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Koup Kustoms
Unity Facebook App
The project was to create an interactive Facebook App for a Kia Australia competition with the aim of engaging car enthusiasts and car lovers with a fun and interactive activity customising Kia’s latest sports vehicle, with the goal of creating eye catching magazine covers as entries to the competition.
Unity Web App Development
Transmedia Entertainment was brought onto the Koup Kustoms project primarily for our Unity Engine expertise. Having worked on several Unity based projects over the last five years, we were able to build an application that was easy to deploy via web browsers that had a very high graphical quality.
The great team at We Are Social have a comprehensive understanding of the web and it’s social impact. We were able to integrate the application into the Facebook Canvas and capitalize on people wanting to share their creations with the world as a fantastic marketing tool.
Server Integration
We Are Social have a solid internal server infrastructure, which we were able to leverage easily to provide a competition system, and management of user submitted pictures for re-distribution via Facebook and other marketing streams.
Normally Transmedia Entertainment works solo on projects, however for this project we were able to collaborate on site with We Are Social to leverage both team’s great skill sets to provide a superior product in the shortest possible development time.
See screenshots and a video of the App in action below and see more images from the competition on the Kia Australia Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KiaAustralia/photos_albums
Kia Motors had its humble beginnings as a manufacturer of bicycle parts by hand on the outskirts of Seoul, Korea. It has emerged as the driving force behind the Korean motor vehicle for the last six decades, laying claim to the production of the country’s first automobile as well as Korea’s first automobile export. The word “Kia” is derived from the Chinese characters Ki, meaning to “arise or come up out of” and a, referring to Asia. So when put together, Kia means to “arise or come up out of Asia”. Today, Kia has truly risen as a major global player and boasts an ever-expanding product line-up that is sold through a network of distributors and dealers covering 172 countries around the world. Over 40,000 Kia employees spanning the globe from an expansive human network that aspires for excellence on behalf of our valued customers. See http://www.kia.com.au/ for more information on Kia Motors.
We Are Social is a global conversation agency, with offices in London, New York, Paris, Milan, Munich, Singapore, Sydney & São Paulo. We help brands to listen, understand and engage in conversations in social media. They are a new kind of agency, but conversations between people are nothing new. Neither is the idea that ‘markets are conversations’. They are already helping adidas, Heinz, Unilever, Heineken, eBay, Jaguar, Intel, Moët & Chandon & Expedia. See http://wearesocial.net/ for more information on We Are Social.
The App in Action
Detail Images
A Selection of Competition Entries
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Mar 25, 2014 3:09 PMPublication: The East Hampton Press
East Hampton Town Considers Construction Of Solar Energy Plant At Airport
By Shaye Weaver
East Hampton Town has taken another step toward becoming less dependent on fossil fuels.
At last week’s East Hampton Town Board meeting, council members accepted a proposal from a company that is interested in leasing 140 acres at the 600-acre East Hampton Airport for the installation of a photovoltaic system, for the eventual production and storage of solar energy. The application was then forwarded to the Long Island Power Authority and PSEG Long Island for another round of review and, if it passes muster, will be bounced back to the town for additional examination.
That application—filed by Sustainable Power Group, or sPower, based in Salt Lake City, Utah—is different from three similar proposals already on file with the town that also seek to construct solar power plants on nearly a dozen town properties, namely landfills and on top of municipal buildings.
Additionally, town officials have accepted three other proposals, those filed by firms interested in installing up to three “peaker” plants—facilities that would only kick in when the existing power grid is stressed, but would not necessarily be powered by renewable energy. Representatives of those firms are interested in building those plants at either the Montauk or East Hampton landfills, and at the East Hampton Airport.
According to Frank Dalene, chairman of the town’s Energy Sustainability Advisory Committee, which presented the Town Board with its recommendation on the latest application, there could be as much as 38 megawatts of solar power produced at the airport alone under the plan proposed by sPower—an agreement that could potentially bring in more than $500,000 in annual lease payments for the municipality, depending on how many acres the companies end up leasing from the town.
The town is entertaining the solar plant proposals, in part, to take advantage of a feed-in-tariff program being offered by LIPA and PSEG Long Island, the latter of which took over the electrical distribution from LIPA in January, though the utility still owns the actual grid. Under the program, the utilities would provide fixed payments over 20 years to those companies that install and operate the solar power plants. The town, in turn, would receive a portion of the income collected by the energy companies and the lease payments from those companies. The energy produced would go directly onto the grid and go to local demand first, according to Mr. Dalene.
Town officials are aiming to attract companies interested in constructing renewable energy systems on town-owned land so they can lessen their dependence on coal and natural gas, while also generating new revenue for the municipality.
In January, the Town Board agreed to allow three energy companies—SunEdison Government Solutions, an international firm with a headquarters in Missouri, OnForce Solar/Quanta Solar Solutions based in the Bronx, and sPower—to participate in the program and construct solar plants. Ten town-owned properties, including landfills, brush dumps and even the rooftops of some municipal buildings, are likely to become solar energy hubs once the approval process is complete.
LIPA is currently reviewing those three proposals and, if they eventually secure approval, representatives of each company will come back before the town’s advisory board to go through another round of environmental impact assessments.
The 10 properties being considered by the town could potentially produce up to 23 megawatts of power combined, according to town officials. The leasing of those spaces, when combined with the town’s anticipated cut of the revenues collected by the firms, could generate anywhere from $18 million to $30 million over two decades, according to Mr. Dalene. The town could collect between $895,000 and $1.5 million in annual lease payments and on the 10 properties alone, assuming that some type of facility is constructed on each one.
As part of the plan approved last week, sPower is proposing paying the town $4,000 per acre, per year, to lease land at the airport for a solar plant. That plan bested a second one, filed by SunEdison Government Solutions; that firm, however, had already been selected by the town to construct a solar plant on at least one of the other municipal properties. Under its rejected plan, SunEdison offered to lease land at the airport for $2,000 per acre, but would also have needed to clear more trees than sPower. Also, the land targeted by SunEdison fell within the town’s groundwater protection area, according to town Councilwoman Sylvia Overby, who serves as a liaison to the Energy Sustainability Advisory Committee.
At the same time, the town wants peaker power plants to be built at the East Hampton and Montauk landfills, as well as at the airport, facilities that would store energy and produce additional power. Those plants most likely would be fueled by diesel or propane.
Three companies—Northville Industries Sigma Energy Systems in Melville, Harbert Phoenix Long Island Energy of Alabama and Hecate Energy of Tennessee—are still attempting to secure approval from both LIPA and PSEG to construct peaker plants at the airport and the two landfills. Hecate Energy is the firm of choice among advisory committee members, namely because it is proposing to build a fuel cell generation plant.
Once it is built, the peaker plant at the airport could bring in anywhere from $120,000 to $4.8 million in annual revenue for the town, according to Mr. Dalene. In all likelihood, construction on the peaker plants would not begin before 2017 at the earliest.
The companies seeking final approval were selected following extensive evaluation by the Energy Sustainability Advisory Committee, which based its criteria on expertise, financial viability, references, proposed technical services and products, cost and environmental impact, according to Mr. Dalene. Additionally, the recommended companies had to conform to the town’s Comprehensive Energy Vision, which is geared toward making East Hampton Town a leader in sustainable energy efficiency by decreasing its dependence on fossil fuels.
The committee is striving to reduce the town’s electrical consumption by 50 percent, though members have not set a specific date for that goal to be reached.
“I think it’s a nationwide hope, but not only resiliency and sustainability, but we’re hoping to not be reliant on other things, like the coal industry,” Ms. Overby said. “Our hope is to get rid of some of the fossil fuels fueling a lot of other problems for the environment around the world.”
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Texas fights to give homes to the homeless
By Juanita Deaver February 26, 2014
Francis Emelogu//The Daily Cougar
Yet again, the Internet enables a new outrageous trend. This time, it’s a Tumblr blog called Selfies With Homeless People, which essentially exploits the impoverished, starving and less fortunate for the entertainment of others.
To add to this insensitivity, the city council of Pensacola, Fla. passed a “camping” ordinance last summer that criminalizes the homeless for sleeping outside while “adjacent to or inside a tent or sleeping bag or atop and/or covered by materials” like bedrolls, newspapers, blankets, cardboard or any type of makeshift shelter.
In defense of this act, the city council argued homeless “camping” can affect Pensacola on a dangerous level by affecting the city’s “aesthetics, sanitation, public health and safety of its citizens.”
One could argue that smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and driving also affect the city and its citizens the same way — yet there are no ordinances passed against drinkers, smokers or drivers that prevent them from doing so.
A petition is circling at Change.org that has 18,000 supporters and counting.
Since the passing of the ordinance last summer, Pensacola Mayor Aston Hayward has changed his stance on the issue of ordinances against the homeless. He now favors an ordinance that would instead repeal such a blanket ban after “reflecting in prayer.” Hopefully, he realized how ridiculous this ordinance is.
Here in Texas, FACE Homelessness reports that — according to “Helping America’s Homeless: Emergency Shelter or Affordable Housing?” — more than 256,000 Texans will experience homelessness each year. That means “that on any given day in Texas, there are over 79,000 people” who are homeless.
In 2011, the Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless proposed a “Texas State Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.”
The executive summary states, “The pursuit of happiness and well-being begins with a stable home, yet over the course of a year, seven percent of extremely low-income households in Texas cannot access this fundamental resource. … For families with children, residential instability and loss of housing hinder childhood development. Children in homeless families struggle to keep up in school.
“For adults, exclusion from the housing market impedes success at work, interferes with job searches and may damage health. Most episodes of homelessness occur because low-income households cannot afford the high relative cost of housing. Personal factors that might impede access to housing, including issues with mental health and substance abuse, figure prominently only among Texans experiencing chronic homelessness. Chronically homeless individuals represent between only 16 and 21 percent of the homeless population.”
This causes readers to wonder what can be done to help the homeless families and individuals who have found a place to live on community sidewalks and under forlorn bridges. Luckily, the Texas Interagency Council has a plan.
The executive summary continues, “To address these realities, the Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless proposes this state plan to help Texas’s most vulnerable citizens enter and remain in safe housing. A substantial increase in the availability of affordable and permanent supportive housing, along with greater coordination of state agency resources to help Texans access supportive services when needed, will expand the state’s capacity to prevent and end homelessness. These measures will help individuals become engaged participants, not outcasts, in society. Helping Texans access housing will contribute to communities’ health and vitality. Texas can be a leading state in a nationwide effort to ensure that all persons have safe, decent, affordable housing, positioning them to contribute to and benefit from our great future.”
According to a recent federal report, on one night in January 2013, there were 30,000 people homeless in Texas. This is a 26 percent decrease since 2007 and a 13 percent decrease since 2012.
Despite this decrease, many people still believe there are too many people without shelter.
Ann Howard, the executive director of Ending Community Homelessness Coalition, said there are still too many individuals sleeping outside in the elements and that “it is unconscionable that 448 people in Austin, Texas, in 2014 were found outside with temperatures falling to 29 degrees.”
Yet even with all the do-gooder proposals and state-funded programs to help educate communities how to better help end homeless and to care for their homeless population, The National Coalition for the Homeless’ report entitled “A Dream Denied: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities, Narratives of the Meanest Cities” ranks Dallas as sixth and Houston as seventh of the 20 meanest cities to the homeless population.
Despite what we may feel about our native Texas, even we do not have enough protections for the impoverished. It is evident, though, that something must be done. Overcrowded shelters and assistance networks are not enough.
Texas needs to find a priority in its residents — all of them, homeless or not. As a friendly state, it should be our duty to set the standard for other states on how to treat the people living within them.
Opinion columnist Juanita Deaver is an anthropology freshman and may be reached at [email protected]
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Gun Control Org Sees “Huge” Influx Of Donations After Sandy Hook Shooting
14 December 2012 No Comment
The flood of new donors is “notably different than any other day” a Coalition to Stop Gun Violence spokesperson tells Buzzfeed.
A state police SWAT team member runs to a police car as Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut is evacuated after a shooting, Friday, December 14, 2012.
Image by Cloe Poisson/Hartford Courant/MCT
In the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, CT, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence says it has seen a “huge” influx of donations. “I’ve see a huge increase,” a spokeperson for the gun control organization told BuzzFeed. “I have not done anything to add up amounts,” she said, emphasizing that the organization's focus today is not on fundraising, “I had a huge amount of new donors come in, and people have been calling. [It's] notably different than any other day.”
“It's really touched people, people are really inspired to do something, anything they can do, to make sure this doesn't happen again,” she continued.
A spokesperson for the Brady Campaign, the nation's largest gun control lobbying organization, told BuzzFeed that it hasn't yet been possible to assess the scale of new donations. The organization's site has been on and offline all day, presumably under heavy load.
In a press conference earlier today, President Obama tearfully promised “meaningful action” to prevent further such massacres. Some Democratic Congressman are calling for a fresh legislative conversation about gun control. “If now is not the time to have a serious discussion about gun control,” said Rep. Nadler of New York, “I don’t know when is.”
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Mickey Rourke Doesn’t Smell
1990s, Boxing, GQ, Movies, Profiles, Scott Raab, Sports, The Arts
By Scott Raab
Lost inside a huge sweater and a baggy, low-slung pair of jeans, an oversized brown fedora slumped well down on his forehead, half walking, half leaning against a young woman with long brown hair, actor/boxer Mickey Rourke trudges down a hallway of the Plaza Hotel in New York City. It is two o’clock on a winter afternoon, early for him, and he has a meeting scheduled, although he can’t quite remember with whom. At the door of the Oak Room, where we have arranged to meet, he shakes hands tentatively. Turning to the young woman, he asks, “Is he the stunt coordinator?” His smile is off-kilter, the fogged grin of a sot trying to remember where he parked the car. His sunglasses have upswept tortoiseshell rims and teardrop lenses.
The young woman he’s with, Robbie—“my special assistant in charge of international affairs,” he calls her—reminds him of who I am and what we are doing here. She carries his money, his smokes and his cellular phone. The trappings of his fame, even here at rock bottom, still require that he be coddled like an infant. He is not left alone, not even to go from the second floor of the Plaza to the first. When he wants or needs something, someone must hand it to him. Preferably a woman.
The assistants, the publicists, the friends/bodyguards/gofers—they all have the same job these days: holding Mickey together. They tell him what he wants to hear—above all, by their hovering concern, that he still matters very much—and they say nothing that might register in his ears as unpleasant, such as the name of the wife from whom he is at this moment estranged, Carré Otis, whose presence is palpable, and not only because her name and visage are variously tattooed all over his body. Back in Los Angeles, a spousal-abuse charge filed by Otis is scheduled for trial in a few weeks. Rourke stands accused of slapping her, knocking her down and kicking her. In a few days Otis is due to arrive here in New York, attempting to resurrect her career as a model. She has a new boyfriend, a clothing designer. And here sits Mickey Rourke, his phantom acting comeback now at four years and counting, staring into the abyss through a pair of Edith Prickley shades.
“Women do what I tell them,” Rourke says. He’s serious.
At a table in the back of the room, Mickey takes off his hat; underneath it is a ’do-rag. He removes the glasses. His face is wan, hard-used, his cheeks rutted with nicks and scars, his chin stubbled. Despite this scruffy machismo, his air is feminine: the delicate dark eyes, the moue of his Kewpie-doll mouth, every movement and expression styled and marked with the peculiar self-regard of a creature obsessed with its own appearance. Like a doll, he has different looks to reflect his various personae: Biker Mickey, Mickey the Fop and, today, Hip-Hop Mick. Like an old-time actress, he is coy about his age: He claims 38, but some reports have him as old as 43. He spots a fortyish blonde at a nearby table staring his way. She has finished her lunch and is getting into her coat. She smooths her leather pants with her hands, takes her purse from the table and pushes in her chair, never taking her eyes from him. “They still look at me,” he says, smirking, after she is gone.
At this moment, Rourke is the Snake Man, the character he played in 9½ Weeks and Wild Orchid, who, armed only with a hoarse whisper and a bloated script, ignites the loins of any female, however reluctant. To most of us, this is simply a tired cinema fantasy: the tender thug, soft beneath the manly chest and hard beneath the zipper, the male equivalent of the whore with a heart of gold, who beds and weds the ur-female mannequin, gorgeous but cold, half-human, half-puppet. He reveals her to herself, brings her to life; in return, she becomes the beautiful mirror who exists solely to reflect his own hard but sweet face and larger-than-life force. Fade, the end, roll credits.
And how, exactly, does that work?
“You’ve got to tell them what to do.” Big smile.
Reality, which plays out in three dimensions according to a mostly hidden script, is usually more complex than this. But not for Mick, whose grip on a certain type of woman—models, exclusively, whose careers require the submission of body and will—is the last vestige of his potency. It began with Otis, Rourke’s Wild Orchid costar. With his fame fading, he married Otis, demanded that she give up modeling and began photographing her himself, hobbling her in chains and smearing her with oil. Now, during their separation, Rourke works the fashion-industry soil. At a party Mickey threw for himself, a modeling agent regaled me with the story of a friend whose recent liaison with Rourke had left her feeling unsatisfied with other, lesser men. “I’ve been bitten by the viper,” the friend had said.
Mickey orders roast beef, cold, no bread. He says his trainer, an Argentinean woman, has had him on an 800-calorie diet for three months. Twice he lifts his sweater to demonstrate the flatness of his stomach. It’s a nice stomach, a fine stomach, a proud stomach. He travels with a Gym In A Bag. His Cuban sparring partner shares his suite upstairs; together they work out. Still, he smokes many Marlboros and does not seem fit. His stomach is toned, yes, but he looks thin, battered. He weighs 163 pounds now; he boxed at 178. The boxing may be over. “I don’t know yet,” he says. “Last year, I fractured my cheekbone, I broke my fifth and fourth metacarpal, broke my knuckle twice, my big toe, and I’ve got an eight-inch scar underneath my tongue.” Pause. “Well, it’s about four inches. I had to go back to the boxing because I was self-destructing. I had no respect for myself being an actor. So I went back to a profession which really humbled me.”
He says that he fought nine times over two years, mainly in Europe. He does not say that the dawn of his boxing career coincided with the demise of his career in mainstream movies. One opponent, he says, had fought for the middleweight and light-heavyweight championship of Canada. He does not say why such a consummate pugilist would take a six-rounder with a fortyish actor. He claims a ring record of seven wins and two draws; six of them, he says, were knockouts. He does not say that his pro debut in fact came in 1991, that it was a four-round decision in Miami over a moonlighting auto mechanic.
He is ready, now, to forsake boxing, if only Hollywood will finally take him back. He’s in New York shooting Bullet, a low-budget gangster flick out in Brooklyn, costarring the not-yet-convicted, not-yet-gelded rapper Tupac Shakur. This is what it’s come to: “I’m playing a Jewish guy who gets out of jail after eight years,” he says. “There was an actress we wanted to play the mother—her agency called back and said, I’m not going to stick my talent in a movie with Mickey Rourke and Tupac Shakur.’”
I ask about Carré Otis: Would he like to patch things up? “Don’t talk about that at all,” he warns. “Not at all.”
I venture that he sounds like he’s hurting over her, like he hasn’t let go.
“I don’t let go,” he says, his voice nearly breaking. “Ever. Of nothin’.
“What do you want to know?” he asks after a moment. “Because I’d rather give it to you straight than have you paraphrase some quote that’s not true. Her agent has been using my celebrity to try to get her career off the ground. So I don’t want to give it any play at all.”
Suddenly he puts his arm around my shoulder and pulls me to him until my head is against his. In a hoarse whisper, he says she has a big problem, that it was someone else who slapped and kicked her, or maybe she just fell down.
It’s at this moment, tête-à-tête, that I realize that Mickey Rourke has no smell, no odor whatsoever. None, bad or good. Not even his breath.
A woman answers the door of his suite at the Plaza the following afternoon and introduces herself as Karen. She is full-lipped, brown-haired, blue-eyed, tight-jeaned, sweet-assed, heart-stoppingly fine. She looks, in fact, a lot like a vest-pocket version of Carré Otis. She says she is a singer/model; she once was a model/singer, but she has chosen to put her music first. Mickey is on the phone to L.A., pitching a script he wrote. He describes it as “an ethereal Western.”
His phone call finished, he escorts Karen to the door and stretches out on the couch, stripped to the waist. It is mid-afternoon, but the large room is darkened, lit by a single lamp; the floor-to-ceiling draperies look as if they haven’t stirred in months. Despite the burnished wood and gilt-framed art, there is a whiff of decay. Sweat socks, perhaps, or a remnant of his twin Chihuahuas, who are in another room, asleep. The couch is silken gold, except for one large stain, a smudge on the fabric at the precise spot where, if he were sitting up, his head would rest. His stomach looks excellent today, and his face seems fuller, more robust, less sallow. His hair seems to have a separate, darker existence, as if someone had dipped a sea anemone in motor oil and sewn it to his skull. His mood is improved, reflective but not somber. He’s still talking about his acting comeback.
“I think people know that I’m making a genuine attempt to come back and ask for redemption,” he says quietly. “It’s up to them to say ‘Okay, Mickey, we’ll give you that opportunity.’”
The phone rings and he rises to get it. He’s in the process of having several of his tattoos removed by a laser surgeon in Miami, but above his left shoulder blade a large, fine-line portrait of Carré Otis is untouched. Her face, gentle and smiling, rises above dark clouds like a sun; her hair billows around it. When he answers the phone, no one is on the tine. One of his two Chihuahuas, perhaps awakened by the ringing, trots into the room. “C’mere, baby,” he coos and carries it back to the couch with him. The tiny dog is trembling, cradled in his arms. “They’re not used to New York weather. They have sweaters somewhere. We bought them sweaters.”
Marlon Brando’s autobiography sits on the coffee table between us. “It’s happened to Brando and a lot of people,” he notes, “where they were put on a shelf.” Last year Mickey made a Japanese cigarette commercial and a movie called Fall Time, which, after a tepid reception at the Sundance Film Festival, has yet to be released. He says that if he does not get another offer soon he may call his boxing promoter again, try to find another fight.
His Cuban sparring partner enters the room. The phone rings again: another hang-up. Mickey and his sparring partner have a brief conversation in Spanish. They suspect it is Carré who keeps calling and hanging up.
Mickey grew up in Miami’s notorious Liberty City; when I asked him how he came to live there, he snapped, “Because my mother married a pig.” That would be his stepfather, a cop who regularly slapped Mickey and his brother around. Mickey missed his own father fiercely, with a grudge he held for decades. Before he came to New York to study acting, he was a penniless thug, beering and drugging with the boys, fighting in the streets.
If Hollywood refuses to offer him identities to slip into, if the boxing is over, then he’s left with only himself, a lost and beaten Little boy whose father left him long ago.
“I am trying,” he says now, “through a lot of therapy and a lot of growing, to get the chip off my shoulder. Anybody who’s got demons inside him and, let’s say, comes from a background, let’s say, of being physically abused to a certain extent, you have an innate hatred that never goes away. Never goes away. Because of the hurt, because you can’t defend yourself when you’re little.” Prizefighting, he says, helped him outgrow this. “I had to come to terms with the demons about not feeling like a piece of shit as a man,” he explains, and stops talking for a long minute. “I think the boxing is coming to an end,” he sighs. “I have no choice; it’s time to take the acting, this year, as far as I can take it. I’m not going to get a lot of opportunities. I’ve gotta do it.”
At moments like this, it’s apparent that some part of Mickey Rourke knows he’s finished. He has spent his entire adult life convincing audiences that he is someone else—speaking other people’s lines, investing in the psychic landscapes of men who don’t exist, wearing their clothes, fighting their battles and suffering their wounds. If Hollywood refuses to offer him identities to slip into, if the boxing is over, then he’s left with only himself, a lost and beaten Little boy whose father left him long ago. So he does what he can. He’s the name in boldface in the gossip columns; he’s the tough guy, the fashion plate, the stud the models dig. Self-parody, it seems, is better than no self at all.
The sad thing, the thing that makes Mickey Rourke in descent so fascinating, is that once upon a time this guy could act. His small, dark eyes, his twisted, closed-mouth smile, the weary husk of his voice: He was a kid in 1981, when he had his first standout role, a small part in Body Heat, but every word and gesture said he knew about rage and desire, about feeling caged and doing whatever has to be done to break out.
People noticed, particularly serious directors. Barry Levinson gave Rourke his first featured role, in Diner. Coppola made him Motorcycle Boy in Rumble Fish. Then came The Pope of Greenwich Village, his breakthrough, the performance that his fans still recall with passion. He played Charlie Moran, an Irish tough with mob problems, a volatile relationship with his woman and a self-immolating attachment to the macho, inane code of honor that, at least in the movies, rules the mean streets.
For Mickey Rourke, of course, the role was not exactly a stretch. And while that hard-guy persona he needed to survive growing up the way he did may have helped drive him to acting success, it translated poorly to actual stardom. Even in Liberty City, when you call your job bullshit and your boss a scumbag—as Mickey publicly described 9½ Weeks producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr.—and show up at work with a posse of Hell’s Angels and demand work for all of them, you are begging for the shitcan.
Yet he was still a star then, still had his choice of roles, could have cleaned up his own mess. Instead, as the bleak non-hit parade of neo-noir detectives and mumbling losers grew endless, he became too painful to watch and too difficult to bother working with. However deluded Rourke may be about his past and future in Hollywood, viewing his films in chronological order, watching a fine young actor re-create himself as a stumbling hack—without range, without craft, without even giving a damn—is both astounding and tragic, like seeing a wrecking ball slam a building into dust.
“I need character witnesses,” he says, the Chihuahua next to him on the couch. “Publicists can’t really do it—it’s gotta be people within the industry. They gotta say ‘Hey, you know, Rourke’s ready to start workin’ again.’”
That night, on the movie set, the playground of a public school in Brooklyn, I’m waiting for Mickey to let me into his trailer, where, I’ve been promised, the soul-baring is to continue. “We’ll have all night,” Mick had assured me. “I’m a night man, anyway; I’m a very free spirit at night. There’s no rules.”
Every hour or so, the unit publicist knocks on the trailer door. The door opens slightly and the publicist cranes his head inside. There is a brief conversation and then he returns, shaking his head. “Not yet,” he says each time, as if one of us believes that eventually I’ll get inside. Both of us know the immutable Zen of the star’s trailer: One who belongs in the trailer is in the trailer. One who is outside the trailer belongs outside the trailer. No way exists to get inside the trailer except to be inside the trailer.
The unit publicist was ever so much more cheerful on the ride out to Brooklyn. “Mickey’s incredible,” he had said then. “We heard that he was difficult, but he’s been just incredibly cooperative. He brings everyone on the set into his life.” This may explain why Tupac won’t let anyone into his trailer, either.
When filming breaks for lunch around 11 PM., Tupac and Mickey dine alone, in their respective trailers. I go into the school cafeteria, grab a plate of tepid catered chicken and sit across from Matty Powers, an actor who looks remarkably like a younger, fresher Mickey Rourke. He admires Mickey, feels grateful to be working with him, but he’s worried about the mood swings.
“I can’t get the guy to take his hands out of his pockets,” Matty says. “I said, ‘Mick, how are you?’ He says, ‘Ah, fifty-fifty.’ I say, ‘Mick, you’re not even twenty-eighty.’” Matty says that Mick has agreed to get tested for depression after the shoot is over.
Mickey has a brief scene after midnight. He comes out of the trailer and walks past me without even a nod. At 2:30 A.M., Robbie emerges to confirm that I have no chance of being inside the trailer tonight. Tomorrow is possible, she says, and provides the cellular number. When I phone the next morning to check if it still is possible, Mickey answers. “How the fuck did you get this number?” he says. It sounds like another bad day, so I hang up.
I catch up with Mickey a few days later, early on the Saturday evening that marks the end of Fashion Week in New York. His people have spent the week planting breathless stories in the tabloids about Mickey’s romp through the spring collections.
First, the Daily News ran a front-page photo of the begowned Carré Otis and an inset of her hubby; “DON’T LET HIM NEAR ME,” screamed the headline. On Friday, it was reported that Rourke had trashed his suite at the Plaza to the tune of twenty grand and that owner Donald Trump had banned him from its hallowed grounds for life. The same day, the Post ran a four-column picture of Rourke smooching with some 16-year-old supermodel.
Now he’s in his favorite little café on Madison Avenue, dressed in his hip-hop best, sans hat, with a fresh scrape underneath one eye and his hair waving in lank little tendrils, looking as if it has spent the week at the bottom of a service bay at Jiffy Lube. The entire Rourke troupe is present: Pink, Mickey’s longtime companion/bodyguard; Matty Powers; Robbie; his publicist, who has flown in from the coast to assume wet-nurse duty; and both Chihuahuas. The evening is warm and the dogs are sweaterless.
“Whaddaya got?” Mickey asks as soon as I sit down.
“Whaddaya wanna know?” He’s pissed off.
“What’s with the hair?” I ask.
“The what?”
“The hair.”
“It’s growing back. Next question.” The table gets quiet; someone asks Mickey for a smoke. One of the dogs, apparently sensing Daddy’s nasty vibe, leaps from Pink’s lap onto the floor “Loki, baby,” Mick calls, “it’s okay. What are you looking at, my little angel? I love you.” Mickey gives the dog an air kiss and I ask him about the 16-year-old supermodel.
“I would not go near a 16-year-old girl. I don’t even fuck. I’ve gotta be in love to fuck a woman. I’ll get a blow job, but I won’t fuck. I cannot fuck unless I’m in love.”
“Me neither,” I say. “How about a blow job?”
“Open it up,” Mickey says, laughing, pointing at my crotch. “I’ll suck your dick. Got twenty dollars?”
My zipper stays closed, but the exchange relaxes the conversation somewhat. I ask him how the last couple nights of filming Bullet went.
“You missed the fight scene, schmuck,” he answers. “What a schmuck. You missed it. You missed the most difficult night.” He turns to the publicist. “He misses the fight scene. What a schmuck.”
Oh, yeah? “How was Fashion Week? They let you into any of Carré’s shows?”
“I did go. We’re not gonna mention her name in the article, though. You understand what I’m saying? They’re just trying to get her movie career off, and it’s not gonna happen. You understand? They’re using my good name to make me look like a piece of shit. I don’t want you to put that in—I just want you to call other people and put in that she can’t act. That’s all. All right?”
Talk turns to finding a place to watch George Foreman and Michael Moorer fight for the heavyweight championship in a couple of hours. Robbie brings out the cellular, but the midtown sports bar Mickey instructs her to phone is already fully booked. There’s an alternative, a topless club, but first, Mickey says, he has to call someone himself to obtain clearance. Both clubs are mobbed-up, but not with the same family. I ask him why he has to make the call.
“Because there was life before acting, okay?” he says mysteriously.
When I press him on this, he tells me that his real father was a shooter, a Mob hit man known as “Two-Gun Philly.” Narrowing his eyes and dropping his voice, he adds, “That’s a piece of information that’ll put you in the ground if you use it.”
Yeah, Mick’s been friendly with guys, used to hang out at the Ravenite Social Club and so forth. He was caught on-camera outside the courthouse during one of Gotti’s trials, yapping to the local news about how tight he was with the capo. Ever since, Mickey Rourke has been considered a loudmouth and a punk, and he knows it. That’s why he makes these phone calls.
At the topless club, Tupac Shakur and a couple members of his Thug Life crew join us. No problem: The entire center section of the front row has been reserved for Mickey and his group. Tupac and Mickey grew tight while filming Bullet; they sit side by side in the middle of the row. The fight has not begun, so the mirrored stage is held by a series of women thrusting about to the most irritating crap-rock imaginable The overall effect is as exciting as toast, and Mickey and Tupac, huddled in discussion, never look up. They may be comparing legal notes: Tupac’s sodomy trial begins in two days.
When the lights go down and the fight begins, all conversation halts. A series of young men appear at my side—I’m at the end of the row—and ask me if it’s all right to approach Mr. Rourke for an autograph. Since I am large and tattooed, I assume that they have mistaken me for one of his bodyguards, and I turn each of them away: Mr. Rourke can’t be bothered now. Mr. Rourke takes boxing very seriously.
Mickey’s rooting loudly for the 45-year-old Foreman, along with everyone else in the room, but there is little to cheer through the first nine rounds. Moorer, in fact, is pounding Foreman’s pumpkin face into mush. Suddenly, in the tenth round, Foreman clubs the younger man with a sledgehammer right and knocks him out. “See? See?” Mickey screams, leaping from his chair. “Age don’t mean shit!” As the group is escorted to a table for dinner, Mickey tells me that he won $30,000 betting on Foreman. After the meal, the waitress shyly asks Mickey if she can perform a couch dance for him in a private room at the back of the club. “I would love to so much,” she says. “Please.” Mickey graciously assents.
Mickey’s back at the table in fifteen minutes; given his normal state of dishevelment, I can’t tell if anything fellatioc has transpired.
When your career is down the crapper, even bad publicity is good publicity, and each moment of this charade reunion is captured on film.
It’s after midnight, time to head to Club Expo, the trendy dance hall where Mickey hangs regularly. Mickey’s arrival at Expo is precisely choreographed. He has removed his sweater to reveal a white sleeveless undershirt and an enormous wooden cross hanging from a cable-thick rosary around his neck. His jeans droop stylishly below the waistband of his chalk-striped boxers. At his side, Tupac is an encrusted vision of gold subtly accented by a blue New York Rangers jersey and a no-label ’do-rag. We’re met by club personnel, ushered quickly into a side entrance and escorted up to the roped-off velvet-cushioned VIP section, where, on most Saturday nights, Mickey leans against the railing and scans the throng below. Occasionally, he’ll spot a young vixen and have her brought to him. It’s a nice setup.
