiveSystemsWithGrapefruit time, place and abstract]
* Wolfgang Jeltsch: Improving Push-based FRP. [http://www.st.cs.ru.nl/AFP_TFP_2008/ 9th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming]. May 26–28, 2008.
3 Source code
6 Publications and talks
Grapefruit is a library for creating graphical user interfaces and animated graphics in a declarative way. It contains an implementation of Functional Reactive Programming and a record system which can be useful in other areas than GUI and graphics programming.
Grapefruit is currently based on Gtk2Hs but implementations on top of other GUI libraries are planned for the future. By using different GUI libraries on different platforms, Grapefruit shall be able to adapt to local look and feel conventions.
Grapefruit makes it possible to implement graphical user interfaces by describing them as systems of interconnected components. Components can be visible components like widgets and windows but also invisible components which provide certain control functionality. Component systems can be built from components by using methods from the Arrow and ArrowLoop classes.
Components communicate via signals. A signal is either continuous or discrete. A continuous signal denotes a time-varying value. A discrete signal denotes a sequence of values assigned to discrete points in time and can therefore be used to model streams of events. Several functions allow the construction of signals in a purely functional manner.
Grapefruit has also support for list signals, special signals denoting time-varying lists where each element has a unique identity. An algebra for list signals provides operations like concatenation, filtering and sorting. The key point is that when the value of a list signal changes, the values of the list signals depending on it do not have to be recalculated completely but can be just updated incrementally.
User interfaces with a changing collection of widgets are also possible with Grapefruit. There is a special widget which takes a list signal of widgets as its input and always contains the elements of it as its child widgets.
Furthermore, it is possible to implement animations using graphic signals. These are implemented on top of OpenGL. So-called caching graphic signals are available to make use of OpenGL’s display lists.
With Grapefruit, user interface descriptions always cover the complete lifetime of the respective interface. No explicit event handler registrations and no explicit recalculations of values are necessary. This is in line with the declarative nature of Haskell because it stresses how the user interface operates instead of how this operation is achieved. Internally though, signals are implemented efficiently using the event dispatching and handling mechanism of the underlying GUI toolkit.
The roots of Grapefruit lie in systems like FranTk and wxFruit. Grapefruit tries to combine concepts of these systems with new ideas to become a system which maintains a reasonable balance between ease of use and efficiency, and is applicable to real world problems.
As of October 2007, Grapefruit is still in an early stage. Lots of basic concepts are implemented but Grapefruit still lacks a wide variety of widgets, for example. However, adding new widgets shouldn’t be too difficult since Grapefruit provides good generic support for doing this.
Furthermore, work on formal specification and verification of GUI properties based on Grapefruit’s GUI programming interface and dependent types has just started. The proof assistant Coq will be used in this context.
The source code of Grapefruit resides inside a darcs repository under http://softbase.org/grapefruit/darcs/main/. To get a copy, you can use the command darcs get http://softbase.org/grapefruit/darcs/main.
You need at least GHC 6.8.1 and Gtk2Hs 0.9.12.1 to build and use Grapefruit. Currently, Grapefruit is tested with GHC 6.8.2 and Gtk2Hs 0.9.12.1. For building the API documentation, you need Haddock 2.0.0.0.
Grapefruit consists of the following packages, each residing inside a equally-named directory in the source tree:
grapefruit-frp
grapefruit-records
grapefruit-gui
grapefruit-graphics
grapefruit-examples
You can use Cabal to build each single package.
There is also a script Setup.lhs in the root directory of the source tree which simplifies the building process. For building Grapefruit in place, use the following command:
runghc Setup.lhs up-to-register configure-options -- build-options -- --inplace further-register-options
If you rather want to install Grapefruit in some directory, use this command:
runghc Setup.lhs up-to-install configure-options -- build-options -- install-options
For building the API documentation, you can issue this:
runghc Setup.lhs haddock
This will build the documentation for the different packages with hyperlinks to the Haskell Hierarchical Libraries documentation. It will also build an index and a contents page for the complete Grapefruit library. The documentation will be placed in the directory doc. The entry point to the documentation will be doc/grapefruit/index.html. For building the documentation, you first need to build the complete library and install it or register it in place.
API documentation generated by Haddock is also on the web. You find it under http://softbase.org/grapefruit/doc/grapefruit/index.html. Note that the documentation might get a bit out of date since it is not automatically regenerated on every commit yet.
Wolfgang Jeltsch: Declarative Programming of Interactive Systems with Grapefruit. Software Technology Colloquium of Utrecht Universiteit. May 29, 2008.
time, place and abstract
Wolfgang Jeltsch: Improving Push-based FRP. 9th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming. May 26–28, 2008.
draft paper (to appear in the draft proceedings)
Wolfgang Jeltsch: Funktionale GUI-Programmierung in Haskell mit Grapefruit. Haskell in Leipzig 2. July 10, 2007.
Following are some screenshots from example programs using Grapefruit:
Clicking on the button adds a star to the caption of the button. This doesn’t look very meaningful. However, Simple is actually a very important example since it demonstrates that feedbacks work—the output of the button is transformed and then used as the button’s input.
This is a Mastermind™-like game. The Add button is enabled if and only if the input field contains a valid code and the display box is enabled if and only if the list of guesses does not contain the code chosen by the computer. These properties are described in a declarative way in the source code.
CircuitingObjects
This example demonstrates Grapefruit’s support for animations.
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Library submissions/NewDraft
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Revision as of 08:50, 25 May 2011 by Simonpj (talk | contribs) (→The Core Libraries)
DRAFT 19 May 2011
This page describes a proposed process for maintaining the Core libraries. The core libraries are a subset of the packages in the Haskell Platform, and define basic APIs that are expected to be available in any Haskell implementation. They are listed under "The Core Libraries" below.
In the past we used the Library_submissions process for the core libraries, but that was deemed to hamper productivity too much. The new policy puts more emphasis on leadership and empowers individual maintainers to make changes, while still allowing the community to make feedback, contributions, and proposals.
Non-core libraries are, of course, managed by their own authors/maintainers (named in their .cabal file), using whatever policies those maintainers see fit. [Note: arguably the policies below might usefully be applied to all libraries embodied in the Haskell Platform, but that is a question for the HP team.]
1 General principles
2 Responsiveness
3 Guidance for proposers
4 Guidance for maintainers
5 The Core Libraries
Each core package has a named maintainer, or small group of maintainers, who have commit access to the package.
Third parties are encouraged to make proposals for changes, both to the library API and its implementation, by sending the proposal to the maintainer (CC'ing the libraries mailing list).
The maintainer is trusted to decide what changes to make to the package, and when. They are strongly encouraged to follow the guidance below, but the general principle is: the community offers opinions, but the maintainers decide.
Third parties submitting proposals to the maintainer of a library can expect a timely and thoughtful response.
The more effort the proposer invests (for example, by constructing a patch rather than making an off-the-cuff suggestion) the more consideration s/he can reasonably expect.
Proposals that have widespread support, and are accompanied by patches (preferably with tests and documentation), should normally be accepted by the maintainer.
It is up to the maintainer to decide what "widespread" means; in particular, it does not mean "a majority of those who responded". The majority-responder story is vulnerable to selection bias; e.g. 7 people (out of a client base of hundreds) say "add this function" but the maintainer thinks it will make the interface incrementally more complicated without sufficient benefit.
Where there is significant work involved in implementing a proposal, it is reasonable for a maintainer to ask for a patch. The principle is that maintainers are not obliged to do the work of implementing a proposal, even if it does enjoy wide support. For more substantial changes, it makes sense to develop the implementation in dialogue with the maintainer.
Guidance for proposers
A "proposal" can be anything from a one-sentence suggestion to a fully-implemented, tested, and documented patch. However, the more substantial the proposal the more attention you can expect. The process is this:
Send your proposal by email to the maintainer, with a copy to the libraries@haskell.org mailing list (which you need to subscribe to before posting).
Set a deadline for discussion (no less than two weeks), and act as chair/moderator for the discussion.
At the end of the discussion period, summarise your understanding of the consensus (or lack thereof), including a link to the thread in the mailing list archives, and send the summary to the maintainer for decision.
If the decision is positive, create a ticket on the GHC trac. The description of the ticket can summarise the proposal and link to the mail thread. Further discussion and implementation patches can be attached to the ticket, and the ticket helps the maintainer to keep track of what is on the go. (Obviously if the maintainer prefers some other mechanism, follow his or her guidance.)
For non-trivial changes the maintainer may ask for a patch. You may create the patch up front, and make it part of your proposal; or you may want to have some discussion about the design first, and only then roll up your sleeves to do the implementation; and for bigger jobs you may want to wait until the maintainer agrees in principle with the change.
Here are desirable properties for a proposal and its implementation. The more of these properties your proposal or patch has, the more likely it is that the maintainer will adopt your idea. After all, to adopt it the maintainter will have to do whatever tasks you didn't do.
Description. A good proposal says clearly what you propose, why it is a good idea, and what its consequences would be.
Patch. Use darcs record or git commit (depending on what sort of repo the library lives in) to create it. Save the patch to a file, using darcs send --output or git format-patch. Make your changes against a copy of the master branch of the relevant library, and make sure it compiles.
Portability. Good code is portable. In particular, try to ensure the code runs in Hugs and GHC, and on Windows and Linux.
Style. Good code follows the conventions in the library you are modifying.
Documentation. Good code includes valid Haddock documentation.
Tests. Good patches have suitable tests for the library's testsuite.
Guidance for maintainers
The principle is that we trust the maintainer to behave sensibly. The guidelines below are just that: guidelines, not rules. Still, the core libraries are used by many, many people, so maintainers should make every effort not to mess them up by accident.
API changes should be discussed on the libraries mailing list prior to making the change, even if the maintainer is the proposer. The maintainer still has ultimate say in what changes are made, but the community should have the opportunity to comment on changes. However, unaminity (or even a majority) is not required.
Every API change should be described precisely in the commit log. The commit logs should be sent to a public mailing list, or otherwise made easily available (e.g. via github), so that the community can keep an eye on changes and comment.
Backwards compatibility is important to many users. API changes are expected to retain backwards compatibility wherever possible. However, from time to time we may decide to have major revisions which are explicitly not backwards compatible; in these cases we may try to make the previous version of the package available concurrently, as in the base-3/base-4 switchover.
You don't need to consult the community for purely internal changes; i.e. changes that do not affect the library's clients.
Changes that simply widen the API by adding new functions are a bit of a grey area. It's better to consult the community, becuase there may be useful feedback about (say) the order of arguments, or the name of the function, or whatnot. On the other hand few clients will actually break if you add a new function to the API. Use your judgement.
Libraries maintained by the GHC team are subject to the GHC validation policy - patches will be tested for validation before committing. Those packages not maintained by the GHC team will probably have a GHC lagging mirror repository that is subject to validation.
The Core Libraries
The "core libraries" are by definition the ones that (until now) have listed their maintainer as "libraries@haskell.org". The following packages constitute the core libraries:
array GHC HQ
base GHC HQ
containers Volunteer needed
directory GHC HQ
mtl Volunteer needed
pretty David Terei
process GHC HQ
random Volunteer needed
unix GHC HQ
template-haskell GHC HQ
parallel Simon Marlow
hpc Andy Gill
ghc-prim GHC HQ
extensible-exceptions GHC HQ
deepseq Simon Marlow
Win32 Volunteer needed
The maintainer "GHC HQ" means Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, and Ian Lynagh.
"Volunteer needed" means that GHC HQ is the default maintainer, but that we'd like someone else to volunteer please!
The following packages match the appropriate language standard, and as such cannot change independently. The code is maintained by the GHC team.
haskell2010 GHC HQ
haskell98 GHC HQ
These packages are maintained only for backward compatibility, and are not expected to undergo API changes in the future.
old-locale GHC HQ
old-time GHC HQ
GHC Working Conventions, including guidelines for submitting patches via darcs.
Notes on programming style
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Quinn Reynolds
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PERSONALITY · RELATIONSHIPS · BIOGRAPHY · PERSONNEL FILE
Rear Admiral Quinn Reynolds is a psychologically scarred, socially awkward genius who is currently serving as the commanding officer of the USS Gorkon, the flagship of the Tyrellian Defence and Exploration Taskforce.
Originally trained as an engineer, she served in that capacity and as head of that department aboard the USS Triumphant and the USS Independence-A. After recruitment by Starfleet Intelligence, she served as chief of the Starfleet Intelligence division and First Officer aboard Starbase 118, then First Officer and later the Commanding Officer of the USS Eagle and Commanding Officer of the USS Drake. After a classified tour of duty with Starfleet Intelligence, she returned to the fleet as the Director of Intelligence aboard the USS Invicta, the successor to the USS Garuda and USS Mercury.
Starfleet Admiral Quinn Reynolds
Full Name: Quinn Erin Reynolds
Species: Human/Deltan
Date of Birth: 14th February
Age: Early forties
Place of Birth: Columbia Hills, Mars.
Telepathic status: T3 (NR)
Height: 1.65m (5'5")
Build: Wirey, almost fragile.
Hair Colour: Medium Brown.
Length of Hair: Long, almost always tied back whether on or off duty.
Eye Colour: Hazel.
Skin Tone: Pale with a generous dusting of freckles.
Birthmarks, Scars: A small, neat scar on her left temple, less than a centimetre in length. None others that are usually visible; a small, irregular lattice-work of faded scars across her upper back, a jagged scar on either side of her calf on her left leg, another jagged scar underneath her ribs on the right side of her torso, and two healed puncture wounds on her abdomen and chest.
Tattoos/Body Modifications: Single piercing in each earlobe.
Carriage: Flighty and quick, frequently with her head buried in a datapad.
Taste in Clothing (when off duty): Earth casual; e.g. jeans, comfortable trousers, loose shirts and t-shirts.
Voice: Quiet and soft, touched by a faint Martian accent.
Handedness: Left-handed.
Quinn lives in the world of theoretical possibilities. She exists primarily inside her own mind and has the ability to analyse difficult problems, identify patterns and come up with logical explanations. Almost everything is seen in terms of how it could be improved, or what it could be turned into. She seeks clarity in almost all aspects of her life and is driven to build knowledge. Her natural drive to turn theories into concrete understanding has resulted in a feeling of personal responsibility to solve problems and bring a greater awareness to her field.
She does not like to lead or control people and is very tolerant and flexible in most situations, unless one of her firmly held beliefs has been violated or challenged - in which case she may take a very rigid stance. She is very shy when it comes to meeting new people and avoids social situations as much as she can; though when around people she knows well, or when discussing concepts she fully understands, she is considerably more open and confident.
Quinn has little understanding or value for decisions made on the basis of personal subjectivity or feelings. She strives constantly to achieve logical conclusions to problems and doesn't understand the importance or relevance of applying subjective emotional considerations to decisions. For this reason, she is often not in tune with how people are feeling and is not well-equipped to meet the emotional needs of others. She often fails to realise the value of attending to other people's feelings and has difficulty giving the warmth and support that is sometimes necessary in intimate relationships.
The Bösendorfer Imperial
Academia: Never one to let her mind rest, Quinn is constantly working on some academic project in her spare time; be it a thesis, journal article or new technology design.
Music: Quinn is an accomplished pianist, and enjoys playing in her spare time. Her piano of choice is the Bösendorfer Imperial.
Gardening: While not as feasible on a starship, she enjoys gardening and has a sizeable garden in her home on Mars.
Go: Picked up in the Academy, Quinn found she had a gift for the ancient tactical game, and has continued to play Go throughout the course of her career.
Tennis: Another pastime from the Academy, though one she consistently fails to excel at, no matter how much she practices.
Pool: A fan of physics and geometry, Quinn makes for a mean pool player and was known to shark the odd colleague during her assignment on Starbase 118.
Flora: She has a particular fondness for plants of all varieties and enjoys visiting gardens and arboretums.
Quiet Nights In: Although she is something of a loner, Quinn does enjoy spending a quiet evening with a friend.
Technology: Definite and specific, Quinn finds the logical nature of technology reassuring. She also takes comfort in the fact that it is something she is capable of fixing, should it go wrong.
Music: Mathematics and music have always had a close association, and it is one that she appreciates.
Informal Address: On duty, Quinn prefers to be addressed by her rank and surname, rather than her given name. She also hates being called Miss.
Social Situations: Possibly as far from a party animal as one can get, Quinn dislikes parties, official functions and any other social situation where there significant numbers of people in attendance.
Telepaths: Perhaps as a result of her insecurities, Quinn places a high value on her privacy. She feels distinctly uncomfortable around telepathic species due to their ability to violate that privacy, whether accidentally or deliberately.
Water: Due to an unfortunate boating accident while on holiday, Quinn has been left with a strong phobia of bodies of water.
Ambitions and Goals
Quinn was never the most ambitious of Starfleet officers; throughout her career she had no desire to command a starship or facility and never dreamt of one day holding the rank of Admiral. As a result, her entrance into the command ranks came as some of a surprise and her goals are currently limited to keeping the people that are her responsibility safe and doing her job to the best of her ability. She is also striving to improve her own self-defence skills, after several incidents where they were found lacking, though she frequently finds her time occupied by other responsibilities and hobbies.
In her personal life, she is trying to provide her children Dylan and Amelia with the best upbringing she can provide, and maintaining her relationship with Walter Brunsig as they serve aboard different starships.
Personal Achievements and Disappointments
Quinn has a somewhat unusual relationship with her personal achievements; despite being the holder of multiple PhDs and several years of Research and Design experience at Utopia Planitia shipyards, she does not view these as particularly great accomplishments. Rather, they were something she was expected to achieve - well within her abilities - and so she tends to brush off any attention regarding them, which can be interpreted as arrogance. She is genuinely proud of is her acceptance to and graduation from Starfleet Academy, as she found the theoretical work easy, but many other aspects of the Academy's curriculum were a struggle to Quinn and she had to work hard to pass them.
She found her assignment to Starfleet Intelligence a struggle, and while she shone in the analytical work that she carried out, Quinn found fieldwork much more difficult and was disappointed with her performance in that area. To her continuing surprise, command seems to come a little more easily and she was tentatively proud of her accomplishments as a First Officer and Captain, though her time in the captain's chair came to an abrupt end when she was faced with the decision all captains dread, and hard to order someone close to their death.
Quinn's quarters are simply and sparsely decorated, plain and neutral in colour, with standard-issue furnishing. There is, however, a small selection of plants, both mundane and exotic, and a variety of technically accurate starship models, including the USS Triumphant, Starbase 118, the USS Drake and the USS Mercury. Evidence of her two children is often in clear view, with toys and accessories spread across the rooms.
Full Article: Relationships
Dysfunctional is the best term to describe Quinn's family; her biological father has been conspicuously absent since before she was born, her mother has passed away and her siblings do their best not to acknowledge her. She has a close relationship with her adoptive father, whom she has frequently turned to for advice and assistance in raising her own children.
Her private, aloof nature means that she is often slow to form a friendship, but those few friends are treasured and the relationships long-lasting, often spanning almost the whole length of her Starfleet career. After being somewhat less successful in her love life for many years, she and her on-again-off-again partner Walter Brunsig have finally committed to one another and married on Earth in 2396.
Marital Status: Married to Walter Brunsig
Number of children: Two
Son: Dylan Reynolds (adopted)
Daughter: Amelia Reynolds (father: Harrison Ross)
Dylan Reynolds
Amelia Reynolds
Full Article: Biography
Full Article: Timeline
Quinn's Homeworld, Mars
Born in the Columbia Hills settlement on Mars, Quinn was the child of an illicit liaison between her human mother and deltan father. Her father left before the pregnancy was discovered and her mother's mental condition rapidly deteriorated after giving birth, leaving Quinn primarily in the care of her mother's husband. Her two half-siblings blamed the young girl for taking their mother away and her maternal grandparents maintained an overbearing presence in their grandchildren's lives. Perhaps because of this, she was a quiet, withdrawn child who preferred to play alone, rather than with other children and spent a great deal of time gazing at the stars and shipyards in the sky.
She displayed a remarkable intellect at an extremely young age; she was gently encouraged by her adoptive father and forcibly pushed by her maternal grandparents into fully exploring her potential. As a direct result, she applied and was accepted by the Daystrom Institute of Technology at the tender age of ten. There, she studied a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, but growing up on Mars near the Utopia Planitia facility had instilled a love of starships into the girl, and it was in this direction that Quinn chose to channel her genius. Though she found the life of an academic and researcher fulfilling, Quinn felt she had been shoehorned into the role and wished to try something she would actually find challenging; eventually realising this dream by securing herself a place at Starfleet Academy.
Starfleet Assessments and Records
Full Article: Personnel File
A career in Intelligence
Quinn's time at the Academy was unremarkable; over-achieving in all classical academic aspects and under-achieving in just about everything else, she managed to graduate squarely in the middle of her class. Her first assignment, much to her distress, was to the Defiant class starship, the USS Triumphant. There she served in the engineering department, eventually finishing her tour of duty as a Lieutenant and the Chief of Engineering.
Following the reassignment of the Triumphant and her crew, Quinn was posted to the USS Independence as its Chief Engineer. After a roller-coaster time, both professionally and personally, she requested a transfer to a new duty post and was snapped up by Starfleet Intelligence and posted to Starbase 118. After a classified incident aboard the base, she was transferred to the USS Eagle as the ship's First Officer and later took command of the vessel, a promotion to captain following thereafter. When the Eagle was returned to spacedock for an overhaul, she was reassigned as the commanding officer of the USS Drake.
Her time as a commanding officer came to an end following a classified mission — which, while successful, resulted in significant loss of life among her crew. She returned to the Intelligence fold, and was later posted at the Director of Intelligence for the Menthar Corridor, working from the USS Mercury, USS Garuda and the USS Invicta. Her time in that role was concluded when she was returned back to the captain's chair and placed in command of the USS Gorkon, where she continues to serve.
Decorations & Commendations
Full Article: Decorations and Commendations
A highly decorated officer, Quinn has a legion of service ribbons and medals attached to her name. They are kept tucked away in a drawer, rarely seen. Her work in engineering, physics and cryptology have won her several awards, both as her time as a civilian and later as a Starfleet officer.
Daystrom Award
Jalhal Award
J. Bruce Award
Captain's Ready Room
Quinn has not decorated her ready room with much in the way of personal items; in fact, the only personal touches are a terrarium in one corner that contains a simulated Martian environment (complete with miniature dust storms), a model of the Gorkon contained in a glass bottle, a carved wooden rose, and several potted plants including an African violet. She operates a closed-door policy and any visitors must request access by ringing the door chime. The door is locked at all times when she is elsewhere on the ship.
NPC Listing · USS Gorkon Crew Manifest · Crew History
Mission Spec.
Cory Stoyer
Chief Sec/Tac
Samira Neathler
Chief Operations
Jona ch'Ranni
Asst. Chief Science
Arlo Thornton
Genkos Adea
Corliss Fortune
Jo Marshall
Ghant Xerix
Asst. Chief Sec/Tac
James Colquhoun
SCE Liaison
T. MacFarlane
Research Coord.
Ayiana Sevo
Medical Officer
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Independence-A Alumni
StarBase 118 Ops Alumni
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ESPN reports that during a series of closed-door meetings among NFL team owners, executives, and players some progress has been made in determining the direction of the league. Players want the right to protest during the anthem, while team owners are more hesitant. After a week of argument, debate, and repeatedly calling black players the wrong names, the most inappropriate comment of all came from Houston Texans owner Bob McNair.
“We can’t have the inmates running the prison,” said McNair, a multimillion-dollar Trump campaign contributor, according to an ESPN report about the conference.
NFL executive and former player Troy Vincent reportedly took the most offense to the comment, engaging in heated back-and-forth with McNair and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones—a hardliner against NFL players kneeling.
McNair later apologized to Vincent, per ESPN. McNair doesn’t deny what he said, he only “feels horrible and that his words weren’t meant to be taken literally.”
Additionally, the report observed how Jones and Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder were openly angry with San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York for allowing ex-quarterback Colin Kaepernick to kneel a year ago, kicking off the league’s national anthem “crisis.”
On Friday morning, the Texans released a statement from McNair: “I regret that I used that expression. I never meant to offend anyone and I was not referring to our players,” he said. “I used a figure of speech that was never intended to be taken literally. I would never characterize our players or our league that way and I apologize to anyone who was offended by it.”
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Your privacy is important to WIN Reality, LLC dba WIN and its subsidiaries (“WIN”, “we”, “our”, or “us”), and WIN is committed to the protection of your personal information. Our Privacy Policy exists to help you understand what information WIN collects, how we collect and use it, and what choices you have. To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate our privacy and security guidelines to WIN employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within the company. Please read this Privacy Policy before visiting our websites, accessing our services, or providing any personal information to WIN. If you do not wish to have your information used and disclosed as provided in this Privacy Policy, please refrain from providing your information and/or delete the information you may have submitted in the past. In doing so, please understand that your access to information, services and other benefits may be substantially limited. Further assistance is available via email to support@winreality.com.
If you use WIN’s products or services, further information may also be provided in your contract with us. If you are an employee, worker or contractor of WIN, the information about how we handle your personal information is available in the WIN Handbook. With respect to employees based in Europe, we are committed to cooperating with EU data protection authorities (DPAs) and comply with the advice given by such authorities with regard to human resources data transferred from the EU in the context of the employment relationship. We do not collect social security or equivalent national tax ID numbers, except for employment purposes. If you are a prospective employee or job applicant of WIN, we will provide you with information about how we handle your personal information for recruitment purposes. This will be provided to you if you commence any of our recruitment initiatives.
1. Collection and Use of Personal Information
Personal information is data relating to a person that can be used to help uniquely identify them, either directly or indirectly. You may be asked to provide personal information when in contact with WIN. If you do not provide us with certain requested personal information we may not be able to provide you with some or all of WIN’s products and services.
