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Walking Dead Characters, Fear The Walking Dead Characters, Undeads,
Amputated Victims
Notable Walkers
Calvin (Fear)
This article is about the Fear character. You may be looking for the Novel Series character or the other Novel Series character.
Keith Powers
Drug Dealer (Pre-Apocalypse)
Death Episode
"Pilot" (Alive)
Shot in the chest by Nicholas Clark. (Alive)
Calvin is shot in the chest by Nick after failing to kill him. He later reanimates. Image Gallery
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"Sit. Your mom's been looking for you. (...) Showed up at my folks'. (...) Can't have that. Can't have people... (...) coming to me looking for you."
—Calvin to Nicholas Clark.[src]
Calvin, better known as Cal, is a character and an antagonist in AMC's Fear The Walking Dead. He is Nicholas Clark's best friend and drug dealer. He served as the primary antagonist of the episode "Pilot".
Calvin was Nick's best friend, and alongside Nick's girlfriend Gloria, the two's drug dealer. He is also shown to know Nick's mother Madison and mother's boyfriend, and lives in the Los Angeles area with his parents.
First seen outside his parents house vacuuming his parents' minivan, Calvin is approached by Madison and Travis, looking for Nick who has escaped hospital. Calvin embraces Madison, but fails to produce any knowledge of Nick's whereabouts.
Later, Calvin meets a distressed Nick at a diner. Nick explains to Calvin the story of how he saw his undead girlfriend Gloria eating a man, however Calvin disputes this story. Calvin, concerned that Nick is leaking his name and will become a danger to his drug dealing career, takes Nick for a drive, stopping at a storm drain beneath the overpass and produces a gun. The two fight, and Calvin is shot in the process, causing Nick to run away in horror.
Nick makes contact with Madison and Travis, and the three go to the location of the shooting, finding no sight of Calvin's body. However, as they drive away, an undead Calvin approaches. Madison and Travis, unaware that Calvin had died and reanimated, attempt to communicate with him. As he is about to attack Madison, Nick runs Calvin over with Travis' truck. He is then further run over a second time, sending him flying into the storm drain. As the three look at Calvin from above, Calvin turns and snarls at the three whilst he writhers on the ground, with broken bones protruding out of his flesh and his lower jaw torn away.
Killed By
Nicholas Clark (Alive)
Calvin, increasingly sceptical of Nick's trustworthiness, attempts to kill Nick with a gun. However the two end up fighting, causing Calvin to be shot by Nick in the chest. Afterwards, he reanimates.
It is possible that after Operation Cobalt is implemented Calvin was killed by the napalm bombing. However, his fate is currently unknown.
This list shows the victims Calvin has killed:
Gloria (Possibly, Indirectly Caused)
At least 2 unnamed druggies (Possibly, Indirectly Caused)
Possibly many unnamed people (Pre-Apocalypse, Indirectly Caused or Direct)
The casting call for this character used the name Casper.[1]
He is the first named, living character in Fear The Walking Dead to be killed on-screen.
He is the first person to attempt to kill another survivor.
He is the first character in Fear The Walking Dead to be amputated.
His leg and lower jaw were amputated after Nick runs him over with Travis' truck.
He is the first antagonist to appear in Fear The Walking Dead.
He is also the first antagonist to be killed in Fear The Walking Dead.
↑ http://www.inquisitr.com/1695726/the-walking-dead-spinoff-which-character-from-the-original-series-might-pop-up-on-cobalt/
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3 Epicene, WQXR radio (US radio), after 1 Nov. 1938, Federal Theatre Radio Division, a project of the Works Progress Administration
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Open source (disambiguation)
Open Source (radio show)
Open (Blues Image album)
Open (sport)
Open (Mexican magazine)
Source (magazine)
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This video covers a fundamental step to working on open source - cloning the repo and opening it in the IDE. It also covers how to add new remotes using the IDE.
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As I always say, open source is the greatest way to work on your programming skills. But do you think you are cut off for beginning contributions in open source communities? Test here. Here is the study group for GSoC and software development: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1y5WAZxOTvUEoeJ18WRyjX3mllLQk_k9GHx_XKyPAAq8/viewform In this video, we discuss on a problem which will help you understand seeming complicated, yet inherently simple codebases with an excercise (that you would try doing). This is about challenge T872 at pertus. Know more about this challenge down below. While the codebase you are going to be working on is very simple and written in C++, I strongly recommend anyone who is good enough with C, Java, JavaScript or python background to take on this challenge (because in open source organisations, more often than not you have to use multiple technologies, languages etc). REFERENCES LINKS: The Github link for PiNG12RAW: https://github.com/supragya/PiNG12RAW Working and developing with git based system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKg7e37bQE https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/ T872 C++ Challenge (apertus): https://lab.apertus.org/T872 Bayer pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter Demosaicing/Debayering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosaicing File format being used (sensor data): https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/RAW12 CREDITS: Background music: Mirror Mirror (youtube audio library) Intro music: Au5 ft. Danyka Nadeau - Closer [NCS Release]
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In production and development, open source as a development model promotes universal access via a free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone. Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of other terms. Open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code. Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. The open-source software movement arose to clarify the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created.
Generally, open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design. Open-source code is meant to be a collaborative effort, where programmers improve upon the source code and share the changes within the community. Typically this is not the case, and code is merely released to the public under some license. Others can then download, modify, and publish their version (fork) back to the community. Today you find more projects with forked versions than unified projects worked by large teams.
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Open source denotes that a product includes permission to use its source code, design documents, or content (see open source and open content – the latter deals with non-software deliverables or where the distinction between source code and other content is unclear or complex).
It may also mean:s
Open-source software, software which permits the use and modification of its source code
Open-source hardware, or open hardware, computer hardware, such as microprocessors, that is designed in the same fashion as open source software
Open source video games, video games developed as open source
Open source record label, open source music
Open source film
Open source cola, cola soft drinks made to open-sourced recipes
Open Source Definition, as used by the Open Source Initiative for open source software
Open-source license, a copyright license that makes the source code available with a product
History of Open Source
Open source advocacy
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Open Source is an American public radio show hosted by Christopher Lydon, former New York Times journalist and original host of The Connection. The show focuses on the arts, literature, and foreign affairs.
In May 2005, Christopher Lydon and his longtime producer Mary McGrath partnered with University of Massachusetts Lowell's radio station WUML, WGBH (FM), and Public Radio International to produce Open Source as a daily call-in radio program. The show was syndicated by 32 NPR stations, before it was canceled on October 16, 2006. In 2007, Lydon moved to Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies to podcast hourlong conversations under the name Open Source. In 2013, Lydon and McGrath returned to WBUR to produce Open Source as a weekly show.
Open Source airs twice a week on WBUR, Thursday night at 9pm and Sunday afternoon at 2pm. The Open Source podcast reaches listeners in over 150 countries each week. Open Source also produces ongoing series on its website, including "Reading Chekhov," a reading of Anton Chekhov's short stories by Boston actors and academics, and "Parachute Radio," international conversations from Ghana, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Jamaica, Singapore and Cuba.
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Open is Blues Image's second album and most acclaimed album, which featured the No. 4 hit single, "Ride Captain Ride".
Robert Christgau, writing in The Village Voice, wrote in a contemporary review: "Great single, mediocre (though improved) album. Do we really need another 'Parchman Farm?'"
All songs by Blues Image except where noted.
"Love Is The Answer" – 2:35
"Running the Water" – 2:37
"Clean Love" – 7:49
"La Bamba" (Traditional) – 2:26
"Consuelate" – 1:15
"Ride Captain Ride" – 3:46
"Pay My Dues" – 3:49
"Fugue U" – 0:50
"Parchman Farm" (Mose Allison) – 2:49
"Wrath of Daisey" – 1:31
"Take Me" – 7:35
Mike Pinera – lead guitar, lead vocals
Skip Konte – keyboards
Malcolm Jones – bass
Manny Bertematti – drums
Joe Lala – percussion, backing vocals
Kent Henry – guitars
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An Open in sports terminology refers to a sporting event or game tournament that is open to contestants regardless of their professional or amateur status, age, ability, gender, sex, or other categorization. In many sports, preliminary qualifying events, open to all entrants, are held to successively reduce the field to a manageable number for participation in a final championship event, which itself may involve elimination rounds.
The term 'Open' may not be absolute. For example, in the U.S. Open in golf, entrants at qualifying events must have a USGA official handicap of 1.4 or less. Other minimum performance standards or eligibility criteria may apply in other sports.
Opens are usually found in golf, tennis, badminton, quizbowl, fighting games, snooker, darts, volleyball, ultimate, squash and chess.
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Open is a monthly Mexican lifestyle magazine published by Editorial Metrosexual. Founded in 2005, the magazine covers different topics in each issue, such as art, cars, travel, restaurants, sex, gadgets and every other subject related to trendy men.
The editor-in-chief is Gabriel Bauducco.
The covers of the magazine have always been portrayed by the most "in" men in the arts, business, sports and culture such as Diego Torres, Alfredo Harp Calderoni, David Bisbal, Hugh Jackman and soccer player Rafael Márquez. The April's issue cover portrayed Alejandra Guzmán dressed as a man.
Revista Open
Gabriel Bauducco
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Source magazine is a free bi-monthly magazine published by the John Brown Group on behalf of Greenbee, John Lewis, and Waitrose, all three of which are owned by the John Lewis Partnership, with articles covering interior design, beauty, the arts, travel, finance, and lifestyle.
Source magazine was launched in Autumn 2006, around the time the John Lewis Partnership launched Greenbee, its new direct services company, providing selected services, from insurance to ticket sales and internet service. Source was thus conceived, as well as being a source of entertainment and information, to introduce customers to the Greenbee services (helping to make it a household name), and to reinforce the relationship between the John Lewis Partnership and its customers. It comes from the same stable as Waitrose Food Illustrated, a magazine published for 10 years.
Source is intended to appeal to typical John Lewis and Waitrose customers, that is, predominantly upper middle class and middle class (A, B, and to some extent C1) older people. As such, returning advertisers include Prada, Lancôme, Samsung, AEG, and Panasonic. In order to appeal to younger customers, Source has undergone slight changes to give it a more modern look, including changing the font on the spine from serif to sans-serif, and writing the issue numbers in numeric format rather than text.
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As I always say, open source is the greatest way to work on your programming skills. But do you think you are cut off for beginning contributions in open source communities? Test here. Here is the study group for GSoC and software development: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1y5WAZxOTvUEoeJ18WRyjX3mllLQk_k9GHx_XKyPAAq8/viewform In this video, we discuss on a problem which will help you understand seeming complicated, yet inherently simple codebases with an excercise (that you would try doing). This is about challenge T872 at pertus. Know more about this challenge down below. While the codebase you are going to be working on is very simple and written in C++, I strongly recommend anyone who is good enough with C, Java, JavaScript or python background to take on this challenge (because in...
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Category Archives: Australia
Jasmine Pope
Australia is known for many things: kangaroos, koala bears, whale watching, surfing, swimming with dolphins, and grilled shrimp on the barbie. But that’s not all it’s famous for: The Great Barrier Reef brings in hundreds of thousands of tourists to Australia every year. The Great Barrier Reef is considered to be one of the seven wonders of the natural world[1], was granted World Heritage status in 1981,[2] and is larger than the Great Wall of China.[3] The reef consists of 300 coral cays, 600 tropical islands, and 3,000 individual reef systems.[4] But, the Great Barrier Reef is more than a tourist attraction or an economic resource: it’s a network of marine sanctuaries and, unfortunately, it is dying.[5]
Global Warming and the Great Barrier Reef
In the past thirty years, the Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half of its coral cover, with global warming resulting in coral bleaching.[6] Coral bleaching is the loss of algae[7] and has affected more than 900 miles of the Reef.[8] Bleaching is a result of rising water temperatures, which have been exacerbated by man-made climate change.[9] Since 1998, bleaching has occurred four times (1998, 2002, 2016, 2017), but this latest bout of bleaching has demonstrated the shortest gap ever: one year. Just last year the Reef saw an unprecedented amount of coral bleaching. Approximately 67% of corals died in the worst-hit northern section in 2016.[10] Scientists are almost certain that the rising water temperature is a direct result of carbon emissions and climate change.[11]
The Kyoto Protocol and Climate Change
The Kyoto Protocol, based on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is a binding international agreement that sets emission reduction targets.[12] It was adopted in Japan on December 11, 1997 and entered into force on February 16, 2005.[13] The Kyoto Protocol sets binding targets for countries party to the agreement.[14] More than 150 years of industrial activity from developing countries is in large part responsible for the high levels of greenhouse gases.[15] The Kyoto Protocol requires countries to mainly use national measures to meet their targets. During the first few years , thirty-seven countries and the European community agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Nearly all States have ratified the treaty with the exception of one big player: The United States.
Many people view the Kyoto Protocol as being the first step towards combatting climate change.[16] Former President Bill Clinton called the Kyoto Protocol “environmentally strong and economically sound.”[17] But not everyone is convinced that the Kyoto Protocol has lived up to its expectations. The U.S. Senate voted 95-0 against the treaty and ultimately, in 2002, Former President George W. Bush withdrew the U.S. support from the deal deeming it “fatally flawed.”[18] Ultimately, Former President Bush was not wrong. Three major polluters of the world are free from the restraints of the Protocol: the United States, China, and India.[19]
The Kyoto Protocol was the first step, but it cannot be the only step. Scientists are warning us that the Great Barrier Reef is now “at a terminal stage – with large portions having no hope of recovery.”[20] The World Wildlife Fund-Australia is looking to not only halt the decline of species and the health of the ecosystem: they’re also looking to reverse it.[21] It is not a Sisyphean task for the corals to recover under normal conditions, but it would take decades. The coalition government in Australia recently announced that $18 million would be spent on six projects to improve and protect the Great Barrier Reef.[22] Jon Brodie, a water quality expert, called the $18 million package “small and unlikely to return any real gains.”[23] The Great Barrier Reef Water Science Taskforce estimated that with would cost $8.2 billion for water quality targets to be reached by 2025.
Global warming is happening and this is not an alternative fact. We need to stop writing off climate change as an issue that the next generation can fix. The time to act has long since come and gone, but there is still a lot that we can do now. This damage is not completely permanent. If we take action now to decrease carbon emissions and greenhouse gases, we can work towards reversing a lot of the damage that has already been done and unfortunately time is not on our side.
It is not enough to say that global warming and climate change are happening: steps beyond the Kyoto Protocol need to be taken. What those steps are? I’m not exactly sure. Maybe it is cooperation from multiple nations, donating money, and man power to protect and rehabilitate the Great Barrier Reef. Maybe it’s an international agreement dedicated solely to saving the Great Barrier Reef, as well other wonders that are in jeopardy. Maybe it’s simply more awareness on the issue and getting people to care. But one thing I am sure of is that if we don’t act now, it is possible that we could be the last generation to experience the wonder of the Great Barrier Reef.
Jasmine Pope is a second year law student at the University of Baltimore. She graduated from Towson University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science, with a minor in History. Jasmine is extremely interested in and passionate about international human rights, particular the rights of women and children. She also participated in the Summer Study Abroad Program in Aberdeen, Scotland. She has also studied abroad in Benalmádena, Spain. Currently, she serves as the Secretary for the International Law Society. Jasmine is currently a member of the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Team. Jasmine is also a Staff Editor for the Journal of International Law and works for the Law Office of Hayley Tamburello.
[1] http://www.greatbarrierreef.org/
[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39524196
[4] http://www.wwf.org.au/what-we-do/oceans/great-barrier-reef#gs.0Lc6RdQ
[10] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39524196
[12] http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php
[14] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/mar/11/kyoto-protocol
[17] http://www.climatechangenews.com/2015/02/16/kyoto-protocol-10-years-of-the-worlds-first-climate-change-treaty/
[20] https://futurism.com/scientists-announce-that-the-great-barrier-reef-is-officially-terminal/
[21] http://www.wwf.org.au/what-we-do/oceans/great-barrier-reef#gs.0Lc6RdQ
[22] http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/04/13/18-million-great-barrier-reef-projects-too-late-scientist
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Category Archives: tax law
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Renunciations on the Rise: U.S. Natural Status Is Dangerous Under FATCA
Julia Brent
On March 18, 2010, President Obama signed a “jobs” bill into law, paid for by the revenue raising Foreign Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Execution of FATCA would access a deep pocket: there is an estimated $40 billion per year in international tax evasion.[i] Thus far, the U.S. Treasury has taken in $800 million in FATCA-related revenue.[ii] FATCA doesn’t change the obligations of U.S. taxpayers to pay their taxes on overseas earnings, but creates an enormous reporting obligation on 200,000 foreign financial institutions (FFIs) worldwide to pass on information from accounts of U.S. citizens to the IRS. [iii] Failure to do report results in a 30% penalty on payments into the account, payable to the IRS.[iv]
The simple solution is to take advantage of one of several U.S. Tax amnesty programs, and many are struggling to pay their taxes before the reporting begins. However, the legislation has created complex problems for both the institutions and for taxpayers. For example, an FFI to merely register its own company with the IRS (much less implement the giant reporting scheme) must master a 135-page guide of registration details. Similarly, taxpayers face multiple forms and banker’s-box size submissions. For many, hiring an accountant to handle compliance is prohibitively expensive.[v] Some foreign individuals who were born in the U.S. but raised overseas by foreign parents don’t realize they have U.S. citizenship. Some are “accidental Americans” because their parent was born in the U.S. Staff at the IRS report that they have been overwhelmed by calls from Americans overseas regarding what they are supposed to furnish under FATCA.[vi]
The result of this high-consequence complexity is that many individuals overseas are eliminating their U.S. citizenship. Those that hold dual citizenship often are nationals with a “quality” country – the EU, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand – and are allowed travel without a visa through much of the world (including to the United States).[vii] In the face of accessing the value of their U.S. passport, the conclusion by many is that there is a real danger. Many institutions are ill-equipped to handle FATCA compliance, much less retracing steps to correct an error. Already, the IRS has extended reporting deadlines because foreign governments and FFI’s haven’t finished developing IT systems, and aren’t prepared. Some believe the scale of implementation is so large that the cost of implementing FATCA will “far outweigh the revenues.”[viii] Scotia Bank in Canada, alone, has already spent $100 million.[ix] There is a high likelihood of a taxpayer getting caught between the cracks of an imperfect system, and being the victim of incorrect reporting, which comes with significant consequences. An account holder does not have to be a U.S. citizen for their FFI to report them based on “U.S. indicia” – the distinguishing information on their account. “U.S. indicia” can mean as little as a U.S. telephone listed as contact information. One would hope that if an account held by a true non-U.S. citizen was incorrectly reported as that of a U.S. citizen, the false report would be quickly corrected. However, the sheer size of the players – the IRS, state governments, and FFI’s – creates a likelihood that corrections will take months, even years, to sort out in litigation against the IRS or a foreign tax administrator.
In addition to imperfect reporting, those with American only or dual citizenship are concerned that FACTA requirements compromise privacy and the right to data protection as a taxpayer. Many governments have executed Intergovernmental Agreements (IGAs), either without considering the rights of the individuals affected or complying by means of what is essentially coercion.[x] Privacy issues for Canadians have been raised by former Canadian Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty. His concern is the “far reaching and extraterritorial implications” of FATCA which, in effect, mandate that Canadian banks become extensions of the IRS and jeopardize Canadians’ privacy rights.[xi] Banks in Canada are not required to know the nationality of their clients, and, to conform to FATCA, Canada would have to change its privacy laws.[xii] All the countries under the Model 2 International Governmental Agreements (IGA’s) have laws which either prevent disclosure or require individual consent.[xiii] The difficulty with consent is that in many cases it is logistically impossible. For example, Japanese banks have several hundred million bank accounts, not digitized, all with opening forms in Japanese.[xiv]
FATCA has changed Americans into outsiders in the international financial world.[xv] As one officer of a global bank reported, the banks are ridding themselves of the “U.S. Person pollution!”[xvi] American Citizens Abroad (ACA) has received multiple testimonies from Americans abroad who have had their foreign bank accounts closed, been refused entry into a foreign pension fund, or who cannot enter into insurance contracts overseas.[xvii] Some claim that “American citizens are being denied savings accounts, investment accounts, mortgages, credit cards and many of the basic financial services required to live and work in modern society, raise a family and to save for retirement.”[xviii] This is due to the fact that, while there are 780 million American bank clients overseas,[xix] this number is a drop in the bucket for banks who serve a much higher number of non-Americans.
These difficulties explain why the amount of renunciations since FATCA was implemented has quadrupled.[xx] Renunciations have caused such a backlog of paperwork that, in November last year, the fee for renunciation was increased by 400%.[xxi] The U.S. response has been inadequate: Robert Stack, Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary of International Tax Affairs, described the claim that Americans living abroad will give up their U.S. citizenship because of liabilities and burdens created by FATCA as “Myth No. 3.”[xxii] Meanwhile, the New York Times reports, “The bureaucratic burden of identifying, verifying and reporting has caused many banks to regard American clients, particularly those of moderate means, as more trouble than they are worth.”[xxiii]
There is currently a push to make renunciation “easy and harmless,” financially and mentally, since new regulatory burdens on non-resident US citizens make living with that status nearly impossible.[xxiv] Recently, a “renunciation meeting” was held in Canada, the first of its kind, to permit 22 Americans together to renounce their U.S. Citizenship, in spite of the $2,350 fee and paperwork. Tara Ferris, then Senior Counsel at Chief Counsel IRS, and others did an outstanding job in drafting the internal revenue rules and regulations of FATCA, an unprecedented behemouth of legislation. However, the code implements policies that have significant unintended consequences. “Mass renunciations,” a sort of reverse of our naturalization ceremonies, may become a thing of the future.[xxv]
[i] http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40623.pdf, Summary
[ii] Id.
[iii] http://www.acfcs.org/fatca-may-identify-tax-cheats-but-its-dragnet-for-financial-criminals-may-produce-an-even-bigger-yield/
[iv] http://fatca.thomsonreuters.com/about-fatca/
[v] http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gabrielle-cintorino/tax-laws-pushing-americans-living-abroad-renounce-their-us
[vi] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-04-08/an-emotional-audit-irs-workers-are-miserable-and-overwhelmed
[vii] http://opiniojuris.org/2012/01/08/fatca-fallout-mass-renunciations/
[viii] http://www.acfcs.org/fatca-may-identify-tax-cheats-but-its-dragnet-for-financial-criminals-may-produce-an-even-bigger-yield/
[ix] http://business.financialpost.com/news/fp-street/electronic-spying-a-big-issue-for-banks-scotia-ceo-waugh-says
[x] http://www.keepcalmtalklaw.co.uk/accidental-americans-the-us-citizenship-conundrum/
[xi] http://sundominica.com/articles/fatca-and-you-1462/
[xii]http://web.archive.org/web/20130601041733/http://americansabroad.org/issues/fatca/fatca-is-bad-for-america-why-it-should-be-repealed/
[xiii] https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Corporations/FATCA-Governments
[xiv] http://web.archive.org/web/20130601041733/http://americansabroad.org/issues/fatca/fatca-is-bad-for-america-why-it-should-be-repealed/
[xvi] http://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Republicans%20Overseas,%20Inc.1.pdf, page 3
[xvii] Id.
[xviii] http://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Republicans%20Overseas,%20Inc.1.pdf
[xix] http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/08/news/americans-citizenship-renunciation/
[xx] http://intltax.typepad.com/intltax_blog/2016/02/new-expatriate-record-2015-nearly-4300-expatriations.html
[xxi] http://www.bbc.com/news/35383435
[xxii] https://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/Myth-vs-FATCA.aspx
[xxiii] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/opinion/an-american-tax-nightmare.html?_r=0
[xxiv] http://www.keepcalmtalklaw.co.uk/accidental-americans-the-us-citizenship-conundrum/
[xxv] http://opiniojuris.org/2012/01/08/fatca-fallout-mass-renunciations/
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Getting Global Tax into Top Gear: Part II Formulary Apportionment in the Context of Transfer-Pricing Regimes
In my first post, I defended a much-criticized theory of tax reform,[1] called “formulary apportionment (FA),” by examining two tax dynamics in the oil industry in Russia. My conclusion was that the potential for market distortion when implementing a tax regime is so high that to cite that possibility as a weakness of FA is an over-generalized attack, and therefore invalid. I also pointed out that the industry chose to reinvest in low-return crude oil rather than investing in refinery upgrades during the time taxes had been lowered on crude oil exports. This example of “short term thinking” supports the premise of FA, namely that multi-national corporations (MNCs) gravitate to low-tax areas, even against their own long term interests. This week, I address another attack leveled at FA: that FA is weak in comparison with a solid modificaiton of the current system that allows transfer pricing. There are two variations of this critism, first in the form of a scholastic opinion from Professors at the University of Michigan Law. They say if the current system of residual taxation in the U.S. were properly applied, FA would not hold its own when stacked up against a “properly applied” worldwide regime.[2] The second variation is in the form of an actual proposal by the OECD, which makes recommendations to modify, but still keep, the current separate entity approach based in transfer pricing.[3] Credible advocates of FA cite the weakness of both the “properly applied” plan and the OECD proposal as efforts to ‘tweak’ a system that will still support aggressive profit-shifting. Interestingly, some believe that implementation of the OECD proposal will actually result in an eventual adoption of FA.[4]
A few readers may be aware of the groundswell toward international reform driven by the highly-distortive market effects of transfer pricing. If you aren’t, here is short version. Business dealings across boundaries raise the question—what income will be taxed by which government? The current system for most MNEs is to employ “the arms-length” method, which permits transactions between parent and subsidiary companies (“transfer-pricing”), though located in different countries as independent, taxable events.
Tax credits to prevent double taxation would apply in accordance with the applicable international treaties, and the tax bases can be aggressively affected as corporations seek to maximize after-tax profits by constructing the transactions in such a way that income shows up in low or zero tax countries.[5] FA, a “unitary” system, regards a company as a single unit, and then formulates a top-down division of its income into countries based on agreed-upon factors.[6] The goal of the reform is to prevent base erosion and eliminate complexity.
Some scholars claim that if the U.S. had proper enforcement and clarity in the law regarding its residual tax, the value of low-taxed foreign-source income would be neutralized. U.S. residual tax is the liability applied to the balance of income not covered by a foreign tax credit. At present, deferral and cross-crediting features of the U.S. system allow its residual tax to be eliminated or substantially reduced. Ideally, tax would be imposed on low-taxed foreign income of U.S. residents as the income was earned, thus removing the impetus to defer the repatriation of foreign income. While still seeing some distortion, it cancels FA as a unique solution, since both (the well-enforced system and FA) would run about neck-in-neck with negative, distortive effects of base eroding deferrals and cross-crediting.[7] A properly applied system, it is argued would make the U.S. a true “territorial” regime, whereas with deferrals, cross-crediting, and other features of the U.S. system make it so badly flawed that it is not a true worldwide regime.
However, Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-prize winner and one of the most outspoken critics of global economic inequality recommends scrapping the arms-length principle. He argues that small tweaks will not prevent aggressive, artificial moves of earnings and profits to low-tax countries. For example, the evolution of intangibles in a global, digital economy makes the arm-length pricing impossible. Where the cost of a barrel of oil for the purpose of an arm’s length transaction can be determined using “comparables,” one cannot fix a comparable for an iPhone in which the camera feature alone has 279 patents.[8] Another downside, he states, is that countries who lack the ability to keep up with high-stakes profit manipulation are exploited.[9] It is hard to imagine Eritrea coming out as a winner against a Pfiezer or a Siemens!
Drafters of the OECD current proposal for model rules and treaty creation doubt that FA’s formula-based system would encourage investment decisions that are more efficient and tax-neutral than under a separate entity approach. The Secretary-General of the OECD states its proposal will drain the motivation to shift profits by re-aligning taxation with economic activity and value creation and put an end to double non-taxation.[10] For example, the proposal kicks-off negotiations towards synchronicity within the global network of bilateral tax treaties with the goal of implementing treaty-based BEPS measures.[11]
Source: http://www.bdo.be/en/news/professional-news/2015/beps-sept-2015/
Critics of the OECD proposal argue that “Luxleaks-type” tax avoidance facilitated by tax rulings is still possible. Implementation of the proposal will not only not eliminate the practice of using secret tax rulings, it will increase the complexity of the international tax system.[12]
Surprisingly, some experts claim that certain approaches called for by the OECD may have an unintended consequence: specifically, regarding the proposed call for country-by-country reporting for taxpayers and that income be tied to “significant people functions” (a way to apply tax to non-financial services sector).[13] These experts assert that these OECD proposals will incentivize a formulary approach among multinationals.[14] To the extent a boots-on-ground implementation of the OECD requirements begins, we may see a move to a formulary system, even absent a comprehensive overhaul.
In my next blog I will discuss how the recent Russian bunker oil pricing continues the global tax reform analysis. Stay tuned!
Julia Brent is a third year law student at the University of Baltimore, focusing on International Tax (candidate for J.D. 2016). Julia graduated from the University of Hawaii with a B.A. in political science. As a CICL student fellow, she is interested in the tax impact of cross-border transactions on medium to large businesses. Julia has extensive experience in the management of high volume cases, including handling distributions related to a multi-million dollar art estate and managing all expert witness contracts for the Savings & Loan (WINSTAR) litigation, a $30 billion dispute involving 125 cases, on-site at the Department of Justice.
[1] J. Clifton Fleming, Formulary Apportionment In The U.S. International Income Tax System: Putting Lipstick On A Pig?, 36 Mich. J. Int. L. 1.
[3] http://www.oecd.org/ctp/beps-2015-final-reports.htm
[4] http://www.bna.com/voice-formulary-apportionment-b17179891148/
[5] http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/key-elements/international/formulary-apportionment.cfm
[8] http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/m/pdfs/iphone-report.pdf
[10] https://euobserver.com/economic/130565
[11] https://www.asil.org/insights/volume/19/issue/24/emergence-new-international-tax-regime-oecd’s-package-base-erosion-and
[13] http://www.pwc.com/us/en/transfer-pricing-strategies/assets/transfer_pricing_and_permanent_establishments_oecd_view.pdf
[14] http://www.bna.com/voice-formulary-apportionment-b17179891148/
Categories: comparative law, international law, international tax law, oil, Russia, tax, tax law | Tags: comparative law, international law, international tax law, Russia, tax, tax law | Permalink.
Getting Global Tax Into Top Gear: How Russia’s New Oil Tax Regime Supports the Case for an Old Reform Theory
The global tax system needs an overhaul.[1] The growth of international opportunity has created a danger for the economic health of many countries in the form of tax base erosion. Multi-national companies (MNCs) raise revenues by using domestic tax laws to shift profits in a system that puts investors in the dark, hinders compliance, and encourages peculiar, need-of-the-moment legislation. Examples of such piecemeal legislation include the current U.S. Senate proposal for a temporary 6.5 percent repatriation tax holiday to fund highways[2] or Belgium’s 2016 proposed “Diamond Regime,” which eliminates the ability to carry forward losses of the MNCs of that industry.[3]
Reform is needed. One much-criticized theory of reform, called “Formulary Apportionment” (FA), still holds its ground in scholastic circles,[4] and this paper attempts to defray a criticism that FA potentially distorts the market, and therefore should be dismissed. FA would restructure a MNC’s taxes so that it pays income in a country based on a formula-based fraction of total income. The goal of FA is to repatriate income that has gravitated to low-tax countries and, in so doing, has undermined the local tax base. Russia’s new tax regime weakens the criticism of FA in a surprising way: Russia’s recent attempts to create a growth-oriented tax system resulted in negative market distortion despite their best efforts. This example negates dismissing the theory of FA reform out of hand on the basis of a difficulty faced by tax systems generally. In addition, the reason for the market distortion in Russia supports FA, in that during the post-2000 tax regime, the oil industry went against its own interests and gravitated toward low-tax products, actions that would have undermined the industry base but for other factors. [5]
FA reform is based on a formula-based fraction of total income (sales, payroll, and capital stock), with the fraction tied to the geographic point of sale. In the U.S., MNCs currently determine their profits separately in each operational jurisdiction, while goods or services are sent all over the world. A system of FA would replace this separate accounting method. For example, a MNC would pay U.S. taxes only on the share from its total income that is allocated to the United States.
A move to FA would noticeably reduce incentives to shift economic activity or income to low-tax countries, and by treating similar firms in a uniform fashion, regardless of where they are incorporated, would eliminate much administrative complexity. The theory, however, has been regarded as having many faults, most of which center around the hazards of applying the method in the current environment of different systems and different currencies. One stand-alone criticism, and the subject of this blog post and the two subsequent posts over the next weeks, is that there would be problems in violations of a commitment to a growth-oriented tax system that minimizes the distortions of market signals (the stated OECD goal for tax reform among OECD nations).[6] However, it could be argued that the FA method of taxing based on geographic location of sales would likely support growth because it allows for a “local” government, which is closer to the source income, to potentially promote the industry with careful tax design.
Russia’s new tax regime has such a goal for its oil industry; policy-makers’ desire to stimulate upgrades in its oil refineries. Russian refineries were originally built to satisfy the demands of the Soviet industry, and, as of 2000, produced large volumes of fuel oil, low-quality diesel, and low-octane gasoline.[7] Its crude was mostly processed to be fuel oil for domestic heating needs.[8] Now, the market has a permanent demand for the higher flashpoint fractions, i.e., high-octane gasoline, petrochemical feedstock, and jet fuel.[9] In 2000, the government took on configuring a “growth-oriented tax system,” one that would not only encourage refinery upgrades, but also satisfy the needs of the government, since thirty-two percent (32%) of Russian government revenue comes from oil-extraction taxes.[10]
To stimulate refining depth, Russia implemented the equivalent of a micro-version of FA when applied to the Vertical Integrated Oil Companies (VIOCs) (the “well to pump” large companies, like Royal Dutch Shell or Exxon). The oil industry has two sectors generally, “upstream” and “downstream.” The first refers to all aspects of lifting crude from a field, and the second refining the crude (either by straight run or the more processing-intense ‘cracking’) to produce valuable products like gasoline. Refineries, obviously, are part of the downstream sector. Russia chose to structure its tax burden evenly between the upstream and downstream sectors, in the hopes of creating cross-subsidy between upstream and downstream segments, providing significant impetus to refineries, including primary processing plants. This it did by lowering export duties on oil products, and pricing crude oil domestically as a function of export netback price.[11] “Netback” subtracts the costs associated with bringing one unit of oil to the marketplace from all of the revenues from the sale of all the products generated from that same unit. By basing the tax regime on the concept of “netback” and then working backward to figure tax on a fraction that is tied to sector, this is similar to the structure of FA when applied to the microcosm of a VIOC.
The result was that since the year 2000, the total output of Russian refineries has risen from 190 million tonnes to 302.5 million tons, with VIOCs accounting for 57% of increased volume.[12] In only eight years, from 2005 to 2013, total downstream investments by domestic VIOCs soared from US$1.4b to US$10b, with investments over the past three years rising by US$2.3b*.[13]
An interesting aspect in this result was that the initial response by the VIOCs was to use the savings on exports to just do more of what they were already doing, i.e. producing low grade oil products. Although dashing the hopes of Russian policymakers, the tax maneuver indirectly drove refinery upgrades as the extra funds were available as VIOCs responded to market pressure by ultimately upgrading the refineries.
Though the result appears to strengthen the criticism that FA results in negative market distortion, it actually undermines the criticism for two reasons. First, by virtue of the fact that distortions simply happen despite efforts to the contrary: a favorable tax environment was and is seen in Russia as a crucial driver of investment activity in the downstream segment. A general attack discounting FA as a legitimate theory for this reason is inadequate at best, since FA is such a large system reform.
Second, the Russian cross-subsidy example supports the FA reform broadly in an unexpected way. FA advocates assert that the current system generates a large tax incentive to earn income in low-tax countries, and multinational firms respond by earning disproportionate profits in low-tax locations. In the Russian example, even though it was in the VIOC leaders’ best interests to upgrade refineries – and there were many upgrades that were financially feasible – when faced with the lowered duties on exported oil products, rather than upgrading, producers gravitated toward the low-taxed products in their own industry.
Julia Brent is a third year law student at the University of Baltimore, focusing on International Tax (candidate for J.D. 2016). Julia graduated from the University of Hawaii with a B.A. in political science. As a CICL Fellow, she is interested in the tax impact of cross-border transactions on medium to large businesses. Julia has extensive experience in the management of high volume cases, including handling distributions related to a multi-million dollar art estate and managing all expert witness contracts for the Savings & Loan (WINSTAR) litigation, a $30 billion dispute involving 125 cases, on-site at the Department of Justice.
[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/21/global-tax-system-needs-overhaul-say-ceos-at-davos.html
[2] http://www.economics21.org/commentary/portman-schumer-international-corporate-tax-reform-07-20-2015
[3] http://www.pwc.be/en/news-publications/news/tax-reform.html
[5] http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/russia-forecasts-recession-as-oil-price-slump-takes-toll-1.2048933
[6] https://www.osler.com/en/resources/regulations/2013/oecd/oecd-g20-international-tax-reform-potential-impac
[7] http://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-98/issue-13/special-report/refinery-upgrades-essential-to-russian-recovery.html
[8] http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/EY-Russias-downstream-sector-sights-set-on-modernization/$FILE/EY-Russias-downstream-sector-sights-set-on-modernization.pdf
[9] https://www.iea.org/oilmarketreport/omrpublic/
[10] http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/EY-Russias-downstream-sector-sights-set-on-modernization/$FILE/EY-Russias-downstream-sector-sights-set-on-modernization.pdf
[11] http://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-98/issue-13/special-report/refinery-upgrades-essential-to-russian-recovery.html
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Tongariro National Park was created from a nucleus of land (centred on the summits of Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and Tongariro). which was gifted in 1887 to the nation of New Zealand by Te Heuheu Tukino, Chief of the Ngati Tuwharetoa Maori tribe.
During the 1800’s there were conflicting land claims by neighbouring Maori tribes and encroachment by European pastoral farmers. A tuku (an offer to extend custodianship) of the mountain peaks was made in 1887 by Ngati Tuwharetoa Chief Horonuku te Heuheu Tukino IV to Her Majesty, the Queen. The aim was to ensure continued protection of these ‘most feared and revered of all the sacred mountains of the Maori’.
The preliminary deed of gift, written on a sheet of foolscap paper, was sent to the Government. The deed, dated September 23rd 1887, was made between Te Heuheu Tukino (aboriginal native chief of the Colony of New Zealand) and Her Majesty, the Queen.
Tongariro National Park was formally constituted by Act of Parliament in 1894. Close to one hundred years later, the park was awarded ‘Dual World Heritage Site’ status for it’s outstanding natural features and the cultural importance of the peaks. The peaks are sacred (tapu) to Maori and climbing them is considered to be culturally insensitive.
Naming Tongariro
The Ngati Tuwharetoa people are descendants of the powerful tohunga, Ngatoro-i-rangi, who navigated to New Zealand (Aotearoa ) in the great waka ,‘Te Arawa’. After the long journey from Hawaiki, Ngatoro-i-rangi and his followers made landfall at Maketu, on the east cape of the North Island. They then made their way inland to claim new lands and subsequently arrived in what is now the Taupo district.
Struggling with fatigue and cold, Ngatoro-i-rangi climbed to the top of Tongariro. Weakened with the climbing and cold and near death, he called to his sisters in distant Hawaiki, ‘I am seized by the cold wind to the south, send me fire!’ The name Tongariro comes from ‘tonga’ (south wind) and ‘riro’ (seized).
Calling for three baskets of fire, only one arrived. After warming himself he threw the remains into the side of the mountain. This area is now called Ketetahi (one basket). The hot springs there were traditionally used for healing and the area has special significance to local Maori today.
There are a range of very good books on Maori legends and the cultural history of the Tongariro National Park as well as displays in the DoC Visitor Information Centre. The Visitor Centre is 50 metres down the road on the opposite side from the Whakapapa Holiday Park and is well worth a visit if staying here.
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Production of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 Responsible for $179.8 Million in Spending, Over 2,000 Jobs in North Carolina
New economic analysis finds filming had significant economic impact, return on investment in the state
WASHINGTON — A new analysis released today on the economic impact of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 filming in North Carolina finds that the film is responsible for $179.8 million in spending and 2,043 jobs in the state. The analysis was conducted by MNP LLP and assesses the economic impact of the production filming in North Carolina between December 2011 and December 2012. The analysis also finds that the production is responsible for $104.1 million in labor income across North Carolina, and that spending associated with the film engaged 719 vendors in 84 communities across the state.
“These findings are just the latest evidence of the economic benefit that film and television production has meant for North Carolina,” said Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America. “Thanks to a reliable and refundable production incentive, North Carolinians have been able to reap the benefits of direct spending and job creation across the state. Marvel’s Iron Man 3, like so many productions that choose to shoot in North Carolina, generated hundreds of millions of dollars in spending for local businesses in dozens of communities and thousands of jobs for North Carolina workers.”
Iron Man 3 received $20 million in support through state tax incentives. This investment by the state resulted in the following economic benefits:
$8.99 in economic output for every dollar of tax credit received by the production.
$6.50 in Gross State Product for every dollar of tax credit received by the production.
102 full-time equivalent positions for every $1 million in tax credit received by the production.
$5.20 in labor income for every dollar of tax credit received by the production.
In addition, several of the businesses hired directly by the production have reported the film to have had a significant effect during the filming period. For example, Master Craftsmen Services, a furniture restoration company, reported to WRAL that Iron Man 3 represented ten to fifteen percent of the company’s business the year in which filming occurred, and Tidewater Storage Trailers reported that roughly ten percent of its business was generated by the production of Iron Man 3 in the first six months of 2012.
To read the MNP analysis, click HERE.
About the MPAA:
The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) serves as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries from its offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Its members include: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios LLC; and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
About MNP LLP:
MNP is the fastest growing chartered accountancy and business advisory firm in Canada. Founded in 1945, MNP has grown to more than 70 offices and nearly 3,000 team members. MNP is a member of Praxity, a global alliance of leading business advisory firms.
MNP’s Economics and Research practice is one of the largest of its kind, and its team members have an established track record in conducting economic impact and industry studies, including studies involving the film and television production industry. Examples of similar studies conducted by MNP include economic impact studies for film and television industries in jurisdictions across North America. In addition, MNP has a long track record in carrying out economic and statistical studies within the North American tourism, travel and major event sectors.
MPAA Washington, D.C.
Kate Bedingfield
Kate_Bedingfield@mpaa.org
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WHAT’S UP IN WILMYWOOD 04/30/2013 – Upfronts, Tammy, Under the Dome, VIP Passes to Port City Pop Con and more
WHAT’S UP IN WILMYWOOD
Happy Tuesday! Well, NBC must be whistlin’ Dixie, and maybe a little of “We are the Champions”. Kudos just keep coming for our Revolution! Not only did they pick up a hefty 22 episode, season two, but TV Guide has now deemed the show a “Season MVP: This year’s Best.”
Revolution’s Giancarlo Esposito will be making a guest appearance this Thursday at the Country Club of Landfall for the annual fundraising luncheon for Coastal Horizons Center. He will be getting personal, speaking about the things that have personally affected his life and family members. This is a luncheon that should NOT be missed. Tickets are still available by contacting Farah Boyce 910-790-0187 or fboyce@coastalhorizons.org. They are asking for a donation of $50 or more to attend the event.
FYI: In case you wanted to know, Lesley over at the Hollywood Reporter has been keeping a close eye on the Upfronts. Here’s her up-to-date list of all the shows for network TV.
Tammy begins shooting this Friday and they are employing A LOT of people! And when I say a lot…good Lord! During the next 8 weeks, they will be hiring 2000+ Extras for this film alone. And it’s all local! So thank you Melissa & Ben! Marty Siu Casting will be quite busy. You can visit her Facebook page for all casting opportunities.
Marty wanted to give a big shout out to the many who worked on Iron Man 3 including Jackie Burch and Tona Dahlquist for the Casting & Extras Casting along with all the local actors who got some screen time including James Rackley, Anthony Reynolds and many more.
Iron Man 3 isn’t doing too shabby either and it won’t even hit theaters here in the USA until tomorrow. IM3 has grossed a total of almost $200 million over seas so far. In its Italian debut last weekend., it is officially the most successful April opening in Italy grossing $11.3 million! Robert Downey Jr. will be on the Kelly & Michael this morning as well as the Daily Show tonight.
Under the Dome will be on location today. They kick things off at 15th/Rankin this morning then make a short company move to Chestnut St. There are a lot of extras casting opportunities for the show. Visit Vanessa NCasting’s Facebook Page for all the details.
Finally, Port City Pop Con is just around the corner and I would just LOVE to give VIP tickets away! Soooo, here we go. ENTER TO WIN NOW!
Tomorrow I will give you complete details about a local screening for the Colin Firth flick, Arthur Newman, coming up soon!!
That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you tomorrow morning and every morning (Monday-Friday) at 8:30am. Until then, that’s a wrap!
Casting, Extras, Giancarlo Esposito, Hollywood Reporter, Iron Man 3, Italy, Kudos, Monday-Friday, NBC, Port City Pop Con, Robert Downey Jr, Tammy, Television program, TV Guide, Under the Dome, United States
WHAT’S UP IN WILMYWOOD 04/29/2013 Biggest Loser, Tammy, Revolution and More
Good morning loves! Let’s get the quickies out of the way. Ha! I said quickies.
Okay, in case you missed it, over the weekend I told you NBC’s Revolution was picked up for another season! Yeah!
Hundreds of local cast and crew filled the movie theaters at Mayfaire’s Regal Cinemas for a special screening of Iron Man 3 last night, which made $195.3 million internationally over the weekend.
Under The Dome – shoots at the old cement plant today in Wilmington. On the Wilmywood Facebook page, I asked what movie or TV show was a favorite to work on, and the most popular was indeed Under the Dome.
The stars make their way into town this week. Melissa and Susan are already here, but we can look forward to Kathy Bates, Dan Aykroyd, and Toni Collette arriving this week. Tammy begins filming this Friday.
And finally, I would love to see a Wilmington, NC resident this time around take this thing home! So, if you’ve always wanted to be on the Biggest Loser and have nothing to lose but the weight, attend the open casting call, Saturday, May 4th in Charleston. Auditions for Season 15 will be held at the Music Farm in Charleston from 10am-6pm. You have a chance to win $250,000!
To see what to do and bring, all the details are found here: http://thebiggestlosercasting.com/open-calls
Wanna audition and skip the line? I have VIP passes that will get you to the front of the audition line! To win yourself a pass, email Sheila: sheila@1045sunnyfm.com. Lemme know why you wanna go and I will pick winners daily and announce them on the air on Sunny 104.5.
That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you tomorrow morning and every morning (Monday-Friday) at 8:30am. Got scoop? Email me: sheila@1045sunnyfm.com. Until then, that’s a wrap!
Dan Aykroyd, Iron Man 3, Iron Man3, Kathy Bates, NBC, NCFilm, Regal Cinemas, Tammy, The Biggest Loser, Toni Coletti, Toni Collette, Under the Dome, WILMINGTON
The Johnny Depp Effect
You say one name in this town and people simply go INSANE! And that name is Johnny Depp.
Well, this certainly isn’t the first time people have cried “Wolf!” or “Johnny!” in our case. Last year, someone said they spotted him at a Port City Java, and within minutes the whole town was saying he was filming here. Well, we can thank the Star News’ Fran Norton for the most recent one and WWAY for reporting Fran’s story without doing their own homework. It was very short lived, so if you weren’t on FB or Twitter Friday morning, you probably missed it. But it really got me very aggravated. Why? Well, let me tell you how it all started.