Tonight, however, Carré Otis herself is planted on the burgundy cushions in Mickey’s section. She’s wearing a tight black dress that plunges midway down her creamy bosom. Her hair is pulled back tightly; her immobile face is a still life of pink, untouchable lust.
“She looks ravishing,” I say to Mickey’s publicist. “Don’t tell Mickey that,” he squeaks, working hard to appear stricken. “I just can’t believe this is happening.” That’s when it becomes clear that this is only another staged event, a show. Carré Otis knows exactly where she’s sitting, as did the Expo people who met Rourke at the door. As does every tabloid photographer in New York City. When your career is down the crapper, even bad publicity is good publicity, and each moment of this charade reunion is captured on film. Carré moves out of Mick’s section shortly, and the Rourke party spreads out. A tray of drinks arrives, sent by Otis. Mickey orders a bottle of Cristal for Carré; Tupac delivers it.
In his VIP section, Mickey swigs from a bottle of red wine; Tupac rolls and smokes joint after joint. As if the scuzz-celebrity quotient here tonight isn’t quite high enough, Shannen Doherty appears on the cushions. She and Tupac talk; Mickey is busy scanning the floor below, where someone has hoisted Carré atop a huge speaker on the floor. She is dancing, stiffly, alone, above the crowd. I notice two girls who have been allowed beyond the rope; they are standing at my side, staring at Mickey’s back, whispering and giggling. The one with raven pigtails, her midriff bare, approaches Mickey. The other, blonde and bubbly-cute, asks me who I am. She and her friend are models, she tells me and begins to laugh. “Look,” she says, pointing to her friend, whose hand is now down the back of Mickey’s jeans. “He’s so gross. I can’t believe it.”
She wants to know what Tupac is like. I tell her all I know is that he’s smoked a lot of weed tonight. “He’ll probably want to do that anal thing,” she says, laughing, and moves to him. In a little while, it’s time to go home. The blonde leaves with Tupac, and Mickey and her friend take the next cab. Before he gets in, Mickey comes over to give me a hug. His lips brush my cheek. “Take care of yourself,” he says warmly. I still can’t smell a thing, not even the wine.
Tempus fugit, they say, and lives change, but not all that much. Shortly after I felt Mick’s farewell kiss, a Los Angeles court dismissed the single count of misdemeanor spousal abuse against him. The city prosecutor’s office was ready to go ahead—Mickey faced a maximum one-year sentence—but Carré Otis simply didn’t show up to testify. “Apparently,” said Rourke’s attorney, “these two wonderful people have been able to work things out between them without it becoming a public spectacle.”
On Valentine’s Day 1995, with newspaper photographers in tow, Mick and Carré announced their reengagement. They had not actually been divorced, of course, but this way they were able to buy new rings.
Poor Tupac was not nearly so fortunate. He was convicted of sexual abuse and sentenced to four and a half years in prison, which turned out to be the good news. The bad news arrived on the night before his conviction, when he was shot five times in a mysterious ambush in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio. One bullet hit a testicle. “Thug Life to me is dead,” he told Vibe magazine from his jail cell. Eligible for parole in eighteen months, he plans to team with Mike Tyson to help save young blacks from violence.
As of this writing, according to Mickey’s publicist, Rourke and Otis are very happy. “Mickey looks incredible, better than ever,” he told me, “and Carré is modeling full-time.” Yes, he confirms, Mickey definitely has retired from boxing.
Any current movie projects?
“He’s not really working on anything right now,” says the publicist.
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My Ears Are Bent
2000s, Essays, John Schulian, MSNBC, The Literary Life
By John Schulian
Not a holiday season arrives that I don’t think of a gray, clammy day long ago on Baltimore’s waterfront and a lost soul who told me about the woman who had given him his only gift in years: a Christmas card. It was just the sort of story I was looking for when I was making my bones as a newspaper reporter, and now that I have a better understanding of the forces that drove me, I imagine it was a story that Joseph Mitchell would have gravitated to himself. If you don’t know who Mitchell is, or even if you do, the following is my gift to you.
In a perfect world, of course, I’d put fancy paper, ribbon and a bow on My Ears Are Bent, a collection of his newspaper features from the 1930s that came back into print this year after a criminally long time as a used-book store treasure. Devotees spent years searching for it in the past because, frankly, Mitchell was worth the trouble—one of the 20th Century’s most remarkable journalists without being a scandal-breaking Washington muckraker or a dashing, trench-coated foreign correspondent. His specialty was chronicling New York’s human exotica: pickpockets and wrestling impresarios, tinhorn evangelists and burlesque queens, counterfeit royalty and watermen who bragged of sitting down with a friend to eat a barrel of oysters on the half-shell after dinner. And hold the sauce.
Every once in a while, Mitchell would slip and interview a celebrity—the lusty Jimmy Durante, for example, or the memorably rude George Bernard Shaw. But he seems to have always atoned by finding a character like the hooker who explained her calling thus: “I just wanted to be accommodating.”
Mitchell’s greatest affection may have been reserved for saloonkeepers and their well-oiled customers, which leads me to believe he would have liked the characters I chanced upon shortly before Christmas 1973. I never learned the most important one’s name; to me, he was simply The Flier because he claimed to have flown jet fighters in the Korean War. If The Flier had anything resembling a benefactor, it was Uncle Pete Drymala, who ran a bar called Pete’s Hotel. And then there was the girl who had given The Flier his Christmas card the year before. He had to pull the card out of his pocket so he could tell me her name. Francesca—that was it.
Story after story in My Ears Are Bent vibrates with Mitchell’s sense of wonder, for he was a young man out of North Carolina when he wrote them for two New York dailies.
The Flier, Uncle Pete and Francesca dwelled by the docks in an area called Fells Point, which had been spared from the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 and from being plowed under when I-95 was built. Its reward for surviving, if a reward is what it is, now includes gentrified rowhouses and dives turned into bistros where, according to one review, the cell-phone generation can enjoy “honey-colored beer, steamed shrimp and sushi.” But all that has come to pass since The Flier wandered its cobblestone streets.
Back then, Fells Point was blissfully down at the heels, crawling with merchant seamen who figured no night was complete unless they got drunk, got in a fight, and got lucky with a local sweetheart. The Flier fit in perfectly, drinking white port wine that he bought for $1.25 a fifth, tax included, and pausing only to sleep in boarded-up buildings or to warm himself by the radiator in Pete’s Hotel. He drank at Pete’s, too, and when he got out of hand, Uncle Pete would 86 him, even at Christmastime.
There was an Edward Hopper quality about The Flier’s existence, and I see the same thing when I read Joseph Mitchell. The bleak, the stark and the unforgiving become somehow beautiful because they are in the right hands.
Story after story in My Ears Are Bent vibrates with Mitchell’s sense of wonder, for he was a young man out of North Carolina when he wrote them for two New York dailies, the Herald Tribune and the World Telegram. Soon after his anthology was originally published in 1938, he hired on at The New Yorker, where he remained until he died 58 years later, by then a seminal figure in literary journalism. The mature Mitchell’s grandest achievements can be found in a collection called Up in the Old Hotel, but as artful and profound as those pieces are, they can’t match the urgency and delight of his newspaper reportage.
At the dawn of his career, I imagine he felt the same way I did when I was breaking in at the Baltimore Evening Sun. My reporter’s notebook was a ticket to the kind of adventures most people with college degrees don’t have. I got tear-gassed by state troopers breaking up an anti-war protest. I heard a mother’s anguished cries after a shantytown fire at five in the morning. I latched onto pool hustlers who spun yarns about fleecing bus drivers and tobacco farmers. And I went looking for Francesca after The Flier showed me that Christmas card.
My search led me to Pete’s Hotel, and to Uncle Pete, who cashed the meager check the government sent The Flier every month, then watched out the front window as the inevitable happened. Sometimes The Flier drank up his money, other times his fellow stew bums stole it. Uncle Pete told him not to put all the money in the same pocket, but The Flier never listened.
It was hardly a scenario to generate Christmas spirit. Uncle Pete, however, wasn’t opposed to proving one of Mitchell’s pet theories: “.…the saloonkeeper is apt to know the address or hangout of any citizen dopey enough or unlucky enough to be of interest to a great metropolitan newspaper.” He pointed at a woman sitting at the bar with three beer glasses in front of her, one full, one half-empty, one dead. It was Francesca.
She had made 30 the hard way, living on unemployment when she wasn’t stripping, but there was still a soft spot in her heart, and it was The Flier who found it. “I get mad at him when he sits out there and drinks all that lousy wine,” she told me. “But that don’t keep him from being a good person. He’s always been a good person, and he don’t bother nobody. That’s why I gave him the card. I gave it to him out of my heart.”
The sentiment was perfect for the season, and there was no diminishing it even when Francesca killed her second beer with a deep swallow and a belch. My head spun with the possibility of reuniting her with The Flier. The idea was so melodramatic it would have sent Mitchell running, but I clung to it until I realized The Flier had wandered off to a place that defied finding. It was just as well. He and Francesca had connected long before I stumbled into their lives, and the memory would get them both through another Christmas.
[Photo Credit: Bags]
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Abergavenny Thursday
Abergavenny Women's History
The club was founded in June 2014 after local side Govillon changed their name following a move to Pen-Y-Pound after former club Abergavenny Thursdays folded.
The new club was entered into the Gwent County League First Division for the 2014-15 season. They finished the season as champions of that division after going the entire league campaign unbeaten . This earned the club a place in the Third Division of the Welsh Football League. Success continued during the 2015/16 season as the club won promotion to the Second Division after finishing second in the league. The club also won the FAW trophy following a 1-0 victory over Sully Sports. The 2016/17 saw Abergavenny finish 11th in the Second division but the end of the season saw long time servant and Manager Steve “Butch” Morgan leave the club after 20 years of involvement at Govillon and Abergavenny.
The long-term goal of the club is a place in the Welsh Premier League. A position last held by the old Abergavenny club during the 1992-93 season, when the League of Wales was first formed
Abergavenny Thursday Early records show that football in the market town of Abergavenny started during the 1890s. The fir
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The Grateful Dead Solution to the Artificially Generated Stampede
The remaining members of the iconic rock band The Grateful Dead have announced a 50th year reunion concert. It will be held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois on July 3-5, 2015. All three nights are completely sold out. Venue capacity for each show will be approximately 70,000.
OBJECTIVE: Try to convince one of the band members to explicitly inform fans that… legitimate emergency stadium evacuation orders would NEVER be delivered via their personal phones.
Why you ask? Because when a stadium evacuation is deemed absolutely necessary, standard protocol dictates using the public address system, usually in tandem with the video monitors. Reason being — it’s necessary to present an all-encompassing, unified directive. Under no circumstance whatsoever would you attempt to individually alert each person. That’s just not how it’s done.
This is indisputable, common sense, public safety information. Sounds simple enough, right? Well… not really. It’s critical to understand the NFL’s perspective.
Soldier Field is one of 31 National Football League venues. Regrettably, despite the proliferation of smart phone technology, the NFL front office remains unwilling to acknowledge that their emergency evacuation protocol is outdated. Some would argue obsolete. The reasoning behind this is both exceedingly visible and blatantly obvious. Virtually everyone in the crowd has an active cell phone!
These mobile devices function as miniature wireless super computers and are capable of transmitting real-time information (hoax bomb threats, phony evacuation orders, spoofed messages, etc.). The saturation of such false information could come in an array of formats (wireless carrier hack, abuse of an opt-in notification system, bulk text messaging, social media blitz, reverse 911 platform, robo-calls, emergency alerts, etc.). It could be both deliberate or unintentional. Simply stated, if something like this were to happen, it is an attempt to induce widespread panic.
Panic and stadiums do not mix.
The NFL will not acknowledge this predicament for three basic reasons: plausible deniability, foreseeable litigation and the lose-lose proposition. They will never make a voluntary admission about a scenario which could render a stadium unsafe. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell does not allow the media to field speculative questions in this realm. Extreme Networks, the Official Wi-Fi Analytics Provider of the NFL, is equally reluctant to address the complexity of this very generic issue. The agsaf.org website explores this matter in greater detail.
The federal government (Congress, DHS, FCC, etc.) also refuses to publicly acknowledge this asymmetric, national security threat — the prospect of weaponizing a human stampede. As you might except, the notion of indiscriminately killing people without conventional weapons is a touchy subject. Once again, AGSAF provides a more thorough explanation.
People have a fundamental right to know…
that if they are in a large, confined crowd and receive an evacuation order
and/or panic-inducing information from their cell phone or mobile device…
it’s almost certainly a hoax designed to create an artificially generated stampede.
Or we can be a little more straightforward.
Official stadium evacuation orders do NOT come from your personal cell phone.
I’ve been searching for someone to deliver this message for a little over 3 years. The challenge comes not from the truthfulness of the message. The dilemma I usually encounter is a “societal uneasiness” or trepidation. Others will claim my concerns are stupid or meaningless and often “conspiratorial.” However, when asked to explain their logic, the ad hominem attacks continue or there’s an attempt to shift the conversation.
Here’s why. There has never been a transparent admission of the problem itself. This issue, by its very nature, is undiscussable. Nobody’s permitted to talk about the potential downside of 50,000 – 100,000 hot cell phones in any NFL stadium. Whether or not the subject matter merits consideration isn’t even really the issue. The question you must ask yourself — WHY is it completely unavailable for public consumption? And there’s your red flag — a total lack of situational awareness.
To top it off, there’s a taboo question that’s even more unsettling — could something like this be attempted? Seriously, is it asking too much for human beings to get ahead of the curve on this one? Especially since it’s just a modern variation of shouting fire in a crowded theater. This isn’t Big Bang Theory physics with Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
Please consider these recent quotes…
Concert promoter Peter Shapiro: “The Grateful Dead truly are a great American rock & roll band so to have their final shows take place July 4th weekend in Chicago creates a lot of potential for magic to be made.”
Lead guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio: “The Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history. They really embodied the American concept of freedom”
I generally agree with these characterizations of history and freedom. During the summer of 2015, I’m hoping for a different kind of magic to be made. A different demonstration of independence. I’m merely asking someone in the band to finally divulge the uncomfortable secret that many already know, one that will eventually become common knowledge.
Over the years, I’ve grown dissatisfied with the strategic incompetence of the NFL and the bureaucratic indifference of government. What this situation calls for is a high profile Bob Barker-inspired individual. Remember what happened at the end of each Price is Right episode? He’d urge viewers to get their pets spayed or neutered. Help control the pet population. It was a moral plea that had nothing to do with the game show. And it didn’t cost anything. Give it some thought. There could be some very similar parallels. Just change the last name from Barker to Weir.
There has been a lot of speculation that these reunion concerts are purely an attempt to cash in. With all the financial interests at stake, here’s a convincing way for the band to squash these rumors. Follow my advice and share this information with the world — legit stadium evac orders don’t come from your cell phone. This info doesn’t cost a dime. It’s priceless. What better evidence that not everything revolves around greed and money? If you can think of a better way, lemme know.
So furthermore, why the Dead? Because these concerts are being billed as a once-in-a-lifetime event, the exposure will be significant. There will be live simulcasts streaming to every continent. This is not your typical stadium concert (Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift, etc.). Although I would certainly make the same appeal to them as well. After all, ANYONE is allowed to dispense common sense information about public safety. We are afforded that right under the provisions of the First Amendment.
If you’re personally acquainted with any of the following band members: Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Bruce Hornsby, Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti… or if you personally know any individuals affiliated with the band or their management, I’m begging you to consider sharing this article with them. I hope that’s not asking too much.
The time to share this information is NOW, not in the aftermath of a preventable tragedy. There is a “discernible inevitability” in play. One of these days, the “wireless fear” dynamic will be tested. Many would argue it already has. Either way, we’re left with two distinct choices. Do something or do nothing. Be proactive or reactive. This might sound presumptuous, but I think I know where the late Jerry Garcia would have stood on this.
In a 1967 interview conducted by CBS’s Harry Reasoner, Jerry Garcia said, “What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. Nobody wants to get hurt; nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life, you know. And, like, think about moving the whole human race ahead a step or a few steps, or half a step, or anything.”
“Moving the whole human race ahead a step or a few steps.”
Hmmm, sounds like some good advice.
I had the distinct pleasure of attending 3 Grateful Dead performances at Soldier Field. A very memorable show in the summer of 1991 and two others (6-25-92, 6-26-92). Although this gives me no additional “standing” to pursue my case, I can assure you of one thing. I was standing and moving for the duration… a far superior outcome to being trampled and rendered motionless.
As a “Dead veteran” of 46 shows, I was an ardent admirer of how the band permitted, and even encouraged, fans to tape and freely distribute their live concerts. This decision transformed the music industry and it still continues to resonate. In keeping with that spirit, I would encourage you to spread this information and help redefine society moving forward. Please share this article at-will. It’s a little more important than another “hippies-gone-wild” celebration video.
If you don’t feel compelled by the moral argument, please consider sharing this material as an act of civil disobedience. Trust me, there are a lot of billionaire NFL owners and cowardly government representatives that do not want this information in the public domain. So if your mail order tickets were rejected or you can’t afford the thousand dollar price tag for the 4th of July concert… just think of it as a patriotic substitute. Share this article and help set off some internet fireworks. Wave that flag.
agsaf.org
Artificially Generated Stampede Awareness Foundation
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Yellowcard Singer Undergoes Surgery
Yellowcard has postponed eight spring and summer shows while frontman Ryan Key recovers from surgery to remove a cyst from his vocal cords. The band will keep playing through May 7th, but will then be off the road for a month.
"We're disappointed to be postponing these dates, but it's a relief to know the source of the problems I'd been having with my voice," the artist says in a statement. "And it's much better to confront it now than later when it could be far more serious."
Shows in Boston (May 18), Providence, R.I. (May 19) and Columbia, Md. (May 28) have not yet been rescheduled. Five June dates in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and California have been bumped to August.
Yellowcard has been touring in support of its second Capitol album, "Lights and Sounds," which has sold more than 2.7 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
More on Yellowcard on Alternative Addiction
Frank Turner Announces U.S. Tour Dates for "No Man's Land
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Colorado Supreme Court On ‘Martinez Case’, Reverses Appellate Court Decision
by STAFF January 14, 2019
Western Wire will update this blog throughout the day as reactions pour in from across the state.
From the Colorado Supreme Court this morning:
The supreme court now reverses the division’s judgment and concludes that the Commission properly declined to engage in rulemaking to consider Respondents’ proposed rule. The court reaches this conclusion for three primary reasons. First, a court’s review of an administrative agency’s decision as to whether to engage in rulemaking is limited and highly deferential. Second, the Commission correctly determined that, under the applicable language of the Act, it could not properly adopt the rule proposed by Respondents. Specifically, as the Commission recognized, the pertinent provisions do not allow it to condition all new oil and gas development on a finding of no cumulative adverse impacts to public health and the environment. Rather, the provisions make clear that the Commission is required (1) to foster the development of oil and gas resources, protecting and enforcing the rights of owners and producers, and (2) in doing so, to prevent and mitigate significant adverse environmental impacts to the extent necessary to protect public health, safety, and welfare, but only after taking into consideration cost-effectiveness and technical feasibility. Finally, in declining to engage in rulemaking, the Commission reasonably relied on the facts that it was already working with the CDPHE to address the concerns underlying Respondents’ propose rule and that other Commission priorities took precedence at this time.
Praising the decision:
Colorado Petroleum Council Executive Director Tracee Bentley:
“Today’s outcome is positive for all Coloradans. The court was right to deny a single out-of-state interest group – one that advocates for ending all energy development across the country – the ability to rewrite our state’s laws. This attempt to advance their extreme agenda into other states and against other industries would have put hundreds of thousands out of work and drain state and local coffers for education and other basic services.
“This case has dragged on for over five years and it’s time to focus on uniting to encourage energy development in the United States, and, specifically, in Colorado. We are confident in Colorado’s energy future and the ability of the Colorado natural gas and oil industry’s ability to continue to reshape the global energy balance, fueling an American manufacturing revival and leading the world in environmental progress.”
Dan Haley, President & CEO of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association:
“The Colorado Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, reaffirmed the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s (COGCC) long-held practice of acknowledging multiple policy goals in deciding whether to accept or deny a petition for rulemaking. The Supreme Court upheld the Colorado way of doing business, which is to consider several different interests, including fostering the development of oil and natural gas while also protecting our health and safety.
“The plaintiffs in the Martinez v. COGCC case ignored, and attempted to disrupt, decades of regulatory precedent and legal oversight. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Act (Act) directs the COGCC to consider multiple factors in making its decisions, including environmental priorities. Following the Act, which is existing Colorado law, the COGCC has enacted the most extensive and stringent regulations for the oil and natural gas industry in the country. Colorado was one of the first states to require that operators disclose the chemicals in hydraulic fracturing, conduct pre- and post-drilling groundwater monitoring, and undertake comprehensive inspection and repair requirements to safeguard our workforce and our communities.
“The Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Act will continue to allow for development, while also protecting our environment. As Coloradans, we value the environment and our member companies are committed to health and safety. Those who filed this lawsuit have said they want to ban oil and natural gas development in Colorado, so we’re happy to see the Supreme Court strike down this extreme effort and shortsighted agenda.
“While the current regulatory structure can be an arduous process for our companies, Colorado serves as a national model for oil and natural gas regulatory oversight.”
Vital for Colorado Chairman and CEO Peter Moore:
“This lawsuit was intended to effectively ban oil and natural gas development in Colorado by imposing a moratorium on permits that anti-oil and gas groups never would have allowed to be lifted,” Vital for Colorado Chairman and CEO Peter Moore said. “The lead plaintiff in the case admitted this was the goal in 2013 when the petition first was filed with the COGCC: “I think our chances are really good of getting a statewide moratorium, I mean a statewide ban, on fracking.”
“The state business community is grateful that the Colorado Supreme Court rejected this de facto ban, which would have caused tremendous damage across every sector of our economy and threatened many thousands of jobs. We welcome constructive dialogue about how best to build upon Colorado’s regulations, which are already recognized as the toughest in the nation. A good example of constructive dialogue is the oil and gas industry working with a broad coalition of stakeholders to effectively increase setback distances from schools. A business-like approach may not be possible because the national anti-oil and gas groups have proven time and again they are only interested in wrecking one of Colorado’s most important engines of job creation, economic growth, and tax revenue for public education and other basic services.”
State Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg:
“Today, Colorado has greatly benefited from the Supreme Court’s decision by reaffirming that the specific requirements and duties carried out by COGCC are consistent with the intent of current law. The oil and gas industry has done an excellent job of providing the people of Colorado energy while protecting our environment, and the safeguards put in place by the COGCC enable this state to continue to be one of the top places to live and raise a family.”
Mountains States Legal Foundation Executive Vice President Cristen Wohlgemuth:
“Today’s Supreme Court ruling restores common sense to energy exploration in Colorado, and upholds the economic rights and property rights of existing oil and gas property owners. Furthermore, this ruling protects Colorado taxpayers, potentially, from billions of dollars in liability for the government’s seizure of their property rights.”
Criticizing the decision:
Gov. Jared Polis:
“While I’m disappointed by today’s ruling, it only highlights the need to work with the Legislature and the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission to more safely develop our state’s natural resources and protect our citizens from harm. I’ve made transitioning to renewable energy a top priority because it is the best way to protect Coloradans’ health and safety, reverse the harmful effects of climate change that threaten our economy and our way of life, and boost our state’s economy by creating green jobs that can never be outsourced.”
Anne Lee Foster, Colorado Rising (Colorado Sun):
“The Supreme Court’s job is to decide what the law says, not if it is correct or moral,” Anne Lee Foster of the group Colorado Rising, which last fall backed a campaign to increase setback requirements for oil and gas activity, said in a statement. “This decision validates all of our concerns that the State is not adequately protecting public health and the regulations are insufficient.”
House Speaker KC Becker (Colorado Sun):
“Communities all up and down the Front Range and on the Western Slope, they want to know that health and safety is getting a serious look,” said House Speaker KC Becker, a Boulder Democrat. “That goes for air quality, water quality, citing, smells, odors, and you know, explosions.”
“I don’t think the existing law right now — the way COGCC is implementing it — gives a strong enough consideration to those things,” Becker added.
State Rep. Dominique Jackson:
“I am frustrated with this ruling, and I share the concerns of my constituents who are worried about protecting our air and water. At the legislature, we will continue working together to protect the health and safety of all Coloradans when it comes to oil and gas operations,” said Rep. Dominique Jackson.
State Sen. Mike Foote:
“While the just-announced Martinez decision is disappointing, it provides us at the #coleg an opportunity to finally put health and safety first with oil and gas. I am working on a bill to do exactly that.”
State Sen. Steve Fenberg:
“Yet another reason why legislative action to protect the health and safety of all Coloradans is imperative this session. #coleg #copolitics”
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser:
“The Colorado Supreme Court properly ruled today that the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has the statutory authority and obligation to regulate oil and gas development as necessary to protect the public health, safety, and environment. In so doing, it also characterized the Commission’s action as a decision on the merits of the proposed rule and emphasized the discretion of the Commission on how it can choose to address this issue.
“Before I took office, the Attorney General’s office, representing the Commission, pursued an appeal in this case and argued for a more limited vision of its authority than the law provides. In this case, the Supreme Court appropriately recognized that the Commission has broad authority to regulate oil and gas development to protect the public health, safety, and environment.
“Moving forward, I will work with the Commission and other state agencies to ensure that oil and gas development in Colorado is consistent with the public health, safety, and environment. To do so, the Attorney General’s office will provide sound legal advice as the Commission develops appropriate protections and evaluates particular applications. Furthermore, I am committed to working with local communities—as they enter into surface use agreements and memoranda of understanding, for example—to provide technical assistance as they seek to protect the public health, the safety of their residents, and their local environment. Finally, should the legislature seek to clarify the mandate of the Commission, I look forward to working with it.”
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Team USA nominated by World Games for the “Team of the Year” award 2013 – vote open for all supporters through 31 January
WFDF is pleased to announce that the Mixed Team from the USA has been nominated by the International World Games Association (IWGA) as a candidate for the 2013 “Team of the Year” award. The announcement was made by IWGA earlier this week underlining that “everybody can support their athletes in the public vote for the Athlete and Team of the Year awards and in particular for the teams as far as Flying Disc is concerned.” This is the first time such awards will be made.
From now until January 31, 2014, supporters and friends will be able to cast an online vote for The 2013 World Games’ top athletes and teams, from the top 10 participants for each category which have been short-listed. Everyone is allowed to vote only once per day, but they may vote on as many days as they would like through the end of the month. We ask that all disc enthusiasts spread the word so that the entire global disc sports community can support us in this effort.
“We are excited about the nomination for our Gold Medal Ultimate team by the IWGA for the Team of the Year award. This recognition of our athletes does not only honor their performance during The World Games 2013, but also the USA’s streak of three consecutive titles in the World Games, in 2005 in Duisburg, 2009 in Kaohsiung and now 2013 in Cali. If Flying Disc were to be recognized as team of the year, we would gain incredible visibility and recognition across the Olympic movement,” commented WFDF President Robert “Nob” Rauch.
To participate in the vote, please visit the IWGA official website at:
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Each voter will have available one vote per day for each category – best athlete and best team. The voting will be closed on January 31. Afterwards IWGA will announce the winners and ranking on their website. The winners will be awarded a trophy.
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Aterciopelados: Evolving to Sound Like Themselves
Essentially a collaboration between vocalist/guitarist Andrea Echeverri and bassist/arranger Héctor Buitrago, Aterciopelados has recorded eight albums since the duo originally teamed up in Bogotá, Colombia in the early 1990s as Delia y los Aminoácidos. Buitrago came from a hardcore punk background, heading up a group called La Pestilencia, while Echeverri had been drawn into the music scene by her art school friends. “When I was young I listened to boogaloo by Richie Ray and later stuff like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Yes,” says Buitrago in a press release about the group’s new album, Claroscura. “The first time I bought a bass guitar, I’d never had one in my hands before. I began to write songs by ear.” Echeverri spoke to us via phone from her home in Bogata. The band had just returned from playing shows in Mexico and Spain, and the album, the group’s first studio effort in a decade, recently received two Latin Grammy nominations.
I think your mother was a singer. Did you start singing when you were child?
Si, but not professionally. My mother still sings. She can be found with an acoustic guitar at every party. We would get together at Christmas and New Year’s Eve and even weekends. We would all sing. That’s the way I started singing, not with singing lessons or anything like that. It was naturally.
How did the two of you first meet?
We met partying when we were young and crazy. We had a friend in common. He asked me if I sang. I said, “Yes. In my family, everyone sings.” He asked me if I wanted to go to a rehearsal. I said, “Okay. Let’s go.” We went, and it was in Hector’s house. Then, we started meeting in the same dancing place.
What were your initial influences and how similar or different were they to Hector’s?
He had a hardcore band called La Pestilencia. But then, he grew a bit tired of the violence. Every time they had a gig, people broke chairs and fought. He wanted something different. I think that’s why he asked me. I was an artist studying art at the university. That’s how we started something different. We took influence from my mother and her singing, which was more bolero and ranchera.
Was there a good music scene in Bogata?
No. There were bombs every few days. It was an intense time. Nightlife was big, maybe because of that. You felt like it could be your last party. We got together and we had a bar where people used to drink and dance. That’s how we started playing. We formed a band, Delia y Los Aminoácidos, and we started playing there. There was no music scene at all. There not even concerts because it was a dangerous city. A couple of years later, bands like Caifanes were becoming very big. The record label started signing local bands, and that’s how we were lucky. We had songs that were played on the radio and that’s how we got signed to BMG and becoming big and professional.
El Dorado marked a shift in your sound. Can you talk a little about that album?
We had one first album prior that was very successful in Colombia. El Dorado was successful all over the place. It was successful in North America and South America and even in Spain. One of the things was MTV En Espanol. We all watched that, and that was how we knew about bands that weren’t from the U.S. The radio just played American and English bands. With MTV in Spanish, we could see Panama and Venezuela and Pall those places, and that became very important. That’s how we started traveling and playing in Argentina and Chile and Ecuador. We started to mix all those influences — punk, bolero, rock ranchero, and all kinds of things. The idea was to extract our identity in the lyrics we used and the way we dressed up. We tried to be ourselves.
What was it like to then record your next album in London with Phil Manzanera?
That was because we did a tour with Héroes del Silencio.They’ve very big in Spain. We did a tour with them. He produced a few of their albums. He traveled to Madrid and that’s how we got to know each other. He saw our show. He speaks Spanish because his mother is Colombian. That was good too. I can speak English but I’m not confident about it. He’s experienced and speaks Spanish and the band traveled to London to do that album. We couldn’t believe it.
It seemed like the band continued to evolve with every album.
Si. Definitely. Hector is like a producer and even when he doesn’t produce, he works with the producer. He guides the sound. He always wants a modern or different sound — modern but opposite of now. In terms of songwriting, we both write songs. We don’t want to use a formula but we want to try new things.
So why has it taken years to follow up Rio?
After Rio, we played a couple of years and then we got separated. We had a fight. Hector was working with Conector and I was working on Ruisenora. Those were three constructive years. Each one of us learned to do what the other one did in Aterciopelados. Hector sang. He was the frontman at the concerts. I learned to produce. Those are good years. Each of us made an album from beginning to ending. In 2014, an important festival in Bogata was celebrating its 20th anniversary. They wanted Aterciopelados to play. They started making phone calls to Hector and me. That made us talk about the fight and everything. Finally, we did play the festival. After that, we made a live DVD.
When you started working on the songs for Claroscura, did you find them taking you in a specific direction?
What we found was that it was important to sound like Aterciopelados. There was pressure from the record label to sound like reggaeton because that’s what people are buying. There was certain pressure, and they wanted us to work with those Cuban composers. We said, “No.” We wanted an album that represents our sound.
We wanted to sound modern, but at the same time, we want you to feel that we’ve been playing music and constructing important concepts about ecology and human rights and feminism. That’s what we wanted and that’s what we did.
Talk about the album’s title.
It’s like two comic characters with humor and exaggeration. Hector is Claro and I am Oscura.
The design is a delicate and elegant magical-surrealist and shamanic art made by the Bogota collective Comes Cake. What’s the story there?
We talked a lot. For the art, what I always said is that we don’t have to invent anything because we are two characters with aesthetics around us. We wanted to reflect that. They did this painting, and I think it’s very pretty. I do ceramics. That’s what I studied in the university. I made the names in clay and they photographed them. The album name is also in clay.
You worked with the award-winning Argentinian musician ‘Cachorro’ Lopez at Audiovisión Bogotá and Mondo Mix Bs Aires and the remaining 7 songs were produced by Hector Buitrago (ConEctor) at Groove Estudios Bogota.
‘Cachorro’ Lopez produced five songs. He has produced everyone. He’s like a Bible for Rock en Espanol. Hector did the other seven songs. They were made in three time periods because we played a lot. We have families and we have two kids each and it’s important to be around them when you’re not touring.
The opening track, “Play,” is really infectious. Talk about working with Ana Tijoux on it.
She’s from Chile. It’s a huge coincidence. She had collaborated with Julieta Venegas on a very famous song. That song was produced by Cachorro Lopez. When we were doing my song and thought that someone else could sing a bit on it, and we mentioned names. Someone mentioned Anita, and we all said, “Yes, yes, yes.” Cachorromade contact with her. She said, “Yes.” She was coming to Bogata for a few days for a concert. That was amazing. It was a cosmic thing. She went to the studio and we talked about the song and she wrote her lyrics and she sang beautifully.
What was it like to work with Jorge Celedón on ‘Ay Ombe’ (Vamo’ a Relajar el Pony’)?