If you are a representative of a corporate entity, such as a professional sports organization, then WIN may use your personal information to provide and customize our products and services, and send you marketing communications related to our products and services.
For all winreality.com users, we may use your data for purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve WIN’s products, services, and customer communications. WIN and its partners may share personal information and use it as described in this Privacy Policy. Such information may be combined with other information to provide and improve products, services, content, and advertising. This Privacy Policy does not cover and is not intended to restrict what we do with data that is aggregated and anonymized, so it is no longer associated with a personally identifiable user.
Where you are an individual (i.e., not a representative of a corporate entity) and have consented to us using your personal data for marketing purposes, we may use your information to conduct marketing and data analysis or to send you updates and news concerning WIN and its business partners. If at any time after you have consented to us using your information for marketing purposes you wish us to stop using your information for these purposes, please email us at support@winreality.com.
When you visit our website(s), download or install a software application, create a registered user account, purchase or register a product, complete a survey, or download a software update, we may collect information, including but not limited to: name, mailing address, phone number, email address, athlete profile information (as described in Section 3 below), contact preferences, credit card information and payment history.
We may also collect such information when you contact us in person (for example, at clinics, conferences, workshops, seminars and other events), via telephone, facsimile or email. When you send us an email, that address will be recorded automatically for purposes of replying to your email. If you represent a corporate entity, such as a professional sports organization, by providing your email address, you are subscribing to our electronic newsletter and product updates, which may include information about new features and new services. You may unsubscribe from this content by following the steps detailed in the email footer or by contacting support@winreality.com.
We may receive and store certain types of website usage information when you visit our websites. Website usage information helps us determine how visitors arrive, what type of content is most popular and which visitors are interested in particular content and advertising. We may collect the page visited, the time, the source of the request, the type of browser making the request, the preceding page view and other information about your engagement with our site and services. We may also collect your IP address and your Device Identifier. A Device Identifier is a number automatically assigned to the computer, cell phone or tablet used to access the Internet. We may associate your Device Identifier with the personal information you provide.
When you browse our website(s), we may collect information about you, regardless of whether you have created a registered user account. However, if you choose to access our websites anonymously, we may not be able to provide you with particular products or services. We collect and store personal information if you provide any such personal information, register as a user, provide details at an event, complete a survey or supply personal details through any other form of correspondence. WIN uses this information to provide products and services, as well as for billing, identification, authentication, products and services improvement, contact and research purposes. This information may include: date, time, computer identity, crash data, device type and setting, operating system, language, region, log preferences, registration key, license level, license code, license code status, code registration date, last validation date, Ethernet address, IP address, MAC address, licensed software name and version, OS version, and any other information about user actions required to improve, support and maintain our software.
3. Athlete Profile Pages
These pages may contain and therefore collect: name, home and email addresses, phone number, school (name, city and state), graduation year, parent/guardian information (name, relation, email and phone), age, birth date, photograph, height, weight, jersey number, Twitter handle, sports position, performance statistics, speed and strength information, sports awards, sports videos featuring the athlete, and other athlete profile information, as may be updated from time to time. This information can be accessed by the athlete, coaches and team administrators. The general public may have limited access to athlete profile information based on administrator selected privacy settings. Home and email addresses, phone number, parent/guardian information (name, relation, email and phone), age, birth date, graduation year and sports awards are not available to the general public by default.
4. Data Storage
WIN uses third-party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage and related technology required to run the WIN website, and such third-party vendors may collect and store your data on behalf of WIN. WIN owns the code, databases and all rights therein. WIN incorporates reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your personal information. However, no data transmission over the Internet, wireless transmission, or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that WIN cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit via its websites and/or products, and you do so at your own risk. The websites are general audience websites.
5. Disclosures to Third Parties
There are circumstances where we may wish to disclose or are compelled to disclose your personal data to third parties. We may share your personal information with: our subsidiaries, branches or associated offices, our partners, vendors, licensees, agents, representatives, distributors, independent contractors, legal advisors, our other professional advisors, and/or to any other third party where you have provided your permission.
Any disclosure to third parties will only take place in accordance with the applicable law and for the purposes listed. These scenarios include disclosure: (1) as required to provide products or services you’ve requested; (2) in order to provide partner-sponsored feature enhancements; (3) when necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms and Conditions of Use, or as otherwise required by law; (4) on a temporary or permanent basis for the purposes of a joint venture, collaboration, financing, sale, merger, reorganization, change of legal form, dissolution or similar event (in the event we are acquired by or merge with another company, you will be notified before your information is transferred); (5) to protect the security or integrity of our business, including our databases and systems, and for business continuity reasons; (6) to our legal advisors who may need to manage or litigate a claim; and (7) for any other purpose when we have your permission.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under age thirteen (13) (or the otherwise applicable age of digital consent in any particular jurisdiction). Children under the applicable age of digital consent are not permitted to use our websites and services, and must request a team adult, parent or guardian provide any personal data in connection with the site and/or services. We will delete any information later determined to have been collected from an underage user. Coaches and Account Administrators may add underage users to a team roster and/or direct invite codes to such users only with express written consent from a parent or legal guardian. WIN is not liable for obtaining such consent on behalf of a team.
7. Web Beacons
Our website contains electronic images (generally, single-pixel .gif images) called “web beacons.” Web beacons allow WIN and third parties to monitor and collect information about the viewer of the web page, web-based document, email message or other communication, such as the type of browser requesting the web beacon, the Device Identifier that the web beacon is sent to, and the time the web beacon was viewed. WIN uses web beacons to count web browsers, visits and page views. It also uses beacons to monitor traffic and conversion patterns, to personalize your experience, including advertising and content, and to determine whether or not messages were opened, links were clicked or notifications/offers were acted upon.
A “cookie” is a small amount of data that often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. When you access this website, cookies may be sent to your web browser and stored on your computer or mobile device. We use cookies to record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor our websites to your interests. Information supplied by cookies can help us to understand the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. It also helps us to recognize when you are signed in to your WIN account and to provide a more personalized experience. Additionally, WIN uses cookies to serve some targeted advertising. To help promote WIN teams and athletes, we sometimes embed content from social media and other third-party websites. These may include YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, SoundCloud, Vine, Instagram, Pinterest and Flickr. As a result, when you visit a page containing such content, you may be presented with cookies from these websites and these third-party cookies may track your use of the WIN website. WIN does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party’s website for more information.
9. Hosted Service Partners and Their Privacy Options
Our major network advertising partners include Facebook, Google, Twitter, LiveRamp, Amobee, and their respective advertising networks. These partners may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. If you wish to restrict, remove or refuse to accept cookies which are set by any website (including this website), you should do this through the browser settings for each browser you use to access the Internet. The Help function within your browser should tell you how to do so. For further information about how to restrict, remove, and refuse to accept cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
You can opt out of Facebook collection here. You can opt out of Google analytics here, and adjust other Google privacy settings here. Twitter also uses conversion tracking and tailored audience products for advertisements. You can modify your Twitter privacy settings here. You can opt out of LiveRamp here. You can opt out of Amobee here. Our website may also provide hyperlinks to other websites owned and controlled by others. WIN is not responsible for the privacy practices of any website that it does not own or otherwise control, and you should read the privacy policies of websites owned and controlled by others before deciding whether to proceed.
10. Tracking
WIN’s website does not respond to “do not track” settings in browsers.
11. Online Training
Online Training Sessions are governed by the privacy policy of a separate company, Citrix. You can find their privacy policy here.
12. Messaging and Notifications
WIN’s private messaging tools (“WIN Messaging”) are available to WIN subscribers. Messages may be between one sender and one or more recipients. WIN Messaging enables users to have conversations with individual athletes and coaches, custom groups, or the whole team on the same WIN roster. WIN Messaging is intended for use that includes, but is not limited to, sending reminders about practice times, requesting feedback from the team, discussing game strategy, or sharing links to training resources.
When a message is sent, all participants in the conversation (except the sender) receive a notification within WIN Messaging that they have a new unread message.
Once a message is deleted from the sender’s personal account, it is deleted from the recipient(s’) account(s) as well. Neither the recipient nor the sender is then able to see the message. Once the message is deleted, the action cannot be undone. Any information the sender submits through messaging, however, may be passed along by the recipient without the sender’s knowledge. This may occur by forwarding the notification email or text, or capturing and forwarding a screenshot of the message(s) prior to deletion.
WIN supports the privacy and competitiveness of teams by requiring authentication to view the messages and files shared within a specific team. WIN reserves the right, but is not obligated to, disclose any information if, in its sole opinion, WIN suspects or has reason to suspect that the information involves a party who may be the victim of harassment in any form. Information may be disclosed to authorities that WIN, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate to handle such disclosure. Appropriate authorities may include, without limitation, law enforcement agencies, child protection agencies, or court officials. Additionally, WIN reserves the right to divulge the contents of a communication to an addressee or intended recipient of such communication. Given this, even if both the sender and recipient(s) deleted their message(s), conversation(s) directed at either party may be provided to the individual at either party’s request.
We may also use aggregated Messaging information for purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve WIN’s products, services, and customer communications. WIN will not share with any partners any information provided via Messaging, except on aggregate, unless explicitly approved by the team admin.
We reserve the right to access Messaging information when necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, including suspected fraud, harassment, and threats to the safety of any person, as well as violations of our Terms and Conditions of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
Your personal information will be retained for as long as it is necessary to carry out the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy (unless longer retention is required by applicable law). However, we will not retain any of your personal information beyond this period and the retention of your personal information will be subject to periodic review. We may keep an anonymized form of your personal information, which will no longer refer to you, for statistical purposes without time limits, to the extent that we have a legitimate and lawful interest in doing so.
14. Confidentiality and Security
WIN is committed to seeking to safeguard all personal information that you provide to us; seeking to ensure that it remains confidential and secure; and taking all reasonable steps to ensure that personal privacy is respected. All our data is stored in written or electronic form on our servers and computers and in various physical locations. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information from misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, and loss or corruption by computer viruses and other sources of harm. We limit access to personal information to those staff members, joint venture partners, subsidiary companies and third parties who need to know that information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
15. Compliance with Privacy Laws
WIN complies with the data protection and privacy laws to which it is subject. You should satisfy yourself that you are familiar with those laws, including any exceptions which may apply under them. You should also be aware that privacy laws in various jurisdictions may change from time to time. Except to the extent expressly stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy, WIN accepts no obligations with respect to the handling of personal information other than those mandated by law in the country which has or countries which have jurisdiction over WIN in any given circumstances.
16. Grounds for Processing in the EU/EEA
If you are in the European Union and/or European Economic Area, to process your data lawfully we need to rely on one or more valid legal grounds. The grounds we may rely upon include: (1) your consent to particular processing activities. For example, where you have consented to us using your information for marketing purposes; (2) our legitimate interests as a business (except where your interests or fundamental rights override these). For example, it is within our legitimate interests to use your data to send you our electronic newsletter and product updates if you represent a corporate entity (unless you have unsubscribed); (3) our compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject. For example, we have a duty to investigate and respond to complaints made against us and may need to process your personal information as part of such investigation; or (4) if you are a customer, or are representing a customer, because processing your personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract.
17. Your EU/EEA Data Protection Rights
Please contact us at support@winreality.com cc: legal@wirnreality.com any time to exercise any of your data protection rights. Data protection law applicable to individuals in the European Union and/or European Economic Area provides individuals with certain rights, including the right to access, rectify, withdraw consent, erase, restrict, transport, and object to the processing of their personal information. Individuals also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant information protection authority if they believe that their personal information is not being processed in accordance with the law. Further information about your rights is set out below:
Right to obtain a copy of your personal information. You may have the right to obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Right to rectification. You may request that we rectify any inaccurate and/or complete any incomplete personal information. If we disagree and believe the information to be accurate and complete, we will advise you and include a notation on the record that you dispute the information’s accuracy. We will respond to your request to correct or supplement your personal information within a reasonable time period and, in any event, within any time period specified in relevant laws.
Right to withdraw consent. You may, as permitted by law, withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information at any time. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your previous consent. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, you may not be able to benefit from certain service features for which the processing of your personal information is essential.
Right to object to processing. You may, as permitted by law, request that we stop processing your personal information. You also have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
Right to erasure. You may request that we erase your personal information and we will comply, unless there is a lawful reason for not doing so.
Your right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. We suggest that you contact us about any questions or if you have a complaint in relation to how we process your personal information. However, you do have the right to contact the relevant supervisory authority in the relevant country directly. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk.
18. International Transfer of Personal Data
Individuals in the European Union should be aware that WIN may transfer your personal data to a third party in countries outside the EU for further processing in accordance with the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. In particular, your personal data may be transferred throughout the WIN group and to our outsourced service providers located abroad. In these circumstances, we will, as required by applicable law, ensure that your privacy rights are adequately protected by appropriate technical, organization, contractual or other lawful means. Please see Section 19 below or contact WIN’s Data Protection Officer (details set out below) for further information about the safeguards which we have put in place to protect your personal data and privacy rights in these circumstances.
19. EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield
WIN’s U.S. entities, including WIN Reality, LLC. dba WIN, comply with both the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks, as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce, regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States, pursuant to the Privacy Shield. WIN is committed to subjecting all personal data received from European Union (EU) member countries and Switzerland, in reliance on the Privacy Shield Frameworks, to the Framework’s applicable Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield List.
WIN acknowledges the right of EU and Swiss individuals to access their data pursuant to the Privacy Shield. Individuals wishing to exercise this right may do so by contacting us at support@WIN.com cc: legal@WIN.com. Please note certain information may be under the control of a club or team and you may be directed to contact your organization’s account administrator for assistance.
WIN will be responsible for the processing of personal data it receives under the Privacy Shield Frameworks, and will subsequently transfer such data to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. (Information on third parties is provided in section 5 of this Privacy Policy.) WIN complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Frameworks, WIN will be subject to the regulatory investigative and enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, WIN may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
In compliance with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Principles, WIN commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information.
WIN has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the Privacy Shield Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism, the BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD, operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus located in the United States. If you do not receive timely acknowledgement of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit http://www.bbb.org/EU-privacy-shield/for-eu-consumers for more information and to file a complaint. The services of BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD are provided at no cost to you.
Finally, as a last resort and under limited circumstances, EU and Swiss individuals with residual privacy complaints may invoke a binding arbitration option before the Privacy Shield Panel.
20. California Privacy Rights
Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83 (2006) permits users of our websites that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to legal@winreality.com or write us at: 4200 N Lamar Blvd, Suite 150, Austin, TX 78756
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Passengers recount V/Line train and truck crash as state government comes under fire
6:48pm Jul 14, 2016
Passengers in the V/Line train that derailed after colliding with a truck in Victoria’s south-west yesterday have recounted the ordeal, as the state government faces blame over failing to install boom gates.
The collision happened about 3.45pm at the Phalps Road crossing at Pirron Yallock, near Colac, when a Warrnambool-bound passenger train carrying 100 people hit the truck.
“I said, ‘Oh my god, we’ve derailed’ and then I looked out and saw the truck and it was scattered all over the road,’” Cheryl Scully told 9NEWS.
The operation to recover the train and damaged truck is expected to keep the line closed for four days. (9NEWS)
“It was just a miracle that everyone survived.”
Ms Scully said she saw the truck’s driver, Keith McPherson, bleeding by the train tracks.
James Boyd, who was due to receive stockfeed from the truck, rushed to help Mr McPherson, who is in a serious condition at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
The state government has come under fire over upgrade delays to the site. (9NEWS)
“He had a bit of movement in his hands, so we knew he was conscious. I just rang Triple Zero straight away,” Mr Boyd said.
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Six other passengers were taken to Colac Hospital, and were discharged earlier today.
A total of nineteen people, including the train driver, were assessed at the scene.
Upgrades to the level crossing were meant to have been fast-tracked 17 months ago, 9NEWS understands.
Boom gates and warning signals were promised for the crossing in February last year, with the state government committing $2 million in extra funds to complete the work faster.
The collision occurred at Pirron Yallock, near Colac. (9NEWS)
Transport Minister Jacinta Allan said the day was “not for politics”.
“There is a man in hospital in a serious condition,” she said.
The crossing’s isolation made it “a bit of a task to get power to the site”, Ms Allan added.
“It’s a tough reminder about the need to travel safely around level crossings,” she said.
In April, Road Safety Minister Luke Donnellan said the early works for power supply to the site were finished and site works were due to start in June.
V/Line CEO Garry Liddle said the works were expected to be finished by the end of the year.
“It’s a sad day really, that the civil design for this crossing has been done, the signal design is about to start and the actual works will be finished by Christmas,” he said.
The site is categorised as a "passive crossing", with stop signs but no boom gates or flashing lights.
The operation to recover the train and the damaged rig is expected to keep the line closed for at least four days.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau estimates an investigation will be completed within 12 months.
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Seven years ago, Jaxon Kane enlisted in the army and shattered my heart. Now, he's back.
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The spirited, passionate girl he first fell in love with no longer exists. I live as a shadow of my former self, a shell of damaged dreams and unfulfilled potential.
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Gina Azzi writes Contemporary Romance (new adult, military, second chance, sports) with relatable, genuine characters experiencing real life love, friendships, and obstacles. She is the author of The Kane Brothers Series, The College Pact Series (relaunching Summer 2019) and Corner of Ocean and Bay. All of her books can be read as stand-alones.
A Jersey girl at heart, Gina has spent her twenties traveling the world, living and working abroad, before settling down in Ontario, Canada with her husband and three children. She's a voracious reader, daydreamer, and coffee enthusiast who loves meeting new people. Connect with her on social media or through ginaazzi.com.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Too long apart
9 March 2019 - Published on Amazon.com
I hate long separations and this one was seven years. He went to war and she had something traumatic happen to her and it is a trigger for most people so be warned. I knew though from the beginning and most people will figure it out long before you know for sure. It's sad and she Totally shut her life off for seven years. He loved her and wanted her back but I wasn't sure if I did. He just annoyed me at first but he did grow on me. They both made mistakes and they both paid for them. There wasn't a resolution really at the end. I wanted to see her totally accept him at the end but you dont. I did love the authors writing style and I will try her again. There is only kissing in the book. I don't know if I will read Carter's story which is next because he was a man ho but who knows. Good story, solid writing. Celibacy for him is unclear. I do believe he loved her though at the end. And she always loved him.
5.0 out of 5 stars Can a second chance at love heal a broken and shattered heart or are the walls built to guard her heart to much for Jax to break
31 July 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
This was my first time reading anything from Ms. Azzi and I have to say her writing is amazing. This story was heartbreaking at times and at other times it was so comforting. Jax and Evie have a love that began during their senior year of high school. They both have dreams and Jax believes that neither of them can accomplish their dreams together, so he leaves Evie with the desire of the Army in his heart and believing that Evie will reach up and become everything she ever dreamed of. Fast forward seven years and Jax returns home with an injured shoulder and enough nightmares of his time in the Army to last him a lifetime. He expects to see his family and his hometown what he doesn't expect to find, to see is Evie, his Evie looking like a shell of the girl that he loves. Jax is so confused as to what happened to her, why did she stay? Why did she give up on her dreams? Jax seeks her out but Evie is guarded and closed off, hardly the girl he left behind. As time goes on Jax relives his past and trauma hoping that she will give them another chance. But when secrets are revealed and all truths come to light will Evie give Jax a second chance or will she keep her walls up and guard her heart against the man that she fears can literally destroy her?
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4.0 out of 5 stars A sweet and emotional romance
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Rescuing Broken is the first book in the Kane Brothers series. Each of the books can stand alone as they are interconnected but featuring different couples. Gina Azzi is a new author to me. I bought this book because I think the cover is gorgeous and the plot sounded intriguing. Sometimes when I pick up a book based on the cover I find myself disappointed because what's inside doesn't meet my expectations. In this case though, it did. I really enjoyed this one. It deals with emotional issues and the military which I think the author did a great job at conveying (my husband is a former marine so I totally get what Jax is going through). Some moments were a bit frustrating as I wanted Evie to open up much sooner about her problems, but it worked well in terms of their blossoming relationship a second time around. With that, this is a great book, one that touched my heart in many ways, and I would definitely recommend it to romance fans. The relationship between Evie and Jax is not new as they were former flames in high school So it's not just an emotional military romance but a second chance romance too.
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This story was so enthralling. I know someone who experienced a similar trauma and Evie could have been my friend. Both survived and both notified the police. No one has the right to hurt others this way.
I love this author's style and her character development. Well done.
2.0 out of 5 stars The book has an unfulfilled potential
The book started great with interesting broken people. It had lots of potential. But somewhere in the middle of the book the story just didn't go anywhere. They repeated the same phrases again and again. Actually Jax's story was left behind and didn't develop anymore.
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Android News / All News / Amazon Opens Up Alexa Skill Notifications To More Developers
Amazon Opens Up Alexa Skill Notifications To More Developers
By Justin Diaz
Amazon is opening up Alexa skill notifications to more developers as of today, though it is worth mentioning that developers who are interested in this opportunity to utilize the notifications for Alexa skills will need to apply to be a part of the program. Notifications for Alexa skills aren't completely new as there are some apps which already utilize the new functionality, such as Dominos which will alert you to the status of your incoming pizza order.
Amazon plans to roll out the Alexa skill notifications to most users starting in the first quarter of 2018, so this extension of supported developers aims to really crack down and help Amazon put the finishing touches on the feature before its public release next year. If developers are interested in applying to utilize the notifications for their skills there is only a short survey that has to be taken and Amazon says it would reveal those surveys and then reply back to the developer with the subset of skills that apply to the use case of the notification function and which meet the criteria and requirements.
If you're unclear on what those requirements are, Amazon seems to make it pretty clear what it won't tolerate for the use of notifications, and this pretty much breaks down to not using skill notification for promotional purposes or for advertising of any kind, and this is likely because Amazon feels like it would be an invasion of privacy for the user. That said Amazon does want the notifications for these skills to be personalized to the user and Amazon wants the notifications to be based on transactions like the status of a pizza order as described above. This means that any developers interested in using the notifications will want to consider whether or not their skill fits within that guideline, though Amazon does not state that the notification is required to be based on a transaction, just that it prefers it. These notifications will work for Amazon's line up of Echo devices such as the Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, and third-party Alexa-powered speakers. Amazon doesn't mention whether or not this would be compatible with the Alexa app that can be installed on smartphones.
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Shootings In America Today
Nolan Myler, Staff Writer|October 29, 2019
The clear rise in mass shootings has drawn attention to the apparent holes in the laws and regulations concerning firearms. These holes, although seemingly inconsequential, have paved the way for killers to freely act upon their obsessive urges. America has found itself split, with one side of the population feeling that the second amendment must stay strong and powerful, while the other feels that stricter gun laws would make our schools and the general public safer. As we find ourselves again at a crossroad, the answer seems increasingly harder to agree upon.
A common belief, no matter the stance one has on guns, is that mental health plays a huge role in a majority of mass shootings that take place in the US. According to the Los Angeles Times, from 1900-2017 59% of the shooters responsible for the last 185 mass public shootings have suffered from a severe mental illness. Many of these shooters are undiagnosed, or off of their meds, and are suffering from severe symptoms caused by their illness.
“The hardest part to understand was kids killing kids””
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Although, realistically, it is not their fault they suffer from these horrible ailments, a clear problem is how they are purchasing firearms. It is truly scary how easy it is for an American, over the age of 18, to get their hands on, not only a gun, but an automatic rifle. And without more thorough background checks, we will continue to see attacks, and we will continue to mourn the deaths of hundreds every year.
It is odd how Americans fear shootings, yet provide no support, or actions towards changing the present situation. According to ABS News, 6 out of 10 people fear a mass shooting in their community, and 58% believe stricter gun laws would result in a safer environment. 76% feel that the monitoring and treatment of mental health would lower the number of shootings drastically.
No matter the reason, no matter the illness of the shooter, mass killing is a large problem in our broken society today. Innocent lives are being taken to protect a law that allows these killers to commit horrifying acts. A change in gun laws and regulations must be struck, and agreed upon, or we will continue to allow our fellow Americans to die.
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Black man who was held at gunpoint by white officers while picking up trash speaks out
Erykah Rose
A Black man who had guns pointed at him while he was cleaning his front yard has spoken out about the traumatic incident.
Zayn Atkinson, 26, says that he hasn't slept well since the incident took place last month. The video footage, captured by Atkins' neighbor immediately went viral.
"I thought that once the firearm was out that that meant that he was going to try to kill me," Atkinson told "Good Morning America" in an interview airing Friday. "It was a frightening experience. I didn't know what else to do besides, you know, to fight with my voice and to practice my rights, which were thoroughly being breached."
Atkinson was holding a bucket and a metal trash picker in front in his front yard Mar. 1. Atkinson, who lives in a predominantly white area, was asked to identify himself as police swarmed him and pointed guns.
He said he gave the officer his ID and key card for the building.
"I had not done anything illegal therefore there was no reason for me to comply," Atkinson told 'Good Morning America. "I continued to go back to work and pick up trash and clean up my grounds."
Atkinson also told GMA that he believes that the event was racially motivated:
"I believe that this man had approached me because I'm a Black male in an all white town. … I thoroughly believe I was profiled," Atkinson said. "Not only that you know I'm a Black man, I have dreads. At the time I had a beard and I was wearing raggedy clothes."
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"I was suffering with a lot of anxiety, a lot of depression. I was having very strange dreams and couldn't really sleep," Atkinson said.
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Jeffrey Buck: How often did you and your family visit Detroit?