It began with a CraigsList post: “Feature Film with Johnny Depp (Wilmington)”
“Feature Film with Johnny Depp currently casting for principal, supporting, and extra roles! Pay is up to $842.00 per day depending on role and experience!! Good Luck!”
Hmmmm. Time to do some digging. Now, anyone should know, a casting company for a A-list attached feature film does not use CraigsList. That is a red flag right there. But then the other two sources that were used to create this news story were from Facebook and AxcessTalent.com.
Clint, from Axcess Talent says they got it from EastCoastAuditions.net. Normally, the listings he gets are legit, so this bothered him as much as it bothered me. Since I spoke to Clint, very nice guy by the way, East Coast Talent still has not taken down the post, which was a replica of the CraigsList post. Clint no longer has Wilmington attached to the casting call.
As far as using the Facebook page as a “news source”, The Wilmington Casting Call page had the same verbage, it was from CraigsList. After I spoke to the admin, he agreed with me and removed the post as well.
I can hear Yoda right now: Long winded is she. Okay, getting to the point. Why was I so aggravated? Multiple reasons, so let me list them.
1) How many people sent their personal information to this CraigsList person because of our Wilmington “news” reporting? THAT IS HARMFUL. I cannot stress that enough. HARMFUL!
2) The Star News is not a rumor magazine. It is a news source we are “supposed” to trust! Do your homework!
3) Same goes for our TV news, they didn’t bother checking if the Star News did their homework. Again, we are supposed to trust you!
4) Facebook and CraigsList are not reliable sources for a big story!
5) Did I mention that Johnny Depp was the breaking news story Friday morning, with a huge picture of him on the home page of Starnewsonline.com. Argh!
With all that being said, I absolutely adore so many of the reporters here in our town. Jeff, Cassie, Ashley…no one can touch them, they are incredible. And yes, we all make mistakes. I certainly do all the time. But it seems as though the news lately, locally as well as nationally, doesn’t bother to check their sources, they just run with it and hopefully, it’s right. It felt like all they cared about was web views and it was a “lemme get this out there so we can be first” mindset. It would be one thing if there were TMZ, The Sun, or some entertainment magazine, but they are not. We count on them for reliable and accurate information.
So will the real Johnny Depp Movie please stand up! Please stand up!
I received a voicemail from the Staff Production Coordinator, Micaela Brown, who is currently on the Johnny Depp flick, Transcendence and she said, “I got your message and I am calling to confirm that you are correct in that Transcendence is NOT filming in North Carolina.” Depp’s other flick, Boston Mass, is already underway in South Boston.
I can tell you Transcendence will be filming a small piece of it in New Mexico this summer. That I know because I spoke with a casting company there who is currently casting day players and extras. It co-stars Paul Bettany, Morgan Freeman, and more.
Johnny Depp does have 20 other projects in development, so who knows, maybe one will come our way, next month, or next year. And after me going on and on about this, maybe I am missing something. Maybe he is coming. Hell, if that’s the case, PLEASE let me be wrong!
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BREAKING NEWS: NBC GIVES REVOLUTION SEASON TWO GREENLIGHT!
NBC Renews 5 Dramas including Revolution
Christmas comes early folks~! We got ourselves a season two! And if all goes according to what my sources tell me, it will come back to Wilmington. I sure hope they are right! I asked cast member Tim Guinee his thoughts and he said, “Over the moon about it. I’m really grateful that the hardest working cast and crew in the business is getting another shot. Yay ILM!”
Read the entire article from The Hollywood Reporter – “From J.J. Abrams‘ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV, Revolution ranks as NBC’s top scripted drama across all of primetime — averaging more than 6 million viewers in the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic.”
The story continues as they link part of Revolution’s success to having The Voice as a lead-in on Monday nights this season. Regardless of coming back from a mid-season break slightly down in the numbers, they say it is still very much a success for the 2012-13 TV season.
Thank you NBC and Bad Robot because we sure love having Revolution film here in Wilmington, NC!
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WHAT’S UP IN WILMYWOOD – 04/26/2013 Another MEGA STAR rolls into town and more.
Wanted to thank Robin who sent me this info because we had a lot of local cast and crew work on this one. We have some updates on the flick, “Where the Devil Hides” aka “The Occult” and “The Devil’s Rapture“. Now that it has finally settled on a title, we can tell you that it also has a release date. It’s slated to premiere on October 11th. Alycia Debnam-Carey, Rufus Sewell, Thomas McDonell, Adelaide Kane, Leah Pipes and Jennifer Carpenter star.
The big battle has ended. Iron Man 3 will be playing at Mayfaire Regal Cinemas following a deal reached between Disney and Regal Entertainment Group. I was asked if anyone in our local film community was upset by this. Well, I cannot speak for all, but the consensus I guess was neutral. It was simply water cooler talk.
I was told this isn’t anything new. Sony pulled this when the original Spiderman came out. They announced they wanted more money and a theater company was so upset that they tried to pull advance screening and ticket sales. Ultimately the studio won the battle. Disney was kinda doing the same thing and as predicted Regal caved because, hell, they can’t afford to miss out on the money. Inside sources told me, the battle between Regal and Disney was that Disney wanted 15% more of the ticket price. In most circumstances, movie theaters make anywhere from 20-50 cents per tickets sold depending on the film…hence why concessions cost so much.
Now, back to the excitement of Tammy! I told you last week Melissa McCarthy rolled into town, well you can now add Susan Sarandon to the list! Yep, she is here, so restaurants, get ready to swoon her in to your establishments. FYI, she likes long walks on the beach, animal rights and kids.
When is Dan Aykroyd, Toni Collette and Kathy Bates coming into town? Check back, I will let you know very very soon. (that’s called a tease). There are tons of extras casting opportunities with this flick – visit the Extras Casting Director’s Page for details.
That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you Monday morning and every morning (Monday-Friday) at 8:30am live on Sunny 104.5. Got scoop? email me: sheila@1045sunnyfm.com. Until then, that’s a wrap!
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WHAT’S UP IN WILMYWOOD – 04/25/2013 Fox TV brings more jobs, Revolution’s return and more
I really hope that all the representatives and other politicians across the state read my blog because I am kicking it off with something to remind them of what the film industry does for our area. The Fox Network’s Wild Blue is bring more action here in the area, but more importantly a HUGE budget. My sources tell me it’s one of the most expensive TV pilot’s in history with a budget of $15 million. A few weeks ago, we know they were scouting the Coty Inc. plant in Rocky Point. I cannot confirm whether they will indeed use that location as other sources tell me they will be taking over an old out of business yacht building company. The best part, of course, with that big budget is JOBS, JOBS, JOBS! They will be employing a lot of people.
I was told they plan to completely replicate the top deck on an aircraft carrier. Then, they will digitally put in the ocean in post. That is great news for construction workers, i.e carpenters, painters, electricians, and the many vendors they will need supplies from! Pre-production could begin as early as this Monday. Thank you Fox! Fox’s Wild Blue is about a group of men and women working aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. It stars Mykelti Williamson (Bubba of Forrest Gump) as Master Chief Donald Bowman along with Josh Salatin, Will Rothhaar, Alano Miller and Gina Rodriguez.
Now let’s move on to NBC. We have waited patiently for official word on two things about our beloved show, Revolution. 1) Is there a season two? and 2) Will they return to Wilmington? Wanna know what my reliable sources tell me? How about yes and yes! Let’s hope my peeps are right about this! Official word is supposed to come out May 13th. Plus, if you remember, the cast LOVES Wilmington. They all said they did not want to relocate. I don’t blame them. With beach season approaching fast, who wants to be stuck in a major city with no sea breeze?
The Vampire Diaries airs on the CW tonight. Don’t forget to be on the look out for our local boy, Scott Parks who plays the evil Silas!
And on a final note, who’s ready for Port City Pop Con? Check out this spot for the convention by Joe Stauffer.
That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you tomorrow morning and every morning (Monday-Friday) at 8:30am live on Sunny 104.5. Got scoop? email me: sheila@1045sunnyfm.com. Until then, that’s a wrap!
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Fatima, Spain, Lourdes, Paris, Rome & Medjugorje
Lisbon (St. Anthony) · Santarem (Eucharistic Miracle) · Fatima · Salamanca · Alba de Tormes · Avila · Burgos · Loyola (St. Ignatius) · Lourdes · Paris · Lisieux (St. Terese the Little Flower) · Chartes · Rome (Papal Audience with Holy Father) · Medjugorje
From the time you arrive, you are greeted with the life of St. Anthony of Padua (Patron Saint of Lost Things.) Then you are on your way to Fatima, home to the three shepherd children who witnessed the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 100 years ago! Continue through the life of St. Teresa of Avila, and Lourdes. Whether you come for prayer at the Grotto or in the Basilica, or if you came to immerse yourself in the famous Healing Baths - Lourdes is the place for true miracles.
One way flight from Lourdes to Paris or Lyon
One way flight from Paris to Rome
~ 2 nights: Grand Hotel de l'Esperance, Lisieux, Portugal
~ 2 nights: Pullman Hotel or M Gallery, Paris
~ 3 nights: Le Meridien Visconti or Michelangelo, Rome, Italy
~ 4 nights: Modern Pansion/Hotel, Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Wine with dinners
Grand Hotel de l’Esperance
Lisieux, France
Pullman Hotel
Le Meridien Visconti
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lunches, Tips to your guide & driver.
Upon landing at Lisbon Airport, and after claiming your baggage, proceed to the arrival's hall, where you will be greeted by your tour guide and/or driver. This afternoon we will enjoy Panoramic tour of Lisbon, which will include St. Jerome's Monastery, built to give thanks to the Virgin Mary, we will drive by the Belem Tower and many landmarks including the 25th of April Bridge, Basilica of the Star, and the Marquee of Pombal Square. Our last stop will be St. Anthony's Church. Patron Saint of lost things is best known as St. Anthony of Padua (Italy), but he was born and baptized here in Lisbon, Portugal. The Church where we will celebrate Mass is built upon St. Anthony's birth. Welcome dinner and overnight in Lisbon.
Today, we will head to Fatima, on the way will stop in town of Santarem for Mass at St. Stephens Church, and to venerate the 13th century Eucharistic Miracle. Continue to Fatima, a Hamlet of Aljustrel, the birthplace and home of the three shepherd children. Dinner and overnight in Fatima.
Today will surely be a memorable experience, as you pray and meditate upon one of Our Blessed Mother's apparition sites. Our Lady appeared to three shepherd children; Lucia (age 10), Jacinta (age 7), and Francisco (age 9). These apparitions occurred monthly from May until October of 1917. Historically, as the entire world was in true turmoil, Our Lady's most prominent message during this time was to pray for world peace. The destruction of the world at that point in history was also mentioned by Our Lady in her messages of Fatima, and more specifically, in her second secret to the children. Our profoundly reflective day begins with a visit to the Little Chapel of the Apparitions. This simple, yet modern, chapel is the site where the Virgin Mary first appeared on May 13, 1917. Continue with a visit to the stunning neoclassical church, the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary. This Sacred space contains the tombs of St. Francisco, St. Jacinta, and Sister Lucia. View the monument that commemorates the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the square. Due to Our Lady's consistency in Her messages to pray the Rosary, this Basilica also features fifteen altars, dedicated to the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary. While in the Basilica, you will be able to feel, through the Love of Our Lord and Lady, the many graces that were received here. Visit the Museum with the exhibition: Fatima: Light and Peace. Continue with a visit to the Holy Trinity Basilica. After free time for lunch, we will experience Christ's unconditional love by participating in the Stations of the Cross along the Via Sacra. The "Sacred Way" marks the path taken by the shepherd children of Fatima to their first apparition with Our Lady. It is composed of fifteen small chapels in commemoration of the Passion of Our Lord. The fifteenth station, the Resurrection, can be found close to the Chapel of Calvary, dedicated to St. Stephen, King of Hungary. The day ends with a visit to Valinhos, the site of Our Lady's August 1917 apparition and the first and third apparition of the Angel. Your night will conclude with private devotions, and a candlelight procession, requested by Our Lady (1917). Enjoy dinner and a comfortable night's rest in Fatima.
Depart Fatima and head to Salamanca, following a full breakfast at the hotel. Salamanca is a city in the Castilla y Leon region, and is known for its large University, the oldest in Spain that is still active, along with its prominent culture. Our walking tour will bring us by the most noteworthy sites such as; the grand Plaza Mayor, an iconic square filled with food, shopping and city events; La Clerecia, a church and college of the Jesuit Order that was constructed in the seventeenth century; La Casa de las Conchas, currently a public library but also, a monument noted and decorated by shells, which symbolizes the ever-famous pilgrimage to Santiago (El Camino); the University of Salamanca, the oldest University in Spain and the third oldest in Europe; the Roman Bridge, extends along the River Tormes, is a national monument and among one of Salamanca's sturdiest bridges; La Iglesia de San Marcos, constructed in the Romanesque style and contains breathtaking paintings that portray many scenes of Our Lady's life; La Iglesia de San Martin, a church devoted to St. Martin de Porres, who is the patron saint of mixed-race people and all those seeking interracial harmony. Visit the inside of the two joint Salamanca Cathedrals (old and new), one of which is a Romanesque style and the other a Gothic style. Following this eventful day, you will return to your hotel for a delicious meal with your group and an overnight at your hotel in Salamanca.
This morning, after breakfast, you will board the bus and enjoy a short transfer to the village of Alba de Tormes. This town is home to the Carmelite Monastery that Saint Teresa founded in 1571. Upon arrival in Alba de Tormes, your group will celebrate Mass at this Monastery where the saint died and was buried. Following Mass, you will have the opportunity to visit the museum dedicated to St. Teresa of Avila, which also holds her incorrupt heart and left arm. Your group will enjoy free time for lunch on your own, before continuing to the medieval city of Avila. Upon arrival in Avila, you will immediately notice the perfectly preserved eleventh-century walls that surround the old town. The conservation of architecture in this city, to which St. Teresa was born, deems its shrines, convents and churches necessary to visit on any Catholic pilgrimage. The Cathedral de Avila encompasses the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance styles of its time, within its artwork and architecture. La Basilica de San Vicente in Avila, stands on the site of the martyrdom of St. Vincent. Visit the Incarnation Convent, where St. Teresa became a nun. Saint Therese convinced Saint John of the Cross to reform the male Carmelite order, the reform she started when she met Saint John in Medina del Campo. After walking in the footsteps of St. Teresa, continue your journey to Burgos. Upon arrival in the historic capital of Old Castile, enjoy dinner. Following dinner, you will have the opportunity to explore the city of Burgos, and admire its magnificent limestone, gothic-style Cathedral. Late this evening, you will return to your hotel for a restful overnight.
Over the next two days, you will wake up in a small town that is nestled within the Pyrenees Mountains. During your time in Lourdes, you will pray and meditate in yet another site of Our Lady's apparitions. Our Lady first appeared to Bernadette in 1858, and announced herself as "The Immaculate Conception", near the Grotto of Massabielle. During the first two apparitions, little Bernadette prayed the Rosary with Our Lady and left without any exchange of words. During the following apparitions, Our Lady emphasized God's love for us, penance and the necessity of performing acts of penance for sinners. Throughout your time in Lourdes, you will have the opportunity to attend Mass at the Grotto, where Our Lady appeared to Bernadette; watch a video presentation that explains, in detail, the story of Lourdes; drink water from the miraculous spring that has healed many; and submerge yourself in the healing baths. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to experience Christ's unconditional love, as you meditate upon the "life size" Stations of the Cross that overlook the Grotto of Massabielle. Also, while in Lourdes, you will walk in and meditate upon the footsteps of St. Bernadette. Your group will have the opportunity to see Boly Mill, the birthplace of St. Bernadette, and the "Cachot," an abandoned prison where Bernadette's impoverished family lived. Each evening following dinner, you will have an opportunity to attend the candlelight procession and the Rosary before a restful overnight.
Lourdes - Paris - Lisieux (St. Therese - the Little Flower)
Today, you will enjoy breakfast before departing for Pau or Lourdes airport for your short flight to Paris. Upon arrival in Paris, visit and attend Mass at the magnificent, Sacre Coeur Basilica that stands atop Montmartre Hill. The Basilica, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was originally built in 1914 as an act of penance for the infidelity that France was experiencing during that time. While on your visit, in addition to the extraordinary artwork and architecture that forms the Basilica, you will see the beautiful mosaic of the Risen Christ, and the remarkable Grand Organ. Celebrate Mass at the Crypt that contains the Tombs of many notable Cardinals. Time permitting, you may have the opportunity during your free time to ascend a staircase to the Dome where you may take in a breathtaking panoramic view of the city of Paris. Following this visit, you will enjoy lunch on own and depart for Lisieux. According to Pope Pius X, St. Therese of Lisieux was the "greatest saint of modern times." Her extraordinary love for God and service to humanity will come alive, as you walk in the great Saint's footsteps. During your visit, you will see the beautiful Basilica of St. Therese, and the magnificent mosaics and stained glass that are contained within. Dinner and an overnight at your hotel in Lisieux.
Lisieux - Normandy Beaches & American Cemetery
Upon waking up in Lisieux and enjoying breakfast, you will pray and reflect upon the life of the beloved Saint and celebrate Mass. After Mass and following the visit to the Basilica, you will have the opportunity to view relics, clothing and personal objects of St. Therese, when you visit her family home, Les Buissonets. Additionally, you will tour the Carmelite Convent, where she entered in 1888, and is currently entombed with her parent. This afternoon, transfer to Normandy Landing beaches. The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, June 6, 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allies’ invasion of Normandy during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allies’ victory on the Western Front. Continue to visit The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, a World War II cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, that honors American troops who died in Europe during World War II. Many of the brave American soldiers of World War II are buried here and, it is encouraged to say a prayer in thanksgiving for their courage. Return to Lisieux for dinner and an overnight.
Lisieux - Chartres - Paris
This morning, your day begins with an early breakfast, before we depart for Chartres, known worldwide for its massive Cathedral Notre Dame, and its incredible stained-glass windows from the 12th and 13th century. The World Heritage site, UNESCO, calls the Cathedral "the high point of French Gothic art" and a "masterpiece". You will have some free time for lunch in the quaint town of Chartres. After lunch, we will continue to Paris for check in at your hotel, followed by some free time before a delicious dinner and an overnight.
Today, you will enjoy a full sightseeing tour of Paris. After breakfast, you will visit and celebrate Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, where you will view the incorrupt body of St. Catherine Laboure. The Saint's guardian angel led her to the chapel, where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to her. During apparitions, Our Lady repeatedly instructed the making and purpose of the Miraculous Medal, as well as the green scapular. According to the Blessed Virgin Mary, those who wear the Miraculous Medal and scapular will receive special protection and abundant graces. Following your prayerful and reflective experience at this elegant chapel, you will begin your sightseeing tour of Paris. After Mass, we will walk to Saint Vicent de Paul Church. Our panoramic sightseeing tour, via motor coach, for your to view the most recognizable symbol of the city of Paris, the Eiffel Tower. Historically, the Tower's original intent was to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution, but, later assisted in advancements in meteorology, telegraphy during World War I, radio, and television. Pass by Invalides, the L'Arch de Triomphe, a monument that symbolizes gratitude for those who fought for France. This monument stands at the West end of the Champ-Elysees, one of the world's most famous boulevards and another one of our stops on the sightseeing tour. We will make a stop at La Madeleine, with the statue of Mary Magdalene carried to heaven by angels. Due to the tragic fire at Notre Dame Cathedral on April 15, 2019, Pilgrims will not be able to enter the Cathedral for the near future. Pilgrims will still have the opportunity to view the Cathedral from outside, and we expect the sacred relics to be on display in a nearby church or museum. Then continue and pass by the Opera and the ever famous, Louvre Museum.* This Museum is one of the finest in the world and contains a number of pieces that truly emanate not only French art, but also, European culture. Your fun-filled, busy day ends with a lovely meal and a very comfortable overnight.
Paris - Rome
Following breakfast at your hotel, your group will transfer to the Charles de Gaulle Airport and board your short flight to Rome. Upon arrival at Rome airport, collect your luggage in the baggage claim area, and continue to the arrival's hall, where you will be greeted by a tour escort and/or driver. You will make your way to the bus and transfer to your hotel. Following check-in, you will have free time to unpack and relax, or explore Rome on your own. Your tour escort may suggest places to visit. Later in the afternoon, your group will meet in the hotel lobby for a "Meet and Greet" with your fellow pilgrims and depart for Mass. Following Mass, you will attend a welcome dinner. After dinner, you will have the opportunity to walk to St. Peter's Square as a group, for the Rosary (optional), before retiring for the evening.
Rome: Papal Audience - Basilica of St. John the Lateran - Holy Stairs - Basilica of St. Mary Major
After a nice breakfast at your hotel, your first sightseeing day in Rome starts! The tour begins with attending the Papal Audience in St. Peter's Square! The Audience is celebrated each Wednesday by His Holiness (pending the papal schedule). Following the Audience, there will be free time for lunch, or shop, or mail a postcard from the Vatican Post Office. This afternoon you will visit the oldest of the four major basilicas in Rome, and the home to the relics of Peter and Paul, the Basilica of St. John the Lateran. This Basilica is where the Pope is installed as Bishop of Rome, and where he officiates as the Bishop of Rome. Next, we will cross the street to visit the Holy Staircase. Tradition states that this staircase is from Pontius Pilate's palace of Jerusalem during the time of Jesus. It is also said that this Staircase was brought to Rome by St. Helen in the 4th century. If time permits, you may climb the steps on your knees, in memory of Christ's agonizing Passion. To conclude your day, we will proceed to the Basilica of St. Mary Major. This Basilica contains a relic from the Manger of the Infant Jesus. Return to the hotel for dinner and overnight.
Rome: St. Peter's Basilica - Vatican Museum - Appian Way - Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls - Catacombs
This morning you will enjoy an early breakfast before making your way to the largest Christendom Church, St. Peter's Basilica. This Basilica was built on the site where St. Peter, the first Pope and Bishop of Rome, was martyred. Also, it was Our Holy Father, Pope Francis who was the first Pontiff to visit the necropolis since extensive archaeological excavations were conducted at the ancient site decades ago. It is here that you will view Michelangelo's Pieta. This stunning marble sculpture depicts the Virgin Mary holding Christ after His crucifixion, death, and removal off the cross before being placed in the tomb. Continue to proceed to the Vatican Museums. At the world-renowned museum, you will see the most impressive of edifices, galleries, and awe-inspiring relics. Additionally, you will observe the Tapestry Gallery, Raphael Rooms, Sistine Chapel, and Michelangelo's Masterpiece, the restored mural of the Last Judgment. The final stop on your Vatican tour is at the tomb of Saint John Paul II. Afterward, you will be transferred to the Fontana di Trevi (Trevi Fountain), where you may enjoy some free time on your own for lunch. Continue on your short journey down the Appian Way, the earliest road of Ancient Rome. This road leads to the Domino Quo Vadis Chapel, the Baths of Caracalla, the Arch of Drusus, the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, and the catacombs of St. Callixtus. The day concludes with a visit to the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. Originally founded by Emperor Constantine in the 4th Century, this Basilica is the burial places of Saint Paul the Apostle. We will make our way to a local restaurant for dinner. Following dinner, feel free to explore the streets of Rome, or return to the hotel for overnight.
Rome - Medjugorje
Today, you will have the morning at leisure in Rome, followed by an afternoon transfer and flight to either: Dubrovnik, Split or Sarajevo. After landing, you will collect your luggage in the baggage claim area, and continue to the Arrival’s Hall where you will be greeted by a tour guide and/or driver. You will be escorted to the vehicle which will take you on the 2.5 hour drive to the village of Medjugorje. Once in Medjugorje, you will meet your fellow pilgrims and host family. Your group will enjoy a dinner together before retiring for the evening.
Days18 to 20
The most beautiful features of Medjugorje are its simplicity and peace. While in Medjugorje, you may experience your faith grow, and share in the faith journey of pilgrims from all over the world. A local guide will accompany your group throughout your stay in the village.
Attend Daily Mass: Each morning at 10:00 AM, your group will assemble at St. James Church for Mass (English-Speaking). At the end of each Mass, regardless of language, there is a blessing of the religious articles that you have with you.
On Feast Days, and Sundays: English Mass is at 12 PM.
Climb Apparition Hill: This mountainous hill is where the visionaries first encountered Our Lady. At the base of this hill is a Blue Cross, where it is said Our Lady appeared to the children while they hid from the communist police in the early days of the alleged apparitions. While climbing, your group is invited to recite the Rosary, pausing five times for each decade of the Rosary. At the top of the hill, you will witness the exact location of the first alleged apparition of Our Lady to the visionaries, and enjoy private time for prayer.
Climb Mt. Krizevac (Cross Mountain): In 1933, the villagers built a 30' high cross atop a mountain to commemorate Jesus' passion and death on the cross. Your group will have the opportunity to climb this mountain, and venerate that very cross. While climbing, your group is invited to pray the Stations of the Cross (to meditate on Jesus' suffering Road to Calvary), pausing fifteen times for each Station.
Apparitions: Each evening at 5 PM or 6 PM (depending on daylight savings time), your group will join the villagers and fellow pilgrims of Medjugorje in saying the Rosary, as all anxiously await the alleged arrival of Our Lady to the visionaries. Following the apparition, at 5:40 PM (6:40 PM during Daylight Savings Time), feel free to stay at St. James Church and attend the Croatian Mass. Following the Croatian Mass, there is a Blessing of the Sick.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Our Lady has always called us to be close to her Son. For this, you will have the opportunity to adore the Blessed Sacrament at the altar outside of St. James Church. Adoration is held on Tuesdays and Saturdays; Veneration of the Cross is held on Fridays inside the church. Additionally, there is an Adoration Chapel on the grounds of St. James Church, where Adoration is held in the afternoon hours.
Prayer at the Statue of the Risen Christ: The bronze statue of the Risen Christ is located on the grounds of St. James Church. Many pilgrims sit and pray on the benches surrounding this peaceful statue. This statue miraculously seeps droplets of water at all times of the day, out of Christ's right knee.
* Upon arrival in the village, you will have an orientation tour. For the remainder of your stay, you will not have a guide however, a representative of 206 Tours will be available should you have any questions or requests. Daily Mass in English and English confessions are available at St. James Church in Medjugorje.
After an early breakfast and heartfelt farewells, your group will leave by motor coach for Dubrovnik, Split or Sarajevo Airport for return flights home.
>Discount is offered to ordained clergy in the Roman Catholic Church: deacons, priests, or bishops belonging to the diaconate, the presbyterate, or the episcopate, respectively as well, as Catholic Sisters.
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Without Airfare (Land Only) Starting at 5,609.00 (USD)
Pre Stay - Overnight Hotel & Breakfast
Lisbon Pre Stay- Double Room (Per Night) $96.00 (USD)
Lisbon Pre Stay- Private Room (Per Night) $177.00 (USD)
Lisbon Pre Stay- Arrival Transfer (Per Person) $49.00 (USD)
Post Stay - Overnight Hotel & Breakfast
Medjugorje Post Stay- Double Room (Per Night) $49.00 (USD)
Medjugorje Post Stay- Private Room (Per Night) $75.00 (USD)
Medjugorje Post Stay- Departure Transfer (Per Person) $95.00 (USD)
Lisbon (St. Anthony)
Santarem (Eucharistic Miracle)
Loyola (St. Ignatius)
Lisieux (St. Terese the Little Flower)
Rome (Papal Audience with Holy Father)
About Lisieux & Paris:
Visit town of Lisieux, the home of St Therese whom Pope Pius X called "the greatest saint of modern times" Visit Paris and all its wonderful sights like Notre Dame Cathedral and Sacre Coeur, see the sights as the Eiffel Tower, L'Arc de Triomphe, and drive through the Champs Elysees. Mass at Shrine of the Miraculous Medal.
About Rome:
Rome has been one of history's most powerful and important cities, along with home to the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope, and the site of the Vatican City. First built in 337, St. Peter's Basilica lies over the tomb of St. Peter. Contained within is a vast array of the most beautiful artwork ever assembled, reflecting the immensity, beauty, vastness, majesty, glory and awesomeness of God
About Medjugorje:
On June 25, 1981, in the mountain village of Medjugorje in Herzegovina, Our Lady allegedly appeared to six children. She identified herself as the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace, and continues to allegedly appear to several of the visionaries. Her mission is to promote peace with God and mankind, through her Son, Jesus. Mary's own words to the children explained, "I have come to tell the world that God exists." 206 Tours has been arranging pilgrimages to Medjugorje since 1985. About the Six Medjugorje Visionaries
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Lotus Hill
The Lotus Hill, also known as Lianhua Mountain, in Guangzhou is the right place to enjoy the beauty of blooming lotus flowers. The hill is situated near the Pearl River Delta, and is another of the well known natural attractions of the city. In fact, this river delta is also known to be the location of several other hills. The hill is outside of Panyu City, and its distance from Guangzhou is about 20 kilometers. There are about 48 quarries in this Lotus Hill region and together, they take up about 2.54 square kilometers. All these hills are quite low in height and are made of red stone.
Apart from its link with the flower, the name Lotus Hill also refers to a fairy tale. According to the story, a dragon, which lived in the South China Sea, used to create tidal waves to sink ships and flood the farmlands near the Pearl River. The ordeal of the local people moved the Goddess of Mercy and she threw her lotus seat and overpowered the dragon. People believe that it is this lotus seat that later transformed into the Lotus Stone, thus giving the hill its name. This is the very reason why you will find a gold statue of the deity on this hill.
The statue of the Goddess of Mercy is also considered to be the biggest statue in the world. It was built in 1994 and has 180 gold teals and bronze that weigh 120 tons. Apart from this, the area also has some stone quarries that are about 2000 years old. The authorities have preserved these mines with enough care and they have now become an important part of the Lotus Hill in Guangzhou.
The mining area was a part of the Lotus City, which was built by Kangxi of Qing Dynasty. The dynasty ruled over the country from 1644 to 1911. But if you take a closer look at the quarries, you will see that they stand testimony to not only the era of the Qing Dynasty, but also several other dynasties including the Western Han. These quarries are made of red stones and have grottoes and stone forests. They also have different name like Lion Stone, Eagle Cliff, Swallow Rock, and Goddess of Mercy Rock.
These cliffs provide different views to the tourists. If you stand on Eagle Cliff, you will see the beautiful Pearl River beneath and get a view of the fertile farmlands. Swallow Rock, on the other hand, may be too much for the faint hearted, as it provides a great view where the sky seems to be engulfed by the four cliffs encircling the rock. That is why the rock has got such a name.
The Lion Stone is a replica of a stone lion that seems to be roaring, facing the Pearl River. The presence of this statue has also given this attraction in Guangzhou its second name - the "Lion Hill". On this hill, you will find the Lotus Tower that dates back to the Ming Dynasty. It was built by emperor Wan Li, who wanted to celebrate his 40th year of ruling. The tower is also famous by the name of "Capital's Cloud Pillar", stressing the fact that Guangzhou is the capital of the Guangdong province.
Visit Lianhua Mountain in Guangzhou anytime between June and August. That is the time of Lotus Flower blooming and Peach Blossom Festivals. Let your tour be a memorable one.
Chinese Name: 莲花山
Address: No.18 Ximne Road Shilou Town Panyu District Guangzhou
Contact: 020 8486 1559
Website: 001@pylianhuashan.com
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Construction Industry Organizes to Reduce Suicide Risk Among Construction Workers
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 11:01 AM - stover@abc.org - ABC News, Events/Products/Programs, Safety -
ABC was one of 17 member organizations of the Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention that met recently in Washington, D.C., to collaborate on how to equip companies to better address mental health issues and reduce the risk of suicide in the construction industry. Members of the Alliance, which was classified as a 501(c)(3) public charity this summer, formed governance, fundraising, education and marketing task forces during a strategic planning session during National Suicide Prevention Month.
“Our industry’s steadfast commitment to safety needs to extend beyond our jobsites to ensure that workers struggling with mental health issues get the help they need,” said Greg Sizemore, ABC vice president of health, safety, environment and workforce development, who attended the meeting. “We are proud to be part of the Alliance to draw attention to the national issue of suicide risk and help increase access to mental health across the construction industry.”
The construction and extraction industry had the second-highest suicide rate at 53.3 out of 100,000 workers and the highest total number of suicides by industry, according to a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control.
Since the report was released, the construction community has taken important steps to provide and disseminate information and resources for suicide prevention and promotion of mental health in construction. ABC also encourages member companies to include employee mental health in their safety programs.
Founded two years ago by the Construction Financial Management Association, the Alliance now counts more than 75 member organizations united in their dedication to reducing suicide risk across the construction industry. For more information or to join, visit the Alliance’s website.
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This work led to a set of recommendations for deploying the right combination of technologies for each operational mode. Some technologies had never before been used in pipelines. Accenture also developed a roadmap for moving forward and suggested best practices for using the new system.
In just three months, an assessment was conducted and a roadmap was developed, providing clear strategic guidelines for implementing a robust leak detection system.
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Ethiopia's EPRDF accepts Desalegn's resignation, new PM in the offing
Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban with REUTERS
Ethiopia’s ruling coalition has accepted the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn as Prime Minister of the country. He will, however, continue in the role till his successor is named.
A statement from the Ethiopian Embassy in the United Kingdom said the Ethiopia Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) was due to hold a Congress at which Desalegn’s successor will be named.
“The EPRDF, at its next congress, will democratically elect a new chairperson to replace him in accordance with the Front’s rules and procedures. The House of Peoples’ Representatives of Ethiopia will subsequently approve this election and endorse his premiership,” the statement said.
I see my resignation as vital in the bid to carry out reforms that would lead to sustainable peace and democracy.
Desalegn’s was leader of the Southern Ethiopian People’s Democratic Movement (SEPDM), one of four parties in the EPRDF. He also stepped down from his position as its leader. He assumed the office of Prime Minister in 2012 after the death of then PM Meles Zenawi.
“Unrest and a political crisis have led to the loss of lives and displacement of many,” Hailemariam said in a televised address to the nation.
“I see my resignation as vital in the bid to carry out reforms that would lead to sustainable peace and democracy,” he said in a LIVE television address.
His resignation follows lingering violence that pressured the government to release more than 6,000 of political prisoners since January.
Most of the released prisoners, which included high level opposition figures and journalists, were detained for alleged involvement in the mass protests.
The prime minister had pushed for even more releases, said a regional analyst familiar with Ethiopian politics. He asked not to be named in order not to jeopardise his relationship with the government.
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Trump Considers 60-Day Extension for China Tariff Deadline
Trade is always a contentious issue between the world's two largest economies, the US and China.
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President Donald Trump is considering pushing back the deadline for imposition of higher tariffs on Chinese imports by 60 days, as the world’s two biggest economies try to negotiate a solution to their trade dispute, according to people familiar with the matter.
The president said Tuesday that he was open to letting the March 1 deadline for more than doubling tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods slide, if the two countries are close to a deal that addresses deep structural changes to China’s economic policies -- though he added he was not “inclined” to do so. The people said that Trump is weighing whether to add 60 days to the current deadline to give negotiations more time to continue.
“I think it’s going along very well,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office this week. “They’re showing us tremendous respect.”
A spokeswoman for U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer declined to comment.
Chinese officials had initially proposed an extension of 90 days, but that was knocked back by the U.S. side, people familiar with that request said.
Asian stocks steadied and U.S. stock futures climbed. Treasuries slipped and the yen dipped.
Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are in Beijing for the latest round of high-level talks with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Thursday and Friday. A meeting between Lighthizer and Chinese President Xi Jinping is being tentatively scheduled for this week. Trump’s willingness to extend the deadline may depend on the outcome of that meeting, one of the people said.
Trump has indicated he will need to meet Xi to agree on a final deal. While no date has been set, a White House aide this week said the U.S. president still wants to meet his Chinese counterpart soon in a bid to end the trade war.
Negotiations this week are focused on how to enforce the trade deal and putting on paper a framework agreement to present to the two presidents.
In the talks, the U.S. is pushing for wide-ranging changes in the way China manages foreign trade and its own economy. Specifically, Lighthizer has zeroed in on China’s alleged abuses of intellectual property and state sponsorship of companies.
Trump has also railed against the size of the U.S. trade deficit with China, and negotiators have made varying demands about how Beijing addresses this. The goal of “reciprocal trade” has been a clear priority of Trump’s policies.
China wants to have the tariffs that have been imposed so far removed. To get the U.S. to do that, negotiators are trying to focus attention on their efforts to reduce China’s more than $300 billion goods trade surplus. Beijing has offered to ramp up its purchases from the U.S. massively over the next six years in order to even the scales.
It is going to take a lot of work to shrink that. While down from the record peak late last year, China still had a $27.3 billion trade surplus in goods with the U.S. in January, according to data released on Thursday in Beijing.
“The outcome of the China-U.S. high-level economic and trade negotiations may be related to the future development and stability of the world economy,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular briefing Thursday in Beijing. “Both parties hope to reach a mutually beneficial agreement. The best thing we can do now is to let both sides concentrate on consultations.”
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By Paul Monies
District attorneys use twin groups to push criminal justice policies
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From left: Kathryn Brewer, District Attorneys Council assistant executive coordinator; Annie Daniel, District Attorneys Council executive assistant; Trent Baggett, District Attorneys Council executive coordinator; Greg Mashburn, District Attorney, District 21 (Cleveland, Garvin and McClain counties); Brian Hermanson, District Attorneys Council president/District Attorneys Association president and District Attorney, District 8 (Kay and Noble counties); Jason Hicks, District Attorney, District 6 (Caddo, Grady, Jefferson and Stephens counties); David Prater, District Attorney, District 7 (Oklahoma County); and Joy Thorp, attorney general's office seen during a District Attorneys Council meeting on May 16.
The meeting room is like so many others in Oklahoma, with a standard conference table, overhead projector and wall map. Attendees exchange small talk and grab coffee from the back of the room.
There's a call to order, roll call and introductions. And then the District Attorneys Council, a state agency, gets down to the day's business, with discussion, votes and adjournment.
Five minutes later, the same people file back into the room. Only this time they are meeting as the Oklahoma District Attorneys Association, a private organization, and it's behind a locked door. No press or visitors, unless they've been invited.
The DA Council and the DA Association enjoy an unusual relationship that breaks with the pattern of other locally elected political or law enforcement groups in Oklahoma. Unlike with sheriffs, judges or county commissioners, district attorneys administer both their local offices and a state agency of their own, as well as operate a nonprofit that can lobby the Legislature.
The close ties between the groups have sown distrust, particularly among those pushing criminal justice reforms. Many district attorneys have opposed the lighter sentences for nonviolent crimes supported by reform advocates. The district attorneys maintain their agency and nonprofit are legally permitted and the two work in tandem to protect the public's interest.
Separate Meetings, Same People
The DA Council and the DAs' Association share a business address and meet one after the other in the same conference room in an Oklahoma City office building.
The executive coordinator of the council is the executive director of the association. The chairman of the council is the president of the association. The vice chairman of the council is the president-elect of the association.
The twin groups share similar missions and co-sponsor training programs and events. The council's top two executives are registered as agency liaisons to lobby the Legislature. The association hires two contract lobbyists to do the same. As elected officials, the 27 district attorneys are free to lobby the Legislature as part of their job duties with no restrictions. An agenda item from the association's June meeting shows "development of a strategy to contact legislators by each individual district attorney."
Advocates of reforms that would reduce prison sentences and overcrowding say district attorneys wield enormous power over the pace and outcome of these efforts. They say DAs, who opposed reforms in State Questions 780 and 781 in 2016, which passed, have hunkered down and are hashing out policy differences behind closed doors in the association meeting instead of the council's public meeting.
"One of the most interesting things during session was that oftentimes, when questions were raised in the public meeting by DAs, the answer they got was, 'We'll discuss that in the ODAA meeting,'" said Nicole McAfee, director of policy and advocacy for the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma. "The fact that they can save that for later without other eyes goes against the purpose of the DAC meeting being open."
Reporters for Oklahoma Watch tried to attend the association's meetings in May and June but were politely asked to leave.
Trent Baggett, the council's executive coordinator and the association's executive director, said the private association is under no obligation to open its meetings to the public. Oklahoma Watch requested the association's tax returns, a dues schedule, bylaws, lobbyist contracts and information about district attorneys' travel reimbursements for association meetings
Baggett provided three years of the association's tax returns, a budget for the upcoming fiscal year and a memorandum of understanding between the council and the association. He also cited a 1995 attorney general opinion that recognized a school board association's ability to spend members' dues on lobbying the Legislature.
"If you believe that you're a private entity, then providing a bunch of information you're asking for is private information," Baggett said. "I want to provide this to you in an effort to be as 'opaquely transparent' as we can be with the standpoint that we do believe our ODAA is a private association."
Lobbying is by far the association's biggest expense, with $48,000 budgeted for fiscal year 2020. Its contracted lobbyists are Julia Jernigan and Pat McFerron. The association approved a total budget of $94,500 and expects to take in $84,000 from membership dues, budget documents show. It is organized as a nonprofit under Section 501(c)(6) of the tax code, which means it can spend unlimited amounts on lobbying.
One of Gov. Kevin Stitt's first acts as governor this year was an executive order prohibiting state agencies, boards and commissions from hiring outside contract lobbyists unless they receive a waiver from a cabinet secretary. But the order doesn't apply to a private association.
"We do not believe this circumvents the executive order and there is certainly no intent to do so," Baggett said in an email.
Baggett said the association helps find DAs or assistant DAs for various task forces and commissions. By statute, two of the five members of the DA council are appointed by the association and one each is appointed by the attorney general's office, the Oklahoma Bar Association and the Court of Criminal Appeals. Baggett said he doesn't receive any compensation as executive director of the association.
A 2001 letter from then-State Auditor and Inspector Jeff McMahan said the auditor's office didn't have a problem with district attorneys or the DA Council paying dues to the association from state or DA office funds. The letter notes that it's not a legal opinion of the office. The council didn't seek an attorney general opinion on the issue, as the school board association had done.
Baggett provided a copy of the 2013 agreement between the council and the association. It said the association would reimburse the council $11,643 each year to cover meeting costs, equipment and personnel to support association meetings and training events. The agreement has no expiration date.
Other nonprofit associations affiliated with government entities include the Oklahoma Sheriffs Association, the Association of County Commissioners of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Judges Association. But none are tied to state agencies with similar missions.
Records and Meetings
Legislation and an attorney general's opinion have spurred some private associations related to government to open their meetings and organization records.
A 2017 attorney general's opinion said the Oklahoma Sheriffs Association came under the Open Meeting Act because it was "supported in whole or in part by public funds or entrusted with the expending of public funds, or administering public property." Meanwhile, a 2014 law opened up the meetings and records of the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association, which coordinates athletic and academic events and is partly funded from dues paid by school districts.
But Stitt, who campaigned on transparency, has allowed a recently created task force on criminal justice to meet behind closed doors. Stitt created the task force via executive order in May. The 15-member task force had its first meeting June 13 and is supposed to issue a report by December.
Damion Shade, criminal justice policy analyst at Oklahoma Policy Institute, said he understood the need for the task force to discuss sensitive issues behind the scenes. But those issues could be dealt with in subcommittees. There was no reason to close the entire process, he said.
"It allows them to create a very closed process where the people who are pushing for the most reform probably won't have a seat at the table," Shade said. "I'm curious what the Oklahoma voters think about that."
Cory Williams, a former Democratic lawmaker from Stillwater who ran unsuccessfully for district attorney last year in Payne and Logan counties, said for years he watched DAC legislative liaisons pitch higher fines and fees to supplement the council's state appropriations.
District Attorneys Association
Reform advocates and even some DAs view the dependence on fines and fees as a perverse incentive. The Legislature approved changes to two DA fee programs this year, routing the fees to the general fund while also increasing appropriations for the council.
"I think their association has meetings with regards to political races," Williams said. "I think they have a coordinated effort between the DAC and the association whenever it comes to get people elected and messaging," Williams said. "They knew if I got elected, my main goal was to break apart the DAC from the inside out, because I don't think it functions at all in the best interest of the state of Oklahoma."
Baggett defended the groups' related missions.
"While they may basically be the same people, they are all attorneys and district attorneys who are
sworn to uphold the law, and they take that oath very seriously," he said.
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What are the Key Performance Indicators For a Human Resources Assistant Job?
by Ruth Mayhew
Human resources assistants perform a wide variety of administrative duties.
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1 What Is the Difference Between an HR Assistant & HR Generalist?
2 The Average Salary of an Entry Level Human Resource Assistant
3 Qualities & Skills for Human Resources
4 HR Pay Scale
An organization's human resources assistant often is the face of HR. The HR assistant is the person who greets callers looking for information on employment opportunities. He's frequently the go-to person employees call with questions about pay and benefits, or issues they might be having with a co-worker. Based on the HR assistant's duties, a number of key performance indicators determine whether he's meeting the organization's expectation and supporting the HR department's functionality.
A key performance indicator, or KPI, is a factor that helps employers determine whether their employees' performance meets the job expectations and standards. KPIs vary according to the employee's position, title, qualifications and, sometimes, tenure with the organization. On an organizational level, KPIs are measurements useful in communicating how well an organization is performing. KPIs connect the company's performance to strategy, according to London-based organizational research provider Advanced Performance Institute. For individual contributors to an organization -- such as an HR assistant -- KPIs determine whether her performance is aligned with the departmental goals and activities.
Images of a customer service work environment generally don't bring to mind an HR department. However, the primary focus for many HR leaders is to provide superior customer service to the organization's internal and external customers. Internal customers are employees; external customers are applicants and vendors, such as background check providers, insurance companies and the like. Among essential KPIs for HR assistants are customer service skills. Customer service skills are comprised of active listening, appropriate inquiries to help resolve customer issues and resourcefulness in addressing customers' needs.
Functional Knowledge
An HR assistant job typically is an entry-level or support position. However, many HR assistants have fundamental knowledge of employee and employer rights and responsibilities. For example, important KPIs for HR assistants include up-to-date knowledge of fair employment practices, workplace safety rules and compensation and benefits structure. Functional knowledge is important so the company can rely on its HR assistant to direct employees and applicants to the appropriate staff and resources for information and assistance on matters such as employee benefits, payroll and tax withholding records. In addition, HR assistants are entrusted with confidential information. Therefore, they must understand the importance of maintaining confidentiality related to employment decisions, department activities and legal matters in which the HR department is involved.
HR assistants must be technologically proficient, especially when so many employers use professional and social networking sites for recruiting candidates. In addition, HR assistants use applicant tracking systems to monitor employment applications, schedule interviews and coordinate hiring process steps. KPIs related to technology are widespread across many occupations; however, for HR assistants, the need may be greater based on the various uses for technology. Many HR assistants handle high volumes of employment applications in addition to documentation for current employees, such as personnel file materials, payroll data and benefits information.
2016 Salary Information for Human Resources Specialists
Human resources specialists earned a median annual salary of $59,180 in 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On the low end, human resources specialists earned a 25th percentile salary of $44,620, meaning 75 percent earned more than this amount. The 75th percentile salary is $78,460, meaning 25 percent earn more. In 2016, 547,800 people were employed in the U.S. as human resources specialists.
Advanced Performance Institute: What is a Key Performance Indicator?