He’s very famous. The strange and nice thing about that song is that vallenatois machismo in English. It’s like a chauvinist thing but the song is very feminist. We’re doing a feminist song and getting a male singer to say, “Today, I put my head down to the greatest of women.” I think it’s brave.
“Duo” is another one of my favorites. Talk about how that song came together.
That song is an autobiography. It talks about how we met and fell in love and started making music, and then we had a fight. We keep changing, and we are now almost opposites and in that difference there’s a positivity.
What has kept the band going all this time?
I don’t know. I guess it’s just inside of us.
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Obama's Wife
In a recent speech Mrs. Obama said that for the first time in her adult life she is proud of her country because her husband was winning. She later repeated it and then tried to explain that of course she loved her country.
Columnist Peggy Noonan asks, "Are the Obama's snobs? Do they understand America? Are they of it? Did anyone in their Ivy League universities school them in why they should love America? Do they confuse patriotism with nationalism, or nativism? Are they more inspired by abstractions like "international justice" than by old visions of America as the city on a hill, which is how John Winthrop saw it, and Ronald Reagan and JFK spoke of it?
Have they been, throughout their adulthood, so pampered and praised--so raised in the liberal cocoon--that they are essentially unaware of what and how normal Americans think? Are they in this, like those cosseted yuppies, the Clintons?"
Noonan asks,"Why is this actually not a distraction but a real issue. Because Americans have common sense (most of them) and are bottom line. They think like this. If the president and his first lady are not loyal first to America and its interests who will be? If America's leaders don't love America tenderly, who will? So many Americans fear that they are losing their country and the old America is slipping away and being replaced by something worse, something formless and hollowed out. They can see we are giving up our sovereignty, that our leaders will not control our borders, that we don't teach our our young the old-fashioned love of America, that the government has taken to itself such power, and made things so complex, and at the end of the day when they count up sales tax, property tax, state tax and federal tax the are paying a lot of money to lose the place they love.
And if you feel like you are losing the place you love, you really don't want a couple in the White House whose rope of the affectation to this country seems to be lightly held, casual, provisional. America is backing Obama at the moment, so America is good.
It appears hard for young African-Americans of Mrs. Obama's generation, having been drilled in America's sad racial history, having been told about it every day of their lives, to fully apprehend the struggles of others. Does she know that people look at her and think, "Man, she's got everything, intelligent, strong tall and beautiful, Princeton, Harvard, black at a time when America was trying to make up for it's sins and be helpful, and from a working class family with two functioning parents who made sure she got to school?
That's the great divide in modern America, whether or not you had a functioning family as she apparently came from the privileged part of that divide. A lot of white working class Americans didn't come up with those things. Some of them were raised by a TV and a microwave and love our country, every day.
Does Mrs. Obama know this? I don't know. If she does, love and show gratitude for the place that tries to give everyone an equal shot would seem in order."
To all who have bought into the charisma of this couple; Democrats, Independents and Republicans, please listen carefully to what they are saying. People want change and so do I but we better be carefully studying whether this is the change we are looking for.
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Kays Foundation Awards Grant for Physical Therapy Education
Kristie Vinson (center) accepts a grant authorization from the Kays Foundation board, represented by Terry Carty. Dr. Susan Hanrahan (left), dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, also attended the presentation.
JONESBORO – The Kays Foundation announces its award of a $5,000 grant to Kristie Vinson, assistant professor and clinical director of physical therapy at Arkansas State University.
The foundation awarded the matching grant to assist Vinson with acquiring equipment for expanding learning opportunities for doctor of physical therapy and physical therapist assistant program students.
"The equipment being purchased is commonly used in the clinical setting, and is specifically used to assist patients with standing, transfers and mobility," Vinson explained. "The addition of the equipment will allow students to be better prepared to work with the equipment in the clinical setting. Students will be able to explore, learn and establish competency by using the equipment with their peers, prior to working with the equipment on actual patients."
Vinson has been a member of the A‚ÄëState College of Nursing and Health Professions faculty since 2012.
Terry Carty, executive vice president, said the grant is part of the Kays Foundation's ongoing commitment to assist the university through grants in support of projects that advance its academic, service and research missions. The foundation board reviews grant requests annually.
The Arkansas State College Foundation for the Advancement of Higher Education, which does business as Kays Foundation, traces its beginnings to 1911 and the administration of V.C. Kays, the founding president of the institution that evolved into Arkansas State University.
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The Cutty Shark is a historic clipper that was one of the fasted ships of its time. Today it sits in dry dock at Greenwich in London. After a fire almost destroyed the ship in 2007, it was painstakingly restored to its former splendor.
The last clipper ship to be built as a merchant vessel, the Cutty Sark was completed in 1869. It is the only remaining tea clipper ship from the nineteenth century.
It is said that the name of the ship comes from a Robert Burns comic poem, in which a beautiful witch is described as wearing a cutty sark, a Scottish term referring to a short chemise. The figurehead on the Cutty Sark would represent this witch.
History of the Ship
The ship was constructed in Dunbarton, England for Captain "Jock" Willis. It was designed by Hercules Linton, a well-known ship architect of that era. The ship has a composite wrought iron frame structure covered by wooden planking and weighs 921 tons. It is 65 meters (212 feet) long.
Clipper Races
Cutty Sark's Bow
At the time Cutty Sark was built, the tea trade between China and London was at its peak and the ship was meant to be quick so that Willis could beat his competitors across the ocean. In 1871 it won the yearly clipper competition from China to London in 107 days.
However, the Cutty Sark didn't always win. Its most famous race was against the Thermopylae the next year, in 1872. The two ships left from Shanghai on the same day but Cutty Sark lost its rudder in the middle of the journey. However, the captain continued the trip and arrived only a week after the Thermopylae. It was that race that gave the famous ship its reputation as a hearty vessel.
The ship's interior
The ship was later sold to a Portuguese company, and in 1895 the Cutty Sark became the Ferreira. She was sold again twenty years later and renamed the Maria do Amparo. However, Wilfred Dowman, a retired shipowner who had witnessed the Cutty Sark outpacing a steamship was determined to bring the ship back to its native land. He purchased the Cutty Sark in 1922 and restored it. After his death, the Cutty Sark was used as a training ship for more than two decades. In 1954, the ship was moved into dry dock where she remains today. It opened to the public three years later.
A Museum Ship
Visitors to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich can now enjoy the ship's status as a museum ship.
Tended by the Cutty Sark Trust, the vessel is a wonderful testament to the fine ship building of the nineteenth century and attracts tons of visitors who can get an idea of what life must have been on board of a clipper ship. There is also a unique collection of more than eighty ships' figureheads on display at the museum.
The Cutty Sark Today
Fire damage and Restoration
The ship suffered a devastating fire in May 2007 during restoration, though some of it was spared because important parts had been taken off-site for repairs. After a five year long, £50 million restoration project the nineteenth century museum ship was reopened again on April 25, 2012 by Queen Elisabeth II. The site was also modernised and the ship was raised more than three meters (11ft) into the air, allowing vistitors to walk under the hull of the ship.
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Scholars’ Circle -The Environmental Impact of the US Military- July 14, 2019
July 13, 2019 host
We spend the hour looking at the environmental impact of the US military. How much does the US military pollute the environment? What is their role in climate change causing green house emissions? The military has taken some measures to reduce its impact on the environment and green gas emissions, but our guests say these measures do little to assuage the military’s bigger effects on climate change. What are these effects and what can be done about them?[ dur: 58mins. ]
Benjamin Neimark is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancaster, United Kingdom. He is the author of Speaking Power to ‘Post-Truth’: Critical Political Ecology and the New Authoritarianism and co-author of Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war” Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military.
Oliver Belcher is an Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Durham University, United Kingdom. He is the author of Anatomy of a village razing: Counterinsurgency, violence, and securing the intimate in Afghanistan, and co-author of Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war” Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military.
Neta C. Crawford is Professor of Political Science and Department Chair at Boston University. She is the author of the book Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post-9/11 Wars and the research paper Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change,and the Costs of War
Produced by the Scholars’ Circle team: Ankine Aghassian, Melissa Chiprin, Anaïs Amin, Tim Page, Mike Hurst and Sudd Dongre.
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Scholars’ Circle – Nazi Cell in Hollywood -/- Lessons from past human societies and climate disruptions – July 7, 2019
July 6, 2019 host
First, how one man infiltrated the Nazi cells and foiled their plots to sow chaos in Los Angeles. Steven J. Ross is the author of Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America.[ dur: 33mins. ]
Steven J. Ross is Professor of History at USC. He is the author of Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics and Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America.
Then, how have our ancestors dealt with earlier changes in the climate and environment? What does it tell us about our current situation? [ dur: 23mins. ]
For a transcript of this interview, please visit: TheBigQ
Professor Simon Holdaway is the Head of School, School of Social Sciences, at the University of Auckland. He is the author of A Record in Stone: The Study of Australia’s Flaked Stone Artefacts and Geoarchaeology of Aboriginal Landscapes in Semi-arid Australia. His publications also includes, The Effects of Holocene Landscape Changes on the Formation of the Archaeological Record in the Fayum Basin, Egypt
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Scholars’ Circle -Fertility and Mortality affected by Climate Change -/- Designing Peace in Divided Society – June 30, 2019
June 30, 2019 host
Then, climate change is here. How does climate change affect conception? [ dur: 15 mins. ]
Alan Barreca is Associate Professor at the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability at UCLA. He is the author of the research papers Does hot weather affect human fertility? He is the co-author of Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates , and Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century
Then, designing peace in divided societies. How do you make peace after fatal conflicts and loss of lands? What is the role of identity in conflict and peacemaking? [ dur: 43 mins. ]
Neophytos Loizides is Professor and Chair in International Conflict Analysis in the School of Politics & International Relations (POLIR) at the University of Kent. He is the author of The Politics of Majority Nationalism: Framing Peace, Stalemates, and Crises and Designing Peace: Cyprus and Institutional Innovations in Divided Societies. He is also the co-editor (with Oded Haklai) of Settlers in Contested Lands: Territorial Disputes and Ethnic Conflicts.
Dr. Madura Rasaratnam is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Department of International Politics at City University of London. She is the author of Tamils and the Nation: India and Sri Lanka Compared.
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Scholars’ Circle -International law affected by human rights and war -/- Prohibition of nuclear Weapons an on going struggle – June 23, 2019
First, how is international law changing for human rights and for war? Our guest says we are moving from protecting state security to increasingly protecting individual security. The shifts are influenced by the human rights frame and are reshaping what she calls “humanity’s law.” [dur: 15mins. ]
Ruti Teitel is Professor of Comparative Law at the New York Law School and Visiting Professor at London School of Economics. She is Chair of Global Law and Justice Colloquium and Founding Co-Director of the Institute for Global Law, Justice and Policy at New York Law School. She is the author of numerous publications including Humanity’s Law and Globalizing Transitional Justice.
Then, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is the most broad sweeping attempt to ban nuclear weapons. Guest host Doug Becker looks at the motivations behind the treaty, its relative importance on nuclear states decisions, and its prospect for eventual adoption.[ dur: 42mins. ]
Ira Helfand, MD is co-chair of the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)’s Nuclear Abolition Committee. He is also a member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)’s International Steering Committee. He has co-authored PSR’s “Nuclear Famine: 2 billion at Risk?“
Wayne Glass is Professor Emeritus in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is the former Senior Defense Policy Advisor to Senator Jeff Bingaman on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Scholars’ Circle – Explore Privacy as it affects security, society and democracy – June 16, 2019
Is the age of privacy over? We spend the hour on technology, spying and privacy, exploring how privacy, and the lack of it, affects security, democracy and society. What exactly is at stake when we lose our privacy? [ dur: 58 mins. ]
Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech. She is the author of Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life, and co-author of Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest and Values at Play in Digital Games.
Michael Patrick Lynch is Professor of Philosophy & Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data, True to LIfe: Why Truth Matters and In Praise of Reason.
Bruce Schneier is Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School. He is the author of 14 books including the New York Times best-seller Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World, and The Electronic Privacy Papers: Documents on the Battle for Privacy in the Age of Surveillance. His blog is “Schneier on Security.”
Joshua A.T. Fairfield is William Donald Bain Family Professor of Law at Washington and Lee School of Law. He is the author of Owned: Property, Privacy and the New Digital Serfdom, Privacy as a Public Good , and Smart Contracts, Bitcoin Bots, and Consumer Protection.
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Scholars’ Circle – GM foods promoted by US state department -/- Flourishing Conspiracy theories – June 9, 2019
June 8, 2019 host
Is the US State Department using its diplomatic efforts to push genetically modified foods into other countries? Our guest says yes. She traced US multi-pronged effort to persuade Mexico to allow genetically modified foods. [ dur: 22mins. ]
Yadira Ixchel Martínez Pantoja, PhD candidate in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland. Her recent paper is titled, United States promotion of GM foods: the use of public diplomacy strategies and instruments to target government agencies in Mexico.
Then, guest host Sam Smith examines the flourishing of conspiracy theories. What are they? How dangerous are they? [ dur: 35mins. ]
Matthew R. X. Dentith has a PhD from the University of Auckland and is an expert in the epistemology of conspiracy theories. He is the author of The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories.
Patrick Stokes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University. He is an expert in the ethics of conspiracy theories. He is the author of the book chapters Conspiracy Theory and Perils of Particularism, On some moral costs of conspiracy theory, and his blog article, Why Conspiracy Theories Aren’t Harmless Fun.
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Scholars’ Circle – Insect declines affect agriculture -/- US President effects on the direction of the nation and the world – June 2, 2019
First, why are the numbers of insects in fast decline? What does it mean for our food supply and our long term survival? Scientists say climate change is not the only reason.[dur: 11 min. ]
Andrew Dopheide is Researcher at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland. He is the co-author of “Estimating the biodiversity of terrestrial invertebrates on a forested island using DNA barcodes and metabarcoding data.”
Then, how much does the president truly matter for the direction of the United States and for the rest of the world. [ dur: 46 mins. ]
William F. Grover is Professor of Political Science at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont. He is the author of The President as Prisoner: A Structural Critique of the Carter and Reagan Years, co-editor of Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics, and The Unsustainable Presidency: Clinton, Bush, Obama and Beyond.
Joseph G. Peschek is Professor of Political Science at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of Policy-Planning Organizations: Elite Agendas and America’s Rightward Turn, co-editor of Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics, and The Unsustainable Presidency: Clinton, Bush, Obama and Beyond.
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Scholars’ Circle – Emigrant’s positive effects on democracy -/- Foundations of Public Diplomacy – May 26, 2019
May 25, 2019 host
First, how emigration could lead to greater democratization in the world. [dur: 11 mins. ]
Margaret Peters is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at UCLA. She is the author of Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization, and the co-author of the research paper Restraining the Huddled Masses: Migration Policy and Autocratic Survival.
Then, today’s panel hosted by Professor Doug Becker, International Studies at University of Southern California (USC), lays the foundations of public diplomacy, its techniques, and its effectiveness. It then examines the role of new technologies in the digital age and how it poses new challenges and opportunities. [ dur: 45 mins. ]
Daniel Aguirre Azócar is Assistant Professor at Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile. He is the author of the book chapters Propaganda and Populist Communication in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela (forthcoming in the SAGE Handbook of Propaganda) and Public Diplomacy in Latin America: An Emerging Field of Practice? (forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, 2nd Edition).
Nicholas J. Cull is Professor of Public Diplomacy and is the founding director of the Master of Public Diplomacy program at USC. He is the author of many books including The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989, The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency: American Public Diplomacy, 1989-2001, and his latest Public Diplomacy: Foundations for the Global Engagement in the Digital Age.
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Scholars’ Circle – Intersection of Music, Art and Politics -/- Healing Traumatic Experiences – May 19, 2019
First, the intersection of music, art and politics. Our guest producer Sam Smith explores how modern artists like Childish Gambino use music and video for political communication. [ dur: 15 mins. ]
Patrycja Rozbick is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University. She is the author of Childish Gambino shows, pop music can be powerfully political – despite censorship, this article can be found here and Crisis in the Eye of Beholder: Contingency and Perplexity Along the Balkan Migration Route.
Then, the toll of trauma, its aftermath and how to heal after traumatic experiences. We speak with three renowned experts. [ dur: 43 mins. ]
Charles R. Figley is Distinguished Chair, Professor in Disaster Mental Health and Director of the Tulane University Traumatology Institute and School of Social Work. He’s Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the author of Mapping the Wake of Trauma: Autobiographical Essays by the Pioneers of Trauma Research; the Encyclopedia of Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Guide; and Beyond Trauma: Cultural and Societal Dynamics, and Death and Trauma.
Richard A. Chefetz is a psychiatrist in Washington, D.C. and past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Richard Chefetz is Founder and Chair of their Dissociative Disorders Psychotherapy Training Program, a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology and a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes: The Fear of Feeling Real.
Dr. Daniel Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, the author of books, including The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being, and co-author of books including The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in YourChild and Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
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Scholars’ Circle – Interviews with Suicide Bomber -/- Transmission of Trauma from parent to child – May 12, 2019
First, from broken heart to suicide bomber we explore the various drives that fuel deadly terror. [dur: 17mins. ]
Ken Ballen, author of Terrorist in Love.
Then, is the transmission of trauma multi-generational? Do the children of survivors of mass atrocities have higher risk of developing psychological disorders? What are the social and behavioral factors that result in the trauma of successive generations? We look at the impact of survivors’ post-trauma adaptational style in their children’s eyes. [ dur: 40mins. ]
Andrei Novac is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Irvine, School of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Traumatic Stress Program. He is the author of the research papers Traumatic Stress and Human Behavior, Special Treatment Issues in Children of Holocaust Survivors and Free Artistic Expression: A Clinical Exploration of Resiliency and Healing After Trauma.
Yael Danieli is Director of the Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children. She is the Founding Co-President of the International Network of Holocaust and Genocide Survivors and their Friends, and a Founding Director of The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She is the author of the pubications International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma, International Responses to Traumatic Stress and the research papers Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma: Modeling the What and How of Transmission, and Differing Adaptational Styles in Families of Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.
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Fresh out of college, Kevin began working for an international industrial conglomerate that designs and manufactures aerospace parts. After a number of years and positions of greater responsibility, he was given the opportunity to become General Manager of a plant located in a town in the Southwest called Redmond. What he found was not good. (Note: the details of this story are factual; however, the names and location have been changed to maintain confidentiality.)
With their four children, Kevin and his wife Mary left behind a close-knit bunch of relatives, topnotch schools and other Christians who were like family. The environment in Redmond was very different. Family strife and domestic violence were prevalent. The dropout rate at one of the local high schools was 35% over four years. There was no sense of community.
All of this was reflected in the factory that Kevin was asked to manage. The prior management had used a belligerent and dictatorial style. Backbiting, gossip, rough language and conflict were prevalent. There were no means of settling disputes or sense of teamwork. There was little trust between management and workers and among workers themselves. Husbands and wives were even reported to have called supervisors to gather divorce fodder on their spouses. It was not a pleasant place to work.
After Kevin arrived and observed all these conditions, he called together his newly assembled leadership team and told them that certain kinds of speech — vulgarity, gossip, ruining a person’s reputation — would no longer be tolerated. He said the same thing in a subsequent all-factory meeting with employees.
He initiated procedures to settle disputes between employees and disagreements between employees and management. He instituted incentives and bonuses for workers who met performance and safety standards. He encouraged employees to enroll in college correspondence courses. He gave his employees a vision of how their factory was connected to the outside world — how the airplane parts that they were manufacturing could end up in planes carrying their own relatives.
He also started hosting quarterly all-factory social events in order to boost morale, build relationships and let the workers know he was invested in them. Usually his whole family would show up at these events and he would encourage the employees to bring their families.
Kevin and Mary also had an impact on Redmond outside the factory, on neighbors, other families and young people who came in contact with the O’Connor children. Mary has organized prayer sessions with neighbors and mothers. Kevin and Mary have set an example by supporting their children by hosting parties where kids can have fun, but not get into trouble.
Things changed at this factory and the difference could be directly linked to Kevin’s arrival. He was bringing the life and love of Christ to his employees by treating them with respect, setting up mechanisms for reconciliation of disputes, encouraging personal development and training, rewarding good work and bringing truth and fairness into the dealings between management and workers. The tangible results were an increase of 33% in sales and a 75% increase in profitability.
The Father was working through Kevin, bringing his compassion, healing, forgiveness and generosity to the employees of this factory. Kevin was building God's kingdom in Redmond by dealing with the people and circumstances right in front of him.
Written by Bill Dalgetty, President, Christians in Commerce. Copyright Christians in Commerce. christiansincommerce.org Used by permission. Content distributed by WorkLife.org > Used for non-profit teaching purposes only.
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Where to find Sunderland vs. Manchester United on US TV and streaming
Alex Muller April 8, 2017 Leagues: EPL, Manchester United, Sunderland No Comments
If you’re trying to find out how you can watch Sunderland vs. Manchester United, you’ve come to the right place.
Time is running out for Manchester United if they have any hope of finishing in the top four in the Premier League this season. The Red Devils have to start winning games instead of getting draws. And playing against Sunderland, the team at the bottom of the table, is the perfect place to start.
Game: Sunderland vs. Manchester United
Kickoff: Sunday, 8:30am ET
Looking to watch Sunderland vs. Manchester United online from work, home or on the go? If you live in the USA, there are several options to catch all the action.
US Only.
Here are all of the details of where you can watch it on television and via legal streaming:
Who: Sunderland vs. Manchester United
What: Premier League, gameweek 32
When: Game kicks off at 8:30am ET / 5:30am PT; Sunday, April 9, 2017
Where: Live on NBCSN, NBC Sports App and fubo Premier (free 7-day trial)
With fubo Premier, you can watch Sunderland vs. Manchester United and tons of Premier League soccer games with a free 7-day trial. With the legal streaming service, you can watch the game on your computer, smartphone, tablet, Roku, Apple TV or hook it up to your TV with Google Chromecast.
Now with fubo Premier, you can stream NBCSN, FS1, FS2 as well as beIN SPORTS, beIN SPORTS en Español, NBC (in select cities), CNBC, USA, NBC Universo, FOX (in select cities), FOX Soccer Plus, FOX Deportes, FOX Sports Net, Telemundo, Univision, Univision Deportes, UniMas, One World Sports, CSN and YES.
Plus fubo Premier, the legal streaming service, also streams La Liga, Liga MX, World Cup 18/22/26, Women’s World Cup 2019, MLS, UEFA Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup, Primeira Liga, Serie A, Ligue Un, League Cup, Championship, CONMEBOL World Cup qualifiers, NASL, 2017 Gold Cup, CONCACAF Champions League, Bundesliga, select USMNT games, select USWNT games, select Mexico games, select England games and Euro 2020 qualifiers.
The fuboTV app is available for Windows PC, Mac, Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Apple TV, Android smartphones, Android tablets, Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Amazon Kindle.
SEE MORE: Schedule of Premier League games on US TV and streaming
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2019 WGSA Muse Awards Categories
LIST OF AWARDS
Best Feature Film Screenplay
Best Short Film Screenplay
Best Television (Short Form) Drama Screenplay
Best Television (Long Form) Drama Screenplay
Best Television Mini-Series Screenplay or
Best “Made for Television” Screenplay
Best Sitcom Screenplay
Best Television Comedy Screenplay
Best Micro-Budget Film Screenplay
Best Documentary Script
Best Documentary Series Script
Best Stage Play Script
RADIO PLAY
Best Radio Play Script
Best Animated Film Screenplay
Best Animated Short Film Screenplay
Best Animated Series Screenplay
MOBILE OR INTERNET
Best Webisode Screenplay
FAS FILM
Best FAS Original Feature Film Screenplay
1 FILM
a) A Film screenplay is defined as a dramatic motion picture script, which has an emphasis on the fictional account of a story. It may also be based on fact or adapted from a literary or other work.
There are two categories of Film in the WGSA Muse Awards:
i) A Feature Film screenplay has a running time of more than 40 minutes.
ii) A Short Film screenplay has a running time of 40 minutes or less (including all the credits).
b) Stock footage, stills and other such non-fiction recordings may figure in no more than 25 percent of the screenplay’s running time.
2 TELEVISION
a) A Television Drama is defined as a dramatic work which has been written specifically for the small screen, be it television or streaming. It can be a fictional story, or may be based on fact or adapted from a literary or other work.
There are three categories of Television Drama in the WGSA Muse Awards:
i) Short Form TV Drama; which is a series or serial with no less than 10 episodes and no more than 26 episodes in a season. Episodes have a running time of no less than 22 minutes and no more than 60 minutes including all credits.
ii) Long Form TV Drama; which is a serial of no less than 157 episodes per season and is colloquially known as a soap or telenovela. Episodes have a running time of no less than 22 minutes and no more than 30 minutes including all credits.
iii) Made for TV Film (or TV Mini-Series); both of these are dramatic works, with the movie a self-contained screenplay of no less than 87 minutes and no more than 120 minutes including all credits. A TV Mini-Series is a dramatic work, which is self-contained in one season of no less than 4 episodes and no more than 10 episodes. Episodes are not shorter than 52 minutes and not longer than 60 minutes, including all credits.
b) A Television Comedy is defined as a work specifically created to amuse and draw laughter from a television or streaming audience.
There are two categories of Television Comedy in the WGSA Muse Awards:
i) A Sitcom is written specifically for a confined studio set and multi-camera recording, occasionally in front of a live audience. Its running time is no shorter than 22 minutes and no longer than 30 minutes including all credits.
ii) A TV Comedy episode is written for single camera production and is not confined to a studio set. It usually contains both comedy and dramatic elements, and is no shorter than 52 minutes and no longer than 60 minutes including all credits.
c) Micro-Budget Films are dramatic or comedic works specifically written for television or streaming and are colloquially known as Bubblegum Movies. They are produced for a production budget of R600 000.00 or less, and are no shorter than 52 minutes and no longer than 90 minutes including all credits.
d) A writer may only enter one episode from a specific series or serial, but they may enter an episode from more than one series in every category.
3 DOCUMENTARY
a) A Documentary is defined as a work that uses visuals of, and or interviews with people involved in, real events to provide a factual report on a particular subject.
There are two categories of Documentaries in the WGSA Muse Awards:
i) A Feature Length Documentary script is defined as a non-fiction script created specifically for cinema release. It may include news footage, partial re-enactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion and other techniques and has a running time no shorter than 57 minutes and no longer than 120 minutes including all credits.
i) A TV Series Documentary script is crafted specifically for television or streaming as opposed to cinema, and has a running time of no less than 52 or more than 60 minutes including all the credits.
b) A writer may only enter one episode per series; however they may enter an episode from more than one series.
4 STAGE PLAY
a) A Stage Play script is defined as a story written specifically to be performed by actors for a live audience, either on a stage or at any other live venue.
b) A Stage Play has a running time of no less than 60 minutes.
c) A Stage Play contain must consist of no less than 75 percent dialogue. If it is a Musical, dialogue may be reduced to 25 percent if at least fifty percent consists of original lyrics specifically written for the production.
5 RADIO PLAY
a) A Radio Play script is defined as a story written specifically to be recorded by voice artists, and distributed as an audio only product.
b) A Radio Play may have a running time of between 28 and 88 minutes.
c) The script has to be written and submitted in the internationally accepted style for a Radio Play. A TV or movie screenplay cannot be entered in the radio category, unless it has been specifically adapted to the correct radio format.
d) A writer may only enter one episode per series; however they may enter an episode from more than one series.
a) An Animated Film screenplay is defined as a motion picture script written specifically to be recorded using a frame-by-frame technique. This usually falls into one of the two general fields of animation: narrative or abstract. Some of the techniques of animating films include, but are not limited to, hand-drawn animation, computer animation, stop-motion, clay animation, pixilation, cut-out animation, pin-screen, camera multiple pass imagery, kaleidoscopic effects created frame-by-frame, and drawing on the film frame itself. Motion capture and real-time puppetry are not by themselves animation techniques.
There are three categories of Animated Film in the WGSA Muse Awards:
i) A Feature Length Animated Film screenplay, which has a running time of no less than 87 minutes. There must be a significant number of the major characters who carry dialogue.
ii) An Animated Short Film screenplay, which has a running time of 40 minutes or less (including all the credits) and may contain no dialogue at all, as long as the action to tell the story is scripted in detail.
iii) An Animated Series screenplay, which has a running time of more than 3 minutes, and one season of no less than 6 episodes.
7 MOBILE OR INTERNET
a) A screenplay for a Webisode can be fictional, an adaption or based on fact. Screenplays that qualify as a documentary as defined in 3a above do not qualify.
b) A Webisode has a running time of no less than 2 minutes and no more than 15 minutes, including all credits.
c) If the screenplay can be mistaken for a script that qualifies for any film, television, stage or radio category, the screenwriter must submit information supporting how and why their screenplay is substantially a work for the internet or a mobile device.
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Takeover Turmoil: Problems Pile Up For The Bank of America
September 16, 2011• Banking• by QFinance
16 September 2011.
In 2008, the Bank of America (BoA) purchased Countrywide Financial for US$4 billion. However, in the aftermath of the housing bubble bust, the purchase of Countrywide has already brought losses in excess of US$30 billion to BoA – forcing BoA’s CEO, Brian Moynihan to sell an equivalent amount of assets in an attempt to right the ship. But, this was not an isolated incident. The wreckage of such deals has littered banking history in recent years.
There should be a health warning on major banks buying other large banks. The wreckage of such deals litters recent banking history. RBS and ABN Ambro springs to mind, as does the purchase of the hugely toxic HBOS by Lloyds at the UK government’s behest. Then, of course, there is the $4 billion purchase of Countrywide Financial by Bank of America in 2008.
If ever there was a deal that any sane bank board should have walked away from, this was it. By 2008, you had to be blind not to see the imminent bust in the US housing market, for the said bust was gathering visible momentum. Buying Countrywide, which specialised in sharp mortgage practices and writing as much sub prime as it could get, was a wonderful way of gaining mammoth exposure to the coming bust.
Jack Barnes, Global Macro Trends specialist at Money Morning, has a great line on his reaction to the deal: “When I heard about Bank of America’s takeover of Countrywide Financial, I was shocked to the point of giggling,” he recalls. Some decisions are so bad they just take you that way.
The poison in Countrywide has taken time to work, but it is now doing a huge amount of damage to Bank of America, which would have had more than enough on its plate had it never gone anywhere near Countrywide. According to media reports (see, for example, The New York Times) Countrywide has already cost Bank of America in excess of $30 billion and Bank of America’s CEO, Brian Moynihan, has chosen to sell an equivalent amount of BoA assets in an attempt to right the ship. Had someone told Moynihan’s predecessor, Kenneth Lewis, that the real price tag for Countrywide would turn out to be more than $34 billion, perhaps very significantly more, one imagines the deal would not have been done even had Lewis been gifted this particular poisoned chalice. Much the same could be said for Lloyds purchase of HBOS.
Worrying Diagnosis
There has been a good deal of debate recently about the state of health of BoA, and whether it is in fact bust, or at least borderline, and whether, prior to a $5 billion investment by legendary financier Warren Buffett, the bank’s shares were taking a pounding. They had shed some 30 percent of their value through August. The price then surged up some 9 percent after Buffett’s deal, giving Buffett an immediate profit if he had wished to take it. He didn’t because he likes investing to hold, and anyway, even at the improved price, BoA shares are way off where they were in October 2007, giving plenty of room for Buffett to make a huge profit if BoA manages to shrug off its current woes. Under the deal, Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway gets $300 million a year in interest payments and the right to buy 700 million BoA shares at $7.14 per share.
BoA has been vigorously denying that there is any problem with its capitalisation and it has been insisting, with equal vigour, that it is solvent, which is to say that its assets exceed its liabilities. However, the doubts persist. Barnes points out that BoA is now one of the largest owners of private housing in the US thanks to all the foreclosed property on its books, and the value of that property is now an open question, never mind the delinquent and soon-to-be-delinquent mortgages it holds. So whether BoA is adequately capitalised or not comes down in the end to various acts of faith over hard-to-prove asset valuations. Barnes also notes that BoA’s rapid growth in the pre-crash era came through M&A deals, not all of which were horrendous, but those deals have left it with a slew of operations that are in difficulties in the current low-to-no growth economy.
On top of this, the law suits are piling up. AIG recently filed a $10 billion lawsuit in an attempt to recoup some of its losses on mortgage backed securities and a $8.5 billion proposed settlement by BoA to settle a package of claims had, at the time of writing, been challenged by investors. Plus, there is the small fact that the attorneys in all 50 US states, as well as the federal government, are looking for a big payout from US mortgage servicers, said to be in the region of $30 billion. BoA is America’s biggest mortgage servicer and as such could end up paying out billions on this front too.
Of course, BoA is not a small beast. It holds some $300 billion worth of mortgages and home equity loans and it claims to have in excess of $1 trillion worth of deposits. And if it did blunder in buying Countrywide, it can point to more than a little success from its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, which has put it on the map as far as investment banking and capital markets are concerned.
Perhaps the clearest thing to emerge from all the furore over BoA is that it is extremely difficult for any outsider to get a clear view of the actual state of health of any major bank – until the wheels really come off. One can only hope that the boards of major banks are not flying equally blind – and what, pray, are their auditors making of all this? PWC, BoA’s auditors, have a bit of a challenge on their hands…
By Anthony Harrington
Anthony Harrington is an award-winning business and energy journalist, writing regularly for the Scotsman newspaper, the Glasgow Herald newspaper, Financial Director magazine, Pensions Insight magazine, CA Magazine, and a number of other publications. He won Business Finance Journalist of the Year 2006, Institute of Financial Accountants, and Journalist of the Year, State Street 2006 Institutional Press Awards, and was runner up in 2007 and 2008.