Paul Feig: The only time we really went to downtown Detroit was to go to Greektown like everybody else in the world. We didn’t spend too much time downtown. My dad, while I was growing up…actually not when I was growing up, before they had me, even before he met my mom owned his first store, a pawn shop. It was down in Cass Corridor. He was in like the roughest part of Detroit. When he got out of there and moved his business to the East Side he was always kind of hesitant to go back down to Detroit. So consequently, we never went down there that much except to go to Greektown. But the irony was when I went back to Michigan, on a book tour a number of years ago, I was suddenly like gosh I never used to hang out in downtown Detroit, this time I just want to hang out down there this whole time. And I did and it was a lot of fun discovering Detroit and finding the fun places, cool restaurants and just kind of seeing it again. I used to go down to the Fisher Theatre too and we had a cottage in Canada. Right outside of Windsor. So we drove through Detroit a lot. So we were only going through it and by it. But yeah never really spent too much time downtown, which was unfortunate.
JB: What was your reasoning for transferring from Wayne State?
PF: I wanted to get into showbiz my whole life; I was in theatre and all that. Coming up on the summer of my freshman year in college I decided I wanted to try and make it as an actor in Hollywood. I got a job as a tour guide at Universal Studios, so I drove out to L.A. and worked that summer at Universal Studios and went back to do my sophomore year at Wayne State. When I was out as a tour guide I discovered the USC film school, found out about it and decided I wanted to go there. While doing my sophomore year at Wayne State I applied to USC film school and got in so that’s when I headed off. When I was at Wayne State I was a communications major, but kind of quickly realized I wanted to go and train where I could get the most kind of professional training in a place that knew the industry. It’s one thing to write and make movies in Detroit, it’s another thing to kind of learn how the actual business works and the politics of the business. That’s when I got out here in the fall of ’82 and have been out here ever since. So I’ve been out here for 30 years.
JB: When you left Wayne State, was it your goal to be in front of the camera? Or behind?
PF: I wanted to be in front of the camera. My goal was to be like Woody Allen, where I would be writing, directing and starring in my own movies so I would be both in front and behind, and I did that. Because when I went to film school I kind of went in as an actor trying to learn about filmmaking, but once I graduated I started doing standup comedy and did that professionally and then had a pretty long run as an actor for about fifteen years where I made my living being an actor. And I actually did make a movie, a really low budget feature that I wrote, directed and starred in that still hasn’t been released but it really showed me that I was better behind the camera. There’s just more to do and I like the control of it more. When you’re an actor there are only so many things you can do because you’re either right for a role or you’re not. But if you’re a director or a writer you can kind of write or direct about anything and it’s all just about whether you hire good people and actors and can get them to be their best. And that’s what I love because I understand actors, having been one, that I think that what I really have going for me is I really know how to work with actors. I really know how to get the best performances out of them and make a really safe environment for them; make them comfortable, so they can do their best work. Then [I] shoot them correctly and make sure the script is servicing them well so they can do their best. I like the challenge of that. As much as I love acting still, [and] some people still put me in some things, I don’t actively pursue it because I get more satisfaction out of what I do now.
JB: Did you know anyone the summer you worked in Hollywood at Universal Studios?
PF: No, I didn’t know a soul. My dad was kind of distant friends with this guy that lived out here who was a manager. Your older readers may possibly remember this: there was an infamous bad show that got cancelled pretty quickly called “Pink Lady and Jeff.” It starred this comedian Jeff Altman and these two Japanese women who were known as Pink Lady and my dad’s friend managed Pink Lady. So when I told my dad I wanted to figure out this thing about moving to LA and get into the business, he called him up to get some advice. The only thing the guy ever did for me was send me a copy of Daily Variety which had a production chart in the back that had the numbers and addresses to all of the movie studios. So I called all of the movie studios seeing if they needed actors because I had no idea how the business worked and obviously they all thought I was crazy or said, “no, we need like CPAs,” and stuff like that. But the last one I called was Universal Studios and they said well we’re only looking for tour guides and as a kid I had taken the tour and also at the end of most universal movies, like Animal House and Blues Brothers, there was a thing at the end which was like, “When in Hollywood take the Universal Tour.” And so to me it was like getting into showbiz so I said “yeah, I’ll do it, I’ll come out.” So I had to drive out after my last final. I took my last final and had to get out to LA in 36 hours, so my friend, who lived next-door, and I drove my stuff out and I did the interview and got hired into the training program. I was in the training program for two weeks and then from that they accepted me into the actual tour guide position. So then I stayed out here but I didn’t know anybody out here at all.
JB: What was your first car?
PF: My grandma gave me her Plymouth Fury, which was like the world’s biggest car ever. It was this big wide giant thing. I was terrified to drive because I went to Chippewa Valley High School and the road, Utica Road; I forget if it was Utica Road, I think it was. It was a super windy, two-way street and with that car it absolutely terrified me to drive down that road. I remember even doing driver’s education and having to deal with that road. I learned a good lesson early driving an enormous car on a very windy road.
JB: Do you remember what car you drove out to California? Was it the same car or something else?
PF: By that point I had this little Ford Mustang, when they made the real small Mustangs that weren’t cool anymore. It had no air conditioning or anything so when I got out here it turned out to be like the hottest summer in decades out here. I was absolutely dying in that car and we eventually put in an after-the-fact air conditioner which is always like the worst way to do it and it never worked. So I definitely sweat my way through that summer.
JB: Do you travel back to Michigan at all?
PF: Not that often but I do get in, [and it’s] generally work-related more often than not. Mainly for book tours I’ve been back there. I miss it. I love going back and whenever I do I really go around and visit the old places and stuff like that. I don’t get back as much as I’d like to.
JB: Were you a Detroit sports fan?
PF: I was a big Tigers fan. I was a big Red Wings fan back then because of Gordie Howe, and the kind of glory days of that era. I used to go to Tiger stadium, the old Tiger Stadium a bunch, which was always kind of scary as a kid because it was so old and the parking was so weird down there. I went to a number of Pistons games back when it was like Bob Lanier and those guys playing. I used to love going to Cobo Hall because I was a big car nut back then, so my favorite event in Detroit was always the AutoRama, They always used to do that at Cobo Hall, not sure if they still do. I think they would. But it wasn’t like going to the auto show; it was funny cars and custom cars. There were always some movie stars that would come down and make appearances and sign autographs. Once I got Leonard Nimoy’s autograph. You would kind of get these celebrities that would go around and make appearances and sign autographs. So to me that was like the best thing ever and when they would roll around I would get very excited. I felt like I was a part of Hollywood when I went down to that.
JB: I’ve read you’ve used a lot of stuff from your childhood in the Freaks and Geeks series. Can you tell us about that?
PF: I mean really everything, the references… I say they live in Chippewa, Michigan because of Chippewa Valley. The thing is filled with references to Parkway Plaza which was the shopping center by our house where we went to see movies all of the time. Faygo pop is in the show and just a lot of references to stuff back there. And we really tried to recreate the look of Mount Clemons in the show. We based the whole school, the politics of the school, and the layout of the school on Chippewa Valley. We had a smoking patio there. We even had one at our junior high, so we recreated that but we weren’t allowed to call it that on Freaks and Geeks so we just referred to it as the patio where the freaks hung out. It was all based on the school back there. The whole dynamics of that show are completely based on my childhood in Mount Clemons.
JB: Do you think you will ever make a movie or comic book with those characters?
PF: I don’t know. Never say never. I’m not sure. There’s always been talk once in awhile about a reunion or to reboot the show with a different cast. My feeling is like, I’m so happy with it, it came out so well that it would have to be a really great idea to open that up and take the chance of ruining the memory of it. But again I don’t count it out. I mean everyone from it is famous now so that would be the biggest thing. I don’t think we could afford them. I never rule out comic books or that kind of thing. But at the moment I’m so busy with so many other projects. I kind of want to let that one lie because I’m really proud of it and it’s still getting fans all of the time and people still watch it. Kind of like it to be what it was. Leave it alone.
JB: Is there any show you’ve directed recently that’s your favorite?
PF: I’ve loved all of the shows I’ve worked on. I’ve got to work on some great ones. I really liked working on ‘Nurse Jackie.’ I had a lot of fun on that one because I got to experiment more with the camera and they were open to a little more filmy the way I shot it. But “The Office” was just so much fun to shoot because the cast is so great — working with Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski and the whole gang. It was just so much fun. I mean I guess I’ve been really lucky. I’ve gotten to work on [some] really good shows, it just happens that my agent has steered me to good shows. So I’m sort of proud of them all!
Be sure to read “Part II” of Paul’s interview with the Spine tomorrow when he tackles questions like what movies did he watch as a kid, who’s his favorite Detroit musician & athlete and what does he miss most about Michigan.
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Army says 25 soldiers jailed and a large quantity of arms seized in West African nation plagued by drug trafficking.
Guinea-Bissau, in West Africa, is perennially unstable, with a history of coups and army mutinies [EPA]
Twenty-five renegade soldiers involved in an apparent coup plot in Guinea-Bissau are being detained in the capital, Bissau, and at an air base to its north, an AFP reporter says.
Arms were also reportedly seized at the homes of two soldiers arrested for taking part in Monday's attack on army headquarters which the rulers have described as a coup bid.
General Antonio Indjai, the army chief, said on Wednesday he was "staggered" by the quantity of arms found during search operations in the northern suburb of Plack 1.
The army seized 30 Kalashnikovs, three rocket-launchers, a machine-gun, six crates of shells, three crates of flamethrowers, eight bulletproof jackets and ammunition in searches witnessed by AFP.
"I am surprised to see so many weapons which would have been used to destroy our country ... I call on government to build secure armories to avoid having thousands of arms circulating outside of appropriate channels of control," Indjai said.
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Indjai announced on Monday that a coup attempt by a group of renegade soldiers had been foiled.
The army said it had arrested controversial navy chief, Rear Admiral Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, whom the US has branded a drug kingpin - as the "mastermind" of the plot.
Some observers put the mutiny down to a falling out between Indjai and Bubo Na Tchuto, who was among 25 detainees paraded before journalists on Thursday.
Bubo Na Tchuto is being detained in Mansoa, 60km north of Bissau, and the 24 others in four cells at a Bissau air base.
Another officer, General Watna Na Lai, was wounded and remains in hospital.
Bubo Na Tchuto told visiting journalists, human rights activists and non-governmental organisations he was "in good spirits".
But he criticised the conditions of his detention in a 20sq metre office at the Mansoa garrison that had been turned into a cell.
"Since I was brought here, I haven't seen my doctor, I'm suffering from high blood pressure," he said, adding that he had not been able to see his family including his wife.
"When she sends food I never get it," he said.
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In Bissau, journalists saw another 24 detainees held at the air base. Journalists were not allowed to speak to them but members of NGOs who organised the visits said they also criticised the condition of their detention "in very small, badly lit cells with filthy toilets and without running water".
"We will plead with military authorities so the conditions of their detention are improved," Luis Vaz Martins, a member of an NGO that organised the visits, said.
He said none of the prisoners had been presented to a military investigating magistrate.
"Some have minor injuries, generally bruises suffered in their arrest; they did not suffer gunshot wounds but were beaten with clubs," Vaz Martins said.
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Scott leads Texas Tech to comeback victory at the Carmel Cup
by AmateurGolf.com Staff
see also: Carmel Cup, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Sandy Scott Rankings
Sandy Scott (Texas Tech Athletics)
The Texas Tech roster looks awfully strong entering the fall season. On Sunday, the Red Raiders validated some of the favorable preseason predictions that have come their way. Texas Tech went 16 under par in the final round of the Carmel Cup at Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links and won the season-opening event.
Oklahoma was looking for a title defense this week with strong play from a pair of seniors (Quade Cummins and Garett Reband) and a pair of freshmen (Turner Hosch and Jake Holbrook). But after leading for two days at Pebble Beach, the Sooners couldn’t hold off Texas Tech.
Texas Tech made its big move in the second round with a team total that was 17 under par. Sunday’s round vaulted them to 35 under for the week. At 29 under, Oklahoma couldn’t keep up. The Sooners were only 8 under collectively in the final round.
Senior Sandy Scott led the team with a 14-under total for 54 holes, which also left him one ahead of Arkansas’ Julian Perico for medalist honors. Scott, who hails from Nairn, Scotland, was a quarterfinalist at the British Amateur over the summer. From here, he ships out to England to represent the GB&I team in the Walker Cup.
Texas Tech got an 11-under total from Andy Lopez, who tied for third. Kyle Hogan (5 under) and Jansen Smith (1 under) finished in the top 20 for the Red Raiders. Freshman Ludvig Aberg also made his college debut just two weeks after finishing T-12 in U.S. Amateur stroke play and winning his opening match.
This is Texas Tech’s first team victory in this event, but Scott joins Fredrik Nilehn (2016) and Hurly Long (2017) as Red Raiders to win the individual championship at the Carmel Cup.
According to Texas Tech Athletics, the Red Raiders led the tournament at 13-under on par 3s with a 2.82 scoring average and also on par 4s with a 3.99 average. The Red Raiders made 67 birdies as a team and were second in the eight-team tournament with 217 pars.
Information from Texas Tech Athletics used in this report
Results: Carmel Cup
1 Sandy Scott Scotland 700 70-67-65=202
2 Julian Perico Peru 500 68-68-67=203
T3 Mason Overstreet Kingfisher, OK 400 68-71-66=205
T3 Trent Phillips Inman, SC 400 67-72-66=205
T3 Andy Lopez Plano, TX 400 71-65-69=205
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Margarita Engle is a Cuban American poet, novelist, and journalist whose work has been published in many countries. She is the author of young adult nonfiction books and novels in verse including The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor Book, The Poet Slave of Cuba, Hurricane Dancers, The Firefly Letters, and Tropical Secrets. She lives in northern California.
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‘Cat-and-mouse’ for AC ride-hail drivers Some Uber drivers operate surreptitiously to avoid fines Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/2fMP0nK
The Press of Atlantic City (N.J. Published 11:09 a.m. ET Nov. 12, 2016
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ATLANTIC CITY - Joshua DeLeon earned $200 a week driving for Uber, a side job he used to buy an engagement ring for his girlfriend. Then he got a $300 ticket from Atlantic City for operating without a proper license, and he quit.
“I was under the impression this was a legal business,” said DeLeon, 29, of Egg Harbor Township. “It should be a legal process.”
Some Uber drivers operate surreptitiously to avoid fines, others are being chased by local regulators in what Atlantic City Licensing Director Dale Finch called a “cat-and-mouse game.”
Atlantic City has issued more than 300 tickets to ride-hailing drivers so far this year, Finch said.
DeLeon found himself, like many others, stuck in a legal limbo. Because ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft are unregulated in New Jersey, some municipalities consider them illegal.
While state legislators are still working on a bill to protect consumers and eliminate a patchwork of local laws, the lack of statewide regulations has created a complicated problem for the drivers, the towns and taxi companies. Taxi drivers say they pay registration and licensing fees — and have different requirements for background checks — that their new competitors don’t.
Stuck in between are people like 30-year-old Mays Landing resident Anthony Mazzone, a personal trainer at Tilton Fitness who drives for Uber on weekends.
Mazzone told the Press of Atlantic City he has “learned quick” how to avoid getting a ticket, staying away from taxi lines at certain casinos and using his app to get in contact with riders to let them know exactly where they will meet.
“That is what makes the job uncomfortable. It’s not picking people up that you don’t know. It’s not going to places where you’re unfamiliar. It’s the fact that you could be given a citation for driving a drunk person,” he said.
Other states and towns have wrestled with the legality of Uber and Lyft. Earlier this month, Pennsylvania passed a law legalizing ride-hailing companies, but not after some uncertainty over whether to allow the service. Both companies pulled out of Austin, Texas, after the city wanted to require fingerprinting for drivers.
In October, the New Jersey Assembly passed a bill that would address some concerns, including requirements regarding driver eligibility, insurance coverage and records retention. The measure still needs to be approved in the Senate and Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
Uber spokesman Craig Ewer said the company instituted measures to keep passengers safe, including photos of the driver, license plate numbers and car descriptions, and ratings for both drivers and passengers.
Ewer said the company agrees that statewide regulation would give riders and drivers “the certainty they need that ridesharing is here to stay.” He said Uber runs extensive background checks on its drivers, looking at criminal history, motor vehicle records and sex offender databases.
Ewer said Uber would leave the state, as it has left other areas, if fingerprinting were required “because they are based on incomplete data and can potentially discriminate against minority communities.”
Finch, who supports fingerprinting, said Atlantic City’s major concern is background checks.
“Uber says that they do a complete background check, and all the limos and taxis say the background check they use is not sufficient,” he said.
Finch said Atlantic City will have to come up with an ordinance if the state doesn’t take action.
Taxis and limos bring in money for the city. According to Finch, taxi drivers each pay an annual fee of $60 in addition to a $150 annual fee for a taxi medallion, which can have up to four drivers registered to it. There are 250 taxi medallions registered in the city. Limousine drivers pay an annual fee of $100.
“It’s the weekends where it’s very competitive between the limos and the taxis and now Uber, and the city’s not booming like it was, so everyone is kind of fighting for the same dollar,” Finch said.
Mercantile inspectors monitor valet lines at casinos on weekends to catch unlicensed drivers, he said.
DeLeon, an emergency room nurse, said he was stopped while picking up a client at Harrah’s Resort.
“Out of nowhere, this one valet driver said, ‘Are you an Uber driver?’ Then some guy came over and he asked for my license, but he didn’t introduce himself,” DeLeon said.
DeLeon later received two tickets in the mail. At his court date, there were seven ride-hailing drivers facing charges of operating an unlicensed limousine or taxi, he said.
Uber sent a lawyer to represent the drivers, but one of the two tickets was still imposed.
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OMA and Arup reimagine the skyscraper as a giant loop rather than a tower.
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A radical, looping structure, the headquarters of China Central Television (CCTV) stands as an antidote to the typical skyscraper. With its dramatic overhang suspended 36 stories in the air and a diagonally braced, continuous-tube frame expressing the forces of its structural system on its facade, it has become a Beijing landmark even before its completion.
Although the client is a subministry of the Chinese government and accordingly reports the official positions of the Communist Party, it broadcasts mostly a mix of comedies, dramas, and soaps. Yes, it listens to Chairman Hu Jintao; but it also must appeal to an upwardly mobile public. CCTV’s leaders see the new building as one way of grabbing their viewers’ attention.
Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) won a design competition for the project in 2002, working with Arup for a range of engineering services and in alliance with the East China Architectural Design & Research Institute (ECADI), which became the local design institute for both architecture and engineering. At that time in Beijing, there was “a vision that everything here would disappear and be replaced by a forest of skyscrapers to become the city’s new CBD,” says Ole Scheeren, OMA’s partner in charge of the project and head of the firm’s Beijing office. OMA had watched over the years as skyscrapers had devolved from their original role as catalysts of urban development to just commercial tools for maximizing profits. In the process, clients and architects had become increasingly desperate to call attention to their projects. As Scheeren puts it, the “race for height” had become pointless, as one building taller than the last was announced before the preceding one was complete. He noticed a “visual deafness” to such buildings, which look the same from all directions. OMA wanted to reengage city space in a way that would “proclaim” the building’s inner workings. It proposed a loop of interconnected activities where the “linear principle of hierarchy is dissolved in a circuit of equal parts without beginning or end, without top or bottom,” explains Scheeren.
As designed, the CCTV headquarters combines offices, space for news gathering and program development, studios for production, and facilities for broadcasting—in a continuous loop that runs through the project. The idea is to break down organizational silos and spark creativity and collaboration. The project includes a landscaped media park adjacent to the tower and a second building, called the Television Cultural Center (TVCC), which has public facilities, such as a hotel, a theater, restaurants, a ballroom, and conference rooms. A third building—circular in plan and just a few stories high—houses mechanical, electrical, and energy services for both high-rises.
Rising 768 feet, the 5.1-million-square-foot main CCTV building comprises a pair of towers sloping 6 degrees on both X and Y axes, a 9-story base connecting the two towers, and a 13-story “overhang” that connects them starting at the 36th floor. Scheeren calls the overhang an “urban plateau” that lifts space off the ground but also makes it accessible to the public. The base and towers will define a public plaza that will sit above four levels below grade. Although most of the building will be reserved for CCTV employees, the public will have access to a circuit offering glimpses of the company’s activities—from broadcasting and production to welcoming actors and celebrities. This public loop will include an observation area in the overhang with views across Beijing and even straight down onto the plaza through three circular “windows” in the floor.
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Martyrdom comes from following Christ without compromise, pope says
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — There always will be martyrs among Christians in the world, Pope Francis said.
Martyrdom “is the sign that we are on Jesus’ path; it’s a blessing from the Lord that within the people of God there is someone who gives this witness of martyrdom,” he said Dec. 11 during his weekly general audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI hall, which was decorated with a large Christmas tree and Nativity scene.
The pope continued his series of talks on the Acts of the Apostles by looking at the increasing amount of suffering and persecution the Apostle Paul faced as he spread the Gospel.
“Paul is not just an evangelizer filled with passion, the intrepid missionary among pagans who brings new Christian communities to life, he is also a suffering witness of the Risen One,” the pope said in his catechesis.
Much like Jesus, Paul faced fierce persecution in Jerusalem, and he was put in chains following his arrest on charges of preaching against the law and the temple.
While most people saw his chains as a sign of him being a criminal, the pope said, Paul saw the chains with “the eyes of faith” as a sign of his love for Jesus.
“For Paul, his faith is not a theory, an opinion about God and the world, but it is the impact of God’s love in his heart, it is love for Jesus Christ,” he said.
“Paul teaches us perseverance amid trials and the ability to see everything with the eyes of faith,” the pope said. “Let us ask the Lord today, through the apostle’s intercession, to rekindle our faith and help us be completely faithful to our vocation as Christians, as disciples of the Lord, as missionaries.”
To further underline how, even in modern times, Christians still face suffering and persecution, the pope spoke about meeting with pilgrims from Ukraine earlier that morning.
He explained how Eastern-rite Catholics in Ukraine had been persecuted for their faith under communism, “but they did not negotiate the faith.”
“In the world today, including in Europe, many Christians are being persecuted. And they give their life for their faith,” he said.
“They are persecuted with ‘white gloves,’ that is, they are pushed aside, emarginated,” the pope said. “Martyrdom is the context of a Christian, of a Christian community. There always will be martyrs among us.”
The group of pilgrims that met with Pope Francis included bishops, priests, religious and laypeople from the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo, which was celebrating the 30th anniversary of no longer having to practice the faith clandestinely under Soviet oppression.
The pope told them that their church “is the mother of many martyrs,” recalling the example of their bishop, Blessed Theodore Romzha, who was killed by the Soviet secret police in 1947 and who was beatified as a martyr by St. John Paul II in 2001.
“In the darkest hours of your history,” Pope Francis said, “he knew how to guide the people of God with evangelical wisdom and courage, a tireless man,” who, like Christ the good shepherd, gave his life for his flock, the pope said.
Pope Francis noted that many of the pilgrims’ own relatives had to risk their freedom or life in order to hand down the “teaching of the truth of Christ” to them and future generations.
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St. Timothy & St. Anastasius January 22, 2020
Apostle, was the most famous disciple of St. Paul, during the reign of Emperor Nero, and the first Bishop Of Ephesus in Asia Minor.
Venerable-martyr of Persia, suffered martyrdom A.D. 619, at the hands of Chosroas, during the reign of Heracleus, Emperor.
Clement of Ancyra Martyr
Clement of Ancyra Martyr January 23, 2020
St. Clement, Priest-Martyr, Bishop of Ancyra, lived in exile for 28 years under several persecutors and died by the sword A.D 296. - St. Agathangel, Martyr, suffered death also in the reign of Maximian and Diocletian Emperors.
St. Xenia
St. Xenia January 24, 2020
Our venerable mother, Xenia, was of a noble and famous Roman family. Her former name was Eusebia, and her parents planning her marriage, she escaped from her bridegroom and with two handmaids she fled to Alexandria for refuge.
Gregory the Theologian Bishop
Gregory the Theologian Bishop January 25, 2020
Our holy father, Gregory the Theologian of Cappadocia in Asia Minor, Archbishop of Constantinople is one of the greatest writers and poets and one of the four great doctors of the Byzantine Church. He died in A.D. 389, in the reign of Theodosius the Great: he presided in Constantinople in the Church of Holy Wisdom for 12 years. He died at the age of 80. (Confer Januar 30).
33rd Sunday After Pentecost Sunday of Zacchaeus
33rd Sunday After Pentecost Sunday of Zacchaeus January 26, 2020
Translation of the Relics of St. John Chrysostom
Translation of the Relics of St. John Chrysostom January 27, 2020
This took place in A.D. 435, (Confer January 30 and November 13.)
Ephrem the Syrian Venerable
Ephrem the Syrian Venerable January 28, 2020
Our Venerable Father, Ephrem, "Prophet of Syrians and an instrument of Holy Spirit," a great poet, orator, exegete and defensor of Orthodoxy.
Translation of the Relics of St. Ignatius
Translation of the Relics of St. Ignatius January 29, 2020
The "God-Bearer", Priest-Martyr, Bishop of Antioch. He was devoured by lions at Rome. His disciples carried his relics to Antioch into his church in the year A.D. 109, in the reign of Trajan, the persecutor. (Confer December 20).
Three Holy Hierarchs
Three Holy Hierarchs January 30, 2020
Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs, i.e., The Three Great Fathers of the church; namely St. Basil the Great,(See 1st of Jan) St. Gregory, the Theologian (See 25th of Jan) and St. John, the Chrysostom, (see 13th of Nov.) - Sy Hippolytus, Priest-Martyr. Bishop of Porto. He was put to death by drowning, under Alexander Severus, Emperor.
Cyrus and John Unmercenaries
Cyrus and John Unmercenaries January 31, 2020
SS. Cyrus and John, Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries, i.e., Physicians without remuneration: (Confer June 28.) suffered death with Athanasia and her three daughters: Theodotia, Theopista and Eudokia, in the year A.D. 292 in the reign of Diocletian.