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: What Human Resources Specialists Do
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook: Human Resources Specialists
Career Trend: Human Resources Specialists
Ruth Mayhew has been writing since the mid-1980s, and she has been an HR subject matter expert since 1995. Her work appears in "The Multi-Generational Workforce in the Health Care Industry," and she has been cited in numerous publications, including journals and textbooks that focus on human resources management practices. She holds a Master of Arts in sociology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Ruth resides in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.
Mayhew, Ruth. "What are the Key Performance Indicators For a Human Resources Assistant Job?" Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/key-performance-indicators-human-resources-assistant-job-14774.html. Accessed 18 July 2019.
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The Pay Scale for Restaurant Employees
by Gregory Hamel
Chefs and head cooks oversee kitchen staff.
1 What Are the Roles of a Supervisor in a Fast Food Eatery?
2 Management Trainee Responsibilities in the Beverage Industry
3 How Much Does a Meat Production Supervisor Make?
4 How Much Does a Restaurant Manager Earn?
Restaurants hire workers to fulfill a variety of different roles to produce and deliver food to customers as efficiently as possible. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, more than 2 million servers, 1 million cooks and 700,000 supervisors were employed in the U.S. food service industry in May 2011. The income of restaurant workers varies significantly from one position to another. Workers at the bottom of the pay scale might earn less than half that of workers at the top of the pay scale.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that waiters and waitresses earned an average annual income of $10.05 an hour of $20,890 as of May 2011. The top 10 percent of servers earned more than $29,820 a year, while the bottom 10 percent earned less than $16,070. Fifty percent of waiters and waitresses had annual incomes between $17,160 and $22,070. BLS income data includes tip income.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that restaurant cooks averaged $23,410 a year as of May 2011, while fast food cooks earned $18,720 a year on average. The top 10 percent of earners among restaurant cooks made more than $32,160, while the bottom 10 percent earned less than $16,800. The top 10 percent of fast food cooks earned more than $23,140 and the bottom 10 percent earned less than $16,090 a year.
Chefs and Head Cooks
Head cooks and chefs manage other cooks and handle any food-related problems that arise at restaurants. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that chefs and head cooks earned an average annual income of $46,600 as of May 2011. Those in the top 10 percent of the pay scale earned more than $74,060 a year, while those in the bottom 10 percent earned less than $24,770. Fifty percent of chefs and head cooks earned between $31,600 and $56,940.
Supervisors and Managers
Restaurant supervisors oversee servers and food preparation workers, while food service managers are in charge of overall operations. The BLS reports that supervisors of servers and food preparation workers earned $32,020 on average as of May 2011. The top 10 percent earned more than $47,910 a year, while the bottom 10 percent earned less than $19,780. Food service managers made $52,620 on average as of May 2011. The top 10 percent earned more than $81,410 a year, while the bottom 10 percent earned less than $30,570.
2016 Salary Information for Chefs and Head Cooks
Chefs and head cooks earned a median annual salary of $43,180 in 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On the low end, chefs and head cooks earned a 25th percentile salary of $32,230, meaning 75 percent earned more than this amount. The 75th percentile salary is $59,080, meaning 25 percent earn more. In 2016, 146,500 people were employed in the U.S. as chefs and head cooks.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: 35-3031 Waiters and Waitresses
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: 35-2011 Cooks, Fast Food
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: 35-2014 Cooks, Restaurant
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Chefs and Head Cooks
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: 35-1011 Chefs and Head Cooks
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: 35-1012 First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: 11-9051 Food Service Managers
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook: Chefs and Head Cooks
Career Trend: Chefs and Head Cooks
Gregory Hamel has been a writer since September 2008 and has also authored three novels. He has a Bachelor of Arts in economics from St. Olaf College. Hamel maintains a blog focused on massive open online courses and computer programming.
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Stoke-by-Nayland
English, 1776-1837
Stoke-by-Nayland depicts the subject matter that the landscape painter John Constable explored throughout his life: the Suffolk countryside of his youth. Constable based his landscapes on countless studies and sketches that he often took back to his London studio to expand and then finish. Of Stoke-by-Nayland, he wrote to a friend: “What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o’clock, after a slight shower during the night.” To achieve the effect of sparkling wetness and a freshness of earth and air, Constable painted as much with a palette knife as with a brush, flecking the surface with white highlights and sketching and scraping the picture into existence. The deliberate ruggedness of his style echoes nature’s rough spontaneity. The unpolished execution is reminiscent of the full-scale sketches in oil that Con-stable made for earlier exhibition paintings; however, no more fully treated version is known, and the rich color suggests that this is a finished work, done in the artist’s late style. Constable’s emphasis on surface brushwork and texture in his effort to record the constantly shifting effects of natural light on land and sky exerted enor-mous influence on French artists like Eugène Delacroix and a younger generation of French painters, the Impressionists.
European Painting and Sculpture, Gallery 222
126 × 169 cm (49 5/8 × 66 1/2 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection
Art Access: Rococo to Realist Art
Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish, 1837/38
Fish (Still Life), 1864
The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, 1826
Landscape with Cottages, 1809/10
Portrait of a Lady, 1870/79
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli
La Touques near Deauville, 1883
Eugène Louis Boudin
Portrait of Monsieur Rouland, c. 1875
Portrait of the Artist’s Sister, 1891
Georges Lemmen
A Roadside Tavern, 1863
Still Life, c. 1875
Eugène Carrière
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The Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, from Views of Rome
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1750/59, published 1800–07
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)
published by Francesco (Italian, 1758-1810) and Pietro Piranesi (Italian, born 1758/59)
One of two Piranesi engravings of the Pyramid of Cestius, this etching was published posthumously by the artist’s sons. The pyramid was essential viewing for many who undertook the Grand Tour in the 18th and 19th centuries. Constructed c. 18 b.c./c. 12 b.c. as a tomb for the powerful Roman magistrate Gaius Cestius, the marble-clad structure is reminiscent of the Roman fad for all things Egyptian. In fact, the similarity of the tomb to the pyramids of Nubia suggests that Cestius served on a military campaign in Egypt. Today Cestius’s well-preserved tomb remains Rome’s only existing ancient Egyptian-style pyramid.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
387 x 531 mm (image); 392 x 536 mm (plate); 475 x 609 mm (sheet)
The Charles Deering Collection
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Hind 36
Focillon 745
Ficacci 928
Wilton-Ely 190
Ruins of the Xystus [a long open portico used for athletic exercises], the central hall of the Antonine Baths [The Baths of Caracalla], from Views of Rome, 1765
Title Page from Imaginary Prisons, 1749–50
View of Piazza Navona above the ruins of the Circus of Domitian, from Views of Rome, 1750/59, published 1800–07
View of the Piazza della Rotonda, from Views of Rome, 1750/59
View of the Piazza di Spagna, from Views of Rome, 1750/59
View of the Site of the ancient Roman Forum, from Views of Rome, 1750/59
View of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis. Now the Armenian church of S. Maria Egizziaca, from Views of Rome, 1750/59
View of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Roman Forum, from Views of Rome, 1750/59
Internal view of the Atrium of the Portico of Octavia, from Views of Rome, 1750/59
View of the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore with its two flanking wings, from Views of Rome, 1749
View of the Rear Entrance of the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore, from Views of Rome, 1750/59
View of the Façade of the Basilica of S. Croce in Gerusalemme [the Holy Cross in Jerusalem], from Views of Rome, 1750/59
View of the Palazzo della Consulta on the Quirinal housing the Papal Secretariat, from Views of Rome, 1750/59
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Art of the americas (962)
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Drawing Room Cabinet, 1871/72
Bruce James Talbert
Jar with Anthropomorphic Figure, 650/150 B.C.
Vessel in the Form of a Warrior Holding a Trophy Head and Dart Throwers, 180 B.C./A.D. 500
Beaker, Late 15th/early 16th century
Vessel in the Form of a Fisherman in a Reed Boat, 100 B.C./A.D. 500
Vessel in the Form of a Deer Impersonator, 100 B.C./A.D. 500
Breastplate, A.D. 1000/1470
Ritual Vessel Representing a Woman Carrying a Vessel (Aryballos) and Nursing a Child, A.D. 1200/1450
Chimú-Inca
Sampler, A.D. 1/200
Double Vessel with a Foot-Massage Scene, A.D. 1200/1450
Mummy Mask, 100/1 B.C.
Double Vessel Representing a Funeral Procession, A.D. 1200/1450
Vessel in the Form of an Achira Root, 180 B.C./A.D. 500
Divination Mirror, 900/600 B.C.
Cupisnique
Vessel in the Form of a Warrior, 100 B.C./A.D. 500
Container Depicting Warriors, Rulers, and Winged Beings with Trophy Heads, 180 B.C./A.D. 500
Vessel in the Form of a Pampas Cat, 180 B.C./A.D. 500
Ceremonial Vessel Depicting a Deer-Hunting Scene, 100 B.C./A.D. 500
Vessel in the Form of a Seated Ruler with a Pampas Cat, A.D. 250/550
Mummy Mask, 200/100 B.C.
Vessel Depicting an Anthropomorphic Shark Holding a Trophy Head, 180 B.C./A.D. 500
Pair of Beakers Depicting Birds in a Cornfield, A.D. 1100/1438
Ear Ornaments with Ibis, A.D. 1200/1450
Necklace, c. 800 B.C.
Pendant in the Form of a Figure, A.D. 400/800
Nose Ornaments in the Form of Feline Whiskers, 180 B.C./A.D. 500
Minitature Tray Depicting Suche Fish and Peppers, A.D. 1450/1532
Coca Bag, A.D. 1532/1650
Vessel Depicting a Bound Prisoner Facing a Jaguar, A.D. 250/500
Effigy Drum in the Form of a Masked Warrior Holding Trophy Heads and Darts, 180 B.C./A.D. 500
Stirrup-Spout Vessel, 100 B.C./A.D. 500
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Home › Media & Gallery › ANCAP Media Releases › Government walking away from pedestrians
Government walking away from pedestrians
Australia’s leading independent vehicle safety advocate, the Australasian New Car Assessment Program, has criticised the Federal Government for its decision to walk away from its consideration of international pedestrian safety standards before the consultation period has even finished.
The Hon Catherine King MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure and Transport, yesterday directed her Department to withdraw the Regulation Impact Statement (‘RIS’) on pedestrian safety and shut down this consultation process.
ANCAP believes that the decision to withdraw the RIS and to unilaterally close down consultation on this important safety initiative is of serious concern.
ANCAP said the Government's decision was short-sighted, in that it has compromised the introduction of internationally recognised standards aimed at protecting pedestrians, apparently due to a misguided view that all bull bars protect drivers.
Over the last decade more than 230 pedestrians were killed each year as a result of collisions with motor vehicles.
ANCAP has been crash testing new cars for nearly 20 years and pedestrian safety tests are an integral component of ANCAP’s testing regime. The results are clear – modern vehicle design standards can considerably mitigate the risk to pedestrians in collisions with cars. The new proposed international standard would further mitigate this risk, but these potential benefits have been summarily dismissed by order of the Government.
ANCAP Chair, Lauchlan McIntosh, said "the decision to terminate the consultation process, while expressing a desire to ‘consult with interested parties’ made no sense at all."
"The Government should immediately withdraw its order to terminate the RIS process and continue its consultation process with industry experts and other interested parties. Only then will it be in a position to implement pedestrian safety initiatives which will save hundreds of lives", he said.
ANCAP is supported by all Australian and New Zealand motoring clubs, the Australian and New Zealand governments, all Australian state governments, the Victorian Transport Accident Commission, NRMA Insurance and the FIA Foundation.
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ANSI and ASSE Announce Joint Webinar on New ISO Standard for Global Occupational Health and Safety
New York, Oct 31, 2014
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) will host a webinar featuring important information about the ongoing development of ISO 45001, Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements, a new International Standard designed to provide government agencies, industry, and other affected stakeholders with effective, usable guidance for improving worker safety in countries around the world. The webinar, titled The Rise of ISO 45001 - A New Global Occupational Health and Safety Management System Standard, will take place from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, November 19, 2014.
Following the tragic deaths of garment factory workers around the world, including over 1,100 people in a factory collapse in Bangladesh, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced in 2013 that it would develop a new standard for global occupational health and safety (OH&S) to provide consensus solutions for improving working safety in global supply chains. This standard, ISO 45001, is currently being developed by ISO Project Committee (PC) 283, Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements. More than 50 countries are directly involved in the creation of this important document, including the United States; ASSE serves as the ANSI-accredited U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Administrator to ISO PC 283, which is responsible for providing U.S. input on ISO 45001.
During the webinar, participants will receive a detailed, insider look at the creation of the current draft of ISO 45001 and will learn about the potential impact this standard will have on organizations and supply chains around the world. Information will also be shared on how organizations and individuals can become involved with the development of this International Standard and how companies and other groups can prepare for future changes in their OH&S policies.
The webinar will feature a panel discussion of these and other important issues, and participants will hear expert commentary from:
Scott Cooper, Vice President for Policy and Government Relations, ANSI
Kathy Seabrook, President of Global Solutions Inc., former President of ASSE, and Vice Chair of the U.S. TAG to ISO PC 283
Vic Toy, President and Principal Consultant for Insyst OHS and Chair of the U.S. TAG to ISO PC 283
Participants in the webinar will have 90-day access to an archived recording of the event and will receive electronic copies of both the current draft of ISO 45001 and the American National Standard (ANS) ANSI/AIHA/ASSE Z10-2012, Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems.
The cost of the webinar is $125 for ASSE and ANSI members and $145 for non-members. Online registration is now available. All questions should be directed to Tim Fisher, director, practices and standards, ASSE, via email at TFisher@asse.org.
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History of England England Calling and Area Codes Ireland London All Topics
What are the four countries of the uk?
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland.
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.
England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
How many countries are in the UK?
Four countries make up the UK - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
How Many Countries Is the UK?
Four countries make up the UK, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What 4 countries make the UK?
The four countries that make up the UK are Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Does the UK consist of three small countries?
No. The UK is made up of four countries: Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Who were the four Allied Power countries?
The USA, UK, France and USSR.
How many state in uk?
There are four 'countries' that make up the UK, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Is England a country or is the UK a country?
England is a country, as is the UK. The difference is that the UK is also a legal unity of four countries of which England is a part.
How many countries are thre in UK?
The four main countries are - England, Scotland, Wales and the province of Northern Ireland.
Which 2 countries make the UK?
It's actually four countries. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
How many countries are in UK?
Four countries are in the UK, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England. The United Kingdom is currently composed of: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
What are the four countries that form a border with belgium?
France, Germany, The Netherlands (and the UK)
What are the four countries the comprise the UK?
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Is UK a state?
The united Kingdom is a collection of four States, although more commonly known as Countries. The Countries that make up the UK are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What four countries made up the UK in 1872?
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
How many countries are there in the UK?
4 four England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland
What four countries laid claim in the Oregon Country?
Russia, Spain, UK, US
How many countries in UK?
There are four countries which make up the United Kingdom. They are - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (not Eire)
What is the difference between UK and England?
The UK is a country, made up of four countries which were united: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
How many states are ther in uk name them?
The UK doesn't have states as such but is comprised of four 'countries' --- England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What 4 countries make up the US?
If you mean ' what four countries make up the UK', the answer is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
How many countries make up the uk?
Four. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Four countries that occupied germany after world war 2?
UK, USA, France, Russia.
What four countries divided Germany and Berlin in world war2?
US UK France USSR
Who owns the uk?
The United Kingdom is a sovereign nation. It is a union between four countries (England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland) that are then constituent countries due to the sovereignty of the UK as a whole. Due to the UK being a country, nothing owns the UK. The United Kingdom owns itself.
What parts consists the UK of?
The United Kingdom (UK) is a constitutional monarchy and unitary state consisting of four countries; England, Northerin Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
What is the state flower of the UK?
The UK does not have states, but the National flowers of the four Countries are Wales - daffodil . Northern Ireland _ Flax or shamrock. Scotland - Thistle. England - rose.
What is the difference between England GB and the UK?
England is the largest of the three countries that make up Great Britain, the others being Scotland and Wales. The UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. (Four countries in all)
How long is flight from Scotland to UK?
The UK is made up of four countries, Scotland being one of those four. To fly from Scotland to England or Wales it takes around 1 hour and to Northern Ireland around 45 mins.
Is the UK a country?
No. The UK is not a country it is the shortened form of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which consists of four countries: Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Which country ends with Bel and is in the UK?
The four countries in the UK are England, Scotland, Wales and Nothern Ireland. Neither of which end in "Bel". Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland.
What are the 4 parts of UK?
The United Kingdom is a union of four constituent countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Which four countries outside the US supply the largest numbers of tourists to San Francisco?
Canada / japan / Germany / UK
Provinces of UK?
The UK does not have provinces, it has counties. These are grouped into unofficial 'regions' such as the east midlands and east anglia. As well as this there are four constituent countries, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
What 3 countries make up the UK?
There are four countries in the United Kingdom. England, Scotland, and Wales are the three constituent countries on the island of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland is on the island of Ireland, but part of the United Kingdom.
What four countries make up the United Kingdom that starts with E?
The UK is comprised of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Name four ladeled countries that share the North Sea or the English channel with UK?
France, Belgium, Holland. Germany, Norway.
What others counties are part of UK?
The United Kingdom is composed of four constituent countries: Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England.
What is the difference between England and the UK?
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom (UK). The UK consists of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The U.K is a nation made of 4 countries. These countries are England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. These four countries are not the equivalent of US states, for example they compete individually in sports. However, despite all these countries having their own Parliament the English parliament is the central one and the… Read More
Does England have states?
Kind of. England is one of the four countries in the UK, and in England, there are 83 counties. Within those counties there are cities. So if you compare it to the US, the UK and the US could be considered the countries, the four countires in the UK would be compared to the states we have in the US (ex: Georgia, Florida, New Jersey), their counties, (ex: Cheshire) would be just like the counties… Read More
Who were the four countries that dictated terms at the end of the war?
Assuming the question relates to the 1939-45 WW2, the answer is USA, UK, USSR, and France.
What is Ireland's closest neighbouring country?
Northern Ireland then Scotland, Wales and England, These four countries are collectively known as the United Kingdom (UK)
What are the four provinces in the UK?
They're not provinces but countries within the sovereign nation of the United Kingdom and are: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What countries in the UK speak french?
The UK is a country and it speaks English. There are no other countries in the UK.
What is the introduction of UK?
The UK is situated north-west of the European continent between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. The official name of Uk is United kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. UK is made up from four different countries that are Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.
How many National Health Services are there in the UK?
As many as there are countries in the UK, i.e. four: National Health Service (England) NHS Scotland NHS Wales Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland (HSENI)
What is the fifth country in the UK?
There are only four countries in the UK: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland (the south of Ireland) is often mistaken for being a part of the United Kingdom, but it is an independent country.
What country did Scotland belong to?
Scotland is part of United Kingdon (UK). It is a country consisting of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
What three countries are located on the Iberian Peninsula?
Four countries (5 by territories) are located on the Iberian Peninsula. They include Portugal, Spain, Andorra, and France. (the UK is also on the peninsula through Gibraltar, a British territory)
How much states are in the UK?
The UK does not have states. It has countries, and within the countries there are counties.
Is Scotland a separate country to the UK?
No. Scotland is one of the four countries that make up the UK along with England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There will be an independence referendum in 2014 to decide if Scotland should become a separate country.
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Math and Arithmetic Units of Measure Countries, States, and Cities All Topics
What country has the closest area to 1727000 square kilometers?
Libya, with 1,759,540 square kilometers of total area.
What country is closest in size to Australia?
Brazil Australia is 7,692,02 square kilometers, and Brazil is 8,514,877 square kilometers
What country is closest in size to Thailand?
France is closest in size to Thailand. It has land area by 94% of Thailand. Thailand - 513120 square kilometers France - 545600 square kilometers
What countries are about the same size as Minnesota?
When you compare it's square kilometers, the closest country in terms of land area; Belarus is roughly the size of Minnesota
Which American state is closest in size to Suriname?
Georgia is the American state that's closest in size to Suriname. Georgia's total area is 59,425 square miles [153,909 square kilometers]. Suriname's total area is 63,251 square miles [163,821 square kilometers].
What country is 36 square miles?
No country is 36 square miles. The closest is San Marino with 23.55 square miles.
What country is 310000 square km?
You may be thinking of Oman, which has an area of 309,500 square kilometers. The other country that is close is Poland, with 312,685 square kilometers of area.
What country is 1055 square miles?
The country whose area is closest to that size is Samoa (1097 square miles).
Is the United States the third largest country?
No, you 're wrong. The United States is the 4th largest country in the world The 1st largest country is Russia (17075000 square kilometers) ___ 2nd _____________ Canada (9971000 square kilometers) ___ 3rd _____________ China ( 9600000 square kilometers)
What is the biggest African country?
The largest country in Africa is Algeria and it occupies 2,381,741 square kilometers. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second largest country and it occupies 2,344,858 square kilometers.
What country has an area of 3 million square miles?
The country with an area that is closest to 3 million square miles is Australia, which has 2,967,908.16 square miles.
What is the size of France?
The Country of France is 547030 square kilometers, 211209 square miles Comparatively Texas is 696241 square kilometers; 268820 square miles.
What state is close 74000 square kilometers in size?
Every state in the US has a different sized area of land. The state of South Carolina is the state closest to 74,000 square kilometers, it is measured at 77,981.95 square kilometers.Ê
What is the world's largest country by land area?
Russia with 17,098,242 square kilometers followed by Canada with 9,984,670 square kilometers.
Which state is closest in size to Portugal?
Indiana and Maine are the states that are closest in size to Portugal. The Encyclopedia of the Nations gives the total area of Portugal as 92,345 square kilometers [35,655 square miles]. This includes the two autonomous regions of the Azores [2,247 square kilometers/868 square miles] and Madeira Islands [794 square kilometers/307 square miles]. This total area places Portugal in between Indiana and Maine in size. Indiana has 94,327 square kilometers [36,420 square miles]. Maine has… Read More
What country is 400000 square miles?
Mauritania comes closest at 398,000.
What country is larger Spain or Ukraine?
Ukraine,the largest country located completely on the European continent, is bigger, at 603,628 square kilometers. Spain is significantly smaller, at 504,030 square kilometers.
Which country in southamerica has 3290000 square miles?
The closest one to that area is Venezuela with 352,144.33 square miles.
What is the smallest independent country?
The Vatican at 0.445 square kilometers is the smallest country.
What is the area of Georgia country?
The area of Georgia - country - is 69,700 square kilometers.
What is Ireland in square kilometers?
Do you mean the country or the island?
What country has a size close to 43000 square km?
Iraq is the country closest to being 430,000 km2
What is Singapore square miles?
The country has a land area of 637.5 square kilometers (247 square miles).
What is the smallest country on the African continent?
The Gambia, at 10,380 square kilometers, is the smallest country on the continent of Africa. The Seychelles, an island nation near Madagascar, at 451 square kilometers, is the smallest country in Africa, if you include nearby islands.
Is there a country the same size as planet Pluto?
The largest country in the world is Russia, with a total area of about 6,600,000 square miles (17,090,000 square kilometers). Pluto is just a bit smaller, with a surface area of roughly 6,430,000 square miles (16,650,000 square kilometers).
What country is about 10000 square miles?
Macedonia 9,928 closest other Rwanda10,169
How long is Greenland?
The country of Greenland covers an area of 836,300 square miles. This country is 1,290 kilometers wide and 2,670 kilometers long.
What country is 16992000 square miles?
The closest country to this size is Russia, with a total area of 16,377,742 sq. miles.
What American state is Portugal closest to in size?
Portugal is between Indiana and Maine in size. The Encyclopedia of the Nations gives the total area of Portugal as 92,345 square kilometers (35,655 square miles). This includes the two autonomous regions of the Azores (2,247 square kilometers/868 square miles) and the Madeira Islands (794 square kilometers/307 square miles). This total area places it in between Indiana and Maine. According to Enchanted Learning, Indiana has 94,327 square kilometers (36,420 square miles). Maine has 91,652 square… Read More
What is the total area of Georgia in miles?
The country of Georgia's area is 26,900 square miles (69,700 square kilometers). The US state of Georgia's area is 59,400 square miles (154,000 square kilometers).
What is the largest Eastern European nation?
Russia is the largest country in Europe with a total area of 17,098,242 square kilometers. Despite being a transcontinental country, about 4,000,000 square kilometers of Russian territory is in Europe, still making it the largest country in Eastern Europe, and all of Europe, by far. The Ukraine is the largest country wholly in Europe, with a total land size of 603,628 square kilometers. It is an Eastern European nation.
Is Brazil the third largest country by geographical area?
Yes, Brazil is the third largest country on the American continents. It's the largest country in South America. Its total area is 3,287,612 square miles [8,514,877 square kilometers]. It's the third largest country in the Americas [North and South]. Canada is the largest in the Americas with 3,855,100 square miles [9,984,670 square kilometers]. The United States is the second largest in the Americas with 3,717,813 square miles [9,629,091 square kilometers]. Brazil is the fifth largest… Read More
How kilometers are Mexico?
1,972,550 square kilometers (761,606 sq mi). It is the 15th largest country in the world.
How big is Australia compared to Brazil?
Brazil is the world's fifth largest country with 8,456,510 square kilometers (about 3,265,077 square miles) of land area. Australia is smaller, with 7,617,930 square kilometers (about 2,941,300 squre miles) of land area, and is the world's sixth largest country. So, Brazil is approximately 840,000 square kilometers or 324,000 square miles larger than Australia.
The European country that has the smallest land area?
Vatican City, at 0.2 Square Miles (0.52 square kilometers) is by far the smallest; the next smallest is Monaco, at 0.7 square miles (1.81 square kilometers).
What country in Africa is 963600 square miles in size?
The African country that comes the closest to 963,600 sq. mi. is Sudan.
What state is the same size as France?
Colorado is not the same size as France, Texas is. The previous answer did not recognize the difference between square miles and square kilometers. France is 260K square miles, Texas is 269K square miles (Colorado is 270K square KILOMETERS) I think the closest to the size of France is Colorado,because Texas is off to me
What is the total area of country in Malawi?
Malawi's area is ~45,700 square miles (~118,000 square kilometers).
Which country is only 0.44 square kilometers?
Vatican City has an area of 0.44 square KM, or 44ha.
What is the Largest Country in Latin America?
The largest country in Latin America is Brazil, with 8,514,877 square kilometers (3,287,612 sq mi) of area. It is roughly the same size of the whole United States. It is followed by Argentina with 2,780,400 square kilometers (1,073,500 sq mi) and Mexico with 1,964,375 square kilometers (758,449 sq mi).
Is their a country that is 400000 square kilometers?
Paraguay is 406750 sq m
Which country has larger land Russia or China.?
The land area of China is 9,596,961 square kilometers or 3,705,407 square miles. The land area of Russia is 17,098,242 square kilometers or 6,592,800 square miles. This makes Russia not only larger than China, but the largest country by land area in the world.
What is the area of Brno-Country District?
The area of Brno-Country District is 1,498.95 square kilometers.
Which country is the smallest in land area in Centrl America?
The country with the smallest land area in Central America is El Salvador, with a land area of 21,040 square kilometers. This narrowly edges out Belize, which has a land area of 22,966 square kilometers.
How big is Germany compared to Australia?
Australia is 21.5 times bigger than the country of Germany. Australia is 7,692,024 square kilometers, while Germany is 357,114 square kilometers.
What country is about two million two hundred and fifty thousand square miles in size?
The closest is Australia, at 2.9 million square miles.
How many square kilometers in Russia?
17.1 million. Its the largest country in the world.
How big is England in square kilometers?
England is the largest country in the U.K. it is 130,373km2.
How big is Spain compared to France?
Spain is slightly smaller than France. Spain has 505,370 square kilometers while France has 643,370 square kilometers. France is the 40th largest country in the world while Spain is the 51st largest country.
What is the third largest country by area?
United States is the third largest country by area with 9,629,091 square kilometers or 3.79 million square miles after Russia and Canada.
How big is the country Monaco?
The country of Monaco is actually a city, just a bit less than 2 square kilometers.
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Source: United Nations University | May 15, 2019
Six New Members Join United Nations University (UNU) Council
Professor Adam Habib (South Africa), Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Witwatersrand joins the United Nations University (UNU) Council
UNU Council members are appointed jointly by the UN Secretary-General and UNESCO Director-General
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The United Nations University (UNU) is pleased to announce the appointment of six new members to the governing United Nations University Council:
Dr Denisa Čiderová (Slovakia), Vice-Rector for Research and Doctoral Studies, University of Economics in Bratislava
Dr Comfort Ero (United Kingdom), Program Director, Crisis Group
Dr Xin Fang (China), President & Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Adam Habib (South Africa), Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Witwatersrand
Professor ‘Funmi Olonisakin (United Kingdom & Nigeria), Vice-President/Vice-Principal International & Professor of Security, Leadership and Development, King’s College London
Professor Brenda Yeoh (Singapore), Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
The new Council members, who will serve six-year terms, took office on 3 May and attended the 71st session of the UNU Council that was convened in Rome on 13–14 May.
UNU Council members are appointed jointly by the UN Secretary-General and UNESCO Director-General. They serve in an individual capacity ― not as representatives of their country’s government and are selected with an eye to achieving a geographic and gender balance, with due regard to each member’s field(s) of expertise.
The new Council members join six members whose six-year terms will end in 2022:
Professor Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (Brazil), Scientific Director, São Paulo Research Foundation & Professor, Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute, State University of Campinas
Ms Isabel Guerrero Pulgar (Chile), Director, IMAGO Global Grassroots, & lecturer at Harvard and MIT
Dr Angela Kane (Germany), UNU Council Chair; Senior Fellow, Vienna Centre for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, & Professor, Sciences Po, Paris
Dr Segenet Kelemu (Ethiopia), Director General and CEO, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
Dr Radha Kumar (India), Policy Analyst
Professor Tsuneo Nishida (Japan), Director, Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University For profiles of all current UNU Council members, see unu.edu/about/unu-council.
The UNU Council comprises 12 appointed members, the UNU Rector, and three ex officio members (the United Nations Secretary–General, the Director–General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , and the Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research). Its main functions are, inter alia, to formulate the principles and policies of UNU, govern the University’s operations, and consider and approve the UNU biennial work programme and budget.
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Six New Members Join United Nations University (UNU) Council Professor Adam Habib (South Africa), Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Witwatersrand joins the United Nations University (UNU) Council TOKYO, Japan, May 15, 2019/APO Group/ -- The United Nations University (UNU) is pleased to announce the appointment of six new members to the governing United Nations University Council: Dr Denisa Čiderová (Slovakia), Vice-Rector for Research and Doctoral Studies, University of Economics in Bratislava Dr Comfort Ero (United Kingdom), Program Director, Crisis Group Dr Xin Fang (China), President & Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Adam Habib (South Africa), Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Witwatersrand Professor ‘Funmi Olonisakin (United Kingdom & Nigeria), Vice-President/Vice-Principal International & Professor of Security, Leadership and Development, King’s College London Professor Brenda Yeoh (Singapore), Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, National University of Singapore The new Council members, who will serve six-year terms, took office on 3 May and attended the 71st session of the UNU Council that was convened in Rome on 13–14 May. UNU Council members are appointed jointly by the UN Secretary-General and UNESCO Director-General. They serve in an individual capacity ― not as representatives of their country’s government and are selected with an eye to achieving a geographic and gender balance, with due regard to each member’s field(s) of expertise. The new Council members join six members whose six-year terms will end in 2022: Professor Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (Brazil), Scientific Director, São Paulo Research Foundation & Professor, Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute, State University of Campinas Ms Isabel Guerrero Pulgar (Chile), Director, IMAGO Global Grassroots, & lecturer at Harvard and MIT Dr Angela Kane (Germany), UNU Council Chair; Senior Fellow, Vienna Centre for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, & Professor, Sciences Po, Paris Dr Segenet Kelemu (Ethiopia), Director General and CEO, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology Dr Radha Kumar (India), Policy Analyst Professor Tsuneo Nishida (Japan), Director, Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University For profiles of all current UNU Council members, see unu.edu/about/unu-council. The UNU Council comprises 12 appointed members, the UNU Rector, and three ex officio members (the United Nations Secretary–General, the Director–General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , and the Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research). Its main functions are, inter alia, to formulate the principles and policies of UNU, govern the University’s operations, and consider and approve the UNU biennial work programme and budget. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations University.
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Transformative moments at a conflict resolution workshop in Kimotong County, Eastern Equatoria
Source: United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) | May 16, 2019
Transformed peace actors and government leaders trained to manage conflicts in Eastern Equatoria
Kimotong County has a long history of conflicts between the community of Buya and the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces deployed in the area
Guns in the hands of our young people means they lack respect for the elders
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MOSES YAKUDU
For some, it was a workshop. For others, it was a near-transcendental experience.
“We feel empowered, even transformed, by the information received on how to resolve disputes peacefully. We will participate alongside our elders for peace. Only brains work, not weapons,” says Clement Lotao, chairperson of the youth in Kimotong County, with an air of indestructible conviction.
“We now know what to say to our husbands and the community to bring peace home,” Christine, leader of a women’s group, chipped in.
Recommendations made two years ago during a civil-military dialogue between the South Sudan People's Defence Forces and the six communities of Kimotong County have, slowly, given birth to this potentially life-changing capacity building workshop.
The two-day training, organized by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, brought together 60 participants, including women, influential youth, traditional priests, representatives of the organized forces and the paramount chief of the area. Those fortunate enough to be in attendance acquired skills in conflict management and mitigation to help reduce tensions within Kimotong County, and with their neighbours.
“Our traditional approach to conflict normally does not satisfy those involved and may sometimes make things worse. With these new skills, it will be possible for each party to walk away in peace,” explained Joseph Kamilo Napengiro, a representative of the Kapoeta government, engaging in self-reflection.
Kimotong County has a long history of conflicts between the community of Buya and the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces deployed in the area. According to the government forces, ambushes and several clashes with the community have resulted in the premature death of more than 60 soldiers between 2016 to 2019.
“Guns in the hands of our young people means they lack respect for the elders. Our cultural values, inherited from our forefathers, are practically lost,” lamented parish priest Father Alfred Loguti. “We have to go back to our roots.”
According to traditional priest Lino Nawalaki, more transformative assistance from the peacekeeping mission will be needed to restore tranquil relations in the area.
“We believe the next step for us is for a ‘peace dialogue’ between the Kimotong communities and our neighbours, so we can resolve our differences.”
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
Transformed peace actors and government leaders trained to manage conflicts in Eastern Equatoria Kimotong County has a long history of conflicts between the community of Buya and the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces deployed in the area JUBA, South Sudan, May 16, 2019/APO Group/ --
For some, it was a workshop. For others, it was a near-transcendental experience. “We feel empowered, even transformed, by the information received on how to resolve disputes peacefully. We will participate alongside our elders for peace. Only brains work, not weapons,” says Clement Lotao, chairperson of the youth in Kimotong County, with an air of indestructible conviction. “We now know what to say to our husbands and the community to bring peace home,” Christine, leader of a women’s group, chipped in. Recommendations made two years ago during a civil-military dialogue between the South Sudan People's Defence Forces and the six communities of Kimotong County have, slowly, given birth to this potentially life-changing capacity building workshop. The two-day training, organized by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, brought together 60 participants, including women, influential youth, traditional priests, representatives of the organized forces and the paramount chief of the area. Those fortunate enough to be in attendance acquired skills in conflict management and mitigation to help reduce tensions within Kimotong County, and with their neighbours. “Our traditional approach to conflict normally does not satisfy those involved and may sometimes make things worse. With these new skills, it will be possible for each party to walk away in peace,” explained Joseph Kamilo Napengiro, a representative of the Kapoeta government, engaging in self-reflection. Kimotong County has a long history of conflicts between the community of Buya and the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces deployed in the area. According to the government forces, ambushes and several clashes with the community have resulted in the premature death of more than 60 soldiers between 2016 to 2019. “Guns in the hands of our young people means they lack respect for the elders. Our cultural values, inherited from our forefathers, are practically lost,” lamented parish priest Father Alfred Loguti. “We have to go back to our roots.” According to traditional priest Lino Nawalaki, more transformative assistance from the peacekeeping mission will be needed to restore tranquil relations in the area. “We believe the next step for us is for a ‘peace dialogue’ between the Kimotong communities and our neighbours, so we can resolve our differences.”
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A Manuscript’s Acceptability Should Not Be a Matter of Whim
A publishing agreement is a contract to publish a book and pay the author in consideration for the author’s delivery of the manuscript as agreed. Many standard acceptance clauses in publishing contracts allow the publisher to reject a manuscript based on nothing more than a whim, which undermines the very essence of the contract—that it is an agreement to publish a work, provided the work is written and delivered as agreed. Worse, many standard acceptance clauses refuse to let the author publish elsewhere until all the money advanced has been refunded. These one-sided acceptance clauses are another example of how standard publishing contracts can put authors on unequal footing from day one.
Acceptance clauses are an essential part of any publishing agreement entered into based on a proposal or partial manuscript. The publisher needs assurance that it will get the book it is contracting for. But, in recent years, the acceptance provisions of many such publishing agreements have become increasingly subjective and one-sided. Every publisher will tell you that they have been burned by one or more author who has handed in a manuscript that doesn’t live up to the promise of the proposal it was based on. We understand that publishers need to protect themselves against the bad apples. But they should not use those rare examples to force unfair acceptance terms on everyone else—the vast majority of whom write the books they agreed to write.
These types of unfair acceptance clauses give the publisher too much subjective discretion in deciding whether to accept the manuscript. By allowing a publisher to determine whether a manuscript is acceptable “in the publisher’s sole judgment,” they allow the publisher to reject the manuscript for any reason—or no reason at all. And, once rejected, the publisher can invoke related clauses to demand that the author pay back any part of the advance that she has already received, generally before publishing elsewhere.
The cumulative effect of these provisions is that the publisher can use them to turn the agreement to publish into an unpaid-for option.[1] Here is how an option works: the author is paid to not sell the work to anyone else for a certain period of time. Options are standard in certain other industries, such as to purchase scripts or book rights for films, where the actual production of the film is dependent on a number of pieces coming together. The option payment is consideration only for obtaining the exclusive right to buy the script for the agreed period of time, not for the right to actually use the work, and the option payment is not refundable. This is fair; the option payment recognizes that there are lost opportunity costs if the movie is not produced.
In practice, a publishing agreement that allows a publisher to reject a manuscript in its “sole judgment” even though the manuscript was delivered on time and conforms to the proposal and other requirements in the contract (e.g., number of pages or words) makes it possible for management to reject the book for really any reason—a change in market conditions, another house’s publication of a competing title, an executive second-guessing an editor’s taste. And then the publisher can force the author to pay back the portion of the advance that has been paid out (most standard contracts provide for full repayment before publishing elsewhere, although some contracts allow authors a window of time to repay any sums advanced with the “first proceeds” of money earned if and when the book is published elsewhere). This means that the publisher has, in essence, taken an option, but without paying for the lost opportunities to the author.
We understand that publishers need to protect themselves against the rare instances of authors not holding up their end of the bargain, but there are other ways to accomplish that than forcing subjective, open-ended acceptance provisions on all authors. For example, an objective standard of acceptability would help, such as making acceptance subject to the manuscript meeting agreed-upon standards. Even a provision that makes acceptance subject to the publisher’s “reasonable judgment” “in accordance with industry standards,” is preferable to allowing the publisher’s “sole” judgment to determine acceptance.
More importantly, an author should have the opportunity to revise the manuscript before it’s rejected outright. These kinds of provisions, indeed, are often found in agented contracts. If the publisher is not satisfied with the manuscript, the agreement stipulates that the publisher must provide a written list of editorial (as opposed to commercial) reasons for not accepting the manuscript as is. The author is then given a reasonable amount of time to edit the book to address those comments. All authors should be given a fair opportunity to edit the manuscript to address the publisher’s concerns. It’s consistent with the common objectives of authors and publishers alike: bringing readers the best books possible.
[1] Alternatively, if a publisher is actually looking for an option—if the editors aren’t sure whether they want to publish the book once it’s written—they should be honest and upfront about it. In that case, the agreement should be structured as a true option agreement. While we don’t recommend moving to the option arrangement for most books, in certain cases, the option structure would be preferable to one-sided and arbitrary acceptance clauses that allow the publisher to get out of the contract for whatever reason and then demand its money back.
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Tourist Maps with a Twist of Social Responsibility from Lerner Cartography
Rhonda Lerner epitomizes the true spirit of a cartographer, aiming to make maps that are all at once visually appealing, complete, accurate and easy to read. Lerner graduated in 1999 from California State University, Chico brimming with GIS knowledge and an itch to put her cartography skills to work. Unfortunately, opportunities in the field were not plentiful in Lerner's hometown of Redding, California
A few years later she retired to San Miguel de Allende, in Mexico's central highlands. Rhonda and her husband, Albert, embarked on a trip meandering through Asia and Southeast Asia (her favorite place in the world is Lhasa, Tibet). After returning to home a year later, Lerner noticed that there were no accurate paper maps available for the popular tourist town and UNESCO World Heritage site, known for its thriving arts scene and cultural festivals - and she set out to create one.
Lerner spent over 1000 hours over the span of 10 months creating a street map and guide to the historic center of San Miguel de Allende. Beyond the typical tourist map, Lerner's map highlight history and social responsibility with selected businesses that she believes represent the best of the city, businesses that employ the handicapped and those that are owned by women.
The visually appealing map also features 72 colonias and barrios defined by color, one-way street arrows, pedestrians-only zones, bridge over crossings, gardens and other useful features to make planning a walk through the city's calles simple. Since its launch Lerner has created two more maps of the San Miguel de Allende area, focusing on the Centro Historico. 'People can find places to eat, visit, shop and explore - and finally, find them easily!' says Lerner. 'I personally visited all 295 of the listings on the map to ensure that the guide was as complete and accurate as possible.'
In 2013, Lerner submitted her map to an annual design competition run by the The Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) - an organization composed of educators, researchers and practitioners involved in the design, creation, use and dissemination of geographic information. The map received an honorable mention in the recreational and travel map category in a competitive field of professional cartographers. This year, the third edition of the award-winning map will be released.
San Miguel de Allende should be on your bucket list of places to visit, and when you do, be sure to get a copy of Lerner's maps from the Avenza Map Store to make the most of your trip.
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UA Film Students Dream in Widescreen
Also on Arizona Spotlight: Teachers take their message to the Capitol; an exclusive interview with Linda Ronstadt; and the Center for Creative Photography celebrates Ansel Adams.
Underwater photography highlights UA filmmaker Cristina Close's "Numb."
Featured on the April 27, 2018 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
A report on the first day of the Arizona teacher walkout in favor of increasing education funding from Brandon Mejia, reporting from the state Capitol.
After more than a decade of keeping a low profile, Linda Ronstadt is now making public appearances to talk about her stellar career, her efforts to improve Arizona education and her experience living with Parkinson's Disease. Listen to an exclusive interview with AZPM's Nancy Montoya, in advance of the live Conversation with Linda Ronstadt this Sunday at the Fox Tucson Theatre.
The annual student film showcase I Dream in Widescreen returns on Saturday, bringing the best creations from the University of Arizona School of Theater, Film & Television to The Fox Tucson Theatre. Tony Perkins talks to two student directors about the stories they chose to tell.
A violinist performs in a scene from UA filmmaker Victoria Pereira's "Syncopate."
Filmmaker Cristina Close is among the University of Arizona students who will get the spotlight at this year's "I Dream in Widescreen" short film screening showcase at the Fox Tucson Theater.
University of Arizona student Victoria Pereira is one of the filmmakers whose work will be showcased at this year's "I Dream in Widescreen" at the Fox Tucson Theater.
And, an exhibit at the Center for Creative Photography shares treasures from their permanent collection in honor of what would have been the 116th birthday of master photographer and printmaker Ansel Adams.
Anne Breckenridge Barrett, director of The Center for Creative Photography.
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Indiana Wetlands: Palustrine wetlands, which are the most abundant wetlands remaining in the State, are distributed throughout Indiana in topographic depressions, between agricultural fields, and in riparian zones along rivers, streams, and lakes. Palustrine forested wetlands are the most common wetlands in Indiana.
(Pease click on heading below to go to that section.)
All wetlands are protected under Indiana’s water quality standards, which establish narrative and numeric criteria, designated uses, and an antidegradation policy that applies uniformly to all waters. No wetland-specific water quality standards exist at this time. See complete rules at:http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/T03270/A00020.PDF
The Department of Environmental Management implements Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, which regulates impacts to wetlands that involve the placement of dredged or fill materials into wetlands and other waters, as well as mechanical clearing of wetlands and some dredging activities.
Isolated wetlands, or those waters no longer subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act, are regulated under IC 13-18-22 (http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title13/ar18/ch22.html).
This statute creates a category of waters of the state known as State Regulated Wetlands, which are defined as wetlands as delineated under the 1987 Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual and are considered isolated and not subject to federal law. This law establishes a classification system for wetlands and a set of general permits, exemptions, and individual permitting authority.
Wetlands are also regulated under the Flood Control Act, administered by the Department of Natural Resources (http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title14/ar28/ch1.html)
The adoption of state law to regulate isolated wetlands occurred in 2004 with the passage of IC 13-18-22. This is the first state law to specifically confer authority on a state agency to regulate wetlands; the law creates a definition of wetlands that is consistent with the basic definition used by federal regulatory agencies.
A Regional General Permit that replaces many of the Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permits is in place. An Interagency Coordinated Agreement on Mitigation Banking is in place.
The Department of Environmental Management is working on laying the groundwork for a status and trends survey of wetland losses and gains and is considering a statewide wetland inventory using remote sensing and limited ground truthing. Coefficients of conservatism have been developed for all plants in Indiana that may be found in wetlands, which will become a component of a future wetland assessment methodology.
An interagency website devoted to wetland information, including permitting, conservation, success stories, and links to organizations was created in cooperation by the Department of Environmental Management, the Department of Natural Resources, and the Office of the Commissioner of Agriculture.
It is http://www.in.gov/wetlands/.
The Indiana Wetland's Conservation Plan was adopted by the Natural Resources Commission in April of 1996. The plan is to be used to guide wetlands conservation efforts throughout the state.
No net loss of wetlands and a net gain of wetlands is the adopted goal of the Department of Environmental Management’s regulatory programs. A similar goal appears in IC 13-18-22:
The goal of the permitting program for wetland activities in state regulated wetlands is to:
1. promote a net gain in high quality isolated wetlands; and
2. assure that compensatory mitigation will offset the loss of isolated wetlands allowed by the permitting program
Floodways. Ind. Code Ann. (13-2-22) The Department of Natural Resources regulates construction within floodways. Effects on fish, wildlife, and botanical resources must be considered.
Inland Lake Preservation Act (13-2-11) Indiana Department of Natural Resources regulates activities in lakes and shorelines below mean water level. This does not apply to Lake Michigan.
Water Pollution Control Act (IC 13-1-3) - Makes it unlawful to discharge materials to waters of the state, which includes wetlands, that would interfere with any lawful water use or whereby any fish life or any beneficial animal or vegetable life in any waters may be destroyed or the growth or propagation thereof prevented or injuriously affected. Thus, most wetland fills would be unlawful, unless compensatory mitigation is provided.
Indiana’s Water Quality Standards (327 IAC 2) - Nondegradation policy, minimum surface water quality standards and numerical criteria apply to all waters of the state, including wetlands.