How buying the competition could kill banks is republished with permission from the QFinance Blog.
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The Many Worlds of B.L. Jenkins
Faith . . . History . . . Fiction . . .
Lictors - Police of Ancient Rome
Yesterday, September 29, was the anniversary of the first day police began patrolling the streets of London, England in 1829, largely through the efforts and influence of Sir Robert Peel, a Tory and Britain's Home Secretary at the time.(1)
According to Great Courses done by Robert Garland, a professor of Classics at Colgate University, police forces in the sense that we have them today did not exist prior to the nineteenth century. Ancient Rome, he says, was largely self-policed. If you did something wrong, they punished you on the spot.
Acts 16:35 and 38 (English Standard Version) refer to police acting on behalf of magistrates, but these police were different than what we have today. They were lictors, men armed with fasces, which were bundles of rods with protruding ax heads as in the inset picture. The rods symbolized Rome’s authority to punish wrongdoing, and the ax heads symbolized the right to execute those who had committed high crimes such as treason against the state.
Different numbers of lictors were assigned to magistrates such as consuls and proconculs according to rank. In the novel I’m writing, tentatively titled Saving Doctor Dewey, lictors are forced by their master, a Roman Consul, to remove the ax heads from their fasces because they were in the pomerium at the time. The pomerium was the most sacred part of ancient Rome and was marked off with a line of stones.
The ancient Rome referred to in this scene exists in a parallel universe called Metis. Its timeframe is a couple millennium behind our own. I invite you to keep checking this blog for more information about Saving Doctor Dewey as I get closer to submitting it for publication.
(1) See http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Sir-Robert-Peel/.
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UW hospital sued over release of HIV status
On July 16, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of a pill called Truvada, as a means of preventing the Human immunodeficiency virus, commonly known as HIV. While Truvada has been conventionally used to treat HIV since 2004, its use as a preemptive medicine is restricted to only those individuals who have a high risk of contracting the virus, such as persons who have an HIV-infected partner.
But, regardless of the individual's personal status, discretion has always been an expected practice in today's medicinal world, especially with high-profile ailments such as HIV or AIDS. In fact, being too public about a patient's HIV status may cause some practitioners to see intense lawsuits from the families, as such is the case from a few Wisconsin-area hospitals.
The litigation goes back to October of 2010, according to the Wisconsin State Journal, where instead of informing a man privately of his HIV status, the news was told to his wife and son that he was, in fact, AIDS-positive – a syndrome that is caused by HIV. The infliction most likely came from the same-sex, extramarital affair that the man was involved in, which he had no intentions of revealing.
The family is suing the University of Wisconsin hospital for an undisclosed compensation and other damages. The family alleges that hospital personnel did not properly disclose sensitive medical information to his family. In addition, the lawsuit alleges that medical personnel did not follow the privacy standards that they told the family they would follow, which included asking other medical professionals associated with his care for a specific password before discussing his condition.
While the litigation is pending, it's clear that this case may involve many stories and accounts from a plethora of individuals. In order for both parties to obtain the most accurate records, they may want to work with Wisconsin court reporters who can also provide legal video services.
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Gangnam-gu Heightening District’s Global Standing
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Gangnam-gu District is gaining attention from around the world as a driving force behind global trends and cultures
Since taking office around two and half years ago, Mayor Shin Yeon-hee has been busy keeping her promise to make Gangnam-gu the best district and heighten its global standing. As a result, the district is seeing the fruits of such efforts in fields such as tourism, economy and welfare. BusinessKorea sat down with her to hear the secret of the district’s excellent performances.
Q: It has been over two years since you became head of Gangnam-gu District Office. Have there been any remarkable accomplishments from projects you have proceeded with?
A: Gangnam-gu is indeed one of the nation’s representative districts. Since I took office in July 2010, I have tried my best to realize the policy vision of each field, aiming to make Gangnam-gu the nation’s best district not only in terms of economics, but also education, welfare, environment, culture, transportation, administration, and everything else.
Myself and approximately 1,400 public servants in Gangnam-gu have been busy keeping the promise to “make the district full of hope” and “heighten the district’s global standing”. It has been concluded that Gangnam-gu’s “full-day child care service for 24 hours, 365 days” will go nationwide, having been recognized by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Furthermore, in 2011, Gangnam-gu was chosen as the best district in terms of financial soundness.
Now at the mid-point of my term, I am pleased and grateful that our efforts have resulted in good performance and the district’s global standing has been heightened. In particular, I am proud of our support for the success of the G20 Summit 2010 and the Nuclear Security Summit 2012, which showcased the attractiveness of Gangnam-gu District and the mature civic consciousness of Gangnam-gu people.
Q: What kind of support are you providing to attract foreign investment into the district and promote international trade for Gangnam-gu-based companies?
A: As soon as I took office, I began making necessary bylaws, including provisions about incentives to attract promising Korean and foreign companies into the district. In accordance with these bylaws, we have officially established the business and investment support commission. Our public servants are also involved in various one-to-one investment promotion activities.
Thanks to these efforts, we succeeded in settling Ralph Lauren Korea (annual sales estimated at 200 billion won), Pacific Pharma, The Redface, and three other promising companies in Gangnam-gu District last year.
We will continue to strengthen our capacity to attract businesses this year. We plan to form an honorary business advisory council composed of experts in business transfer. Furthermore, we will offer promotion seminars and presentations directly to businesses.
We will also diversify our efforts in order to maximize the economy of Gangnam-gu. For example, we will supply landmark buildings by redeveloping the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) building site and the Suseo subway station area, which will help attract global anchor businesses.
Approximately 8,400 trading firms, equivalent to nearly 7.3% of the national total, have converged in Gangnam-gu District. Most are small and medium-sized enterprises. Since my inauguration, we have dispatched commerce promotion teams to and supported global exhibitions in 19 cities in 12 countries across Europe, South America and Southeast Asia, as well as our international sister communities such as the Chaoyang District in Beijing and Gwuinnett County in Georgia, USA. In total we have helped 154 Gangnam-gu based companies win a total of 116.3 billion won worth of export contracts. This year, we will continue to dispatch the commerce promotion teams overseas and provide full support for small and medium-sized enterprises participating in recognized global exhibitions.
Q: It is said that Gangnam-gu’s international convention and exhibition venue COEX is no longer enough to accommodate increasing market demand. Is there something in your mind to solve this problem?
A: First of all, Gangnam-gu Office is in talks with COEX to extend exhibition space and convention space by 30% (35,287㎡→45,370㎡) and 60% (14,143㎡→22,938㎡), respectively. Our mid and long-term plan is to redevelop the site (34,412.2㎡) of the Seoul Trade Exhibition Center, which is currently used as an exhibition venue for small and medium-sized enterprises, into a larger-scale exhibition complex, and to efficiently connect its function to that of COEX. In this regard, we are in talks with the Seoul municipal government.
Furthermore, the site (143,534㎡) of KEPCO, which is scheduled to move out of Gangnam-gu in 2014 according to public organization relocation plans, will be redeveloped into a complex commercial infrastructure serving many purposes, such as international exhibition and convention, culture, tourism, accommodation and business.
Q: Gangnam-gu has recently gained great popularity around the world due to Psy’s hit song “Gangnam Style.” Please introduce Gangnam-gu’s major tourist sites.
A: Since August last year when Psy’s “Gangnam Style” came into the spotlight, Gangnam-gu Office has been flooded with requests for press coverage, including The New York Times, Germany’s public media ZDF, and mass media from Singapore, the Philippines, etc.
Some tourists imagine modern skyscrapers when it comes to “Gangnam,” yet Gangnam is actually a very attractive place where “modernity” and “tradition” coexist. Gangnam-gu District has many traditional sites, such as “Seonjeongneung,” a royal tomb designated a world heritage site by UNESCO, “Bongeunsa,” an old Buddhist temple housing a handwritten sign by Kim Jeong-hee (a 19th century famous scholar, artist and calligrapher) and 16 other cultural assets, “Tomb of Gwangpyung Prince,” one of King Sejong’s sons, “Kukkiwon,” the world Taekwondo headquarters, and “Korea Cultural House (KOUS),” as well as very modern sites such as “COEX,” the “Horse Dance Stage” known as a photo zone in U-Street and the subway Gangnam Station, Shinsa-dong’s “Tree-lined Street” known as the fashion hub, and Cheongdam-dong’s “Luxury Goods Shopping Street.”
The Gangnam-gu Office recently attached QR codes to pedestrian street blocks for the foreign and Korean visitor convenience, a first in Korea. These QR codes are now installed on blocks surrounding COEX and along the “Tree-lined Street” on a trial basis. By scanning these QR codes, visitors can have easy access to mobile Internet sites in English, Japanese and Chinese, allowing them to get information about location, shopping, restaurants, cafés and nearby tourist sites. We plan to gradually expand the number of QR-code blocks after reviewing results.
Q: Please tell us more about your efforts to promote culture and tourism.
A: Foreign visitors contribute a lot to the economy of Gangnam-gu District. When I took office, I clearly recognized the importance of tourism. So the Gangnam-gu District Office has actively promoted overseas marketing.
Along with the recent “Gangnam Style” fever, the Gangnam-gu District Office set up a new department, as of November 1 2012, dedicated to building systematic and professional tourism infrastructure, and aiming to attract as many foreign tourists as possible.
Since then, we have established a master plan for the promotion of tourism and expanded accommodation, including home-stay programs and tourist hotels.
The Horse Dance Stage in the Gangnam subway station provides foreign and Korean visitors with things to enjoy. Visitors can also enjoy Gangnam on a tour bus that operates three times a week.
We will also increase the promotion of tourism by connecting tourism to the “Korean Wave” (popularity of Korean culture overseas).”
We plan to build a one-kilometer-long street of Hallyu Stars in order to make Gangnam the hub of Hallyu toursim. This street will be connected to Apgujeong-dong’s Rodeo Street and the “Tree-lined Street”, to help tourists enjoy beauty, fashion and sightseeing together. Now we are thinking of theme travel in regards to Hallyu tourism
Construction work for the tourism information center linked to the Street of Hallyu Stars is proceeding smoothly. The information center will have themes for medical tourism and Hallyu tourism. We expect it will provide high-quality information to foreign visitors in the Gangnam-gu District.
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The Sex Stories | Remedial Reading
August 2007: by Tobias Haller BSG | Previous articles in this series examined the various “causes” or goods or ends of marriage, as laid out in the preface to the marriage liturgy in the Book of Common Prayer, and how these same goods or ends might conceivably find a place within the context of a same-sex relationship. I have argued that such a relationship is capable of providing mutual joy, comfort, and human society no less than a mixed-sex marriage, and is capable of fulfilling some of the ends of procreation, certainly no less than an infertile mixed-sex marriage. In the previous article I addressed the symbolic weight assigned to marriage in the Christian tradition and explored a number of ways in which similar symbolic value can be borne by a same-sex relationship that is equally loving, permanent, and faithful.
I have noted that our present Prayer Book marriage liturgy reintroduces these arguments in favor of marriage — arguments which had been removed in the 1789 revision (the prevailing rationalism of the day felt a supporting case for the institution was unnecessary). However, one of the “causes” from the 1662 version (in use at the time of our ecclesiastical and civil independence) was not restored. This is ironic, because it is the “cause” with a strong scriptural basis, playing a significant part in the most extensive biblical reflection on the institution of marriage, and offering a rationale for the continuance of an institution to which the apostolic church in general gave otherwise only luke-warm endorsement. This is marriage as a “remedy for fornication” — as described in Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians (7:1-9, which I cite here from the Authorized Version):
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
This passage is significant for a number of reasons, not least for the way Paul describes celibacy as a gift not all possess. Paul recognizes that sexual desire is not only powerful, but that it has an appropriate outlet for those who lack the gift to contain themselves in celibacy: marriage. It is in large part from this biblical source that we see marriage described in the Anglican tradition (Articles of Religion XXV, XXXIII) as a state of life allowed in Scripture. The purpose of the authors of the Articles of Religion was not to find Scriptural validation for an institution that had existed in most human cultures in one form or another (validation was dealt with in the expansive Preface to the marriage rite); rather it was to distinguish marriage from the Two Sacraments of the Gospel, and to assert that it was permitted to clergy.
Paul similarly explicitly permits, rather than commands, marriage, and clearly wishes all could be celibate, as he is. But he recognizes the inappropriateness of demanding celibacy from those incapable of living within its constraints.
From the Pauline perspective, then, marriage is, among other things, a license to have sex. It authorizes something that without such authorization would be sinful. It is, in short, for the vast majority of people, who approach the altar as former virgins, a way of blessing sin — and thereby removing its sinfulness. They are permitted to perform (or continue to perform) what before would have been (or was) sinful. Marriage may not cover a multitude of sins, but it covers at least one: fornication (loosely, and from a biblical perspective rather incorrectly, defined as “sex outside of marriage.”)
Stopping the allowance
So can a similar allowance be made for same-sex relationships? Some will at this point say that same-sex relationships cannot be permitted now because they were not “allowed” in Scripture then. They hold that the prohibitions on homosexuality render such an approbation permanently impossible. I will address these negative texts more extensively in the following reflections; here I want to deal with the absence of approbation rather than the purported prohibition.
To understand the biblical (especially the Pauline) view, we must recognize that marriage was a civil institution, a civil option for Jews and Christians. Paul, in particular, recognizes it as the civil option, as well as the moral one, as it counters promiscuity and prostitution (both legally permitted and regulated under Roman law, though widely held to be moral failings). Paul allows participation in this civil institution of marriage even if he does not encourage it.
Same-sexuality fell into the same category as prostitution under Roman law — regulated and in some cases permitted, but seen, especially by Stoics and other moralists, as a failing. Same-sex marriage was not a civil norm in the cultures amongst which Judaism and Christianity came into being. Although same-sexuality existed in many cultures of the ancient world with which Judaism and Christianity were familiar — including, in spite of the protests, Jewish cultures — the phenomenon of lifelong and exclusive same-sex relationships was very rare (or to be more precise, rarely recorded, so that there is little evidence of it), and civil recognition in the form of marriage even rarer. Mixed-sex marriage, on the other hand, was a recognized institution — and although the differences between Jewish, Roman and Christian marriage customs were in some conflict (as Jewish law allowed polygamy and divorce, and Roman law forbade polygamy though it allowed concubinage and divorce), the early Christians accepted the Roman rule and Jewish ideal of monogamy, but frowned upon concubinage and divorce, largely following the opinions of the more moralistic philosophers and legislators of the time.
Thus the marriage of which Saint Paul speaks is marriage as it existed in the civil state, under Roman hegemony, which in the time of Augustus and Tiberius exalted values of hearth and home — even if the emperors themselves often failed to live up to the principles in practice. There was, in Paul’s time, no equivalent for same-sex marriage, even had he been of a mind to recognize it.
Applying old advice to a present situation
So it is very unlikely that Paul understood or grasped the possibility of people wanting to live in a life-long same-sex union. Some have suggested that Paul was aware of sexual orientation, but I find there to be little evidence to support even this claim, let alone any awareness of whatever same-sex marriages might have existed. There are still, after all, a few skeptics around even today who deny that sexual orientation exists, or who say that there is no need to grant “special” recognition to same-sex relationships since all people are free to marry a person of the opposite sex. (It is especially ironic that some who on one hand will deny same-sex orientation exists will on the other posit that Paul knew about it and rejected it.)
Regardless of such glib dismissals, many others have recognized that homosexual orientation, and the desire to which it gives rise to express one’s a love for a person of the same sex in a physical way, is not any more likely to be combined with a gift of celibacy than is heterosexual orientation. (Some conservatives claim that homosexual men are “by nature” more promiscuous than heterosexuals. Their evidence derives largely from anecdotal evidence, or discredited research.) But many have noted — even among the conservatives who reflect upon this issue — that it is irrational as well as unjust to suggest that gay and lesbian persons should be held to a standard in effect stricter than the one applied to heterosexuals; that is, to demand permanent celibacy for all gay and lesbian people, especially while tolerating less than punctilious observance of the same biblical standard for mixed-sex couples, many if not most of whom engage in premarital sex, occasional affairs, or serial monogamy through the unbiblical provision of divorce. For even if many people are promiscuous, there are others who wish to be faithful.
A more tolerant view within church or state does not necessitate the recognition of same-sex relationships as either marriage or matrimony, that is, as either civil or sacred in exactly the same way and to the same extent as mixed-sex marriage. But some form of recognized permanent commitment can be seen to be appropriate as an application of Paul’s teaching that “it is better to marry than to burn” to a situation which Paul himself may well have found inconceivable. Some, such as the Rev Fleming Rutledge, have reflected on the question in this way:
I have great respect and reverence for people who maintain celibacy if they are unmarried, divorced or widowed. This certainly remains the classical Christian standard. However, I do not believe that many people are granted the gift of celibacy. Even St. Paul, who put a high value on celibacy, recognized this in his teaching on marriage. I therefore believe we must find a way to support healthier lifestyles for Christian gay people who are beset every day by invitations to participate in the anonymity and promiscuity of the street, the bathhouse, the bar and the club. We will do well, I think to make an honored place for the devoutly Christian gay people who sincerely want fidelity and stability in their lives insofar as that is possible for them. These couples are in the distinct minority and it seems to me that we should support them in their wish to carve out a more responsible style of life. I therefore agree (I think) with those who say that we should be discussing the possibility of some sort of blessing for gay couples who fit this description not because the culture is demanding this, but because the church has been thinking about this for some time now. (From a December 2003 presentation to a parish facing division on the issue of homosexuality).
Although she stops short of supporting same-sex marriage, then, Rutledge is willing to recognize the human damage caused by unreasonable expectations or requirements, and the moral danger of a double standard (as evidence shows only a “distinct minority” of heterosexuals actually adhere to the rules of stability and fidelity). However, if “marriage” can be understood in the many forms the institution has taken (some of which would now be held to be immoral if not illegal) it appears to me that it is quite possible to apply Paul’s allowance — “If they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn” — to a situation he would not have been capable of imagining — at least in his own time.
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What would Saint Paul do — today? Is this a reasonable question, and to what extent are speculations about what Saint Paul might have thought or done — apart from what we actually know he said or did — relevant to the present discussion?
We do not know what Saint Paul would say today, assuming he were supplied with all the relevant information concerning human sexuality and psychology of which he was ignorant. Doubtless Saint Paul, in his own culture and time, would not have applied this rule of “let them marry” to same-sex couples. There is no evidence that he had any awareness or understanding of sexual orientation. On the contrary, his only extended comment on male homosexuality in Romans 1 describes it as an unnatural perversity attendant upon idolatry. (Aside note: I follow Saint Augustine, On Marriage and Concupiscence 2.20, in thinking “their females” who have “exchanged the natural use for the unnatural” are not lesbian. Rather, they are women who allow their husbands to use the opening that is “along side the natural” i.e., generative, one; the husbands then, having abandoned what is “natural with females” turn on each other and “similarly” take advantage of this newfound versatility. This is how Augustine reads the passage, and in support of this reading I suggest it to be unlikely for a biblical or rabbinic Jew — and Paul was both — to think lesbian sex and gay sex are “similar” — one was subject on rabbinic grounds to chastisement, the other on biblical grounds to capital punishment. Saint Augustine himself regarded lesbianism as a far less serious matter than male homosexuality: see Letter 211.14 where he refers to women’s “shameful frolic and sporting with one another” as unseemly for married women and thus much more out of place in nuns! Similarly, the [vague and inaccurate] term sodomy classically referred to all sorts of non-procreative sexuality whether between men and women or only between men, or men with animals — but with very few exception not generally to lesbian sex. “Homosexuality” as a category including men and women is a relatively modern invention; the Mediterranean cultures of the ancient world regarded lesbian sex as in quite a different category altogether from male homosexuality — as, indeed, these cultures regarded women and men very differently in most aspects of life.)
Still, some argue that Paul knew about homosexual orientation and intended explicitly to reject it. Those such as N.T. Wright and R. Gagnon, who argue that Paul must have been familiar with Plato’s Symposium, and Aristophanes’ myth to explain varieties of sexual orientation (or at least preference), are on very shaky ground, as Paul’s writings reveal little or no familiarity with Plato — as if he would take such pagan (and satirical) speculation seriously even if he were familiar with it! However, Paul may have known nothing of Plato at all, as Plato was, outside of Alexandria, long out of fashion in the philosophical world with which Paul was likely familiar — including that of the Stoics, whose thinking is consistent with (though not necessarily a source for) what Paul concludes in Romans 1.
Rather than making questionable surmises about what Saint Paul might say, given his particular gifts and limitations, we should instead look to him for the moral value of what he said, concerning the role of sex within the context of the only kind of faithful, life-long sexual relationship with which we know he was familiar, as a means to cement the relationship and prevent wandering outside it.
Now that we have a better and more accurate understanding of the reality of sexual orientation (quite apart from whether it is genetic — which is actually irrelevant to the discussion), it makes more sense to apply the underlying principles of Paul’s teaching accordingly, much as we apply other underlying principles of scriptural wisdom to changed cultural contexts.
It seems to me that it is better for the church, and for society, to encourage the recognizable biblical virtues of fidelity and mutual support in same-sex relationships, than to hold all gay and lesbian persons to a rigid standard few heterosexuals are able to maintain.
Thus far I have examined the traditional rationale for Christian marriage and sought to examine the ways in which this rationale can be applied to same-sex relationships. There should be no doubt that from the secular perspective of civil marriage, the state has no compelling interest in prohibiting same-sex marriage any more than it would have in prohibiting mixed-sex marriage in which the couple is incapable of having children. On the contrary, the civil interest in a stable society represents a positive rationale for the provision of civil marriage to same-sex couples, as a preventative to promiscuity (to the extent, of course, that people remain faithful to their vows: no covenant will of itself cause obedience).
When it comes to children, there is no indication (on the basis of many studies and meta-studies) that same-sex couples are any less able to raise their own, adopted or foster children than mixed-sex couples, regardless of any biological connection with the parents. Society provides ample role models apart from biological or foster parents — and in any case many children spend much of their childhood and infancy under the care of adults other than their parents. Need I also note that Scripture provides one particularly striking example of foster-fatherhood. Clearly an increase in the number of stable same-sex couples could be a boon to finding loving homes for unwanted or orphaned children.
When it comes to the religious and moral values imputed to marriage, I have shown that the ability to bear children is universally held to be optional — that is, no Christian tradition of which I am aware requires fertility prior to allowing marriage, or childbirth within marriage as a condition for its continuance. Procreation is thus not an essential element of marriage.
I have demonstrated that the concept of fleshly union is ambivalent, and that the argument against same-sexuality from a purported complementarity of the sexes is specious; and that same-sex couples can enjoy a mutual union that expresses joy, delight, and the self-giving love that is the object of marriage. I have shown that such relationships are capable of bearing symbolic weight in reflecting the goodness of God in relationship to the church, but more importantly the ideal of Christian love within the church. Finally, in this essay, I have reflected briefly upon the stabilizing influence that the recognition of same-sex relationships might provide within ecclesiastical as well as social contexts.
Although I have touched upon them briefly in these essays and in the responses to the many comments these articles have elicited, I have not directly addressed the purported scriptural objections to same-sexuality, which some would hold to render moot all of the discussion up to now. In the next sections of this reflection I will address the content and force of the scriptural case — both against and for same-sexuality — at greater length.
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Churchgate's own, Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester has set up a new £2 million fund to help Manchester achieve the status of the greatest digital city of the UK.
The Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham brought hundreds of people together in a bid to make the city region among the best digital hubs in the world at The Digital Summit at MOSI earlier this month.
As Andy opened the event, he said "Today is about a conversation and we have got some very key people in the room to help us really establish Greater Manchester as a world beating digital city. I want them to help me write a new ambitious digital plan for our city region. Our goal is to be the best in the UK but I want everyone at the summit to have an input into how we do that and I will ask them to shape ideas with me.”
Follow the link here to read more.
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Forestry must capitalise on high profile
Forestry policy has its highest profile for a generation and the industry must work hard to ensure inquiries in England, Scotland and now Wales make a real difference, according to Confor’s Chief Executive.
Stuart Goodall welcomed the renewed focus on forestry in the Welsh Assembly after the The Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee announced its inquiry into forestry and woodland policy in Wales.
In England, the EFRA (Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) Committee is due to report soon after taking evidence from witnesses, including Mr Goodall. Confor also worked with members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Forestry (APPGF) to secure a high-quality, well-attended Westminster Hall debate.
In Scotland, the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee has made forestry a priority, with Mr Goodall already giving evidence about funding the sector and its ability to reduce the impact of climate change. He is due to give evidence again about Brexit later this month, while a new Forestry Bill will be laid before the Scottish Parliament this summer.
In Wales, the inquiry will look at the Welsh Government’s delivery of its Woodlands for Wales strategy and to assess it against four central themes: responding to climate change; woodlands for people; a competitive and integrated forest sector and environmental quality.
Martin Bishop, Confor’s Wales Manager, said: “A heightened focus on forestry in Wales is very welcome. It is really important for us to highlight the multiple benefits of forestry and to ensure policies are in place to push up planting from its dangerously low level at the moment.
“Companies who use timber have expressed serious concern about the drop-off in future wood supply affecting their business, so it is vital to get planting rates up very soon. Hopefully, the inquiry will allow us to look at the barriers to achieving this and how to overcome them.
“The key is accepting that forestry is a viable, long-term and sustainable land use option - and that current land use policies have to change to realise the economic and environmental ambitions of the Welsh Assembly."
Stuart Goodall added: “Martin has done a tremendous job in raising forestry’s profile in Wales and his efforts have been significant in prompting this inquiry - and getting Confor a seat on the committee’s expert group on climate change, the first time the forestry sector has been involved at this level.
“The strategic themes of the inquiry mirror the multiple benefits of forestry - economic, environmental and social - but without significant planting increases soon, we will fail to deliver these benefits. The same goes for England, where we hope the EFRA committee report will kick-start a new approach to forestry policy and lift new planting from a historic low.
“In Scotland, the tide has turned thanks to a collaborative approach, encouraged by Confor, which has delivered a more effective grants scheme, and led to very practical proposals to improve the system, accepted by Cabinet Secretary Fergus Ewing.
“We have the highest profile for forestry in a generation and Confor calls on the whole industry to keep up the momentum for change and to make a real difference to our economy, environment and communities.”
Scotland’s planting target is 10,000 hectares per year, rising to 15,000 hectares per year by 2024-25.
In England, the ambition is much lower - around 1,000 hectares per year, which would mean 11 million trees in the five-year term of the current parliament. However, even this modest target is set to be missed.
Wales’ aspiration is to plant an average of 5,000 hectares of new woodland per year between 2010 and 2030 - 100,000 ha in total over 30 years - but it should have planted around 30,000 hectares by now to be on course - and has only planted around 3,500 hectares, with just 400 hectares of new planting in the pipeline.
Chris Davies, MP for Brecon and Radnorshire and chair of the APPGF, said: “I’m pleased to see the launch of the inquiry in Wales. Pressure must be applied to the Welsh Government to increase planting rates and to secure the future of large employers in the forestry sector in constituencies like mine.”
The Welsh inquiry leaves Northern Ireland as the only part of the UK without a current inquiry into its forestry sector. Danny Kinahan, Ulster Unionist MP for South Antrim and an APPGF member, said: “Planting in Northern Ireland is at a very low level indeed and I call on the Northern Ireland Assembly to launch an inquiry, which draws on innovative thinking to increase planting rates.”
The deadline for submissions in Wales is 7 April. Full details here
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In this April 2010 image, Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III celebrates the Divine Liturgy at the ancient Monastery of Mar Thomas in Sednaya, Syria. (photo: CNEWA)
Patriarch Gregory III: Christians do not need Assad to survive (BBC) Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III told the BBC that more than 450,000 Christians out of a total population of 1.75 million — more than one quarter — had been displaced or left the country. However, he was adamant that the Christian community will survive. Syria’s minority Christian community has faced growing violence, but he said it is not dependent for its survival on President Bashar al Assad’s secular government. In fact, Patriarch Gregory believes Christians can in fact help bring the warring sides together. “We have to have a new vision, and that is our work as Christians, especially the Christian Arabs have to play this role to change the vision…”
Scattered by war, Syrian family struggles to start over (New York Times) Watering the plants on her balcony back home in Syria this spring, Wedad Sarhan took delight in how they were stirring to life after the winter months. A rocket exploded on the balcony minutes later. Ms. Sarhan was standing inside. Two of her granddaughters were wounded. Their father, Hasan, quickly carried one girl to a nearby clinic, unaware that the other lay more grievously wounded under a pile of clothes. That evening, the Sarhans fled Dara’a, their hometown in southwestern Syria, and crossed into Jordan, three generations of refugees. Their large clan, already torn apart by the Syrian civil war, was now scattered across Jordan and Syria. “Our family story is just one of many,” said Noman Sarhan, Ms. Sarhan’s eldest son. “You can find Syrian families who have had an easier time than we’ve had, and others whose stories are more horrific. But almost all Syrian families have these in common: a relative who’s been killed or wounded, who is detained or wanted. Every family has suffered…”
The historic scale of Syria’s refugee crisis (New York Times) The Syrian refugee crisis has exploded from about 270,000 people a year ago to today’s tally of more than two million who have fled the country. The pace of the diaspora has been characterized by the United Nations as the worst since the Rwandan genocide in 1994. In addition, an estimated 4.25 million Syrians have been displaced within their country, bringing the total number forced into flight to more than six million. According to the United Nations, the flood of Syrian refugees is comparable to the crises caused by the war and sectarian violence in Iraq and by the conflicts that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia…
France to accept Syrian refugees amid surge in anti-immigration politics (Al Jazeera) France is set to welcome 500 Syrian refugees, reports say, at a time when what many call an anti-immigrant, far-right National Front Party is making strides in local elections and popularity polls — a sign Arab and Muslim community advocates say has grim portents for France’s immigrants. Philippe Leclerc, the French representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, told French newspaper Le Figaro Wednesday that President Francois Hollande agreed to accept the Syrian immigrants, after requests from the United Nations that European nations help alleviate the toll massive inflows of refugees have taken on Syria’s Middle Eastern neighbors…
Egypt detaining, deporting Syrian refugees, rights group says (Los Angeles Times) Saying that Egypt is “failing abysmally” to meet international obligations, Amnesty International called Thursday for the country’s military-backed government to stop detaining and deporting Syrian war refugees. About 300,000 Syrians have fled to Egypt, where they were once welcomed. But as their numbers have swelled, public sentiment has shifted sharply. Official media outlets routinely revile the refugees as partisans of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement that propelled now-deposed president Muhammad Morsi to power, and they are accused by authorities of representing a threat to public order…
Amid new attacks, Egypt’s Copts preserve heritage (Yahoo! News) Locked inside a 6th-century church in a desert monastery are some of the jewels of early Christianity — ancient murals in vivid pinks, greens and reds depicting saints, angels and the Virgin Mary with a baby Jesus, hidden for centuries under a blanket of black soot. Italian and Egyptian restorers are meticulously uncovering the paintings, some of the earliest surviving and most complete examples of early Coptic Christian art. But the work, in the final stages more than a decade after it started, is done quietly to avoid drawing attention — and there’s no plan to try to attract visitors, at least not now. “This is our heritage and we must protect it,” said Father Antonius, abbot of the Red Monastery where the Anba Bishay Church is located. He takes it as a personal mission to protect it. The church’s heavy wooden door has only two keys. He keeps one and a young monk he trusts keeps the other…
Chaldean patriarch visits Iraqi prime minister (Chaldean Patriarchate) On Wednesday afternoon, 9 October 2013, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I visited Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki to congratulate him on the occasion of Eid al Adha. Patriarch Louis Raphael discussed the plight of Christians in Iraq, outlining points to encourage them to stay in their country, which the prime minister received with interest…
Tags: Refugees Syrian Civil War Violence against Christians Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I Melkite Patriarch Gregory III of Antioch
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Osama bin Laden is born in Saudi Arabia. He is the 17th of 52 children of construction magnate Muhammad Awad bin Laden, an immigrant from neighboring Yemen, who runs a construction company, the Saudi bin Laden Group. His mother, one of four wives of Muhammad bin Laden, was Syrian by some accounts, Palestinian by others.
His father dies in a helicopter accident when bin Laden is 10. He eventually inherits a share of the family fortune. Bin Laden marries for the first time at age 17 to a Syrian cousin. He attends King Abdul Aziz University in Jidda, where one of his teachers is Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian who played a large role in the resurgence of Islamic religiosity.
After the Soviets pull out of Afghanistan, bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia to work for the family construction firm. He uses his network to raise funds for veterans of the Afghan war.
Bin Laden is expelled from Saudi Arabia due to his anti-government activities. He takes refuge in Sudan. Eventually, Saudi Arabia revokes his citizenship, and his family disowns him as well.
A truck bombing at a military base in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills five Americans and two Indians.
Bin Laden declares that Muslims should kill Americans, civilians included, wherever they can find them.
On August 7, a pair of truck bombs explodes outside the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 people.
On August 20, U.S. President Clinton orders cruise missile attacks against suspected terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, that he says is involved in making weapons.
In November, the United States indicts bin Laden on charges of masterminding the attacks on the U.S. embassies
In February, bin Laden appears in public at his son's wedding in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where the Taliban's spiritual leader lives.
Four of bin Laden's alleged supporters are convicted May 29 of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa.
Following the September 11 terrorism attacks in the United States, the U.S. government names bin Laden as a prime suspect.