BCW – January Vol. 65 No. 1
86th Annual Pilgrimage Cantor Form
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The Battle Between Good and Evil in the Work of Douglas Gordon
By David Ebony
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Torbjørn Rødland: The Measure, 2010, C-print, 43¼ by 55⅛ inches; at Algus Greenspon.
A refined and individualistic worldview is something that usually takes an artist many years to develop and that unfolds for the viewer over the course of several exhibitions. This seems especially apt in the field of photography, where the current glut of images makes it difficult for artists to cultivate a new and unique means of visual expression. The Norwegian-born, Los Angeles-based Torbjørn Rødland is an exception. While Rødland’s work has appeared in several exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad over the past few years, this was, surprisingly, his New York gallery solo debut. Via the 15 works on view, he conveyed an intensely personal approach to his subject matter, and a cohesive clarity of vision that appeared fresh, yet fully realized and well seasoned.
Taken over the past five years, these large and medium-size photos included widely divergent pictures of people, places and things, as well as several abstract photos of colorful collagelike constructions. The best pieces share a subtle theatricality. Partner (2008), for instance, a large (approximately 4½-by-4-foot), gorgeous black-and-white photo, shows a young Asian girl wearing an oversize men’s shirt. She crouches down to pick up a large plaster bust of Homer set on the floor. The work perhaps suggests a sociopolitical theme: Eastern youth embracing Western culture. The composition’s evocative formal attributes, such as brilliant backlighting on the left and delicate shading in the center and right, also contribute to the picture’s haunting allure.
Similarly dramatically lit and equally striking, The Measure (2010) features a small, androgynous child, shirtless and blond with a pageboy hairdo, sitting rather calmly and attentively inside a dog crate. Casually strewn atop the right-hand corner of the cage, a pair of adult trousers partially blocks the illumination from a light source near the cage door. The picture might hint at a scene of abuse, but Rødland emphasizes the child’s expression, which is mischievous rather than apprehensive.
A consistent strain of understated humor united many works in this show. One of the most melodramatic pieces, Black Ducati (2010), shows two women seated on a motorcycle. The figure riding in back is incongruously nude except for her bulky crash helmet. Twintailed Siren (2011) presents, against a solid black background, a side view of a nude model pressing an empty Starbuck’s iced coffee cup between her buttocks. A less talented photographer would no doubt highlight the vulgarity of such an image, while Rødland’s novel, deadpan approach underscores its playful absurdity.
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ASCO Updates Guideline for Sentinel Node Biopsy in Early Stage Breast Cancer; Evidence Supports Use of This Less Invasive Diagnostic in More Patients
Kirsten Goldberg
kirsten.goldberg@asco.org
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has issued new recommendations for the use of sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with early stage breast cancer. The guideline, "Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Patients with Early-Stage Breast Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update," was published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Since the Society issued its initial guideline in 2005, evidence from clinical trials now supports using this less invasive diagnostic technique in a larger group of patients. This updated guideline will enable more women with early stage breast cancer to avoid the more invasive axillary lymph node dissection, which has a greater risk of complications.
"The updated guideline incorporates new evidence from more recent studies -- nine randomized controlled trials and 13 cohort studies since 2005," said Armando Giuliano, MD, FACS, co-chair of ASCO's Expert Panel that updated the guideline. "Based on these studies, we're saying more patients can safely get sentinel node biopsy without axillary lymph node dissection. These guidelines help determine for whom sentinel node biopsy is appropriate."
Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) involves removing most lymph nodes under the arm on the same side as the breast tumor and examining the nodes for signs of cancer spread. The ALND procedure can cause long-term side effects including pain and numbness in the arm and lymphedema, a condition that causes swelling because of a build-up of lymph fluid.
Sentinel node biopsy (SNB) has been an important advancement in improving the quality of life of breast cancer patients. When cancer spreads through the lymphatic system, the lymph node or group of lymph nodes the cancer reaches first is called the sentinel node. In SNB, only a few lymph nodes are removed and examined for signs of cancer. Usually, if there is no cancer in these sentinel nodes, it means the remaining lymph nodes will not have cancer. The procedure can cause side effects, but they are less common than with ALND.
The guideline updates three recommendations based on evidence from randomized controlled trials:
• Women without sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastases should not receive axillary lymph node dissection (ALND).
• Most women with 1 to 2 metastatic SLNs planning to receive breast conserving surgery with whole breast radiotherapy should not undergo ALND.
• Women with SLN metastases who will receive mastectomy may be offered ALND.
The guideline updates two groups of recommendations based on cohort studies and/or informal consensus:
• Women with operable breast cancer and multicentric tumors, and/or DCIS who will have mastectomy, and/or had prior breast and/or axillary surgery, and/or had preoperative/neoadjuvant systemic therapy may be offered sentinel lymph node biopsy (SNB).
• Women who have large or locally advanced invasive breast cancers (tumor size T3/T4), and/or inflammatory breast cancer, and/or DCIS, when breast-conserving surgery is planned, and/or are pregnant should not receive SNB.
The ASCO committee noted that in some cases, evidence was insufficient to update previous recommendations.
"We strongly encourage patients to talk with their surgeon and other members of their multidisciplinary team to understand their options and make sure everybody's on the same page," said Gary Lyman, MD, MPH, FASCO, co-chair of the Expert Panel. "The most critical determinant of breast cancer prognosis is still the presence and extent of lymph node involvement and, therefore, the lymph nodes need to be evaluated so we can understand the extent of the disease."
To update the guideline, ASCO convened experts in medical oncology, pathology, radiation oncology, surgical oncology, guideline implementation and advocacy. The committee conducted a systematic review of the literature published from February 2004 to January 2013 in Medline and based its recommendations on review of the evidence. It also includes an appendix on pathology.
More information on the new guideline and clinical tools and resources can be found at www.asco.org/guidelines. Patient information is available at www.cancer.net/recommendations.
To view the guideline, please click here.
About ASCO:
Founded in 1964, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is the world’s leading professional organization representing physicians who care for people with cancer. With more than 35,000 members, ASCO is committed to improving cancer care through scientific meetings, educational programs and peer-reviewed journals. ASCO is supported by its affiliate organization, the Conquer Cancer Foundation, which funds groundbreaking research and programs that make a tangible difference in the lives of people with cancer. For ASCO information and resources, visit asco.org. Patient-oriented cancer information is available at Cancer.Net.
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» Center for Research & Analytics (CENTRA)
ASCO has published manuscripts that define the problem, make recommendations, and summarize the results of original analyses on many aspects of clinical trials and other types of research methodologies, including:
Broadening Eligibility Criteria in Cancer Clinical Trials
Clinical Trial Reporting
Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials
Adverse Events (AE) Reporting
Assessing an ASCO Decision Aid for Improving the Accuracy and Attribution of Serious Adverse Event Reporting from Investigators to Sponsors.
This manuscript reports the findings of an interventional study that found that ASCO’s Adverse Event Reporting Decision Aid improved the accuracy of serious adverse event reporting by physician investigators and research staff. Click here to access the Adverse Event Reporting Decision Aid and Toolkit.
Streamlining Adverse Events Reporting in Oncology
This ASCO Research Statement includes recommendations for streamlining serious adverse events reporting for cancer clinical trials.
Addressing Administrative and Regulatory Burden in Cancer Clinical Trials: Summary of a Stakeholder Survey and Workshop Hosted by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Association of American Cancer Institutes
The Best Practices in Cancer Clinical Trials Initiative was a priority for Dr. Julie Vose during her ASCO Presidency. The goal was to establish and promote practical solutions to common regulatory and administrative challenges to conducting and managing clinical research. Adverse events reporting was identified as a particularly burdensome activity by the initiative.
Broadening Eligibility Criteria to Make Clinical Trials More Representative: American Society of Clinical Oncology and Friends of Cancer Research Joint Research Statement
This ASCO-Friends of Cancer Research Joint Research Statement and four supporting manuscripts were published in a Special Series of the Journal of Clinical Oncology in November 2017.
Modernizing Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria – Recommendations of the ASCO-Friends of Cancer Research HIV Working Group
Modernizing Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria – Recommendations of the ASCO-Friends of Cancer Research Brain Metastases Working Group
Modernizing Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria – Recommendations of the ASCO-Friends of Cancer Research Organ Dysfunction, Prior or Concurrent Malignancy, and Comorbidities Working Group
Modernizing Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria – Recommendations of the ASCO-Friends of Cancer Research Minimum Age Working Group
Modernizing Eligibility Criteria for Molecular Driven Trials
This manuscript laid the groundwork for the ASCO-Friends of Cancer Research collaboration by establishing the rationale for updating existing cancer clinical trial inclusion/exclusion criteria in the age of molecularly-targeted agents.
Trial Reporting in Immuno-Oncology (TRIO): An American Society of Clinical Oncology-Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Statement
ASCO and the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) released a joint statement with twelve clinical trial reporting recommendations that address the unique efficacy, toxicity, and combination/sequencing aspects of immune-oncology treatments.
An Ethical Framework for Including Research Biopsies in Oncology Clinical Trials: American Society of Clinical Oncology Research Statement
This manuscript presents ASCO’s ethical framework for the incorporation of optional and mandatory research biopsies in trials. It also discusses implementation of the ASCO framework, including the role of investigators, sponsors, regulators, institutional review boards, scientific review committees, and journals in improving the conduct of research biopsies.
Ethical, Scientific, and Regulatory Perspectives Regarding the Use of Placebos in Cancer Clinical Trials
Expanding the Evidence Base in Geriatric Oncology: Action Items From an FDA-ASCO Workshop
This manuscript summarizes the action items produced by the joint ASCO-U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Geriatric Oncology Workshop that was held on November 6, 2017.
ASCO Annual Meeting Education Session and Education Book Manuscript: Progress Through Collaboration: An ASCO and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Workshop to Improve the Evidence Base for Treating Older Adults With Cancer
This Education Session and corresponding manuscript summarized the outcomes of the ASCO-FDA co-sponsored workshop on geriatric oncology and outlined strategies for improving the evidence base for treating older adults with cancer.
Untapped Potential of Observational Research to Inform Clinical Decision Making: American Society of Clinical Oncology Research Statement
This ASCO Research Statement discusses the expanding opportunities to utilize observational studies to advance cancer research and supplement the knowledge gained through cancer clinical trials. It makes five recommendations to enhance the role of observational research in clinical decision-making.
Other Research-Related Publications
When oncologic treatment options outpace the existing evidence: Contributing factors and a path forward: A Joint Statement by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, American Society for Radiation Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Society of Interventional Radiology, and Society of Surgical Oncology
Recommendations for Obesity Clinical Trials in Cancer Survivors: American Society of Clinical Oncology Statement
State of Cancer Care in America (SOCCA) Series
Manuscripts published as part of the State of Cancer Care in America (SOCCA) series in the Journal of Oncology Practice are listed on the main SOCCA page.
TAPUR (Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry) Study
TAPUR publications are available on TAPUR.org
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By Ben Geman
Welcome back! Forty years ago this week, The Rolling Stones' "Some Girls" had begun a two-week stint atop the Billboard album charts. So one of those cuts is today's intro tune...
1 big thing: Transportation emissions are stubborn
Screenshot of chart in the Rhodium Group report, "Energy and Environmental Implications of a Carbon Tax in the United States"
Taxing U.S. carbon emissions with an escalating levy that starts as high as $73-per-ton would have a pretty small effect on carbon emissions from the transportation sector, a Rhodium Group analysis finds.
Why it matters: Transportation has overtaken electricity as the largest source of U.S. emissions. That gentle slope in the chart above underscores why wringing CO2 out of transportation is hard, in contrast to progress underway in electricity.
The details: The report shows that a $50-per-ton tax that climbs 2% annually would cut economy-wide CO2 emissions by 39% to 47% below 2005 levels by 2030. But the vast bulk of this occurs in power.
The report was among several released yesterday in conjunction with Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.
One level deeper: It provides several reasons why transportation emissions are stubborn...
The relative lack of easy and low-carbon substitute fuels.
Cost has a limited effect on driving levels.
Fuel price increases from the taxes are within historic variability.
The vehicle fleet turns over slowly. People stick with what they've bought because purchase price far exceeds annual operating costs.
That's different from power, where generators compete on fuel costs.
Bottom line: "These results suggest that if achieving deep economy-wide GHG reductions is one of the policy goals for a carbon tax, then either a much higher carbon tax rate or policy interventions targeting transportation demand, vehicle technology, and decarbonization of fuels may be necessary."
Yes, but: Noah Kaufman, an economist with the Columbia group, says the "common perception" that CO2 taxes will do little to change drivers' behavior is questionable.
He said models assume that's the case because big gas price swings haven't historically had a big effect on driving.
Quoted:
"What you’ve seen out in real-world carbon pricing programs is something pretty different," Kaufman said.
"If you look in British Columbia, the evidence suggests consumers are responding quite a bit more strongly than expected. ... The number you see from studies in BC and in Sweden, drivers are about three times more responsive to price changes when caused by carbon tax than by day-to-day price change."
Stay tuned: Kaufman said he's soon releasing a short paper on vehicle emissions and carbon pricing.
My colleague Amy Harder contributed.
2. Big Oil's fight over climate lawsuit venues
Photo: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
Axios' Amy Harder reports ... Three recently filed local and state lawsuits against big oil companies over climate change are moving from state to federal courts, according to new legal documents reviewed by Axios.
Why it matters: It may sound just procedural, but the type of court matters a lot. Given previous federal-court rulings, oil companies are generally more favored to win in federal court, with less certainty at the state level given lack of precedent either way.
The big picture: These types of lawsuits, which allege oil producers are liable for billions of dollars worth of damages caused by climate change, are proliferating across the country as Washington remains gridlocked on the issue.
The litigation is an increasing concern for oil companies and a key tactic of environmentalists to publicly criticize the industry for its role making products that exacerbate climate change.
Driving the news: In three lawsuits filed by local and state governments in Washington State, Colorado and Rhode Island, oil-company lawyers argue that climate change is an inherently global issue and thus the cases should be considered within the federal court system.
The litigants are expected to challenge those moves, arguing the burning of the companies’ products are causing local damage.
Federal judges are likely to make final venue calls.
Read more in the Axios stream.
3. Latest in EVs: Zoox, BMW, Tesla
Zoox, which is committed to building an entire electric self-driving car from scratch, has raised $500 million in new funding led by Atlassian co-founder Michael Cannon-Brookes and Fred Hu of China-based Primavera Capital, at a $3.2 billion post-money valuation, Axios' Kia Kokalitcheva reports.
Why it matters: The self-driving car race continues as a growing number of players, including automakers and tech companies like Alphabet and Uber rush to build autonomous vehicles.
Zoox's plans: The company, which now has 500 employees, aims to have a commercially available car by 2020.
Zoox won't be selling its cars to others — instead, it plans to deploy and operate its own ride-hailing service with its cars, the company tells Axios.
A couple of other EV-related items caught my eye...
BMW: Per MarketWatch, BMW has obtained the rights to invest in Contemporary Amperex Technology in potential future stock sales by the Chinese battery giant.
BMW is also providing over $400 million upfront for a long-term battery supply contract.
Why it matters: "The deal comes at a time when car makers are rushing to secure future supply of batteries, as they ramp up the production of electric vehicles," MarketWatch notes.
Tesla: Via CNBC, "Tesla CEO Elon Musk apologized after making the baseless claim that a British diver involved in the Thai cave rescue mission was a pedophile."
Why it matters: The move follows a series of damaging headlines for Musk and the threat of a lawsuit from the diver, Vern Unsworth.
4. House Republican readies carbon tax move
GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo plans to float legislation next week that "would pause federal regulations on climate change in exchange for an escalating tax on carbon emissions," E&E News reported yesterday.
Why it matters: The bill has zero chance of passage in the foreseeable future. But rare GOP moves on climate policy get lots of attention, and it comes as a small constellation of former Republican officials and lawmakers off Capitol Hill are trying to create political momentum for taxing emissions.
The intrigue: Before the bill even drops, the House is slated to vote Thursday on a non-binding, GOP leadership-backed resolution that attacks the very concept of carbon taxes, calling it economically harmful.
What to watch: Curbelo is co-chairman of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, an ad-hoc group with over 80 members split evenly between the parties.
A big question is how many of the group's GOP members will vote in favor of the nonbinding resolution this week. A lot of caucus members voting against CO2 taxes would be a blow to Curbelo's effort before it even arrives.
One level deeper: Per E&E, a draft copy of the bill calls for eliminating the federal gasoline tax and replacing it with a CO2 tax that begins at $23 per ton and rises 2% annually.
"If the decline in emissions fails to reach certain levels, the carbon tax would increase by an additional $2 per ton the following year," their piece notes.
For the record: A spokesperson for Curbelo would not confirm the plan or the timing to my colleague Amy, saying it is "still being discussed" and that the details have not been finalized. Similarly, sources told E&E that the bill could change before introduction.
5. Policy news and notes: SEC, FERC, EPA
Don't ask: Per Bloomberg BNA, the Securities and Exchange Commission has backed away from asking companies to provide info about how climate change could affect their business.
"The [SEC] last issued a climate change-related public comment letter in September 2016, when it asked Chevron Corp. to expand its risk factor disclosure related to California’s greenhouse gas emission regulations," they report.
LNG: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Kevin McIntyre said on the agency's in-house podcast that FERC is poised to announce plans to speed consideration of liquefied natural gas export infrastructure.
"In just the last few days we have made truly significant strides in reforming the permitting process with our federal partners, eliminating duplicative efforts and instituting a streamlined procedure that will significantly reduce our LNG permitting timelines," he said.
McIntyre added that a "formalized agreement" is expected in the coming days.
EPA: Via the Washington Post, "The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule Tuesday to overhaul requirements for handling the toxic waste produced by burning coal, providing more flexibility to state and industry officials who had sought a rollback of restrictions put in place in 2015."
6. Biz notes: tankers, coal, private equity
Private equity: Via the Financial Times, "Carlyle is seeking to raise a $4bn fund to invest in oil and gas assets outside of North America, as the private equity group looks to take advantage of a pullback in spending from some of the world’s biggest energy companies after a brutal downturn."
Crude exports: Per S&P Global Market Intelligence, "Enterprise Products Partners LP is developing a crude export terminal offshore Texas that could be only the second U.S. facility with full ability to load the biggest tankers most commonly used in the oil trade."
Coal: According to Bloomberg, coal giant Peabody Energy and the big oil trading house Vitol are working with a U.K. startup called Arq that has a process to "pulverize coal, remove impurities and pollutants, and blend it with crude or fuels for use by refineries and other customers."
"While unproven on an industrial scale, the technique has the potential to revive an industry that has stumbled as the world shuns coal for cleaner natural gas and renewables," they report.
Quick take: Your Generate host remembers a lot of attention to the prospect of new coal-to-liquid fuels projects over a decade ago when concerns about oil supplies running low were all the rage. It never took off.
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Watch highlights as Marco Cecchinato cruises past Diego Schwartzman to win the Argentina Open. Photo credit: Sergio Llamera/Prensa Argentina Open. Watch live matches at http://www.tennistv.com.
Cecchinato Races To Buenos Aires Title
Italian wins third ATP Tour singles title
Third seed Marco Cecchinato saved his best for last at the Argentina Open. The Italian produced a flawless performance in Sunday’s final to defeat fourth seed and home favourite Diego Schwartzman 6-1, 6-2.
"I was able to play a great match and was always focused. I followed the game plan from the beginning to the end," said Cecchinato. "I was able to win the first two matches [this week] the hard way, working point by point. I improved my level yesterday and I was focused today, so I'm happy with how I was able to win the tournament."
The World No. 18 in the ATP Rankings cruised to the title in Buenos Aires without dropping a set. He finished the week leading all players in the field on second-serve points won (63%) and second-serve return points won (64%). All three of Cecchinato’s ATP Tour titles have come on clay, with the 26-year-old lifting trophies last year in Budapest and Umag.
"Winning my third tournament in my third final makes me happy," said Cecchinato. "I want to be physically good and train harder for the rest of the year. I know that I'll continue to have good results if I stay mentally solid."
Schwartzman was seeking his first ATP Tour title since prevailing 12 months ago in Rio de Janeiro (d. Verdasco). However, he can take comfort in having reached his first ATP Tour final on home soil this week.
"Marco played a great match and deserved to be the champion. He didn't let me do anything today," said Schwartzman. "Playing at home and getting to the final was very nice for me. I had the unconditional support of the fans all week and that respect is something that makes me feel good despite the bad result."
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From 1-1 in the first set, Cecchinato dominated the lengthy baseline rallies and went on a seven-game run. Schwartzman tried to get the crowd involved and raised his arms in the air after getting on the board in the third game of the second set. But perhaps fatigued by his semi-final heroics on Saturday against top seed Dominic Thiem, where the Argentine saved a match point, Schwartzman couldn't find his footing on Court Guillermo Vilas. A pair of unforced errors gave Cecchinato a 5-2 lead in the second set and the third seed wrapped up the match after 65 minutes.
Cecchinato picks up 250 ATP Ranking points and $101,830 for his efforts this week, while Schwartzman leaves Buenos Aires with 150 ATP Ranking points and $55,065.
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C. J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke and its Film Versions single work criticism
Author:agent Philip Butterss
Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 C. J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke and its Film Versions
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'The Sentimental Bloke has been a significant story in Australian cultural history, beginning as a poem, and becoming two films, a stage play, a ballet, and a musical; and there have been versions for television, gramophone and radio.' Butterss examines how the poem 'might have operated through its audience in 1915, and how Raymond Longford's 1919 silent film and Frank Thring's 1932 talkie might have worked in altered economic and cultural circumstances.'
y The Regenerative Spirit : Volume 2 : (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)presentations - Australian Post-Colonial Reflections Sue Williams (editor), Dymphna Lonergan (editor), Rick Hosking (editor), Laura Deane (editor), Nena Bierbaum (editor), Adelaide : Lythrum Press , 2004 Z1165484 2004 anthology criticism Adelaide : Lythrum Press , 2004
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Ban Ki-moon tells Australia to rethink refugee policy
UN general secretary urges PM Malcolm Turnbull to review Operation Sovereign Borders.
by Bryce Lowry
The general secretary of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has urged Australia’s prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, to urgently review the country’s policy towards asylum seekers.
When the pair met in Kuala Lumpur on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit last week, they discussed a range of issues including counter terrorism, climate change and refugees.
While acknowledging its contribution to resettling refugees, Mr Ban appeared to rebuke Australia for its contemporary attitude towards those arriving by boat.
“Noting Australia’s longstanding commitment to refugee resettlement, the Secretary-General appealed to the Prime Minister to share responsibilities,” a statement following the meeting read.
“The Secretary-General expressed concern over the detention conditions in Australia’s offshore processing centres and encouraged the Prime Minister to reconsider Operation Sovereign Borders.”
The plea comes as reports on Friday suggested another boat suspected with refugees aboard was turned back by Australian authorities off Christmas Island. Earlier this month, violence broke out in the migrant detention centre on Christmas Island following the death of an escaped detainee.
Cancel Syrian refugee intake, says Bernardi
Meanwhile, Mr Turnbull is under pressure from within his own party to review the government’s commitment to resettle 12,000 refugees from Syria.
On Monday, Liberal senator Cory Bernardi said the government should cancel the intake in light of this month’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
“We have extremist elements at work in this country,” Mr Bernardi told the ABC’s Capital Hill programme.
“Why would we risk bringing in more to add to their ranks, even potentially, and bear the financial and social burden that comes with that?”
The notoriously conservative senator insisted that it was too difficult for the UN and Australian authorities to assess whether refugee applicants from the war torn region would not go on to engage in terrorist activities once in Australia.
“In our previous refugee intake, we’ve had examples where people who’ve been accepted as refugees have gone on to commit terrorist acts or plan terror attacks in this country,” he said.
“Now why do we think that suddenly this is going to be any different?
“There is a plethora of fraudulent and falsified documents and you can’t exactly go into Syria to prove up the backstory.
“And in the absence of being able to determine who comes to this country and prove their back story effectively, I think we’ve got to put a stop to it.”
IMAGE: Ban Ki Moon (File image: ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock.com)
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Will Release Book With Original Omitted Autism Chapters
August 4, 2015 7:36 pm \ 4 Comments \ Jake Crosby
By Jake Crosby
On August 25th, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is finally releasing the paperback edition of his book “Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak” that “includes the original omitted chapters on the autism link.”
Kennedy’s decision to omit chapters was seen by some as running counter to the purpose of his book, namely to “let the science speak” on thimerosal’s harms. So Autism Investigated posted the complete version of his book that was previously obtained and that included the chapters on autism Kennedy had removed. (Those links have now been disabled and replaced with links to the Amazon listing of the paperback edition of his book that will contain the previously omitted autism chapters.)
The removal of chapters from Kennedy’s book was viewed by many as more suppression of evidence for thimerosal’s toxicity. The criticisms only escalated when it was discovered from the metadata of the manuscript file that one of the freelance writers helping Kennedy with his book had previously written in defense of thimerosal.
His decision upset many people, including longtime followers. “This makes me sad,” one advocate said of Kennedy. “He has always been such a proponent”.
Others expressed outrage, “He’s a Coward! Too much pressure from big Pharma” wrote another. “I agree,” someone else concurred, “it’s disgraceful!”
Many felt further betrayed by the fact that Kennedy had promised an audience at an autism conference one year prior that he would release his book if the Department of Health and Human Services did not fully remove thimerosal from all vaccines. Despite thimerosal not being removed, Kennedy released his book, but with chapters on autism excluded.