State Regulated Wetlands (IC 13-18-22) – State law that regulates the discharge of dredged or fill materials to wetlands considered isolated and not regulated under federal law. Allows the Department of Environmental Management to consider the effects of wetland fills on a variety of factors, including water quality, fish and wildlife, and hydrology.
Section 401 of the Clean Water Act – The Department of Environmental Management implements all aspects of the Clean Water Act, and draws it authority from the Act to administer this program. Effects of all aspects of a project on water quality that requires a federal permit or license to discharge dredged or fill materials are considered under this process.
Isolated wetlands are defined as follows:
IC 13-11-2-265.7
Sec. 265.7. "Wetlands", for purposes of IC 13-18, means areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include:
(1) swamps;
(2) marshes;
(3) bogs; and
(4) similar areas.
As added by P.L.282-2003, SEC.33.
"Wetlands delineation"
Sec. 265.8. "Wetlands delineation" or "delineation", for purposes of section 74.5 of this chapter, means a technical assessment:
(1) of whether a wetland exists on an area of land; and
(2) if so, of the type and quality of the wetland based on the presence or absence of wetlands characteristics, as determined consistently with the Wetlands Delineation Manual, Technical Report Y-87-1 of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
These definitions are also used by the Department of Environmental Management through policy in its Section 401 Water Quality Certification Program.
No official methods adopted. However, an Indiana-specific Rapid Assessment of Wetlands was developed as a part of the Indiana Wetland Conservation Plan. See the following website:
http://www2.taylor.edu/upland/departments/envscience/wetlands/iswamp/Manual.htm
The Department of Environmental Management has developed the first component of a multivariate approach to wetlands assessment. See the following website: http://www.in.gov/idem/water/planbr/401/fqaindianarprt.doc
In the long term, the use of remote sensing, aerial photography, and other landscape-focused methods of assessment will be the focus of the Department of Environmental Management over the next few years.
Activities regulated by wetland-related laws include the placement of dredged or fill materials in wetlands, mechanical clearing of wetlands, and some excavation activities. Discharges of pollutants are also regulated.
Exempt activities include drainage of wetlands and normal agricultural practices. For State Regulated Wetlands, all exemptions under Section 404(f) of the Clean Water Act apply, as well as discharges of fill materials in a de minimis amount.
Indiana’s State Regulated Wetlands law exempts all activities subject to the USDA Swampbuster provisions on agricultural lands. Indiana also uses the Section 404(f) exemptions for normal agricultural activities in both the Section 401 program and the State Regulated Wetland Program.
Both the Departments of Environmental Management and Natural Resources have separate authorities to enforce laws and regulations specific to that agency. Violators of laws may be subject to penalties of up to $25,000/day for knowing and willful violations. In addition, wetland violation and enforcement cases are often coordinated with other agencies, such as the USEPA, Corps of Engineers, and Department of Justice.
The Department of Environmental Management is working on a wetland tracking database that, when completed, will compile information on permits issued, mitigation sites and success, wetland conservation projects, and enforcement-related activities.
None developed at this time.
The Department of Environmental Management has studied this question and determined that insufficient resources and regulatory authority exists at the state level to seek formal assumption. No efforts are planned at this time to conduct further evaluations.
The Department of Environmental Management and the Corps of Engineers have an agreement regarding the joint noticing of applications for Section 404 and Section 401. An interagency task force examined the issues surrounding a joint permit between the Departments of Natural Resources, the Department of Environmental Management, and the Corps of Engineers, but was deemed unworkable due to lack of resources and administrative issues within each program.
An ADID of the Lake Michigan rim watersheds was completed by USEPA in 2002. The ADID covered portions of Lake, Porter, and Laporte Counties.
Under the State Wetland Regulatory Program, local governments may pass resolutions or other official statements regarding a given project and its ability or lack there of to avoid wetlands. Local governments in Porter and Dekalb counties have passed wetland ordinances, but the scope of the ordinances is designed to insure coordination with state and federal wetland programs.
The Department of Environmental Management has five (5) staff persons devoted to the review of permits, wetland compliance activities, mitigation site inspections, development of rules, policy, and methods, and interagency coordination on wetlands.
Indiana’s wetlands are covered by the surface water quality standards (327 IAC 2). These standards apply to all waters of the state, which includes both adjacent wetlands and non-exempt isolated wetlands. No wetland-specific water quality standards exist at this time.
Isolated wetlands are defined under IC 13-11-2-265.7 (see “Wetland Definition and/or Delineation; Comparability With Federal Definition” above under Regulation). No specific definition of wetlands exists within the surface water quality standards.
No specific designated uses have been established that would apply to wetlands.
No specific antidegradation policy has been developed that applies to wetlands.
No staff specifically devoted to this task.
State wetlands regulatory programs adhere to the no net loss/net gain policy. In general, all impacts to wetlands allowed by the regulatory process that are greater than one-tenth (0.1) acres in size require some form of compensatory mitigation.
An Interagency Coordinated Agreement on mitigation banking was formally established in 2002. Mitigation banks are considered one of many options to replace wetlands allowed under applicable programs. There are no laws, rules, or policy that provide specific incentives for the utilization of banks. Currently there are two (2) privately run mitigation banks in the state. The Department of Transportation is investigating the creation of at least two public banks to be used solely by the Department of Transportation. At least three (3) other private banks are under active review by the various agencies.
The state has no in lieu fee programs and in lieu fees are strongly discouraged.
On a case by case basis, consideration is given to unique opportunities for wetland mitigation, which may include creation of mitigation on public lands, donation of property to a conservation-based organization, or other similar arrangement.
No database exists at present, but a database is currently under development.
One (1) person is devoted part time to mitigation-related issues.
Complete National Wetland inventory maps for the state were completed in the late 1980’s. These maps are available in both paper and digital formats. Wetlands are classified using the Cowardin classification system. No updates have occurred, but investigation of a status and trends survey is underway.
None exists at present. The Department of Environmental Management is currently developing a classification system for isolated wetlands as required by state law.
No comprehensive tracking system of wetland losses and gains exists in the state.
No staff are devoted to this activity.
A number of federal, state, and private programs exist that provide direct funding, technical assistance, or match-making services across the state. A compendium of information on these programs can be found on the following website: http://www.in.gov/wetlands/publications/summary.pdf
Goals are unique to each program, but generically, most programs are interested in restoring wetlands in areas where anthropogenic manipulations of hydrology have occurred and where such projects can provide direct benefits, such as the creation of waterfowl and migratory bird habitat.
Eligibility criteria vary from program to program, but most focus on volunteer enrollments and properties that historically contained wetlands.
No comprehensive database exists at this time.
Two persons on the state level and three on the federal level.
The chief program in the state is the Indiana Heritage Trust. The program is administered by the Department of Natural Resources and is funded primarily through the sale of environmental license plates. The purpose of the program is to acquire state interests in real property that are examples of outstanding natural resources and habitats or have historical or archaeological significance or provide areas for conservation, recreation, protection or restoration of native biological diversity within the state of Indiana. The use of the power of eminent to carry out its purposes is expressly prohibited. Property will be acquired only from willing sellers. The program has purchased and protected more than 33,000 acres for recreation and wildlife. Some land is bought outright by the Trust; some in partnership with other conservation organizations; some with money from federal, county or local governments; and some by bargain sale when owners donate profit toward the purchase price.
Staff from both the Departments of Environmental Management and Natural Resources conduct on-demand seminars, talks, and other information exchanges on wetland functions, wildlife, wetland benefits, regulation, and conservation. An interagency website on wetlands provides a clearinghouse for information on wetlands - http://www.in.gov/wetlands/.
The primary program in the state is the Classified Wildlife Habitat Program. This program provides a property tax reduction to landowners enrolling 15 or more acres of wildlife habitat, which can include wetlands. The landowner must follow a management plan prepared by the District Wildlife Biologist to remain in compliance with the program. A legal description of the acreage must be prepared by a registered surveyor and recorded in the County Recorders Office. The assessed value of lands classified as wildlife habitat is reduced to $1 per acre for property tax purposes.
The Department of Natural Resources, as well as the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service provide support to landowners interested in creating, maintaining, or managing wetlands on their property. The Departments of Environmental Management and Natural Resources are currently developing a “Landowner’s Guide to Wetlands”, which will be a web-based publication that will compile key information on wetland programs, sources of information and technical support.
No formal programs at this time, but wetlands are considered as a part of the overall landuse and effects of non-point source pollution in the development of watershed plans funded by Section 319 grants and in the development of Total Maximum Daily Loads for impaired waters.
Indiana faces diverse challenges, with many isolated wetlands located in areas of rapid urbanization (Northwest Indiana and the Fort Wayne metro area), protection of unique resources such as globally rare dune and swale habitat, and a lack of a comprehensive landuse strategy for the state that would examine the land needs for agriculture, urban areas, sprawl effects, and natural resource management.
No formal coordination of regulatory or conservation activities exists. However, the Departments of Environmental Management and Natural Resources coordinate on an as-needed basis on wetland regulatory issues, which often includes the USEPA, the Corps of Engineers, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Randy Braun
Office of Water Quality
Wetlands & Storm Water
Indiana Department of Environmental Management
100 North Senate Avenue, MC 65-42, Room IGCN 1255
Information on wetland regulatory programs can be located on this website: http://www.in.gov/idem/water/planbr/401/
Information on wetland conservation and other general information can be found on this website: http://www.in.gov/wetlands/
Indiana Wetlands - http://www.in.gov/wetlands/
General information on wetlands, programs, links, and news updates.
Publications - http://www.in.gov/idem/water/planbr/401/publications.html
Brochures and Informational Guides
Do I Need A Permit For That? [PDF] - This brochure provides a general guide to when you need a permit for constructing in an Indiana Wetland.
Dredging? Filling? Excavating? [PDF] - This brochure describes how IDEM regulates construction in wetlands and other waters.
Get Your Feet Wet In Indiana's Wetlands - This brochure provides a general overview of the many facets of Indiana's wetlands.
Waterways Permitting Handbook [PDF] - This manual provides detailed information on state and federal requirements for obtaining a permit for constructing in an Indiana Wetland.
Floristic Quality Assessment
Floristic Quality Assessment Introduction
Floristic Quality Assessment in Indiana: The Concept, Use, and
Development of Coefficients of Conservatism [Word - 3.95 MB file size]
Floristic Quality Assessment for Plant Communities of Indiana: Species List and Coefficients of Conservatism [Excel]
Mitigation Bank Interagency Coordinated Agreement - http://www.in.gov/idem/water/planbr/401/banking.html
"Getting Your Feet Wet in Indiana Wetlands" - Video
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How Many Earth-like Planets are in the Universe? [Video Infographic]
The Mystery of the Moon that was Split in Two
1816, the Year Without a Summer
Alice Lam
University of West London, London, UK
Start Discover Authors Andy Miah
Andy Miah
University of Salford, Manchester, UK
Chair in Science Communication & Digital Media, in the School of Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester.
He is also Global Director for the Centre for Policy and Emerging Technologies, Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, United States, and Fellow at FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, United
Kingdom.
He is author of Genetically Modified Athletes (2004 Routledge), co-author of The Medicalization of Cyberspace (2008, Routledge) and editor of Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (2008, Liverpool University Press). He has published over 150 academic articles in refereed journals, books, magazines, and national media press on the subjects of cyberculture, medicine, technology, and sport.
He regularly interviews for the media and has published in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post and a range of British broadsheet newspapers.
Ethics Issues Raised by Human Enhancement
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K'Jon: Artists To Watch 2010
1/15/2010 by Mariel Concepcion
Christian Lantry
K Jon
After getting fired from his corporate job a few years ago, singer/songwriter K'Jon decided to dedicate himself to music full time-and his efforts are paying off.
His single "On the Ocean," released independently in 2008, peaked at No. 12 last summer on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. After signing to Universal Republic in January, K'Jon released his album "I Get Around," which has sold 135,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Listen to K'Jon's "On the Ocean"
The Detroit native got his start in 2003 when he recorded a demo and distributed it locally. It found its way to New York, and after writing for a number of under-the-radar artists in the Big Apple, K'Jon got his first major placement in 2004-on the "2 Fast 2 Furious" soundtrack. He hoped that would open some doors. "But it wasn't happening," he says. "I wasn't moving as an artist or as a songwriter."
Four years later-after self-releasing an album-K'Jon found himself frustrated with his singing career. That's when "On the Ocean" came to him.
"I was sitting in the middle of nowhere, in L.A., writing for other artists, away from my newborn child and the song just hit me," he recalls. "I felt like I was on a deserted island and I could see my rescue ship, but I couldn't get on it. 'On the Ocean' became a metaphor for what I was waiting on."
After writing the heartfelt lyrics over the warm, piano-based beat created by his production team, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, K'Jon began working the record independently and started receiving a positive response from Michigan radio stations. "I caught the attention of some labels once they saw the radio spins and sales from retail and the street buzz," K'Jon says. "Universal Republic gave me a call and then a few months later I signed my deal."
In 2010, K'Jon not only hopes to continue writing motivational music for himself but also for other aspiring artists. "I'm in writing mode all the time," he says. "I definitely believe I can make tracks that can help elevate others."
NEXT ARTIST TO WATCH: PIXIE LOTT
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Lupus Foundation puzzled by negative reaction to Aurinia data
Sandra C. Raymond
As president and CEO of The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA), a role she has held for 15 years, Sandra Raymond is an outspoken advocate for the plight of lupus patients. She has worked with the board of directors and the lupus research community to bring national attention and resources to lupus research and education. Ms. Raymond came to the LFA after serving as the founding CEO of the National Osteoporosis Foundation, beginning in 1986. She envisions great progress in lupus treatment and care over the next 10 years but recognizes the urgent need to elevate lupus on the national healthcare agenda by increasing federal and private investment in research on lupus and developing constructive public policies aimed at bringing support and services to all people affected by lupus. In this interview with BioTuesdays.com, Ms. Raymond discusses the state of the disease and results of a recent clinical study by Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AUPH; TSX:AUP).
Let’s begin with a brief description of lupus.
Lupus is a lifelong autoimmune disease that can impact any part of the body. The immune system attacks the body's own healthy tissues, leading to inflammation and organ damage. This prototypical autoimmune disease affects millions of people worldwide and causes a wide range of serious and life-threatening consequences that are challenging to bring under control because of a lack of adequate treatments. Symptoms of lupus include joint damage, skin rashes, extreme fatigue and hair loss. The disease can affect the kidneys, lungs, cardiovascular system, the brain and other vital organs. While symptoms may be mild, moderate or severe, lupus may be life-diminishing. Patients may go into remission but live with the fear of disease flares, which can occur and reoccur over their lifetimes. While there is no cure, pioneering physicians have developed treatment regimens that have greatly reduced mortality over the past few decades.
Do we know what causes lupus?
Scientists believe that genetics, hormonal factors and environmental triggers cause an imbalance in the immune system. In lupus, the immune system goes into hyper-drive and fails to distinguish the difference between viruses and bacteria and healthy normal organs and tissues. Environmental triggers are not well understood, but research has identified several of these, including sun exposure. The sun can trigger skin rashes as well as full-blown lupus flares. An early sign of lupus may be a malar or butterfly-shaped rash across the cheeks and bridge of the nose. It is important to note that up to 15% of people who get skin rashes develop systemic disease affecting one or more organ systems. In lupus, there is a significant impact on the quality of life for those affected.
How prevalent is the disease?
The Lupus Foundation of America estimates that 1.5 million Americans and five million individuals around the world have lupus. Other U.S. estimates place the number affected from 500,000 to one million. While mortality due to lupus has been greatly reduced over the past 50 years, deaths from lupus occur daily around the world. Mortality statistics are not readily available because lupus deaths are usually related to the consequences of lupus, including end-stage renal disease, cardiovascular disease and infections. Death certificates rarely list the root cause of death as lupus. Every day at the LFA, we receive memorial donations in memory of a family member who has died after struggling with lupus.
Lupus is a lifelong autoimmune disease that can impact any part of the body. The immune system attacks the body's own healthy tissues, leading to inflammation and organ damage.
How is lupus treated and do the treatments work?
Over the years, pioneering physicians have developed regimens that have greatly helped bring lupus under control. Most of these therapies are borrowed from other diseases and were never tested as treatments for lupus. Steroids and chemotherapies are used to suppress symptoms of lupus. Only one therapy, Benlysta, has been approved for the treatment of some forms of lupus, including joint problems and mouth sores. Benlysta was approved in 2011 after a more than 50-year drought. But one drug will never help all people affected by lupus. An arsenal of treatments is needed.
Steroids are widely used because they suppress a hyperactive immune system. But steroids can cause side effects that include osteoporosis, bone fractures, hair loss, weight gain and insomnia, diabetes and more. With chemotherapies, there are risks of infertility, blood and nervous system disorders, to name a few. Breast cancer patients, for example, only endure a couple courses of chemotherapy and then they’re done. But a lupus kidney disease patient could be on chemo for years. And while steroids and chemotherapy can result in disease remission for a period of time, some unknown trigger can cause disease flares often in a completely different organ system.
What’s the state of lupus research?
There are at least 30 companies investing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop new medications for lupus. It is unlikely that one drug will be sufficient since I believe lupus is a spectrum of diseases that will require a variety of treatments. But bringing lupus under control and stopping organ and tissue damage while we search for cures are our immediate goals.
What was your reaction to Aurinia’s Phase 2b trial results?
The Lupus Foundation of America is very hopeful that Aurinia’s voclosporin will be added to the arsenal of treatments available to people who have waited far too long for medicines that improve the quality of their lives
I was very excited because this was the first ever study for a medication to treat active lupus-related kidney disease, or lupus nephritis, that successfully reached its primary endpoint of demonstrating greater complete and partial remission in the presence of forced steroid taper. Lupus nephritis is one of the most serious and potentially life-threatening complications of this autoimmune disease, affecting as many as 60% of people with lupus. We are looking forward to Aurinia beginning a Phase 3 trial and we’re very hopeful that Aurinia’s voclosporin will be added to the arsenal of treatments available to people who have waited far too long for medicines that improve the quality of their lives. Frankly, I was shocked at the negative reaction of some investors who focused on the number of deaths associated with the trial. Had they looked at the scientific literature, they would have found that there were deaths in Bristol Myers-Squibb’s trial of Abatacept to treat lupus nephritis. Had they looked at the original trial of mycophenolate mofetil, which is the current standard of care in lupus nephritis, they would have found there were deaths, largely in Asia. On the other hand, Aurinia’s trial was the first ever to achieve a statistically significant primary endpoint in active lupus nephritis.
[Editor’s Note: Aurinia said in its statement on August 15 that there were 265 patients enrolled in the Phase 2b study and the overall pattern of adverse events and serious adverse events was consistent with that observed in other lupus nephritis studies. There were 13 deaths across the trial: two in the high-dose voclosporin arm, 10 in the low-dose voclosporin arm and one in the control arm, with 11 of the 13 deaths occurring in Asia. All deaths were assessed by the investigator as being unrelated to treatment in the study treatment and no dose relationship was observed for the deaths. Based on the results of the 24-week analysis, Aurinia plans to meet with the FDA in the fourth quarter this year to discuss the trial data and voclosporin’s subsequent clinical development and path to registration in lupus nephritis. Further analyses of the data are being conducted and will be released later this year. The study will continue through 48 weeks, and these data will be available for release in early 2017. Shares of Aurinia dropped 56% to $1.81 when the company released the trial results on August 15. The stock closed at $2.05 on Friday.]
What do you say to Aurinia’s doubters?
Aurinia’s positive top-line results should have been viewed by all as a big win for this medically underserved disease. Amazingly, the articles focusing on deaths failed to recognize that the trial was conducted among a group of already very seriously ill patients who had very few options. The history of this disease was overlooked, even diminished, when the results of a successful trial were misinterpreted. The truth is people around the world are dying every day from the complications of lupus.
[Editor’s Note: Many analysts remain upbeat on the company’s prospects. Joseph Schwartz of Leerink said he gained some important perspective on the death rate patterns in the AURA-LV trial from speaking with management after a conference call, “which makes us incrementally more comfortable that the FDA will view the risk/benefit of voclosporin favorably.” Ed Arce of H.C. Wainwright agreed. On the whole, while results from AURA-LV carried some noisy data and unexplained imbalances, after further analysis, “we have grown confident that voclosporin has the potential to be combined with CellCept as the new standard of care for the treatment of active lupus nephritis. This belief results from our more nuanced view that the results of AURA-LV, if confirmed or perhaps even improved upon in a Phase 3 trial, tips the scales of overall risk-benefit, which has long been the ultimate arbiter of approvability for the FDA.”]
The LFA has been leading the fight against lupus in a myriad of ways including major research initiatives, national and international awareness campaigns, fostered national legislation and much more
What’s next for the foundation?
The LFA has been leading the fight against lupus in a myriad of ways. The organization has launched major research initiatives, national and international awareness campaigns, fostered national legislation, stimulated $100-million for research and education programs, build a national network of chapters and regional offices offering service at the local level and provides daily support for patients, their caregivers and families through a network of health educators.
Pillars in the lupus field that must be built include the need for accurate statistics on the incidence and prevalence of lupus and its associated rate of mortality. To understand the biology of the disease and firmly establish targets for new medications, we must have a much more robust lupus research effort at the NIH and in the private sector. Moreover, the FDA, working with key lupus experts, must figure out better ways to design clinical trials so they can be shorter, smaller and less expensive. One project now underway addresses the need for new but simplified endpoints in clinical trials. The foundation has developed a simplified disease activity instrument, or questionnaire, which will be tested in an upcoming Phase 2 drug study conducted by a global biopharmaceutical company. The Lupus Foundation of America stands ready to launch a global movement to achieve these goals.
[Subsequend Editor’s Note: On September 30, 2016, Aurinia announced that, in addition to voclosporin achieving its primary endpoint of Complete Remission at 24 weeks, both doses of voclosporin when added to the current standard of care of Mycophenolate Mofetil and a forced oral corticosteroid taper have met all 24-week pre-specified secondary endpoints vs the control group. These pre-specified endpoints include: Partial Remission, which is measured by a ≥50% reduction in UPCR with no concomitant use of rescue medication; time to CR and PR; reduction in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index or SLEDAI score; and reduction in UPCR over the 24-week treatment period. Commenting on the results, Dr. William Pendergraft, a principal investigator in the study, said voclosporin has demonstrated it can nearly double the number of patients that achieve complete remission in the presence of very low corticosteroid exposure. “Based on these data, I believe this drug has the potential to significantly improve the long-term prognosis of my patients afflicted with LN and could become an integral component of the standard of care," he added.]
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Author(s): Neil Jordan
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It looked like any other carnival, but of course it wasn't...It had its own little backstreets, its alleyways of hanging bulbs and ghost trains and Punch and Judy stands ...And at the end of one he saw the Hall of Mirrors. There were looping strings of carnival lights leading towards it, and a large sign in mirrored glass reading 'Burleigh's Amazing Hall of Mirrors' and the sign reflected the lights in all sorts of magically distorted ways. To Andy and his parents, it looks like any other carnival: creaking ghost train, rusty rollercoaster and circus performers. But of course it isn't. Drawn to the hall of mirrors, Andy enters and is hypnotised by the many selves staring back at him. Sometime later, one of those selves walks out rejoins his parents - leaving Andy trapped inside the glass, snatched from the tensions of his suburban home and transported to a world where the laws of gravity are meaningless and time performs acrobatic tricks. And now an identical stranger inhabits Andy's life, unsettling his mother with a curious blankness, as mysterious events start unfolding in their Irish coastal town...
A bewitching and haunting coming-of-age tale from the Oscar-winning novelist and film director Neil Jordan
His cinematic sensibility yields prose of the most bewitching kind Sunday Times One of Ireland's most talented artists John Banville Jordan has a light touch and a clear eye on matters of the heart -- Eoin McNamee Irish Times His dialogue and characterisation shine Independent on Sunday His belief in language is absolute, as is his mastery of it Irish Times You can never know where you are going with Neil Jordan ... Extraordinary -- John Burnside Guardian
Neil Jordan was born in 1950 in Sligo. His first book of stories, Night in Tunisia, won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979, and his subsequent critically acclaimed novels include The Past, Sunrise with Sea Monster, Shade and, most recently, The Drowned Detective. The films he has written and directed have won multiple awards, including an Academy Award (The Crying Game), a Golden Bear at Venice (Michael Collins), a Silver Bear at Berlin (The Butcher Boy) and several BAFTAS (Mona Lisa and The End of the Affair). He lives in Dublin. neiljordan.com
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date : February 2017
Author : Neil Jordan
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The Society ( )
Author: Palmer, Michael
Publication Date: Aug 2005
With every one of his ten novels a New York Times bestseller, emergency medicine physician Michael Palmer is recognized by critics and fans worldwide as a master of medical suspense. Now Palmer delivers a relentless thriller that slices to our deepest fears with surgical precision--a tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is plausible. Welcome to The Society. At the headquarters of Boston's Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and...
With every one of his ten novels a New York Times bestseller, emergency medicine physician Michael Palmer is recognized by critics and fans worldwide as a master of medical suspense. Now Palmer delivers a relentless thriller that slices to our deepest fears with surgical precision--a tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is plausible. Welcome to The Society.
At the headquarters of Boston's Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. She's not the first to die--nor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and the victims have one thing in common: they are all high-profile executives in the managed care industry. Dr. Will Grant is an overworked and highly dedicated surgeon. He has experienced firsthand the outrages of a system that cares more about the bottom line than about the life-and-death issues of patients. As a member of the Hippocrates Society, Will seeks to reclaim the profession of medicine from the hundreds of companies profiting wildly by controlling the decisions that affect the delivery of care. But the doctor's determination has attracted a dangerous zealot who will stop at nothing to make Will his ally. Soon Will is both a suspect and a victim, a pawn in a deadly endgame. Then, in one horrible moment, Will's professional and personal worlds are destroyed and his very life placed in peril.
Rookie detective Patty Moriarity is in danger of being removed from her first big case--the managed care killings. To save her career, she has no choice but to risk trusting Will, knowing he may well be the killer she is hunting. Together they have little to go on except the knowledge that the assassin is vengeful, cunning, ruthless--and may not be working alone. That--and a cryptic message that grows longer with each murder: a message Grant and Moriarity must decipher if they don't want to be the next victims.
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H): 4.1 x 6.85 x 1 Inches
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Palmer, Michael (Author)
Michael Palmer was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on October 9, 1942. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals. Afterwards, he conducted research for the National Air Pollution Control Administration in Cincinnati in order to fulfill his two-year military obligation. He spent 20 years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine and is currently an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program.
His has written numerous books including The Last Surgeon, The Second Opinion, The First Patient, The Fifth Vial, The Society, Fatal, The Patient, Miracle Cure, Critical Judgment, Silent Treatment, Natural Causes, Extreme Measures, Flashback, Side Effects, and The Sisterhood.
Palmer died at the age of 71 on October 30, 2013 after suffering a heart attack and stroke. His novels Resistant (released May 20, 2014) and Trauma (released May 12, 2015) were released after his death.
Genuine Fraud
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Couple helps rescue capsized kayaker in Scituate
By Aneri Pattani Globe Correspondent,May 14, 2015, 7:20 p.m.
Donna-Lee LaMonica and Christopher Randolph helped rescue a capsized kayaker in Scituate Thursday morning, just two days before they were to be married.(Donna-Lee LaMonica)
Only two days before their wedding in Scituate, Christopher Randolph and Donna-Lee LaMonica were taking a leisurely walk in the seaside town when Randolph heard the cries. “Help! Help! Save me!”
The couple spotted a man in the South River, about a half-mile from shore, yelling for help.
“I could see the white foam from him splashing around,” said Randolph, 42, who is chief of Pocono Search and Rescue in Pennsylvania, a nonprofit organization of highly trained volunteers who provide search and rescue assistance.
Randolph first heard the pleas for help as the couple walked along Central Avenue on Thursday morning.
“I stopped for a few seconds and I heard him yelling,” he said. “I’m attuned to listen for someone in distress.”
The couple quickly called 911.
“You just go into adrenaline overload,” said LaMonica. “Like you want to jump in the bay and swim out to help this person but you can’t do anything. All we could do was wait.”
Scituate firefighters and police responded shortly after 8 a.m. and acting harbormaster Michael Bearce joined them. The first responders soon located the man.
“When we pulled him out of the water, he looked like he had severe signs of hypothermia,” Bearce said.
The man, who had been fishing when his kayak flipped over, had been in the water for about 40 minutes, Scituate Fire Chief John Murphy said. After being separated from his kayak, the man swam with the current to a nearby sailboat that was on a mooring and clung to its side, Murphy said.
Water in the area is about 50 degrees at this time of year, he added.
The man was taken to South Shore Hospital in Weymouth for treatment of hypothermia.
Walt Taylor, a recreational boating safety specialist for the US Coast Guard, said cold water is one of the greatest dangers for boaters in New England.
“If you’re not prepared for it when you go in, your chances of survival are very slim,” he said.
In 2014, 39 people died in recreational boating incidents in the waters from Maine and the Canadian border to northern New Jersey, according to the Coast Guard. Twenty-nine died from drowning after they fell overboard or their boats capsized.
Wearing a life jacket, as the man in Scituate did, can make all the difference, Taylor said.
Randolph and LaMonica, both of Pennsylvania, were in town to get married near LaMonica’s hometown of Malden.
The experience was not what LaMonica had in mind for the morning, but she was glad to help.
“It was a whole crazy experience,” she said. “We were just walking along the beach and this happened out of nowhere.”
It was less of a surprise for Randolph, who deals with rescue operations daily.
“For me, it’s just another day,” he said. “No matter where I’m going, I’m always paying attention to my surroundings and quite frequently I come upon situations when people need help.”
The couple are staying at a rental house and plan to be married Saturday afternoon at the Fourth Cliff resort — not far from where they helped save someone’s life.
Aneri Pattani can be reached at aneri.pattani@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @apattani95.
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Mark McClure
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Mark McClure took up the position of Managing Director for Caterpillar Northern Ireland in September 2017. The primary focus of his role is the company’s large electric power operations located in Larne.
Mark leads a highly-skilled team focused on the production of diesel and gas-powered electrical generators ranging in size from less than 10kW up to levels of over 3MW. This includes the production of generating sets for prime and standby power as well as rental applications.
Mark graduated from the University of Ulster, with a BEng Hons degree in engineering and started his working career with FG Wilson (Engineering) Ltd as a graduate mechanical engineer.
He then progressed into a leadership role within the company’s engineering division, where he worked on new product design and engineering support.
In 2003, Mark achieved Chartered Engineer status with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and in 2008 he moved into a role in operations, where he led a large team focused on the fabrication, assembly and testing of custom-designed generator units for specific customer needs.
From 2011 to 2017 Mark worked for Caterpillar in Brazil, followed by two years in China. Both roles involved the management of Caterpillar operational facilities.
In 2014, Mark and his team achieved the Caterpillar Chairman’s award for operational excellence. In 2017, Mark was recognised by the Tianjin administration of Foreign Expats Affairs with a nomination for the Haihe Friendship Award, which celebrates individuals who had made a significant contribution to both business and local community.
During his term in Brazil and China, Mark was on the Board of Directors for local international schools and a member of the European Chamber in Tianjin. Upon returning to the UK, he has continued to focus his efforts on supporting the local community. He currently acts as Chair of the Caterpillar Board of Directors for Northern Ireland and represents the company as a member of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce as well as Business in the Community.
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Measuring the Total Economic Impact of IBM InfoSphere Information Server with Forrester Consulting
What should be expected in terms of return from data integration initiatives?
In this webcast, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying their InfoSphere Information Server, a data integration platform, as part of their overall information architecture integration strategy.
Jon Erickson Senior Consultant for Forrester's Total Economic Impact
Jon Erickson is a senior consultant for Forrester's Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) practice. His focus over the past seven years at Forrester has been on developing methodologies for measuring and communicating the value of technology to IT strategy and planning executives as well as product marketing professionals. Jon also covers financial risk measurement tools for technology investments. In his previous position, Jon served as a senior analyst at Forrester, assisting in the development of Forrester's Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) methodology and processes. Jon came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, he worked for Sabre Capital, a merger and acquisitions firm in Raleigh, N.C., developing the company's external Web site and streamlining its database tools to take advantage of customer queries.
Jon has B.A. degrees in economics and industrial relations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as an M.S. in economics with a minor in statistics from North Carolina State University.
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This Spring, Hubway Will Become Blue Bikes
Hubway will become Blue Bikes and grow to 3,000 bikes by the end of 2019.
Exciting news! We are thrilled to announce that in partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Hubway will re-launch as Blue Bikes this spring and become an even bigger and better bike-share system.
Blue Cross Blue Shield’s support will greatly expand access to bike share in the metro region and allow for major updates. By the end of 2019, there will be 3,000 Blue Bikes on the streets — up from the 1,800 that exist today — and more than 100 new stations throughout the four municipalities.
Members can continue to access Hubway stations even as they turn Blue — you’ll be able to use your same account, same app, and same key throughout the transition, and everything will seamlessly rollover to Blue Bikes. Blue Bikes will continue to be a public transportation system, owned by the municipalities of Boston, Cambridge, Brookline and Somerville, and operated by Motivate.
Everyone is excited for Blue Bikes!
“The Hubway bike share program began in the City of Boston in 2011 and quickly became integral to our transportation system,” said Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh. “More recently, we introduced bike share in East Boston and substantially expanded the program in Brighton, Roxbury and North Dorchester. I am delighted to welcome Blue Cross Blue Shield as a partner as we further develop our bike share program and I’d like to thank them for helping us to make this resource available to additional Boston residents in their own neighborhoods.”
"We are thrilled to partner with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to enhance and expand our bike share system,” said Louis A. DePasquale, Cambridge City Manager. “Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has a long history of promoting healthy living, and their partnership will help us increase equity and accessibility to active transportation for community members across the Boston metro region.”
“We are delighted to have Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts on board as the new title sponsor of the regional bike share program.” said Neil Wishinsky, Chair of Brookline Select Board. “Their mission to improve the health and wellness of the communities they serve makes them a natural partner to help us grow the system’s reach and to improve access to active transportation for all walks of life.”
“From the beginning, the Metro Boston area has been a great place for biking, and the addition of Blue Cross as a partner will allow us to truly take bike share to the next level,” said Motivate CEO Jay Walder. “This partnership is further proof that private-sector support is a sustainable way to grow bike share systems and deliver real value for communities.”
"Riding a bicycle is not only one of most cost-effective ways to get around an urban environment like Somerville, it also promotes one of our community’s core goals: healthy living,” said Mayor Joe Curtatone. “We’re proud and thankful that this partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will allow us to more than double the number of bike share stations here over the next two years and give more residents a better opportunity to travel throughout Somerville - and beyond - by bike."
“The key impact of this groundbreaking sponsorship is to fulfill our long-time goal of extending the bike share system to every neighborhood in all four cities. We’re thrilled this goal is now in sight,” said Marc Draisen, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
About Motivate
Motivate is the largest operator of bike share systems in North America—operating in eight cities including several major urban centers. Working with cities, Motivate has helped bring the benefits of bike share to more urban residents and visitors. Learn more at www.motivateco.com.
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Your Husband Is Cheating On Us
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JD Lawrence
@iamjdlawrence
JD Lawrence is one of the most respected writers/directors/actors/producers within the urban theater circuit. He has run his family business, Who’s Laughing Now, producing hit dramedies for the past 25 years. To date, he and his family have launched more than 20 productions, debuting to sold-out theaters across the country. Both of his daughters, Breanna and Taylour, are heavily involved in his latest production.
Lawrence, the author of The DNA of Urban Theater, is known for being unorthodox and extremely strict when it comes to directing, both of which have contributed tremendously to his success and his reputation as “The King of Dramedy.” He is hoping that this play, Your Husband Is Cheating On Us, inspired by his original song by the same name, will push boundaries and take his brand to the mainstream. A lot is riding on this play, so he has chosen top-tier talent that he thinks can bring it to the next level.
@ginuwine
Ginuwine has had a successful music career spanning more than 25 years. He began his career singing in the group, Swing Mob, and after he signed with Epic Records, he went on to release numerous multi-platinum albums and singles. His first four albums, “Ginuwine...The Bachelor,” “100% Ginuwine,” “The Life,” and “The Senior” catapulted him to stardom in the world of R&B. To this day, Ginuwine is known as one of the best R&B artists of his generation, and his music is used in various soundtracks for film and TV. Currently, Ginuwine is on tour 52 weeks out of the year and sells out shows on his US and European tours. Ginuwine has been in the studio and is planning on releasing new music in 2018. Additionally, he recently launched a new merchandise line with his branded logo called “Same ol G”. As an actor, Ginuwine has appeared on Martial Law, Parks and Recreation, and most recently Celebrity Big Brother.
This is not his first time in the urban theater scene. In the play, Ginuwine plays the leading man, which increasingly re-sparked his love for acting. Ginuwine has previously worked with his co-stars Lia, D’Atra, and Tondy on various stage plays, and with a history between these characters, love triangles and jealousy were sure to arise.
D’atra Hicks
@therealdatrahicks
Born and raised in New York, D’Atra Hicks began performing at a young age and has an eclectic career spanning from performing on Broadway to becoming a singer. After going to school for music and arts, D’Atra got her break performing in Mama I Want to Sing! as Doris Winter. She continued to star in Grammy and Tony-winning Smokey Joe's Café, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Madea’s Family Reunion, and Diary of a Mad Black Woman to just name a few. In 1989 while on Broadway, D’Atra received a record deal with Capitol Records and her most popular single, Sweet Talk topped Billboard charts. Today, D’Atra owns her own company, Diamonds Productions, where she offers artistic development and management and she also is a co-owner of the company Tojo/D Entertainment. Among her many talents, D’Atra has a passion for food and has recently launched her own food line called D’Atra’s Kitchen. D’Atra has a 23-year-old daughter, Diamond, whose father is also a circuit actor.
In the play, D’Atra plays the co-lead. Her daughter’s father is Lia’s ex-husband, which causes tensions to rise as they try to work together. Although she is considered the diva of the group, she must prove herself as her reputation is on the line.
Tondy Gallant
@iliv4tondy
Born and raised in Detroit, MI, Tondy Gallant has been passionate and inspired by music from a young age. She got her break in the music industry by auditioning for the television show, Star Search. She immediately caught the producers’ attention and went on to perform background work for many other producers and artists. She was also a finalist on the reality show, Making the Band 2 where she went on to write collaborations for Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ record label. Although music was her passion, Tondy made her theatre debut in the hit stage play, If These Hips Could Talk, where she toured nationally. She went on to perform in also stage plays such as Sweet Potato Pie and My Brother Marvin. Tondy is a single mother of an 18-year-old daughter named Kennedy.
In the play, Tondy plays the ingénue. She is best friends with Lia, causing her to team up against D’Atra. Tondy wants to prove herself to JD and prove to audiences that she is a star.
Lia Grant
@liamariegrant
Lia Grant is a producer, writer, actress, model, and performer/singer. She is a veteran on stage, performing in many known plays including Get Thee Behind Me!, Mama, I’m Sorry, Real Men Pray, and My Brother Marvin where she played Tammie Terrell/Tina Turner among many others. She serves as a co-producer for FalkonQwest Enterprises, a multi-media entertainment company that produces films, novels, CDs, and plays. She is currently managing her son, Anthony Lewis, who is an up-and-coming pop-R&B vocalist and actor.
In the play, Lia plays the leading lady, the most coveted position. She must always be on her A-game as her role is very enviable… especially with D’Atra. Lia and D’Atra have a complicated and drama filled past stemming the last two decades, but Lia is not afraid to speak her mind and do what she needs to do to get her way.
Kristen Plati
@kristenplati
Originally from Perth, Australia, Kristen Plati is a singer/songwriter and a model. She graduated from West Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. As a model, Kristen is signed with TRUE Model Management in their Curve Division, representing curvy women in the fashion industry. She became passionate about music at a young age and her unique voice and soulful sound have been shaped by her experiences living in New York City.
In the play, Kristen plays the understudy. She has worked with JD on multiple projects, and he is currently managing her career and producing music for her. She hopes to let her talent speak for itself and get the recognition she deserves.
Jermaine Sellers
@therealjsellers
Jermaine Sellers was born in Joliet, Illinois, where early on in his childhood his parents wanted him to become a successful vocalist. He was heavily involved in his choir at church, quickly realizing that music was his destiny. When he was 17, he went to London for a three-month tour where he was signed by Edel Records. From his early experiences, he landed a spot on BET’s Sunday’s Best, where he was a second runner-up. After this success, Jermaine got his acting debut as a lead character on Tyler Perry’s The Marriage Counselor and also hosted BET’s 106th and Gospel. In 2009, he tried out for American Idol, making it to the top 24 contestants. Jermaine has sung background for Monica and Kelly Rowland and is currently working on his debut album.
In the play, Jermaine plays the understudy. Jermaine and JD have always butted heads, and tensions rise when he is cast as the understudy for Ginuwine. The question is … how far will he go to get his time in the spotlight?
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Turkish Cypriot paper attacked over Syria ‘occupation’ headline
Nicosia (AFP) – Hundreds of protesters Monday demonstrated outside the offices of a Turkish Cypriot newspaper that aroused the ire of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by slamming Ankara’s operation inside Syria as an “occupation”.
The Afrika newspaper — which is often anti-Ankara and staunchly critical of Erdogan — wrote on its front page Sunday: “One more occupation from Turkey.”
This was an ironic reference to the 1974 Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus which is regarded in Turkey as a “peace operation” but, in the eyes of the international community, led to Turkish troops occupying the northern third of the island.
Around 500 protesters, waving Turkish flags and the flag of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot statelet, gathered outside the offices of the paper, throwing eggs, water bottles and stones which smashed the building’s windows.
“Allahu Akbar! (God is Greatest!)”, they shouted. Some unfurled banners saying: “Afrika newspaper must be shut down immediately.” Others carried a huge banner of Erdogan.
A group climbed a flagpole outside and dismantled the newspaper’s main sign on the building’s balcony. Police refrained from taking action, an AFP journalist reported.
Mehmet Demirci, the Turkish ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) representative in northern Cyprus, said the newspaper had exceeded the limits of criticism.
“We condemn those who put such headlines in the Afrika newspaper and who dare to make politics over this headline,” he was quoted as saying by the Anadolu news agency.
– ‘Immoral’-
At the weekend, Erdogan had personally taken aim at the newspaper, criticising its headline as “immoral”.
“They say the Turkish army is carrying out another ‘occupation’ after Cyprus. How immoral it is, how shameless it is!” he seethed.
Erdogan called on the Turkish Cypriots not to remain silent over the newspaper’s controversial headline, in what some saw as encouraging the protest.
The foreign ministry of the internationally recognised Cypriot government expressed “grave concern” over the events in the north and condemned Erdogan’s comments as “incitement to violence.”
It “is yet another proof of Mr Erdogan’s policy to consolidate Turkey’s authoritarian policies in the Turkish occupied part of Cyprus, including restrictions on freedom of expression and freedom of the press,” it said.
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci defended the paper’s right to freedom of speech, saying he had often been the target of criticism by Afrika but had never told the paper to be silent.
“It is not possible to correct wrong ideas with wrong actions,” he said, in reference to the protests, warning against provocations.
OSCE representative for media freedom Harlem Desir said on Twitter he condemned “the attack vandalising” the offices of Afrika adding that “media freedom must be protected and respected.”
The eastern Mediterranean island has been divided since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded the northern third in response to an Athens-inspired coup seeking union between Greece and Cyprus.
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) is recognised only by Ankara.
Turkey on Saturday launched its operation with Ankara-backed Syrian rebels to root out the Syrian Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) militia from Afrin.
Turkey views the YPG militia as “terrorists” linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which has fought against the Turkish state since 1984 and is designated as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies.
Erdogan has urged national solidarity over the operation and the government has reached out to leaders of the main nationalist and secular opposition parties.
But Erdogan warned those who respond to calls for protests in Turkey will have to pay a “heavy price”. The authorities on Monday detained 24 people on suspicion of disseminating “terror propaganda” on social media.
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Washington is first state to enact law to protect net neutrality
March 5 (UPI) — In an official rebuke of the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal net neutrality on the federal level, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed the nation’s first state law to protect the policy.
The new law, which goes into effect in June, prohibits Internet service providers from blocking legal content and slowing down a website’s speed unless the content provider pays a higher service price.
It also requires ISP’s to publicly disclose “accurate information regarding the network management practices, performance characteristics and commercial terms of its broadband Internet access services.”
The law essentially reproduces the FCC’s net neutrality policy that went into effect in 2015. But FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who was appointed to the head of the commission by President Donald Trump, succeeded in repealing the policy last year.
“At the core of our action today is consumer protection,” Inslee told The New York Times. “States need to act because under the Trump administration, we have seen citizens, including seven million in Washington, stripped of core protections like the open Internet.”
Several governors have signed executive orders to restore net neutrality policies in their states. But Washington became the first to put the practice into law in what was a bipartisan decision in the state legislature.
“This is not a partisan issue,” Republican State Rep. Norma Smith said in a statement. “This is about preserving a fair and free Internet so all Washingtonians can participate equally in the 21st century economy. Net neutrality is an issue of tremendous importance that will matter today, tomorrow and generations from now.”
However, Washintgon’s new law could prompt a legal fight with the FCC because the agency’s net neutrality repeal contains a provision that prohibits states from implementing their own laws on the matter.
Nonetheless, Inslee praise the state’s net neutrality law and “the power of an open Internet.”
“It allows a student in Washington to connect with researchers all around the world — or a small business to compete in the global marketplace,” he said. “It’s allowed the free flow of information and ideas in one of the greatest demonstrations of free speech in our history.”
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Photo Flash: First Look at Sean Parick Doyle in THE SITTER!
BroadwayWorld.com Nov. 21, 2011
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first production stills for "The Sitter," a new comedy from "Pineapple Express" director David Gordon Green. Sean Patrick Doyle, of Broadway's La Cage Aux Folles, will appear opposite Jonah Hill ("Superbad" and "Moneyball") and Sam Rockwell (A Behanding in Spokane) in the film, opening in theaters nationwide on December 9th.
Hill stars as a college student on suspension, who is coaxed into babysitting three rambunctious kids next door. He is woefully unprepared for the wild night ahead of him, and becomes entangled with an eccentric drug dealer played by Rockwell. Doyle plays Rockwell's dim-witted, roller-skating toadie Garv.
Doyle originated the role of Chantal the Songbird in the Tony-winning revival of La Cage Aux Folles. Off-Broadway, he appeared as Loki in Tarell McCraney's Wig Out! at the Vineyard Theatre, under the direction of Tina Landau. He broke tradition as the first countertenor to portray the role of Fruma-Sarah, in the North American tour of Fiddler on the Roof opposite Topol, Theodore Bikel, and Harvey Fierstein. International credits include the Asian and European tours of West Side Story and the Asian tour of Fame: the Musical. Doyle's television appearances include "Law and Order," and "The Kennedy Center Honors," at the John F. Kennedy Center where he has performed in numerous concerts and operas. He will join the North American touring company of Mary Poppins in January.
Photo Credit: Jessica Miglio/20th Century Fox
Sam Rockwell, JB Smoove, and Sean Patrick Doyle
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Broward to Vote on Tax Bailout Package for Florida Panthers
Photo by Marcusvfx via Wikimedia Commons
Chris Joseph | December 8, 2015 | 11:55am
Could the Florida Panthers be leaving town?