As bin Laden calls Muslims across the world to set aside their differences and join in the "blessed and thankful jihad," London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Sharq Al Awsat reports, talks of another possible war heat up among U.S. and coalition forces focused on the activities of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. In February, Al-Jazeera broadcasts a bin Laden audio tape urging Muslims and Islamic nations to fight against any U.S.-led attack on Iraq.
Days before the March 19 U.S.-led coalition attack on Iraq, the Associated Press and Reuters news services report that a Pakistani provincial leader said two of Osama bin Laden's sons were in U.S. custody after a raid in southwestern Afghanistan near Rabat. Six months later, messages from al Qaeda and bin Laden surfaced at Arab news organizations. The CIA cited some of the messages as having specific references to recent events, leaving the question of whether or not bin Laden is alive unanswered.
The young bin Laden goes to Afghanistan to help Afghan resistance fighters, known as the mujahedeen, repel the Soviet invasion of the country. Abdullah Azzam founds an organization to provide assistance to the mujahedeen. Bin Laden becomes the chief financier of the organization, which evolves into a group known as al Qaeda (the base). The Arabs assisting the mujahedeen become known as "Arab Afghans."
The Saudi government allows U.S. troops to be stationed in Saudi Arabia following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, which leads to the Persian Gulf War. Bin Laden is outraged by the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia, considered the cradle of Islam, and begins to write treatises against the Saudi regime
In February, a bomb at the World Trade Center kills six and wounds hundreds. Six Muslim radicals, who U.S. officials suspect have links to bin Laden, are eventually convicted for the bombing.
In October, 18 U.S. servicemen who are part of a humanitarian mission to Somalia are killed in an ambush in Mogadishu. Bin Laden later says that some of the Arab Afghans were involved in the killings and calls Americans "paper tigers" because they withdrew from Somalia shortly after the soldiers' deaths.
Under pressure from the United States and Saudi Arabia, the Sudanese expel bin Laden from the country. Bin Laden moves with his 10 children and three wives (he is rumored to have since added a fourth) to Afghanistan.
Bin Laden declares a jihad, or holy war, against U.S. forces.
Nineteen U.S. soldiers die in a bombing of the Khobar military complex in Saudi Arabia.
The United States indicts bin Laden on charges of training the people involved in the 1993 attack that killed 18 U.S. servicemen in Somalia.
Algerian Ahmed Ressam pleads guilty in connection with a failed plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during the millennium celebrations. He claims he was trained in urban warfare and explosives at an Afghanistan camp run by bin Laden.
The U.S.-led military operation progresses as the Taliban falls. The allied forces increase ground troops flanked by air support in an effort to rout out hold-out al Qaeda forces. In March, the battle intensifies in the mountainous terrain of eastern Afghanistan, where reports say bin Laden is located and, according to some, directing troops.
Despite claims of success, U.S. officials say they have no proof that bin Laden died in the operation -- an assertion repeated by al Qaeda members and an Arabic-language magazine editor in June.
Bin Laden maintains a low profile in spring and summer 2002 but makes headlines again in the fall when Al-Jazeera broadcasts two audio tapes featuring what U.S. intelligence officals say are most likely authentic recordings of bin Laden's voice.
On January 4, Al-Jazeera broadcasts audiotape that CIA officials say is likely a recent recording of bin Laden. On the tape, bin Laden says the U.S. occupation of Iraq is the beginning of an occupation of Persian Gulf states to control their oil reserves.
In March, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation airs a two-part documentary about life with bin Laden, featuring Abdurahman Kahadr, a 21-year-old Canadian whose family lived in bin Laden 's compound from 1996 - 2001. The same month, defense officials say U.S. forces in Afghanistan will intensify search operations near the Pakistan border, preparing for a broader offensive to hunt down al Qaeda fugitives, including Osama bin Laden. The U.S. House of Representatives votes unanimously March 18 to double the reward for bin Laden 's capture to $50 million.
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[16:00:15] JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: We now know who filmed the video of the officer shooting that man in the back in South Carolina. We will hear what he says the video did not show.
I'm Jake Tapper. This is THE LEAD.
The national lead. He says he was just walking to work when he saw a struggle and he had the presence of mind to turn his cell phone camera on. Now the man who filmed officer Michael Slager gunning down Walter Scott as Scott sprinted for his life says he never saw the victim grab the officer's Taser.
Also in national news, for many in law enforcement, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty, but this is not case closed -- why some investigators wonder whether he and his brother had accomplices who may still be out there.
Plus, it's looking pretty apocalyptic in the Midwest right now, baseball-sized hail, 10 reported tornadoes, a woman swept away by floodwaters and killed in her car and now the entire Chicago metro area is under tornado watch.
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper.
Let's get right to our national lead and new information about what we did not see on that shocking video out of South Carolina that shows a police officer shooting a man in the back as he attempted to run away. The witness who captured this horrific scene is now speaking out, not only about why he took the video, but what happened in the moments leading up to the deadly confrontation.
Listen to what he had to say to NBC's Matt Lauer on "The Today Show."
FEIDIN SANTANA, WITNESS: I saw that he was trying to get away from the Taser, and his reaction was just, you know, to get away of the Taser.
MATT LAUER, CO-HOST, "THE TODAY SHOW": Was there a struggle over the Taser that you saw? Were they fighting over it?
SANTANA: No. He never grabbed the Taser of the police. (END VIDEO CLIP)
TAPPER: Feidin Santana says he was compelled to turn the video over after he heard the police department's version of what happened and it contradicted what he saw go down and what he filmed.
There are also other recordings from the scene of the shooting that may capture moments that were not recorded by Santana's cell phone.
And let's go live now to CNN's Jason Carroll to talk about it. Jason is in North Charleston.
Jason, there is this dash cam video that is being reviewed by investigators. Do we have any idea when it's going to be released and what exactly it might show?
JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's a good question.
A spokesman for the agency handling the investigation which has the dash cam videos says that those videos will be released. He did not have the timing on that, and that's simply because there are a number of dash cam videos that have to be reviewed before they release them to the public.
CARROLL (voice-over): When North Charleston police officer Michael Slager radios to dispatch after firing his weapon at Walter Scott, he seems to make his case.
MICHAEL SLAGER, DEFENDANT: Shots fired. Subject is down. He grabbed my Taser.
CARROLL: Feidin Santana shot the video of the shooting. His account of the struggle is much different from that of officer Slager's.
LAUER: Was there a struggle over the Taser that you saw? Were they fighting over it?
SANTANA: No. He never grabbed the Taser of the police.
CARROLL: Santana said he was scared when he saw and heard Slager's gunshots, but kept recording.
SANTANA: I didn't really thought like he was going to die or that he was dead.
CARROLL: For a video that so clearly shows an unarmed man being shot in the back multiple times by a police officer...
EDDIE DRIGGERS, NORTH CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, POLICE CHIEF: I have watched the video. And I was sickened by what I saw.
CARROLL: ... still, so many questions remain about what led North Charleston police officer Michael Slager to fire eight shots at Walter Scott as he ran away. Scott died shortly after being shot in an incident that began as a traffic stop, according to police documents.
DRIGGERS: There are questions that I have in my mind that I can't answer right now.
CARROLL: One of the questions, why did Scott run? His brother providing insight.
ANTHONY SCOTT, BROTHER OF WALTER SCOTT: It might have been something in his past, an outstanding warrant maybe for child support, but I do think he may have initially ran. But it's still not a reason to be gunned down.
CARROLL: The North Charleston Police Department has turned the investigation over to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, or SLED, the evidence-gathering agency reviewing multiple dash cam videos, including officer Slager's.
A spokesman telling CNN officer Slager's dash cam does not show the shooting or the struggle between the two and likely only shows the first few moments after Slager pulled Scott over for a broken taillight.
At an NAACP rally Thursday, members praised the city's police department and mayor for taking swift action against Slager, but still say:
DOT SCOTT, PRESIDENT, CHARLESTON NAACP: We are also aware, however, that the action taken in this case is the exception, rather than the rule.
[16:05:08] CARROLL: The NAACP and a number of people here in this community, Jake, will be paying close attention to the investigation. That investigative agency will also be interviewing the passenger who was in the car when Scott was pulled over.
Once they complete their investigation, they are going to put something together called a case file report. That then will be turned over to the prosecutor's office -- Jake.
TAPPER: All right, Jason Carroll, thank you so much.
A man who once filed a criminal complaint against officer Slager revealed just minutes ago that he now plans to sue the North Charleston Police Department. Mario Givens says he had a terrifying encounter with the officer back in 2013, when Slager was investigating a burglary in his neighborhood, and he also says had his case been taken seriously, perhaps Walter Scott would be alive today.
CNN's Brian Todd is live in North Charleston with more on this story.
Brian, this happened years ago. Why sue now?
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jake, it could be just because the timing is right, given all the attention on the Walter Scott case right now. That really is the frank truth of the matter.
As you mentioned, this incident happened in September of 2013, when officer Michael Slager was called to pursue a possible burglary suspect. He approached a residence. When he knocked on the door, a man inside the residence which now turns out to be Mario Givens yelled out that he was not the suspect. A witness nearby also yelled to the officer that Mario Givens was not the suspect, but according to police records that we have obtained, Givens was still pulled out of the house, he was Tased by officer Slager, and pushed down and dragged.
That's why he is now filing a lawsuit to -- as far as his perspective is concerned, Givens did say he did try to bring this to the attention of police department for several months and that they told him it was only under investigation, but nothing ever came of it. Here is what Givens said a short time ago.
MARIO GIVENS, CLAIMS SLAGER TASED HIM: I was upset, because technically they took a real long time to even investigate the case, because when I kept coming back, they told me, we still investigating, we still investigating.
And they tell me -- then when I came back one time, they told me, we will send you paper in the mail, because we ain't find nothing. He did no wrong.
If they had even tried to listen to me and really investigate it, that man would have probably been alive because he wouldn't have been an officer in the field.
TODD: Now, a very important point to make here is in that case involving Mario Givens, officer Michael Slager was exonerated.
Very important to remember that as we proceed with reporting this particular angle of this broader story. One thing that Givens did tell CNN later was that the actual suspect, the real suspect in that burglary, was his own brother -- Jake.
TAPPER: All right, Brian Todd, thank you so much.
The horrific events in North Charleston have brought renewed focus on police body cameras. Without this recording of the encounter between police officer Michael Slager and 50-year-old Walter Scott, who knows where we would be right now.
In the wake of the shooting, the North Charleston Police Department announced yesterday it plans to outfit all of its officers with the cameras. A 2013 study found that at least 25 percent of the 254 U.S. police departments surveyed used body cameras. Some police unions still balk at the idea over concerns that the footage could be used in fishing expeditions against officers.
As this debate rages on, we have some seen real life examples of how prominent a role these cameras can play. Take, for example, a case in Oklahoma earlier just this year when a police body camera captured a deadly police encounter with a suspect trying to get away.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Relax.
(SHOUTING)
(GUNSHOTS)
TAPPER: The case involving 21-year-old Terence Walker is still under investigation, but Muskogee police say the video when enhanced shows Walker pointing a gun at the officer just before he was shot. Witnesses have disputed the claim, but state investigators will be able to examine the video for themselves to determine what really happened.
Joining me now to look at the pros and cons of body cameras are former NYPD officer Eugene O'Donnell and former Saint Louis, Missouri, officer Redditt Hudson.
Thanks to both of you for being here.
Eugene, let me start with you.
What is the downside to these cameras?
EUGENE O'DONNELL, JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Not for sure, but we're uncertain what ultimately, whether it will be a good or bad thing.
But the concern I would have is that it will be a disincentive for the police to be involved. We are currently focusing rightly on police abuse, police brutality, but the truth in America is that there are many places where the police are completely unengaged, are doing nothing and I would be concerned putting cameras on police people. It will make it much less desirable to be a police officer and police officers will find themselves -- it won't just stop wrongdoing. It will stop right-doing, also.
TAPPER: Why would it stop right-doing? Why would it encourage officers to not do their jobs?
[16:10:05] O'DONNELL: Put yourself in a position of a police officer who does a car stop and asks somebody for their for their license and they refuse. Would you want to be on camera in that situation?
When you don't know what the outcome is, when you may need to use force, when essentially you could go to prison by the time that stop is over or would you just not do the stop? These are the concerns. I don't want to emphatically say it's a bad idea, but I would have concerns about that. If you look around the country, there are many parts of the U.S. where
the police are simply not effective, not engaged, not proactive and we don't need to grow that further.
TAPPER: Redditt, what do you think about that?
REDDITT HUDSON, FORMER SAINT LOUIS POLICE OFFICER: Man, if you're doing your job within the policies of your department and the laws that you are enforcing, whether that's state or federal, you want to be on camera.
It's the most objective record that we can have of the interaction between a citizen and a police officer. And, as you just pointed out with the footage you showed in two different instances, we see what happened. We don't have to trust the citizen or the officer. We can look at a tape and see what happened.
I don't want to work with any officer who is put off by the idea that his actions or her actions may be recorded, that there may be an actual record of what you did on duty. That's a very troubling thought.
TAPPER: Eugene, there have been some studies that show departments where cameras have been implemented have had dramatic declines in excessive force complaints and officers in some of these studies were less likely to use force.
Is your argument that that's because these cameras disincentivize work? Is that why you think the studies are the way they are?
O'DONNELL: Absolutely.
These cameras seem to show that the cops knew the ending and seems to show there's some precision in which you can use force and there's some expertise that you can bring to this. The truth is, the police are often left to their own devices in these situations.
And, by the way, you can look at a city like Saint Louis, the city clears out after dark downtown. We need more police engagement in Saint Louis, not less. And I would be concerned again in that city and other cities that the police will simply find a way to be on Fifth Street when there's a problem on Sixth Street.
(CROSSTALK)
TAPPER: Go ahead, Redditt.
HUDSON: You can look at a city like New York that's had over $1 billion in settlements because of police officer misconduct and recognize the fact that none of that was self-reported by the officers who were involved in those incidents.
You could look at the fact that in South Carolina we would not be where we are but for the videotape. The officer would have gotten away with murder, which is what he committed on the videotape, because he could have fallen back on the very narrative that the gentleman from New York is putting out here right now, is that, our job is tough, we don't need to be watched.
O'DONNELL: We have an epidemic of murder in some cities in the U.S.
HUDSON: What does that have to do with cameras? What does that have to do with me videotaping your actions?
O'DONNELL: Police are our first line of defense. We saw this...
HUDSON: What does that have to do with their actions being recorded?
O'DONNELL: Let's look at L.A.
TAPPER: All right. Redditt, let's let him respond.
O'DONNELL: Let's look at the Skid Row shooting, which was shown thousands of times and actually reflects the police being brutalized, the police being attacked by a convicted robber.
HUDSON: I didn't see that.
O'DONNELL: Well, that did occur.
TAPPER: But, Eugene, isn't that the point, though, is that sometimes these...
O'DONNELL: No.
TAPPER: ... these body cams would clear police officers?
O'DONNELL: It didn't. Ask the vast majority of people what the result of that incident was, and they think it's police brutality.
O'DONNELL: Have any of those officers been convicted? Have any of those officers been convicted?
O'DONNELL: If you were an L.A. police officer, putting yourself in harm's way, getting seriously injured, some of them I think have career-ending injuries, would you put yourself at risk like that if you could not do it?
(CROSSTALK) O'DONNELL: You can look at police departments that are useless in
this country. there are police departments that are useless in this country. They get there late. They don't engage. And ask the community what they want. They want engagement.
TAPPER: Eugene, let me just give Redditt the final word.
Go ahead, Redditt.
HUDSON: I have been shot at enforcing the laws in my state. Don't ask me whether or not I would engage.
Ask me about the value of having an objective record created, where police historically have abused their power and authority in communities that don't have a voice and don't have standing to challenge their behavior.
O'DONNELL: This has not been about objectivity or substance. It's been about visceral. It's been about the emotional. We need to have an intelligent conversation.
HUDSON: No. And that's the advantage of the videotape. It takes the emotion out of it and gives us a simple record of what's happened.
O'DONNELL: The videotape is simply to drive a news cycle. We need an objective conversation about homicide, gun violence and the situation police officers in America find themselves in.
HUDSON: We need police officers held accountable when they violate the rights of the citizens that they serve.
TAPPER: OK.
Eugene O'Donnell, Redditt Hudson, thank you. Thank you both very much for your passionate views. We appreciate it.
In other national news, a pilot nearly hits a man wandering on the tarmac. Another man digs under an airport fence and hides on a plane. A drunk woman drives her car close to taxiing planes -- those incidents outlined in a brand-new Associated Press investigation of airport security breaches. It is shocking, and it's next.
TAPPER: Those incidents outlined in a brand new "Associated Press" investigation of airport security breaches.
[16:15:05] It is shocking, and it's next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD.
Breaking in national news today: another American accused of trying to join ISIS. The FBI says this 34-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin, Joshua Van Haften, made it to Turkey before he was ultimately apprehended allegedly on his way the try to join ISIS. The criminal complaint accuses him of telling his roommates he wanted to join the terrorist group, ranting in text messages how he wanted to help the terrorists, quote, "take over Baghdad", even making it to the Syrian border allegedly. FBI agents say that while in Turkey, Van Haften tried to enlist the help of a smuggler to sneak him in to Syria.
[16:20:01] Van Haften is also no stranger to law enforcement. He's a convicted child sex offender who also did time on a battery charge.
On that subject of security here in the United States, more troublesome news about just how effective airport security is at keeping unwanted individuals off your flight. According to a new report by the "Associated Press", intruders have gotten past airport security measures hundreds of times in the past 10 years, some even snuck by carrying knives. One person even had a loaded gun.
Let's get right to CNN aviation correspondent Rene Marsh.
Rene, hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars, have been spent on increasing airport security to upgrade the airport perimeters. This seems like clear evidence that not enough is being done, or at least it's not being done effectively.
RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: You know, we are talking about alarming breaches in airport security, people getting past guard posts, barbed wire fencing, making it to runways, taxi ways and in some cases on board planes.
I want you to take a look at this video, this from last April. A 15- year-old hopped the fence at San Jose International Airport. He eluded detection for about six hours before he climbed into the wheel well of a plane bound for Hawaii. He survived the trip.
And then in 2012, a Jeep broke through a chain link fence. You're looking at that video. Drove on to several runways just as a passenger plane was about to land at Philadelphia International Airport.
Now, the "A.P.'s" year-long investigation reveals 268 perimeter security breaches since 2004 at major U.S. airports. The actual number of incidents is likely higher because not all of the airports shared their data. At least 44 times, intruders made it to runways, taxiways or to the gate.
We know that San Francisco International had the most breaches but also Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Jose, Miami and Tampa, they are at the top of the list as well when it comes to these security breaches. TAPPER: Now, we should underline, the "Associated Press"
investigation says that none of these individuals were part of any sort of active terrorist plot. But I would think regardless, this is sounding alarms for officials in charge of security at these airports.
MARSH: Right. You know, when you do talk to many of these airport officials, they say that they are doing all that they can do. They have had fences and cameras. But still, when you see these numbers, all in one place, you see how many times it's happened, it really begs the question is there a weakness there.
TAPPER: All right. Rene Marsh, thank you so much.
When we come back, the Aaron Hernandez murder trial drags on. The jury is continuing to deliberate. Could a decision come today? We will go to the courthouse, next.
Plus, tonight's the night. If you plan to order an Apple Watch, Apple is already saying they expect the device to sell out. So, how can you guarantee you'll get one if you want one? That's ahead.
[16:26:56] TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper.
In national news today, we just got word deliberations will continue for a third full day in the trial of Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots star is, of course, on trial for the murder of semi- pro player Odin Lloyd. For the second full day, jurors have been huddled together deliberating mostly circumstantial evidence. During the trial the jury heard from more than 130 witnesses but no one testified they actually saw the murder. Prosecutors could only suggest that Hernandez was the actual killer.
CNN's Susan Candiotti is live in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Susan, a major juror complaint held up deliberations today.
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Two of the jurors were very concerned because when they left court yesterday, they were under a police escort to go to their cars, and they said they felt as though someone was following them, an unmarked SUV. They reported it to the court, took a snapshot of the license plate and then came back to a television station in Boston. Neither of the jurors told the judge that they felt all of this would impact their ability to fairly deliberate and render a verdict so they were sent back to work.
But the jury wasn't -- the judge wasn't done. She banned that particular photographer from covering the trial anymore and from even entering the courthouse until the trial is over with. With that, the jury went on with its work and they got a lot of work to do, because in this case, there are more than 430 exhibits to consider.
CANDIOTTI (voice-over): Each day, a traditional call to order. After 135 witnesses stretching over nearly 11 weeks, a jury will now decide the fate of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The commonwealth is going to prove to you this defendant committed the crime of murder.
CANDIOTTI: But a hard-fought defense contends Hernandez would never kill his good friend Odin Lloyd, who was dating Shaneah Jenkins, the sister of his fiancee.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Aaron Hernandez was planning a future, not a murder.
CANDIOTTI: There is a mountain of circumstantial evidence from the crime scene: an isolated pit in an industrial park where Lloyd's bullet-riddled body is found. Experts testify a marijuana blunt with DNA from Hernandez and Lloyd put them both at the spot. A tire on Hernandez's rental car is consistent with tracks in there, too. A shoe impression in the dirt comes from the same kind of sneaker he is seen on video wearing that night.
In each case, the defense attacks those findings.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can't tell us, sir, can you, that that outsole pattern made that impression at placard 2, can you, sir?
CANDIOTTI: Prosecutors tried to prove this grainy home security video minutes after Lloyd is killed shows Hernandez holding a Glock.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In my opinion, the firearm shown in the video stills is a Glock pistol.
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Rosco Wuestewald: Moving Onward
From the archives of Deitra Issue 06 comes this in depth interview with Rosco Wuestewald of folk band Onward Etc. A rising indie music star out of Springfield, Missouri, Rosco has gone on to tour the world since publication of this article in October 2013. We can't wait to feature him again and find out where he has traveled, who he has met and how things have changed in his personal and professional life. But in the meantime, enjoy this intimate look into the Old Soul.
written by Tamara Styer | photographed by Matt Loveland
IT’S A WARM, SUNNY day in Springfield, MO, and Deitra Mag meets up with Rosco Wuestewald of Onward, Etc. for a cold beverage on the patio of J.O.B. Whiskey Lounge. Rosco has just gotten back from a national tour, having visited cities in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. His second day back into town, he finally gets a moment to relax.
Rosco is the kind of guy that’s friends with everybody. He’s the one cheering on other bands at shows and hugging everyone he knows. Always warm, friendly and an exuberant ball of energy, he loves to laugh and tell stories, as well as listen to everyone else’s.
As we find a corner on the buzzing patio, Rosco sits on top of a table cross-legged and happily tells us about his recent tour.
“I get so mixed up anymore that I just have to go by the state, because it gets so difficult to remember every city,” he says.
They got to party with Gogol Bordello and The Lumineers. “It was so awesome, man. It’s good to meet people of that caliber and know how real they are,” says Rosco. “They’re really nice people.”
When it comes to his band Onward, Etc., along with Tom Pearson and KC Olsen, their debut album, Old Soul, has spurred tons of fans across the country.
And now fans will have something new to look forward to. Onward, Etc. landed a record deal with DC-Jam Records out of L.A. and will be recording their new album as this article goes to press.
DC-Jam Records produces guys like Richie Ramone of the Ramones, Fishbone and Government Issue, among others, and several up and comers including Dirty Filthy, The Generators and Machine 22.
“We had to go through a discussion about whether we wanted to take that path and sign our music over. The record company is amazing. They want to work together to make this us. They’ve got our back majorly, so we’re super stoked about it. We’ve got a whole new team of people; a brand new merchandise manager and a whole new booking team. Derek O’Brien from Social Distortion is going to produce our album. It’s super awesome.”
A punk rock drummer, O’Brien was also involved in D.I. and performed in the film Suburbia. He has worked in the studio with recording artists such as Flogging Molly and Coldwater Canyon Band.
“Derek is a professional,” says Rosco. “He’s done some major albums. Albums that we all grew up with. He is a master. He knows exactly what to do, so it’s going to be a lot easier for us to work with somebody of that caliber. He’s going to create the album into something that we had never imagined. It’s going to be good. And we’ve got so much new material that it’s just fucking awesome. I’m so excited for it. The best part about it is when you have somebody at that caliber that you’ve looked up to, somebody that’s been in a band that you’ve listened to since you were a child, and to know how excited they are to produce your music! It just lights a whole new fire.”
Rosco and his band Onward, Etc. will start touring in October and head over to L.A. to begin recording in the studio. They plan on having several guest musicians on the new album, all of whom you’ll recognize. It’s an exciting undertaking for this midwest band.
“It’s happened so quick,” says Rosco. “I remember always hearing about these deals that happened, and now it’s like, holy shit we’re doing it. We can do this. I always hoped for this, but I never thought that it would work out in the way that it has. It’s like a dream world.”
Which brings us to the band’s name, Onward, Etc. There are many fables about the way Rosco came up with it, but here’s the real story.
It has to do with a recurring dream that Rosco has had for years. He would go into a dream world and find an object, like a desk or a tree, with the word “onward” carved into it. The word was even carved into somebody’s skin at one point. Every time he dreamed, the entire landscape of the dream would be different, but it would revolve around the word, “onward.” After baffling over where that word was coming from in his psyche, he realized that it was his brain’s way of saying that whatever you’re doing you need to keep doing it, and expand it and take it farther. Move past “onward” and see what’s beyond that. That’s where the “etc” came in.
“There’s something kind of spiritual in a sense about finding what you love most in your subconscious,” says Rosco, “and really digging into it there rather than in reality, because I think sometimes your subconscious pushes the real world in a better way than you had in real life.”
Having this recurring dream not only gave Rosco the name of his musical project, but it changed the direction of his creative endeavors.
“It was absolutely substantial for my life. I was at a point where I was going in two different directions. I had just gotten out of photography school as well, and I couldn’t decide which way I wanted to go, either professional photography or professional music.”
One day the decision seemed to make itself. Music was definitely the path he would choose.
Rosco has been playing music since his early teens. He got his first guitar when he was 13 and started self teaching.
“I didn’t get serious with it until probably 19 or 20. I always played it, but I wasn’t thinking that I could do anything with it until then. The music just overwhelmed everything. It became a way of life rather than just a sound.”
Originally Rosco created Onward, Etc. as a solo act and traveled to different parts of the country to form different versions of the ensemble. He had a different band on the West coast than he had on the East and so on. That’s the way it ran for a while, jumping from an 8-piece group to a three-piece overnight, and vice versa. As time went by, he met violinist KC Olsen, who became the first permanent member of Onward, Etc.
“He was the first one that I asked, ‘Will you do this forever? Are you willing to jump on this pirate ship and ride through crazy, wavy seas with me?’ And he was all about it.”
Rosco and Olsen toured together for about two years before they met drummer Tom Pearson. They had been using a kick drum and a suitcase for percussion, which has it’s cool vibe and expressive qualities, but it was time for another addition to Onward, Etc. The band still reaches out to those musicians who have backed Rosco in the past. They’ll tour to a city and connect with a bassist or a banjo player, and enjoy the addition of those instruments for a night.
“It’s always a different thing that keeps it interesting. It’s always a pleasure for the crowd too, I think. It’s always like, ‘Shat’s it going to be like this time?’”
The music is captivating; heartfelt songwriting and lyrics and an old folk sound. Rosco’s voice – both smooth and gravelly – mingles with his acoustic guitar like Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. The violin chimes in its harmony in ballads as well as foot stomping beats. It’s no wonder why fans are flocking to their shows. But beyond the album, it’s their stage presence that makes people want to keep coming to see it again and again.
“I love our album Old Soul, but I know that it does absolutely no justice for our live show. And that’s what we want to accomplish with this next album. We really want to make you think, ‘Holy shit these guys are crazy,’ and then when you come to a show, you’ll know that it’s going to be absolutely ballistic and fun and a party. You can enjoy yourself and walk in with a smile and walk out with a smile. We are a party band. We want to bring a party. We want people to leave a show and say, ‘That was a fucking good show and a good party.’ We want to bring a memorable night.”
They’re always on top of a table or jumping into the crowd, which is not generally what you see with acoustic singer-songwriter folk music. There’s always something interesting going on at their shows, including the rowdy fans dancing like hippies and singing the lyrics as Rosco shouts them back down from the stage.
“It’s weird how quickly that catches on,” Rosco says. “It’s even weirder when you go to a place that you’ve never been before, with people you’ve never met, and you’ve got an entire crowd just screaming the lyrics back at you. It’s unbelievable. It’s the whole reason I do it. It’s just that feeling when you’re affecting people’s lives. It’s the best feeling when you have somebody come up to you and say, ‘Your song has changed my life.’ That’s the best thing when I hear that.”
When he was younger, Rosco’s songwriting was very personal. He primarily wrote about things he had experienced. His songwriting has kept much of that element but has evolved into writing about stories based on the things he sees, reads or hears around him. He will pick up on something that he thinks is a cool topic or something interesting that affects his life.
“I write lyrics in a way that I understand them. But at the same time I don’t expect anyone else to understand them in the way that I do. I like when people take my lyrics and make them their own. My experience might turn into something that happened in their life that strikes up a memory. I think that’s what I aim for in a sense; trying to be able to strike memories in other people’s lives. Bring up a good time in life, or a sad time in life or a loved one.”
Rosco played in a punk rock band years ago, then felt that the style of music couldn’t bring him any further, so he started studying songwriters like Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and old folk musicians.
“I became involved in loving that and blending them all together, which has become our generation’s sound. There’s so many bands that are coming out with that sound. I love it.”
Touring with bands like Larry and his Flask and Flogging Molly, Rosco is looking forward to his upcoming projects. But life on the road is not what it seems from the outside. Huge tour buses and jets, throngs of screaming fans, penthouse suites and red carpet events are not the norm for the touring musician.
“There’s nothing glamorous about it right now, guys,” says Rosco. “There’s still so much work to do. It’s a hard industry. And I think a thing that a lot of people don’t understand about the music industry is that it’s insanely difficult to get into. It’s insanely difficult to run your life by. It blows my mind sometimes that people are still doing it. You can get to that point where it’s smooth sailing from then on, but you have to work your ass off to get there.”
Everything that could have gone wrong seems to have while Onward, etc. are on tour, from their van breaking down and being stranded on the side of the road for days to scrounging for dinner out of a garbage can.
“I chose the route that the majority of human beings don’t choose. And I did it because I just had a feeling. I think about if I would have failed, I would be screwed right now!”
Rosco grew up in Yankton, South Dakota, and when he decided not to go to college, it was an upsetting thing for for his surrounding community.
“It was really hard for them to understand. It was hard for me to talk to people about it without them trying to talk me out of it. I had so many people try to talk me out of going down the route that I did, and try to change my route in a sense, and now after all these years, it seems like all these people have come back and embraced it. That is a really good feeling to know that I’ve made people proud that were worried about me. People would literally go out of their way to tell me that they were worried about that path that I was taking in life – going and being a musician and trying to go spend my life on the road and make this happen. And I can’t blame them. That’s a terrifying thing for a 17 year old kid to do. But now going back home, those same people that were worried about me come up to me and tell me that they’re proud of me. It’s just great.”
This year Rosco held a music festival in his hometown, inviting 12 bands from all over the country to play. There were over 1,000 people in attendance.
“It was so amazing. Everyone came out. And everybody loved it and they want to do it again. It was a perfect way of giving a gift back, and even better to have people saying, ‘We needed this. This town needs this.’”
Giving back to his hometown community was the perfect way for Rosco to show everyone what following your passions can do. He wouldn’t change his decision to go down that road less traveled for anything. He holds the strong belief that if you want something in your life, you have to go after it. After much hard work and dedication to his music, the hard times are paying off.
“We’re floating on a cloud right now,” says Rosco. “We’re in a great position compared to where we used to be. But it’s going to be years and years touring in a shitty van still.”
We mention that it’s awesome that he accepts that. So many bands expect to bypass all the hard work and go straight into the money, tour buses and sold out arenas.
“It does happen for some people, sure, but 98 percent of bands around, you have to go through the broken down nights,” says Rosco. “You really have to have a state of mind where you know that you’re going to be poor. There’s a chance that someday you’ll maybe be alright. But it’s going to be decades of being poor. You can’t worry about the money.”
After years of hard work and dedication, Onward, etc. is breaking the surface of the sea that is the music industry. They constantly go out on tour, reaching more fans with their music every time they play.
“We played a show one time in Salt Lake City, that we literally played to the bartender, the cook and then one other person that came in to pick up their to go order. For the whole set. But the last song we were playing, I see out of the corner of my eye this group of people, like 7 or 8 people rushing across the street, running at the venue. And they run into the venue and come right to the stage and I realize that I knew every single one of them. And they were just walking by the venue randomly in Salt Lake City and heard my music that they knew and ran up. So they missed the whole set, but that’s so cool, man. It was super random.”
Onward, Etc. keep finding people around all over the world that love their music. They sell out Alaska and Hawaii every time they go, and have a strong grasp on many cities across the U.S. They have also had much success when touring across Europe in countries like Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Holland, U.K. and Ireland.
“Music is its own language,” says Rosco. “So whether or not you’re in another country, people are going to either love it or not, and that’s how it is everywhere. A funny thing about being a road warrior, is that the world collapses in on itself and gets so small. Everywhere you go, people you know are there now, people that know this person or know that person. It’s a huge web of relations that’s constantly out there for everyone. That’s super amazing to come across.”
Rosco is the example of going after your dreams. His passion for music has brought him through many tough times, but he has always kept a positive attitude, constantly looking forward.