Prominent allies of Kennedy also denounced him. The most extensive criticism came from the scientist who arguably assisted Kennedy with his book more than anybody else: Dr. Boyd Haley.
But mere weeks after the announcement to remove the chapters from Kennedy’s book, rumors began to circulate that he would re-release his book with all the chapters he had previously taken out. Now a year later, he is finally doing it. This is great news for everyone who wanted him to release his complete book.
Addendum, August 16th, 2015: The scheduled release date has changed since the date of this post.
Posted in: Media, Science \ Tagged: autism, big pharma, book, dhhs, dr. boyd haley, mercury, paperback edition, robert f kennedy jr, thimerosal, thimerosal: let the science speak, vaccines
Autism Investigated Announces Awards for 2014
December 31, 2014 5:00 am \ 17 Comments \ Jake Crosby
Announcing Autism Investigated’s Awards for 2014, and the winners are…
Scientist of the Year: Dr. Boyd Haley
Dr. Boyd Haley is a chemist and international authority on mercury toxicity who has not been afraid to speak out against wrongdoing. Case-in-point: when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chopped chapters on thimerosal’s role in causing autism out of his book hypocritically named, “Thimerosal: Let The Science Speak,” Dr. Haley pulled no punches. “Those were the most important chapters for the American people to see,” he said in an exclusive interview with Autism Investigated. Not surprisingly, much of Kennedy’s book drew from the work of Dr. Haley. Autism Investigated still values the totality of Dr. Haley’s scientific contributions and those of others like him, even though Kennedy no longer does.
Scoop of the Year: Kennedy’s Ghostwriter Defended Thimerosal
Freelance writer Adam Hadhazy (pictured above) was revealed as one of the ghostwriters of Robert F. Kennedy’s “Thimerosal: Let The Science Speak,” according to the file properties of an unpublished manuscript posted on Autism Investigated last summer. Hadhazy has a history of defending harmful vaccines and their ingredients – including the mercury-based preservative thimerosal – and of being an apologist for the CDC cover-up of those harms. Yet, he was hired to ghostwrite (write material for someone else who is the named author) Kennedy’s book that was intended to catalyze the complete removal of thimerosal from vaccines. The scoop on Hadhazy’s ghostwriting came shortly after The Washington Post reported that Kennedy removed chapters from his book for being “too combustible,” thereby not letting the science “speak” as his book title claims.
Quote of the Year: Whistleblower Confirms Wakefield Outed Him Without Permission
Shortly after he was outed without permission, whistleblower Dr. William Thompson released a statement confirming his allegations that CDC committed research misconduct in omitting associations of autism with early measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination. But even more significantly, his statement confirmed that his identity was released online along with recordings of his voice without his permission by de-licensed British doctor Andrew Wakefield. Thompson’s voice was recorded without his knowledge by Wakefield’s colleague Dr. Brian Hooker. This too was confirmed in the following excerpt from the statement:
“I was not, however, aware that he was recording any of our conversations, nor was I given any choice regarding whether my name would be made public or my voice would be put on the Internet.”
More information about Wakefield’s betrayal of Dr. Thompson and its repercussions can be found below in the description of Autism Investigated’s “Event of the Year.”
Irony of the Year: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Joins Thimerosal Cover-Up
As previously stated, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has essentially joined the thimerosal cover-up of harms from the substance by chopping out chapters on its toxicity from his own book, despite naming his book “Thimerosal: Let The Science Speak.” He had even enlisted the help of ghostwriter Adam Hadhazy, who had previously defended thimerosal as described in Autism Investigated’s “Scoop of the Year.” It had been reported over the summer that Kennedy may add the chapters back in, though that has yet to happen after many months since then. In taking the chapters out, Kennedy has broken his promise at an autism conference in 2013 that he will publish his book if HHS does not fully remove thimerosal from vaccines. Well, thimerosal is still in vaccines but the chapters on autism are still out of his book.
Event of the Year: Andrew Wakefield Betrays CDC Whistleblower
Autism Investigated’s event of the year is also the catastrophic blunder of the decade. Andrew Wakefield has released the identity of CDC whistleblower William Thompson along with snippets of his voice recordings without his permission. Wakefield then lied to Autism Investigated by claiming he had obtained permission from Thompson, which was then completely dispelled by Thompson’s statement. As a consequence of Wakefield’s actions, any chance of widespread media coverage was killed since the story was prematurely scooped and tainted with his name. This may subsequently jeopardize the success or even the possibility of a congressional investigation or hearing into the matter. To deny Wakefield betrayed Thompson, supporters of Wakefield point to a purported apology Thompson made to him via text messaging. But if real, the apology was made under heavily coerced circumstances since Thompson knew that anything he shared that was subsequently shared with Wakefield could be prematurely revealed by him at will without any outside input.
See on The Epoch Times.
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CDC Cover-up’s Ivan Oransky Conceals BMC Violation
September 19, 2014 5:59 am \ 84 Comments \ Jake Crosby
Some journalists are just ignorant; Ivan Oransky is not. He is Vice President of the “Association of Health Care Journalists” (AHCJ) – an organization of “journalists” funded by vaccine industry-tied groups dedicated to helping the CDC carry out its cover-up into the media. He also co-edits the blog “Retraction Watch,” which gleefully reported on the withdrawal of Dr. Brian Hooker’s paper that reported the very relationship between MMR and autism that CDC omitted from its original study. Oransky knows full well BioMed Central (BMC) breached policy when it pulled Dr. Hooker’s paper, but did Oransky report that, even though his blog reported on the removal of Dr. Hooker’s paper? Of course not, but he inadvertently revealed his knowledge of it in the email exchange I had with him after he vehemently defended the article’s deletion. Oransky also defended drastically altering my comment on his blog, grossly distorting what I said. (See full email exchange below)
After Oransky’s blog wrote about the pulling of Dr. Hooker’s paper without reporting about the BMC violation, CNN wrote an article from the same perspective as Oransky’s blog the very next day. CNN also added that Dr. Hooker’s paper was removed in a note above every relevant CNN iReport – without noting the BMC violation – disabled editing on the iReport CNN linked to from its article. What more can you expect when, as written elsewhere, Oransky’s wife is a writer/producer for none other than CNN?
Earlier this year, millionaire vaccine industrialist Paul Offit – who advised CDC’s immunization program while the fraud the whistleblower described was taking place – announced at AHCJ’s annual meeting that there should be “journalism jail” for journalists who write stories about debate on vaccines i.e. who try to report on the cover-up honestly. AHCJ gave pharma PR agent Trine Tsouderos an award for her hit pieces against notable scientists opposed to adverse vaccine side-effects like Dr. Boyd Haley. Over the years AHCJ has invited other co-conspirators such as Brian Deer, Walter Orenstein, Alison Singer, Diana Schendel, Arthur Allen and Seth Mnookin to its annual conference. Mnookin and Oransky were old college friends; they also have dishonesty in common. Additionally, AHCJ has even teamed up with CDC to train reporters to disseminate its propaganda – no doubt in line with former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ statement about telling media outlets not to report on vaccine dangers.
As Congress investigates the CDC for fraud like that revealed by the whistleblower William Thompson, Congress should also investigate CDC’s collusion with “journalists” like Ivan Oransky, AHCJ and related people and groups who don’t abide by journalistic standards and therefore do not deserve any press freedom protections. Such people should be fully investigated as co-conspirators and any investigation that leaves them out or fails to recognize them as such will be wholly inadequate.
The below email exchange demonstrates that all the more:
On Monday, September 1, 2014, <info@autisminvestigated.com> wrote:
The text of my comment was altered to make it look like I said something I didn’t:
“How come no one is reporting that I believe BioMed Central’s take-down of Dr. Hooker’s article is a violation of the publisher’s own policies on article removal?”
This is what I really said:
“How come no one is reporting that BioMed Central’s take-down of Dr. Hooker’s article is clearly a violation of the publisher’s own policies on article removal, which states such action is only done under the explicit avoidance of threatened legal claims”
I don’t want anyone to report what “I believe,” I want journalists to report what actually happened. It is clear from BioMed Central’s policies that the take-down of Dr. Hooker’s article was a violation of them. Reporting on the take-down without reporting on the violation lends undue legitimacy to the censorship of a scientific paper.
Jake Crosby, MPH
Editor, Autism Investigated
www.autisminvestigated.com
Subject: Re: Mangled comment misquotes me.
From: Ivan Oransky ivan-oransky@erols.com
Date: Mon, September 01, 2014 7:29 pm
To: “info@autisminvestigated.com” info@autisminvestigated.com
Cc: “adam.marcus1@gmail.com” <adam.marcus1@gmail.com>
What you said left out most of BMC’s actual policy, and that leaves it as your belief that they violated said policy. Your choice is to have it as is, which conforms to our comment policy, particularly the part about unverified allegations, or have it deleted altogether. You’re welcome to post whatever version you want elsewhere.
It’s not my “belief,” you can view the entire policy on BMC’s website and see for yourself that it contradicts the excuse for pulling the paper: http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/permanency
I also said I wanted others to report on this – not on my opinion of it. So the wording still misrepresents what I said, even without taking verification into account.
Cc: “adam.marcus1@gmail.com” adam.marcus1@gmail.com
We included the entire policy, which you neglected to do and which contradicts what you wrote, along with both statements about why the paper was removed, which you also neglected to do. Your choice is still to have it as is, or simply deleted. Just let us know which you would like.
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:46 AM, <info@autisminvestigated.com> wrote:
No, it backs up what I wrote, and I explain that fully. You neglect to explain how it’s contradicted at all. I included the entire policy in a screenshot on the webpage I linked to along with the statement that was more specific, contrary to your claim that I didn’t. You chopped the second half of my first sentence, making it less immediately clear how the policy was violated. It’s also misleading to portray me as asking why nobody is reporting that I believe a certain way about this issue, as opposed to simply asking why nobody is reporting on the issue itself.
By mangling my comment this way, are you trying to make me want you to delete my comment?
Date: Tue, September 02, 2014 3:56 am
To: “info@autisminvestigated.com” <info@autisminvestigated.com>, Adam
Marcus <>
The second half of that sentence, “which states such action is only done under the explicit avoidance of “threatened legal claims,” is incorrect and misrepresents BMC’s policy. The part of the policy in question: “…in the exceptional event that material is considered to infringe certain rights or is defamatory we may have no option but to remove that material from our site and those sites on which we have deposited the material in question.
BioMed Central therefore reserves the right to cease to make available articles that it has been advised are potentially defamatory or that infringe any intellectual property right, or are otherwise unlawful.”
The two relevant notices also make it clear that your original comment’s claim that “However, Dr. Hooker’s paper was only taken down on the excuse of ‘possible undeclared competing interests'” is also incorrect.
You continue to have two choices: Leaving the comment as is, or have it deleted.
Ivan Oransky, MD
Vice President and Global Editorial Director, MedPage Today http://medpagetoday.com
Co-Founder, Retraction Watch http://retractionwatch.com
Founder, Embargo Watch http://embargowatch.wordpress.com
Adjunct Associate Professor, New York University’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program
Vice President, Association of Health Care Journalists
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
http://twitter.com/ivanoransky
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:52 PM, <info@autisminvestigated.com> wrote:
Actually, it is correct and is an accurate representation. The reason of “threatened legal claims” is the reason BioMed Central gives for striking articles, that was not the reason it gave for striking Dr. Hooker’s article. That’s clear in this “open access” publisher’s policy you partially quoted.
The more specific notice made it clear that “undeclared possible competing interests” was the reason for the paper’s removal and that “validity” and “public interest” were concerns supposedly stemming from that. Regardless, none of these are “threatened legal claims” – the actual reason BioMed Central gives for striking articles according to policy. Since this was not the reason given for striking Dr. Hooker’s article, his article was therefore deleted in violation of that policy.
One of my readers – ironically the one who told me to contact you – said your misrepresentation of my comment as asking why no one is reporting “that I believe” a certain way about an issue makes me look “unhinged.”
Is that your intent? Either censoring me or making me look unhinged, but giving me a choice between the two so you can then claim you did one or the other with my approval? Sure looks like it.
Date: Tue, September 02, 2014 7:22 pm
Cc: Adam Marcus <adam.marcus1@gmail.com>
You wrote that removal “is only done under the explicit avoidance of ‘threatened legal claims.'” The policy actually gives two other reasons for removal: “that material is considered to infringe certain rights or is defamatory.” That makes “only” incorrect, and a misrepresentation of the policy.
Our only intent is to verify claims in our comments, and the claim your comment made is incorrect. You continue to have two choices: Leave the comment as it is now, or delete it.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:41 PM, <info@autisminvestigated.com> wrote:
Well given that “threatened legal claims” are what the publisher says it hopes to avoid when taking down articles for either of those reasons, “threatened legal claims” are essentially the publisher’s only reason for taking down articles. Since none of what you quote was given in the publisher’s excuse for pulling Dr. Hooker’s article, will you at least finally acknowledge its deletion was in violation of the publisher’s policy for article removal?
Well you’re not acting like that’s your intent by treating verified facts as unverified claims. Nor are you acting like that’s your intent by giving me this ultimatum of either allowing you to keep my butchered comment up as is or having it deleted altogether without replacing it with a corrected version. As you can see from my comment submission (attached), your representation me as asking why others aren’t reporting “that I believe” a certain way is not only “unverified,” but plainly false.
Date: Thu, September 04, 2014 10:51 am
Your two choices for this comment remain: Leave the comment as it is now, or delete it. If you want to submit future comments, you’re more than welcome to do so, but they too will be subject to our comments policy.
Why the silence on BMC’s violation of its own policy?
You clearly did not follow your own comments policy in the way you edited my comment, which I do not approve of. That said, I won’t approve of you deleting it without putting up a corrected version either.
Looks like you and BMC both have trouble following your own rules.
Date: Thu, September 04, 2014 5:55 pm
To repeat: You misrepresented BMC’s policy, and you misrepresented the reasons they stated for the removal. You then based the “violation” allegation on your misrepresentations, which made the allegations inaccurate. We then edited your comment so that it no longer included those misrepresentations and inaccuracies.
You are free to post a new comment, as has also been mentioned in this thread, that will also be subject to our comments policy. If that is what you mean by “corrected version,” you’re welcome to submit one. Your choices for the already-posted comment, however, remain the same as they’ve been throughout this exchange.
Finally, I responded:
Here’s what you said:
“You wrote that removal ‘is only done under the explicit avoidance of ‘threatened legal claims.'” The policy actually gives two other reasons for removal: ‘that material is considered to infringe certain rights or is defamatory.'”
In your priggish and failed attempt to correct me on BMC’s policy for removing articles, you inadvertently showed that the take-down of Dr. Hooker’s article did violate BMC’s policy. BMC provided no such reasons for deleting Dr. Hooker’s article in either statement, even if you count whatever possible concerns that were raised from the reason of “possible undeclared competing interests” as reasons as well.
Don’t expect any more comment submissions from me.
I’ve never heard anything back since.
Jake Crosby is editor of Autism Investigated. He is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis University with a Bachelor of Arts in both History and Health: Science, Society and Policy and a 2013 graduate of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services with a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology. He currently attends the University of Texas School of Public Health where he is studying for a Ph.D. in Epidemiology
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Dr. Boyd Haley on Deletions from Kennedy’s Book: “Those were the most important chapters for the American people to see.”
August 8, 2014 7:55 pm \ 12 Comments \ Jake Crosby
Mercury toxicity expert and chemistry professor emeritus Dr. Boyd Haley has joined Dr. Andrew Wakefield as yet another prominent scientist who has spoken out against the censorship of book chapters by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Though Age of Autism quoted Dr. Haley as supporting Kennedy in the wake of much media criticism, he was not aware Kennedy chopped chapters including those on autism from his book when speaking to Age of Autism.
“I was just recently made aware of this,” he said. “Needless to say this is very disappointing news.”
“I’m just dramatically disappointed,” Dr. Haley later reiterated again concerning the removal of chapters and sections from Kennedy’s book, Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak. “There was no reason to take chapters out.”
Referring to the excuse cited in The Washington Post that sections of the book were “too combustible,” Dr. Haley responded: “I think that’s a weak excuse. It’s supposed to be a combustible book.”
Dr. Haley went on, “I’m really kind of in shock. It never crossed my mind he’d [Kennedy’d] take those chapters out.” Noting he played a major role in assisting Kennedy with his book, Dr. Haley also stated, “He never consulted with me before he did.”
Regarding the chapters Kennedy took out, Dr. Haley said: “Those were the most important chapters for the American people to see.”
He noted, however, that the issue of thimerosal concerned more than just autism: “Sweden’s Sudden Infant Death Syndrome rate went down after thimerosal was taken out.”
Quantifying the scope of infant death rates in the US, Dr. Haley said, “If we had Sweden’s [death rate], we’d have 16,000 less [infants] die,” per year.
Dr. Haley was also perplexed about Dr. Mark Hyman who convinced Kennedy to strike chapters:
“I don’t know Hyman at all.”
Dr. Haley was also shocked to learn that one of Kennedy’s ghostwriters Adam Hadhazy previously defended thimerosal, asking:
“Why would he hire someone like that to ghostwrite his book?”
Referring to the Washington Post article interviewing Kennedy and Hyman, Dr. Haley said he was most disappointed in how they responded to claims that autism went up as thimerosal was removed:
“That’s a huge mistake to say autism went up as thimerosal was taken out,” he stated. “They don’t have data [on children born] past 2002. The shelf life of some of those vaccines is five years.”
He further noted that thimerosal remains in flu vaccines given to infants and pregnant women, acknowledging that unpublished data from a CDC-commissioned study showed prenatal thimerosal exposure increased risk for regressive ASD 8-fold.
Haley concluded, “If you can’t counter that argument, then you’re not making an argument. You’re shooting from the hip.”
He also said of the CDC’s autism surveillance, “It’s not accurate, and it’s not a well-designed system.” Indeed, it does not track the same regions, nor can its estimates be generalized to the rest of the country.
Pointing out more generally that CDC is not credible and often lies, Dr. Haley noted, “These people play fast and loose with the facts. The real problem we have is that they’re not honest people.”
Then referring to his issues with autism organizations in general and of Autism Investigated’s coverage of some of those groups, he said:
“I get so frustrated working with autism groups. You shed a lot of light on it.”
Just before word broke that Kennedy pulled the chapters, Dr. Haley said Kennedy called him asking if he knew of a study from Iceland that supposedly proved thimerosal did not cause autism. Dr. Haley said he hadn’t seen it and neither had Kennedy, “but he sounded convinced by it,” Dr. Haley told me. Kennedy did not reveal to Dr. Haley who told him about it, though someone close to Kennedy is apparently working hard to make him doubt that thimerosal causes autism.
Yet a study from Denmark published last year showed a decline in autism after thimerosal’s removal. One of the authors on that study was copied on an email exchange a decade earlier noting the prevalence and incidence was declining. This exchange was discussed in one of the autism chapters Kennedy took out of his book, titled “Autism Rates Decline When Thimerosal Exposure Levels Are Reduced.”
Dr. Haley stated that Kennedy’s book should have been a call to action for the removal of thimerosal, but believed that to be undermined by Kennedy’s new decision to strike the chapters and backtrack from his position that thimerosal causes autism.
Towards the end of the conversation, Dr. Haley promised:
“I’ll support you in what you’re trying to do.”
Jake Crosby is editor of Autism Investigated. He is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis University with a Bachelor of Arts in both History and Health: Science, Society and Policy and a 2013 graduate of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services with a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology. He currently attends the University of Texas School of Public Health where he is studying for a Ph.D. in Epidemiology.
Posted in: Fraud, Media, Politics, Science \ Tagged: adam hadhazy, age of autism, asd, autism, book, cdc, deletions, denmark, dr mark hyman, dr. andrew wakefield, dr. boyd haley, fraudulent, ghostwriter, iceland, jake crosby, mercury, robert f kennedy jr, sids, sudden infant death syndrome, sweden, the washington post, thimerosal, thimerosal: let the science speak, vaccines
Cover-up Scandal: CDC’s Vaccine Research Exposed as Flawed and Falsified
June 13, 2014 2:23 am \ 51 Comments \ Jake Crosby
CDC’s Vaccine Safety Research is Exposed as Flawed and Falsified in Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal
Substantial Scientific Evidence Exists that Vaccine Ingredient is a Developmental Neurotoxin
Watchung, NJ, June 12, 2014
by A Shot of Truth
Just months after U.S. Congressman Bill Posey compared the Center for Disease Control (CDC)’s vaccine safety studies to the SEC’s Bernie Madoff scandal, malfeasance in the CDC’s studies of thimerosal-containing vaccines has, for the first time, been documented in peer-reviewed scientific literature. While the CDC states on its website that “low doses of thimerosal in vaccines do not cause harm, and are only associated with minor local injection site reactions like redness and swelling at the injection site,” the journal BioMed Research International now provides direct evidence that the CDC’s safety assurances about the mercury-containing preservative are not fact-based, according to the article’s lead author, Brian Hooker, PhD.
The paper opens by citing over 165 studies that have found Thimerosal to be harmful, including 16 studies that had reported outcomes in human infants and children of death, acrodynia, poisoning, allergic reaction, malformations, auto-immune reaction, Well’s syndrome, developmental delay and neurodevelopmental disorders including tics, speech delay, language delay, ADHD and autism. These findings by multiple independent research groups over the past 75+ years have consistently found thimerosal to be harmful. “Substantial scientific evidence exists and has existed for many years that the vaccine ingredient thimerosal is a developmental neurotoxin” says George Lucier, former Associate Director of the National Toxicology Program.
Studies showing harm from thimerosal sharply contradict published outcomes of six CDC coauthored and sponsored papers – the very studies that CDC relies upon to declare that thimerosal is “safe” for use in infant and maternal vaccines. Dr. Hooker, biochemist and vaccine industry watchdog, said of the six CDC studies, “Each of these papers is fatally flawed from a statistics standpoint and several of the papers represent issues of scientific malfeasance. For example, important data showing a relationship between thimerosal exposure and autism are withheld from three of the publications (Price et al. 2010, Verstraeten et al. 2003 and Madsen et al. 2003). This type of cherry-picking of data by the CDC in order to change the results of important research studies to support flawed and dangerous vaccination policies should not be tolerated.”
Dr. Boyd Haley, international expert in mercury toxicity and a co-author of the recently published paper said “There is no doubt that authorities in the CDC have initiated and participated in a cover-up of vaccine-induced damage from thimerosal to our children—-and this I consider criminal.” The paper, “Methodological Issues and Evidence of Malfeasance in Research Purporting to Show Thimerosal in Vaccines is Safe,” was published on June 6 and contains eight pages of evidence that the CDC has had knowledge of the vaccine preservative’s neurological risks, yet continues to cover them up.
The paper concludes, “five of the publications examined in this review were directly commissioned by the CDC, raising the possible issue of conflict of interests or research bias, since vaccine promotion is a central mission of the CDC. Conceivably, if serious neurological disorders are found to be related to Thimerosal in vaccines, such findings could possibly be viewed as damaging to the vaccine program.”
Dr. Hooker has submitted over 100 FOIA requests to the CDC over the past 10 years and has amassed thousands of pages of documents showing malfeasance in the CDC’s vaccine safety program. Hooker revealed that one CDC document quoted a top official instructing CDC employees to “Review all correspondences and documents to see if there is ‘foreseeable harm’ to the agency if they were released” so the documents could be redacted by CDC attorneys prior to release.
Barry Segal, founder of the Focus Autism Foundation and former entrepreneur whose company sales peaked near $2 billion said, “We are in the process of exposing what may be the biggest federal scandal ever with immense damage to our economy and our people, especially our children who are the future of our country. Their health has been compromised by mercury in vaccines. We need Congress to take action now. Thimerosal must be banned.”
A more effective vaccine preservative “2PE” has replaced thimerosal in many other vaccines and possesses a much better safety profile according to Dr. Hooker.
The Focus Autism Foundation is dedicated to providing information to the public that exposes the cause or causes of the autism epidemic and the rise of chronic illnesses – focusing specifically on the role of vaccinations. To learn more, visit FocusAutism.org. A Shot of Truth is an educational campaign sponsored by Focus Autism
BioMed Research International
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/247218/
Focusautism.org – www.focusautism.org
A Shot of Truth – www.ashotoftruth.org
CDC Caught Hiding Data Showing Mercury in Vaccines Linked to Autism
Originally published at Health Impact News Daily
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Watch Jake Crosby’s AutismOne 2014 Talk
June 6, 2014 6:56 am \ 17 Comments \ Jake Crosby
Props to AutismOne’s Teri Arranga for her introduction.
Originally posted on AutismOne
So often, when we think of investigating autism, we think of discovering the physiological underpinnings. But what about the sociological forces that perpetuate the autism epidemic? Politics from without? Or – surprisingly – politics from within? In this startling lecture, Jacob Crosby, MPH, discusses the obstructionist forces that have hampered progress within the autism advocacy arena.
Jake Crosby is editor of Autism Investigated. He is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis University with a bachelor’s degree in both history and health and a 2013 graduate of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services with a master’s degree in epidemiology. He currently attends the University of Texas School of Public Health where he is studying for a PhD in epidemiology. For nearly five years, he was contributing editor to Age of Autism.
Originally posted at AutismOne
AutismOne is a non-profit charity organization 501(c)(3) started by a small group of parents of children with autism. Parents are and must remain the driving force of our community, the stakes are too high and the issues too sacred to delegate to outside interests. AUTISM IS A PREVENTABLE/TREATABLE BIOMEDICAL CONDITION. Autism is the result of environmental triggers. Autism is not caused by “bad” genes and the epidemic is not the result of “better” diagnosis. Children with autism suffer from gut bugs, allergies, heavy metal toxicity, mitochondrial disorders, antioxidant deficiencies, nutritional deficiencies and autoimmune diseases – all of which are treatable. THE KEY IS EDUCATION The AutismOne Conference, AutismOne Radio, AutismOne Outreach and Autism in Action initiatives educate more than 100,000 families every year about prevention, recovery, safety, and change.