The Broward County Commission might hold the answer when they vote on Tuesday over an $86 million bailout package that the team is saying they need to make sure it doesn't fold in South Florida.
The Panthers say they are losing millions and need the money, which would reportedly come from a hike in tourist taxes generated by area hotels, to cover the losses. The package would average $6.6 million in payments made through 2028, but would be front-loaded with an initial $12 million.
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The deal also has $39 million earmarked for capital expenses at the BB&T Center, which doesn't include another $45 million to cover operating expenses and in order to bring in an NHL All-Star Game.
As it is any time a professional sports franchise begins to ask for money from taxes, the public reaction is mixed. Two years ago, the Panthers had asked Broward County for $70 million, claiming that they had been losing $20 million and that they need public funds to keep from being dissolved from the NHL. They then re-booted their request to $80 million a few months after that. That amount has now grown to $86 million.
In September of last year, the Panthers were bought for $240 million by a group led by New York businessman Vincent Viola.
The Panthers have had an operating loss of $12 million for the 2011-12 season and were worth $170 million, according to Forbes.
In 2013, the Broward Commission awarded the previous team owners with a $4.2 million scoreboard.
At the time, Broward County auditor Evan Lukic said that, even though the county owns the BB&T Center, the team should pay for the scoreboard themselves. The team argued that Broward County had not, until that point, put any money into the arena for "capital improvement."
The commissioners agreed and awarded the team with the new scoreboard.
For the latest proposal, Lukic says that the Panthers have done a good job in bringing forth a solution to their issue.
“We entered into this business arrangement some 20 years ago now, and things have not worked out for our partners, and quite frankly, they haven’t worked out as well as we expected, either,” Lukic said via the Sun-Sentinel. “So we’re sitting here saying, ‘What do we do next?’ I believe the team’s done a good job bringing forward a plausible solution to the problem.”
The package has provisions in it that would protect Broward County, including the county receding a portion of what the Panthers earn whenever the NHL has a new expansion team added to the league. Broward County will also get 10 percent of the proceeds if the Panthers are ever sold. There is also an out-clause from the county within eight years if the Panthers decide to leave town. They would also have to pay back $72 million to the county.
The proposal will need a 5-3 vote to pass. Mayor Marty Kiar has already indicated that he will vote no.
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Bucs offensive coordinator Sullivan to interview for Chicago Bears head coaching job
Published: December 31st, 2012
Quarterback Josh Freeman may be faced with learning his fourth offense in five years.
Mike Sullivan, the mastermind of the most productive offense in Buccaneers history after only one season as offensive coordinator, will interview for the Chicago Bears head coaching job, general manager Mark Dominik confirmed.
The Bears fired head coach Lovie Smith Monday after nine seasons. The Bears went 10-6 but failed to reach the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons.
Under Sullivan, the former New York Giants quarterbacks coach, the Bucs enjoyed a record-setting offense. Tampa Bay scored a club-record 389 points and compiled 5,820 yards of total offense.
Quarterback Josh Freeman became the first Bucs player to pass for more than 4,000 yards and set a club-record with 27 touchdown passes.
Running back Doug Martin set a club rookie record with 1,454 yards rushing yards and 11 touchdowns. He also had more than 450 yards receiving to finish third in the NFL in yards from scrimmage. Vincent Jackson and Mike Williams also combined for more than 2,000 yards receiving and 17 touchdowns.
If Sullivan leaves Tampa Bay, former Arizona Cardinals quarterbacks coach John McNulty would be a candidate for the Bucs offensive coordinator job. McNulty worked for five seasons at Rutgers under Bucs coach Greg Schiano, who tried to hire him last year. McNulty was among the Cardinals offensive staff that was fired along with head coach Ken Whisenhunt Monday.
Mike Sullivan has some of what Bears are looking for
With Bears narrowing their field of candidates, no mention of Bucs’ Mike Sullivan
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Birmingham signs green city deal
Birmingham has signed a major agreement designed to make it one of the world's top cities, and the first in Britain, leading in the battle against climate change.
Birmingham has signed a major agreement designed to make it one of the world's top cities, and the first in Britain, leading in the battle against climate change.
The scheme, backed by former US president Bill Clinton and which was signed in San Francisco on Wednesday, will establish Birmingham as a global leader in developing environmentally-friendly homes.
Along with six other cities - Amsterdam, Lisbon, Hamburg, Madrid, San Francisco and Seoul - it will share the £15 million invested by IT firm CISCO Systems to help devise technologies to tackle global warming.
Council officials flew to San Francisco on Tuesday to sign the agreement, which has been hailed as a major coup for the authority.
Coun Mike Whitby, leader of Birmingham City Council, said: ''This is an exciting world exclusive, firmly putting the city of Birmingham at centre stage globally in terms of finding new, innovative and very practical approaches to climate change.
"Linking Birmingham to the Clinton Initiative and collaborating with CISCO in this way is an exceptional opportunity to enhance the way in which we tackle growth, place making and development in the most sustainable ways possible."
The Connected Urban Development (CUD) programme, part of the Clinton Initiative, will give Birmingham free access to CISCO developers who will help the city develop "smart" homes and communities.
This will include establishing global best practice on issues such as eco-towns, carbon neutral homes and incorporating environmental factors into planning regulations.
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A matter of convenience: Part-Time MBA program offers classes in Madison
Fri, April 29, 2016
In Jonathan Anthony’s field, an MBA is no longer a differentiator, it’s among the criteria for anyone with ambitions of becoming a senior executive.
Anthony was five years into his career in investment management when he decided he wanted to earn an MBA. He said many of his colleagues were already pursuing master’s degrees.
"If I wanted to keep progressing," he said, "I knew I would have to get a master’s degree."
He considered a variety of specialty master’s degrees in real estate, but decided to pursue a Part-Time MBA at Rutgers Business School, which is allowing him to concentrate his studies in finance and real estate. "The MBA is a longer program, but it’s a more respected and broader degree," he said.
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When he began the Rutgers MBA program, one thing made it easier for him to manage his busy schedule: He could take Rutgers MBA classes at Drew University’s campus, which is roughly five minutes from his Morristown office. He is currently working as an associate in the institutional client group at MetLife Investment Management .
"I’ve taken nearly 100 percent of my core foundation credits – nearly two years worth of classes – in Madison,” he said. "It’s been really convenient."
In comparison, Anthony said it takes him 40 minutes to drive and park in Newark. "It’s just easier to be able to go to Madison,” he said. "I can spend 30 minutes longer at work, or I can get here early and meet with other students when we’re working on a project.”
Rutgers rotates the core courses it offers at its satellite locations in Madison and Jersey City so students can take several semesters of classes at locations closer to their offices or homes. In Madison, classes are held in one of Drew’s earliest buildings on a quiet, wooded campus.
Anthony said many of the senior managers at MetLife and Prudential, where he previously worked, have earned their master’s degrees at Rutgers.
"It’s a quality degree. It’s respected," he said. "There’s really nothing else in New Jersey with the same credibility as Rutgers."
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Apple is now worth over $1 trillion — here are 9 people who were convinced the iPhone would be a major flop
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Earlier this month, Apple became the first American company with a market cap over $1 trillion.
That was mostly due to the iPhone, possibly the most profitable product in modern history.
Last year, Apple sold over 216 million iPhones.
Obviously, it's a major hit — it basically mints money for Apple, now the most valuable company in the world.
But when it first came out, there were a lot of people who didn't think it was all that great. In fact, some people thought the iPhone was going to be an outright flop.
Here are some of those doubters and skeptics:
Steve Ballmer, then Microsoft's CEO: "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
Mike Segar/Reuters
The Microsoft CEO at the time made the claim to USA Today.
Richard Sprague, then-Microsoft senior director: "I can’t believe the hype being given to iPhone. I just have to wonder who will want one of these things (other than the religious faithful.)"
10 years later, people still line up for them.
REUTERS/Yuya Shino
Source: Microsoft blog via Daring Fireball
Three years later, Microsoft held a funeral for the iPhone when it launched a new version of Windows Phone.
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More details about the Microsoft stunt here.
Jim Balsillie, then RIM's co-CEO: "It’s kind of one more entrant into an already very busy space with lots of choice for consumers. But in terms of a sort of a sea-change for BlackBerry, I would think that’s overstating it."
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Source: Reuters.
Jon Rubinstein, then a top Apple executive, later Palm's CEO: "Is there a toaster that also knows how to brew coffee? There is no such combined device, because it would not make anything better than an individual toaster or coffee machine."
Rubinstein gave this quote in late 2005, six months before he left Apple. He went to head Palm, which was crushed by the iPhone before it was sold to HP.
Ed Colligan, Palm's CEO at the time: "We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in."
He said this a few months before the iPhone was revealed.
Then, after the iPhone launched, Colligan said: "We don’t want to follow design fads."
Source: Marketwatch
Nokia scoffed, too. Here's what Anssi Vanjoki, its chief strategist at the time, said: "Even with the Mac, Apple has attracted much attention at first, but they have still remained a niche manufacturer. That will be in mobile phones as well."
This is what Nokia phones looked like at the time.
Source: Handlesblatt
Nokia's CEO then, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, didn't take the threat seriously either: "I don't think that what we have seen so far (from Apple) is something that would any way necessitate us changing our thinking when it comes to openness, our software and business approach."
Ed Zander, Motorola CEO at the time, was asked how he planned to deal with the iPhone. His reply: "How do they deal with us?"
Source: IDG
John Dvorak: "What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it's smart it will call the iPhone a 'reference design' and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures."
The widely-read technology critic made this claim in a column for MarketWatch titled " Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone."
Now, 11 years later, the iPhone is an unquestionable success. In 2016, Apple announced that it had sold 1 billion iPhones.
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Hope Hicks warned Trump that Don Jr.'s emails setting up the Trump Tower meeting were 'really bad,' but the president told her not to go to the press
Eliza Relman
Apr. 18, 2019, 2:23 PM
President Donald Trump and Hope Hicks.
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Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director, played a central role in the White House's handling of the fallout from the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Kremlin-linked lawyer.
Hicks told the special counsel Robert Mueller that she was "shocked" by emails sent between Donald Trump Jr. and a music publicist who helped set up the meeting as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."
Hicks also made the case that Trump Jr. should "get in front of the story" by releasing the emails to the press as part of an interview with "softball questions." But Trump said no.
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Hope Hicks, who left her position as White House communications director and top confidante to President Donald Trump last year, played a central role in the White House's handling of media reports in July 2017 that members of Trump's inner circle met with a Russian official promising "dirt" on Hillary Clinton in June 2016.
By the first week of June 2017, White House and Trump campaign officials became aware of emails sent between Donald Trump Jr. and Rob Goldstone, a music publicist who helped set up a Trump Tower meeting as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."
Trump Jr. notoriously responded to Goldstone on the chain, "if it's what you say I love it."
Hicks told Mueller that she discussed the emails between Trump Jr. and Goldstone with the president's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in June 2017. She then attended a meeting with Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and the president in the White House residence on or around June 22.
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Hicks said that Kushner attempted to tell the president about the Trump Tower meeting and related emails, but that Trump "stopped Kushner and said he did not want to know about it, shutting the conversation down," the report said.
Less than a week later — on June 28 — Hicks viewed the emails in the office of Kushner's lawyer. Mueller wrote that Hicks was "shocked" by the messages because they "looked really bad" and privately met with the president the next day to discuss them.
Trump told Hicks that he was upset that so many people knew about the emails and said that the emails wouldn't leak unless "everyone had access to them."
Later that same day, Hicks, Kushner, and Ivanka Trump all met with the president. Hicks made the case that Trump Jr. should "get in front of the story" by releasing the emails to the press as part of an interview with "softball questions." But Trump said no.
"Hicks warned the President that the emails were 'really bad' and the story would be 'massive' when it broke, but the President was insistent that he did not want to talk about it and they should not go to the press," Mueller wrote in the report.
Trump directed Hicks and other aides not to publicly release the emails.
On July 8, 2017, The New York Times reported the existence of the meeting. And on July 11, The Times published a report about the emails.
Trump dictated a statement about the June 9 meeting, saying that the meeting was about adoption, which was issued in Trump Jr.'s name, Mueller found. (Trump said in August 2018 that he knew compromising information about Hillary Clinton had been discussed at the 2016 meeting.)
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president " certainly didn't dictate" Trump Jr.'s statement in June 2018.
Trump told the special counsel in his written answers that he had "no recollection of learning of the meeting or the emails setting it up at the time the meeting occurred or at any other time before the election." Trump has publicly denied knowing about the meeting before June 2017.
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On November 10, 2016 — two days after the presidential election — Hicks, the former Trump campaign spokesperson, told reporters, "We are not aware of any campaign representatives that were in touch with any foreign entities before yesterday, when Mr. Trump spoke with many world leaders."
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Why Saudi Arabia and Iran are competing in Yemen
Natasha Bertrand,
A Houthi fighter walks at the site of an air strike at a residential area near Sanaa Airport March 26, 2015.
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While the al-Houthi movement struggles to manage multiple regional challenges to its north, its rise to power in Yemen is a setback for Saudi Arabia on its southern flank.
After the fall of the Yemeni government, Riyadh will have to capitalize on the al-Houthis' need for political and financial support to re-establish its influence in the country. But because Iran is trying to fill that support gap, too, Yemen has become another battleground where the two sectarian rivals will struggle against one another.
After being driven from the capital of Sanaa in September, Yemen's government is at war with itself. President Abd Rabboh Mansour Hadi issued a statement March 19 denouncing the airstrikes on his compound in the southern port city of Aden as an attempted military coup by forces loyal to his predecessor and one-time ally, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Earlier that day, soldiers and militiamen loyal to Hadi battled their way into Aden's airport and stormed a nearby military base, both of which were under the control of Gen. Abdel-Hafez al-Saqqaf, a Saleh loyalist.
The infighting in Aden comes after Ansar Allah, the pro-Iranian Zaidi group led by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, emerged as the single largest force in the country after taking over large swathes of territory in north and central Yemen. The al-Houthis represent a change in the balance of power in Yemen and even the Arabian Peninsula that has opened the door for Iran to become a major player in what was the exclusive domain of Saudi Arabia not too long ago.
The Rise of the al-Houthis
A number of factors facilitated the al-Houthis' power grab in Yemen. First, Saudi Arabia's attempts to manage the Yemeni government in the wake of Arab Spring protests did not go as planned. Saleh stepped down in favor of his one-time vice president, Hadi, but the move exacerbated intra-government fissures along tribal, ideological, political and military lines. By the time Hadi took over, Riyadh's method of playing the various Yemeni factions against each other had undermined the old system to the point where the al-Houthis could take advantage of and align enough tribes to push beyond its northern stronghold of Saada and make their way down into areas south of the capital.
While Saudi Arabia has long meddled in Yemen and focused on combatting al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Riyadh lost sight of developments in Yemen while focusing on other regional fights. Saudi Arabia has been trying to stem chaos in the region in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, especially threats from transnational jihadist groups such as the Islamic State.
It has also been occupied with supporting Bahrain's pro-Saudi Sunni monarchy as it faces a democratic uprising from its Shiite minority. It was not that Saudi Arabia was not paying attention to Yemen, but it was not expecting Iran to gain ground on its southern frontier via a movement that is not a traditional Shiite one and in fact is theologically closer to Sunni Islam.
Also, Saudi Arabia did not do enough to prevent Saleh from returning to Sanaa, where he could plot against those he felt were responsible for his fall from power and execute his own return. His plotting weakened the Yemeni government and diminished its ability to combat the al-Houthi insurgency.
Finally, it appears the al-Houthis have learned lessons from when they clashed with Saudi border guards in 2009. Now the al-Houthis are taking caution to steer clear of any direct engagement with the Saudis along the border and have instead focused inward. They are consolidating the nascent power they have accumulated and are weakening groups that might resist them.
The strategy appears to have worked. The Saudis have focused on the conflicts to their north and have not reacted aggressively to the power shift that has taken place in Yemen. Now it is too late to reverse course — at least in the short term. Riyadh lacks the military capabilities to directly intervene in the country and impose order like it did in Bahrain. Also, the different political factions they used to operate through by proxy do not have the same power they once did, making any efforts less effective.
Even if it had the means to intervene, it is not entirely clear the Saudis would want to. The al-Houthis do not pose a major threat to Saudi Arabia; on the contrary, the rebels' control over north and central Yemen insulates Saudi Arabia from the chaos in other parts of the country and especially from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is a more immediate threat.
The Saudis would rather have the al-Houthis on their southern border instead of a jihadist quasi-state that is hostile to them. While the Saudis would prefer not to have al-Houthi control of such a large piece of Yemen so close to their border, the situation seems to be the best outcome in a situation where all options are bad — as long as the al-Houthis do not start pushing northward.
Southern People's Resistance militants loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi move a tank from the al-Anad air base in the country's southern province of Lahej March 24, 2015. Fighters from Yemen's dominant Houthi movement drew closer to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's refuge in Aden on Tuesday, taking over two towns north of the port city as columns advanced from different directions.
Potential Border Incursions
Even if the al-Houthis decided to change course, Saudi Arabia would be able to defend itself. It already has a fence — though it is nothing more than a concrete-filled pipeline — with surveillance equipment in place along long stretches of the border. Nonetheless, Zaidi militiamen were able to penetrate the border in 2009, but they did not make it past the mountains. The Saudi military was able to contain them there and used airstrikes to eliminate them.
The eastern part of the border in Hadramawt is open desert with little cover to conceal an incursion force. Surveillance aircraft can spot ground vehicles from long distances, and reaching a Saudi city or even a road would require traversing hundreds of miles of desert.
The west appears to be the only place where an incursion could have success because there are mountains, roads and people there. The area also happens to be adjacent to the al-Houthi stronghold of Saada. However, the Saudi military has enough capacity to deploy forces that outnumber al-Houthi fighters. Fighting could possibly last for a while, but in the end, the al-Houthis would not be able to withstand or break through the Saudis, who have artillery and air support.
Houthi rebels in Yemen
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Financial Aid Is Key
The biggest factor keeping the al-Houthis from antagonizing Saudi Arabia is their need for financial support. The country's poor financial and economic situation means the al-Houthis — or any other governing group for that matter — cannot maintain order in country without external assistance. Without long-term financial support, Yemen's water shortages could turn into a humanitarian crisis that draws in Saudi Arabia, creating the need for Sanaa and Riyadh to cooperate. The al-Houthis are aware of this, explaining why they have reached out to Riyadh to participate in indirect talks.
While it would seem logical for the al-Houthis to seek more aid from Iran, they know that Tehran is not capable of matching Saudi aid, even if the West were to lift economic sanctions. Iran can provide military, intelligence, logistical, and political support, but it has little hard cash to offer. Besides, Iran is more than 1,950 kilometers (1,200 miles) from Yemen, while Saudi Arabia is just on its northern border. Saudi Arabia can also help the al-Houthis gain international recognition as the legitimate government of Yemen.
A supporter of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh chants slogans after the weekly Friday prayers in front of the Al-Saleh mosque in Sanaa June 20, 2014.
Implementing the Hezbollah Model
The al-Houthis find themselves in a situation fairly similar to that of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Both groups are the biggest force in their respective countries, but they exist within political and demographic conditions that keep them from running their countries alone. Ansar Allah is trying to emulate Hezbollah in terms of getting other factions to work with it and form a government like the confessional democracy in Lebanon.
Ansar Allah, however, is where Hezbollah was in the 1980s, and it will need time to translate its military prowess into political power. Also, the Saudis will try to prevent the group from going the route of Hezbollah. Unlike Lebanon, Yemen is not under Israeli occupation, and it does not have a neighbor like Syria that the Iranians can use as a conduit to nurture the al-Houthis.
In this March 21, 2015, photo, Members of a militia group loyal to Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, known as the Popular Committees, chew qat as they sit next to their tank.
Negotiating Yemen's Future With Iran
Saudi Arabia knows the threat is not pressing and has decided to abstain from any formal diplomatic talks with Yemen. Riyadh also knows Tehran wants to use the al-Houthis to gain a seat at the negotiating table and become a stakeholder in Yemen, so it is being cautious. Ultimately, serious geographic and political limitations prevent Tehran from undermining Riyadh in Yemen.
Though the Saudis see the situation as ultimately favorable, they cannot become too comfortable and allow the al-Houthis to take hold in Sanaa. Riyadh must ensure that the opposition improves its position enough to sufficiently counter the al-Houthi movement. At the same time, Riyadh will need to engage Ansar Allah in talks at some point, especially while the opposition is weak from infighting — and jihadists reap benefits from the struggle.
A crime scene investigator looks at the ground after a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in Sanaa March 20, 2015.
Many of Ansar Allah's opponents — including tribes, religious Sunni elements and members of the ousted government's security establishment — are open to cooperating with jihadist forces to fight the al-Houthis. The Salafists and jihadists are the most eager to engage in a sectarian battle because they see it as a way to enhance their position. Saudi Arabia cannot allow al Qaeda or the Islamic State to emerge as the most effective forces against Ansar Allah.
In fact, the United States has already indicated that it will work with the al-Houthis to fight jihadists in Yemen, another sign of the shift in the United States' position in the Middle East. Washington sees Iran, Hezbollah and even the Syrian government — except for President Bashar al Assad — as partners in the fight against the Islamic State, a development Saudi Arabia feels threatened by.
If the al-Houthis successfully consolidate their power in Yemen, the southern Saudi provinces of Jizan and Najran will become vulnerable to al-Houthi expansion in the long run because of the significant Shiite Ismaili populations that live there. Certainly the Iranians would welcome this outcome, influencing their support for the Zaidis.
The Saudis see the al-Houthis as a possible threat from Iran. How the Saudis engage with the group and try to put distance between them and Iran will be a key factor to watch. Nonetheless, Yemen's deteriorating security situation has created another Saudi-Iranian geopolitical struggle that will last for the foreseeable future.
" Saudi Arabia and Iran Compete in Yemen" is republished with permission of Stratfor.
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Why zoo officials couldn't sedate Harambe, the gorilla who was killed after a 4-year-old entered his enclosure
Ali SundermierMay 31, 2016, 20:40 IST
Harambe, a 17-year-old gorilla at the Cincinnati ZooThomson Reuters
On Saturday, Harambe, a 17-year-old male gorilla, was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo after a 4-year-old boy slipped into his enclosure. Harambe was a Western lowland silverback gorilla, a critically endangered species.
The death of Harambe has caused outrage among animal rights activists. Many have raised the question: Did the zoo make the right decision in killing the gorilla?
The alternative to killing Harambe would have been shooting him with a sedative. But zoo officials say that would have only made the situation worse. The tranquilizer could have taken up to ten minutes to work, they said. Meanwhile, the boy would be put in even more danger.
He was "clearly disoriented" and "acting erratically," Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard said at a news conference. While the rest of the gorillas in the enclosure cleared the area thanks to special calls made by zookeepers, Harambe did not respond.
Shooting him with a tranquilizer, Maynard said, could have taken up to ten minutes to take effect and would have only caused more panic in the animal.
"You can't take a risk with a silverback gorilla," said Maynard. "We're talking about animal that with one hand can take a coconut and crush it."
Although tranquilizing Harambe was not an option, critics still say that the zoo could have done more to draw the gorilla away from the boy rather than killing him.
"When gorilla or other apes have things they shouldn't have, keepers will negotiate with them, bring food, their favorite treats, pineapple or some kind of fruit that they don't know and negotiate with them," Ian Redmond, chairman of The Gorilla Organization told CNN.
Some witnesses even speculated that at first Harambe appeared to be protecting the boy, only growing agitated as people started screaming.
Many animal behaviorists have stood behind the zoo's decision. Wildlife expert Jack Hanna told ABC's "Good Morning America" that there was "no doubt" in his mind that "that child would not be here today if they hadn't made that decision."
"We stand by our decision," Maynard said. "We'd make the same decision today."
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Disney has 20 live-action movies of its animated classics planned — here they all are
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“The Little Mermaid” remake is starting production early 2020.
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Disney is remaking a number of animated classics into live-action movies.
“The Lion King,” and “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” are set for release in 2019. Disney recently announced Halle Bailey will play Ariel in a live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid.”
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Good news, Disney fans. If you loved Disney’s live-action “The Jungle Book” and “Beauty and the Beast,” the Mouse House is bringing even more animated classics back to life.
From fairy-tales like “Snow White” to classics such as “Aladdin” and “The Little Mermaid,” Disney’s live-action list continues to grow with more than a dozen in the works.
Some of the movies are complete remakes of their animated counterparts, while others are based on origin stories or sequels to existing live-action adaptations.
Keep reading to see all of the live-action remakes and sequels Disney has planned so far.
Disney’s beloved animated classic “The Lion King” is coming to theaters summer 2019.
“The Lion King” is returning to theaters.
The story follows Simba, who, with the help of his friends Timon and Pumba, must eventually save his kingdom from his evil uncle, Scar. Disney announced the full cast of the movie in November 2017.
Donald Glover is voicing Simba while James Earl Jones reprises his role of Mufasa.
With the original voice of Mufasa, how can you not be excited for “The Lion King”?
The cast list also includes Beyoncé as Nala, John Oliver as Zazu, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar. “The Lion King” will be in theaters July 19, 2019.
Read more: Here’s the cast of Disney’s “The Lion King” remake and who they’re playing
Angelina Jolie will reprise her role as Maleficent in the sequel to the 2014 origin story of the notorious villain from “Sleeping Beauty.”
Angelina Jolie in the first trailer for the “Maleficent” sequel.
According to Disney, the sequel will follow the horned fairy, Maleficent, and her continued relationship with Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning). “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” will hit theaters October 18, 2019.
Read more: Watch the first trailer for the “Maleficent” sequel.
“Lady and the Tramp” is getting a live-action reboot later this year.
Tramp and Lady in their iconic scene.
The film will be available on Disney’s streaming service when it launches on November 12, 2019.
The cast includes Tessa Thompson as Lady, Justin Theroux as Tramp, and Janelle Monáe as Peg.
Tessa Thompson plays Lady in the new movie. “Lady and the Tramp” was first released by Disney in 1955.
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Additionally, Ashley Jensen will play the Scottish Terrier Jackie and Benedict Wong is the English Bulldog Bull. Kiersey Clemons and Thomas Man are playing the humans, Darlin and Jim Dear. The movie is directed by “The Ninjago Movie” director Charlie Bean.
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Disney is bringing “Mulan” to life next year.
It’s not clear whether or not Mushu will be in the film.
Disney/”Mulan”
The film follows a young woman who disguises herself as a man, takes her father’s place in war, and saves China. The remake was originally supposed to premiere in 2018.
Chinese actress Liu Yifei was cast as the titular heroine in 2017.
Here’s the first official photo Disney released of Liu Yifei as Mulan.
Niki Caro is directing the movie, which is set for release on March 27, 2020. She is the second woman at the studio to direct a movie with a budget of over $100 million.
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Emma Stone will play the “101 Dalmatians” villain in next year’s “Cruella.”
Glenn Close played the villainous Cruella de Vil in the 1996 live-action remake of the animated movie.
The live-action movie is planned to be an origin story for the villain, directed by Alex Timbers. It will be released on December 23, 2020.
Disney is remaking 1963’s “The Sword in the Stone,” which follows a young King Arthur and his lessons with the wizard Merlin.
The moment the young Arthur reaches for the sword is iconic.
The remake will be written by “Game of Thrones” writer and producer Bryan Cogman. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo was named as the director in January 2018.
The movie will also be available on Disney’s streaming service.
Before the release of Disney’s remake of 1961’s “The Jungle Book,” the studio already started planning a sequel.
Plan on seeing more of Baloo and Mowgli.
The movie was a huge success, grossing nearly a $1 billion at the box office.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jon Favreau is expected to return to the director’s chair for “The Jungle Book 2” along with Justin Marks to return for the sequel. There is no set release date for the movie.
Disney is working on its own “Little Mermaid” remake with new music from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken.
Ariel and Flounder during the iconic “Part of Your World” song.
Disney/”The Little Mermaid”
Alan Menken worked on the music for the original film. He recently returned to compose the music for the “Aladdin” remake.
The movie will include songs from Menken and Howard Ashman as well as new songs from Menken and Miranda.
Read more: ‘The Little Mermaid’s’ iconic song ‘Part of Your World’ would have been cut from the movie if a top Disney boss had his way
Disney announced 19-year-old singer Halle Bailey will play the lead role of Ariel.
Disney made the announcement Wednesday, July 3.
“After an extensive search, it was abundantly clear that Halle possesses that rare combination of spirit, heart, youth, innocence, and substance – plus a glorious singing voice – all intrinsic qualities necessary to play this iconic role,” producer Rob Marshall said in a statement released by the studio.
According to Disney, production for the live-action movie will begin in early 2020. There is no set release date for the film.
“Peter Pan” has been brought to life in numerous incarnations, but Disney is set to remake its 1953 animated film.
Peter Pan and Wendy in “Peter Pan.”
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There are numerous TV shows and movies based on the characters. David Lowry, who directed “Pete’s Dragon,” will set his sights on re-imagining “Peter Pan” as well.
Lowry told Collider in 2016 he’s a big fan of the film and he intends to bring his own spin to the material.
“It made a huge impact on how I grew up. I love the cartoon. I love the 2003 version. I didn’t know how I would do it better,” said Lowry. “Then, I started thinking, ‘Well, how would I do it, not better, but differently?'”
Peter Pan’s fairy companion TInker Bell is supposed to get her own live-action film, too.
Tinkerbell will finally get her own live-action movie.
It will be called “Tink” reportedly starring Reese Witherspoon. The Hollywood Reporter wrote about the movie in 2015.
It won’t just be princesses with their own live-action remakes. One of the Prince Charmings (from Cinderella or Snow White) will get his own movie too.
Cinderella and her prince.
“Wonder” director Stephen Chbosky will write – and maybe direct – the new spin on the romance.
Disney is set to release a live-action adaptation of “Lilo & Stitch.”
Stitch and Lilo coming to a screen near you.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a live-action/CGI movie is in the works from the same producers working on “Aladdin.” It’s unknown if the movie will be for theaters or for Disney’s upcoming streaming service.
Disney is working on an adaptation of 1996’s “Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
Quasimodo is going to get his time to shine.
According to Deadline, a live-action version of Disney’s 1996 movie about an orphaned Quasimodo living in the bell tower of Notre Dame is in the works. Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, who teamed up on “Pocahontas,” will write the music while Josh Gad (“Frozen”) is producing.
Deadline reports the live-action film will adapt both the 1996 Disney film and the Victor Hugo novel. It’s not clear whether or not the remake will be for Disney’s streaming service or a theatrical release.
Disney’s second animated film “Pinocchio” is being adapted into a live-action version. It will be loosely based on the original animated film.
“Pinocchio” was originally released in 1940.
Deadline first reported the movie in 2015. “Paddington” director Paul King left the project over the 2018 holidays, according to cinematographer Seamus McGarvey who was set to be the director of photography on the adaptation.
It’s reported that the Genie will get his own live-action prequel titled “Genies.”
The Genie and Aladdin in the Cave of Wonders.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie would follow how he ended up in the lamp, but no new information is known.
Disney is also working on a live-action version of its first animated classic, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
Snow White.
Disney/”Snow White”
The Hollywood Reporter made the announcement in October 2016. The fairy tale will have new music by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who most recently wrote the songs for “The Greatest Showman.” They also did the music for “La La Land.”
Another film was previously reported to be in the works about Snow White’s sister, Rose Red, who is featured in Grimm’s fairy tales.
Snow White in the Disney Parks.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Rose Red” will feature her adventure with the dwarves to save Snow White after she bites the poisonous apple.
Evan Daugherty, who previously wrote “Snow White and the Huntsman” starring Kristen Stewart, is working on the project.
But don’t plan on seeing this Snow White again.
He was recently involved with the newest “Tomb Raider.”
Disney is reportedly in talks to remake Roald Dahl’s “James and the Giant Peach,” which was adapted as a stop-motion film in 1996.
Would you want to see a “James and the Giant Peach” movie?
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No new information has been released since 2016.
It’s not just animated movies getting the movie treatment. Popular duo Chip ‘n’ Dale are supposed to get a CGI/live-action film based on the animated series.
“Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers” aired for three seasons.
The film was first reported in 2014 by The Hollywood Reporter. In May, it was reported the CGI-hybrid will be directed by Akiva Schaffer (who’s a part of the comedy trio The Lonely Island).
Disney also greenlit a movie for one of its darkest characters — Chernabog — the demon from “Fantasia” back in 2015.
Chernabog isn’t exactly family friendly. He’s one of Disney’s creepiest villains.
The character was featured in an 11-minute segment called “Night on Bald Mountain.” He’s a strange choice for a standalone film since he’s basically a depiction of the devil and feels quite un-Disney-like.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney’s take will be similar to what was done with Maleficent, the villainess of “Sleeping Beauty.” That film humanized one of Disney’s darkest villains by telling her backstory. Chernabog popped up on ABC’s fairy-tale show “Once Upon A Time.”
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By Chantal Fernandez March 15, 2018 23:45
Raf Simons, Supreme, Virgil Abloh and Mansur Gavriel Among 2018 CFDA Fashion Awards Nominees
The annual ceremony will take place at the Brooklyn Museum on June 4.
The 2017 CFDA Fashion Awards | Source: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images
NEW YORK, United States — Instead of its usual announcement cocktail party for the industry, the Council of Fashion Designers of America turned to Instagram this year. The council revealed the nominees and honourees for the 2018 CFDA Awards, set to take place on June 4 at the Brooklyn Museum, with a selection of videos featuring models Candice Huffine and Martha Hunt, rapper Young Paris, and designers Todd Snyder, Irene Neuwirth, Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia produced by Condé Nast.
The 2018 ceremony will take place at a new venue for the second time since the awards left Lincoln Center after a seven-year run. Since heading to the Hammerstein Ballroom in 2016, the CFDA has raised its ambitions for the event, presenting a larger and more elaborate production, inspired by traditional Hollywood awards shows and complete with A-list stars and guests from beyond the industry. Last year, during the emotional height of the evening, Cecile Richards, Gloria Steinem and Janelle Monáe were honoured with the Board of Directors’ Tribute for preserving and defending the rights of women.
This year in Brooklyn, the awards will be hosted by Issa Rae, the creator of HBO’s critically acclaimed television show Insecure. Several of the new categories introduced last year will be repeated: a single Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent, which offers financial support and mentorship to young designers across menswear, womenswear and accessories; and the Swarovski Award for Positive Change, which will be presented to Diane von Furstenberg, the CFDA’s chairman since 2015.
Other announced honourees include Carolina Herrera for the Founder’s Award in honor of Eleanor Lambert, British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful for the Media Award in honor of Eugenia Sheppard, Narciso Rodriguez for the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award and Donatella Versace for the International Award. More honourees, such as the Fashion Icon Award, may be announced at a later date.
The design winners will be revealed at the ceremony. Nominees include last year’s double honouree for womenswear and menswear designer of the year, Raf Simons, who is once again nominated in both categories for his work at Calvin Klein. Other notable designers in the running across the womenswear, menswear, accessories and emerging talent categories include James Jebbia of Supreme, Virgil Abloh of Off-White, Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen for The Row, Aurora James for Brother Vellies and Kerby Jean-Raymond for Pyer Moss.
Read on for the full list of 2017 CFDA Fashion Awards nominees and recipients.
Womenswear Designer of the Year
Raf Simons for Calvin Klein
Virgil Abloh for Off-White
Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen for The Row
Menswear Designer of the Year
James Jebbia for Supreme
Accessory Designer of the Year
Stuart Vevers for Coach
Rachel Mansur and Floriana Gavriel for Mansur Gavriel
Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent
Mike Amiri for Amiri
Laura Vassar and Kristopher Brock for Brock Collection
Aurora James for Brother Vellies
Kerby Jean-Raymond for Pyer Moss
Sander Lak for Sies Marjan
The Swarovski Award for Positive Change will be presented to Diane von Furstenberg.
The Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Narciso Rodriguez.
The Founder's Award in honor of Eleanor Lambert will be presented to Carolina Herrera.
The Media Award in honor of Eugenia Sheppard will be presented to Edward Enninful.
The International Award will be presented to Donatella Versace.
At the CFDA Awards, a Call to Action
Edward Enninful
CFDA Swarovski Award
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Southern Marsh opens first retail location in Texas with more to come
Stephanie Riegel
Baton Rouge-based Southern Marsh—which, until recently, has sold its apparel online and through an extensive distribution network of retailers—is expanding into the retail business with its own brick-and-mortar locations.
The company, founded by Matthew Valiollahi and Stephen Smith in 2007, opened its first store in The Woodlands, Texas, in late September in an upscale lifestyle center called The Marketplace. Between five and 10 additional new locations are planned for 2019, Paul Claxton, director of retail, says.
Valiollahi and Smith chose the Greater Houston area for their first store because the company has a strong foothold in that market already and because there’s so much potential for growth.
“We’ve had some great wholesale partnerships for years and there are so many people in that market, it makes sense to grow the brand there,” Claxton says.
Because so many local retailers in the Baton Rouge area already carry Southern Marsh products, the company did not want to open its own store here and pose a competitive threat to its longtime local partners, Claxton says.
The new 1,700-square-foot store at The Woodlands will capitalize on the growing trend toward offering customers shopping “experiences,” Claxton says. Clerks will be called “guides” and will be trained to “educate” shoppers on the store’s products.
“It is like an Apple store for clothes,” he says. “Everything is done in on an iPad. You won’t see any cash registers.”
The expansion into physical retail locations comes as Southern Marsh—which started by manufacturing high-quality t-shirts with a distinctly Southern flair and a signature mallard logo—has grown rapidly over the past five years into other types of apparel. The company today sells lines of men’s, women’s and children’s apparel as well as outerwear, fishing wear, and accessories that include hats, blankets, towels and duffel bags.
In 2013, Valliolahi and Smith told Business Report their five-year plan was to grow company sales from $5 million to $20 million.
“They have far exceeded that,” says Claxton, who declines to provide exact revenues.
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'Veronica Mars' Most Famous Guest Stars Who You Totally Forgot Were Ever On The Show
By Kaitlin Reilly
It's no secret to any fan of the series that Veronica Mars packed a ton of famous guest stars in its short three-season run — many of whom were actually at their height of fame when the show was on. After all, this is the show that boasted Paris Hilton as one of Neptune High's signature mean girls in its very first season! (Her character's sudden disappearance was never explained, but perhaps it had something to do with another season of The Simple Life).
It makes sense why we saw so many new guest stars on the series — since Veronica Mars followed a semi-procedural format with a new mystery for Veronica to crack each week, the show had plenty of room for characters that could drop in and out of the series. But, while Veronica Mars certainly attracted major talent, some of the show's guest stars went on to become even more famous after the series. In fact, a few of them reached the peak of fame long after the show ended — and you might not remember they ever appeared on the show at all.
The list of Veronica Mars most famous guest stars includes Oscar winners, iconic directors, a Queen of the Upper East Side, and even a Breaking Bad favorite. Veronica Mars was the perfect stomping ground for these actors to explore before they made their way to bigger roles.
Here's a list of the guest stars who got huge after Veronica Mars ended:
Episode: "Meet John Smith"
Before scoring her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Fighter, Leo played the missing parent of one of Veronica's classmates. Her character came out as transgender and underwent surgery to treat her gender dysphoria.
Episode: "Driver Ed"
Smith, a huge Veronica Mars fan, appeared on a Season 2 episode of the show as a convenience store clerk — likely as a nod to his first feature Clerks. He later cast Veronica Mars actor Kyle Gallner (Beaver) in his 2011 film Red State.
Episode: "The Girl Next Door"
The Golden Globe winner for Zero Dark Thirty appeared as Veronica's neighbor who goes missing from her apartment complex.
Episode: "Versatile Toppings"
The Laguna Beach star guest starred on the series as a Neptune High cheerleader who wants her girlfriend to come out of the closet.
Episode: "Rat Saw God"
Long before he brought The Avengers together, the Buffy, the Vampire Slayer creator — whom you can credit for creating that other scrappy blonde TV heroine — played a car rental salesman on an episode of Veronica Mars. The director admits that he's still a huge fan of the series.
Episode: "Silence of the Lamb"
Before he was Breaking Bad's Jesse, Paul guest-starred on Veronica Mars as a creepy criminal nicknamed "The Worm."
Ari Graynor
The actress notorious for playing hot messes — like her character on the short-lived sitcom Bad Teacher — played the daughter of an ill-fated bus driver in Season 2 of the series.
Episode: "Return of the Kane"
Seems like Glee's Sue Sylvester was always destined to give high schooler's a hard time. She played a teacher in Season 1 of the series.
Episode: "Weevils Wobble But They Don't Go Down," "Papa's Cabin," "President Evil"
Lynch wasn't the only Glee actress to appear on the series. Agron had a three-episode arc as a student at Hearst College who frames Weevil for a fake ID scam.
Episode: "Mars Vs. Mars"
The Parks and Recreation actor played a teacher accused of sleeping with his student, who was played by...
Episodes: "Mars Vs. Mars," "A Trip to the Dentist"
Meester had a recurring role as Carrie Bishop on the series. The character briefly appears in the Veronica Mars film (her death is the catalyst for the murder-mystery within the film) but Meester was replaced by another actress in the role which, according to The Hollywood Reporter, was due to scheduling conflicts.
Images: The CW (13)
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Who's Gunner In 'The Punisher'? Frank's Old Friend Is The Key To Everything
By Drew Koch
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The first season of the Netflix Marvel spinoff The Punisher expands Frank Castle's backstory, digging deeper into that series of events that turned him into a killer. Spoilers for Episodes 1-6 ahead. That series of events involves Gunner Henderson, The Punisher's explanation for how a web of corruption in the US government ended up claiming Frank's family.
Technically, it's because of Gunner that Frank Castle’s family was killed and he morphed himself into the Punisher. Of course, Gunner isn’t some evil mastermind. Far from it. He arguably may be the hero of the series.
First, though, let’s backtrack. On the show, Gunner Henderson is portrayed by Jeb Kreager (whose past work includes Boardwalk Empire and Outsiders). Fans first see Gunner in the second episode titled, “Kandahar.” He’s introduced as a special operations soldier from Kentucky who'll be working in Frank Castle’s unit on Operation Cerberus in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Operation Cerberus is an off-the-books and highly illegal operation with a mission to find high-value targets, then interrogate (i.e. torture), and assassinate them. Viewers later learn that U.S. forces were also involved in drug trade during this mission.
Castle and his team, of course, don’t know the extent of Cerberus. They don’t know about the drug trafficking nor do they know Cerberus doesn't have Congressional approval. However, Castle has heard of Gunner before he officially introduces himself as part of his team. He noted he’s a very talented breacher (someone whose job it is to open doors with explosive charges, etc.). Gunner introduces himself as a religious man, saying that they’re all there to serve the Lord’s will. Then, he even quotes scripture (Proverbs 13:6) clearly making Castle a bit uncomfortable.
The two do become a bit closer over the course of their mission. However, Gunner realizes that what they're doing is actually wrong when he encounters agents stuffing bags of heroin into dead bodies to be shipped and sold. He then decides to be a whistleblower, using his body cam to record the torture and killing of an unarmed man.
This instance of whistleblowing was actually one of the first secrets that this show was discussing about in promotional material. “Whistleblower” is one of the terms on the redacted file-style promo poster for The Punisher that’s been out since September. The Punisher reveals that the whistleblower, although thought to be Micro by some fans, was actually Gunner. And that means that the video that Micro received when he was working as an NSA agent — the one that caused the murder of Frank Castle’s family — was all because of Gunner doing what he thought was right.
But, it isn’t all Gunner’s fault. Certainly Castle had plenty of chances to get out. But, he didn’t and it cost him his family. In speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Jon Bernthal said there’s a little Punisher in all of us. “We all go through bouts of darkness and regret and shame,” he said. “We mess up and we make mistakes, so I think to really zero in on that and to dig into that wound is what makes him interesting.”
It’s clear though that Gunner is meant to mirror Frank. He’s just another example of someone looking to right a wrong, but through other means besides murderous rage.
Gunner shows up next in the episode named after him. Castle and Micro go looking for his off-the-grid cabin to see what he knows about the video and why he made it. However, after a firefight government forces sent by Agent Orange that left Castle nearly dead himself, Gunner is killed. He dies trying to protect his friend until the end.
So, while it’s incredibly unlikely that Gunner will come back before the season's over, his story is still important. Without him taking a stand, doing what he thought was right — there would be no Punisher. However, there would also be unchallenged corruption spreading violence, death, and drugs. And while Frank exists in a world where actual superheroes live, sometimes regular people willing to take risks are the ones who should be mourned the most.
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By Kendra Hurley
It's well known that unstable housing and child welfare involvement—which includes foster care placements as well as services to prevent such placements—go hand and hand. But some argue that family shelters may actually work to reduce foster care placements among homeless families.
In the City’s family homeless shelters, about 25 percent of families have open child welfare cases, with a little over half of those families receiving services that monitor children’s safety while providing supports to their families,14 and the rest with children who have been removed to foster care.
Some of this connection between homelessness and child welfare involvement is fueled by parents behaving in ways that may be truly harmful to kids; research has established a clear link between poverty and abuse and neglect as well as harsher parenting styles.
Also significant, many parents who become homeless struggle with issues such as mental illness or substance abuse—issues that the stressors of homelessness and poverty no doubt exacerbate, and which have also been linked to abuse and neglect. As the adjacent chart from The Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness (ICPH) shows, among all New York City children in foster care, children who were taken from homeless families were nearly twice as likely to have parents who required support for issues such as mental illness compared to children who came from families where housing was not an issue.
At the same time, homeless parents are more likely than housed parents to come in contact with mandated reporters for suspected abuse and neglect, and research suggests may be judged more harshly. “Our clients in general live their lives so much in public and under so much surveillance, and living in shelter becomes just one more access point for their behavior to be noted and reported,” says Emma Alpert, a parent attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services.
But George Nashak, executive vice president of HELP USA, one of the City’s largest homeless service providers, cautions that frequent contact with mandated reporters may be a good thing for many families. When a family is in shelter, he says, child protective workers know the children are being monitored, something that “gives [child welfare services] a little bit of confidence that they can remain together,” says Nashak. “I think paradoxically being in shelter helps families stay together.”
Previously unpublished data analyzed by ICPH found that while nationwide, 10 percent of children in foster care were placed there in part due to housing issues such as homelessness, in New York City—where homeless families have a right to shelter—just 5 percent of children in foster care were placed there due to housing issues including homelessness.This suggests that for some homeless families, living in a shelter may, indeed, help to stave off foster care removals.
Source: Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness, Taken Away: The Prevalence of Homeless Children in Foster Care, February 2017
Read the full report: Adrift in NYC: Family Homelessness and the Struggle to Stay Together
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Position: General Counsel
Department: Legal
Reports to: CFX Governing Board
Posting date: April 16, 2019
The General Counsel represents the Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX) and the CFX Governing Board in all legal matters for the agency and advises the Executive Director and Staff on legal and policy matters. This position oversees the daily operations of the legal department.
Directs, plans, manages, implements and operates the Legal Department.
Advises the Board, Executive Director and staff on legal and policy issues affecting CFX. This responsibility includes providing individualized counsel and advice concerning the legal ramifications of potential and pending litigation, legislation, policy decisions, court decisions and legal opinions.
Drafts, reviews and approves a wide variety of contracts and agreements.