“Just don’t stop and you will be successful,” he says. “That’s the way that I’ve always done it. When you stop, you die. If you don’t stop, you will achieve what you want. It’s the art of war. You just keep pushing, no matter what. There’s one of you and 100,000 of them, you just have to keep up. You’ll win the war. It’s an awesome position to be in though, because then you look back whenever you have gotten to where you see things happening and you know it’s going to be okay. You look back on those days and you’re like, ‘Yeah I totally did it!’” DM
To see the digital version of Deitra Issue 06 featuring Rosco Wuestewald of Onward, Etc., head to issuu.com/deitrmag!
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PDL Standouts Selected In MLS SuperDraft
River City Rovers Andrew Farrell heads to Revolution with No.1 pick
TAMPA, Fla. – Led by former River City Rovers and IMG Bradenton Academics standout Andrew Farrell, who was taken with the No. 1 overall selection by the New England Revolution, former PDL standouts highlighted the 2013 MLS SuperDraft on Thursday afternoon. Held in conjunction with the NSCAA Convention in Indianapolis, the SuperDraft saw six former PDL players and one former Super-20 League standout selected in the Top 10, and 27 former PDL and Super-20 alumni selected overall.
The 2013 MLS SuperDraft continued the remarkable success of the PDL in helping the development of potential future professionals. In the past four seasons, 137 of the 194 players selected in the SuperDraft have played in the PDL, a remarkable 71 percent of selections. The past two MLS Rookie of the Year honorees have also been PDL alumni, with Reading United’s C.J. Sapong (Sporting Kansas City) taking the honor in 2011, and the Chicago Fire PDL’s Austin Berry (Chicago Fire) winning the award in 2012.
Farrell opened the 2012 PDL season with the Academics before returning to Louisville, where he also starred for the University of Louisville this fall, to complete the season with River City, for whom he made five appearances as they finished third in the Great Lakes Division. He is the second consecutive former PDL player to be taken with the No. 1 overall selection of the SuperDraft, following former Reading United and Carolina Dynamo standout Andrew Wenger, who was selected by the Montreal Impact a year ago.
Both the Austin Aztex and Reading United had a pair of players selected in the SuperDraft’s Top 10, with the Vancouver Whitecaps trading up to selected Austin’s PDL All-Southern Conference Selection Kekuta Manneh with the No. 4 pick. Blake Smith was selected with the No. 8 pick by the Montreal Impact, while Dillon Powers was also selected in the first round, being taken by the Colorado Rapids with the No. 11 selection. The SuperDraft success capped a remarkable return for the Aztex, who reached the PDL Southern Conference Final in their return to action last season.
Reading’s 2012 All-League honoree Deshorn Brown, who also played for the Des Moines Menace in 2011, was taken with the No. 6 selection by the Colorado Rapids after leading the PDL with 13 goals in 13 games last summer. Brown was joined by fellow United standout Ryan Finley in the Top 10, taken by the Columbus Crew with the No. 9 selection after a standout fall at Notre Dame that saw him named a finalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy. Finley had previously played in the PDL for the Central Jersey Spartans and Ocean City Nor’easters, spending four seasons in the league as he continued his development.
Reading United led all PDL teams with five players selected in the SuperDraft, with Ian Christianson being taken by the New York Red Bulls with the No. 22 selection. A pair of 2012 All-Eastern Conference Team selections were also selected, with Stephen Okai taken with the No. 31 pick by the Philadelphia Union, Reading’s MLS affiliate, and Greg Cochrane being taken by the Los Angeles Galaxy with the No. 38 pick.
Another former PDL standout taken in the Top 10 was former Portland Timbers U-23s standout Erik Hurtado, who made the jump across the Cascadia rivalry when he was selected by the Vancouver Whitecaps with the No. 5 pick. Former Columbus Crew Juniors standout Eriq Zavaleta, who was named to the 2011 Super-20 League North American Finals All-Tournament Team, rounded out the Top 10 after being selected by the Seattle Sounders FC.
Other PDL standouts taken in the first round of the SuperDraft included former Orange County Blue Star midfielder Mikey Lopez, taken with the No. 14 pick by Sporting Kansas City. Former Portland Timbers U-23s standout Emery Welshman was taken with the No. 16 pick by Toronto FC, while former Real Colorado Foxes defender Taylor Kemp was taken with the No. 17 pick by D.C. United.
Rounding out the first round were former Sounders FC U23 standout Fernando Monge, taken with the No. 18 pick by the Montreal Impact, and former Worcester Hydra FC and GPS Portland Phoenix standout Charlie Rugg, taken with the No. 19 pick by the Los Angeles Galaxy.
The top developmental men’s league in North American, the PDL features 73 teams within four conferences across the United States and Canada. The PDL season consists of 16 regular season matches for each team, eight home and eight away, and provides elite collegiate players the opportunity to taste a higher level of competition while maintaining their eligibility. In addition to league play, PDL teams compete in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup as well as various exhibitions. The PDL has proven to be an important stepping-stone for top professionals now playing throughout the world.
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Crusade Team
Scholarship Tuesday
Art Subscription Programs Deliver Financial Support, New Audiences for Artists
by Jennifer Schwartz
This article was originally posted on PDN on February 17, 2014.
By offering collectors an opportunity to subscribe in advance to receive a certain number of artworks, art subscription programs are helping to fund the work of photographers and connect them with new audiences of collectors.
Finding ways to engage new collectors and give artists the freedom and funding to create new work is no easy task. But art subscription services, which deliver new work to subscribers on a prearranged schedule, are popping up all over the country to do just that. They are a win-win for artists and collectors alike, and photography seems to be a perfect match for this platform, because photographers can easily produce multiples of their work for subscribers.
Finding ways to engage new collectors and give artists the freedom and funding to create new work is no easy task. But art subscription services, which deliver new work to subscribers on a prearranged schedule, are popping up all over the country to do just that. They are a win-win for artists and collectors alike, and photography seems to be a perfect match for this platform because photographers can easily produce multiples of their work for subscribers.
Andy Sturdevant, the director of Minnesota’s Springboard for the Arts and project coordinator for Minnesota’s CSA (Community Supported Art) says their program was inspired by a desire to provide an entry point to art for people who may be interested in collecting but felt intimidated by the process. “It was a way to put local artists directly in contact with people who were interested in getting their feet wet with collecting art,” Sturdevant says. These subscription programs are inspired by agricultural share programs (also called CSAs – Community Supported Agriculture), where shares of a local farm are purchased in exchange for regular deliveries of produce.
While similarly structured art programs already existed, Minnesota’s program was the first to use the term CSA. They have since created a replication kit to encourage other organizations to adopt the CSA model, and to date there are approximately 30 in existence around the country, according to Sturdevant.
In a typical Community Supported Art program, fifty shares are available for purchase for around $300 per share (Sturdevant has seen the range go from $75 to $500, and the number of shares available can also vary). Artists are paid in advance to create work for each shareholder, and shareholders receive original works several times per year. On average, organizations run one or two CSA cycles per year and include nine artists in each.
Depending on the economic setup of the subscription program, artists can be paid well or negligibly for their work. But there are benefits to artists beyond the paycheck. For one, it puts the artist directly in touch with 50 people who are interested in buying art, creating an opportunity for relationship building. Sturdevant feels this format allows artists to try out a new project or smaller idea that may not fit into their regular practice.
Subscription services also give artists incentive and support to work. “I think artists… have to work so hard to make ends meet that it leaves very little time for studio practice,” says Chandi Kelley, co-founder and artist-member of Project Dispatch, an art subscription program based in Washington, D. C. that allows subscribers to select an artist and opt to receive monthly works for either three-, six-, or nine-month periods. Subscriptions are available for $30, $60 or $90 monthly. “If I can do something to encourage the process of art making while helping artists gain exposure and sell work, then I feel my efforts are worthwhile,” Kelley says.
Kristoffer Tripplaar, who is part of the Project Dispatch roster, is a news photographer by day and says the subscriptions encourage him to spend time creating art. “It is motivating to keep working on your personal work knowing you will be sending an image to someone,” Tripplaar says. “It is validating after a few weeks of working on press conference photos to get an email saying someone subscribed. I can switch gears and be creative and print an image I’m proud of to send to someone who is really interested.”
“Knowing that someone has specifically chosen you as an artist they would like to subscribe to is incredibly empowering and motivating,” says Jerry Skiscim, another Project Dispatch artist. Skiscim is a Washington, D.C.-based photographer who had been intimidated to try to break into the art world prior to joining Project Dispatch. “Being a part of this group of talented and accomplished artists pushed me way ahead of what I could have done on my own,” Skiscim says.
TBW Books is an independent photography book publishing company that also uses a subscription model. Each year, TBW Books invites four photographers to create a body of work for book publication in that year’s subscription set. Artists are encouraged by TBW to experiment and think in a new way. “These publications are not intended to be full-blown monographs,” says Paul Schiek, founder and publisher. “They are intended to be experimental capsules to allow the artist to go outside their normal practice and try something new.” According to the TBW website, “The books provide an unparalleled glimpse into the thinking processes of who we consider to be four of today's most exciting image-makers.” Beyond the creative output, the entry-point pricing is also appealing (previous subscriptions cost $100, the most-recent is priced at $150).
A huge part of the draw for subscribers seems to be the element of surprise. “People like the surprise and the mystery of not knowing what will come in the mail. Maybe it’s not even about collecting art for some people, but the experience of the surprise and supporting the creative process for the artists who are involved,” Kelley says. The idea for Project Dispatch came from her long-distance friendship with Rachel England (Project Dispatch’s other co-creator who no longer runs the program but is still a participating artist). Kelley and England would send each other packages of artwork in the mail, and they loved the excitement of receiving artful surprises in the mail, so they decided to create a model to share this experience on a wider scale.
“Anticipation is a great motivator,” says Schiek. “With TBW Books’ subscription service, you don’t know what you have paid for, but you trust the publisher and the photographer, and you are willing to put your money on the table and see what comes your way. Consuming photography this way is surprisingly unique because we live in such a screen world, and getting tangible books in the mail is exciting.”
Sturdevant agrees that surprise is important. For their CSA pick-up events, they have begun creating staging areas where shareholders can sit and open their box of art goodies. “Dramatizing that moment has enhanced the enjoyment of the experience,” he says. But he also stresses the importance of getting artists and shareholders in the same room so the artists have an opportunity to talk about the work. “In a lot of ways that’s what people are paying for – not just the art, but the social element of connecting to other people interested in art and having opportunities to meet the artists,” Sturdevant says.
Kelley also notes that the physical shows Project Dispatch produce to give additional exposure to their artists always result in a spike in subscriptions. She feels the opportunities to see the work firsthand and to engage directly with the artists are powerful motivators in attracting subscribers. The exhibitions are another advantage of participating – artists get the opportunity to have gallery shows and meet collectors first-hand, providing a platform to launch their careers. Skiscim just had his first solo show in the same space as his work was exhibited in a Project Dispatch exhibition. “Project Dispatch has allowed me to build an audience for my work, which was the thing I just could not figure out how to do on my own,” Skiscim says.
The reproducibility of photography makes it a natural fit for CSAs. For a CSA where 50 shares are sold, each artist has to create and send 50 unique works to shareholders. Sturdevant says they do not want the final product to suffer because of the volume, so they tend to select artists whose work can easily be scaled (photographers, print-makers) or artists who are used to working in high volume (ceramic artists).
But many of the photographers participating in art subscription programs go beyond shooting an image and creating an edition of fifty single photographs. Areca Roe created stereographic images and sent a viewmaster and slides to each shareholder. Stefanie Motta shot a tarot deck with herself as the model, and every shareholder received a full deck of the tarot cards. Gene Pittman and Rebekah Yaker collaborated to create a photo-based fabric design. Each shareholder received some of the fabric and a sewing pattern. “When I think about some of the projects I have really loved over the years, many of them have been photo-based”, Sturdevant says.
When Julia Vandenoever, a Boulder-based photographer, found out she had been selected as a participating artist for the 2014 CSArt Colorado, she knew she wanted to go beyond creating a single image for shareholders. “I wanted to make work that told the story of the change in the boulder landscape, and so I have decided to create a small photobook to be able to better convey the entire story,” Vandenoever says. “I really want to take the opportunity to explore another way to exhibit and show my photographs.” Vandenoever is also looking forward to expanding her creative community, getting more exposure for her work, and connecting with 50 new collectors. Artists across the board seem to share these same hopes and successes, making subscription art programs sound like a dream come true.
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HENRY Pierre (1927-2017)
A French composer born December 9, 1927 in Paris, died July 5, 2017 in Paris.
After a classical training at the Paris Conservatory (1937-47), Pierre Henry met Pierre Schaeffer with whom he composed the Symphonie pour un homme seul (1950). At the RTF he directed the first Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète. Upon leaving the Radio in 1958 he founded Apsome, the first private studio devoted to electroacoustic music, before directing Son/Ré from 1982. He collaborated with many artistes and choreographers, notably Maurice Béjart (Haut voltage, 1956; Messe pour le temps présent, 1957). His first compositions were in a highly purified style (Le voyage, 1962), later works gaining greatly in scope (Hugosymphonie, 1985). A composer also of film and commercial music, Pierre Henry is an explorer of sounds, a champion of a free æsthetic, a pioneer in technological research. Other works are Messe de Liverpool (1968), the Dixième Symphonie de Beethoven (1979), Pierres réfléchies (1982), Le livre des morts égyptien (1988), Intérieur/Extérieur (1996), Trajectoire (2007).
Listen to extracts of works
Born December 9, 1927 in Paris, Pierre Henry spent the early years of his childhood in the countryside. From 1937, he began studying music at the Paris Conservatory. He learned composition with Nadia Boulanger, piano and percussion with Felix Passeronne and harmony with Olivier Messiaen.
After a first experience as pianist and percussionist in an orchestra, he joined in 1946 Pierre Schaeffer in the studios of French Radio and Television (RTF). First recruited by him as percussionist Pierre Henry quickly becomes a friend and contributes as a composer. This collaboration produced a founding work of concrete music: the Symphonie pour un homme seul (Symphony for a Lonely Man). This work will be choreographed in 1949 by Maurice Béjart.
Pierre Henry is hired by the studios of the RTF as head of the Concrete Music Research Group (GRMC). This group, founded in 1951, was renamed GRM (Musical Research Group) in 1958. It was not until 1953 at the Donaueschingen Festival, to see in a concert the first concrete opera, Orphée (Orpheus), written by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry in 1951.
In 1958, following disagreements among others, aesthetic, Pierre Henry leaves the RTF to found his own studio: APSOME (Sound Processing Applications in Electroacoustic Music). In this first private studio dedicated to research, he continued his pure research, exploring new techniques, adapting the technology then in constant evolution.
Moving forward, Pierre Henry creates a second music research studio: Son/Ré. Located in the twelfth arrondissement of Paris, this studio has the support of the Ministry of Culture and the City of Paris in 1990. Over seventy new works are created there.
In 1949 began a prolific collaboration with choreographer Maurice Béjart. At the suggestion of the latter, Pierre Henry composes a work that will be his signature for the general public: Messe pour le temps présent (Mass for the Present Time) (co-written with Michel Colombier). On this music, composed as a suite of dances, Béjart created a choreography performed for the first time at the Avignon Festival in 1967. The public particularly notes Psyché Rock, which has become a hit.
Pierre Henry continues to innovate and renew his creative style. His early compositions in a minimalist style (Le voyage, 1962) give way to works of greater magnitude (Hugosymphonie, 1985).
Great collector and sound sculptor, Pierre Henry becomes a reference for many electronic artists who offer him in 1997 for his seventy years, a remix of his famous Messe pour le temps présent.
In 2012, Pierre Henry created Le Fil de la vie (Life Wire) at Cité de la musique in Paris, and said that he was delivering a kind of testament: this work is "the decomposition of some of my works. An introspective journey... In my work the games at the microphone, rhythms and screaming, all that expressive language runs like a thread the scale of my bodily and emotional states during life."
Pierre Henry in three dates
1937 entered the Conservatory and took lessons with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen
1946 met Pierre Schaeffer
1949 started a collaboration with Maurice Béjart
Pierre Henry in three works
1950 first performance of the Symphonie pour un homme seul
1967 first performance at the Avignon Festival of the Messe pour le Temps présent
2012 first performance in Paris, Cité de la musique, of the work Le Fil de la vie
Source : http://www.francemusique.fr/personne/pierre-henry
Les partitions de Pierre Henry sont inédites.
Voir la liste des œuvres sur le site de l'Ircam
Bibliographical elements
CHION Michel. Pierre Henry. 2e édition. Paris : Fayard, 2003, 279 p.
HENRY Pierre. Journal de mes sons ; suivi de Préfaces et manifestes. Arles : Actes Sud, 2004, 114 p. (Un endroit où aller).
HUGO Victor. Dieu : théâtre sonore ; [adapté par] Pierre Henry. Arles : Actes Sud, 1986, 137 p.
Ircam (biographie, liste des œuvres)
Radio France (biographie)
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
"Philippe de Vitry in England: Musical Quotation in the Quatuor principalia and the Gratissima Tenors," Studi Musicali , Nuova serie 9, no. 1 (2018), pp. 9–46.
"The Unique Patroness: Louise Hanson-Dyer and Her Letters to the Library of Congress, 1936-52," Notes, vol. 73, no. 4 (June, 2017), pp. 631–657.
"Walter of Evesham's De speculatione musicae: Authority of Music Theory in Medieval England," Musica Disciplina (2014), pp. 153–166.
"And in England, There are Singers: Grafting Oneself into the Origin of Music," Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Samantha Bassler and Katherine Butler (Suffolk: Boydell/Bewer, March 2019).
"Featured in Women in Music Theory: Elina Hamilton," Society for Music Theory Women in Music Theory Blog, April 13, 2018.
"The Queen is a Doctor of Musicology?" American Musicological Society Blog, Musicology Now, Dec. 7, 2016.
"Sources of Identity: Makers, Owners and Users of Music sources before 1600," with Eleanor Giraud in Royal Musical Association Newsletter, vol. XVIII, no. 1 (2014), p.7.
"Gothic Revolution: Music in Western Europe 1100-1300," in Early Music, 40/1 (2012), pp. 159–160.
Festshrifts
"The First Translation of the Scolica enchiriadis into Japanese: A Worthless Exercise," The Soul of Wit: Micro-Festshrift Rob Wegman zum 50. Geburtstag, ed. Michael Scott Cuthbert (Wall Status Press, Somerville, MA, 2011), fol. 28r.
Workshop at MIT
A Snow Day Mid-Semester
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Elk Grove Man Get 20 Years For 'Americans Helping Americans' Immigration Fraud Scheme
Helaman Hansen. | December 16, 2017 | An Elk Grove man was sentenced to 20 years in prison in U.S District Court in Sacramento...
Crime, Current News
http://www.elkgrovenews.net/2017/12/elk-grove-man-get-20-years-for.html
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An Elk Grove man was sentenced to 20 years in prison in U.S District Court in Sacramento yesterday for his role in an immigration fraud scheme the bilked over $1 million from victims.
Helaman Hansen, 65, of Elk Grove, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. for operating an elaborate adult-adoption fraud scheme that targeted undocumented aliens. Hansen was also ordered to pay $576,264 in restitution.
On May 9, 2017, after an 11-day trial, a federal jury found Hansen guilty of 12 counts of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud, and two counts of encouraging and inducing illegal immigration for private financial gain.
Evidence presented at trial showed that between October 2012 and January 2016, Hansen and others used various entities such as Americans Helping America (AHA) to sell memberships in what he called a “Migration Program.” A central feature of the program was the fraudulent claim that immigrant adults could achieve U.S. citizenship by being legally adopted by an American citizen and completing a list of additional tasks.
Initially memberships were sold to victims for an annual fee of $150, but that fee grew and eventually was as high as $10,000. Although some victims completed the adoption stage of the “Migration Program,” not one victim obtained citizenship.
Even as the scheme started Hansen had been informed by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that aliens adopted after their 16th birthday could not obtain citizenship in the manner Hansen was promoting. Despite that notification, Hansen and others acting at his direction induced approximately 500 victims to pay more than $1 million to join the fraudulent program.
“The FBI is committed to identifying and investigating fraud, especially when such crimes prey upon the most vulnerable people in our community. Legitimate pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants exist but adult adoption is not one of them," Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Sacramento Field Office said. "Unfortunately, Hansen knowingly accepted funds for adult adoption processes despite being informed that such would not aid his victims with obtaining citizenship,”
This case was the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Assistant U.S. Attorneys André M. Espinosa and Katherine T. Lydon prosecuted the case.
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USET Honors 2002 Champions
Source : USET
!Pic1!The United States Equestrian Team (USET) named champions in dressage, driving, endurance, eventing, reining, and show jumping in 2002. The USET commends all equestrian athletes in America for their outstanding 2002 achievements.
The U.S. Dressage squad captured the team Silver Medal at the 2002 World Equestrian Games. The finish marked the best finish ever for a United States dressage team in any World Championship or Olympic Games. The U.S. also excelled in the individual competition. The U.S. placed two riders in the top five in a dressage World Championship for the first time. Debbie McDonald of Hailey, ID, and Brentina, owned by Parry and Peggy Thomas, finished fourth, just ahead of teammate Lisa Wilcox, who resides in Cappeln, Germany riding Relevant, owned by Gudula Vorwerk and Dr. Claus Crone-Munzebrock.
Debbie McDonald of Hailey, ID, and Brentina, owned by Parry and Peggy Thomas, won the USET Grand Prix Championship in Gladstone, NJ, following four rounds of competition that served as the Team's World Equestrian Games selection trials.
Susan Dutta of Thornwood, NY, rode her chestnut mare, West Side Lady to victory in the USET Intermediaire Championship at the Bayer/USET Festival of Champions, Presented by State Line Tack at the USET Olympic Training Center in Gladstone, NJ.
The USET squad of drivers competing at the 2002 World Equestrian Games made history when they won the team Silver Medal. The team consisting of Jimmy Fairclough of Newton, NJ, driving a team owned by Fairclough and Jane Forbes Clark; Chester Weber of Ocala, FL, driving his team; and Tucker Johnson of Hobe Sound, FL, driving a team he owns with Mr. and Mrs. James L. Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Duke had the best finish the U.S. has ever had at a Four-In-Hand World Championship. In close contention for an individual medal, Tucker Johnson finished fourth individually and Weber was just behind in fifth place.
Johnson earned his record sixth USET Four-In-Hand Championship by way of his top finish by a U.S. driver at the World Equestrian Games.
Fred Merriam of Newfane, VT, driving Gaitwood Lightwing, an 8-year-old Morgan owned by Nicholas J. Mercede, won the Bronze Medal at the World Singles Championship in Conty, France, August 28 – September 1. This marked the first individual medal ever won by an American in a World Driving Championship.
Lisa Singer of Chadds Ford, PA, won the USET Pairs Championship for the fourth consecutive year and sixth time overall. The Championship was held during the Gladstone Driving Event. With her victory, Singer, driving horses owned by Anne Mimi Thorington, surpassed Larry Poulin's record of five Championship titles. Singer, the only woman driver to win the Championship, won in 1994, and again in 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2001.
Two-time Endurance World Champion Valerie Kanavy of Ft. Valley, VA, won the USET Endurance 75-Mile Championship at the Bayer/USET Festival of Champions, on Hott Property, owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai, UAE, with a ride time of 9 hours 14 minutes and 31 seconds.
Kanavy also won the first ever USET Endurance 100-Mile Championship at the Fair Hill International. Kanavy rode Bells Snitzel, owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to the victory.
The U.S. eventing team emerged as World Champions at the 2002 World Equestrian Games. The team members were David O’Connor of The Plains, VA, riding Giltedge, owned by Jacqueline Mars, Christa Badger and Jonathon Ireland; Kim Vinoski-Severson of Scottsville, VA, riding Winsome Adante owned by Linda Wachtmeister and Plain Dealing Farm; Amy Tryon of Redmond, WA, on her Poggio II; and John Williams of Middleburg, VA riding his horse Carrick. The riders did well individually as well. Williams just missed an individual medal with a fourth place finish, Vinoski-Severson placed sixth and O’Connor placed tenth.
Kimberly Vinoski-Severson claimed her first Rolex/USET Four Star Eventing Championship at the Rolex/Kentucky Three-Day Event, Presented by Bayer, in April.
Vinoski-Severson, riding Winsome Adante, in a record setting field of 63 entries was able to squeak by John Williams. Vinoski-Severson finished the event with a three day total of 56.20 penalty points, just barely ahead of Williams’ 56.61 points.
A jubilant Bonnie Mosser celebrated her first three-star win at the USET Three Star Spring Championship held during the MBNA Foxhall Cup CCI *** in Atlanta, GA in April.
Mosser, of Coatesville, PA, was third going into the final stadium jumping phase of competition, where she was one of the few riders to jump clean on the complicated course. She and her horse, Jenga, were able to win although only 2.8 penalty points separated the top five finishers.
David O’Connor rode Custom Made to a fairytale finish at the USET Three Star Fall Championship at the Fair Hill International in Fair Hill, MD. O’Connor had announced that this year’s Fair Hill International would be the final competition for his Olympic Gold Medal winning mount.
O’Connor, who won the USET Championship for a record sixth time, and second in a row, finished with a three phase score of 48.61 penalties.
With a combined score of 657.5 points, the U.S. reining team of Shawn Flarida of Springfield, OH, riding San Jo Freckles, owned by Michael Harper; brothers Tom McCutcheon of Pilot Point, TX, riding Conquistador Whiz, owned by George Shifrin, and Scott McCutcheon of Whiteboro, TX, riding Inwhizable, owned by Inwhizable Partners; and Craig Schmersal of Menifee, CA, who rode Tidal Wave Jack, owned by B.S. Syndicate, won the first-ever reining World Championship and became the first reining World Champions in history.
Individually, Flarida emerged as the first-ever individual World Reining Champion with a score of 221.5 points. Tom McCutcheon won the Silver Medal after winning a run-off with Shawna Sapergia of Canada.
In the USET Reining Championship, presented by Bayer, at the Bayer/USET Festival of Champions, Tom McCutcheon rode Conquistador Whiz to victory. McCutcheon and Conquistador Whiz earned the win with a picture perfect pattern that the judges scored 228.
The United States won the CRIO Gladstone Nations Cup competition with a team score of 1326.5 points. Team Canada rode to a Silver Medal, followed by Team Brazil in third.
For the first time the USET had responsibility for vaulting and sent a team to the 2002 World Equestrian Games. Devon Maitozo of Acton, CA, won the individual Bronze Medal in the men’s division with a score of 8.612. The best U.S. finisher in the women’s division was Pamela Geisler of Diamond Bar, CA, who finished in eighth position with a score of 8.209. In the team competition, the U.S. vaulting squad, F.A.C.E. of Moorpark, CA, finished in fifth place.
Peter Wylde won the individual Bronze Medal at the 2002 World Equestrian Games, the first show jumping individual World Championship Medal since Conrad Homfeld won the Silver in 1986.
McLain Ward of Brewster, NY, rode his horse Viktor to victory in the $50,000 Rolex/USET Show Jumping Championship at the Bayer/USET Festival of Champions. Ward edged Margie Engle of Wellington, FL, by just six tenths of a second to earn the victory. Candice King finished in third place.
Evan Coluccio of Middleburg, VA, won the USET Junior/Amateur-Owner Talent Derby, presented by BET On Jazz, at the Bayer/USET Festival of Champions. Coluccio was riding White Russian, owned by Alex Carl.
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Dell Quay Sailing Club
Cruiser Section
Dinghy Section
webmaster@dqsc.co.uk
“Welcome to the Dell Quay Sailing Club homepage. The club house and dinghy park are situated in the upper reaches of Chichester Harbour next to the small village of Apuldram – about five minutes away from Chichester in a car. The tidal harbour covers an area that stretches from Havant to West Wittering and Chichester to Hayling Island (Click to see an area map). It offers the sailor a variety of conditions from the calmer waters found at the tops of the channels to the rougher more bracing conditions near the heads – all subject to tide and wind conditions.
The club is now in it’s 75th year and, as ever, we will be offering a comprehensive season of sailing events for Enterprise and Laser Class dinghies, as well as catering for all other classes in handicap races. In addition, we also play host to a number of national open events. There are regular training and advice sessions, to help members to improve their skills. Everyone is encouraged to take part in the racing programme, but we also recognise the value of non-competitive recreational sailing and fully support this activity too. There are berthing spaces for a large number of dinghies and a small number of moorings for yachts. Our cruising members have a very active section, with rallys and events through out the year.
Dell Quay is predominantly a family oriented, non-profit making club – but this doesn’t stop us from offering tempting land-based facilities for our sailors. Our club house is fully equipped with bar, lounge area, galley, changing rooms, showers, toilets and sun deck. We host regular and popular social events that all members are very welcome to attend. To help maintain these facilities and events, everyone is assigned a token voluntary duty at the start of each season e.g. galley, bar duty or rescue boat.
We hope that you will enjoy finding out more about our club on the other pages at this site and that we can offer all you are looking for in a sailing club.”
Write to: Dell Quay Sailing Club, Dell Quay, Apuldram, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 7EE.
Clubhouse Tel: +44 (0)1243-785080
E-mail: Dell Quay Sailing Club
© Dell Quay Sailing Club 2016
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Helene Joy Biography ((?)-)
Immigrated to Canada.
Film Appearances
Helen Desaree, The Beneficiary (short), 1997
Judy Surgick, An American in Canada (also known as Frostbite), CBC, 2002
Shelley, Fable, 1997
Nancy, Never Tell Me Never, Lifetime, 1998
Mary Riley, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (also known as The Prophesy of the Tiger), 1999
Laurel Elliot, Desolation Sound, Lifetime, 2005
Murder in the Hamptons, Lifetime, 2005
Agnes Windsor, "The Claimant," Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (also known as Banjo Paterson's "The Man from Snowy River), Nine Network and Family Channel, 1996
Lucy White, "The Shaft," Water Rats, Nine Network, 1996
Gina Downie, "Sex Games," Water Rats, Nine Network, 1997
Kate Vernon, "Simple Twist of Fate," Big Sky, 1997
Anna De Groot, "Lunatic Fringe: Parts 1 & 2," Stingers, Nine Network, 1999
Dr. Victoria Kelly, "Comes a Horseman," First Wave, Sci-Fi Channel, 2000
Dr. Louisa Kennedy, "In the Blood," The Outer Limits (also known as The New Outer Limits), Showtime and syndicated, 2001
Linda, "Hate Puppet," Night Visions, Fox, 2001
Dr. Darcy, "The Hidden Mommy," The Chris Isaak Show, Showtime, 2002
Linda, "Mr. Motivation," The Twilight Zone, UPN, 2002
Alien Queen, "Vault of the Heavens," Andromeda (also known as Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda"), syndicated, 2003
Hazel, "Dan the Necrophiliac," Puppets Who Kill, Comedy Central, 2004
Constance, "The Ripper," The Collector, CityTV, 2005
Miss Patel, "Dark, Room, Chemicals," Beautiful People, ABC Family,2005
Erica Taft, This Is Wonderland, CBC, 2005
Stage Appearances
Appeared as Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, Ophelia, Hamlet, and Juliet, Romeo & Juliet, all for Melbourne Theatre Company.
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Life and Death of a Twenty Dollar Bill
Tip: Daily Production. In 2017, the government will print roughly 19 million notes a day, totaling about $209 billion in value for the year. More than 90% of the newly minted notes will replace notes already in our circulation.
Source: Federal Reserve, 2016
The average $20 bill is in circulation for 7.9 years, according to a report by the Federal Reserve. That’s better than the $10 bill, which has a life span of only 4.5 years, but worse than the $100 bill, which is in circulation for 15 years.¹
Here’s a quick look at what goes into creating a $20 bill and what determines when a bill’s lifespan ends.
A $20 bill starts out life as part of a big, blank sheet of paper — but not just any paper. While most paper is made primarily from wood pulp, the paper used by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing doesn’t contain any wood at all. Currency paper is composed of a special blend of 75% cotton and 25% linen. It’s made with special watermarks and has tiny blue and red fibers embedded in it along with a special security thread.²,³
Each blank sheet is tracked from the time it leaves the mill until it is printed, and the entire shipment is continuously reconciled to make certain all are accounted for.⁴
These blank sheets of cotton and linen paper get printed four times.
Fast Fact: Lots of Folding. It takes about 4,000 double folds — first forward and then backward — before a $20 bill will start to tear.
Source: Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 2017
Background images and colors are printed — both sides at once — using offset presses that are over 50 feet long and weigh over 70 tons. After drying for 72 hours, the portraits, vignettes, scrollwork, numerals, and letters are printed on the back using Intaglio presses that are a mere 40 feet long and weigh only 50 tons. After drying for another 72 hours — in special guarded cages — more portraits, vignettes, scrollwork, numerals, and letters are printed on the front using the Intaglio presses. Finally, the serial numbers, Federal Reserve seal, Treasury Department seal, and Federal Reserve identification numbers are printed using a letter press.⁵
Cutting and Wrapping
Once dry, these printed sheets are gathered in stacks of 100 to be cut by a specially designed guillotine cutter. Each new stack of 100 $20 bills is wrapped with a special paper band. Ten of these 100-note stacks are gathered, machine counted, and shrink-wrapped into a bundle. Then four of these shrink-wrapped bundles are collated together, given a special bar-code label, and shrink-wrapped again to create a brick of 4,000 bills, worth $80,000.⁶
Distribution and Circulation
The Treasury Department ships these newly printed $20 bills to the Federal Reserve Banks, who in turn pay them out to banks and savings and loans—primarily in exchange for old, worn-out bills. The new bills are handed out to customers of these institutions as they withdraw cash, either through tellers or through automated teller machines.⁷
An average $20 bill will change hands often, but even the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing isn’t sure how many times a bill will move from one pocket to the next. Contrary to popular belief, the government doesn’t have any way to track individual bills.