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Dr. Boyd Haley: “I seriously doubt Mr. Blaxill could shred [the Geiers’] research”
December 17, 2013 11:00 am \ 72 Comments \ Jake Crosby
Following a post on Autism Investigated in which then-board member of SafeMinds Mark Blaxill was quoted as having called Dr. Mark and David Geier’s work “sloppy,” Dr. Boyd Haley contacted Autism Investigated and weighed in on the matter. Blaxill also claimed in a 2003 email of the Geiers’ work, “…I could rip it to shreds.”
The Geiers – father and son scientists – have repeatedly published studies implicating the mercury-based vaccine preservative thimerosal in causing autism. Dr. Haley, whose email is below, is president of CTI Science, professor emeritus of chemistry from the University of Kentucky as well as a world-renowned expert on mercury toxicity.
This is what Dr. Haley had to say about Mark Blaxill’s remarks concerning the Geiers:
I know both Mark Blaxill and Mark & David Geier fairly well. Mr. Blaxill does not have the biological science and medical training of the Geier’s and most of their articles address issues on the biological level. I have critically read most of the publications by the Geier’s and I seriously doubt that Mr. Blaxill could shred this research even though he may think he could.
Boyd E. Haley, PhD
CTI Science, Inc.
Dr. Haley gave his permission to post the above email on Autism Investigated.
Mark Blaxill made these remarks in email to Attorney Mike Williams, lead petitioners’ attorney in the autism omnibus proceeding where Dr. Mark and David Geier were both expert witnesses for the petitioners. Eventually, the omnibus collapsed and 4,900 children were denied justice. Years after disparaging the Geiers’ work to Attorney Williams, Blaxill cited the fraudulent Danish research of international fugitive Poul Thorsen to defend thimerosal in email to omnibus petitioner and scientist Dr. Brian Hooker.
Today, history is repeating itself as Mark Blaxill continuously works to keep research fraud like Thorsen’s from being exposed before Congress and undermines the advocacy of Dr. Hooker. The Canary Party (founded and chaired by Blaxill) falsely led Dr. Hooker to believe that the organization would ask Congress to specifically pursue research misconduct like that committed by Thorsen. Canary Party’s apparent deception ultimately culminated in the indefinite collapse of the congressional autism hearings altogether.
Nonetheless, it is encouraging to learn that Mark Blaxill’s earlier attacks on Dr. Mark and David Geier are not sitting well with Dr. Boyd Haley.
Jake Crosby is editor of Autism Investigated and is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. He is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis University with a Bachelor of Arts in both History and Health: Science, Society and Policy and a 2013 graduate of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services with a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology. He currently attends the University of Texas School of Public Health where he is studying for a Ph.D. in Epidemiology.
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Adland Legend Behind Coke’s ‘Hilltop’ Bill Backer Dies: Reports
Bill Backer, the man who brought to life Coke’s iconic Hilltop campaign, has passed away at the age at 89, according to The New York Times and AdAge.
Backer was the brains behind Coca-Cola’s 1971 ‘I’d like to buy the world a Coke’ campaign.
And while that’s arguably one of his most famous pieces of work, he was also involved in a heap of brilliant work for Campbell’s Soup, Wendy’s, Hyundai and Avis, reports AdAge.
He was inducted into the AdAge Advertising Hall of Fame in 1995 and named one of the publication’s 100 most important people in advertising in 1999.
Backer became a household name around adland when he was running McCann.
Image via AdAge. Credit: T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times
On news of his passing, the creative agency penned a thoughtful tribute on Facebook to its former leader.
“Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of Bill Backer, one of the legendary creative directors of the 1960s and 1970s at McCann, who passed away this weekend at the age of 89.
“Bill not only wrote that ;Things go Better with Coke’ but began writing many of the classic 60-second songs that made the Coca-Cola brand so powerful. Bill wrote songs about life situations in which things go better with Coke and worked with many of the leading pop artists of the day to record the songs.
“In 1971, one of those songs, ‘Hilltop,’ shot on a hilltop in Italy, became one of the most famous and beloved TV commercials of all time. The song and the TV spot soared back into pop culture as the closing moments of the hit AMC TV series ‘Mad Men’, with the song saving the career of the fictional antihero Don Draper.”
Backer left McCann in 1979 to found his own agency with Carl Spielvogel, Backer and Spielvogel. The agency was later sold to Saatch & Saatchi, and ended up merging with another ad agency Ted Bates Worldwide.
Tributes have started pouring in on social media.
A toast to the man behind “Tastes Great, Less Filling” + “Miller Time” ?https://t.co/li8vPbA2Zj
— MillerCoors (@MillerCoors) May 16, 2016
Farewell to #BillBacker, creator of #MillerTime and force behind the famous #Coke #Hilltop commercial that ended #MadMen on 5/17/15
— Stuart Elliott (@stuartenyt) May 16, 2016
Bill Backer, ad legend behind “I’d like to buy the world a coke” “Millertime” “Tastes great, less filling,” has died https://t.co/j0OMa2L387
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 16, 2016
“Building brands is about making them human and personal.” Bill Backer #advertising legend
— Michael Gass (@michaelgass) May 16, 2016
Advertising Standards Bureau bill backer hilltop Sirens
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Husband and Lover
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No one is more shocked—or outraged—than Deputy DA Julia Innes when, based on new evidence, her husband is arrested for his late wife's murder twelve years ago.
An officer on the case, former homicide detective Cameron Lazlo, had no doubt they'd already nabbed the right guy. So it doesn't take much to convince him to team up with Julia—even though she's bright and sexy enough to be a major distraction. But the closer they get to the truth, the riskier the investigation gets—until there is no one left to trust except each other.
Erickson's tepid romantic mystery, which follows Without a Trace (2003), feels derivative and strangely inert, like a facsimile of a Mary Higgins Clark work that has been blanched of freshness, urgency and color. When the Aspen, Colo., district attorney's office reopens the 12-year-old case of the murder of a prominent orthopedic surgeon's first wife, buried secrets emerge in a plot that amounts to a drawn-out postmortem. The requisite romantic triangle finds the doctor's lovely second wife, Julia, wringing her hands over loyalty to her disdainfully indifferent husband and her attraction to strong-and-silent PI Cam Lazlo, who worked the original case and exudes antihero appeal. Julia happens to work for the DA's office and must struggle with tough career decisions when she's not caring for her husband's wayward daughter or bracing herself for bad news. Her put-upon status endears her to Cam, who quit the police force over a private tragedy and whose detective work is now financed by an eccentric author who hankers after grist for his popular crime fiction. Passages from this book-within-a-book intrude into the larger plot-one that's only marginally more compelling. Unfortunately, the plot never percolates, and this blend of suspense, romance and crime yields a mostly weak brew. Agent, Karen Solem at Spencerhill Associates. (Dec. 7) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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In Aspen, Colorado twelve years ago, Denver Homicide Detective Cam Lazlo finds evidence that led to the conviction of Matt Homan for murdering his lover Samantha Innis. Everyone felt sorry for the victim¿s husband orthopedic doctor Thomas and their daughter seven years old Livie...................... Thomas is married to Deputy DA Julia and Livie has made some emotional progress, but remains haunted by the tragedy. The nightmare resurfaces when Julia¿s boss DA Bret McSwain shockingly arrests Thomas for murdering his wife and consequently frees Matt. Julia¿s best friend defense attorney Ellen Marshall agrees to head the defense. Retired Cam, who works as a consultant for renowned mystery writer Victor Ferris, offers his investigative services. He does so because his employer wants to write a novelization of the case but also for personal reasons; Cam felt that his work a dozen years ago was clean with overwhelming evidence pointing at the lover while the husband had numerous alibis at the hospital where he worked. As Cam and Julia work close together in support of Ellen¿s defense, they fall in love, but she knows she must be there for her husband and her stepdaughter at their time of need............................... HUSBAND AND LOVER is a fabulous legal thriller with a terrific subplot involving the romance between the caring Julia and likable Cam. The story line displays the defense team putting together its strategy and ultimately its case led by the fabulous Ellen whose work in court is fantastic to follow. Though the final twist makes life a bit too easy for this complex tale, fans will appreciate this strong drama and clamor for an Aspen-Denver sequel starring the legal combatants Ellen and Bret............................ Harriet Klausner
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US race chief bemused after Ecclestone doubts Austin race
http://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/15711813
The Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, is the first of two new US races
United States Grand Prix circuit chiefs have been left bemused by remarks from Bernie Ecclestone in which he cast doubt on next year's race in Texas.
Formula 1 boss Ecclestone described negotiations as "an uphill struggle".
Steve Sexton, president of the Austin circuit, said: "Our funding is secured and construction is on schedule, so we don't understand these comments.
"He has expressed great interest in the Austin race and in expanding the F1 brand into the US."
PREVIOUS STATESIDE GRAND PRIX VENUES
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Ecclestone said on Saturday: "Austin? I wouldn't want to put my money down that that will happen. I hope it will and we are doing our best to make it happen, but I wouldn't want to say 'yes'."
Tavo Hellmund, the man behind the Full Throttle Productions company which is staging the race in November 2012, said Ecclestone has been tolerant throughout the situation.
"Mr Ecclestone has been incredibly patient with the challenges here in Austin," said Hellmund.
"Full Throttle Productions has worked tirelessly to bring the US Grand Prix to the city.
"It is now the responsibility of the Circuit of the Americas to make this project happen before Mr Ecclestone's patience runs out."
The dispute comes after Bahrain's Crown Prince confirmed the Gulf state will be able to hold its grand prix next season after civil unrest caused this year's race to be cancelled.
The US Grand Prix in Austin is the first of two new US races, with the Grand Prix of America in New Jersey scheduled for 2013.
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Scotland’s Top Food and Drink Group Serve up Recipes for Love
One of Scotland’s top hospitality groups, Buzzworks Holdings, is whetting the appetite of customers this Valentine’s Day with the introduction of its biggest campaign to date, celebrating its love of food.
#LoveFoodFeelGood will be rolled out across Scotland and will celebrate the businesses passion for great food as well as acknowledging its role in pivotal life moments.
People’s love affair with food carries them through life, from falling in love, break ups, make ups to family celebrations, all the while making unforgettable memories. The new campaign aims to recognise the importance of high quality food and drink and celebrate the great experiences it can bring.
Kenny Blair, Director of Buzzworks said: “In the 25 plus years we have been trading, our venues and the food we have served, have been the basis of many key moments, we must have had a part to play in more than a thousand love stories and a million fabulous memories.
“Our love of food is a complex thing, however at Buzzworks we cherish this relationship and endorse the celebrations that come with it.
“I believe the success we have enjoyed to date and the loyalty from our customers comes from our love of food and the time and dedication we put in to maintain our great offering.
“We have chosen Valentine’s Day to launch #LoveFoodFeelGood which will include a series of great initiatives from our team - from sharing our passion and love of food, celebrating Buzzworks as a key part in our customers’ lives and rewarding our most regular visitors.
“A full community campaign to instil a healthy love of food in our young people is also set to kick off.”
One couple who knows only too well the power of good food is Brandon and Rachael who met and fell in love at Elliots in Prestwick.
Brandon Van Rensburg and Rachael Shirra met in 2014. The couple who are now engaged to be married, live together in Prestwick with six year old son Charlie and new arrival Elliott who is one.
“It’s safe to say we fell in love over food and drink.” says Brandon. “It was October 2014, and I was General Manager at Elliots and Rachael was in with her friends. I noticed her a few times before speaking with her in December and the rest is history.
“Being local to Ayrshire, we visited many of the Buzzworks restaurants as we got to know each other and over the months we literally fell in love over our favourite meals.
“Rachael’s family were also regulars to the Buzzworks venues so when I was officially introduced I already knew them well. So many of our regular customers become part of the Buzzworks family - it’s one of the many unique and attractive traits of the business.
“My 30th birthday was enjoyed by family and friends at the Bleu Bar within Elliots and I held a surprise private dinner for Rachael’s 30th at the Tree House in Ayr which has become one of our favourite venues over the years.
“Exactly six months after we met at Elliots, I proposed to Rachael and, she said yes! We now have a young son together and to mark the very start of our love story, we decided to name him Elliott.
“We are getting married in South Africa in January 2019 surrounded by our closest friends and family. Infact, my Best Lady is infact my line manager Nicola Watt, she has become a true friend and a career inspiration.”
Rachael is a gym and fitness instructor so eating good healthy food is important. Brandon added: “As a couple we enjoy going to the Tree House as the atmosphere, the amazing food and the friendly welcome that awaits always makes us happy. I love the Katsu Chicken Burger and Rachael loves the Californian Flatbread or the Prawn and Avocado salad.
“As a family Lido in Prestwick is great, the kids have so much fun making up their own pizzas at the table and then taking it over to the chef to be cooked – experiences like that really make special family memories and that’s the most important thing.
“Rachael and I are sometimes like ships in the night having different work patterns so to be able to sit down as a family and share treasured experiences over our favourite food is invaluable. I am very keen to instil a love of food to the boys.
“I have been part of the Buzzworks team for more than five years now and love my job. I believe in the values of the business and the great quality, fresh food served each and every day. I also love watching our customers share a part of their own journey with us, making memories, especially in the knowledge that my love story started just the same way.”
Kenny continued, “We will also be surveying our customers throughout the year about their favourite food experiences and why their love of food will last a lifetime.
“We are committed to spending 2018 sharing our love and passion for great food, it’s one of the many pleasures in life, and we look forward to sharing that passion with our customers across Scotland as we roll out the campaign.”
Visit: www.lovefoodfeelgood.com for more information #LoveFoodFeelGood
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Kings Cross Methodist Centre
Kings Cross Methodist Centre, Camden
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Preparation of a Significance Assessment to advise the design team for the re-provision of the church facilities and residential development on the site.
The Bidwells heritage team has been advising the West London Mission Housing Association on the proposed redevelopment of their existing facilities in Birkenhead Street, close to Kings Cross Station
The existing building is a much-altered Methodist Chapel from the mid-19th century, which has been extended and adapted as the congregation grew and the church evolved to provide a wider range of community services, including meeting rooms and accommodation
The former chapel frontage has been identified by Camden Council as contributing positively to the Conservation Area, and the potential for re-development has revolved around the options for retaining this façade as well as the impact of additional height of the replacement
The Heritage team has undertaken indepth research into the original chapel and its adaptation, and has then used this information to support an assessment ofits residual merit
The team has also advised on the design of the proposed replacement building and its impact on the Conservation Area and adjoining listed buildings
The outputs from the team include a Significance Assessment of the existing structures, tracking the extent and nature of alterations, and a Townscape Appraisal of the proposed replacement building.
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From tips on how to lose weight effectively to ways to combat boredom eating, this collection of informative articles covers a wide range of health topics that matter to real people, like you.
Social Isolation Symptoms and Your Health
Evolving research suggests loneliness is an overlooked issue and may just be deadlier than obesity... But what is social isolation and how can you protect your health from the deadly dangers of loneliness?
When it comes to the current condition of the U.S., health experts tend to encourage diet and exercise to mitigate the rising obesity rates. But as the focus positions on the obesity epidemic, we may be turning our heads and dropping the ball on another health crisis.
How Social Isolation Impacts Health
Social isolation is essentially an emotional and a physical state in which an individual loses communication with others, mostly sparking feelings of loneliness, depression, and other negative emotions. Despite the complexity and challenges of social isolation and loneliness, the concerning numbers are nonetheless there. Based on the Campaign to End Loneliness, 17 percent of older people are in contact with family, friends and neighbors less than once a week and 11 percent are in contact less than once a month. Additionally, 59 percent of adults aged 52 or older who report poor health say they feel lonely some of the time or often, compared to 21 percent who say they are in excellent health. Loneliness increases the likelihood of cognitive decline, depression, hypertension, and even mortality. In fact, research shows lacking social connections is a comparable risk factor for early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and is worse than well-known risk factors such as obesity and physical inactivity!
Presented evidence by the American Psychological Association further suggests loneliness is deadlier than obesity. The data revealed lonely people had a 50 percent increased risk of death compared to individuals with positive social connections, while obesity raised mortality risk by 30 percent before the age of 70. Whereas obesity is a risk factor for stroke and heart disease, people who are lonely frequently have high blood pressure, subsequently increasing the risk of a stroke or dementia. Turning the table slightly, people who maintain social and emotional bonds are more likely to live healthier and happier lives, thus reducing the risk of both obesity and loneliness.
How to Decrease Loneliness for Healthy Outcomes
With such compelling evidence connecting social isolation and loneliness with premature mortality, there is an emerging need to bring public awareness to this "loneliness epidemic." As health experts strategize and implement techniques to detour loneliness and mortality risk, individuals are encouraged to:
Understand Loneliness
Being alone is not synonymous to being lonely, as there is simply nothing wrong to act independently while simultaneous experiencing happiness and comfort. But even in the presence of people, people who feel lonely tend to feel misunderstand and potentially uncared for.
Remember, you do not have to go through this thing called life alone. Talking about these feelings with others can nurture more intimate bonds and allow others to gain a better understanding and perspective of who you are. There are also numerous resources and organizations to help link you to valuable social connections.
Rather than jumping right into a social gathering, allow yourself to take it slow. Swimming out of comfort zones can be difficult, so dip toes in an online community to ease into the water, along with volunteering at local food banks or participating in a new class or group as confidence starts to emerge.
Consider and Care for Other Feelings
Beyond loneliness itself, check and consider other feelings, including tiredness and stress. Accumulating negative emotions can synergize feelings of loneliness, so take care of concurring feelings by sleeping the recommended seven to nine hours of sleep, managing stress, and other appropriate measures.
Relish in Established Connections
Whether it be with a family member or a friend you may have lost touched with over the years, relish in these already established connections. For instance, ask family over for dinner at least once a week or simply call a friend just to chat.
Make Plans
Be proactive and make plans with others to lessen occurrences of loneliness. Additionally, be sure to establish plans on special occasions to ensure you will be in the presence of loved ones, including on Christmas and birthdays.
Flourish in Your Purpose
People who feel lonely are likely to have a distorted perception on their self-worth. Individuals can reestablish their sense of purpose by gearing back into or exploring new hobbies and volunteer work and rekindling relationships with friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family members. Acquiring and committing to a pet can also reduce feelings of isolation and depression and increase feelings of motivation.
. Published on June 11, 2018. Updated on August 31, 2019.
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Fears for future of high streets as Lloyds announces bank branch closures
Lloyds is to close two Fylde coast branches
Rob Stocks
Published: 09:08 Wednesday 01 February 2017
Concerns have been raised for the future of Fylde coast high streets following the announcement two more banks are to close.
Lloyds is to shut branches in Whitegate Drive, Blackpool and in Poulton Street, Kirkham.
The two banks will shut in May.
The move from Lloyds comes just days after HSBC revealed it is to shut its branch in Birley Street, Blackpool.
Yorkshire Building Society and Yorkshire Bank are closing branches in Cleveleys
Lloyds insists customers will still be able to use post office counters or other nearby branches to carry out their business.
But fears have been raised the move will take more footfall away from already struggling high streets.
A spokesman for Lloyds, which was bailed out by the Government in 2008, said: “We have made the difficult decision to close these branches because of the changing way customers choose to bank with us, which has resulted in customers using these branches less often.
“The majority of customers also now regularly use alternative branches or use other ways to bank such as online and telephone banking to complete their banking needs.
“We also have another branch close to Whitegate Drive, located at Corporation Street, which allows us to serve the local area.
“We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause and have informed customers of the closest alternative branches.”
But Coun Liz Oades, who represents Kirkham South on Fylde Council fears bank closures will drive others out of business.
She said: “It’s bad news to see banks closing.
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“We have already lost three banks in the town and this is another.
“We’ve an out of town supermarket and I’m worried there are going to be fewer and fewer reasons for people to visit the high street.
“It will have a knock on effect on other businesses.”
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Report: Alibaba Undercuts Amazon to Woo Wary European Brands
8 January 2020 • By Reuters
China's e-commerce giant is targeting key markets such as Spain with reduced monthly fees and commission for vendors, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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This Decade in China: Part Two
19 December 2019 • By Zoe Suen
BoF reflects on the past decade, examining the trends that shaped China’s fashion, beauty, luxury and retail landscape, from the fall of foreign fast fashion brands, to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests.
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BoF looks back at the trends that have shaped China’s fashion, beauty, luxury and retail landscape over the past ten years, from the rise of WeChat to a series of cultural missteps by Western labels.
Softbank May Sell Alibaba Stock to Fund Buyback
10 December 2019 • By Bloomberg
SoftBank’s February announcement of a $5.5 billion buyback sent its shares to a peak in April, but the stock has since lost most of the gains.
Alibaba Raises Additional Funding in Hong Kong Listing
3 December 2019 • By Reuters
The e-commerce giant raised an additional HK$13.17 billion after its landmark listing last month, the city's largest share sale in nine years.
Brands Press Play on China's Streaming Opportunity
28 November 2019 • By Casey Hall and Zoe Suen
Competition among China’s television streaming services is driving a content war, with local celebrities in the front line and global brands wondering how to leverage iQiyi, Tencent Video and Youku.
Alibaba's Hong Kong Shares Close 6.6% Up After 2019's Largest Stock Sale
26 November 2019 • By Reuters
The Chinese e-commerce giant's debut was the third biggest on record for the Hong Kong market.
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Alibaba Eyes Another Record Singles' Day
8 November 2019 • By Reuters
The Chinese online retailer predicts a surge in sales during the country's 24-hour shopping spree, with over 500 million users expected to participate.
Alibaba’s Luxury Venture With Richemont Goes Online in China
30 September 2019 • By Bloomberg
The joint venture will operate under Richemont's Net-a-Porter brand, and present 130 brands in one location on the Tmall e-commerce site.
Valentino’s Seductive Incongruities
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Photos Of The Real William Pierce Show 'Mindhunter' Season 2 Got All The Details Right
By Jack O'Keeffe
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Mindhunter Season 2 is, among other things, a rotating door of the 70's most notable serial killers. Holden and Bill sit down with William Henry Hance, The Son of Sam Killer, and Charles Manson, among others. While William "Junior" Pierce may not be as infamous as some of the other killers featured in the series, Mindhunter still puts the same effort into recreating Pierce to an eerily realistic degree, much like they did with Ed Kemper and the many other killers featured in Season 1. Mindhunter even used photos of the real William Pierce to fully flesh out the character and provide some insight on what the man valued — primarily, snacks.
William Pierce doesn't take up much room in Season 2's narrative, serving only to provide a dead-end on Holden's hunt for the BTK Killer and to introduce the young FBI agent to Atlanta. In fact, Pierce isn't mentioned in Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, suggesting that the BSU's meeting with him was fabricated (or just left out of the show's source material). While Pierce's conversation with the BSU may not have been true to life, the character's love of snacks absolutely was.
During the interview, Pierce stuffs his face with Mallomars in exchange for discussing his crimes. Later, Holden's temporary partner in Atlanta, Jim Barney, explains that he got the idea to feed him snacks from a picture of Pierce of his bed covered in snacks, likening his prison cell to a 7-11 convenience store.
The picture shown in the series is an actual image of Pierce, his jail cot holding sliced bread, ice cream, cigarettes, and much more.
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Listen, Pierce's crimes — murdering and raping an estimated nine women and men in the span of a year — are not funny at all. But this attention to the mundane details is what makes Mindhunter so much fun to watch for true crime buffs. During the interview, when he's not chowing down on sweets, Pierce stumbles over his words and pronounces "fancy" of words in either a thick dialect or just completely wrong, all while explaining that he is a genius.
Pierce recalls a time where he lashed out at someone for calling him a "moron" — a sentiment that Holden repeats in the car later following the conversation. While the show portrays Pierce as being someone from an impoverished background and lacking a formal education, how he talked in real life is the subject of speculation as no publicly available video or recording exists of Pierce.
While it's difficult to determine just how realistic Mindhunter's depiction of Pierce is, the show proves just how much value they put on research by taking one picture of Pierce's bunk and spinning that detail out into a crucial plot element of the character's limited time on the show.
While Pierce may not be as prominently featured as David Berkowitz or Charles Manson, the show's depiction of Pierce is a great example of the show's willingness to make all of their serial killers feel frighteningly realistic.
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Sylva’s aide accuses Dickson of disdain for free speech in Bayelsa state * Demands Jonah Okah’s release from Police detention
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Doifie Buokoribo
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Following the recent arrest of Chief Timipre Sylva’s ardent loyalist, Barrister Jonah Okah allegedly on the orders of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, frontline social and political activist, Mr. Doifie Buokoribo, has accused the governor of disdain for free speech in the state.
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Buokoribo also demanded the immediate release of Okah who has been in police custody since Wednesday.
The activist insisted that Chief Sylva’s loyalist was arrested in the state on the orders of Governor Dickson for his alleged comments on the Facebook platform.
In a statement by Buokoribo and posted to our Correspondent in Yenagoa, Doifie said he was expressing his personal views and not those of any social or political affiliates, including the All Progressives Party, APC, candidate in the last Bayelsa State governorship election, Chief Sylva, whom he serves as Media Adviser.
The activist appealed to the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in the state and all lovers of freedom to speak out against Dickson’s attack on free speech.
In the statement in Yenagoa on Thursday, Buokoribo condemned the arrest of Okah, painting it as reckless, lawless and unacceptable.
“On Wednesday, 31 August, Jonah Okah was arrested by the police in Bayelsa State on the orders of Governor Dickson and detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department,” he said, pointing out that “Okah has yet to be charged and remains in police custody.”