Provides legal services and manages legal contracts. Supervises and manages outside contract attorneys who represent CFX.
Oversees contract services for right of way acquisition and representation for eminent domain litigation.
Assists in determining case strategy, preparation of witnesses, opening and closing arguments, jury instructions, cross-examination and jury selection, as needed.
Conducts independent research requiring knowledge of state and federal laws and Agency policies and procedures.
Works closely with staff on the development of policies, procedures and standards to ensure consistency with applicable federal and state laws. Provides input on legislative issues.
Serves as the Authority Ethics Officer; pursuant to Board approval on July 24, 2009, responsible for the administration and enforcement of the Ethics policy and related procedures. Reviews and updates the Code of Ethics Policy and presents to the Board for approval at least once every two years.
Provides a detailed briefing on the Code of Ethics to new Board members.
Provides advisory opinions concerning the applicability of the Ethics Code or any provision thereof to Authority staff and Board members, as requested.
Ability to compose, review and approve an extensive amount of contracts and agreements.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with CFX Governing Board, Executive Director, Agency departments and the public.
Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, and executive orders.
Ability to communicate effectively and convey information clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
Experience with Florida’s Government-in-the-Sunshine-Law and Florida Public Records Law.
Proven ability to prioritize workload and effective delegation skills.
Knowledge of public financing.
Ability to manage and direct staff as well as outside counsel.
Ability to identify strengths and weaknesses of different approaches and theories.
Skill in conducting litigation cases, to include examining and cross-examining witnesses, summarizing a case for presentation to a judge and/or jury.
Minimum of 7-10 years prior legal experience. Management experience required.
Must be a licensed attorney in good standing with the Florida Bar.
Work environment/Physical requirements:
This position is in typical office environment with heavy computer usage.
The Central Florida Expressway Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Please submit resume and salary requirements by May 3, 2019 to careers@cfxway.com.
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https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Alleged-Houston-serial-killer-accused-of-having-a-13297671.php
Alleged Houston serial killer accused of having a shank in Harris County jail
By Brian Rogers
Updated 7:01 pm CDT, Wednesday, October 10, 2018
PHOTOS: Charged with murder
Accused serial killer Lucky Ward was allegedly caught with a shank in the Harris County jail over the weekend.
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Photo: Michael Paulsen, HC Staff / Houston Chronicle
Accused serial killer Lucky Ward — jailed for nearly a decade after being being implicated in six deaths — is facing more charges in court Thursday after allegedly being caught with a shank in the Harris County jail over the weekend.
It is not the first time 53-year-old Lucky Ward has been accused of illicit acts in the eight years that he has been behind bars awaiting trial. He is also adept at escaping his jail cell using everyday objects.
The volatile combination of a suspect who is facing the death penalty, can make a sharpened weapon and can also get out of his cell whenever he likes is worrying to jailers and courtroom staff, officials said.
“He’s considered one of our most dangerous, high-maintenance inmates,” said Jason Spencer, spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office. “He’s someone who requires constant attention, someone who’s frequently trying to agitate other inmates and staff. We’re looking forward to the day when he’s at another facility.”
Ward is expected to be arraigned Thursday by state District Judge Vanessa Velasquez on new charges that he had possession of a homemade knife. Defense attorneys and prosecutors are also expected to update the judge on the progress of the death penalty case against Ward.
Court records show that Ward, also known as Lawayne Jackson, was apparently happy to show jail guards how to get out of his jail cell.
“He demonstrated for officers how he could escape from his cell in multiple ways during a video recording,” prosecutors noted in Ward’s file. “The approximately 8-minute-long video shows a demonstration by the defendant, to officers, the multiple ways that he could escape his Harris County Jail cell if he so choose.”
The sheriff’s office has security concerns even though Ward has been in administrative segregation, a 24-hour lockdown cell, since he was arrested.
Those concerns are unwarranted, according to his lawyer who said he expects Ward to be found not guilty when the capital murder case gets to trial.
“A lot of his past has been blown out of proportion,” said veteran defense attorney Allen Isbell. “We’re fighting the charges.”
Isbell said prosecutors may be able to convince jurors that Ward killed one person, but not all the people they are claiming.
“The evidence is very weak on some of those murders,” he said. “When they amended the indictment to seek three murders, that just increased their burden of proof. If they can’t prove all three, they can’t find him guilty of capital murder, that’s our position.”
Isbell acknowledged Ward showed deputies how he was able to escape his cell but has never actually tried to get out. Instead, he volunteered to show authorities how to do it.
“Hopefully, he helped society by having the jail improve their system of locking down the prisoners,” Isbell said.
Ward’s mental health may be part of the trial but is not expected to be part of the defense, Isbell said. At least three clinical psychologists and a physician’s assistant who have treated Ward over the past 25 years are expected to testify against him.
If Ward is convicted, Isbell said, he plans to call at least three mental health professionals to show that Ward can be trusted in prison and should not be executed. So, neither mental competency or sanity is expected play a part in the trial.
“We’re not looking at a mad dog/insane person defense. That’s not our defense,” he said.
Prosecutors, however, remain convinced they can win a death penalty conviction, in part because Ward is so dangerous.
“How dangerous is Lucky Ward?” said Dane Schiller, spokes for the district attorney’s office. “He is charged with murdering three people, and we are seeking his execution to forever protect society—including anyone in prison—from his rage.”
Schiller and prosecutors Colleen Barnett and Joshua Phanco all declined to comment further.
In Texas, prosecutors can seek the death penalty if a suspect kills two people in the same course of conduct, and in Ward’s case the prosecution is intent on proving that he killed three people in 2010.
His alleged victims are Carlos Rodriguez, a 40-year-old transgender woman who was known in the community as “Gypsy” on Sept. 13. Police found the body of another victim, Reita Long, 52, on steps behind the chancery of the Archdiocese of Houston-Galveston near the Co-Cathederal of the Sacred Heart in downtown Houston on Sept. 30. Carol Flood, 62, was found laying near the stairwell behind the previous location of the downtown YMCA in the 1600 block of Louisiana on Oct. 10.
Police were able to put together a DNA profile that implicated Ward, who had been incarcerated in the past.
Houston police detectives have said he is also a suspect in the 2010 deaths of Myra Ical, a 51-year-old transgender woman found near a trash receptacle in Montrose on Jan. 18 and Raquel A. Mundy, 24, who was found in a field in the East End on June 18 of that year.
Prosecutors have said in court records that he is also a suspect in the 1985 slaying of Birdell Louis, a Houston woman who was strangled.
Details of those additional three deaths may be aired in the punishment phase of the death penalty trial if Ward is convicted.
Although he has been set for trial at least twice, his case is pending. He has gone through two other teams of defense lawyers that have backed out of his case, and there have been several prosecutors assigned, then taken off the case.
The concern voiced by authorities highlights not just the backlog of court cases that continues to pile up because of limited courtrooms after Hurricane Harvey, but also the enhanced security needs of inmates who have been in jail so long that that they can manipulate the system.
At least one jail guard was suspended for three days in 2014 for not handcuffing Ward when he was let out of his cell to go the recreation room. Ward apparently ran away from the guard and stabbed another inmate suspected of capital murder, according to disciplinary records.
Ward has been in the jail for eight years, which is a long time even for death penalty cases, which generally take years to get to trial. But it is not that unusual when the cases involve multiple deaths that are true whodunits. The mostly homeless or impoverished victims were generally found dead in dark alleys across downtown. In fact, there is still DNA being tested from hair found on a victim who was killed in 2010.
In general, both sides want more testing because prosecutors hope to build their case and the defense hopes it will implicate someone else. And neither side wants the case to come back on appeal because a new DNA test proves innocence.
Brian Rogers covers Houston crime and courts. You can email him at brian.rogers@chron.com and follow him on Twitter at @brianjrogers.
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Four-year-old asks Belgian king to block euthanasia of children
Montreal, Canada, Feb 5, 2014 / 01:59 pm (CNA).- As Belgium legislators move forward with a proposed law to allow euthanasia for children, a 4-year-old girl from Canada is asking the King of Belgium to refuse to sign the legislation.
“Please do not sign the Euthanasia Law, for the sake of the children,” Jessica Saba says in a video posted to YouTube Feb. 1. Within four days, the video has received more than 12,000 views.
Saba was born in Montreal in May 2009 with a severe heart deformity consisting of a completely blocked valve and an underdeveloped ventricle. She would likely have died after a few hours had she not undergone a series of heart operations at Montreal Children’s Hospital.
The surgeries were able to unblock Saba’s heart valve after six days, and her defective ventricle gradually began to develop.
The girl’s parents argue that if she had been born in a country that permitted the euthanasia of children, she could have been killed.
Legal euthanasia in Belgium began in 2002 for suffering patients of at least 18 years of age who are mentally sound and give their consent. In December 2013, the country recorded its first case of euthanasia for individuals who were not suffering from a terminal illness, but were going blind.
The Belgian Senate recently passed a bill that would extend euthanasia to terminally ill children and dementia patients.
The government of Quebec is currently considering its own law on euthanasia, similar to the original one adopted in Belgium more than a decade ago. The Quebec Human Rights Commission has recommended that euthanasia be expanded to include children.
Saba’s mother, Marisa, believes that such a euthanasia law could lead parents of sick or handicapped children to “give up too early.” What parents and their children need, she said, is to be surrounded by love and support for life, not euthanasia.
The young girl’s father, psychiatrist Doctor Paul Saba, has issued a personal appeal to the King of Belgium to reject the proposal to allow euthanasia for children in that country.
“There are millions of children born every year with congenital malformations,” he observes in the video.
Dr. Saba said that with today’s palliative treatment, there is no need for any patient to suffer, even at the end of their life.
He also noted that if the practice is normalized in Belgium, there is a greater danger that it may spread to other countries.
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Gay Solider Dan Choi is Formally Discharged
July 23, 2010 / 2:01 AM / CBS/AP
A gay soldier from California says he's been honorably discharged from the Army National Guard under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Lt. Dan Choi, an Iraq war veteran from Orange County, was discharged from the New York Army National Guard on Thursday. He called the move "infuriating and painful."
Choi announced he was gay on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" in March of 2009 and was "dismissed" by the Army in May of that year. He had been waiting for military officials to decide whether he would be discharged.
"Don't ask, don't tell" prohibits the military from asking about the sexual orientation of service members but requires discharge of those who acknowledge being gay or are discovered to be engaging in homosexual activity.
Choi is not the first servicemember to be dismissed because of his sexuality under the Obama administration, but his dismissal stands out because of his noted skills. Choi is an infantry platoon leader in the New York National Guard who is fluent in Arabic. He graduated West Point and served in Iraq.
As founding member of Knights Out, an organization for openly gay, lesbisan, bisexual, and transgender West Point alumni and their supporters, Choi advocates allowing openly gay people to serve in the military.
"After 11 years since beginning my journey at West Point and after 17 months of serving openly as an infantry officer this is both an infuriating and painful announcement," Choi said in a written statement Friday. "But my service continues. To all those veterans who have endured similar trials and injustices or prematurely ended their military service because of the unjust policy: our fight has only begun."
Watch video of Choi's March 19, 2009 appearance on MSNBC:
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NASA to land first woman on moon as part of upcoming Artemis mission; looks to Mars next
By Brian Pascus
NASA wants to send first woman to the moon
NASA announced that it plans to land the first female ever on the moon in 2024. According to NASA, it has been 45 years since U.S. astronauts set foot on the moon, but the upcoming Artemis mission aims to establish a sustainable human presence on the Moon by 2028 with the "first woman and the next man," greeting the lunar surface.
During the original Apollo missions, multiple American male astronauts stepped foot on the Moon, the last occurring during the Apollo 17 in 1972. Sally Ride became the first American woman to enter space in 1983 on the STS-7 mission.
Artemis aims to chart a radically new path for the nation's space exploration. NASA's Artemis mission seeks to "demonstrate new technological advancements and lay the foundation for private companies to build a lunar economy." Named after the twin sister of Apollo in Greek mythology, Artemis will have humans explore the moon's South Pole surface for the first time ever and lay the groundwork for human missions to Mars this century.
To this end, the space agency is building the new Orion spacecraft as well as the highly-advanced Space Launch System (SLS), which aim to propel heavier payloads off the Earth's surface and send humans into space for longer durations than previously achieved. NASA will also build a small spaceship, Gateway, that will orbit the moon and enable easier access to and from Earth.
An artist's impression of the Gateway lunar landing staging base in orbit around the moon. NASA
In a promotional video about the upcoming projects, NASA scientists explain that millions of tons of water-ice were discovered beneath the moon's surface in 2009. NASA believes this ice can be extracted by machines and converted into either drinking water or oxygen for astronauts, or it can be separated from hydrogen and used as lunar surface rocket fuel.
While there had been previous calls by politicians for U.S. astronauts to return to the moon, NASA's impetus to once again create a lunar presence with astronauts gained new traction under the Trump administration. In May 2019, President Trump added $1.6 billion to NASA's $21 billion 2020 budget to kickstart plans to return humans to the moon.
"President Donald Trump has asked NASA to accelerate our plans to return to the Moon and to land humans on the surface again by 2024," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a statement. "We will go with innovative new technologies and systems to explore more locations across the surface than was ever thought possible. This time, when we go to the Moon, we will stay. And then we will use what we learn on the Moon to take the next giant leap — sending astronauts to Mars."
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Deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history
Deadliest U.S. hurricanes
When a hurricane bears down, there's only so much that can be done against the destruction and loss of life that the storm's heavy winds and rains can cause.
Here are the recorded U.S. hurricanes that have claimed the most lives, according to the National Weather Service.
Credit: Emily Kask/AFP/Getty Images
30. Hurricane Floyd
Hurricane Floyd killed 56 people in September 1999. The storm, which hit North Carolina as a Category 2 before making its way up to New England, led to the third largest evacuation in U.S. history.
Here, a North Carolina resident walks in the surf next to a beach house that was destroyed.
Credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images
29. Hurricane Carol
Hurricane Carol killed 60 people in August 1954. The storm particularly affected New England as one of its worst storms on record.
This photo shows houses submerged and boats pushed up on shore in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Credit: DCG/AP
28. Great Atlantic hurricane
This hurricane killed 64 people in September 1944. Here, people struggle to fight its winds in New York City.
At its peak, the hurricane reached maximum sustained winds of 145 mph.
The practice of giving major storms a name did not become regular until 1953.
Credit: John Lent/AP
27. Hurricane Betsy
Betsy left 75 people dead in September 1965.
The storm battered Florida and the Gulf Coast and was the first in the Atlantic basin to cause more than $1 billion in damage.
Highway 90, between New Orleans and Gulfport, Mississippi, shown here, was blocked by debris.
Credit: Jack Thornell/AP
26. Hurricane Hazel
Hazel killed 95 people in October 1954. The storm made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on the North Carolina-South Carolina border, shown here.
It already had left 400 people dead in Haiti and went on to kill 81 in Canada.
Credit: Anonymous/AP
25. Hurricane Agnes
Hurricane Agnes killed 122 people across eight states in the eastern part of the country in June 1972. At the time, Agnes was the costliest hurricane to date.
Here, people in Pennsylvania flee their flooded homes by boat.
Credit: Paul Vathis/AP
24. Cedar Keys hurricane
The Cedar Keys hurricane killed 130 people in September 1896. It made landfall in Florida, but brought destruction up the entire East Coast.
This photo shows residents of Fernandina, Florida, a coastal town that was devastated by the storm.
Credit: State Archive of Florida
23. 1906 Mississippi hurricane
The 1906 Mississippi hurricane left 134 people dead after it hit Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida in September of that year.
Pensacola, Florida, pictured here, suffered the most damage.
22. Indianola hurricane
The Indianola hurricane killed 150 people in August 1886.
It was the second major hurricane to hit the bustling Gulf Coast town of Indianola, Texas, in 11 years. The town was later abandoned.
Credit: Calhoun County Museum
21. Florida Keys hurricane
The Florida Keys hurricane left 164 people dead in October 1906.
The Florida East Coast Railway, pictured, suffered extensive damage and lost dozens of workers.
Credit: State Library and Archives of Florida
20. 1875 Indianola hurricane
The 1875 hurricane that hit Indianola, Texas, left 176 people dead. The town rebuilt after the storm only to be hit by another major hurricane in 1886, which wiped out all but two of the town's buildings.
19. 1898 Georgia hurricane
The 1898 Georgia hurricane killed 179 people.
Brunswick, pictured, was most affected; a 16-foot surge was recorded.
Credit: Georgia Emergency Management Agency
18. Hurricane Diane
Diane killed 184 people when it hit the East Coast in August 1955.
Here, high tide caused by Diane send a high spray into the air as it pounds the jetties at the mouth of St. Johns River in Florida.
Credit: Jim Kerlin/AP
17. 1938 New England hurricane
The 1938 New England hurricane left 256 people dead. It is still the most powerful and deadliest hurricane in New England's recorded history.
Island Park, Rhode Island, pictured here, was destroyed by a massive 30- to 40-foot wave caused by the storm.
Credit: NOAA
16. Hurricane Camille
Camille was the second-most intense tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in the U.S. The storm killed 256 people when it barreled through Louisiana and Mississippi.
Here, survivors of the storm survey the wreckage of their house, in which two other people died.
15. 1915 Galveston hurricane
The 1915 Galveston hurricane killed 275 people. It made landfall in Texas as what would now be considered a Category 4 storm.
Credit: The University of Houston Digital Library
14. 1915 New Orleans hurricane
The 1915 New Orleans hurricane made landfall in September of that year and killed 275 people.
This photo shows the damage the storm caused to the Poland Station streetcar barn.
Credit: New Orleans photo
13. 1919 Florida Keys hurricane
The 1919 Florida Keys hurricane moved slowly over Florida and South Texas in September, killing 287 people.
Credit: Public domain
12. 1909 Grand Isle hurricane
The 1909 Grand Isle hurricane caused the most damage in Louisiana and Mississippi and left 350 people dead.
This photo shows what remains of a house in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Credit: New Orleans Daily Picayune
11. Great Miami hurricane
The Great Miami hurricane killed 372 people and left thousands homeless in September 1926.
10. Last Island hurricane
The Last Island hurricane killed 400 people when it swept over the Louisiana coast in August 1856.
The island itself was so badly battered that it was reduced to several sandbars.
Credit: USGS
9. Labor Day hurricane
The Great Labor Day hurricane killed 208 people when it battered Florida in September 1935.
The storm was, at the time, the most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the U.S.
8. Hurricane Audrey
Hurricane Audrey left 416 people dead in Louisiana and Texas in June 1957.
Many boats were tossed ashore or sunk during the storm.
Credit: Randy Taylor/AP
7. Georgia/South Carolina hurricane
The Georgia/South Carolina hurricane of August 1881 was particularly destructive because it made landfall at high tide. At least 700 people were killed in the storm.
6. Sea Islands hurricane
The Sea Islands hurricane killed at least 1,000 people when it struck Savannah, Georgia, with a powerful storm surge in August 1893.
Credit: American Red Cross
5. Chenière Caminada hurricane
This hurricane obliterated the island of Chenière Caminada, Louisiana, in October 1893. Only one home was left in its wake. The storm killed at least 1,100 people.
4. Hurricane Katrina
Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005. The National Weather Service put the number of deaths directly attributable to the storm at about 1,200, while other widely cited reports topped 1,800.
The greatest devastation occurred in New Orleans and other Louisiana communities, but Mississippi, Alabama and Florida were also impacted. The destruction was mostly due to flooding from storm surge and levee failures.
Here, authorities comb through a devastated New Orleans for bodies.
Credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images
3. 1928 Okeechobee hurricane
At least 2,500 people died when the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane swept over Puerto Rico and the southern United States. A great number of houses and buildings were swept away in the storm.
2. Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico as a Category 4 on September 20, 2017, causing widespread damage and power outages that lasted for months. After initially reporting that 64 people were killed, the island officially raised the death toll to 2,975 in August 2018, based on the results of a new study.
Credit: Carlos Giusti/AP
1. Great Galveston Hurricane
A large part of Galveston, Texas, was reduced to rubble, as shown in this photo, after being hit by a surprise hurricane on September 8, 1900.
At least 8,000 people were killed, and some estimates range as high as 12,000, making it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. More than 10,000 people were left homeless.
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Actress Emmy Rossum arrives at The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and InStyle Presents "A Night Of Firsts" at Cecconi's Restaurant on Dec. 8, 2011, in Los Angeles.
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Emmy Rossum stars in the hit "Showtime" comedy "Shameless." She's seen here with actor Justin Chatwin. Rossum plays Fiona Gallagher on the show, one of six children whose father is an alcoholic.
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Emmy Rossum attends New Year's Eve 2012 with Carson Daly in Times Square on Dec. 31, 2011, in New York.
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Emmy Rossum arrives at The Hollywood Reporter's Annual "Power 100: Women In Entertainment Breakfast" at The Beverly Hills Hotel on Dec. 7, 2011, in Beverly Hills.
Emmy Rossum and Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz. The "Phantom of the Opera" star revealed to USA Today on Nov. 24, 2010, that she and Duritz, split, but remain "very close friends." The pair were first romantically linked in 2009, shortly after Rossum called it quits with her then-husband, music executive Justin Segal.
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Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas, Andre Braugher and Kevin Dillon pose at the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' "Poseidon" at Grauman's Chinese Theater on May 10, 2006, in Los Angeles.
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Emmy Rossum attends the American Museum of Natural History's Spectacular Museum Dance in New York on April 15, 2010.
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Actress Emmy Rossum waves to fans at the world premiere of "Dragonball Evolution," the Hollywood adaptation of the famed Japanese cartoon series, in Tokyo, March 10, 2009.
Actress Emmy Rossum arrives at the T-Mobile Sidekick LX Launch Party in Los Angeles on May 14, 2009.
Emmy Rossum poses on the press line at the Hollywood Life 5th Annual Hollywood Style Awards in Los Angeles on Oct. 12, 2008.
Emmy Rossum arrives at the PiNKiTUDE launch party benefiting the Susan G. Komen breast cancer organization in Los Angeles on Aug. 14, 2008.
Emmy Rossum arrives at The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment breakfast honoring Jodie Foster held at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Dec. 4, 2007, in Beverly Hills.
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Emmy Rossum walks the runway during General Motors' annual celebrity fashion show "ten" at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, Feb. 20, 2007.
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Emmy Rossum attends a special screening of Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Good German" at the Time Warner Center on Dec.1, 2006, in New York City.
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Emmy Rossum attends The Fashion Group International's 23rd Annual Night of Stars at Cipriani, on Oct. 26, 2006, in New York.
Emmy Rossum, cast member of the new film "Poseidon," smiles during a television interview during the premiere of the film on May 10, 2006, in Los Angeles.
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Mike Vogel, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas, Jacinda Barrett, Jimmy Bennett and Richard Dreyfuss in Warner Bros. Pictures' "Poseidon."
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Emmy Rossum arrives for the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 16, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Emmy Rossum, who stars in the movie version of the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical, "Phantom of the Opera," arrives at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual installation luncheon and announcement of charitable donations on July 20, 2005, in Beverly Hills.
Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler in the 2004 film, "The Phantom of the Opera."
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Emmy Rossum in the 2004 film, "The Phantom of the Opera."
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Country Life February 13, 2014
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Today sees the launch onto the market of one of the most remarkable houses to be found anywhere in Essex-if only you knew where to look. For sale through Jackson-Stops & Staff (01245 467468) and Savills (020-7409 8877) at a guide price of £9.5 million, imposing Ripley Grange stands on high ground on the southern edge of the forest village of Theydon Bois, overlooking miles of undulating open countryside to the south-east and protected to the north by Gaunt’s Wood deer sanctuary and to the west by Epping Forest’s 6,000 acres of ancient woodland.
The site was chosen with care in the 1920s by millionaire industrialist Charles Frederick Clark, whose fortune derived from the manufacture of carbon paper and typewriter ribbons at his Caribonum factory in nearby Leyton. The factory, which opened in 1918, was one of many iconic industrial buildings designed in the 1920s and 1930s by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners, and Clark chose the same architects to produce the plans for his dream country house. It was to be a perfect reproduction of a grand Tudor mansion, inspired by Clark’s meticulous study of great English houses such as Hampton Court, and even the most expert of architectural historians would find it hard to spot the difference between the craftsmanship that shines through every inch of Ripley Grange and that of the historic mansions that inspired it.
Ripley Grange, £9.5m, Jackson-Stops & Staff and Savills
Building began in 1928 and took 15 months to complete, although Clark continued to alter, improve and perfect the property until 1940; its 17.8 acres of spectacular gardens and grounds were laid out over the same period. Yet Ripley Grange is no mere Tudor pastiche, but a building of remarkable harmony that reflects its creator’s eclectic range of passions and interests.
The library is a replica of Cardinal Wolsey’s study in Hampton Court Palace; the grand proportions of the Great Hall and the main reception hall further express Clark’s admiration for the exuberance of Tudor architecture; and the chapel and its organ-which Clark loved to play -reflect his association with the nonconformist Plymouth Brethren, who enjoyed considerable support among the intellectual hierarchy of his day.
The entrance hall
There is something about Ripley Grange that evidently appeals to high achievers and, in 1954, the house was sold for the first time, to a Greek shipping magnate. Its present owner, Mark Anderson, the founder and chairman of Chelmsford-based builder and developer the Anderson Group, vividly remembers the day he first saw the house. ‘I was born locally, but never knew it existed until one day, when I was about 18, a friend asked me to go and see a Ford Capri that he was thinking of buying. It was being sold by someone living in the cottage at Ripley Grange and I remember coming up the drive and seeing the house in the background. Little did I know that it would be my family home one day.’
It took some time before Mr Anderson could think about buying a serious country house in his native Essex, but, eventually, in 2000, he contacted several leading agents to see what was on offer. At the time, the Grange had been on the market for a while, but Mr Anderson had no hesitation in bidding for it there and then and the deal was completed within a matter of weeks. With considerable sensitivity, he has since brought Ripley Grange into the 21st century at the same time as respecting the integrity of the original building.
In the time of both previous owners, Ripley Grange was very much an ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ house run by a retinue of servants, whose domain was the old-fashioned kitchen area and the usual cramped servants’ quarters on the second floor. The Andersons have transformed the various kitchen rooms into one bright, family-friendly area, opened up the second floor by adding a new staircase and additional bathrooms and built on a state-of-the art indoor swimming pool and leisure complex that has provided endless hours of fun for adults and children alike.
Today, a revitalised Ripley Grange offers more than 15,000sq ft of magnificent but manageable living space, including the grand reception hall, four fine reception rooms, a library, a kitchen/breakfast room, nine bedrooms and five bathrooms.
Having seen the first of ‘the London young’ venturing out into Essex after a prolonged absence, joint selling agent Jeremy Smallman of Jackson-Stops is hopeful that one of the new generation of City high-flyers will take over the reins at Ripley Grange.
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Smartphone app helps alcoholics stay sober: Study
Mar 26, 2014 at 12:01 AM Mar 26, 2014 at 10:00 PM
CHICAGO (AP) - A smartphone app for recovering alcoholics that includes a panic button and sounds an alert when they get too close to taverns helped keep some on the wagon, researchers who developed the tool found.
CHICAGO (AP) � A smartphone app for recovering alcoholics that includes a panic button and sounds an alert when they get too close to taverns helped keep some on the wagon, researchers who developed the tool found.
The sober app studied joins a host of others that serve as electronic shoulder angels, featuring a variety of options for trying to prevent alcoholics and drug addicts from relapsing.
Adults released from in-patient alcoholism treatment centers who got free sober smartphones reported fewer drinking days and more overall abstinence than those who got the usual follow-up support.
The results were based on patients' self-reporting on whether they resumed drinking, a potential limitation. Still, addiction experts say the immediacy of smartphone-based help could make them a useful tool in fighting relapse.
Mark Wiitala, 32, took part in the study and says the app helped save his life. He said the most helpful feature allowed him to connect to a network of peers who'd gone through the same recovery program. The app made them immediately accessible for an encouraging text or phone call when he needed an emotional boost.
"It's an absolutely amazing tool," said Wiitala, of Middlesex County, Mass. He said he's continued to use it even though the study ended.
The study was published online Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.
It involved 271 adults followed for a year after in-patient treatment for alcoholism at one of several U.S. centers in the Midwest and Northeast. They were randomly assigned to get a sober smartphone app for eight months plus usual follow-up treatment � typically referral to a self-help group � or usual follow-up alone.
The app includes a feature asking periodic questions by text or voicemail about how patients are doing. If enough answers seem worrisome, the system automatically notifies a counselor who can then offer help.
The panic button can be programmed to notify peers who are nearest to the patient when the button is pushed. It also offers links to relaxation techniques to calm the patient while waiting for help.
"We've been told that makes a big difference," said David Gustafson, the lead author and director of the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He's among developers of the app, nicknamed A-CHESS after the center. Gustafson said it is being commercially developed and is not yet available.
Differences in abstinence from drinking between the two groups didn't show up until late in the study. At eight months, 78 percent of the smartphone users reported no drinking within the previous 30 days, versus 67 percent of the other patients. At 12 months, those numbers increased slightly in the smartphone group and decreased slightly in the others.
Smartphone patients also had fewer "risky" drinking days per month than the others. The study average was almost 1� days for the smartphone group versus almost three days for the others. Risky drinking was defined as having more than four drinks over two hours for men and more than three drinks for women. One drink was a 12-ounce bottle of beer, 5-ounce glass of wine, or 1.5-ounce shot of liquor.
The results for smartphone users were comparable to what has been seen with standard follow-up counseling or anti-addiction medication, said Daniel Falk a scientist-administrator at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which helped pay for the study.
He noted that alcohol abuse affects about 18 million Americans and that only about 25 percent who get treatment are able to remain abstinent for at least a year afterward.
Scientists are looking at new ways to try to improve those statistics.
"There is increasing excitement regarding technology-based tools in substance use treatment, prevention and education," said Dr. Gail Basch, director of the addiction medicine program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
Basch, who wasn't involved in the study, said proven methods for helping prevent relapse include patient monitoring and support from family and peers.
"A stand-alone mobile app may not be the answer, but one can see how it could fit in nicely," she said. "A real-time tool, as well as reminders throughout the day, could be very helpful for a recovering brain."
JAMA Psychiatry: http://jamapsychiatry.com
Follow AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner at http://www.twitter.com/LindseyTanner
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Disabled BBC weathermen? Bring back the bouncing dwarf, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail
Today’s edition of You Couldn’t Make It Up comes courtesy of the BBC, which is advertising for disabled weather forecasters, no experience necessary.
‘Do you want to share your passion for the weather by presenting weather bulletins? Do you have a disability?
‘The BBC does not currently have any weather presenters who are disabled and we are actively seeking to improve on-screen diversity.’
Under the sub-heading ‘The Ideal Candidate’, the recruitment advert, on the BBC’s website, says: ‘You do not need to be an expert or to have a qualification in meteorology.’
You might have thought that a complete lack of any relevant expertise or qualifications might be a bit of a drawback for anyone planning a career as a weather forecaster. But in the brave new world of the BBC, ability to actually do the job comes a distant second to having the right politics, gender, skin colour, sexuality, religion or disability.
The Corporation is obsessed with quotas — except at senior management level, which consists almost exclusively of white, predominantly-male, middle-class, Oxbridge-educated Guardianistas.
They salve their own consciences and shore up their lavishly-rewarded, privileged positions by imposing strict ‘diversity’ targets on the lower orders, even if that means hammering square pegs into round holes.
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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Get your tickets for Independence Day! If we ever shake the yoke of the EU we should mark it with our own national holiday 04/07/19
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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Nurseries are replacing the naughty step with a 'thinking cloud' cushion. Maybe they should whack the kids with it instead 27/06/19
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The treatment of Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds, coupled with the behaviour of their neighbours, shows we are becoming a banana republic 24/06/19
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Now they are changing the rules over disability Blue Badges, I need to do a Larry David and p-p-p-pick up a p-p-parking p-p-permit... 17/06/19
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Before the usual suspects start squealing with confected outrage, let me make it clear for the umpteenth time that I have no problem with broadcasting organisations reflecting the audience they are supposed to be serving.
I’ve written before about my time at London Weekend Television in the mid-Nineties, when my executive producer Trevor Phillips was about the only black face in the building not pushing a broom or working in the canteen.
Things have improved immeasurably over the past 20 years, both on-camera and behind the scenes.
When I worked for the BBC, there were plenty of people with physical handicaps employed there. But they got those jobs because they were talented engineers, producers, computer wizards, or whatever. All of them were hired for their abilities, not because of their disabilities.
The BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue, currently based in Washington, is a talented political journalist, with years of experience, who just happens to be blind.
Ade ADEpitan and Arthur Williams are part of the Channel 4 Paralympics team because they are polished presenters with a background in competitive sport, not because they’re in wheelchairs.
Taking somebody on simply because they are disabled smacks of the worst kind of tokenism. It’s insulting to those people who have bothered to learn their trade.
What message does this advert send to, say, a girl from a Chinese, Nigerian or White British background, come to that, who has spent three years at university obtaining a meteorology degree and hopes to forge a career as a BBC weather presenter?
Must she forget about it because she’s not only over-qualified, she’s also able-bodied? That’s the problem with the ‘diversity’ agenda. There’s an ever-shifting hierarchy of victimhood.
Does sexuality trump ethnicity? At the moment, gays seem to be seriously over-represented in a number of areas, including weather forecasting. Should Muslims be promoted ahead of homosexuals, or Afro-Caribbean women ahead of heterosexual white men with disabilities?
And (don’t get me started) why are there so many dopey birds wittering on about football and rugby, especially on the BBC? At this rate, it won’t be long before Match Of The Day is introduced by a paraplegic Somali transsexual in a burka.
Look, I’m all in favour of equal opportunities. Everyone should be able to make the most of their talents and ambitions, regardless of their background.
There are still obvious areas of employment where the cards seem to be stacked against visible minorities. For instance, professional football club owners remain reluctant to hire Black British managers — no matter how distinguished their playing careers.
But there’s a world of difference between a level playing field and a system which disregards ability and hard-earned qualifications in favour of candidates who tick the right political boxes.
This latest advert is straight out of the BBC’s own, self-parodying series W1A. A recent episode featured a Muslim weatherman with a full Islamic beard who had only been hired to keep the diversity watchdog happy. When he discovers they’re more interested in his beard than his brains, he’s absolutely horrified and threatens to walk out.
Actually, when it comes to promoting vulnerable minorities in the field of weather forecasting, the BBC is a long way behind the game. Twenty years ago, L!VE TV, the cable channel run by Kelvin MacKenzie, featured a weather map fronted by a dwarf called Rusty.
Because of his restricted growth, Rusty couldn’t reach above Birmingham, so whenever he had to discuss the forecast for Scotland and Northern England he would bounce up and down on a mini-trampoline — until one day he fell off and almost broke his neck while attempting to point to a cold front over Aberdeen.
Having said that, Rusty’s forecasts — which didn’t change from one week to the next — were no less accurate than those of the BBC.
For instance, when I set out for Lord’s last Saturday morning the local BBC website was predicting warm, dry weather. Before the lunch interval, it had turned bitterly cold, the floodlights were on and the match was held up for two hours because of rain.
The ‘experts’ ask us to believe them when they insist the Earth will melt in 2050 because of global warming, but they can’t even tell us with any degree of certainty what’s going to happen today.
So perhaps the BBC’s enlightened new recruitment policy makes sense. They might just as well hire a disabled weatherman with no qualifications.
He couldn’t do much worse.
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, ONLY THE AMERICANS GET GOING
The only surprise about the FIFA story is not that football’s ruling body is riddled with corruption from top to bottom, it’s that finally some people have had their collars felt. And for that we can thank not the British or European authorities, but the Americans.
The aggressive U.S. prosecutorial system can produce its own miscarriages of justice. But at least they’re not afraid to go after powerful vested interests.
Look at the number of crooked bankers behind bars in America following various financial scandals, compared with the reluctance of the authorities here to bring any charges.
On this side of the Atlantic, our Government is either complacent in the face of wholesale wrongdoing by wealthy institutions — or so close to them that it prefers to turn a blind eye.
The EU itself is as rotten as FIFA, just like all over-blown, self-serving supra-national organisations, including the UN.
Fortunately, because FIFA affiliates are based in Miami and money was allegedly laundered through U.S. banks, the Americans have been able to assert jurisdiction. Thank goodness they have the moral courage and firepower to act, even though FIFA’s crimes have minimal impact in the U.S.
The same goes for natural and humanitarian disasters, where the Americans are always first on the scene with aid.
If ever ISIS is to be confronted and destroyed, that will fall to the Americans, too. Already there’s a head of steam building up in the U.S. which insists they can’t just sit back and watch these barbarians rape and slaughter their way across the Middle East and North Africa.
They know the West is next. The ‘sophisticated’ European Left may have a visceral and irrational hatred of America.
Yet without the U.S. they’d all be speaking German. Probably inside a concentration camp.
OK, so not all America’s recent interventions have ended well. But they began from the best of intentions. And when push comes to shove, America remains the world’s last best hope.
Who else you gonna call — Vlad Putin?
It’s no good expecting Europe to do anything about ISIS — any more than they were prepared to take down FIFA.
A MINUTE'S SILENCE FOR DESMOND THE DUCK
Taking their lead from last week’s candlelit vigil for Bessie the cow in Northumberland, villagers in Somerset are holding a funeral for a duck.
A drake called Desmond, who lived in a pond in Compton Martin for 25 years, was killed by a fox this week, leaving only a pile of feathers behind.
The church flag will be flown at half-mast and locals will hold a wake in the village pub, where they intend to drink whisky laced with duck eggs.
This animal sentimentalism is getting completely out of hand. Where’s it all going to end?
Today, it’s a wake for a drake. I dread to think what’ll happen if someone runs over a lamb in the next few days.
There’ll be no stopping the Portashrine crowd.
Coming soon: National Weep For A Sheep Week.
Ed Miliband was conspicuous by his absence from the Commons chamber during the Queen’s Speech.
He’s only been sighted a couple of times since Labour’s crushing defeat. Once on a plane from Ibiza, another time outside an organic cafe in North London. Where has he vanished to?
Mail reader Don Spurgeon has tracked him down and has sent me this picture he took on holiday last week.
It appears Mister Ed is now working as a barman in Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus.
From the tea-time quiz show Pointless, BBC1 on Tuesday. One round was on famous assassinations from history.
For instance, who was killed by John Wilkes Booth in Washington D.C, in 1865?
You get the gist.
Presenter Alexander Armstrong: ‘Who was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas?’
Dopey bird: ‘Was it J.R.?’
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Valencia teacher suspected of…
Valencia teacher suspected of ‘inappropriate contact’ with student, more victims sought
PUBLISHED: March 26, 2014 at 7:54 pm | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 7:50 am
VALENCIA >> A 35-year-old teacher at Legacy Academy School in Valencia was arrested Wednesday for allegedly having inappropriate contact with a student.
Carl Astrera, of Panorama City, was booked at the sheriff’s Santa Clarita Valley station and held in lieu of $20,000 bail, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff’s officials said the alleged inappropriate conduct appeared to have occurred over the past 18 months.
Since Astrera has worked at the school for a number of years, investigators said they believe there may be additional victims. Anyone with information was asked to call the sheriff’s Special Victims Bureau at (877) 710- 5273.
LAPD officer could not walk away from homeless woman and granddaughter on streets of North Hills – Daily News
Comic-Con 2019: 5 memorable moments from opening day – Daily News
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City seeks volunteers for North King's Town Secondary Plan community working group
The City of Kingston is seeking six community volunteers to be part of a working group that will help guide development of a secondary plan for the North King's Town area – the Inner Harbour and Old Industrial areas just north of downtown.
To be developed over the next two years, the plan will support the revitalization and redevelopment of this significant portion of Kingston's urban core.
"We value the knowledge and experience of our community volunteers and how they help make Kingston a smart and livable city. This is a great opportunity to become more deeply involved in shaping the future of this key area of the city," says John Bolognone, city clerk.
Residents, business owners, property owners and/or representatives from local community groups and non-profit organizations are all invited to participate in the North King's Town Secondary Plan community working group.
Apply to participate by May 13 at 4:30 p.m. at www.CityofKingston.ca/committees or at the city clerk's office at City Hall, 216 Ontario St.
Newcomers with permanent resident status and who have lived in Kingston for at least a year are welcome to apply to volunteer on a committee, thanks to a recent change in the eligibility requirements. Applicants must also be 18 years or older and live or own property in Kingston.
The City of Kingston provides municipal services to 125,000 residents living in this visually stunning, historic city, often ranked one of the best places to live in Canada. In 2014, it was named a Top 7 Smart Community by the Intelligent Community Forum. Kingston is focusing on being smart and livable as it pursues its vision to become Canada's most sustainable city. We focus on environmental responsibility, social equity, economic health and cultural vitality - - ensuring that today's decisions don't compromise our future. Please visit www.CityofKingston.ca and join the conversation on social media.
Media contact: For more information contact the communications department at 613-546-4291, ext. 2300.
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Other view: The undocumented immigrants Donald Trump doesn't rant about
For every immigrant gang member, there are countless stories of undocumented immigrants who willingly sacrifice for America
Other view: The undocumented immigrants Donald Trump doesn't rant about For every immigrant gang member, there are countless stories of undocumented immigrants who willingly sacrifice for America Check out this story on clarionledger.com: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/editorials/2018/05/23/undocumented-immigrants-donald-trump-doesnt-rant/636275002/
USA Today Published 8:55 a.m. CT May 23, 2018
President Donald Trump referred to MS-13 members as animals and said he will continue to do so, despite backlash. Some congressional members say his remarks are offensive. While others say they are warranted when referring to violent criminals. (May 17) AP
Marines naturalized as U.S. citizens in Triangle, Va., in 2014.(Photo: Michael Reynolds, epa)
During one of the bloodiest battles of the Afghanistan War, Army Sgt. Israel Garcia fought his way up a terraced hillside to a wrecked observation post above the village of Wanat to help rescue a wounded paratrooper-comrade on July 13, 2007.
A native of Mexico who enlisted after becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen, Garcia, who was 24, was struck by an enemy rocket-propelled grenade after reaching the outpost. He died there amid the fighting and posthumously earned a Silver Star for valor.
Garcia's heroism stands in stark contrast to President Trump's denigration of undocumented immigrants throughout his presidential campaign and tenure in the White House. The reality suggests a silver lining among the dispossessed who risk everything to cross our borders.
For every immigrant gang member, there are countless stories of undocumented immigrants who willingly sacrifice for America. This certainly includes about 900 so-called DREAMers who were brought into the country as children and joined the military when they grew up.
More: Trump's immigration policy rips children from their parents
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Among them is Zion Dirgantara, a native of Indonesia whose first day of school in the United States as an eighth-grader in Philadelphia was on Sept. 11, 2001. "When I heard President Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' I knew where I stood," Dirgantara wrote in an opinion piece, explaining his determination to some day serve his new country in the Army Reserve.
Although immigrants commonly require permanent legal status to join the military, a Pentagon at war and ever in need of talent — especially in the form of language skills, medical training and other vital expertise — created a pilot program in 2009 allowing temporary or undocumented immigrants to enlist.
Some 10,000 responded, including the several hundred DREAMers or undocumented immigrants who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created in 2012 for those brought to the USA illegally as children. Trump canceled the program last year, although courts have kept it open for now, and Defense Secretary James Mattis has vowed that DACA enlistees won't be deported. House Republican leaders are trying to prevent a vote on measures to protect the DREAMers.
These DACA immigrants and countless other people who entered the USA illegally and managed to gain legal status have served our nation under the most honorable of circumstances. And they've done so at a time when patriotic sacrifice and a sense of purpose among American young people have been in decline.
The Trump White House publicizes crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. A news release Monday carried the headline, “What you need to know about the violent animals of MS-13,” and the president is scheduled to travel to Long Island on Wednesday for a roundtable on combating the gang. Trump has warned about a “dangerous” caravan of Central American refugees seeking asylum in the USA.
But you don't hear the administration talking about stories like those of Jose Gutierrez, who fled Guatemalan poverty as a teenage orphan, hopping freight trains for the 2,000-mile journey to America. A tall and quiet boy described as extremely intelligent, Gutierrez lived in a series of group homes in America or with foster families as he learned English, finished high school and, at 18, became a legal resident. He joined the Marine Corps after 9/11, was part of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and left everything he brought to his new country on a battlefield there — killed in action on March 21, 2003.
America should be so lucky as to have taken in such an immigrant.
— USA Today
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Wait, what? D.K Metcalf, A.J. Brown headline empty first round for Ole Miss at NFL Draft
Though most projections had anywhere between one and three Ole Miss products going, no former Rebels were picked in the first round of the NFL Draft.
Wait, what? D.K Metcalf, A.J. Brown headline empty first round for Ole Miss at NFL Draft Though most projections had anywhere between one and three Ole Miss products going, no former Rebels were picked in the first round of the NFL Draft. Check out this story on clarionledger.com: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/college/ole-miss/2019/04/26/ole-miss-products-d-k-metcalf-a-j-brown-arent-picked-nfl-draft-first-round/3584824002/
Nick Suss, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 5:30 a.m. CT April 26, 2019 | Updated 7:44 a.m. CT April 26, 2019
SportsPulse: From Nashville, Trysta Krick sat down with the top receiving prospect in this year's draft D.K. Metcalf to discuss his viral photo, combine performance and his response to those who say he can only run the go route. USA TODAY
OXFORD — Thursday night didn't end up being the nationally-televised commercial for Ole Miss football that the Rebels expected it to be.
Former Ole Miss wide receivers D.K. Metcalf and A.J. Brown both went undrafted in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft, as did offensive tackle Greg Little. In the four months leading up to the NFL Draft, virtually zero mock drafts projected a first round without at least one Ole Miss player being picked. A handful of mock drafts projected all three of those prospects to come off the board Day 1.
But that didn't happen. Two wide receivers came off the board, with Oklahoma product Marquise Brown going to the Baltimore Ravens and Arizona State's N'Keal Harry being picked by the New England Patriots. And four offensive tackles were picked, including surprise selections by the Houston Texans and Atlanta Falcons. But no former Rebel heard his name called.
More: Johnathan Abram of Mississippi State selected by Oakland Raiders in 2019 NFL Draft
Of course, falling out of the first round doesn't mean a player doesn't get a chance to play in the NFL. There are six more rounds of NFL Draft coming this weekend, and it'd be borderline unfathomable to see Ole Miss get shut out of the second and third rounds on Friday. And being picked after the first round doesn't preclude you from NFL success either; 10 out of the 22 players who were named first-team All-Pro in 2018 weren't first rounders.
Optimism aside, the surprise factor is hard to ignore. NFL.com lists Metcalf as the second-best prospect who went undrafted on Thursday and Brown as the fifth-best. And Little is listed as the No. 17 available player heading into round two.
What turned out to be a bust of a Thursday night might turn into a busy Friday night, as Metcalf, Brown and Little may be joined by tight end Dawson Knox, listed by NFL.com as the third-best remaining tight end prospect, as Ole Miss products picked in rounds two or three. And putting that much talent into the NFL should always be viewed as an achievement, even if that talent wasn't able to lead Ole Miss to anything better than a couple of middling seasons while the team played through probation.
There's still a chance as many as eight former Ole Miss players can be picked this weekend. Having that many players selected should be considered a win. But it'll be hard to not view the disappointment of Metcalf and Brown's dropping down the board as the story of the weekend for the Rebels.