There is a polyester security thread embedded in the paper that runs vertically up one side of each bill. If you look closely, the initials USA TWENTY along with the bill’s denomination and a small flag are visible along the thread from both sides of the bill. This thread makes currency more difficult to counterfeit, but cannot be tracked electronically.⁸
Banks gather worn out and damaged currency, sending it to the Federal Reserve in exchange for new bills. The Federal Reserve then sorts through these bills to determine which are still usable and which are not. Those bills deemed usable are stored until they can go out again through the commercial banking system. Those deemed no longer usable are cut into confetti-like shreds. Most are then disposed of; a small portion is sold in five-pound bags through the Treasury’s website.⁹
1. Federal Reserve, 2016
2. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 2016
4-6. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 2016
How to Read Your Credit Report
Solve a mystery while learning how important your credit report is with this story-driven interactive.
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Home > Laws > 2010 Florida Statutes > Title XXX > Chapter 430 > Section 2053
Title XXX SOCIAL WELFARE
Chapter 430 ELDERLY AFFAIRS Entire Chapter
SECTION 2053
Aging resource centers.
F.S. 430.2053
The department, in consultation with the Agency for Health Care Administration and the Department of Children and Family Services, shall develop pilot projects for aging resource centers. By October 31, 2004, the department, in consultation with the agency and the Department of Children and Family Services, shall develop an implementation plan for aging resource centers and submit the plan to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The plan must include qualifications for designation as a center, the functions to be performed by each center, and a process for determining that a current area agency on aging is ready to assume the functions of an aging resource center.
Each area agency on aging shall develop, in consultation with the existing community care for the elderly lead agencies within their planning and service areas, a proposal that describes the process the area agency on aging intends to undertake to transition to an aging resource center prior to July 1, 2005, and that describes the area agency’s compliance with the requirements of this section. The proposals must be submitted to the department prior to December 31, 2004. The department shall evaluate all proposals for readiness and, prior to March 1, 2005, shall select three area agencies on aging which meet the requirements of this section to begin the transition to aging resource centers. Those area agencies on aging which are not selected to begin the transition to aging resource centers shall, in consultation with the department and the existing community care for the elderly lead agencies within their planning and service areas, amend their proposals as necessary and resubmit them to the department prior to July 1, 2005. The department may transition additional area agencies to aging resource centers as it determines that area agencies are in compliance with the requirements of this section.
The Auditor General and the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) shall jointly review and assess the department’s process for determining an area agency’s readiness to transition to an aging resource center.
The review must, at a minimum, address the appropriateness of the department’s criteria for selection of an area agency to transition to an aging resource center, the instruments applied, the degree to which the department accurately determined each area agency’s compliance with the readiness criteria, the quality of the technical assistance provided by the department to an area agency in correcting any weaknesses identified in the readiness assessment, and the degree to which each area agency overcame any identified weaknesses.
Reports of these reviews must be submitted to the appropriate substantive and appropriations committees in the Senate and the House of Representatives on March 1 and September 1 of each year until full transition to aging resource centers has been accomplished statewide, except that the first report must be submitted by February 1, 2005, and must address all readiness activities undertaken through December 31, 2004. The perspectives of all participants in this review process must be included in each report.
The purposes of an aging resource center shall be:
To provide Florida’s elders and their families with a locally focused, coordinated approach to integrating information and referral for all available services for elders with the eligibility determination entities for state and federally funded long-term-care services.
To provide for easier access to long-term-care services by Florida’s elders and their families by creating multiple access points to the long-term-care network that flow through one established entity with wide community recognition.
The duties of an aging resource center are to:
Develop referral agreements with local community service organizations, such as senior centers, existing elder service providers, volunteer associations, and other similar organizations, to better assist clients who do not need or do not wish to enroll in programs funded by the department or the agency. The referral agreements must also include a protocol, developed and approved by the department, which provides specific actions that an aging resource center and local community service organizations must take when an elder or an elder’s representative seeking information on long-term-care services contacts a local community service organization prior to contacting the aging resource center. The protocol shall be designed to ensure that elders and their families are able to access information and services in the most efficient and least cumbersome manner possible.
Provide an initial screening of all clients who request long-term-care services to determine whether the person would be most appropriately served through any combination of federally funded programs, state-funded programs, locally funded or community volunteer programs, or private funding for services.
Determine eligibility for the programs and services listed in subsection (11) for persons residing within the geographic area served by the aging resource center and determine a priority ranking for services which is based upon the potential recipient’s frailty level and likelihood of institutional placement without such services.
Manage the availability of financial resources for the programs and services listed in subsection (11) for persons residing within the geographic area served by the aging resource center.
When financial resources become available, refer a client to the most appropriate entity to begin receiving services. The aging resource center shall make referrals to lead agencies for service provision that ensure that individuals who are vulnerable adults in need of services pursuant to s. 415.104(3)(b), or who are victims of abuse, neglect, or exploitation in need of immediate services to prevent further harm and are referred by the adult protective services program, are given primary consideration for receiving community-care-for-the-elderly services in compliance with the requirements of s. 430.205(5)(a) and that other referrals for services are in compliance with s. 430.205(5)(b).
Convene a work group to advise in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the aging resource center. The work group shall be comprised of representatives of local service providers, Alzheimer’s Association chapters, housing authorities, social service organizations, advocacy groups, representatives of clients receiving services through the aging resource center, and any other persons or groups as determined by the department. The aging resource center, in consultation with the work group, must develop annual program improvement plans that shall be submitted to the department for consideration. The department shall review each annual improvement plan and make recommendations on how to implement the components of the plan.
Enhance the existing area agency on aging in each planning and service area by integrating, either physically or virtually, the staff and services of the area agency on aging with the staff of the department’s local CARES Medicaid nursing home preadmission screening unit and a sufficient number of staff from the Department of Children and Family Services’ Economic Self-Sufficiency Unit necessary to determine the financial eligibility for all persons age 60 and older residing within the area served by the aging resource center that are seeking Medicaid services, Supplemental Security Income, and food assistance.
The department shall select the entities to become aging resource centers based on each entity’s readiness and ability to perform the duties listed in subsection (5) and the entity’s:
Expertise in the needs of each target population the center proposes to serve and a thorough knowledge of the providers that serve these populations.
Strong connections to service providers, volunteer agencies, and community institutions.
Expertise in information and referral activities.
Knowledge of long-term-care resources, including resources designed to provide services in the least restrictive setting.
Financial solvency and stability.
Ability to collect, monitor, and analyze data in a timely and accurate manner, along with systems that meet the department’s standards.
Commitment to adequate staffing by qualified personnel to effectively perform all functions.
Ability to meet all performance standards established by the department.
The aging resource center shall have a governing body which shall be the same entity described in s. 20.41(7), and an executive director who may be the same person as described in s. 20.41(7). The governing body shall annually evaluate the performance of the executive director.
The aging resource center may not be a provider of direct services other than information and referral services and screening.
The aging resource center must agree to allow the department to review any financial information the department determines is necessary for monitoring or reporting purposes, including financial relationships.
The duties and responsibilities of the community care for the elderly lead agencies within each area served by an aging resource center shall be to:
Develop strong community partnerships to maximize the use of community resources for the purpose of assisting elders to remain in their community settings for as long as it is safely possible.
Conduct comprehensive assessments of clients that have been determined eligible and develop a care plan consistent with established protocols that ensures that the unique needs of each client are met.
The services to be administered through the aging resource center shall include those funded by the following programs:
Community care for the elderly.
Home care for the elderly.
Contracted services.
Alzheimer’s disease initiative.
Aged and disabled adult Medicaid waiver.
Assisted living for the frail elderly Medicaid waiver.
Older Americans Act.
The department shall, prior to designation of an aging resource center, develop by rule operational and quality assurance standards and outcome measures to ensure that clients receiving services through all long-term-care programs administered through an aging resource center are receiving the appropriate care they require and that contractors and subcontractors are adhering to the terms of their contracts and are acting in the best interests of the clients they are serving, consistent with the intent of the Legislature to reduce the use of and cost of nursing home care. The department shall by rule provide operating procedures for aging resource centers, which shall include:
Minimum standards for financial operation, including audit procedures.
Procedures for monitoring and sanctioning of service providers.
Minimum standards for technology utilized by the aging resource center.
Minimum staff requirements which shall ensure that the aging resource center employs sufficient quality and quantity of staff to adequately meet the needs of the elders residing within the area served by the aging resource center.
Minimum accessibility standards, including hours of operation.
Minimum oversight standards for the governing body of the aging resource center to ensure its continuous involvement in, and accountability for, all matters related to the development, implementation, staffing, administration, and operations of the aging resource center.
Minimum education and experience requirements for executive directors and other executive staff positions of aging resource centers.
Minimum requirements regarding any executive staff positions that the aging resource center must employ and minimum requirements that a candidate must meet in order to be eligible for appointment to such positions.
In an area in which the department has designated an area agency on aging as an aging resource center, the department and the agency shall not make payments for the services listed in subsection (11) and the Long-Term Care Community Diversion Project for such persons who were not screened and enrolled through the aging resource center.
Each aging resource center shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the department for collaboration with the CARES unit staff. The memorandum of understanding shall outline the staff person responsible for each function and shall provide the staffing levels necessary to carry out the functions of the aging resource center.
Each aging resource center shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Children and Family Services for collaboration with the Economic Self-Sufficiency Unit staff. The memorandum of understanding shall outline which staff persons are responsible for which functions and shall provide the staffing levels necessary to carry out the functions of the aging resource center.
If any of the state activities described in this section are outsourced, either in part or in whole, the contract executing the outsourcing shall mandate that the contractor or its subcontractors shall, either physically or virtually, execute the provisions of the memorandum of understanding instead of the state entity whose function the contractor or subcontractor now performs.
In order to be eligible to begin transitioning to an aging resource center, an area agency on aging board must ensure that the area agency on aging which it oversees meets all of the minimum requirements set by law and in rule.
The department shall monitor the three initial projects for aging resource centers and report on the progress of those projects to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by June 30, 2005. The report must include an evaluation of the implementation process.
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Once an aging resource center is operational, the department, in consultation with the agency, may develop capitation rates for any of the programs administered through the aging resource center. Capitation rates for programs shall be based on the historical cost experience of the state in providing those same services to the population age 60 or older residing within each area served by an aging resource center. Each capitated rate may vary by geographic area as determined by the department.
The department and the agency may determine for each area served by an aging resource center whether it is appropriate, consistent with federal and state laws and regulations, to develop and pay separate capitated rates for each program administered through the aging resource center or to develop and pay capitated rates for service packages which include more than one program or service administered through the aging resource center.
Once capitation rates have been developed and certified as actuarially sound, the department and the agency may pay service providers the capitated rates for services when appropriate.
The department, in consultation with the agency, shall annually reevaluate and recertify the capitation rates, adjusting forward to account for inflation, programmatic changes.
The department, in consultation with the agency, shall submit to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, by December 1, 2006, a report addressing the feasibility of administering the following services through aging resource centers beginning July 1, 2007:
Medicaid nursing home services.
Medicaid transportation services.
Medicaid hospice care services.
Medicaid intermediate care services.
Medicaid prescribed drug services.
Medicaid assistive care services.
Any other long-term-care program or Medicaid service.
This section shall not be construed to allow an aging resource center to restrict, manage, or impede the local fundraising activities of service providers.
s. 8, ch. 2004-386; s. 3, ch. 2009-46; s. 34, ch. 2010-209.
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Harry Moseley - Making It Happen
The inspiring story behind the charity Help Harry Help Others and how one boy changed the lives of thousands.
By Steve Whyley / 13 March 2017
Steve Whyley sat down with Georgina Moseley, mum of Harry to capture her sons incredible story. Whilst battling an inoperable brain tumour, Harry Moseley was inspired to make a difference to all people with brain cancer when a friend of his who also had a brain tumour became very ill. Within the space of just over two years Harry had organised and attended nearly 100 events to raise money for and awareness of Brain Cancer. He touched the hearts of the nation with his efforts and helped change the lives of everyone he met. Sadly Harry’s health took a sudden turn for the worse following brain surgery in August 2011. On 8th October 2011, and after 14 weeks in a coma, Harry passed away peacefully at home in his Mom’s arms. This is an interview with Harry’s mum — Georgie — who continues the amazing work Harry started, and has kept his charity Help Harry Help Others going. The original interview can be viewed at ZIDILIFE where Steve and Christian Sommer interview a whole host of inspiring people.
CAN YOU TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HARRY? HOW OLD WAS HE WHEN HE WAS DIAGNOSED?
Harry was an incredibly happy little boy. He was just so full of fun and laughter. When in his company you instantly became happier, his spirit was infectious. He was six years old when he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, a form of brain cancer. And that’s where the whole journey began and that became our new normality.
AND HOW DID THAT AFFECT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY?
We were devastated. For your child to be diagnosed with cancer is every parent’s worst nightmare. But Harry had an amazing positivity within him, and an incredible humour, that kept us all together really. You just have to get on with life but yes it had a huge impact. I don’t think a lot of people realise that when your child is diagnosed with something like that, it affects the entire family. It affects routine, lifestyle, emotions, stress, finances. There’s so much more to it than just the illness. Your normal family life is just over and a new normality is just starting.
YOU SAID THAT HARRY KEPT YOU GUYS TOGETHER. DID ALMOST NOTHING CHANGE FOR HARRY, IT JUST CHANGED FOR YOU AND THE REST OF THE FAMILY?
Yes I think that’s right because Harry was diagnosed at the age of six, he was so young it became normal to him - he knew no different, cancer was almost all that he knew. It was just life for him. He didn’t worry about it, he faced it head on. He was just so incredibly positive, and had an amazing sense of humour and love of life, t was so infectious. And rather than focus on what he couldn’t do he focused on all that he could do. And it was that zest of life that helped us as a family.
And it was that zest of life that helped us as a family.
To see him going through the treatment but still be so cheerful was an example to my husband and I. We felt that we both had to follow his lead and also set the right example to Harry’s older brother and sister and rather than mope all day we made every effort to ensure our family life was one that was full of joy and laughter, and Harry was the person that instigated all of that.
I THINK IT WAS A COUPLE OF YEARS AFTER HARRY WAS DIAGNOSED THAT HE CREATED THE BRILLIANT CHARITY ‘HELP HARRY HELP OTHERS’. WHY DID HE CREATE THE CHARITY?
Harry met a gentleman at the hospital by the name of Robert Harley. Robert was a 55 year old man who, like Harry, had an inoperable brain tumor. And they became friends — they stayed in touch and we would often visit Robert. When Harry heard that Robert was getting more and more ill he decided he wanted to make Robert better. So Harry came to me and said, “not enough is being done, what can we do to help Robert and everyone on that ward get better?” He told me that he didn’t want to beg people for money but wanted to raise money, so I took him down to Hobbycraft and Harry saw these beads and thought he could make beaded bracelets for people that he could then sell. His face lit up when he saw the beads, he said, “Mum, I can do football colour ones, Halloween coloured ones, glow in the dark ones, and I can do them for children.” He then said that we could say that they were “made with love from people with cancer.”
THAT’S SO REMARKABLE. FOR SOMEONE OF ANY AGE TO BE THAT KIND AND THAT GENEROUS IS QUITE SOMETHING, BUT TO DO IT WHILE STILL SUFFERING YOURSELF IS INCREDIBLE. HOW DID THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?
I was enormously proud. As Harry’s mum I was just so proud that even though he was going through something so nasty he wasn’t thinking of himself, he just wanted to help other people and that made me so proud. Only Harry knew what it was like to suffer from cancer and go through that journey and even though I held his hand every step of the way, he was the one who knew how it felt. And he could’ve quite easily have been ‘selfish’ and just thought of himself, and feel sorry for himself. But it was about helping his friend, he didn’t want other people to be poorly like him and for him to have that attitude was quite humbling to be honest.
THE CHARITY TOOK OFF QUITE EARLY ON DIDN’T IT? IT GOT SOME ATTENTION FROM THE LIKES OF DUNCAN BANNATYNE, BEN SHEPHARD AND THE ENGLAND FOOTBALL TEAM. HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT?
Harry had a lot of success through Ben Shephard, Ben really championed Harry. But what people may not realise is that Harry wasn’t just making beaded bracelets. He was actually going to schools, businesses and events and giving talks. He used to talk often for Cancer Research UK. And it was through these talks that he met people like Ben and they seemed to be taken with Harry, his story and what he was trying to do for others despite being ill himself. He would often talk to 1000 people at time and amazingly it didn’t phase him. His favourite phrase was “stay in touch” and that’s what it was all about. It was a very personal charity and even though I now run the charity, as Harry is sadly no longer with us, people are still donating to the charity because they may have been inspired by Harry’s story but also I think because of how personal it all was, and still is. We make a real effort to get to know people, their stories and that all stemmed from Harry.
CAN YOU REMEMBER THE IMPACT HARRY AND THE CHARITY HAD ON INDIVIDUALS AT THAT TIME?
Oh absolutely. You yourself ran the London Underground, the guys up here cycled across the country, and countless others did various fundraising events because they seemed to be taken with Harry, which was lovely. For your son to have an impact on people’s lives, especially children’s lives, is very special. For example Harry (and now me) would go into the Young Offenders institute and speak to them about Harry’s story. This seemed to often catch their imagination, maybe because Harry was from a Council Estate and was very poorly, and his situation was so desperate but he was still able to make things happen in a positive way. I think it showed them that there were ways out of the situation that didn’t have to involve crime.
YOU MENTIONED EARLIER IN THE CALL THE FINANCIAL IMPACT THAT CANCER CAN HAVE ON FAMILIES. THE CHARITY WORK HARRY WAS DOING MUST HAVE COST AS WELL I IMAGINE? FOR EXAMPLE BUYING THE BEADS FOR HIS BRACELETS. WAS THERE ANY POINT WHERE YOU FELT YOU COULDN’T CONTINUE THE CHARITY WORK BECAUSE OF YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION?
It was never an option, it was too important to Harry. We used to get beads donated to us and because Harry was a child people seemed to want to help him, and often gave him things for the charity for free. It’s so much harder now but people are ever so kind and really do look to help you where they can.
AND DID THE CHARITY HELP YOU DEAL WITH WHAT HARRY WAS GOING THROUGH?
Harry helped us more than he will ever know. The fact that as a parent you are so so helpless, the fact I couldn’t fix what was happening to Harry was heartbreaking. As a parent your job is to protect your children and to bandage them up when they get poorly, but there was nothing I could do. But the charity was one thing I could help him with. Harry was doing the charity because of his love for others, and I was helping Harry with the charity because of my love for him. That charity, and Harry throwing himself into it, really did save us. It helped us more than he will ever, ever know.
That charity, and Harry throwing himself into it, really did save us. It helped us more than he will ever, ever know.
HARRY SADLY DIED IN 2011 BUT YOU HAVE DECIDED TO KEEP THE CHARITY GOING IN HARRY’S NAME. WAS THERE EVER ANY DOUBT IT WAS GOING TO CONTINUE?
As you remember Steve, Harry was very well in himself but then got very poorly with some headaches and was rushed into hospital and taken in for emergency surgery where he was then in a coma for three months before sadly passing away. It all happened very fast and we’ve still not come to terms with that. But his Twitter and Facebook pages were still inundated with messages. I literally sat there one day and went through these messages, cards, emails and I just thought that Harry had created such a beautiful charity; what sort of person would I be if I didn’t see his journey through to completion for him? We are a very tight knit family and this charity had such a big impact on us all that I knew I just had to keep it going. Other people were going through their own journey, like what we went through as a family, and I knew the Help Harry Help Others charity could be beneficial to those people. So that was it, when Harry passed I was incredibly, incredibly upset and also very angry and bitter because I felt if anyone deserved to be on this Earth then it was Harry because of his kindness and love. But rather than moan and be angry I decided to take Harry’s advice and “make it happen”. He taught me to believe in myself. It’s Harry’s work and not mine but it’s so lovely to see how it has escalated. We’ve raised over two million pounds in Harry’s name, and since we became a registered charity two years ago we’ve given out £700,000 to causes via our ‘Help Cope’, ‘Help Care’, ‘Help Cure’ vehicles. It’s still a very personal charity, the money raised is distributed to those people and places that we feel are in need. From one tiny bracelet and trying to help Robert Harley, Harry has truly helped many, many people and that is a daily comfort to me.
Harry has truly helped many, many people and that is a daily comfort to me.
THAT’S BRILLIANT, SUCH AN INSPIRING STORY. YOU’VE SAID THAT AROUND £700K HAS BEEN GIVEN OUT TO VARIOUS INITIATIVES. ARE YOU ABLE TO TELL ME ANY SPECIFICS AS I AM SURE PEOPLE WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHERE YOU’VE HELPED?
Yeah absolutely. “Help Cure” is specifically for brain tumours under the age of 40. There are already registered brain tumour charities that do great jobs but we all need to join together to do more. So in 22 months we’ve given out £173,000 which has all gone to various research parties that are looking to find that elusive cure.
With “Help Cope” we help families cope. When someone gets diagnosed with cancer it impacts every single member of that family, their way of life, their financial and work situation?—?everything. For us, I had to give up work to become Harry’s carer which meant I couldn’t pay my mortgage. Petrol and parking 5 days a week to the hospital costs an awful lot of money. Sleeping by his bedside for four months at hospital you end up spending small bits of money on coffee and sandwiches but it all adds up and this can lead you to not being able to pay bills etc. So “Help Cope” is where we support, specifically financial support, for families going through this. So for example, we will pay hospital car parking, shopping, funeral costs, mortgages, utility bills - all those types of things. We’ve given out over £162,000 and helped over 90 families in 22 months.
And finally, we have “Help Care” which is where we give money to any other amazing charities or places that give core care to patients, specifically end of life care. For example we support hospices, nurses in the community, wards on hospitals and recently we’ve given money to have a bereavement centre built in a local hospice in Birmingham which is where the families of those who are ill can stay so that they don’t have to come home, and they can always be with their child. They have their own kitchen, bathroom, lounge etc and it’s a place where they can spend their last days together but spend it in a safe environment where there’s the appropriate care available around the clock. They had a shortfall of £103k due to government cuts so Help Harry stepped in and because of the support we have given we’ve had tweets from families who have used the centre to say how much that has benefited them which was lovely. We’ve given £80,000 for a children’s recovery and treatment room in our local radiography department at our hospital. This is a nice environment for kids to recover. We’ve probably helped 5 different causes and given around £365,000 under the “Help Care” banner.
IT’S JUST MIND BLOWING. DO YOU EVER PAUSE AND THINK WHAT A WONDERFUL JOB YOU’RE DOING?
Nope. I daren’t think about all of this because the best way for me to cope is to stay busy. I am very busy, me being busy is great. All my time is spent helping families and individuals deal with this horrible disease. And as far as the “job” goes, my job was to be the very best mother to Harry that I could be and Cancer can never ever take away the fact I was Harry’s mum. The future of the charity is exciting though, we have just got the keys to a building that will become our support centre. So we will offer advice, support, empathy and help families with housing, benefits, taking them to appointments, counselling and a lot more. It’s the first cancer support centre in Birmingham. It’s nice to be able to do that, it’s very exciting.
IT SOUNDS IT. WHAT A WONDERFUL THING TO BE ABLE TO OPEN. I AM SURE THAT WILL BE OF GREAT HELP TO LOTS OF PEOPLE. WHAT WAS YOUR JOB BEFORE HARRY FELL ILL?
I worked in recruitment and sales. I then gave that up when Harry fell ill as I’d have to help him when he underwent chemotherapy etc.
SO WORKING IN RECRUITMENT AND SALES DOESN’T NECESSARILY LEND ITSELF TO THE REMARKABLE THINGS YOU’VE BEEN DOING FOR THE CHARITY.
I haven’t got a brain.I am not sure how I’ve got this far to be honest!
NO THAT’S RUBBISH, YOU SHOULD GIVE YOURSELF SOME CREDIT. YOU AND HARRY HAVE CREATED SOMETHING SO BRILLIANT. IT TAKES AN AWFUL LOT OF SKILL TO CREATE SOMETHING AS POWERFUL AS THIS, AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY A HUGE THANK YOU. I KNOW YOU ARE DOING IT FOR HARRY, AND IT’S HARRY’S CHARITY, BUT YOU YOURSELF HAVE CHANGED LIVES AND YOU OUGHT TO BE ENORMOUSLY PROUD.
HOW CAN OUR READERS GET INVOLVED?
They can obviously visit hhho.org.uk and buy bracelets but we are also after more “Harry’s Hero’s” and this basically means you can represent Harry in your home-town and do some local fundraising.
BRILLIANT. FINALLY, I REMEMBER THAT DAY WHEN I SAW HARRY’S STORY ON TWITTER AND THE IMPACT HE HAS GONE ON TO HAVE ON MY LIFE. IT’S NO EXAGGERATION TO SAY THAT YOUR SON CHANGED MY LIFE AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU, AND A HUGE WELL DONE ON CREATING SUCH A WONDERFUL CHARITY.
Don’t Steve, you’ll make me cry!
THANKS FOR CHATTING TO ME TODAY GEORGIE, GOOD LUCK FOR THE NEW CARE CENTRE.
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
AngerBitternessCancer
"I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you."
- Mel Gibson
CancerSpiritual
"I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids."
- Michael Jackson
CancerChildrenKids
"I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like."
- Jonas Salk
CancerSense
"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
- Steve Ballmer
CancerLinuxProperty
"Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer."
- Warren Beatty
CancerCureFun
"Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore."
- Alan Bennett
CancerIllness
"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."
- Ingrid Bergman
CancerChallengeDay
"I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer."
- Loni Anderson
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"In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer."
- John Cameron
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Jonathan Moore
County of origin: Wexford
First winner: Couleur De La Loi (Michael Cleary) Tipperary, July 20th, 2014
Assoc. Trainers: Noel Meade, Paul Nolan, Tom Gibney, Liz Doyle, Gordon Elliott
Significant horses (selected): Irish Cavalier, Snow Falcon, Vintage Vinnie, Venitien De Mai, Empire Of Dirt, Tulsa Jack, Duca De Thaix
From Adamstown, County Wexford, Jonathan Moore began his career with Gordon Elliott and also had spells with Colm Murphy and the late Oliver Brady. He spent time in Britain but his first winner came after his return to Ireland on July 20th, 2014 where he rode Couleur De La Loi for trainer Michael Cleary. In the summer of the following year, Jonathan's career took off when he joined Noel Meade on the recommendation of his weigh-room colleague Barry Geraghty. Moore rode his first winner for Meade when winning the Cork Grand National on Tulsa Jack in November, 2015 and enjoyed a very rewarding Christmas period soon after. He won the Leopardstown Chase in January, 2016 on Colm Murphy's Empire Of Dirt and his success on the Rebecca Curtis-trained Irish Cavalier at the Irish National Hunt Festival in April of the same year led to a link-up with the Wales-based trainer. Moore brought that association to an end in November of the following year and continues to be based in Ireland with Noel Meade.
Jonathan enjoyed further notable success when he partnered the Noel Meade-trained Snow Falcon to win the Guinness Kerry National at Listowel on Wednesday September 12, 2018.
Guinness Kerry National H'cap S'chase (Grade A) (Snow Falcon - 2018)
Coral.ie Leopardstown H'cap S'chase (Grade A) (Empire Of Dirt - 2016)
Guinness H'cap S'chase (Grade A) (Irish Cavalier - 2016)
INH Stallion Owners EBF Nov. H'cap H'dle (Grade B) (Agent Boru - 2018)
Paddy Power Cork Grand Nat.H'cap S'chase (Grade B) (Tulsa Jack - 2015)
Fast Shipping Bellewstown H'cap H'dle (Ming Dynasty (FR) - 2019)
Midlands National H'cap S'chase (Tulsa Jack - 2016)
Woodlands 100 Club Leinster Nat.Hcap Sch (Grade B) (Venitien De Mai (FR) - 2016)
The Irish Independent H'dle (Grade 3) (Duca De Thaix (FR) - 2017)
E.P.S. H'cap H'dle (Black Label (GB) - 2015)
Dawn Milk Run H'cap H'dle (Play The Game - 2018)
Midlands National Day July 19th Hcap Hdl (Ming Dynasty (FR) - 2019)
The Laurels H'cap H'dle (Static Jack - 2019)
Follow Navan On Facebook H'cap S'chase (Stoughan Cross - 2017)
Red Mills EBF Auction M'dn H'dle (Melly And Me - 2018)
Your Fundraiser At Fairyhouse H'cap Hdle (Good As Gold (GB) - 2016)
Sandyford H'cap S'chase (The Mooch - 2016)
Kilberry H'cap H'dle (Lilshane - 2016)
2015 Navan Race Membership H'cap H'dle (Shabra's Bertolini - 2014)
Racing TV €12 Tomorrow Only H'cap H'dle (Darver Star - 2019)
Winter All Weather 2018/2019 2 1 0 0 0 €6,250 €0 €6,250
Winter All Weather 2017/2018 4 0 1 0 0 €0 €2,300 €2,300
Winter All Weather 2015/2016 1 0 0 0 0 €0 €0 €0
National Hunt 2019/2020 74 12 4 6 2 €127,525 €27,840 €155,365
National Hunt 2018/2019 217 11 17 16 15 €216,875 €104,400 €321,275
National Hunt 2017/2018 210 13 10 15 14 €140,975 €91,348 €232,323
National Hunt 2014/2015 78 7 9 4 7 €54,250 €27,505 €81,755
National Hunt 2013/2014 13 0 1 0 1 €0 €1,760 €1,760
National Hunt 2012/2013 4 0 0 0 1 €0 €280 €280
National Hunt 2011/2012 8 0 0 2 0 €0 €1,360 €1,360
Flat 2019 4 0 0 0 1 €0 €575 €575
Flat 2018 9 0 0 1 0 €0 €1,500 €1,500
Flat 2017 2 1 0 0 0 €7,500 €0 €7,500
Flat 2011 4 0 0 0 0 €0 €0 €0
Flat 2010 14 0 0 1 0 €0 €1,000 €1,000
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Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan withdraws his nomination, President Trump announces
President Trump is greeted at the Pentagon by acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan Friday, March 15, 2019, where President Trump attended a meeting with national security officials. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan is withdrawing his nomination to lead the Pentagon.
The abrupt announcement came in a tweet from the president, who said Shanahan had done "a wonderful job" but would step aside to "devote more time to his family."
The president added that the Secretary of the Army, Mark Esper, will be the new acting secretary.
"I know Mark, and have no doubt he will do a fantastic job!" Trump said in a second tweet on the subject.
The post atop the Pentagon has not been filled permanently since Gen. James Mattis retired in January following policy differences with Trump.
Trump announced in May that he would nominate Shanahan but the formal nomination process in the Senate had been inexplicably delayed
Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, has been leading the Pentagon as acting secretary since Jan. 1, a highly unusual arrangement for arguably the most sensitive Cabinet position.
In his tenure at the department, he's had to deal with a wide array of international hotspots, ranging from missile launches by North Korea to the sudden shift of military ships and aircraft to the Middle East to deal with potential threats from Iran.
Shanahan, 56, had extensive experience in the defense industry but little in government. In more than four months as the acting secretary, he focused on implementing the national defense strategy that was developed during Mattis' tenure and emphasizes a shift from the resources and tactics required to fight small wars against extremist groups to what Shanahan calls "great power" competition with China and Russia.
Police say five young men between the ages of 10 to their early 30s were involved in a dispute when several rounds were fired into a vehicle. They say they believe the shooting was targeted at the specific vehicle. The 11-year-old was inside the vehicle during the shooting.
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Fiction & Essays
Bio & C.V.
Past and upcoming events, and scheduled readings with writer Jennifer Cognard-Black, the author of Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal.
Visiting Writer. “Edible Essays: Adventures in Food Writing with Jennifer Cognard-Black.” Iowa Writers' House. University of Iowa, Iowa City. A series of linked food writing workshops, 10-12 March 2017.
Keynote Address. “History is Served: Recipes as Local and National Memory.” The Master Docent Series Conference. Frederick Historic Sites Consortium. Frederick, MD. 27 February 2016.
Visiting Writer. “Edible Essays: Mining Family Recipes for Memoir.” Sandy Spring Museum. Sandy Spring, Maryland. A series of three writing workshops from September through November 2015. [Learn more here.]
Reading for Books that Cook. Mid-Manhattan Library, New York Public Library. New York, NY. 13 May 2015. [Learn more here.]
Reading for Books that Cook. St. Mary’s College of Maryland. St. Mary's City, MD. 23 April 2015.
Reading for Books that Cook. Denney Hall 311, Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. 26 March 2015. [Learn more here.]
Signing for Books that Cook. Penn Book Center. Philadelphia, PA. 6 February 2015
Reading for Books that Cook. Forum Theater, Saint Joseph’s University. Philadelphia, PA. 5 February 2015.
Visiting Writer. The Park School of Baltimore. Baltimore, MD. 13 January 2015.
Reading for Books that Cook. Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center. Solomon's Island, MD. 16 November 2014. [View the Press Release here.]
Reading for Books that Cook. Indigo Bridge Books. Lincoln, NE. 9 October 2014.
Reading for Books that Cook, featuring former poet laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, and a tribute to past Nebraska State Poet, Bill Kloefkorn. Nebraska Wesleyan University. Lincoln, NE. 10 October 2014.