However, if statements from Dickson’s media aides are anything to go by, Okah is being held on the basis of comments he made on FaceBook considered distasteful to the Dickson’s camp. .
Reacting to news of Okah’s arrest, for instance, Special Adviser on Media to Dickson, Mr. Francis Agbo, wrote on Facebook: ‘Good riddance to bad rubbish. Jonah Okah, a civil servant with Bayelsa State was picked for defamation and assassination of character of the person of Mr. Ritchie Etonye, a Chartered Accountant and aide to the Governor.
Agbo said, that Okah claimed in his Facebook page that he had a conversation with the Accountant in which the Accountant claimed to have confided in him that he actually stole the Governor’s $4.6 million and absconded. Meanwhile no such conversation took place in the first place and no money was missing and Etonye has been with the Governor for official assignment throughout last week when Okah cooked up the tenuous telephone conversation. It was against this background that Etonye petitioned the police and the force swiftly arrested Okah.’
“A day earlier, on Tuesday, 30 August, at the Monthly Transparency Briefing in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Jonathan Obuebite, said the Bayelsa State Government was ready to prosecute those involved in the alleged claims that the disputed $4.6 million was missing.
According to him, “Government will assist the Government House accountant, Mr. Richtie Etonye to seek legal redress. The Governor is ready to serve as a witness in this matter so that for once the truth will come out for the good of Bayelsa.
“The governor has said he never lost any money and that he did not report any case of missing money. So, it is politically motivated. It was done by our detractors. I am aware that one Jonah Okah claimed that he communicated with the Government House Accountant. And I assure you that we will get to Court and he will explain how the communication was made.”
Arguing further, Buokoribo said: “Now, I have read the said post made by Jonah Okah who has degrees in Philosophy and Law, and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. It is common knowledge in communication that what Okah wrote is a SATIRE. If the Dickson syndicate does not understand the meaning of satire, that is their headache.
“Besides, the story about the alleged missing $4.6 million was first reported by LEADERSHIP newspaper and an online media organ, SAHARA REPORTERS. That story was not broken by Jonah Okah.
“In any case, if Dickson or his aides think they have been defamed, the proper thing under the law is to sue for libel. The police have no business in this matter, except they have any other reason for this arrest.
“What did Okah write compared to Dickson’s media aides that have made the slandering of Sylva their professional calling?
“Clearly, the Dickson syndicate wants to give Jonah Okah the ‘Tonye Okio Therapy’. On 26 October 2013, Tonye Okio, a Sylva loyalist, was whisked away by the police in a Gestapo style from his Abuja home on the orders of Dickson, and made to spend 86 days at Okaka Prison. His crime: Comments made on FaceBook. It took a global uproar from human rights activists for Okio to regain his freedom.
“After Okio, another social media critic, Melford Esinte, was arrested. When he managed to secure bail from a Magistrate court, Dickson ordered his re-arrest. Esinte was subsequently whisked to Sagbama, Dickson’s home town, where he was asked to produce a level 16 civil servant from the town or a gazzetted traditional ruler from the same community to sign his bail bond, draconian conditions that were deliberately set to maximise the persecution of Dickson’s perceived enemy. So many citizens have suffered untold hardships from Dickson for merely expressing their views about how the state is being (mis)governed.
“Not satisfied that citizens remained unbent, Dickson introduced the ludicrous ‘Malicious Misinformation and Rumour Mongering Bill’. With that bill, Dickson wanted powers to jail people for couples’ bedtime tales or beer parlour jokes.
“But then, there is a limit to even lawlessness. In this age of freedom, no government can successfully gag the citizenry. That is why even the Nigerian National Assembly, which had contemplated enacting an anti-social media bill, backed off following a national outrage. It is impossible for Dickson to defeat the resolve of the people of Bayelsa State to participate in the governance of their state. Bayelsa belongs to us all!
“I call for the immediate release of Jonah Okah from police custody. I call upon the state branch of the Nigerian Bar Association to intervene in this matter; I call upon the Nigerian and international human rights community to speak out against what is clearly an assault on free speech. I call upon all lovers of freedom to call Dickson to order,” he stressed.
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Soon after the discovery of the Wollemi Pine, our researchers at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan began developing propagation techniques to establish a collection of plants that reflected the trees growing in the wild. This horticultural research project established a population of plants for further research and translocation and provided material for commercial development of the Wollemi Pine (See Protecting the critically endangered Wollemi Pine).
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The Wollemi Pine is bisexual (monoecious), like its closest living relatives, with both male and female cones on the same tree. The round female cones produce the seeds, and the long male cones produce the pollen.
Male and female cones appear on separate branches, at the very tips. The female and male cones start growing in mid-summer. In late spring the male cones release masses of pollen, which is carried by the wind, to fertilise the egg cells in the female cones. The female cones then take about 18 months to ripen, when the fertilised ovaries develop into seeds and they then fall apart high above the canyon floor, releasing winged seeds that float to the ground. Each conifer seed has a scale associated with it. Like Agathis, Wollemia seeds are separate from the scale, whereas the seeds of Araucaria are attached to the scale. Both Agathis and Wollemia have winged seeds, but in Wollemia the wing encircles the seed and in Agathis the wing is one-sided.
Embryological studies tracked the sequence from fertilisation to seed development, using ultra-thin sections cut from dissected Wollemi Pine cones. These sections were mounted on glass slides for microscopic examination or prepared for examination using a scanning electron microscope. These studies were supported by the Hermon Slade Foundation.
Field observations and laboratory experiments indicate that following seed shed in summer and early autumn when temperatures are high, Wollemia nobilis seeds germinate, especially if exposed to light. The seeds that remain ungerminated or that are shed late in the season survive over winter, but germinate rapidly once temperatures rise in the next spring.
Constant-temperature experiments found that seed germination of Wollemi Pine proceeded most rapidly at temperatures between 24°C and 30°C. Few seeds germinated when incubated for 112 days at 10°C and 16°C but these later germinated when transferred to 24°C, whereas seeds initially incubated at 35°C were killed. Unstratified seeds showed a pattern of prolonged germination taking 130 days to achieve 40% germination at 24°C and 40 days at 27°C. Seeds stratified (chilled) at 6°C for 14 days and incubated at 27°C in the light achieved 40% germination within 20 days while those incubated at 10°C and 16°C for 112 days and transferred to 24°C achieved 40% germination by 15 and 24 days respectively. Initial germination of unstratified seeds was fastest when incubated at 30°C in the light, averaging 23 days.
Exposure to 12 h diurnal periods of 10-15 µmol m-2 s-1 light significantly increased 28-day incubation germination percentages, but only those incubated at 30°C. Additions of gibberellic acid (GA3) at 1mM had no effect on seed germination of W. nobilis.
Abstract from *Offord C A & *Meagher P F, 2001, ‘Effects of temperature, light and stratification on seed germination of Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis, Araucariaceae)', Australian Journal of Botany, 49:699-704.
Seed cones mature in late summer and autumn and appear to be produced annually. Approximately 10% of seed produced in two consecutive years was viable, 25% of which was damaged by animals. Glasshouse studies showed that seed germination at 25°C day/16°C night proceeded slowly but steadily at approximately 4% per week until, after 6 months, 88% of apparently viable seeds had germinated with the remainder of the seed rotting.
Growth of potted seedlings in this temperature regime was continuous (after a lag period of 4-6 months) with the monopodial axis growing 0.05-0.25 m in the first year, 0.5-0.6 m in the second year and 0.25-0.35 m in the third year, attaining a total height of 0.8-1.2 m. Multiple orthotropic shoots developed on some plants at this stage, some of which outgrew the primary shoot in height. The diameter of the stem below the cotyledon (just above the soil) grew 3-7 mm in the first year, 10-14 mm in the second and 15-20 mm in the third at which time it was 25-34 mm.
The average number of lateral branches produced was 5-17 in the first year, 25-36 in the second year and 24-30 in the third year giving a total of 60-77. The establishment of Wollemi pine in the wild does not appear limited by the inherent viability of seeds and potential for early growth of seedlings.
*Offord C A, *Porter C L, *Meagher P F & *Errington G, 1999, ‘Sexual reproduction and early plant growth of the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis), a rare and threatened Australian conifer’, Annals of Botany, 84: 1–9.
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Psychosis alters association between IQ and future risk of attempted suicide: cohort study of 1 109 475 Swedish men
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BMJ 2010; 340 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c2506 (Published 03 June 2010) Cite this as: BMJ 2010;340:c2506
G David Batty, Wellcome Trust fellow123,
Elise Whitley, medical statistician1,
Ian J Deary, professor of differential psychology2,
Catharine R Gale, reader in epidemiology4,
Per Tynelius, statistician5,
Finn Rasmussen, professor5
1Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
2Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
3The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
4Medical Research Council Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton
5Child and Adolescent Public Health Epidemiology Group, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
Correspondence to: F Rasmussen finn.rasmussen{at}ki.se
Accepted 9 March 2010
Objectives To explore associations between IQ measured in early adulthood and subsequent hospital admissions for attempted suicide and to explore the role of psychosis and examine associations of IQ with specific methods of attempted suicide.
Design Cohort study.
Setting Sweden.
Participants 1 109 475 Swedish men with IQ measured in early adulthood followed up for an average 24 years.
Main outcome measures Hospital admission for attempted suicide.
Results 17 736 (1.6%) men had at least one hospital admission for attempted suicide by any means during follow-up. After adjustment for age and socioeconomic status, lower IQ scores were associated with an elevated risk of attempted suicide by any means (hazard ratio per standard deviation decrease in IQ=1.57, 95% confidence interval 1.54 to 1.60), with stepwise increases in risk across the full IQ range (P for trend<0.001). Similar associations were observed for all specific methods of attempted suicide. Separate analyses indicated that associations between IQ and attempted suicide were restricted to participants without psychosis and that IQ had no marked impact on risk of attempted suicide in those with psychosis.
Conclusions Low IQ scores in early adulthood were associated with a subsequently increased risk of attempted suicide in men free from psychosis. A greater understanding of the mechanisms underlying these associations may provide opportunities and strategies for prevention.
Attempted (non-fatal) suicide is a frequent cause of emergency admission to hospital in Europe and the United States,1 2 and repeated episodes are common.1 3 Unsurprisingly, attempted suicide is the strongest predictor of completed (fatal) suicide; estimates in the United Kingdom suggest that up to two thirds of suicides are preceded by a non-fatal attempt in the previous year.3 Growing evidence suggests that intelligence (cognitive function) may have a role in the aetiology of attempted suicide, but the nature of this relation is uncertain. Evidence from ecological studies suggests that countries with higher average scores on intelligence tests generally have higher suicide rates, although these findings may well be subject to the ecological fallacy.4 5 Conversely, observations in non-clinical samples indicate that people with lower intelligence are more likely to attempt suicide,6 7 8 and to succeed in killing themselves,9 10 11 12 consistent with evidence that psychiatric illness is more common in people with lower IQ scores.13 However, the presence of psychiatric illness, specifically schizophrenia or psychosis, has been hypothesised to modify associations between IQ and death from suicide; in people with psychosis, those with higher IQ or better school performance had the greatest risk of completed suicide.12 14 15
Previous studies examining intelligence and attempted suicide have not directly considered the role of psychosis. Furthermore, they were based on relatively small numbers of participants or events,6 7 8 leading to limited statistical power and prohibiting exploration of associations of IQ with attempted suicide by specific means. The analysis presented here explores associations between IQ measured in early adulthood and subsequent hospital admissions for attempted suicide in a cohort of more than a million Swedish men, of whom more than 15 000 attempted suicide during two decades of follow-up. This cohort is more than seven times larger than the previous largest study.6 In addition to offering greater statistical power, this has allowed exploration of the role of psychosis and examination of associations of IQ with specific methods of attempted suicide.
Study participants and record linkage
The record linkage used to generate this cohort has been reported previously.10 16 The cohort comprised all non-adopted men born in Sweden from 1950 to 1976 with both biological parents identified in the multi-generation register. We used unique personal identification numbers to link this register with the population and housing censuses records (1960 and 1970), and military service conscription, cause of death, and national hospital discharge registers, resulting in 1 379 531 successful matches.
Conscription examination
The military service conscription examination involves a structured, standard medical assessment of physical and mental health and cognitive function. During the years covered by this study, the law required this examination; only men of foreign citizenship or with severe disability were excused. This dataset covers examinations from 15 September 1969 to 31 December 1994, after which the method for measuring IQ changed. Average age at examination was 18.3 (range 16-25) years.
IQ was measured by four written subtests representing verbal, logical, spatial, and technical abilities.17 The verbal test measured knowledge of synonyms. The logical test measured capacity to understand written instructions and apply them to problem solving. The spatial test depicted a plan drawing of an object in its pre-assembled, two dimensional state and required respondents to identify, from a series of drawings of fully assembled, three dimensional objects, which it represented. The technical test measured knowledge of chemistry and physics and implies a general knowledge component. All test scores, including a total IQ score derived from summing the results of the subtests, were standardised year on year to give a Gaussian distributed integer score between 1 and 9, with higher values indicating greater intellectual capacity.
Psychosis at conscription was identified during a short interview by a physician (ICD-8/9 (international classification of diseases, 8th/9th revision) codes 295.0-299.9). Medical personnel used standard protocols to measure blood pressure, height, and weight. Body mass index was derived in the usual way (weight (kg)/height (m)2). Childhood socioeconomic status was based on the highest occupation of either parent (from 1960/1970 population and housing censuses), using seven categories: non-manual (high), non-manual (intermediate), non-manual (low), farmers, skilled, unskilled, and other. Highest educational achievement (1990-2004) was also based on seven categories: primary school (<9 years), primary school (9-10 years), secondary school (≤12 years), full secondary education, university (<3 years), university (≥3 years), and PhD studies. We used population and housing censuses records (1990) to ascertain adult socioeconomic status coded as for childhood status. Adult socioeconomic status was based on men’s own occupation for those who had an occupational code and otherwise on household socioeconomic status. Questionnaire data on smoking and alcohol consumption were collected at conscription in 1969-70 for a subgroup (3%) of men. “Risky” use of alcohol was identified from at least one of consumption of ≥250g 100% alcohol per week, ever consumed alcohol during a hangover, ever been apprehended for drunkenness, and often been drunk.18
Hospital admissions data
Hospital admissions data from 1969-2006 were based on the Swedish hospital discharge register, which covered around a third of the Swedish population in 1970, rising to 71% in 1977 and 100% from 1987. The shortfall in the 1970s and 1980s occurred in counties of varying population density and socioeconomic composition, and we have no reason to suppose that any systematic difference existed in associations of IQ with attempted suicide between counties included and not included in the register during these early years. Admissions were coded according to ICD versions 8, 9, and 10. We identified attempted (non-fatal) suicides from injuries coded as intentional or undetermined. Although likely to vary from hospital to hospital, “undetermined” codes generally describe injuries for which level of intent is difficult to establish. However, in adults, most undetermined injuries are likely to have been intentional,19 and the two codes are usually combined in epidemiological studies. Our follow-up period covered three ICD revisions, and, although these revisions do not seem to have affected the total number of suicides, differences exist in the classifications of specific suicide methods.20 We therefore identified seven methods that were coded consistently between revisions20 21: poisoning by solid or liquid (including drugs); other poisoning (including domestic gas and vehicle exhaust); hanging, strangulation, and suffocation; drowning; firearms and explosives; jumping or falling from a high place; and sharp objects. Table 1⇓ shows the ICD codes used to identify hospital admissions for attempted suicide. We restricted all analyses to admissions for attempted suicide that occurred after conscription. We also identified hospital admissions for psychosis occurring before any suicide attempts (ICD 8/9: 295.0-299.9; ICD10: F20.0-F29.9). Analyses based on specific psychotic conditions were very similar to those based on general psychosis; we therefore present results for general psychosis for simplicity and consistency with previous studies.
Number of men with one or more hospital admission for attempted suicide* during follow-up (n=1 109 475)
We used Cox proportional hazards regression to explore associations between IQ and attempted suicide after checking that proportional hazards assumptions were not violated. As we included all hospital admissions, men could have more than one suicide attempt recorded. We based the main analyses on the first attempt by any means or by one of our seven specific methods. A man with two admissions for intentional jumping and one for intentional hanging would thus be treated as an attempted suicide event in analyses of all attempted suicides (first event), intentional jumping (first intentional jump), and intentional hanging (only hanging). Follow-up began on the date of conscription and ended on the earliest of date of first attempted suicide (by any means or by specific method as appropriate), death, emigration, or 31 December 2006. The main analyses were based on the total IQ score. We calculated hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for all attempted suicides combined according to IQ in nine categories relative to the median (IQ=5) and a standard deviation decrease in IQ. Analyses of method specific attempted suicides were based on fewer events, and we calculated hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) for IQ in four groups (7-9, 5-6, 3-4, 1-2) to preserve statistical power and for ease of presentation across all methods.
We adjusted all analyses for age at conscription. Separate models adjusted for childhood circumstances, based on childhood socioeconomic status and adult height (although largely under genetic control, adult stature is a widely used indicator of pre-adult suboptimal nutrition and socioeconomic adversity22), and adult socioeconomic status. Blood pressure and body mass index have been associated with both IQ and suicide,23 24 25 26 and we also included these as potential confounding factors. Multiply adjusted models also included conscription centre and year of birth. We examined adjustments for educational achievement separately because of its strong correlation with IQ. Analyses were based on men with complete data for all variables.
Heavy drinking and binge drinking have been previously linked with lower IQ and increased suicide risk.27 28 29 In addition, smoking may be a proxy measure for risk taking or poor health behaviours. In the subgroup of men with complete data, we assessed the impact of adjusting associations between IQ and attempted suicide for smoking (smoker v non-smoker) and alcohol (risky alcohol use v not).
We identified men with psychosis from diagnoses of psychosis at the conscription examination and from hospital admissions for psychosis pre-dating any attempted suicide admissions. We calculated associations between IQ and attempted suicide separately for men with and without psychosis and did corresponding tests of statistical interaction/effect modification. Finally, we repeated the main analyses excluding the quarter of admissions for attempted suicide due to undetermined injuries, separately for the four IQ subscales, and using Poisson regression for attempted suicide rates based on the total number of admissions.
Of 1 379 531 men in the original cohort, 1 109 475 (80.4%) had complete data on IQ and confounding variables and were included in the analyses. The most common reason for exclusion was missing IQ (n=213 861). Men with missing data had lower socioeconomic status and educational attainments. Men were followed up for an average 24.2 years. Altogether 17 736 (1.6%) men included in the analyses had at least one admission for attempted suicide during follow-up compared with 2561 (1.0%) men with missing data. The most common method of attempted suicide was poisoning by solid or liquid (1.3% of men), followed by injury with a sharp object (0.1%), other poisoning (0.04%), hanging, strangulation, or suffocation (0.04%), jumping or falling from a high place (0.03%), injury from firearms or explosives (0.02%), and drowning or submersion (0.01%) (table 1⇑).
Table 2⇓ shows the characteristics of men included in the analyses. Men with lower IQ scores were somewhat shorter and had slightly higher body mass index. Differences in socioeconomic status and education were stepwise: men with lower IQ scores were increasingly less likely to have parents from a non-manual socioeconomic status, to have a non-manual socioeconomic status, or to be university educated. A total of 12 328 (1.1%) men included in the analyses were identified as psychotic; 280 (2.3%) were identified at conscription and the remainder had a subsequent hospital admission for psychosis pre-dating any admissions for attempted suicide. Psychosis and attempted suicide were both more common in men with lower IQ scores.
Characteristics of 1 109 475 men included in analyses. Values are numbers (percentages) unless stated otherwise
Table 3⇓ shows hazard ratios for attempted suicide by any means according to IQ score relative to the median (IQ=5). We found consistent stepwise increases in hazard across all nine IQ groups (P for trend<0.001). In age adjusted analyses, men in the lowest IQ group were almost nine times as likely to have an admission for attempted suicide as were those in the highest group, and an SD (1.9 point) decrease in IQ score was associated with a 71% (95% confidence interval 68% to 74%) increase in hazard. Adjustment for body mass index and blood pressure had no effect on these associations (results available on request). Associations were somewhat weakened by adjustments for childhood and adult socioeconomic status and, most notably, education. However, striking gradients of increasing attempted suicide with decreasing IQ score remained in multiply adjusted models.
Hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) for attempted suicide* by any means according to IQ
Table 4⇓ shows similar results for attempted suicides by specific methods. Hazard ratios are shown for four categories of IQ score relative to the median (IQ score=5 or 6). Again, we found stepwise increases in age adjusted hazard with decreasing IQ for all types of attempted suicide, most markedly for the two most common methods: poisoning by solid or liquid (age adjusted hazard ratio for an SD decrease in IQ=1.76, 95% confidence interval 1.73 to 1.79) and injuries from sharp objects (1.73, 1.65 to 1.82). Adjustments for socioeconomic status and, particularly, education led to attenuation of associations between IQ and attempted suicide by all methods other than drowning, for which adjustment had no marked impact.
Hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) for method specific attempted suicide* according to IQ
Smoking and alcohol data were available for a subgroup of 34 034 men (3.1% of those included in the main analyses), of whom 783 (2.3%) had at least one hospital admission for attempted suicide. Adjustment for smoking and risky alcohol use both to led attenuation of associations of IQ with attempted suicide by any means (hazard ratio for an SD decrease in IQ adjusted for age only 1.58, 1.47 to 1.69; adjusted for age and risky alcohol use 1.49, 1.39 to 1.60; and adjusted for age and smoking 1.50, 1.40 to 1.61). We found similar results for poisoning by solid or liquid and for injuries from sharp objects; numbers of events were insufficient to allow us to look separately at other method specific suicide attempts.
Of 12 328 men identified as psychotic, 1607 (13.0%) had at least one subsequent admission for attempted suicide compared with 16 129 (1.5%) men free from psychosis. The figure⇓ shows age adjusted associations between IQ and attempted suicide by any means for men with and without psychosis. The association in men free from psychosis was very similar to that shown in table 3⇑, with stepwise increases in hazard associated with decreasing IQ score (age adjusted hazard ratio for an SD decrease in IQ=1.73, 1.70 to 1.75). In contrast, we found no evidence of any association between IQ and attempted suicide in men with psychosis, and confidence intervals for all IQ scores included 1.0. Statistical tests for interaction/effect modification were highly significant (P<0.001). Analyses of method specific attempted suicides were very similar: for all seven specific methods we found consistently strong associations of increasing risk of attempted suicide with decreasing IQ score in men free from psychosis compared with no marked associations between IQ and attempted suicide in men with psychosis (results available on request).
Age adjusted hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) for attempted suicide (intentional and undetermined causes combined) by any means according to IQ score in men with and without psychosis (on basis of conscription examination or hospital admissions pre-dating any admissions for attempted suicide)
In analyses of the four IQ subscales, the strongest associations with attempted suicide by any means were those with the logical subtest (age adjusted hazard ratio for an SD decrease in logical IQ=1.68, 1.65 to 1.70), followed by the technical subscale (1.61, 1.59 to 1.64), verbal subscale (1.52, 1.50 to 1.54), and spatial subscale (1.49, 1.47 to 1.52). This somewhat stronger association with logical IQ was also apparent for all method specific suicide attempts other than jumping or falling from a high place. Finally, results from analyses excluding undetermined injuries or based on Poisson regression were very similar to those presented here.
In this large scale, prospective cohort study, we found strong, consistent, stepwise associations between decreasing IQ score and increasing risk of attempted suicide, which were evident for attempted suicide by any means and for seven specific methods. Adjustment for childhood and adult socioeconomic status and, to a greater extent, education led to a reduction in magnitude, but strong associations remained in multiply adjusted models. Separate analyses suggested that associations between IQ and attempted suicide were restricted to men without psychosis; in men with psychosis we found no evidence of any marked association between IQ and attempted suicide.
Strengths and limitations
Our analyses are based on an almost complete birth cohort of more than one million men followed up for an average of 24 years. This study is considerably larger than others in the field, which, in addition to providing superior statistical power, has enabled us to consider method specific attempted suicides. These method specific analyses were motivated, a priori, by observations that the method of preference, often determined by availability, varies with (among other factors) occupation and socioeconomic status,30 which are related to IQ. Our study population had IQ measured using standardised tests in early adulthood and is well characterised for socioeconomic status and other potential confounding or mediating factors. A potential problem of working with IQ scores collected over 25 years is the “Flynn effect,”31 which describes the phenomenon, in nationally representative samples, of rising IQ scores over time. However, the IQ scores used in these analyses were standardised year on year, and, as a result, we are confident that the Flynn effect had no impact.
We identified attempted suicides from hospital admissions, and, as hospital treatment in Sweden is free, we have no reason to suppose that any systematic bias resulted from this approach. However, our analyses do not include incidents of self harm that did not need hospital treatment, which may be important in identifying people at future risk of attempted or completed suicide. Additionally, our analyses are based on admissions for attempted suicide in Swedish men aged 16 to 57, and our results are not necessarily generalisable to other countries, to women, or to older men. However, younger people have been identified as a priority in terms of suicide prevention, and our results provide an insight into this particularly important group.
Psychosis is a well established risk factor for attempted suicide, and men who were psychotic at the time of conscription might have performed poorly on the IQ test as a result. However, the vast majority (97.7%) of cases of psychosis were identified after conscription, minimising the confounding effect of this factor on our results. Finally, almost 20% of men were excluded from analyses, mostly because of missing IQ, and fewer attempted suicides occurred in this group. Educational achievement was generally lower, suggesting that excluded men may have been in the lower IQ range. The lower attempted suicide rates in these men therefore suggest that our hazard ratios may be slight overestimates. However, their magnitude is consistent with those reported elsewhere,6 8 and the stepwise nature of the associations across all nine IQ scores make it very unlikely that they are substantially due to selection bias.