Contact Nick Suss at 601-408-2674 or nsuss@gannett.com. Follow @nicksuss on Twitter.
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LPGA Tour 2019: Live leaderboard for ISPS Handa Australian Open
Minjee Lee is in the field at Women's Australian Open 2019 this week.
By Dennis Manoloff, The Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Minjee Lee, Karrie Webb, Jin Young Ko, Georgia Hall and Moriya Jutanugarn are among notables in the field at the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open 2019 this week.
ISPS Handa Australian Open leaderboard
ISPS HANDA WOMEN’S AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Site: Adelaide, Australia.
Course: The Grange GC. Yardage: 6,648. Par: 72.
Purse: $1.3 million. Winner's share: $195,000.
Television: Wednesday-Saturday, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. (Golf Channel).
Defending champion: Jin Young Ko.
Race to CME Globe leader: Eun-Hee Ji and Celine Boutier.
Last week: Celine Boutier won the ISPS Handa Vic Open.
Notes: The Women's Australian Open has been part of the LPGA Tour's official schedule since 2012, when Jessica Korda won a six-woman playoff that included Stacy Lewis and So Yeon Ryu. ... The tournament first was held in 1974 and won by Chako Higuchi, now in the World Golf Hall of Fame. It ended after 1978 and was revived in 1994 when Annika Sorenstam won at Royal Adelaide. ... This is the second time the Women's Australian Open will be held at The Grange. Haru Nomura won there in 2016. ... Ariya Jutanugarn, the No. 1 player in the world who took off last week at the Vic Open, leads the field. She is the only player from among the top 5 at The Grange, which also features three others from the top 10. ... The LPGA goes to Thailand and then Singapore to conclude its first stretch of international events.
Next week: Honda LPGA Thailand.
Online: www.lpga.com
(Fact box from Associated Press.)
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Which phones and tablets can play Flash? Here's our complete guide
Flash video, audio and animations are all over the Internet, but not every mobile device supports the software. We've rounded up the Flash-friendly mobile platforms and their various versions, so you don't have to.
Flora Graham
Contrary to what some might say, Flash isn't the saviour of the universe. But Flash video, audio and animations are all over the Interwebs, which means we want to have them on our mobile phones and tablets too. We've rounded up the platforms and their various versions that support the software, so you don't have to.
If you want to check if your existing phone or tablet supports Flash, visit m.flash.com in your mobile device's Web browser. If it doesn't support Flash, a message will appear telling you so.
Google's Android operating system powers smart phones and tablets, and it's definitely the main focus of Adobe's mobile muscle. But not all Android devices are created equal.
The first Android phone with Flash was the HTC Hero. It came with Flash Lite 3.1, a cut-down version of Flash for mobiles without much processing power. But newer Android phones go the whole hog, supporting Flash Player, which has more features and plays more types of content than Flash Lite.
Phones that run Android 2.2 Froyo, 2.3 Gingerbread or later generally come with Flash Player 10.1 pre-installed. If you don't have it, visit the Android Market on your phone to install it. But bear in mind that your phone has to meet the minimum system requirements. That means your handset must have an ARM Cortex-A8 processor running at 550MHz or more if the display has a 480x640-pixel resolution, and 800MHz or more in the case of a 480x800-pixel display.
From 18 March, an even newer version of the software, Flash Player 10.2, will be available from the Android Market, according to Adobe.
Flash Player 10.2's new features include hardware acceleration for H.264 video. It also polishes up how Flash is rendered in the Web browser so that scrolling, for example, is smoother. It works better with the on-screen keyboard too, which we imagine will be handy when playing Flash games.
Also on 18 March, some tablets running Android Honeycomb will receive the beta version of Flash Player 10.2. But you'll need to have the Android 3.0.1 software to get the update. Honeycomb tablets that were sold with plain old Android 3.0 Honeycomb, such as the Motorola Xoom in the US, won't have Flash until this update rolls around. That's life on the bleeding edge, folks.
Adobe has helpfully published a list of Android mobiles that support Flash Player, but it doesn't include many fabulous phones from Mobile World Congress 2011. The Samsung Galaxy S 2, HTC Desire S and Motorola Atrix, for example, will all support Flash.
Nokia's former favourite software may have been kicked to the curb in favour of Windows Phone 7, but it's still on millions of current smart phones. If you've got one of them, you can help yourself to Flash Lite.
Since Flash Lite is a stripped-down version of the software, it works on phones with lower specs, slower processors and smaller screens than those required by Flash Player.
The latest version of Flash Lite is 4.1, which is based on Flash Player 10 and adds multi-touch support and the ability to play ActionScript 3.0 content. As far as we can see, Flash Lite will only work on Symbian S60 and Symbian 3 devices, such as most recent Nokia smart phones, including the N8 and C7, and quite a few older Samsung and Sony Ericsson handsets.
Flash Lite was also the Flash version of choice for Windows Mobile phones. We don't like to mention that software, though. We'll still suffering from post-traumatic stress.
If you want to get Flash Lite on your Nokia, tap on over to the Ovi Store to install it.
Steve Jobs published a beard-stroking meditation on Flash in April 2010, but let us summarise it for you. If you have an iPhone, you are never getting Flash. Never, never, never. Blah, blah, proprietary product, you don't really need it, slow and insecure, makes devices crash, eats your battery, blah. The upshot is that Satan will be skating to work before you get Flash.
You can still look at video and other media on the Web in other formats --just not Flash. That is all.
There is life outside of the big three. Palm's Pre range of phones supports Flash Player 10.1, and that won't change now that they're going to have HP's logo on them, following the companies' merger.
The HP Pre 3 and HP Veer, and the HP TouchPad tablet, will all support Flash. But there's no news, so far, as to when they'll get an update to Flash Player 10.2.
BlackBerry smart phones have been rumoured to be getting Flash support for years, but the first device from RIM to play Flash will be its tablet, the PlayBook. It may take a while for this feature to trickle down to the company's small-screen devices. That's because the operating system on the tablet, BlackBerry Tablet OS, was specially designed for it, and upcoming phones will use a different one -- BlackBerry 6 OS.
Hardly anyone owns the Nokia N900, a smart phone that runs the Maemo OS. But, if you do, congratulations -- it supports Flash. In this case, Flash Player 9.4 is supported, but you probably won't get an update to a later version now that Maemo has morphed into MeeGo. Last summer, Adobe announced that Flash Player 10.1 would come to MeeGo, but that was before Nokia effectively excused itself from its MeeGo partnership with Intel. This one is up in the air.
It's been over a year since Adobe started promising that Flash Player would come to Windows Phone 7, but we've seen neither hide nor hair of it yet. Adobe may be waiting for the Windows Phone 7 browser to get a refresh -- Microsoft has said that the current one doesn't support extensions such as Flash. It looks like Flash is on the cards for Windows Phone 7, but don't hold your breath.
Have we missed anything out? If so, let us know in the comments section below.
Discuss: Which phones and tablets can play Flash? Here's our complete guide
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Summer movies: Film critic recommends a movie a week for summer, 2019
Ed Symkus More Content Now
May 1, 2019 at 3:07 PM May 1, 2019 at 3:07 PM
It’s official. Summer, 2019, begins on May 17. At least that’s when your tireless film reviewer will be celebrating it, since that’s the release date for what I’m guessing will be my favorite film of the season - “John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum.”
But it’s going to be one heck of a busy summer, movie-wise. Between mid-May and the end of August, there are 80 films, ranging from big-budget, supposed box office bonanzas to smaller art house offerings, scheduled to open. An attempt to see all of them would mean you’d have to go to the cinema every weekday. That translates into a lot of ticket money and far too much popcorn.
To alleviate that problem, I’ve taken a look at the entire list and separated the ones that, if forced to choose just one a week, I would go for. If you’ve read my past reviews, you have an idea of what I like, and you can probably use this as a handy guide for what you should see ... or avoid.
May 17: “JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 - PARABELLUM” - That Latin phrase means “prepare for war,” which is what John Wick (Keanu Reeves) was doing at the end of the previous installment. The former marine and hitman is now on the run from the minions that have a contract on him. Part three in the terrific, atmospheric, violent franchise.
May 24: “AD ASTRA” - More Latin, this one translating as “to the stars.” Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) heads for the deep recesses of space with two goals: Find his long-missing father (Tommy Lee Jones) and, of course, save the universe from peril.
May 31: “GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS” - It’s a direct sequel to the 2014 reboot of the fire-breathing lizard story, bringing back some cast members - among them Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins - and introducing a few of Big G’s friends (or are they enemies?) including Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah.
June 7: “X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX” - Shooting back to the “First Class” period of X-Men-dom, Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) becomes possessed by something known as Phoenix Force, which sets her on a course for whatever the term is for the X-Men universe’s Dark Side. Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and the rest return. Jessica Chastain adds some intrigue.
June 14: “THE DEAD DON’T DIE” - It’s written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Bill Murray, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Steve Buscemi, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloe Sevigny, and country-rocker Sturgill Simpson. It’s about a zombie attack on a small town. What more do you really need to know?
June 21: “TOY STORY 4” - It’s been almost a decade since “Toy Story 3,” but Woody and Buzz (Tom Hanks and Tim Allen) and pals - including Bo Peep (Annie Potts), who was AWOL in “3” - are back. They’re on an extensive road trip, during which new characters are met. One of them, named Duke Caboom, is voiced by - wait for it - Keanu Reeves.
June 28: “YESTERDAY” - And over in the intriguing premise of the year department, we’ve got Danny Boyle directing the story of an unknown and unsuccessful 20-something musician (Himesh Patel) who, after an international power stoppage, turns out to be the only person in the world who’s heard of the Beatles, and knows all of their songs ... and everyone believes he’s written them. What would YOU do?
July 3: “SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME” - Yes, some Avengers characters will continue to be in movies after “Endgame.” Tom Holland returns as Spidey/Peter Parker, as does Laura Harrier as Liz, and Zendaya as MJ. But a carefree European vacation gets complicated by a request for help from Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and new villain Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal).
July 12: “THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE” - A wimpy fellow (Jesse Eisenberg), tired of being pushed around, signs up for karate lessons, and meets a beautiful young woman (Imogen Poots) and a mysterious instructor (Alessandro Nivola). But what sets this one apart from similar stories is that the instructor isn’t, let’s say, exactly who he appears to be.
July 19: “THE LION KING” - Disney tries to up the ante again with this GGI-fueled, all-animal, live-action makeover of the studio’s 1994 animated feature. With the voices of Donald Glover (Simba), Seth Rogen (Pumbaa) Chiwetel Ejiofor (Scar), Beyoncé (Nala), Alfre Woodard (Sarabi) and, recreating his role from the original, James Earl Jones (Mufasa).
July 26: “ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD” - Quentin Tarantino’s nod to show biz goes back to 1969, when once-popular TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) try to make the transition to films. Unfortunately, there’s this guy named Charles Manson and his “Family” on the periphery. IMDB lists the film as a “comedy-drama.”
Aug. 2: “FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW” - The first official spinoff from the “Fast & Furious” franchise features lawman Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and outlaw man Owen Shaw (Jason Statham) teaming up to defeat the genetically super-powered villain Brixton (Idris Elba). The action will, of course, be fast and furious.
Aug. 9: “THE KITCHEN” - The title refers to New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, and this ’70s-set crime drama tells of some mobsters who go to jail, and their wives - played by Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elizabeth Moss - who keep the business, and the violence, in running order. Based on the DC comic.
Aug. 16: “WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE” - Mari Semple’s bestselling 2012 novel is about happy mom and wife Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchette) who, just prior to a family vacation with hubby (Billy Crudup) and daughter (Emma Nelson), tells them, by phone, that “something’s come up ...”, then vanishes. Directed by Richard Linklater, it’s a comedy-drama that’s wrapped up in a mystery.
Aug. 23: “ANGEL HAS FALLEN” - The third entry in the “Fallen” series (after both Olympus and London fell) again features Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) as the best protection anyone in the White House has ever had. But this time he’s framed as the perpetrator of an attempted assassination of the president, and must clear major hurdles to clear his name.
Ed Symkus writes about movies for More Content Now. He can be reached at esymkus@rcn.com.
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Davis pitches, hits SWR to MPC Tournament title; SWR softball team falls in 12-inning classic
GREENSBORO — When a pitcher steps to the plate in most any high school baseball game, someone from somewhere in the stands usually let’s out a “Help yourself out” yell.
On Thursday night in the championship game of the Mid-Piedmont Conference Baseball Tournament, Southwestern Randolph High School pitcher Braxton Davis sure helped himself out.
Davis broke a tie with a two-run single in the fifth inning and the second-seeded Cougars went on to record a 4-2 win over top-seeded Southeast Guilford for the tournament championship.
The Cougars, who improve to 17-6, still have the No. 2 seed from the MPC for the upcoming state 3-A playoffs.
SWR, which was in a bit of a skid with a four-game losing streak prior to the final week of the regular season, righted themselves in the tournament, defeating Southern Guilford 13-3 and Southern Alamance 6-3 to reach the tournament finals against the Falcons (18-7), who defeated Asheboro 4-0 in the semifinals.
Against the Falcons, Davis
was at his best.
“Ryan Douglas may be or is the best pitcher in the league and Braxton was better than him,” SWR coach Tyler Clapp said of the SEG starting pitcher, who handcuffed the Cougars twice in the regular season. “He (Davis)was hitting his spots and his off-speed pitches were really working.”
With the game tied 1-1 in the fifth inning, the Cougars broke that tie with Davis coming through with a two-run hit. SWR, which lost to the Falcons 2-1 in eight innings and then 7-1, held on behind Davis and a strong one-inning of work on the mound from Blaine Powell.
Davis earned the win, keeping the high-powered Falcons offense in check. He went six innings, yielding two runs on four hits with one walk and eight strikeouts. Powell fanned two in the seventh inning to record the save.
Douglas took the loss for Southeast Guilford. He lasted 5 2/3 innings, allowing six hits and four runs while striking out eight.
Clapp said the Falcons provided a little bit of motivation prior to the game.
“When Southeast was taking ins-and-out, they were acting like it was already over,” Clapp said. “They’d miss a ball here and jog over and get it and throw it to home on a hop. I told our guys ‘These guys think this game is over with and you don’t belong on the same field with them.’ I told them they had to be ready to play.”
The Cougars were.
Davis and Powell each had two hits for the Cougars.
SWR softball team falls in 12-inning classic
ASHEBORO — The Southwestern Randolph High School varsity softball team hit the ball as hard as a ball can be hit in many of the situations they faced Thursday night in the finals of the Mid-Piedmont Conference Softball Tournament. Those shots were just right at Southern Alamance defenders.
The Patriots broke a tie with two runs in the top of the 12th and held on to record a 3-2 win over the Cougars for the tournament championship. SA will get the top seed from the MPC for the state 3-A playoffs with the Cougars earning the No. 2 seed. Both teams, along with Asheboro, tied for first in the regular season.
“It was a disappointing loss, but I couldn’t be more proud of how they played,” SWR coach Chad Whitson said. “They kept fighting and never gave up.”
Heaven Maness went the distance on the mound for the Cougars. She gave up eight hits, three earned runs and struck out 14.
“We had chances and we hit the ball real hard, it’s just that we hit the ball right at them,” Whitson said.
The Cougars scored once in the first, but the Patriots tied the game in the top of the seventh.
Trailing 3-1 in the 12th, SWR’s Molly Strider singled and Gracie Ward doubled to put two runners in scoring position with one away. Haley Epps walked to load the bases and Emma Freeman’s grounder plated one run. A flyout, however, ended the game.
“No one wants to lose, but I think this is a loss that can make us a better team down the road,” Whitson said.
Bova wins courage award
Trinity High School’s Tyler Bova was named one of the recipients of the Tony Simeon Courage Award presented by the NCHSAA.
Bova lost his younger brother and his parents in an automobile accident in June while the family was vacationing in Utah. The accident left Bova fighting for his life.
With hard work and the encouragement of an entire community, Bova not only walked again, but played in a varsity baseball game on April 11. He threw 59 pitches in a 13-0 Piedmont Athletic Conference win over HP Andrews.
The Tony Simeon Courage Awards are designed to honor individuals who, despite adversity, have demonstrated exemplary character and performance and, as a result, have been an inspiration to all those involved with the programs of the NCHSAA.
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Home Press Releases Jack Rounick selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Association...
Jack Rounick selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP)
NORRISTOWN, PA – 05-16-2019 (PRDistribution.com) — Jack A. Rounick, Esq, Attorney and Founder of the Law Offices of Jack A. Rounick, LLC was just recently selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2019 by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) for his outstanding leadership and commitment to the legal field.
While inclusion with the International Association of Top Professionals is an honor in itself, only a few members are selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award. These special honorees are distinguished based on their longevity in their fields, their contributions they have made to society and the impact they have had on their industries. Mr. Rounick was just recently honored at IAOTP’s annual awards gala at the Plaza Hotel where he received Top Attorney of the Year for 2018, and he will be honored at IAOTP’s 2019 Annual Awards Gala being held at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas at the end of this year. www.iaotp.com/award-gala
Mr. Rounick is being recognized for this distinction for having over 5 decades of professional experience as a practicing attorney and expert in the Legal Field. As a dynamic results-driven leader, Mr. Rounick has demonstrated success not only as a seasoned and trusted Family Law Attorney, he is also a sought after lecturer, speaker, and published Author. Mr. Rounick is widely regarded by his peers as one of the most knowledgeable attorneys in Pennsylvania and he has been very exciting to watch. His impressive repertoire of prior professional accomplishments include serving as Solicitor with the Plymouth Township Zoning Board, Serving as Special Assistant Attorney General in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; He helped to draft and pass Pennsylvania Divorce Code, and helped to draft and pass the Pennsylvania Equal Rights Amendment. Mr. Rounick’s areas of expertise include but are not limited to family law, matrimonial law, property law, divorce, complex child custody and property division. His practice services Montgomery, Chester, Delaware, Bucks, and surrounding counties.
Mr. Rounick received his BBA from the University of Michigan and his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is highly respected as a member of the University of Michigan alumni. He represented the University during the swearing in of the most recent President of Jefferson Medical College, as well as the last two Presidents of University of Pennsylvania.
The President of IAOTP, Stephanie Cirami stated, “Choosing Mr. Rounick for this honor was an easy decision for our panel to make. Mr. Rounick’s incredible foresight, extensive knowledge, endless list of accomplishments and accolades are very impressive and we felt he would make an amazing asset to our organization. We are looking forward to celebrate all of his success at this year’s gala, and know we will be seeing more amazing accomplishments from this man.”
Throughout his illustrious career, Mr. Rounick has been active in his community and recognized worldwide for his outstanding leadership and commitment to the legal profession. He has received many awards, accolades’ and has been featured in numerous publications and magazines such as Pennsylvania 100 Super Lawyers, Worth Magazine, Top 100 Lawyers in the United States, and has been named in the listing of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers’ every year since 2006. For 2019, he graced the front cover of TIP (Top Industry Professionals) Magazine and is receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2019. For 2018 he was selected as Top Attorney of the Year by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP). He received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for 2017-2018 from Marquis Who’s Who. He has been a guest on radio, television and has been invited to speak for many prestigious organizations including: The Pennsylvania Bar Institute on family law, The University of Delaware Law School, Temple University Law School, The Trial Lawyers of Pennsylvania, Villanova Law Review Family Law Symposium, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, The Montgomery Bar Family Law Committee, The American Bar Association, The Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers, Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, just to name a few.
Aside from his successful career, Mr. Rounick is also a sought after worldwide lecturer, speaker and published author. Some of his written works include: Co-Author of “Hiring An Expert”, “An Expert As to Attorney’s Fees”, “What’s Perk-olating”, and “The New Pennsylvania Divorce Code”. He is the Editor and Founder of “Pennsylvania Family Lawyer”, Author of “Proving the Accountant’s Testimony Doesn’t Add Up”, and Pennsylvania Matrimonial Practice.”
Looking back, Mr. Rounick attributes his success to his experience, mentors he has had along the way and staying passionate in all his endeavors. Jack says he has been blessed, he loves doing what he is doing, and feels this is just the beginning. For the future, Mr. Rounick will continue to seek justice for his clients and continue making a difference in people’s lives anyway that he can.
For more information on Mr. Rounick please visit: www.rounicklaw.com
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IAOTP’s experts have given thousands of top prestigious professionals around the world, the recognition and credibility that they deserve and have helped in building their branding empires. IAOTP prides itself to be a one of a kind boutique networking organization that hand picks only the best of the best and creates a networking platform that connects and brings these top professionals to one place.
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Home > News Releases > Delta Community Credit Union Announces 2014 Scholarship Winners
Delta Community Credit Union Announces 2014 Scholarship Winners
Georgia’s Largest Credit Union Awards $20,000 in Scholarships to Five Winners
ATLANTA (May 27, 2014) – Delta Community Credit Union (www.DeltaCommunityCU.com), Georgia’s largest credit union, announces the 2014 honorees of its annual scholarship program, which supports members in their quest for higher education. Delta Community selected five students based on academic achievement, community service and submission of an essay on a topic selected by the credit union.
“We received an overwhelming number of applications from qualified students for our annual scholarship program,” said Matthew Shepherd, executive vice president and COO of Delta Community. “The level of academic success and service to the community that our applicants have achieved is truly impressive. We are proud to provide scholarships to these five students and hope these funds help them achieve academic and professional success.”
The following three students will each receive a $5,000 scholarship:
Brianna Berry is a senior at Boone County High School in Florence, Ky. She plans to attend the University of Louisville and major in Biochemistry in her pursuit of a career as a doctor. Brianna is a member of the Boone County High School Marching Band, where she served as squad leader and field commander. She earned varsity letters for cross country and swim and dive team participation. She was elected by her peers to the Boone County High School Senior Board and as homecoming queen. Brianna is an active volunteer at her church and a participant in many civic organizations, including Relay for Life and the Grace Kelly Girls, a big sister/little sister mentoring program. She spearheaded fundraising activities for a fellow student with cancer, and also organized a concert series for residents of the Colonial Heights & Gardens Senior Resident Living Community. She was selected to the Kentucky All-State Concert Band, the Northern Kentucky University Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts Drama program.
Lauren Smith is a senior at Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology in Conyers, Ga. She will major in Industrial and Labor Relations at Georgetown University with the career goal of becoming a federal attorney. She is a Georgia Merit and AP Scholar, scoring four or higher on seven AP exams. Lauren was awarded the George Eastman Young Leaders Award, which recognizes outstanding academic achievement and leadership. She participated in the Governors Honors Program and was selected to present scientific research in Metz, France as part of the French Research Exchange Program. Lauren founded and served as co-captain of her school’s debate and speech team. She is a member of the National Honor Society, Beta Club, Varsity Envirothon team and is a varsity and competition cheerleader. Active in her community, Lauren created an elementary school tutoring program, volunteered with the International Water Purification Project, the Single Mother Housing and Beautification Project and the Salvation Army.
Moises Escobar is a graduating senior at East Coweta High School in Sharpsburg, Ga. He plans to attend Auburn University in the fall and major in Biomedical Engineering. Moises is an AP Scholar and a Georgia Merit Scholar, a distinction given to those who rank in the top five percent of their class, and a Scholar Athlete. He is a member of Mu Alpha Theta, the National Honor Society, the French National Honor Society and co-founded the Advanced Academic Club, a group that mentors students seeking to take advanced courses and fundraises to allow students to take AP exams who cannot afford the fees. Moises played Varsity tennis for four years, served as Team Captain and was a state qualifier. He was elected to the Student Government Association as Treasurer for all four years. Moises organized a 5K run called Soles for Cole to raise money for cystic fibrosis research and was a volunteer with the Angel Run. He volunteers with his church and the Newnan County Humane Society and coaches youth basketball and tennis.
In addition to the three $5,000 scholarship winners, the following two winners will receive $2,500 scholarships:
Nicole Martell is a rising sophomore at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. She is majoring in Health Science and Occupational Therapy and currently maintains a 4.0 GPA. Nicole is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, made the Dean’s List in the College of Health Science and received the Golden Key from the University for placing among the top 15 percent of her class. She is also the starting forward for the University of Florida’s women’s soccer team. Nicole volunteers weekly at the Sidney Lanier School working with children that have autism, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome. She also works with the Sidney Lanier Fitness and Workout Buddy Recreation Program and partners with children with disabilities. Nicole has also volunteered with the Special Olympics, the Florida Hospital Walt Disney Center and the United Cerebral Palsy Organization.
Kyjana Barnett is a senior at Whitewater High School in Fayetteville, Ga. She plans to attend Cornell University and major in Biological Sciences with the intent of becoming a veterinarian. Kyjana is an AP Scholar, a member of the National Honor Society and Science National Honor Society. She received the Beta Club Medallion award three years in a row for maintaining an A average and volunteering more than 40 hours. Kyjana played varsity lacrosse, is a student council member and leads the Education Committee of the Youth NAACP group at her school. Kyjana has volunteered with the Food Pantry, is a student mentor for a second grade “buddy” and organized a Cards for Soldiers program with a local elementary school. She was selected to participate in the Youth Summit on Hunger and Poverty, Vet-Step and the Research Apprentice Program/Ag-Discovery.
Delta Community created its financial program for young adults, Quarterlife, and the annual scholarship program, to assist its members with early financial milestones like going to college. The scholarship awards are specifically designed to assist eligible members with their higher education expenses such as tuition, books, dormitory lodging and meal costs. For additional program details, visit https://www.DeltaCommunityCU.com/Scholarship.
Delta Community Credit Union is Georgia’s largest credit union serving over 290,000 members. It was founded in 1940 and today serves the entire metro Atlanta area, including residents of the 11 surrounding counties and employees of top businesses, such as Delta Air Lines, Chick-fil-A, UPS and RaceTrac. Delta Community is a state-chartered credit union organized under the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, and its deposit accounts are federally insured through the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund. It chooses to operate as a not-for- profit credit union so it can give back earnings to its members and their local communities. Unlike a for-profit bank, Delta Community is owned by its members, not individual or institutional investors. Customers become member-owners when they open and maintain an account. Please visit www.DeltaCommunityCU.com to learn more or follow the credit union on Facebook at www.facebook.com/deltacommunity and Twitter at @deltacommunity.

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Gregorian Choir of Grimbergen Abbey
Torre Abbey
22nd May
A very special performance from the Gregorian Choir of Grimbergen Abbey
Join us in the stunning setting of our Spanish Barn for a very special performance from the Gregorian Choir of Grimbergen Abbey.
The Gregorian Choir of Grimbergen Abbey was founded in 1968 by its members and has since been directed by Gereon van Boesschoten, a Premonstratensian in the Abbey of Grimbergen, near Brussels.
Each Sunday the choir sings during holy liturgy in the Abbey church and basilica. As well as local people, others travel from across the country and abroad to take part in the celebration of mass. An Abbey is not only a centre of cultural and scholarly life, but needs to be a centre of spiritual life in the first place. That is the purpose of the Gregorian Choir of Grimbergen Abbey.
The choir, which celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2018, started modestly with a handful of young idealists. Slowly but steadily the choir has matured into what it is today – a group of enthusiastic friends who want to sing Holy Liturgy ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
The choir is often seen on the television or heard on the radio, when the holy mass is broadcast from the Grimbergen Basilica. The choir also performed during the Pope’s visit to Belgium, at Heiligdomsvaart in Maastricht, the Netherlands and participation in the Gregorian festival in Watou. However, their most prestigious performance was at the solemn funeral of King Baudouin in 1993 and Queen Fabiola in 2014.
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This is how much we’re spending on attending our friends’ weddings
The average Brit will be a member of the wedding party four times in their lifetime (Photo: Shutterstock)
Attending the wedding of a friend can be an important occasion, but with hen parties, stag dos, clothing, accommodation and travel all to consider – how much does it really cost?
The average Brit will be a member of the wedding party four times in their lifetime, according to a survey of 1,003 UK adults by One4all Gift Cards, spending an average of £2,809 and almost a full month planning and celebrating their loved ones’ nuptials.
How much money do wedding guests spend on attending their friends’ wedding?
Although UK couples typically spend around £17,674 on their nuptials, it’s not just the happy couple who have to fork out for their big day.
The study found that those closest to the couple spend an average of £776 for the big day, taking up over a week of their time (7.7 days).
This is almost double (98 per cent) the average spend for a normal wedding guest, which is usually around £391.
The research also revealed that 71 per cent of wedding party members were asked to spend on outfits costing £104, and 65 per cent had to pay for their travel and accommodation, which cost an average of £99.
Those attending the hen and stag do will spend an average of £89.
The study also revealed that more than one in 10 (11 per cent) declined being a member of a wedding party due to the cost involved, with seven per cent regretting being a member of a wedding party.
Although UK couples typically spend around £17,674 on their nuptials, it’s not just the happy couple who have to fork out for their big day (Photo: Shutterstock)
Time-consuming tasks
Research found that the most time-consuming tasks for bridesmaids, ushers and parents of the bride and groom included assisting with the planning of the big day itself.
This took an average time of 18 hours and 34 minutes, with engagement party celebrations taking up 10 hours and 11 minutes, and hen and stag parties taking up an average time of 18 hours.
However, the research found that, despite this, 93 per cent of Brits enjoyed being a member of the wedding party, and more than one in three (34 per cent) believed that being asked to be a member of the wedding party is a privilege.
People in Bristol were found to invest the most time and money in their best friend’s weddings, spending and average of 225 hours and £1,081.
Manchester residents were found to spend an average of 206 hours and £971.
This article was originally published on our sister site, Yorkshire Evening Post.
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'Into the Woods' opens Friday at Center for the Arts
A modern twist on several beloved Grimm’s fairy tales comes to stage at The Center for the Arts
'Into the Woods' opens Friday at Center for the Arts A modern twist on several beloved Grimm’s fairy tales comes to stage at The Center for the Arts Check out this story on dnj.com: http://on.dnj.com/1USdYP9
The Daily News Journal Published 1:13 p.m. CT Jan. 14, 2016
Into the Woods opens Friday at Murfreesboro's Center for the Arts.(Photo: Submitted)
MURFREESBORO — A modern twist on several beloved Grimm’s fairy tales comes to stage at The Center for the Arts starting Friday (Jan. 15) and continuing weekends through Jan. 31.
Into the Woods, a Stephen Sondheim classic and Broadway favorite, tells the story of the Baker and his Wife, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood and what follows after "Happily Ever After.”
The cast, directed by Renee Robinson, features center newcomer Hailey Ray as the Witch; Patrick Kramer and Alexius Frost as the Baker and Baker’s Wife; Emily Davis as Cinderella; and Dwayne Benn as Jack and the Beanstalk.
The role of Little Red Riding Hood is being shared by Shelby Jones and Sarah Oppmann.
Tickets can be purchased on the center’s website at www.boroarts.org; calling 615-904-2787; or stopping by the Center’s box office at 110 W. College St. in downtown Murfreesboro.
Prices are $15 for adults; $13 for seniors, students and military; and $11 for children.
The center, a recognized 501(c)(3) organization, is supported in part by generous grants provided by the City of Murfreesboro, the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.
Into the Woods is sponsored by Wild About Smiles and the Murfreesboro Kiwanis Club.
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Belize could be heading to a debt default.
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Creditors express concern over Belize debt.
BELMOPAN, Belize – More than half of Belize’s large bondholders have formed a creditors committee out of concern that the Caribbean country will become the next sovereign to default on its debts.
According to a report in the Financial Times, this committee represents almost half of the holders of a US$547m bond due in 2029.
The creditors, who hold more than US$200m of the debt reportedly became alarmed when informed by the Belize government that it might “amend certain terms” of the bond.
Last week, Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow revealed that the government was in talks to restructure the large bond before an interest payment of US$23.5 million is due in August, after the interest rate stepped up to 8.5 percent this year.
According to Reuters data, the bond’s yield trades at 1,689 basis points over US Treasuries, well above levels for nations such as Pakistan or Venezuela.
Reports are that the bond has been trading at a subdued price for some time, as investors have widely expected a debt restructuring. Moody’s this month cut Belize’s credit rating for a second time this year, down to Ca, citing a likely restructuring and the country’s weak economic growth.
The bond was approved in 2007 in an effort to consolidate the country’s debt, which totals about US$1 billion, more than 70 per cent of Belize’s $1.4 billion gross domestic product, according to the central bank.
Barrow told the media last week that restructuring talks were going well and the government’s debt restructuring team had met with officials from the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank and feedback had been positive.
However, the representatives from the creditors’ ad hoc committee appear far more concerned than government reports would suggest.
“While we are sympathetic to the challenges facing Belize, any proposed amendment that results in a net present value or principal loss to creditors would not, based on the committee’s current understanding of the situation in Belize, be considered acceptable or, for that matter, necessary,” said AJ Mediratta, a partner at Greylock Capital Management and chairman of the creditors committee, as reported in the Financial Times.
Greylock Capital was one of the hedge funds that sat on Greece’s creditors committee this year.
Belize’s creditors committee is advised by BroadSpan Capital, a Latin America-focused investment banking boutique that also advised international creditors to Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Caribbean island federation, in debt restructuring this year.
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Detroit 2.0
R.J. King
Detroit has plenty of opportunities to further redevelopment and growth, according to business and community leaders.
Van Conway// CEO // Conway MacKenzie
“One of Detroit’s strengths is a skilled work force in manufacturing, which is arguably the best in the world. At the same time, you have a lot of real estate that’s available at very reasonable prices. If you build a new factory in Alabama, you have to start from scratch. But in Detroit, you have infrastructure already in place; you just have to plug it in. I would really look at the military industry and see what more we can be doing in terms of building components, parts, and whole systems for bomber jets, tanks, or submarines. Our labor force may be a bit more expensive than other parts of the country, but remember, you don’t have to start from scratch here. I also think we could add a lot more housing along the riverfront. That’s one reason Chicago does so well. They have people living and working downtown, so the stores and restaurants benefit twice.”
Irvin D. Reid // President Emeritus // Wayne State University
“You have to get a handle on the huge problem of poor health in the city. It starts in the schools, but you also have to reach into the community and make sure seniors are being taken care of. If people take their medications, eat right, and stay active, everyone wins. If you let things go as they are now, it will just lead to higher costs and more problems down the road. We all know the high costs of emergency room visits, and one way to reduce those visits is to place more medical clinics in the neighborhoods. If you can take care of health care at the grass roots level and really drive home the need for good nutrition and regular exercise, it would improve the quality of life immensely.”
Sue Mosey // President // Midtown Detroit Inc.
“There are a lot of projects that are transferrable around the city. Right now, we’re working with Vanguard CDC (a nonprofit community development corporation affiliated with Second Ebenezer Church, located at I-75 and McNichols) to develop a model for housing rehabilitation and a housing repair grant program. The goal is to help stabilize the neighborhoods and create a viable model for redevelopment going forward. At Midtown, we offer a technical assistance program for small businesses and entrepreneurs that provides grants for security, exterior signage, façade improvements, and mentorship programs. We also have employee housing incentives from Henry Ford Health System, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, and others. There are other health care agencies and institutions around the city that could offer housing assistance in a given area.”
Frank Venegas Jr. // Chairman and CEO // Ideal Group
“When we moved our business to Michigan and Clark (in southwest Detroit) in 1996, one of the first things we supported was Detroit Hispanic Development Corp., a nonprofit here that offers after-school programs for students, social services, and a host of other offerings. But we just didn’t throw money at it. We looked at the operation and, over time, worked with the organization to establish an annual budget that was appropriate to the services offered. Otherwise, you’re scrambling every year to plug the holes. Let’s face it, money is at the root of most positive changes in the community, but you also have to encourage the next generation. The one thing I don’t see is a way to share best practices with other parts of Detroit in terms of community support. That’s something we need to work on.”
John Hantz // CEO // Hantz Farms
“The vision from 40,000 feet is that Detroit is experiencing the best of times and the worst of times. Downtown and some of the neighborhoods are doing well, but outside of that core, there are some incredible challenges. Most people see urban farming as a panacea, since the city has so much vacant land. But you don’t go from blight to farming overnight. You really need to clean an area, figure out a maintenance plan, and then farm. Blight just leads to more blight. What’s more, you can’t go into an area and just bulldoze all the structures and then begin farming. You have to save every building that can be economically viable; otherwise, you’re just destroying your future tax base. You also can get two growing seasons in Detroit (per year, due to weather patterns).”
George Jackson // President and CEO // Detroit Economic Growth Corp.
“We have to do a better job of overseeing job retraining programs that are supported and operated by federal, state, and local governments. At times, the only people benefiting from the training programs are the people doing the training. We should do a better job of bringing training programs into the high schools so when a student graduates, they have a diploma and a certificate to land a job in a high-demand field such as health care. For example, our hospitals need nurses, surgical assistants, and lab technicians. It’s the same for technology, robotics, or engineering. Not everyone has to go to a four-year college. We also need to get employers more involved. They can either support current retraining programs or offer them at their own facilities.”
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COMMANDS PDF MANUALS: The Commands of Christ & Los Mandamientos de Cristo
IMAGE & VIDEO: Three Thirds (3/3's) Discipleship Format - use this strategic format for discipleship to get the most of this DBS Bible study story set.
What are the Commands of Christ?
These are a set of Bible stories that are great to use with new Christians as a starting point for discipleship. The DBS method is included in each lesson. These stories are based on 10 commands spoken by Jesus Christ, and they are great Bible Studies for believers growing in obedience to Christ.
Command #1: Repent & Believe (Read Matthew 4:17)
DBS Story: Luke 7:36-50 ~ The Sinful Woman
Explore Further (Optional): Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23; Romans 10:9-10; Acts 2:38-41; 1st John 1:9; John 10:28
Ask/Answer: What does “Repent” mean? What does “Believe” mean? Why should we repent? Who should repent? What is assurance?
Command #2: Be Baptized (Read Matthew 28:19)
DBS Story: Acts 8:26-39 ~ Philip & Ethiopian Official
Explore Further (Optional): Romans 6:3-4; Matthew 3:13-16; Acts 2:38; Matthew 3:16
Ask/Answer: What is “Baptism”? Why should we be baptized? Who should be baptized? How should we be baptized?
Command #3: Pray (Read Matthew 6:9-13)
DBS Story: Matthew 6:5-15 ~ Jesus Teaches About Prayer
Explore Further (Optional): Matthew 6:9-13; Luke 10:2
Ask/Answer: Why do pray? How do we pray?
Command #4: Go...Make Disciples (Read Matthew 28:19-20)
DBS Story: John 4:4-42 ~ Samaritan Woman at the Well
Explore Further (Optional): John 4:4-42; Luke 10:1-11
Ask/Answer: Who should we share with? What should we say? Who is qualified to go? How should we go?
Command #5: Love (Read Matthew 22:37-39)
DBS Story: Luke 10:25-37 ~ The Good Samaritan
Explore Further (Optional): John 15:13; 1st Corinthians 13; John 13:34-35; Matthew 22:37-39; John 14:15; John 21:17
Ask/Answer: What is love? Why do we love? Who do we love? How do we love?
Command #6: Worship Through Perseverance (Read Matthew 4:10)
DBS Story: Acts 16:25-34 ~ Paul and Silas in Prison & the Jailer
Explore Further (Optional): Matthew 4:10; Acts 16:25-34
Ask/Answer: Why do we worship? How is worship through perseverance a powerful witness?
Command #7: Lord’s Supper (Read Luke 22:19-20)
DBS Story: Luke 22:7-20 ~ Jesus’ Last Supper
Explore Further (Optional): 1st Corinthians 11:23-29; Acts 2:42
Ask/Answer: What is the Lord’s Supper? Why do we eat the Lord’s Supper? How do we receive the Lord’s Supper? Who should receive the Lord’s Supper?
Command #8: Give (Read Matthew 6:1-4)
DBS Story: Mark 12:41-44 ~ The Widow Gives
Explore Further (Optional): 2nd Corinthians 9:6-7; Matthew 6:1-4; Acts 4:34-35
Ask/Answer: What should we give to God? Why do we give? How do we give? Who do we give to?
Command #9: Gather (Read Hebrews 10:24-25)
DBS Story: Acts 2:36-47 ~ The First Church
Explore Further (Optional): 1st Corinthians 10:31; Hebrews 10:24-25
Ask/Answer: Who is the church? What does a church gathering do? When does a church gather? Where does a church gather? Why does a church gather?
Command #10: Witness with Holy Spirit Power (Read Acts 1:8)
DBS Story: Acts 2:1-21 ~ The Holy Spirit Comes
Explore Further (Optional): John 14:26; Acts 2:38-29; John 14:16-18; Romans 8:26-27; Romans 8:14-16; Isaiah 61:1-3; 1 Corinthians 2:9-13; Ephesians 5:18-21
Ask/Answer: Who is the Holy Spirit? What does He do? How does He help us?
Command of Christ #1 Modeling VIDEO
Command #1: Repent & Believe, modeled in the 3/3's Discipleship Format (DBS comes in much later into the video).
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When Will DC's 'Teen Titans' Remake Premiere? It's Coming Very Soon
By Dylan Kickham
DC is ready to show you the Teen Titans like you have never seen them before. The superhero production company's dark and gritty remake of Teen Titans has just been given a premiere date. So, when will DC's Teen Titans remake premiere? It is coming your way very soon.
Titans will be the first original series to launch on DC's upcoming streaming service, DC Universe. The new show is a TV-MA-rated adaptation of the iconic DC superhero team, the Teen Titans. The comic-book team has previously been adapted for television in the 2003 WB cartoon Teen Titans, and the currently running Cartoon Network Teen Titans Go!, which skews younger. Titans notably stands apart from both of those adaptations as the only live-action series, and also for its casual displays of expletives and blood, earning it a surprising mature rating.
Last month, DC Universe released its official trailer for Titans, which introduced the series' live-action stars: Brenton Thwaites as Robin, Anna Diop as Starfire, Teagan Croft as Raven, and Ryan Potter as Beast Boy. The series appears to not include the Titans' fifth member, Cyborg, who is currently being established as a main part of the DC Cinematic Universe on the big screen. The trailer also informed fans of the dark and bloody tone of the series, ending with Robin angrily muttering "F**k Batman." Check out the Titans trailer below.
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Before Titans can premiere, the DC Universe streaming service first has to be made available. DC announced that DC Universe will be open for subscription on Sept. 15, which is fittingly known as Batman Day among comic book devotees since it marks the iconic hero's first-ever appearance. After DC Universe is online, Titans will be available to stream just a couple weeks later. The new series will first premiere at New York Comic Con on Oct. 3, and then it will be released wide on DC Universe on Oct. 12. Yep — that's just a little over a month from now.
Titans is just the first of many original series that DC Universe has planned. Titans will also introduce the characters of the superhero team Doom Patrol — Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Girl, Crazy Jane, and Dr. Niles "The Chief" Caulder — and will lead directly into a spinoff series called Doom Patrol, which is slated to premiere in 2019 and pick up immediately after the events of Titans.
The new streaming service will also premiere a Swamp Thing live-action series and a dramatic live-action adaptation of Stargirl in 2019. On the animation side, DC Universe will also begin airing Young Justice: Outsiders and a comedic Harley Quinn series in 2019 as well. On top of all that, the service is also putting together a news program called DC Daily that promises to keep subscribers informed on all things going on in the DC Universe, be it comic books, movies, or TV shows.
But first up, DC Universe will be made available for $7.99 per month or $74.99 per year on Sept. 15. Then, Titans premieres on Oct. 12.
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Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap addresses members of the Rotary Club of Ellsworth. ELLSWORTH AMERICAN PHOTO BY MAXWELL HAUPTMAN
Dunlap addresses Ellsworth Rotary Club
August 23, 2018 by Maxwell Hauptman on News, News-More Headlines, Politics
ELLSWORTH — Real ID implementation and election security were among the topics that Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap touched on in addressing members of the Rotary Club of Ellsworth this week.
“I’m not a Rotarian, they actually have high standards in Old Town,” Dunlap said jokingly, before thanking the group for letting him speak.
Dunlap first addressed concerns over Maine’s compliance with the Real ID Act.
“Everybody gets scared when they see these outdated signs at the airport saying you can’t use your driver’s license,” Dunlap said. “We’re under a waiver right now that is good until October 10. It’ll be extended because we’re meeting all the benchmarks. There’s a lot of technology involved, so this is going to cost about $2 million to do this.”
Dunlap explained that the new Real IDs would use facial recognition technology to identify individuals, and the state would begin producing them in July 2019. Dunlap also addressed privacy concerns regarding the IDs.
“All your documents, like your birth certificate, your passport, anything that you use to prove you’re an American citizen, they’re going to be merged in a database,” Dunlap said. “Now if this is scaring you, then you can opt out, but if you’re going to travel in the U.S., you’re going to need a passport.”
Dunlap anticipated that the Real IDs would be implemented in 2021, and also explained that Maine residents would have to update their driver’s licenses in the coming years to become compliant with Real ID.
“That’s going to be a logistical challenge,” Dunlap said. “But we’re going to try and make it easier for you. Cost-wise, we’re going to set up a plan that’s financially digestible.”
On the subject of ranked choice voting, Dunlap explained why it won’t be used in the upcoming election for governor.
Dunlap relayed the story of Maine’s 1879 election, when doubts about the legitimacy of the election were serious enough that political parties formed militias to march on the State House.
This prompted Maine’s legislature to insert the word “plurality” into language in the state’s constitution regarding elections. Because of that, ranked choice voting could be considered unconstitutional for state elections. Dunlap explained that it will continue to be used for primaries and for federal elections.
Dunlap also addressed questions from the crowd on security for the upcoming election.
“There’s no way anyone can change our results, no way they can actually invade a vote and change it,” Dunlap said. “We don’t have the voting machines that some districts have; we don’t have forward-facing poll books, so our vulnerabilities are quite small, because you can’t hack a felt pen on a paper ballot.”
Dunlap explained that Maine’s machines used for tabulating votes are standalone and not connected to outside networks. He also stated that voter rolls were backed up every day by town clerks, in order to reduce vulnerabilities to hacking.
Dunlap did have some disappointing news for the Rotarians. When asked if the popular television program “North Woods Law” would return, Dunlap said lack of resources meant the show was likely on hiatus indefinitely.
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EFF to Ethiopia: Illegal Wiretapping Is Illegal, Even for Governments
BY NATE CARDOZO
Earlier this week, EFF told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that Ethiopia must be held accountable for its illegal wiretapping of an American citizen. Foreign governments simply do not have a get-out-of-court-free card when they commit serious felonies in America against Americans. This case is the centerpiece of our U.S. legal efforts to combatstate sponsored malware.
In February 2014, EFF filed suit against the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on behalf of our client, Mr. Kidane, an Ethiopian by birth who has been a U.S. citizen over a decade. Mr. Kidane discovered traces of Gamma International’s FinSpy, a sophisticated spyware product which its maker claims is sold exclusively to governments and law enforcement, on his laptop at his home in suburban Maryland. A forensic examination of his computer showed that the Ethiopian government had been recording Mr. Kidane’s Skype calls, as well as monitoring his web and email usage. The monitoring, which violates both the federal Wiretap Act and Maryland state law, was accomplished using spyware that captured his activities and then reported them back to a command and control server in Ethiopia controlled by the government. The infection was active from October 2012, through March 2013, and was stopped just days after researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab released a reportexposing Ethiopia’s use of use of FinSpy. The report specifically referenced the very IP address of the Ethiopian government server responsible for the command and control of the spyware on Mr. Kidane’s laptop.
The Ethiopian government responded to the suit with the troubling claim that it—and every other foreign government—should be completely immune from suit for wiretapping American citizens on American soil. Ethiopia’s filing rests on several logic-challenged premises. Ethiopia claims that the recording of Mr. Kidane’s Skype calls and Internet activity at his home in Maryland actually took place in Ethiopia, and is therefore beyond the reach of any U.S. court. Worse still, Ethiopia claims that it had the “discretion” to violate U.S. law, reducing the Wiretap Act to something more like a traffic violation than a serious felony. Interestingly, Ethiopia does not actually deny that it wiretapped Mr. Kidane.
Yesterday, EFF and its co-counsel at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, filed a response knocking down each of Ethiopia’s arguments, noting that not even the U.S. government is allowed to do what Ethiopia claims it had the right to do here: wiretap Americans in America with no legal process whatsoever. We argue that Ethiopia must be held accountable for wiretapping Mr. Kidane, just as any other actor would be. Neither its status as a government nor the fact that it launched its attack on Mr. Kidane from Ethiopia gives it carte blanche to ignore the law. If Ethiopia legitimately needed to collect information about Americans for an investigation, it could negotiate a deal with the U.S., called a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, which would allow it to seek U.S. assistance for something like a wiretap. Otherwise, there simply is no “international spying” exception to the law for foreign governments, nor should there be. When sovereign governments act, especially when they invade the privacy of ordinary people, they must do so within the bounds of the law. And when foreign governments break U.S. law, U.S. courts have the power to hold them accountable.
This is the next step in what we hope will set an important precedent in the U.S., fighting back against the growing problem of state-sponsored malware. No matter what one thinks about the NSA spying on Americans inside the U.S. (of course EFF believes that this has gone way far too), it should be easy to see that foreign governments—be they Ethiopia, China, or as EFF itself experienced Vietnam—do not and should not have that right.
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Innovation, Management, Change
Alan Deutschman: The benefits of change
What really inspires positive change is hope, not fear, according to a leading writer on change and innovation.
Alan Deutschman is the author of “Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life,” first published in 2007.
He uses compelling case studies to show how heart patients, criminals, drug addicts and multibillion-dollar corporations can improve their future prospects by embracing change that at first may seem impossible.
“My research shows that what really stimulates and sustains a change effort is getting positive results, really being able to feel tangible benefits from the change fairly early on,” said Deutschman, former executive director of Unboundary, a strategy consulting firm for top executives.
Deutschman also spent 19 years as a business journalist in Silicon Valley. He has profiled innovators around the world and discovered some of what makes up effective leadership, especially during times of change.
His book outlines the “three F’s” -- facts, fear and force -- which he said are often employed but ultimately doomed to failure as change agents. Instead, he said, they should be replaced with the “three R’s”: relate, repeat and reframe.
In an interview with Faith & Leadership, Deutschman describes the three R’s and offers examples of how they have been successful in helping individuals and organizations make lasting change. The following is an edited transcript.
Q: What’s the problem with the three F’s?
We start out by assuming that people are rational, and we’ll give them the facts -- and that doesn’t work.
So then we say, well, maybe people are primarily emotional, and so let’s appeal to their emotions. The most powerful emotion is fear, so the second F is fear. We’re just going to try to really, really frighten people in hopes that that’s going to motivate them to change.
Then the third F is force. By force I mean falling back on the moral authority of your position. This is what we fall back on when we’ve failed to persuade people either through cool reason or through intense emotion.
Q: Where does the title of the book come from, “Change or Die”?
The idea is that people or organizations will only change if they’re faced with a true crisis. So in the book, I look at the biggest crisis that any of us can face: a life-threatening health situation. Yet with heart patients, 90 percent go back to the same unhealthy habits that they were living with before. Even after their doctors say, “You have to change, or you’re going to die.”
Q: You explain in the book that people avoid things that frighten them, so they avoid the change they need to make, right?
It’s actually a very adaptive response to try to avoid dealing with the problems, because if you don’t, you’re not going to get up and get the kids off to school and feed the dog and get your to-do list done.
We tend to actually focus on the things we have to do that we can do and we can get done, as opposed to the long-term problems that seem overwhelming and impossible to us.
Q: Why is hope important when people or organizations are trying to change?
People have to think that change is possible for them. That’s behind the effectiveness of 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous. You can see people who are like you, who have had the same seemingly overwhelming problems, and that some of them are really changing and making progress. Often [change] starts by connecting with even one other person or a community that you feel some emotional connection with.
Q: What are the three R’s, and why are they effective in creating change?
The first R is what I call “relate,” and this means forming a close emotional relationship with a person or with a group of peers that inspires a sense of hope and belief that things can be different.
If you wanted to learn to play a new sport or to play a musical instrument or to speak a foreign language, you would want a teacher, a mentor, a coach to help you through it. If you have a coach or a mentor who believes in you, that can open that window as well.
Once you connect with this individual or community, you start taking actions that get you where you want to go.
Q: Talk about the second R -- repeat.
In the book, I look at the Delancey Street program [in San Francisco] that takes felons out of the state prison system. They don’t know how to walk the way middle-class people walk. They don’t know how to talk that way.
Delancey Street tries to teach them how to live in law-abiding, middle-class, sober, nonviolent society.
Change in our lives is the same way. There are just dozens and dozens of small things that we need to actually learn by doing and doing it again and again.
I grew up in the Jewish tradition, where in the Old Testament and the Torah, it’s actually about the practices. In the Torah, there are 613 direct commandments from God, often little things that you’re supposed to do from day to day.
These little actions and daily practices instill the belief, as opposed to the belief informing and motivating the action.
Of course, it can work both ways, but I’ve found that many successful programs are focused on the actions of daily living.
In Alcoholics Anonymous and some 12-step programs, they say, “Fake it until you make it.” You go through certain actions and steps until you ultimately come to a new understanding.
Q: The third R is reframe. It sounds like telling a new narrative of yourself.
That’s exactly what it’s like. Delancey Street has a weekend-long process where the residents tell their life stories, then the community comes together to say, “We understand you and we understand the way you were, and you’re not that way anymore.”
As in many spiritual traditions, it’s a vehicle for atonement and for reckoning with the way you used to be. It’s a profound thing.
Q: At IBM, how were the three R’s cultivated and used to create a new structure that made it a learning organization?
The more successful you’ve been, in many ways, the harder it is to change. Your culture and your people have deeply entrenched beliefs about who they are and the way things are supposed to be.
Here was a company that in many ways was the most successful company in American capitalism.
When there was a profound shift in technology, IBM found itself going from having been the most successful company in American capitalism to being threatened with going out of business. IBM experienced its own change-or-die crisis as an organization.
After IBM nearly collapsed in the early 1990s, they brought in a new chief executive officer, Lou Gerstner, who had been the head of Nabisco. The IBM people derided him as “the cookie guy.” Then the cookie guy hired as his chief of strategy [J. Bruce Harreld], a man who had helped found the Boston Chicken chain of fast-food rotisserie chicken restaurants.
The IBM people said, “Oh great! Now we have the cookie guy, and he’s bringing in ‘the chicken guy,’ who is going to tell us how to run the world’s most important technology company.”
The chicken guy comes in to focus people on inventing new things and starts promising new businesses that are entrepreneurial and nimble. To set an example, he took one of these senior executives, Rod Adkins, and said, “You no longer are going to have thousands of employees and billions of dollars that you’re responsible for. Starting today, we’d like you to start a brand-new entrepreneurial business for us from scratch and show how we can build these future businesses.”
This created a mentor relationship between the chicken guy, who knew about entrepreneurship, and the veteran IBM executive. [Their relationship] went through stages of change as they went out and started a new business.
[Adkins] learned new skills and habits by actually going out and building experience. Ultimately, that executive created a new multibillion-dollar-a-year business and made the shift from thinking like a bureaucrat to thinking like an entrepreneur.
Once IBM had this one example, other senior executives saw that it would be possible to succeed, and that led to a bigger shift in the entire corporate culture.
Q: If a leader in a long-established institution sees the need for change, how would you recommend that he or she proceed?
Change could be inspired by making new connections with other spiritual communities or other spiritual leaders who have different approaches. Have a contingent from their group come spend time together with you.
Making that connection with other people who are similar enough to you that there is mutual understanding and respect, but different enough that you can see the possibility and the value of doing things differently, could lead to the possibility of change.
Q: The three R’s rely on people beginning in their comfort zone, then moving out of it. What’s the balance there?
If I’m trying to become a good tennis player and I’m watching [tennis champion] Roger Federer playing in Wimbledon on TV, I know I’m never going to be Federer. He’s like a different species.
But if I go to my neighborhood tennis courts and see someone who, like myself, is 46 and a little bit out of shape but who is really doing a good job playing tennis, I might think, “If he can do it, maybe I can do it.” Having a connection with people we can see ourselves in, to some extent, helps make it seem more real and more attainable.
Q: At the end of the book, you apologize for the dramatic title, “Change or Die.” You say that it ought to be “Change and Thrive.” Could you talk a little bit about the notion of thriving and the conditions of change that make thriving possible?
As Americans, whatever our background, there is still this almost Puritan-like influence, the Protestant work ethic, a sense that things have to be painful for us to progress and thrive. But what I’ve found in my research is that in change efforts that work, people really feel the benefits. That is extremely motivating.
Look at the Dean Ornish program for heart patients. People go on this very rigorous diet early on with the idea that they want to quickly get to the point of losing weight. People are feeling better because of these new benefits, and that’s extremely motivating.
Fear can inspire people for a short period of time, but ultimately fear is just too overwhelming for us to keep in the forefront of our minds. What really sustains and motivates change is that feeling of thriving; it’s that feeling of, “Gee, I’m not smoking anymore, and I can breathe freely.”
Q: Your book came out first in 2007. Has anything changed in the landscape of change issues?
The economic and financial collapse that has occurred since my book came out is starting to lead people to live in different ways. For many of us, our expectation of never-ending prosperity and limitless economic opportunity has ended.
We’re starting to reframe a new concept of how we should live our lives and the role of our economic lives in our well-being. People are starting to think that maybe it’s OK to rent rather than to own my home, and maybe there are other things that are more important in life than buying another big house or big car.
I wonder if whether, as a culture, we’ve become open to the possibility of good, fulfilling lives without repeating the same economic cycles of the past three decades.
Q: Is that a reframing of our national story?
Exactly. We had this national story that we told ourselves, as a people of the American dream, of great, limitless prosperity. It will be interesting to see whether, after two or three or four years of living in a different way, we may be starting to think about our lives in a different way.
It will be interesting to see how we change and adapt -- or whether we don’t.
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GAIN Capital Promotes Joseph Schenk to Lead Board of Directors
After serving on the company’s board for almost 10 years, Schenk will take over from Peter Quick.
Victor Golovtchenko | Executive Moves ( Executives ) | Tuesday, 03/10/2017 | 14:44 GMT+1 2017-10-03 18:52:52
GAIN Capital (NYSE:GCAP) has just announced that following the resignation of Peter Quick as chairman of the company’s board on the 27th of September, Joseph Schenk has been elevated to the position.
Schenk’s position of independent director will be filled by Alex Goor, who is a former Chief Information Officer of Interactive Data Corporation.
Commenting on the moves, CEO Glenn Stevens said: “Joe Schenk has been an integral member of our board since 2008 and we have confidence that his leadership and deep understanding of our business will help drive long term strategic growth.”
“The Board joins me in thanking Peter Quick for his dedication to our company over the past seven years in his role as Chairman and are pleased that he will continue to support us as an independent director. Additionally, we welcome Alex Goor, an experienced financial services industry executive, who has helped leading companies evolve and increase in value over time through both organic and inorganic growth strategies.”
Mr Schenk has been on the board of GAIN Capital since April 2008. Presently he is Managing Director at Westaim Corp, a Toronto-based investment firm. Prior to joining the company Mr. Schenk worked with the Carlyle Group as a senior advisor beginning in 2012.
The new independent director, Alex Goor, has spent over 20 years building electronic financial markets. He comes with both technical and general management experience.
After working as Chief Strategy Officer of Datek Online Holdings Corporation, where he supervised all business development efforts. Mr Goor became Co-CEO and CIO of institutional agency brokerage Instinet.
Over the 17 months he and his team spent at the company, the firm’s value increased 6 times. Between 2010 and 2015, Alex was Chief Information Officer of Interactive Data Corporation (IDC), which was sold to ICE/NYSE for $5.3 billion.
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Sundance 2012: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' is Phenomenal Cinema
This is it. This is the discovery of Sundance 2012. The film that everyone is going to be talking about after the fest. And it lives up to the hype. But forget about all of that, go see this without knowing anything about it, just that it's phenomenal, and you'll experience it the way all of us did. Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin and created by the collective Court 13, is an utterly phenomenal piece cinema, an astounding, mesmerizing, heartbreaking, wonderful adventure taking us to another world, a world set in wet southern Louisiana known as the "Bathtub". This is a film that reminds me why I love cinema so much.
It's hard to even explain the concept of Beasts of the Southern Wild in text and I don't even want to begin to try and explain what the story is about, because it's truly best to experience it yourself. Films like this, that are this extraordinary, don't need any explanation. The film itself is your introduction, it immediately pulls you into the world and introduces you to the characters, all in the way it's made, its stunning visuals; all due to the passion in the filmmaking, the story, the characters, the performances. It focuses on a six-year-old girl named Hushpuppy (played by Quvenzhané Wallis) and her father, Wink, who try to survive as the water rises and floods their community at the southern edge America. But it's much, much more than that.
Do you remember a time you saw a film that changed your perspective on movies forever? For me it was Fernando Meirelles' City of God, my experience with it changed the way I viewed films forever. I've always hoped to come across another film that would have this kind of impact on me, and it wasn't until I was watching Beasts of the Southern Wild that I started to get that feeling again. Even just in the opening 10 minutes, with the fireworks-filled introduction to this fascinating "Bathtub" community, I knew it would be something that neared those levels of brilliance. And it does, there's no question about that. I hope, and I believe, it is one of those films that a young cinephile will discover, will watch, and will change them forever, because it has that kind of potential. The score, the lead performance by Quvenzhané, and everything else.
Beasts, as we've affectionately shortened the title to around Sundance, is bold, original, spirited, remarkable filmmaking. It's a combination of excellence in all forms, from its beautiful, brash characters to style to music to believability to community to relationships to emotion, and takes the audience on a journey into "another world" the way all truly phenomenal films do. It's the kind of film that leaves you motionless, in a sense of brilliant awe, when it reaches the end, because it's as if none of what we saw was manufactured, but rather just shown to us, allowing us a glimpse of a genuine story set in a part of Louisiana that could be real.
While there are many films coming out Sundance with a lot of big buzz, this is one of the few that I think not only lives up to that hype, but even surpasses it. Don't build it up too much, don't read any plot details, do your best to go into this with a blank slate, simply ready for a great experience, a captivating story with unforgettable characters. If you enter with that mindset, you will be able to discover this phenomenal film in all of its glory just the way everyone else at Sundance is. And I'm sure many, including myself, are going to go home with a warm spot in their hearts for this absolutely amazing, simply extraordinary, piece of cinema.
Alex's Sundance Rating: 10 out of 10
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Found a commentator video by the director on Youtube and I am pretty excited by the concept. I can't seem to find a trailer. Is there not one yet?
Kaim on Jan 25, 2012
"city of god" was amazing.........i'll see this on your recommendation.
likewise, that's enough for me to know. City of God is high level comparison indeed, Alex - i'm there. thanks for the heads-up!
yea - his CofG comparison really got my exictement up for this, too!........
Christ, sounds like Sundance has been knockin' 'em out of the park so far. I like to see this many positive reviews day after day. Just chalk this one up to my to do list.
Yea, we've been finding some great films this year. There were some stinkers, of course, but there have been quite a few fantastic films I'm ecstatic to have seen.
Alex Billington on Jan 25, 2012
Glad you got a chance to see it and loved it as much as I did! That's what I saw right before we went into Simon Killer. Talk about a night a day experience....
David Parfitt on Jan 25, 2012
Heard about this one on Collider. I am really thrilled to see this. Looks amazing.
jeffrey on Jan 26, 2012
This is the fifth great review for this remarkable film, I hope I"m lucky enough to see this some time this year..btw, who's distributing this film Alex?
jah p on Jan 26, 2012
Fox Searchlight is distributing! They picked it up a few days ago, I think it could go very far with them. They'll at least give it the kind of release it deserves! 🙂 I'll keep you updated on a release date.
Sounds great. That title pic reminds me of THE LIFE OF PI.
DAVIDPD on Jan 26, 2012
I found a short interview with the director, this looks decent. Alex gave it a 10/10 and that's pretty rare so I'll defo be peeping it.
Crapola on Jan 26, 2012
Wow. This film sounds really great. I think we need a film that takes us into a whole new environment and enthralls us in it, and this sounds like the film. Almost like 'Spirited Away' in live action. Can't wait to see it.
Drew on Jan 28, 2012
Too bizarro. Don't get the fanaticism at all for this quirky movie. It never knows where it's going, and neither does the viewer, so it's too boring. In other words, there's no real plot or story. Story is the first key to making a great movie; if you don't have that, you got nothing! The father character was unbelievable, so was the androgynous kid. Please, stop with the pretentious poetry.
FilmDoctor on Jun 15, 2012
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Under the Hood of Under Armour's Growing Business Segment
Direct-to-consumer now makes up 35% of Under Armour’s overall revenue. What are the components that make up this fast growing revenue stream?
Brian Withers
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Aug 11, 2017 at 4:13PM
The performance apparel and fitness app company, Under Armour (NYSE:UAA)(NYSE:UA) reported in its most recent quarter that its direct-to-consumer business grew 20% to $386 million or 35% of the total revenue for the quarter. This business is made of three distinct concepts; e-commerce and digital, Brand House retail stores, and Factory House outlet stores.
The company doesn't split out out the details of this business segment, and I've been critical of Under Armour's lack of transparency in this area, especially since it is a key growth driver for the company. Let's dive under the covers as to what is behind each of these concepts and how they contribute to Under Armour's overall strategy.
Under Armour's 25,000 square foot Brand House store in downtown Chicago. Image Source: Under Armour
E-commerce and Under Armour Apps
Probably the first thing investors think about when direct-to-consumer is mentioned is e-commerce. The company certainly understands the importance of this medium to reach customers. Earlier this year, Kevin Plank has gone on the record, saying companies can't "invest heavily enough in digital right now."
The focus that the company has had on building its digital presence has been impressive. In September 2015, the company set a goal to have 30 e-commerce sites globally offering specific localized experiences, and it beat its own plan by two years.
The company also has a full-functioning mobile shopping app and mobile experience that can be reached from any of its three fitness apps: MapmyFitness, Endomundo, and MyFitnessPal without a separate login. The shopping app has features such as personalized product recommendations based your profile, ApplePay, notifications for new products, and a barcode scanner that will allow you to learn more about the products when you are in a physical store.
Further evidence of the company's focus on digital came during the annual shareholders meeting. Many of the questions from investors focused on the consumer habits shifting from "bricks to clicks." Plank answered every one of these questions personally and pointed to the company's implementation of SAP and the capability to have a "single view of the customer," which should help the company deliver what customers want.
While the company has invested heavily in its digital presence, it also is continuing to expand its brick-and-mortar retail experience around the globe.
Brand House Stores
Under Armour opened its first Brand House store in Annapolis, Maryland in 2007. This concept is a full price retail experience with consumer access to the company's expansive product line and the opportunity for the company to highlight its brand. Since then the company has expanded to 63 brand stores globally, with the international driving the bulk of this growth adding 18 stores in the last year.
In the company's investor day meeting in 2015, the company indicated that the Chicago Brand House store (pictured above) gets about three times the average traffic of the typical brand house store. The success of the Chicago store has driven the company to open more of these large format stores in marquee locations such as New York's former FAO Schwartz store opening in 2018.
Brand House stores only represent 24% of the total store count for Under Armour, Factory House stores make up the rest.
Factory House
The Factory House store plays a critical role in the retail supply chain and brand image for the company. First, with 205 locations globally, this footprint allows Under Armour to reach more customers. In the 2015 investor day presentation, Susie McCabe, then the senior vice president of global retail indicated that 50 million people walked through its Factory House stores that year. This is a significant opportunity for the company to reach new and more value centric customers.
Second, these stores enable Under Armour to sell excess, discontinued, and out-of-season products while protecting the brand image by not having to sell the product to discount chains. To give you an idea of the discounting, I recently visited one of these stores and bought a quarter-zip pullover for 44% off the original price.
The bulk of these stores are in North America, but internationally the company added 19 stores over the last year, growing the international Factory House store base to 45. Internationally, the company grew revenue 57% in the most recent quarter, so these investments in brick-and-mortar outside of North America are aligned with the growth areas of the company.
I would love more detailed reporting of this important and growing portion of Under Armour's business. But, investors are just going to have to be satisfied with the company's chief financial officer, David Bergman's report of the health of direct-to-consumer from the most recent quarterly report.
Direct-to-consumer revenue grew 20% to $386 million with growth in all three concepts; factory, brand house and e-commerce and in each region around the world.
I don't know about you, but as a shareholder, I was hoping for a little more.
Brian Withers has been a Fool since 2004 and loves to invest in solid companies that are changing the status quo and holding for the long term. Brian has been a member guide on the Fool One service since 2013. Brian's best investment has been investing in Foolish stocks with his kids since they were the young age of 5 & 7. That's 30 years earlier than he started with the Fool. When Brian is not working or writing for the Fool, you can find Brian riding his bike around central New Jersey. You can reach Brian via email: bwithbike@gmail.com.
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Time Is Up for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
An older version of Microsoft’s popular database software SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 is losing support on July 9. If you haven’t updated away from the software, your organization’s IT is staring down a few very drastic problems. Today, we’ll go into your options with so little time left before the software’s support ends.
What is SQL Server?
SQL server is what is called a relational database management system (RDMS). It is used to manage the databases you use for your business. The applications your staff depends on for productivity typically need access to a database of available data. This data, typically stored in a database is defined within the database but is only available through a RDMS program. There are several types of RDMS servers on the market for all different types of uses. SQL Server has been updated numerous times in the 11 years since SQL Server 2008 was introduced and the nine since 2008 R2 launched, with all types of additions for new dataflows and cloud resources.
Microsoft suggests that each organization selects the modernization target that suits their needs, but with so little time left before SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 lose support, it may be difficult to sufficiently modernize before the deadline. One option that has been made clear by Microsoft is that companies that don’t want to (or can’t) move to a new version of the RDMS before the end of life date, will support the software for an additional three years if the server is virtualized into an Azure environment.
By migrating your SQL Server 2008 to the cloud (in Azure), Microsoft will continue to support your software through July 2022. This extended support gives organizations time to come up with a viable plan without having to move forward with unsupported software that could present a whole litany of security problems.
If you are staring at the July 9th deadline in the face with nowhere to turn, or you would like to know more about what options are available for RDMS hosting, call the IT professionals at Fuse Networks today at 855-GET-FUSE (438-3873).
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Death by a Thousand Blogs
Nick Kristoff’s piece about China and blogging has been making the rounds on the blogosphere – it is a good piece, and well worth a read. To save you clicking the link, here’s the whole thing:
The Chinese Communist Party survived a brutal civil war with the Nationalists, battles with American forces in Korea and massive pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. But now it may finally have met its match – the Internet.
The collision between the Internet and Chinese authorities is one of the grand wrestling matches of history, visible in part at www.yuluncn.com.
That’s the Web site of a self-appointed journalist named Li Xinde. He made a modest fortune selling Chinese medicine around the country, and now he’s started the Chinese Public Opinion Surveillance Net – one of four million blogs in China.
Mr. Li travels around China with an I.B.M. laptop and a digital camera, investigating cases of official wrongdoing. Then he writes about them on his Web site and skips town before the local authorities can arrest him.
His biggest case so far involved a deputy mayor of Jining who is accused of stealing more than $400,000 and operating like a warlord. One of the deputy mayor’s victims was a businesswoman whom he allegedly harassed and tried to kidnap.
Mr. Li’s Web site published an investigative report, including a series of photos showing the deputy mayor kneeling and crying, apparently begging not to be reported to the police. The photos caused a sensation, and the deputy mayor was soon arrested.
Another of Mr. Li’s campaigns involved a young peasant woman who was kidnapped by family planning officials, imprisoned and forcibly fitted with an IUD. Embarrassed by the reports, the authorities sent the officials responsible to jail for a year.
When I caught up with Mr. Li, he was investigating the mysterious death of a businessman who got in a financial dispute with a policeman and ended up arrested and then dead.
All this underscores how the Internet is beginning to play the watchdog role in China that the press plays in the West. The Internet is also eroding the leadership’s monopoly on information and is complicating the traditional policy of “nei jin wai song” – cracking down at home while pretending to foreigners to be wide open.
My old friends in the Chinese news media and the Communist Party are mostly aghast at President Hu Jintao’s revival of ideological slogans, praise for North Korea’s political system and crackdown on the media. The former leaders Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji are also said to be appalled.
Yet China, fortunately, is bigger than its emperor. Some 100 million Chinese now surf the Web, and e-mail and Web chat rooms are ubiquitous.
The authorities have arrested a growing number of Web dissidents. But there just aren’t enough police to control the Internet, and when sites are banned, Chinese get around them with proxy servers.
One of the leaders of the Tiananmen democracy movement, Chen Ziming, is now out of prison and regularly posts essays on an Internet site. Jiao Guobiao, a scholar, is officially blacklisted but writes scathing essays that circulate by e-mail all around China. One senior government official told me that he doesn’t bother to read Communist Party documents any more, but he never misses a Jiao Guobiao essay.
I tried my own experiment, posting comments on Internet chat rooms. In a Chinese-language chat room on Sohu.com, I called for multiparty elections and said, “If Chinese on the other side of the Taiwan Strait can choose their leaders, why can’t we choose our leaders?” That went on the site automatically, like all other messages. But after 10 minutes, the censor spotted it and removed it.
Then I toned it down: “Under the Communist Party’s great leadership, China has changed tremendously. I wonder if in 20 years the party will introduce competing parties, because that could benefit us greatly.” That stayed up for all to see, even though any Chinese would read it as an implicit call for a multiparty system.
So where is China going? I think the Internet is hastening China along the same path that South Korea, Chile and especially Taiwan pioneered. In each place, a booming economy nurtured a middle class, rising education, increased international contact and a growing squeamishness about torturing dissidents.
President Hu has fulminated in private speeches that foreign “hostile forces” are trying to change China. Yup, count me in – anybody who loves China as I do would be hostile to an empty Mao suit like Mr. Hu. But it’s the Chinese leadership itself that is digging the Communist Party’s grave, by giving the Chinese people broadband.
Author Gavin SheridanPosted on 26th May 2005 Categories Blogging, China
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Philip Levine was one of the leading poetic voices of his generation, “a large, ironic Walt Whitman of the industrial heartland,” according to poet Edward Hirsch. He served as poet laureate of the United States, he won the Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Awards, and he was a Professor Emeritus of English at Fresno State after teaching here from 1958 to 1992. He died Feb. 14, 2015 at the age of 87.
Levine and fellow poets and professors Peter Everwine and C. G. Hanzlicek established the Creative Writing Program at Fresno State.
Even after his retirement, Levine remained deeply connected to the program for the rest of his life, visiting classes, attending and giving readings, and teaching mini-courses. The annual Philip Levine Prize for Poetry honors promising new voices in poetry each year, and it actively engages 15-20 graduate students in literary publishing. The Fresno State Winery produces a limited edition special wine blend to honor Levine, with the proceeds benefiting creative writing students through the Philip Levine Scholarship, which was established in 2012 by the College of Arts and Humanities. The Philip Levine Reading Room inside the Henry Madden Library on campus was opened in May 2017.
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Celebrities Under Fire For Keeping Social Media Endorsement Pay Under Wraps
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Kendall Jenner attends the 'Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017, in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for People.com)
By now, everyone has heard of the island PR nightmare that was Fyre Festival, and the lawsuits against the “luxury” music concert’s organizers continue to roll in. So far, there is a total of six pending suits seeking millions in damages. Interestingly, the second suit also focuses on the role of high-profile celebrity influencers, or “Fyre Starters” as they were called in the festival’s leaked pitch deck, in selling the concept to festival attendees.
If there’s one thing Fyre Festival succeeded in, albeit inadvertently, it was helping to bring the legal issues associated with celebrity endorsements on social media to light in the public eye. The second class-action complaint filed against the festival accused 100 now unnamed “Jane Does” of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and unfair trade practices. Model Kendall Jenner, who was recruited by Fyre Fest along with Emily Ratajkowski and Hailey Baldwin, allegedly received a hefty $250,000 in compensation for a single promotional Instagram post about the event but failed to disclose in that post that she was being paid.
In March, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent out nearly 90 letters reminding celebrities including Jennifer Lopez, Ciara, and Sean “P-Diddy” Combs, to “clearly and conspicuously” identify their financial interest in promotional posts about products on their popular social media pages. Advocacy groups that pushed the FTC to crack down on deceiving influencer marketing claim that the popular photo-sharing website Instagram “has become a platform for disguised advertising directed towards young consumers.” The FTC’s letters stressed the mandatory requirement to disclose any financial interest:
The FTC’s Endorsement Guidelines state that if there is a ‘material connection’ between an endorser and the marketer of a product – in other words, a connection that might affect the weight or credibility that consumers give the endorsement – that connection should be clearly and conspicuously disclosed, unless the connection is already clear from the context of the communication containing the endorsement.
By not disclosing that they have a financial interest in the success of a product, celebrities are technically deceiving their followers by giving the impression that the promotion is coming from an independent, third-party source. And this isn’t the first time Instagram influencers have found themselves on the FTC’s radar. Last year, Lord & Taylor settled FTC charges that it paid seemingly objective influencers in the fashion world to promote its clothing, pre-approving each post and contractually obligating them to use the “@lordandtaylor” Instagram handle. Under FTC policy, each violation of this nature can result in a civil penalty of up to $16,000.
The controversial practice is nothing new, but with the media’s increased attention on the legality of influencer marketing, celebrities may want to think twice about advertising on their online profiles.
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Cubs' Roster Is A Blend Of New And Old That Will Send Team On Another Postseason Ride
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Anthony Rizzo, left, and Javier Baez, right, will be key contributors to Cubs quest for a fifth consecutive postseason appearance. (AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynski)
Baseball prognosticators usually don’t fare too well on their season predictions, but that is part of the fun in this great game—to believe you know more than you think and your team develops into the championship club your visions predicted.
Here is how one soothsayer forecasts the 2019 season for some key Cubs players.
POSITION PLAYERS
Anthony Rizzo, age 29, 1b, 6’3”, 240 pounds, bats left, throws left
The two-time Gold Glove award winner is one of the N.L.’s most respected hitters. With his stance that eats up the inside part of the plate and has him among MLB hit by pitch leaders each season, he will continue to put up productive offensive numbers. His 118 career HBPs ranks second behind Shin-Soo Choo among active players. Rizzo is one of only three major league players to drive in 100 or more runs in each of the last four years—Edwin Encarnacion and Nolan Arenado are the other two. In 2019, expect Rizzo, who may be in the prime years of his offensive abilities, to reach his career averages from the last five years: 90 runs, 160 hits, 34 doubles, 30 homers, 100 RBIs, .282 BA, .385 OBP, .512 slugging, and .897 OPS.
Rizzo is created out of the mold of a Lou Gehrig or Cal Ripken—he plays, he produces, and his teams win.
Ben Zobrist, age 37, 2b, 6’3”, 210 pounds, bats both, throws right
The venerable veteran had a career best .305 BA last season with a .378 OBP, 40 extra-base hits and 58 RBIs. It’s unlikely he approaches another .300 BA, but don’t bet against Zobrist from having another inspiring season that helps the Cubs win. He is a true leader who will do whatever is asked of him. He will use his value as a supreme multi-position player and outstanding leadership qualities to guide the team.
Looking into our crystal ball, Zobrist will finish the 2019 season in the range of 25 doubles, 10 homers, and 55 RBIs while wearing the defensive gloves of a second baseman, right fielder, and left fielder.
Javier Baez, age 26, ss, 6’0”, 190 pounds, bats right, throws right
The 2018 N.L. RBI leader is predicted by many not to have the kind of production that made him an MVP finalist last year. But Baez is one of the most exciting players in MLB and is the most gifted defensive infielder in the game. He won’t disappoint with the glove and he will continue to improve at the plate. Don’t expect him to capture another RBI crown, but he will resume his desire to be the best player he can be and have similar numbers with the bat that he produced last year. He will approach 30 homers, 90 RBIs, 100 runs, and 20 stolen bases. The Puerto Rican star will also finish with a BA in the .275 range, and with improved plate discipline he will see his low totals in walks (29) and OBP (.326) rise while his slugging percentage will reach .500 for the second consecutive season.
Baez could win a Gold Glove at second, third, or short if he played most of his games at one position—but his ability with the glove is a call for a Gold Glove Award to be presented to the best multi-position player.
Kris Bryant, age 27, 3b, 6’5”, 230 pounds, bats right, throws right
In his brief MLB career, the talented third baseman has captured N.L. Rookie of the Year honors and a league MVP award. Now for 2019 he will be among the selections for the N.L. Comeback Player of the Year Award. Last season, Bryant missed 60 games due to various injuries, including a shoulder ailment that limited his power to only 13 home runs and 52 RBIs. And after averaging 106 runs scored per season during his first three years in the majors, Bryant crossed the plate only 59 times in 2018. All those numbers will be significantly higher this year and Bryant will again earn consideration for MVP along with top comeback honors. He will again post impressive OBP and slugging numbers and will enjoy his first 40-HR campaign.
He has regained the vigor that ranked him as one of the game’s elite players during his first three years, which is attributable to the fact he is healthy.
Willson Contreras,age 26, c, 6’1”, 210 pounds, bats right, throws right
Contreras marked his miserable slump in the second half of the 2018 season as part of the learning experience of being a major league player. That’s the attitude that will drive the strong-armed backstop to stardom in the majors. The club is aware of his value and will keep a watch on his playing time so not to wear him down. Contreras is primed for a breakout season with the bat that will see him surpass his 21-homer, 74-RBI output in 2017. He will finish with 25-plus dingers, 80 or more RBIs, and flirt with a .300 BA and .350 OBP. Also, the ever-improving catcher will be much better behind the plate on blocking balls in the dirt and pitch-framing while continuing to keep base runners honest with his powerful and accurate throwing ability.
This will be the season that gets Contreras ranked as one of the most elite catchers in the game.
Kyle Schwarber, age 26, lf, 6’0”, 235 pounds, bats left, throws right
After two full seasons, Schwarber is groomed to have his most productive offensive season after a 30-HR, 59-RBI, .211 season in 2017 followed by a 26-HR, 61-RBI, .238 campaign in 2018. Last year he had a career high .356 on-base percentage and that will continue to climb with his plate discipline and added experience. He also had a career best 78 walks, including an N.L. leading 20 intentional passes. Despite some awkward looking errors, Schwarber is a steady defender in left and has a strong throwing arm. Consistency will be Schwarber’s victory in 2019 as he will become more stable on a daily basis with his production and create a more dynamic presence in the Cubs lineup.
The powerful left-handed slugger will surpass the 30-homer plateau with an RBI total reaching 80 and a batting average and on-base percentage that will reach single-season high marks.
Albert Almora Jr.,age 24, cf, 6’2”, 190 pounds, bats right, throws right
Almora’s dynamic defensive plays last season make one wonder how he was not a finalist for a Gold Glove award. He is an excellent center fielder, but lacks the range possessed by the elite defenders at his position. He has rapidly become a steady performer both with glove and bat at the major league level and with continued playing time he will improve in production and power at the plate. He makes contact and avoids strikeouts which will help in his ability to get on base. A line-drive hitter, Almora has power and could see his extra-base hit total rise if he heightens his launch angle and becomes more disciplined at the plate. He was another player who suffered a long second half slump and when he becomes more consistent, he will be a hitter who can drive 40 doubles and 10-plus homers. Look for him to approach those numbers in 2019.
Almora will be a key element to the Cubs success this season with outstanding defensive work and being a key component to the lineup. Last season he hit .286 with a .323 on-base percentage and .378 slugging average . . . look for him to improve on all three in 2019.
Jason Heyward, age 29, rf, 6’5”, 240 pounds, bats left, throws left
Without question, Heyward is one of the very best defensive right fielders in MLB but his offensive contributions have been less than admirable with the Cubs. During the last three seasons, what you see is what you get from Heyward and that won’t change in 2019. He will end the season as a Gold Glove finalist and he will contribute offensively, but not in dynamic fashion. His final numbers will resemble his average season as a Cub—.252 BA, .322 OBP, 22 doubles, nine homers, 62 runs and 55 RBIs.
Things could click right for Heyward as a hitter, but during his first nine years in the majors, he has hit 15 or more homers in a season twice, scored more than 80 runs, twice, reached 80 RBIs only once, and has never had a season with a BA higher than .293 and his .393 OBP during his rookie campaign has never been approached.
Ian Happ, age 24, of/inf., 6’0”, 205 pounds, bats both, throws right
With 167 strikeouts in 387 at-bats (462 plate appearances) it is apparent that Happ needs better plate awareness and the ability to be both more selective and more aggressive. Like teammate Baez, if he can slow down the game and lay off the low outside breaking stuff he will become a very dangerous hitter in the Cubs lineup. After an impressive rookie season in 2017, Happ’s numbers dropped in every offensive category except walks, which jumped from 39 to 70, and on-base percentage which improved to a .353 reading last year from a .328 mark the previous season. He has power from both sides of the plate, runs the bases well, and can handle all three outfield positions while also having the athleticism to operate the third base and second base positions. Beginning the year in Triple-A may help him become more focused on his steps towards becoming an everyday player at the MLB level,
Being young, strong, talented, and determined to succeed will play out well for Happ as he will continue to grow as a major leaguer and put his struggles from the past behind him.
Daniel Descalso, age 32, inf., 5’10”, 190 pounds, bats left, throws right
The nine-year veteran is a good bat off the bench and a player who can fill in at any infield position and even a spot in the outfield. A line-drive hitter with some power, Descalso will excel at his role as a pinch hitter and player who will fill in at various positions.
He appears excited to be on a team expected to win and that intensity will help the Cubs to remain focused on reclaiming the N.L. Central Division flag.
Jon Lester, age 35, lhp, 6’4”, 240 pounds, bats left, throws left
Lester has been worth every penny of the hefty contract he signed in December 2014 that gave the Cubs a legitimate No. 1 ace. During his first four years with the Cubs, he is 61-31 with a 3.33 ERA and 770 innings pitched. Age is always a concern for a pitcher with as many games, and stressful innings Lester has compiled during his 13 years in the majors. He may not have another 19-5, 2.44 ERA he had in 2016 or the 18-6 mark he established last year, but Lester will continue to have his peak moments in big games. With the offensive capabilities the Cubs possess, look for Lester to win 15 games and be looked upon to start must win contests.
He may have lost some zip on his fastball, but Lester’s strength is his ability to adjust and get batters out with less electrifying stuff. His intelligence and strength will endure another year as he will continue to shut down opponents.
Cole Hamels, age 35, lhp, 6’4”, 205 pounds, bats left, throws left
If Hamels can pitch a full season the way he did for most of his career with the Phillies and Rangers and during his 12 outings with the Cubs last year (4-3, 2.36 ERA, 74 strikeouts, 76.1 innings) then Chicago will be elated they picked up his $20 million option for 2019. The crafty left-hander picked up a few miles on his fastball at the end of last season and was extremely effective. Hamels will be good for 10-15 wins in 2019 and will post an ERA below 3.50 and chew up anywhere from 175 to 200 innings.
Hamels would like nothing more than another shot at a World Series title and he is aware of the team around him, so expect him to be an effective starter and clubhouse leader.
Kyle Hendricks, age 29, rhp, 6’3”, 190 pounds, bats right, throws right
Hendricks has worked hard to be a quality starter in the majors with a fastball that rarely reaches the 89-90 mph range. His changeup is one of the best in baseball and he excels at keeping hitters guessing and off balance. He has also earned the trust of manager Joe Maddon, who frequently during his first few seasons as Cubs field boss pulled Hendricks from games earlier than was necessary. Hendricks was roughed up a bit during spring outings, but he will get better as the season gets longer.
Hendricks will be another Cubs starter with 10-plus wins and an ERA around 3.00 while completing 190 or more innings.
Yu Darvish, age 32, 6’5”, 220 pounds, bats right, throws right
After an injury-filled 2018 season, Darvish contests his arm troubles are behind him and he is ready to show he can live up to the value of his contract (6-year, $126 million). That is a large scale of expectations to meet, but the Japanese right-hander will fulfill that promise if he remains healthy. There is no question that when Darvish is right, he possesses some of the nastiest stuff in the game and hitters don’t find it easy stepping into the batter’s box to face his mid-90s fastball, hard breaking slider, sharp breaking curve, changeup and split-finger fastball.
If Darvish is right in 2019, look for him to contend with Kris Bryant for Comeback Player of the Year honors in the N.L.
Jose Quintana, age 30, 6’1”, 220 pounds, bats right, throws left
Quintana is not an ace of the staff pitcher or a team’s top-of-the-rotation Cy Young Award-winning candidate . . . but he is a dependable starter who will give you innings and a chance to win every time he takes the mound. He’s won 11 or more games in each of the last three seasons with an average of 190 innings, 32 starts, 3.77 ERA, and 182 strikeouts per year. Quintana and teammate Lester are the only two MLB pitchers to start 32 or more games in each of the last six seasons.
Quintana will continue with his ability to take the ball every fifth day and put his team in a position to win.
SWINGMEN
Mike Montgomery, age 29, 6’5”, 215 pounds, bats left, throws left
As Javy Baez thrives at multiple positions, Montgomery delivers in different roles on the Cubs staff. During his two-plus seasons with the Cubs, he has pitched in 99 games—38 starts and 61 relief appearances—while compiling a 13-15 record, three saves, 3.56 ERA, 285 innings, and three holds. His ability to start and relieve will give the Cubs a deep rotation and protection in the bullpen.
Barring any setback in his recovery from shoulder stiffness that limited his work during the spring, Montgomery is expected to be ready for the start of the season and should be an instrumental piece to the staff in his swingman role as both a starter and reliever.
Tyler Chatwood, age 29, 6’0”, 185 pounds, bats right, throws right
After leading the N.L. in defeats (15) with the Rockies in 2017 and signing a hefty contract (three years, $38 million) with the Cubs and leading the majors in walks (95 in 103.2 IP) in 2018, Chatwood is primed to prove his value as a pitcher. Like Montgomery, he will be used as a swingman and start out as a reliever with opportunities to take on starting assignments as the season grows old or injuries occur. His control issue that has affected his performances the last few years has been addressed and if he can limit the free passes he surrenders, he should bounce back in a positive way that will benefit the Cubs in 2019.
Chatwood is determined to regain his confidence and ability to get batters out whether he has to prove his value as a reliever or a starter. He will hone his ability and conquer his role as a starter and bullpen specialist.
Brandon Morrow, age 34, 6’3”, 205 pounds, bats right, throws right
Morrow has suffered and bounced back from injuries throughout his 12 years in the majors, but at 34, his age is a big factor on how well and how fast he can recover from ailments. He was a strong closer in the first half of 2018 (1.47 ERA, 22 saves) before a bone bruise on his right arm ended his season. In 2019, he was hoping for a strong comeback, but arthroscopic surgery on his elbow will have him on the DL to open the season and push his comeback to May at the earliest. If Morrow is healthy, he will team up with Pedro Strop for closing duties.
Morrow has dynamic stuff when he is healthy and the Cubs will monitor his usage in 2019 to allow him to be as effective in the bullpen as he possibly can.
Pedro Strop, age 33, 6’1”, 220 pounds, bats right, throws right
Since joining the Cubs at mid-season in 2013, Strop has been one of the most underrated relievers in MLB. With the Cubs, he has appeared in 361 games with a 19-19 record, 331.1 innings, 19 saves, 2.63 ERA, and 131 holds. He collected 13 saves last season when Morrow was placed on the disabled list. He was quality stuff and is as good a reliever as the Cubs have in the bullpen.
Strop and Morrow will split time as the Cubs closer and both will record 20 or more saves with impressive ERAs.
Carl Edwards, age 27, 6’3”, 170 pounds, bats right, throws right
Edwards is a hard-throwing right-hander who has the stuff to be a great closer or shutdown setup man, but the obstacle he needs to overcome is his confidence level. When he believes, he is lights out . . . but when hitters give him trouble and control problems arise, he struggles to get outs.
This will be a make or break year for Edwards with the Cubs and he appears ready to meet his challenge and become the steady reliever the team has expected him to become.
Brad Brach, age 32, 6’6”, 215 pounds, bats right, throws right
Brach has had some great success with the Padres, Orioles, and Braves. In 27 games with Atlanta last year, he posted a 1.52 ERA with one win and one save. In 2016 with Baltimore, he had a career year with a 10-4 record, 2.05 ERA and 79 innings in 71 games. If Brach can command his arsenal—four-seam and split-finger fastballs, slider, two-seam fastball, and change, he could be an effective middle man and add depth to the bullpen. His fastball ranges between 92-94 mph with a splitter and slider that check in at around 87.
Look for Brach to fill several bullpen roles and if he can eliminate his problem of surrendering too many walks, then he will be effective.
Steve Cishek, age 32, 6’6”, 215 pounds, bats right, throws right
The lanky right-hander has great stuff and put together a quality season for the Cubs in 2018 with a 4-3 record, four saves, 2.18 ERA, and 78 strikeouts in 70.1 innings. His funky delivery keeps right-handed hitters at bay—they hit only .165 against him last season and he’s held them to a .198 mark during his nine years in the majors. He also can be used as a closer, having produced 34, 39, and 25-save seasons with the Marlins and Mariners.
Cishek can be used in many roles as a reliever which makes him a valuable asset, especially with his ability to throw in consecutive games.
Brandon Kintzler,age 34, 6’0”, 194 pounds, bats right, throws right
Kintzler had a 29-save season in 2017 and is a groundball specialist who will be frequently used when a needed double play is in order.
He could prove to be a valuable backend bullpen specialist who could fill many roles in emergency situations. Look for him to be an asset if he isn’t overused.
Randy Rosario, age 24, 6’1”, 200 pounds, bats left, throws left
Rosario showed some electric stuff in his stint with the Cubs last season, producing a 4-0 record, one save, 3.66 ERA and 30 strikeouts in 46.2 innings. He throws in the mid-90s with a peak of around 97 mph. He has heavy sinking action with his four-seam fastball and he is effective against left-handed batters. Improvement with his command on his fastball and slider will give the Cubs a powerful lefty out of the pen . . . and with youth on his side, Rosario is poised for a breakout year.
Rosario has the potential to be a phenomenal reliever and could be a savior for the Cubs in the middle innings.
OTHER BULLPEN ARMS
There will be other relievers who will get their shot at becoming an integral piece of the Cubs pitching staff at some point during the 2019 season—Dillon Maples, Alec Mills, Kyle Ryan, Xavier Cedeno—and hopefully they will succeed and give the Cubs a reliable bullpen.
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Robert Kuenster
I have served as an associate editor, managing editor and editor for Baseball Digest magazine from July 1, 1987 through June 4, 2018, covering the MLB game as a writer. ...
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