Possible explanations for associations
Several plausible explanations exist for the associations between IQ and attempted suicide presented here. Low IQ tends to correlate with lower socioeconomic status and income, so people with lower IQ scores may experience more social and financial disadvantage, leading to an increase in suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Low IQ has also been associated with poor health behaviours such as binge drinking,28 which also increases suicide risk.29 In our analyses, adjustment for socioeconomic status, smoking, and risky alcohol use led to small degrees of attenuation, suggesting that these factors may partially confound or mediate associations between IQ and attempted suicide. However, the attenuation was modest and these factors are unlikely to account completely for the observed associations.
IQ may also influence a person’s ability to deal with stressful circumstances or traumatic events; studies in children and adolescents suggest that those of higher intelligence are more resilient to stress.32 33 People with lower IQ scores may have poorer problem solving abilities and, in times of crisis, be less able to identify practical solutions to their problems.10 In separate analyses of the four IQ subtests, we found that associations with the logical (problem solving) subscale were consistently strongest, which would support this view. We also found strong associations with the verbal IQ component, suggesting that an ability to verbalise and share emotion or distress might reduce the risk of non-verbal expression such as self harm. Studies in children suggest that higher cognitive ability is associated with a greater internal locus of control,34 leading to a decrease in the risk of suicidal behaviour.35 In addition, high emotional intelligence, particularly strategic emotional intelligence (defined as the ability to understand and manage emotions) may also reduce suicidal behaviour.36
Adversity in childhood may also affect IQ or academic performance and future suicide risk. Children exposed to violence early in life, either directly as victims or indirectly as witnesses, have been found to have reduced cognitive function,37 38 and studies of community violence and those that attempt to control for genetic influences indicate that suppression of IQ in exposed children may be independent of parental IQ.39 40 Exposure to direct or indirect violence in childhood has also been reported to increase the risk of suicide ideation or attempts later in life.41 42 Although speculative, these relations may contribute to associations between IQ and attempted suicide, and the hypothesis may be worthy of further investigation.
Finally, we need to consider the role of psychosis. Previous studies of completed suicide suggest that associations with IQ may differ between people with and without psychosis. Specifically, whereas lower IQ is a risk factor for suicide in those free from psychosis, low IQ or poor school performance has been observed to reduce the risk of completed suicide in psychotic people.12 14 15 Possible explanations include higher self expectation in people with higher IQ, leading to increased distress in the face of mental disintegration or greater downward drift in socioeconomic status after mental illness.14 The negative effect of low IQ in our analysis was similarly restricted to men without psychosis. However, in men with psychosis, we found a lack of association between IQ and attempted suicide rather than the negative impact of high IQ reported for completed suicides.12 14 This is a new observation, which needs to be replicated in other populations, and speculating on the reasons underlying it is difficult. Inevitably, analyses in psychotic men were based on smaller numbers, possibly leading to reduced power; however, attempted suicide was markedly more common in these men and, in practice, we had 90% power to detect a 20% difference between men with below and above average IQ, which is an extremely modest effect in this context. Alternatively, the apparent lack of association with IQ in men with psychosis may simply reflect the strength of associations between psychosis and attempted suicide compared with the relatively negligible effect of other risk factors.
Suicide is a major cause of morbidity and mortality at young adult ages and therefore presents an important public health challenge. However, the causes of attempted and completed suicide are very poorly understood. This study confirms an emerging association between IQ and attempted suicide in a much larger dataset than has previously been used in this context and, uniquely, provides insight into the role of psychosis. A greater understanding of IQ-suicide associations, particularly in the presence or absence of psychosis, provides a novel insight into the process by which people come to make the decision to attempt suicide. Given the novelty of these findings, further research is needed to provide a deeper understanding, which will inform public health strategies and may lead to a reduction in future attempted and subsequently completed suicides.
What is already known on this topic
Evidence is emerging of an association between intelligence (IQ) and attempted (non-fatal) suicide
Existing studies are relatively small and have not explored the association of IQ with method specific attempted suicides
Very little is known about the potential effect modifying role of psychosis on associations between IQ and attempted suicide
In a cohort of over one million men, strong stepwise associations existed between decreasing IQ score in young adulthood and increasing attempted suicide in men free from psychosis
These associations were evident for suicide attempts by any means and for seven specific attempted suicide methods
No such associations existed in men with psychosis
Cite this as: BMJ 2010;340:c2506
Contributors: All authors contributed to the design and interpretation of the study, critically revised the manuscript, and approved the final version. EW did the statistical analyses, and GDB and EW wrote the first draft. EW, PT, and FR are the guarantors.
Funding: GDB is a Wellcome Trust fellow (WBS U.1300.00.006.00012.01), funding from which also supports EW. The Medical Research Council (MRC) Social and Public Health Sciences Unit receives funding from the UK MRC and the Chief Scientist Office at the Scottish Government Health Directorates. The Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology is supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the MRC, and the University of Edinburgh as part of the cross council lifelong health and wellbeing initiative. FR is supported by the Swedish Research Council, the Labour Market Insurance Ltd (AFA), and the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research.
Competing interests: None declared.
Ethical approval: The Regional Ethics Committee, Stockholm, approved the study.
Data sharing: No additional data available.
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Team India will be looking to take revenge of their last ODI series defeat against Australia when the two teams meet in the first game of the three-match rubber at the Wankhede on Tuesday.
The last time Australia played an ODI series against India in the sub-continent; they came from 0-2 behind and went on to win the five-match series 3-2. And that win will surely be on the minds of both the teams, especially the visitors who would be brimming with confidence.
The reason behind Australia's sky-high confidence is also the return of their premier batters Steve Smith and David Warner, who both proved their worth in the ODI World Cup. The duo have been in prolific form since then and they showed their prowess in the T20I series against Pakistan and Sri Lanka as well.
India, on the other hand, have had good outings against West Indies and Sri Lanka in white-ball cricket in the recent times and would be raring to go. With the return of Rohit Sharma and Mohammad Shami, the hosts would feel a lot more confident, having adequate arsenal in both the departments.
For the hosts, however, it would be more about the combination they go with. Will they go with Manish Pandey and Kedar Jadhav or will Ravindra Jadeja and Shivam Dube get a go ahead - this remains a question which can only be answered by the team management.
Also, it will be interesting to see whether Virat Kohli goes with the spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal or gives rest to one of the two.
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has already predicted the 2-1 scoreline of the three-match series in visitor's favour while stating that Indian team would be keen to "redeem themselves".
The last time that the two teams met in ODIs was in the World Cup where India emerged out victorious. They have not played any ODI cricket since then, but they looked really balanced and penetrative in the T20Is they played against Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Another interesting thing to look out for in the three ODIs would be Marnus Labuschagne who is all set to make his debut in the 50-over format. Labuschagne is coming into the series on the back of a prolific home summer in Test cricket and has been spoken of highly by everyone.
Thus, it will be interesting to see whether the 25-year-old will be able to translate his form in white-ball cricket or will he suffer on the sub-continent conditions against quality Indian bowling unit, which consists of world's best pacers at the moment - Jasprit Bumrah.
Squads:
India: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (vc), Rishabh Pant (wk), Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shikhar Dhawan, Shivam Dube, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Manish Pandey, KL Rahul, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Shami, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav
Australia: Aaron Finch (c), Alex Carey (vc & wk), Pat Cummins (vc), Ashton Agar, Peter Handscomb, Josh Hazlewood, Marnus Labuschagne, Kane Richardson, D'Arcy Short, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Ashton Turner, David Warner, Adam Zampa
Read our full coverage on India vs Australia
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By SARAH OOKO
Too much caffeine during pregnancy may impair the unborn baby’s liver development and increase the risk of liver disease in adulthood.
Caffeine poses health risks for pregnant women
Tuesday, August 6, 2019 20:13
Coffee drinking during pregnancy risks the mother’s health as well as the unborn baby. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Most people love taking a cup of coffee to feel fresh and alert.
The beverage has become a staple in most home and offices, with many people viewing it as harmless.
But as the saying goes, too much of something may be dangerous. This is especially true for pregnant women.
Findings of a recent study published in the Endocrinology Journal show that having too much caffeine during pregnancy may impair the unborn baby’s liver development and increase the risk of liver disease in adulthood.
The research, conducted among laboratory mice found that pregnant mice given caffeine had offspring with impaired liver development as well as altered growth and stress hormone levels.
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It revealed that consumption of caffeine equivalent to between two and three cups of coffee might alter stress and growth hormone levels in a manner that can impair growth and development, whilst increasing the risk of liver disease among affected children in adulthood.
The research findings were in line with previous animal studies that have suggested that prenatal caffeine consumption may have more detrimental long-term effects on liver development, with increased susceptibility to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease — a debilitating condition normally associated with obesity and diabetes.
Irrespective of these risk factors, the underlying link between prenatal caffeine exposure and impaired liver development remains poorly understood.
The new study thus sought to provide a better understanding of how caffeine mediates these effects.
During the research, scientists from Wuhan University in China investigated the effects of low caffeine (the equivalent of between two and three cups of coffee) and high doses of caffeine (the equivalent of between six and nine cups of coffee) on liver function and hormone levels in the offspring of pregnant rats.
The results showed that offspring exposed to prenatal caffeine had lower levels of a hormone known as an insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) that is produced in the liver, as well as a stress hormone called corticosteroid at birth.
The IGF-1 hormone is important for normal growth. Its suppression, therefore, impedes the proper functioning of the body as well as the liver.
To rectify this challenge, the research revealed that after birth, the liver of affected mice offspring ended up producing increased levels of the hormone to compensate for the earlier deficit caused by the caffeine to enhance proper body development.
The researchers believe that the increased risk of fatty liver disease to unborn children associated with caffeine exposure during pregnancy is most likely a consequence of this enhanced IGF-1 production in the offspring after birth.
According to the researchers, these findings confirm that prenatal caffeine exposure leads to impaired liver development before birth.
However, they note that the animal findings need to be confirmed in humans first.
“Our work suggests that prenatal caffeine is not good for babies and although these findings still need to be confirmed in people, I would recommend that women avoid caffeine during pregnancy,” said Dr Yinxian Wen, co-author of the study from the Wuhan University in China.
Aside from increasing the risk of liver disease — caffeine as a stimulant — is known to elevate blood pressure and heart rate, both of which are not recommended during pregnancy.
High blood pressure can increase the risk of poor birth outcomes, such as preterm delivery, smaller-than-average size babies and infant death.
It also affects the mother’s blood vessels. This can decrease the flow of nutrients through the placenta to the baby, resulting in low birth weight.
Hypertension-related preterm delivery can also result in health complications for the baby. These may include difficulty breathing if the lungs are not fully developed.
Being a diuretic, caffeine also increases the frequency of urination. This causes a reduction in body fluid levels, leading to dehydration
Mild dehydration is not typically dangerous in pregnancy as long as the woman quickly gets enough fluids.
However, severe dehydration caused by caffeine can be dangerous for both the mother and the baby.
It lowers levels of amniotic fluids, which can influence the baby’s development, leading to preterm labour while also affecting the production of breast milk.
Dehydration can cause deficiencies in nutrients that are vital for the health of the pregnant woman and the developing baby.
Health experts note that although adults may be able to handle the amounts of caffeine that they consume in their bodies, babies cannot.
This is because their still maturing metabolism cannot fully breakdown the caffeine.
They note that any amount of caffeine can also cause changes in the baby’s sleep pattern or normal movement in the later stages of pregnancy.
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Clifton actor who taught children online safety in schools had 2,000 child sex abuse pictures
Theodore Fraser also sent a photo of his erect penis to a 13-year-old girl
Geoffrey Bennett
Theodore Fraser has been jailed for 31 months for making indecent images of children and distributing 785 indecent images of children. A court heard he sent a picture of his erect penis to a child (Image: Avon and Somerset police)
Actor Theodore Fraser was doing a worthwhile job of going into schools and teaching online safety advice to children.
But in reality he represented exactly the kind of danger he was warning of.
Unknown to his wife, family and church, for some ten years he went online and downloaded child sex abuse photos and films.
And as well as sending out photos of his erect penis to a youngster, he tried to get two girls to send him intimate photos of them.
Fraser, 30, of College Road in Clifton, pleaded guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children and distributing 785 indecent images of children.
Fraser, of College Road in Clifton, pleaded guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children and distributing 785 indecent images of children
He also admitted two charges of attempting to incite a child aged 13 and 15 to engage in sexual activity and attempting to cause a child aged 13 to look at an image of sexual activity.
Judge Mark Horton jailed him for 31 months.
He told Fraser: “There can be no question that you were taking advantage of what you believed to be girls of that age and you were manipulating them and seeking to persuade them to send pictures of themselves.”
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Julian Howells, prosecuting, said police acting on information searched Fraser’s home and seized his computers.
Mr Howells said: “The defendant requested an early interview. He worked as an actor visiting schools and teaching children to stay safe online.”
Fraser admitted downloading child abuse material from the age of 19.
He said he had tried to stop, but continued, and deleted material when he went to university and got married.
Analysis found he had more than 2,000 indecent photos, the majority of which were deemed to be in the lowest abuse category, Mr Howells said.
The court heard Fraser had 785 folders available for file-sharing with others.
Further evidence showed he had sent two photos of his erect penis to a girl aged 13 in the USA, and attempted to get her to send him a photo of her engaging in a solo sex act.
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Fraser also attempted to get a girl aged 15 in the USA to perform a solo sex act, the judge was told.
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Rosaleen Collins, defending, said her client had showed enormous remorse and had strong support.
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Supermarket worker arrested after she punched police car's wing mirror
'She tried to wrestle with the officers'
Conor GogartyChief reporter
An 18-year-old was arrested (Image: pstonier)
A supermarket employee twice punched a police car’s wing mirror after she was stopped for speeding.
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“She kicked out her legs and struggled. She became very angry at the decision to report her for speeding.”
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Ford walked past the police car’s wing mirror, punched it and ran away, Ms Miebai added.
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Trevor Phillips' Ugly Hypocrisy on Free Speech
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People use what was originally a protective proposition to damn others with whom they disagree.
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Heritage Week 2020
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Home / Explore / First Nations, Inuit & Metis
Lost Generations
An Inuk artist reflects on the legacy of the residential schools in the Far North.
Written by Mary Carpenter
— Posted March 24, 2017
Mary Carpenter, far left, and her fellow students at All Saints Anglican School in Aklavik, Northwest Territories, receive a geography lesson in 1953.
George Hunter/National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque/Library and Archives Canada/PA-180737
Mary Carpenter removes baked goods from an oven at All-Saints School, Aklavik, Northwest Territories, circa 1950s.
Courtesy of Mary Carpenter / Library and Archives Canada
Frank Carpenter (bent over), Mary's brother, and Merle, his adopted son, at Sachs Harbour, Banks Island, N.W.T.
Fred Carpenter with his children, including Mary, who is wearing a skirt and light-coloured shirt.
Courtesy of Mary Carpenter
A map of the Northwest Territories shows the distance — about 555 kilometres — between the Carpenter family's home at Sachs Harbour on Banks Island and Aklavik, where Mary and her siblings attended residential school.
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Aklavik Roman Catholic school and hospital, circa 1943.
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Dahwana, Mary Carpenter's paternal grandmother, date unknown.
Fred Carpenter's schooner, the North Star of Herschel Island.
A 1964 National Geographic article featuring the Carpenter family.
Mary Carpenter and her father Fred in 1964.
Carpenter with author Pierre Burton, circa 1990s.
Ada Gruben, Mary Carpenter's mother, in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, circa 1930s. Gruben died in 1956 at age 38.
Mary Carpenter in her home in Ottawa, January 2017.
In 1966, Mary Carpenter appeared on national television and shattered the myth of residential schools as the “saviours” of Indigenous children. As a guest of The Pierre Berton Show, the twenty-three–year-old Inuk from Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories, wept as she spoke of the physical and mental abuse she suffered. It was a shock for thousands of viewers, who had for generations been fed a lie: that forced assimilation was the answer to Canada’s “Indian question.”
Today, Carpenter is an award-winning writer and poet. She holds degrees from Rutgers, Western, and Carleton universities. She is a mother and a grandmother. She is also a residential school survivor. This is her story.
In 1939, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled, unilaterally, that Eskimos — today known as Inuit — were “Indians,” and as Indians they were wards of the Crown. The Canadian government authorized various religious organizations, with aid from the police, to herd Eskimo children into residential schools — as they had been doing to Indian children in southern Canada.
Eskimo children were taken away by airplane from their parents and clan groups, and all familial ties were severed. That is what happened to me. At a very young age, I, being an Eskimo child, became one of these residential school inhabitants.
Before contact with southerners, I had lived my life as the cherished daughter of a wealthy, cosmopolitan father who was the acknowledged leader of two strong Inuvialuit clans. We did not need Canada or its schools and hospitals to survive. We were an entity unto ourselves. The quality of my life with my clan was exceptionally high. Contact with colonial Canada diminished my life and uprooted my clan. We are still struggling to recover.
Officially, the primary purpose of residential school was to Europeanize Indigenous peoples and to uproot us from our former “inferior” cultures. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples has described these schools as “internment camps for Indian children.” We, as interns, experienced mechanisms of control. I, as well as others, believe that residential schools, run as institutions, prepared us better for jail than for life in white society.
I entered the residential school system in 1948, when my father reluctantly handed me over to the missionaries at the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Missionary School in Aklavik, Northwest Territories. Until that moment, I had never seen a white woman, or a two-storey building. The school smelled of strange chemicals that I would come to learn were kept under the kitchen sink for cleaning.
I witnessed with trepidation the transition of parental power when my beloved father handed me over to the Grey Nuns and Oblate fathers. When my father left and the door closed behind him, these alien creatures usurped my Inuvialuit life. I was to stay at the school for one year, before being transferred with my three siblings — Margaret, Noah, and Joey — to the All Saints Anglican Missionary School, also in Aklavik.
At school we found ourselves isolated, not only from our family and homelands but also from our friends and siblings. This isolation made us more vulnerable to the massive brainwashing inflicted on us in order to replace our “pagan superstitions” with Christianity. Relentless labour and routine replaced our former free and easy life.
The nuns harshly punished any expressions of individuality or Aboriginal culture. As we entered the school, the nuns shaved off our traditional long hair and assigned each of us a number. Mine was W3-244. The nuns took away my Native name, Tungoyuq, and replaced it with “Mary,” a name from their Bible. If I dared to utter one word of my Native language, Inuvialuktun, the nuns severely punished me. One of the punishments was standing on one leg in the hallway for all to see with a bar of soap in one’s mouth.
My induction into residential school alienated me from my former life and my identity: what I came to know, who I came to love, what was important to me as a human being. This experience took away my world.
The only contact I had with my father came once a year, and only for two days duration. Each summer, my father would arrive at Aklavik aboard his fabled schooner, North Star of Herschel Island, to trade his yearly catch of white fox furs. I cherished those two days spent with my family, but the women of my clan seemed alarmed at my behaviour because I had become a “bedwetter” and a “clinger.” I was so starved for attention. And when my father’s trading was finished, his departure was heart-rending.
When I finally returned home to Sachs Harbour for good, I was fourteen years old and filled with so much sadness and anger. By this time I was writing seething poetry that alarmed my family. My behaviour, fuelled by resentment and anger, confused them.
Why did my hunter father consent to my incarceration? I needed to know. And so, within hearing distance of my entire clan, I confronted my father with these calculated words: “You are a polar bear hunter, and you know the mother bear either kills or is killed defending her cubs. Why didn’t you do that for me!?”
My father never answered — and my clan never forgave me for these harsh words. They echo back and fuel the despair.
Residential schools shared many similarities with prisons. We were like inmates, our days ruled by routine. Every morning, the bells rang throughout the dormitories, and we lined up for the bathroom, then put on our uniforms, and sleepily and silently walked in a straight line to the cavernous chapel. The Oblate priests, dressed in black robes, chanted from elevated altars and served wine and wafers only to those confirmed into the Roman Catholic Church. The nuns were there to serve the priests and to keep their young charges in line. It was a regimented environment where we soon learned to line up for everything in our daily lives. The whitepeople had all the power. Many children never saw their parents or homelands again.
Residential school became our cultural landscape. Inexorably, we lost our cultural roots. We did not become white, but we were no longer brown. We became lost generations.
Residential schools were driven by a policy that voiced an agenda to “kill the Indian” and “save the man.” The cultural and political extinction of Aboriginal peoples as self-determining nations was integrated as an objective of a school system that was still in place decades after the development of the welfare state.
The volume and intensity of Native testimony about the cultural oppression that characterized the schools make it clear that the official agenda of attempted assimilation was a cause of severe pain and lasting damage.
The layout of the residential schools tells us much about how the white masters controlled the children. Everything about residential school was about severance and barriers. We Inuit children came from a place with no walls, where life unfolded in front of us without any physical or emotional barriers. Therefore, the layout of the residential school and the personnel who administered them were fundamental to reshaping our understanding of space and the purpose of that space.
In my Inuvialuk world, there were no gender differences in names, and our clan system was inclusive. Everyone co-operated. There were no walls, and we all slept and ate in the same space. As children, we learned to live and to thrive in a sensory world. We learned with our five senses. By contrast, the physical space of the school had many walls. We had a defined space to sleep, to eat, to play. We sat rigidly at a desk, facing the teacher. We sat in long wooden pews watching and listening to priests and nuns as they instructed us from a strange, big, black book with a gold-embossed “BIBLE” emblazoned on the cover. In residential school, the Bible was often used to justify the ill treatment of innocent children.
As the weeks turned into months and then years, we learned to line up in order to eat, and to march to class, to chapel, to the dormitory. We learned to respond to and listen for the bells, which dictated our lives. We learned to survive in a regimented world. We learned to bury our senses. Quickly we learned automatic, perfunctory motions such as making the sign of the cross over our bodies, to stand erect like motionless, lifeless, ceramic statues, and to sit erect, like tree stumps, on hard pews. We learned to survive in a world of no laughter and no sound except barking commandments.
At school, the nuns taught us to despise the traditions and accomplishments of our people, to reject the values and spirituality that had always given meaning to the lives of our people, to distrust the knowledge and the ways of life of our families and kin. When the school released us and we returned to our villages, many of us had grown to despise ourselves. We all became damaged goods.
There is no remedy for the severed ties from mother, father, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. There will be no “overcome” for me. But writing stories, articles, and poems has given me courage to face my fears, despite being afraid of what I may recall. And I am buoyed by the other Inuvialuit authors who have explored the dark legacy of residential schools.
Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School, by Queen’s University Indigenous literature scholar Sam McKegney, introduces readers to the writings of several Inuvialuit authors, including Anthony Apakark Thrasher and Alice French. Apakark wrote Skid Row Eskimo in the early 1970s while incarcerated in Calgary. When one considers the theft of land, dispossession, and discriminatory legislation that have historically defined Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relations, one wonders who the true criminals are and what true justice is.
Alice French’s story My Name is Masak was published in 1977 and focuses on her Inuvialuk name. In her book, she signals to the world that she is reclaiming her identity as an Inuvialuk woman despite her years in residential school and the enforced familial disconnection.
Stories such as those written by Apakark and Masak are the sparks that will ignite the formation of Inuit circumpolar identity and imagination. My Inuvialuit ancestors were imaginative people! This writing will also expose the capacity for Indigenous strength in light of Euro-Canadian assumptions about our supposedly inherent weakness.
Many residential school survivors have died without forgiving their parents, the government, or the churches. They died thinking that it was impossible to escape the terrible heritage imposed on their lives. Our common tendency was, as legal “wards of the Crown,” to self-destruct from inherited paranoia and inefficiency. The educators drilled into me that white people came to the North American continent solely from their sense of duty to their God. They told us we should be grateful for their forced assimilation.
None of my ancestors invited them. I owe them nothing.
Being a residential school survivor, I understand how political manipulation works. I had fourteen years of incarcerated lessons on genocide! Taima! (Enough!).
This article originally appeared in the April-May 2017 issue of Canada’s History.
Provincial/Territorial Politics
Exploration & Geography
Canadian Identity
Awakening to womanhood
I remember when I was a young girl
And I was at the Yellowknife airport
I noticed a man and a woman
Who seemed very much in love?
But they were not wrapped
up in each other
with their eyes
or their bodies
I could just observe
That they were different
They desired each other
It was intoxicating
“Don’t stare so, it’s rude!”
That was the Akaitcho Hall supervisor
I stated that those two
Sure looked ripe
She smiled and informed me
They had only met a few days ago
and their marriage was
As Supervisor was distracted
I slowly eased closer
to get a better look?
I somehow thought
They were wonderful
He had a refined voice
I thought the woman lucky
Someone mentioned she taught skating
I blushed and startled
As I met the sky-blue eyes
Which seemed amused by my
Youthful curiosity
I straightened as tall as Juneau
While he sat
And I told him with my mind
That one day I would be a poet
And men would fall with desire at my feet
And that there would be no blue skies for me
Only golden men with eyes
The color of earth…
— Mary Carpenter, 1967
O arched northland of tensed wonders
Your ice-eyed beauty
Captures the strong hearted
With the privilege
of nesting in your hearth
O tender land, uniquely north
Your fate is much discussed
By distant men who sit
And watch your primal lovers
slowly dying…
Who sit and build
Invisible, governing walls
Suborning your chosen without consent
You hum disgust
But your crowning skies forgive
granting oppressors safe journey south
O might land strike now
Show your true heart
bear fruit again and mother us
Granny capital* has heard your pleas
From men who sincerely dishonour you
Deceiving your innocent fire-watchers
How long will you allow it?
the tenders despair…
O great-land, you are leached by white lies
lip-serviced, not loved!
*Ottawa
Mary Carpenter
Tuktoyaktuk, NT. 1967.
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