Cooking Demo and Reading for Books that Cook. Baltimore Book Festival. Baltimore, MD. 25 September 2014.
Reading and Book Launch for Books that Cook. New York University, Fales Library. New York, NY. 24 September 2014.
Reading for Books that Cook. Busboys & Poets. Washington, DC. 14 September 2014. [Sponsored by the SMCM English Department and the Alumni Office.]
Reading and Book Launch for Books that Cook. Politics & Prose. Washington, DC. 6 September 2014. [Listen to the author talk here.]
Lecture. "Character--or Who We Are in the Dark." St. Mary's Public Libraries. Lexington Park, Maryland. 1 April 2017.
Lecture. “Recipes as Familial, Communal, and National History.” Sandy Spring Museum. Sandy Spring, MD. 11 September 2015. Learn more here.
Featured Speaker. “Kitchen Wisdom: Recipes as Memory, Culture, Power.” Alumni Weekend, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. St. Mary’s City, MD. 8 June 2013.
Keynote. “Kitchen Wisdom: Recipes as Memory and Culture.” Women in Educational Leadership Conference. Lincoln, NE. 2 October 2011.
Keynote. “Eat my Words: Teaching Writing through the Literatures of Food.” Holder Lecture (Annual Endowed Lecture), Nebraska Wesleyan University. Lincoln, Nebraska. 30 April 2010.
Featured Speaker. “Mutton Mouths and Butter Bodies: Recipes, Memory, and Archives.” Museum Studies Week. St. Mary’s City, Maryland. 28 September 2010.
Featured Speaker. “Dead End.” The Last Lecture Series, Nitze Scholars Program, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. St. Mary’s City, Maryland. 24 April 2008.
Featured Speaker. “Eat to Live and Not to Eat: Books that Cook.” Asbury-Solomons Continuing Care Community. Solomon’s Island, Maryland. 10 May 2005.
Convocation Speaker. “Language of the Heart.” 2004 Convocation, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. St. Mary’s City, Maryland. 14 May 2004.
Featured Speaker. “The Little Lady Who Started the Great War and that One Word—Incest: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Lady Byron Vindicated.” Faculty Seminar Lecture Series, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. St. Mary’s City, Maryland 20 October 2002.
Panel Participant. “Flesh Wounds: Plastic Surgery as Cultural Metaphor.” Female Beauty Systems Throughout the Centuries. The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. Wassenaar, The Netherlands. 7–8 November 2013.
Panel Organizer and Participant. “Edible Poems and Other Literary Foodstuffs.” American Women Writers’ National Museum. Washington, DC. 16 August 2012. [Link to press releases here or here.]
Panel Participant. “Eat My Words: Writing Self and Society Through Food.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, Georgia. 16 April 2011.
Workshop Facilitator. “Creative, Critical, and Compelling Class Discussions” (with Chris Adams). Teaching Excellence Seminars, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. St. Mary’s City, Maryland. 18 August 2011.
Workshop Facilitator. “The (Im)Possibility of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.” Otterbein University. Columbus, Ohio. 15 June 2010.
Workshop Facilitator. “Vampirism as Metaphor: Integrating Visual Media into the Liberal Arts Classroom.” Teaching and Learning Lunch Series, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. St. Mary’s City, Maryland. 18 November 2009.
Panel Participant. “The Embodiment of Reading Through Disembodied Communion: The Materiality of Letters between Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot.” NAVSA Conference on Victorian Materialities. Victoria, British Columbia. 12 October 2007.
Panel Participant. “Consuming Words: Feminist Practice in the Literatures of Food.” Feminisms and Rhetorics. Columbus, Ohio. 23 October 2003.
Panel Participant. “George Eliot’s Gwendolen and the American Search for a ‘Living Interest.’” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Baltimore, Maryland. 16 November 2002.
Panel Participant. “Daniel Deronda and the Politics of American Reception.” Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writer’s Conference. Lawrence, Kansas. 17 March 2001.
Panel Participant and Session Chair. “The Encyclopedic Urge in the Late Nineteenth-Century.” Modern Language Association. Chicago, Illinois. 30 December 1999.
Panel Participant. “‘You are as Thoroughly Woman as You are English’: George Eliot, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Production of Transatlantic Literary History.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. Columbus, Ohio. 9 April 1999.
Panel Participant. “Severing Sense from Sound: Instances of Narrative ‘Not-There’ in Gayl Jones’ Corregidora.” The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Columbus, Ohio. 25 April 1996.
Panel Participant. “Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: The Feminist Reader/Viewer and the Film/Text.” The Fifth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. Columbus, Ohio. 17 June 1995.
Panel Participant. “Paganism in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Audre Lorde’s Zami.” National Women’s Studies Association. Ames, Iowa. 4 June 1995.
Creative Readings
Reading for From Curlers to Chainsaws. St. Mary’s College of Maryland. St. Mary's City, MD. 27 October 2016.
Reading for From Curlers to Chainsaws. Hiram College. Hiram, Ohio. 29 September 2016.
Visiting Writer. Wordfest, Valparaiso University. Valparaiso, Illinois. 5 February 2014.
Keynote. “Re-Generating Josef Albers.” Re-Generation: An Exhibition, The Painting Center. New York, NY. 5 January 2012.
Visiting Writer. Creative Reading Series, Department of English, St. Joseph’s University. Philadelphia, PA. 6 October 2011.
Featured Writer. VOICES Reading Series. St. Mary’s College of Maryland. St. Mary’s City, MD. 14 October 2010.
Participant. Mama PhD National Book Tour. Bluestockings Bookstore and KGB Bar, New York, New York, 20–21 October 2008; Women Studies Colloquium, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Maryland, 24 March 2009; and University of Richmond, Virginia, 8 April 2009. [Video link to University of Richmond reading.]
Featured Writer. Cheryl’s Gone Reading Series. Big Bear Café. Washington, D.C. 16 October 2008.
All content © 2019 Jennifer Cognard-Black
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Paul Pogba transfer saga Q&A
Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba could soon leave for the second time in only seven years.
The Frenchman, who recently admitted his Old Trafford career could be coming to an end, is a summer target for both Real Madrid and Juventus.
Pogba's agent, Mino Raiola, has spoken for the first time this summer about trying to get his man out of Old Trafford while the player himself is on a break in New York.
Here Sportsmail's MIKE KEEGAN provides the inside track on the transfer story that is dominating the summer and takes a look at who Untied might turn to as a replacement.
You can imagine the scene. A sunny Sunday afternoon at Ed Woodward's Cheshire pile. It's the off-season, so there is no game to dissect or prepare for. A rare chance for relaxation. Suddenly, the mobile rings. Ed answers. The serenity is broken by the sound of United's executive vice chairman's immediately perplexed voice. 'He said WHAT?'
Paul Pogba came through United's academy before jettisoning the club for Juventus in 2012 after Sir Alex Ferguson's now famous row with his agent, Mino Raiola. United got around £1.5million at the time before paying around 60 times that figure to bring him back in 2016.
The 26-year-old has shown the desired impact in flashes as United's post-Fergie malaise has continued. He currently has two years left on his contract with an option held by the club to extend for another year.
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Kita Orthodontics
Meet Dr. Kita
Policies / Mission
Appointment Types
You probably know that it's never too late to begin orthodontic treatment — but when it comes to your youngster's teeth, did you know that earlier may be better than later? According to the American Association of Orthodontists, kids should have an initial orthodontic screening at age 7. What makes early evaluation — and potentially, early treatment — so important?
There are several ways that kids can benefit from seeing an orthodontist at an early age. But it's important to recognize that early evaluation isn't necessarily followed by early treatment; in most cases, if orthodontic work is needed, we simply monitor your child's growth patterns until we see that it's time for treatment to begin. This gives us an opportunity to get the best results in the most efficient way, and to help prevent future problems.
Although every child's development is different, in most kids the first adult molars have typically started to emerge by around age six. This, along with other developmental markers, lets us get a handle on the basic alignment of the teeth, from front to back and side to side. It may also be possible at this point to determine whether there is adequate room in the mouth for all of the permanent teeth — and, if not, to take action.
When Earlier Treatment Is Better
Treatment for common orthodontic problems typically begins around age 9-14, when all of the baby teeth are gone and many of the permanent ones are in place. But there are some conditions that are much easier to treat if they're caught at an early age, when a child's natural growth processes are going full speed ahead.
One is severe crossbite, a condition where the upper teeth close inside the lower teeth. To treat this problem, a device called a palatal expander can be used, which gradually and painlessly widens the upper jaw; it's especially effective when the jaw itself hasn't fully developed. If we wait too long, a more complicated treatment — or even oral surgery — might be required to correct the problem.
Another condition that may benefit from early treatment is severe crowding. This occurs when the jaws are too small to accommodate all of the permanent teeth. Either palatal expansion or tooth extraction may be recommended at this point, to help the adult teeth erupt (emerge from below the gums) properly. Even if braces are required later, the treatment time will likely be shorter and less complicated.
Early intervention may also be helpful in resolving several other problems. Protruding teeth, especially in front, can be prone to chipping and fractures; they may also lead to problems with a child's self-image. A severe underbite, caused by the lower jaw growing much larger than the upper jaw, can result in serious bite problems. Orthodontic appliances, including braces and headgear, can be successfully used to correct these problems at this stage, when the child's development is in full swing, thereby increasing the chances that surgery can be avoided.
Correcting Bad Habits
At one time or another, anyone may pick up a bad habit. But there are some situations where a youngster's parafunctional (detrimental to health) habits can actually influence the development and function of his or her teeth, jaws and mouth. Some examples of these are persistent thumb sucking, tongue thrusting and mouth breathing.
The sucking reflex is natural in early childhood; it usually disappears between ages 2 and 4. But if it persists much later, the pressure of the digit on the front teeth and the upper jaw can actually cause the teeth to move apart and the jaws to change shape. This can lead to the orthodontic problem called “open bite,” and may impair speech. An open bite can also be caused by the force of the tongue pushing forward against the teeth (tongue thrusting).
Mouth breathing — an abnormal breathing pattern in which the mouth always remains open, passing air directly to the lungs — is related to alterations in the muscular function of the tongue and face. It may cause the upper and lower jaw to grow abnormally, which can lead to serious orthodontic problems. Although mouth breathing may start from a physical difficulty, it can become a habitual action that's hard to break.
Various orthodontic treatments are available to help correct these parafunctional habits — and the sooner they're taken care of, the less damage they may cause. But these potential problems aren't always easy to recognize. That's one more reason why you should bring your child in for an early orthodontic screening.
Early Orthodontic Evaluation Early detection of orthodontic problems in young children may make it easier to correct those problems in the long run. Waiting until all of the permanent (adult) teeth have come in, or until facial growth is nearly complete, may make correction of some problems more difficult or even impossible. An early childhood orthodontic evaluation can yield excellent results... Read Article
How Thumb Sucking Affects The Bite Thumb sucking can actually block the front teeth from erupting fully and can also push the teeth forward — sometimes more on the side where the thumb rested. How far out of position the teeth end up will depend on the number of hours per day the thumb was in the child's mouth and how much pressure was applied. When the pressure exerted by the thumb in the mouth is particularly strong and occurs over a long period of time, the forces can potentially influence growth of the jaws... Read Article
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Four new Pakistan related books
You should know that podcasts for New Books Network (NBN) are an amazing resource! This is the place you hear the authors not only talk about their books, but also what got them interested in their field to begin with. It introduces cutting-edge research and scholarship. So here are a couple of interviews that might be of interest:
The Pakistani Middle Class by Ammara Maqsood. I am finishing up reading the book and it is set in Lahore and is an interesting look at contemporary Pakistan and - for some - a nostalgic imaginary Pakistan of the 50s and 60s. Here is a blurb from NBN:
The relationship between class and religious piety represents a theme less explored in the study of modern Islam in general, and in the study of South Asian Islam in particular. In her incredibly nimble and nuanced recent book The New Pakistani Middle Class (Harvard University Press, 2017), Ammara Maqsood, Lecturer in Social Anthropology at
the University of Manchester, addresses this lacunae by offering a fascinating narrative of the intersection of religion, class, and piety among the urban Pakistani middle class. With a focus on the history and present of older and the new middle-class communities in Lahore, this book charts with remarkable analytical precision, the interaction of global and local politics, and the choreography of everyday religious life among the urban middle class in Pakistan. Theoretically sophisticated, historically grounded, and ethnographically vivacious, The New Pakistani Middle Class represents a groundbreaking contribution to the study of post-colonial Muslim societies, South Asian Islam, and to the anthropology of religion and Islam. In addition to its intellectual merits, this book also reads lyrically making it eminently usable in undergraduate and graduate seminars on religion and class, Urban Studies, South Asian Studies, Islamic Studies, and Anthropology.
We back further in history to look at Indian Muslim minorities after the fateful mutiny/rebellion/uprising/war-of-independence (pick your favorite) of 1857. Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuesrst has a new on the subject titled Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad - and she spends a lot of time with the writings of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. Here is the blurb from NBN for this:
In her fascinating and path paving new book, Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels and Jihad (I. B. Tauris, 2017), Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont reorients our understanding of the 1857 rebellion in India, while offering a nuanced theorization of religion, religious identity, and questions of violence. The title of this book announces the key terms and conceptual pillars that sustain it throughout: religion, rebels, and jihad. The brilliance of this book lies in the way it raises and addresses a number of critical questions regarding memory, formations of religious identity, and conceptions of religion as a category through the close and energetic reading of a single event. This book is intellectual history at its fiercest. Nimbly written, it will also make an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate seminars.
If you are interested in the formation of languages and their relation to national identity formations, then you should check out Walter N. Hakala's Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia. Here is the blurb from NBN:
For many people language is a central characteristic of their social identity. In modern South Asia, the production of Urdu and Hindi as national languages was intricately tied
to the hardening of religious identities. South Asian lexicographers, those folks who were most intimately working with language, were at the center of this political realignment. In Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2016), Walter N. Hakala, Associate Professor of South Asian languages and literature at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, traces the long history of the construction of Urdu as a language of cultural and national identity. Dictionaries are the key source for understanding the changing social and political landscape of South Asia. Beginning in the seventeenth century, Negotiating Languages offers an episodic genealogy of the ideological underpinnings and political consequences of dictionary production. In our conversation we discuss South Asia’s multilingual premodern literature, linguistic authority, “Urdu’s oldest dictionary,” the influence of colonial knowledge production, the changing social and material challenges in 20th century lexicographical production, British lexicographers and their relationship with local linguists, Islamicized Urdu literary culture, and questions of whether non-Muslims could sufficiently produce Urdu dictionaries.
And no NBN interview yet, but I just got Muhammad Qasim Zaman's Islam in Pakistan: A History. This looks fantastic and I have read some earlier work of Zaman - and it is fantastic. Here is the blurb for this:
The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second-most populous, after Indonesia. Islam in Pakistan is the first comprehensive book to explore Islam's evolution in this region over the past century and a half, from the British colonial era to the present day. Muhammad Qasim Zaman presents a rich historical account of this major Muslim nation, insights into the rise and gradual decline of Islamic modernist thought in the South Asian region, and an understanding of how Islam has fared in the contemporary world.
Much attention has been given to Pakistan's role in sustaining the Afghan struggle against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, in the growth of the Taliban in the 1990s, and in the War on Terror after 9/11. But as Zaman shows, the nation's significance in matters relating to Islam has much deeper roots. Since the late nineteenth century, South Asia has witnessed important initiatives toward rethinking core Islamic texts and traditions in the interest of their compatibility with the imperatives of modern life. Traditionalist scholars and their institutions, too, have had a prominent presence in the region, as have Islamism and Sufism. Pakistan did not merely inherit these and other aspects of Islam. Rather, it has been and remains a site of intense contestation over Islam's public place, meaning, and interpretation.
Examining how facets of Islam have been pivotal in Pakistani history, Islam in Pakistan offers sweeping perspectives on what constitutes an Islamic state.
Happy reading/listening.
Posted by Salman Hameed at 8:33 PM
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Why Are Young Babies Fed on Milk?
Young babies are fed on milk because it is their natural food. The females of all backboned animals whose young are nourished with milk, store this fluid in their breasts, or mammae. The milk of each species of mammal is a complete food for its own young after birth.
Although the same ingredients are present in the milk of all mammals, the proportions differ a great deal. The ingredients are water, protein, fat and milk sugar. Milk protein contains all the essential amino-acids. The fat globules remain enclosed in a soft curd which forms in the stomachs of the young, so that digestion can precede smoothly without the disturbance that fatty foods often cause.
All mammalian species produce milk, but the composition of milk for each species varies widely and other kinds of milk are often very different from human breast milk. As a rule, the milk of mammals that nurse frequently (including human babies) is less rich, or more watery, than the milk of mammals whose young nurse less often. Human milk is noticeably thinner and sweeter than cow’s milk.
Human babies, if not fed by their mothers, may be fed with pasteurized cow’s milk, diluted and sweetened, or a liquid reconstituted from laboratory-prepared dried milk. In various countries babies have been fed on milk from the ass, goat, water-buffalo, reindeer, caribou, sheep, camel, Llama, bitch and mare.
Other foods have been tried. In the 17th Century babies were fed on pap (bread cooked in water) or, as a French doctor advised, bread cooked in beer! After about five or six months human babies are gradually weaned from an exclusive diet of milk and given other forms of nourishment.
Supplemented breastfeeding is recommended until at least age two and then for as long as the mother and child wish. Though it now is almost universally prescribed, in some countries in the 1950s the practice of breastfeeding went through a period where it was out of vogue and the use of infant formula was considered superior to breast milk. However, it is now universally recognized that there is no commercial formula that can equal breast milk.
In addition to the appropriate amounts of carbohydrate, protein, and fat, breast milk provides vitamins, minerals, digestive enzymes, and hormones. Breast milk also contains antibodies and lymphocytes from the mother that help the baby resist infections. The immune function of breast milk is individualized, as the mother, through her touching and taking care of the baby, comes into contact with pathogens that colonize the baby, and, as a consequence, her body makes the appropriate antibodies and immune cells.
At around four to six months of age, the internal iron supplies of the infant, held in the hepatic cells of the liver, are exhausted, hence this is the time that complementary feeding is introduced. Breast milk contains less iron than formula, because it is more bioavailable as lactoferrin, which carries more safety for mothers and children than ferrous sulphate.
Content for this question contributed by Jill Pickerel, resident of Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California, USA
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It’s difficult to pick a music category that does justice to Nashville four piece All Them Witches, but ‘heavy psychedelic rock’ is probably a good starting point. When they toured the UK last year, they used the entire of Iron Man by Black Sabbath as their intro music and when I saw them at the Bierkeller in Bristol, the keyboard player Allan Van Cleave was wearing a Grateful Dead t-shirt – these are both useful historical reference points.
Although they’re now signed to New West Records, they have a history of self-publishing and guerilla releasing, so it was a pleasant, but not completely out of character, surprise when they announced yesterday that they have a new EP, Lost And Found, and it’s available to download for free from their Bandcamp site. It’s produced and mixed by guitarist Ben MacLeod and the striking artwork is by drummer Robby Staebler.
I’ve listened to it a few times over the past two days and I’m really impressed by the quality of the EP. Over the course of three original tracks and one cover, they push their boundaries in diverse directions. They’re going to start recording a new album in April – I’m not sure if this EP is intended to explore possible new directions or just limber up on some tracks that don’t otherwise fit, but either way it’s well worth a listen.
Hares On The Mountain. This starts simply but piles drone instrument upon drone instrument upon hypnotic vocal, before disappearing in a giant wave of echoing guitar.
Before The Beginning. A pretty straightforward cover of a Peter Green song from the 1969 Fleetwood Mac album Then Play On.
Call Me Star. This is a mostly acoustic track which is strongly reminiscent (to me at least) of Nick Drake, especially in the fingerpicked guitar but also to an extent in the vocals.
Dub Passageways. A proper King Tubby style dub treatment of a track which tries to rock out (the drums could be from a Faith No More track) but keeps being pulled back to dubspace. Allan Van Cleave also plays some mean violin.
I first ran across All Them Witches on a Premier Guitar Rig Rundown of all places. If you like the technical side of bands, it’s a fascinating forty minutes.
Actually, there are quite a few entertaining and informative Rig Rundowns – I should do a best of blog post.
The Hendrix Flat
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Ground Beef Recall Worsens – Expands to More than 12 Million Pounds
by Mary West
On December 4, 2018, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that more than 5.1 million pounds of raw ground beef has been added to a recall that was issued back in October.
The recalled beef was packaged between July 26 and September 7 at the JBS Tolleson, Inc., plant in Tolleson, Arizona and has been distributed across the country.
Some of the recalled brands includeLaura’s Lean, Kroger and JBS generic.
This expansion brings the total amount of recalled “non-intact raw beef products” to more than 12 million pounds!
The recalled beef is associated with an outbreak of salmonella, a common cause of food poisoning that has infected 246 people in 25 states reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
While no deaths have been recorded, 56 people have been hospitalized as a result.
FSIS is continuing to investigate illnesses associated with this widespread outbreak, and additional product from other companies may also be recalled,” said the recall notice.
FSIS “is concerned that some product may be frozen and in consumers freezers,” said the agency and, “These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.”
The recalled packages have the number EST. 267, which is usually found inside the USDA inspection mark.
THE #1 SUPERFOOD you should be consuming is one you may have never even heard of…
What if there was a nutrient-dense superfood that was so incredibly rich in vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other micronutrients, that it could nourish your body back to optimal health?
Guess what? There is such a superfood out there!
What Is Salmonella Food Poisoning?
Most people with a salmonella infection develop stomach cramps, diarrhea and fever within 12 to 72 hours following the ingestion of food contaminated with the bacteria.
The majority of cases recover without treatment in four to seven days, but those with serious diarrhea need to be hospitalized.
According to the CDC, the infection may spread from the intestines into the bloodstream, where its then transported to other parts of the body.
Young children, senior adults and people with impaired immunity are more likely to have severe symptoms, added the agency.
How to Prepare Beef Safely
FSIS advises all consumers to safely prepare their raw meat products, including fresh and frozen, and only consume ground beef that has been cooked to a temperature of 160F, they said.
Other cuts of beef should be cooked to a temperature of 145 F and allowed to rest for at least 3 minutes. The only way to confirm that ground beef or other cuts of beef are cooked to a temperature high enough to kill harmful bacteria is to use a food thermometer that measures internal temperature.
In addition to eating ground beef that has been cooked to the point of being well done, follow recommended hygienic measures when preparing it.
These involve washing your hands and any items in contact with raw beef such as cutting boards, utensils, countertops and dishes, with soap and water.
Consumers with questions regarding the recall can contact the JBS USA Consumer Hotline at (800) 727-2333. Consumers with food safety questions can “Ask Karen.gov, said the FSIS.
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2018/recall-085-2018-EXP-release
https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/newport-10-18/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/04/health/salmonella-beef-recall-expanded-bn/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2018/12/04/ground-beef-recall-jbs-tolleson-expands-12-million-pounds/2200515002/
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/what-to-know-about-the-beef-recall
Mary West is a natural health enthusiast, as she believes this area can profoundly enhance wellness. She is the creator of a natural healing website where she focuses on solutions to health problems that work without side effects. You can visit her site and learn more at http://www.alternativemedicinetruth.com. Ms. West is also the author of Fight Cancer Through Powerful Natural Strategies.
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Loll is excited to launch the Sunnyside Collection in collaboration with Brad Ascalon and Ghislaine Viñas. Loll has admired both designers personal work and is now very excited to launch the Sunnyside Collection.
Born outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), Brad Ascalon was immersed in the world of art and design from an early age. His grandfather was a noted sculptor and industrial designer, and his father is renowned for his large scale art installations throughout North America. Ascalon earned his Masters’ degree in Industrial Design from New York’s Pratt Institute in 2005, and that same year was recognized by Wallpaper* magazine as one of the world’s "Ten Most Wanted” emerging designers.
Brad Ascalon Studio NYC was founded in 2006. The multidisciplinary design studio specializes in furniture, packaging, consumer products, environment design and development, as well as site-specific sound composition and installation art projects. Working with clients ranging from large-scale manufacturers to smaller start-ups, branding agencies and private clients, Ascalon’s collaborators have included Fasem, Ligne Roset, Design Within Reach, Bernhardt Design, L’Oreal, Shu Uemura, Esquire magazine, Intel and many others.
Ascalon’s work has been exhibited globally, from Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the world’s largest forum for design, to IMM Cologne in Germany, Maison et Objet in Paris, London’s 100% Design Festival, and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York. Ascalon is also represented by New York’s R’Pure Gallery and Triode Gallery in Paris. His work has been featured globally in publications including Wallpaper*, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Dwell, Metropolis, Art Review, Le Figaro, Surface Magazine and Interior Design.
Ascalon lives and works in New York City.
VIEW BRAD'S WEBSITE
GHISLAINE VIÑAS
Born in the Netherlands and raised in South Africa, Ghislaine brings a special blend of international sensibility, intuitive style, humor, irony and refreshing enthusiasm to her work. She is driven daily by her passion for interior design and especially by color. Ghislaine and her team thrive on collaboration and although the backbone of their work is a strong clean refreshing look, they dare to go "off roading" by experimenting with and exploring many areas of design.
Ghislaine Viñas established her interior design studio in 1999, when commissioned to do the complete build-out of a 9,000-sq-ft office/art gallery in the Starrett Lehigh Building in New York's Chelsea art district. Since then she has successfully completed many projects, both commercial and residential, ranging from New York City, including apartments, townhouses, lofts and an art gallery in Chelsea, to offices and homes in Los Angeles, New Jersey, Holland, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Ghislaine has chosen to keep her office small so her clients can expect a very “hands-on” personal approach as she works through the project. Ghislaine Viñas Interior Design embarked on their first hospitality project in 2012 and they are currently developing a product line on top of many other exciting design projects.
Ghislaine Viñas Interior Design was awarded the Interior Design Merit Award for Best of Year in the residential category in 2007, 2008 and 2011 and has won the Interior Design Best of Year award in 2010, 2012 and 2014. In 2007 she won the Pantone "Color Outside the Lines" competition for color use in residential interiors , as well receiving third place in the Electrolux, "The Lived-In Kitchen", design competition and honorable mention in the same competition in 2012. The firm was awarded the prestigious Benjamin Moore Hue Award in 2010 for their use of color in residential interiors.
Ghislaine has been featured on various TV programs including HGTV, Open House New York and IDTV “Designing New York”.
Ghislaine's work has graced the covers of countless magazines and she has been published worldwide in publications including: Interior Design, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Departures, Frame, O At Home, Dwell, Elle Decor Japan, England and Mexico as well as Architectural Digest in Russia just to name a few.
Ghislaine studied interior design at Philadelphia University and moved to New York right after receiving her degree. Ghislaine now lives in New York City with her husband and their two children.
VIEW GHISLAINE'S WEBSITE
Loll Designs Headquarters
5912 Waseca Street
Duluth, Minnesota 55807
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Dreamgirls at the Averitt, Statesboro, GA
I am so pleased to announce Statesboro's Averitt Center for the Arts upcoming performance of Dreamgirls! I've been excited since I found out about it last year.
DreamGirls is loosely based on the rise and sometimes the fall of music legends like The Supremes, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others. It mainly follows the story of young musical group of ladies from Chicago who are following their dream of being stars. We've all seen the movie but I'm sure that the Averitt will give us lots of surprises!
Join me as I steal a moments with character "Lorrell" played by Brandi Harvey who is also Program Development Director for the Averitt Center.
Tell us about your character "Lorrell" and your inspiration for playing this part.
I actually hadn’t planned on auditioning for the show at all. I had never seen the play or the movie, and, although I knew the premise and that it had been a sensation, I never felt like I’d be able to carry a part. One of the musical directors asked me to audition, and I assumed I’d get a small part or be put in the chorus. I was absolutely floored and nervous when they cast me in a principle role. I’ve got a lot of experience to draw from for this character, however, both musically and personally. I relate to Lorrell pretty easily by drawing on some of my own experiences.
What can the audience learn from "Lorrell"?
You know, I’m always reluctant to put my own spin on a character. I love to leave that sort of thing to the audience. This production is full of complex characters and storylines, and I think an audience member can draw any number of “lessons” from each character. We each bring out own stories to any performance we watch and those experiences lead us to take from each character the lessons we need to learn. I will say that Lorrell’s development seems very natural through the play. She begins young, wide-eyed, and innocent, and by the end has learned to stand up for herself. However, there is a lot more in there that audiences could learn from Lorrell and the other characters’ stories.
Do you have experience with acting?
I was in theater in high school and college both in acting and production roles, but I took several years off of acting to raise my family. Now that my kids are getting older, I’m elated to be back on stage. I actually directed our touring drama troupe when I was a junior and senior in college which gave me a much broader understanding of theater as a whole outside of strictly the tech and acting aspects of theater.
Tell me about your cast mates... Any memorable moments from rehearsals?
The cast is fantastic. There is some serious talent in our area, and I think our directors have managed to pull together some of the best. It’s been great to see how we all kind of help each other along. We all have strengths and support each other where others are weaker. Each of us has had bad days when we just couldn’t get our head into it, and there’s a sense of grace and support to help each other get through the days that are struggles. These last two weeks before the show are always the toughest because we are working so hard every night. When everyone gets that worn out, you might think tempers would be shorter and everyone would be less patient, but it’s brought everyone closer.
What surprises can we expect in the upcoming performance of Dreamgirls?
There are always surprises. Every performance of a show is a little different, even in the same company. This will be no exception. I’ve encouraged my friends not to come expecting to see the movie. Mical had a very specific idea in mind when he designed the play, and it leaves the music and story as the focus. I think I would recommend coming with fresh eyes – as though you’ve never seen DreamGirls before – to really appreciate the creativity of it.
Could you tell us more about the Creative Growth Capital Campaign and what we can expect in the African American Heritage Series?
The Averitt Center is currently in the middle of a Capital Campaign that will give us more space to house the educational programs that we offer to the community through classes in dance, theater, visual arts, chorale, and strings. The proceeds from this event and the accompanying fundraising dinner will benefit that campaign. There is a large portion of our region that is underserved in the area of the Arts and Arts Education, and it’s our goal to find new and creative ways to meet those needs. In addition to our Creative Growth Campaign, we have begun to look for other ways to offer the cultural opportunities we provide to those living in our region who haven’t had the chance to experience Theater, Visual Arts, Music, and Dance. One of those efforts is our African American Heritage Series. The Averitt Center began our January African American Heritage Series both to honor those trailblazers in the African American community such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who have had such a tremendous impact on bridging racial divides in our nation and as a way to begin to reach out to a portion of our community we had not been able to in previous years to serve. DreamGirls is the culmination of that series this year. Our director Mical Whitaker has extensive experience in theater from Broadway on down to the local level, and he speaks passionately about his view that the stage should be colorblind. He and the musical directors followed that principal in bringing together an incredibly gifted and diverse cast for the show. Cast members represent a broad spectrum of ages, races, faiths, and socio-economic backgrounds. We are excited to work together for an effort like this.
To find out more about the Averitt Center for the Arts in Statesboro, GA or for upcoming shows, you can contact them by phone
The Averitt Center Box Office at 912-212-2878 or click the pic to go directly to their website.
To snag your ticket for Dreamgirls this week, click here!
Friday, January 29, 2016 @ 7:30PM with Opening Night Supper afterwards
Saturday, January 30, 2016 @ 7:30PM
Sunday, January 31, 2016 Matinee @ 2pm
Smoochie boochies!
Revolution Wedding Tour, Savannah GA
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Mara Coson
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The Manila Review
I am the managing editor of The Manila Review, a review publication based out of Manila. The publication is a non-profit project that aims to map the ideas that shape public discussion in the Philippines.
www.themanilareview.com
My work has been published in Australian publications including Papersea Quarterly, The Lifted Brow, Voiceworks, Above Water, and Fragmented.
A selection of features and reviews from my work in Metro (Australia), Esquire (Philippines), and Paper Sea Quarterly (Australia).
I was formerly an associate editor at Rogue magazine.
Broadsheet Melbourne
Broadsheet Melbourne is one of Melbourne's most trusted and well-curated city guides, taking locals (and tourists) through the best of the city's cafes, performances, festivals, and weekends. For a few months, I was a contributing writer and an intern for the publication.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
In 2011 and 2012, I ran a weekly column called "Mama Says Mercy" in the Saturday edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the most widely read broadsheet in the Philippines. In line with the section, I wrote about pop culture, "myself," and ideas that take me inside and around Manila.
Mara Coson | Writer | Editor | Manila | maracoson@gmail.com
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Home > Business > Oil India to buy back shares worth Rs 1,527 crore
Oil India to buy back shares worth Rs 1,527 crore
Agencies20 March 2017 4:56 PM GMT
Oil India Ltd, the nation's second largest state explorer, today said it will buy back 4.49 crore shares for Rs 1,527 crore, joining the list of PSUs that are using their idle cash to help government meet budgetary targets.
Government owns 66.89 per cent shares in OIL and intends to participate in the buyback programme.
"The board of directors of the company in their meeting held on March 20 has inter-alia unanimously approved the proposal to buyback of not exceeding 4.49 crore equity sahres of the company (representing 5.60 per cent of the total shareholding) at a price of Rs 340 per equity share," the company said in a stock exchange filing.
Oil India shares ended 0.5 per cent down at Rs 334 apiece on the BSE. The board of directors, it said, noted the intention of the promoter (Government of India) to participate in the proposed buyback.
The government has so far garnered about Rs 16,000 crore through buybacks by five PSUs including NMDC and Coal India. It got Rs 7,519 crore when NMDC bought back shares, Rs 2,832 crore from Nalco share buyback, Rs 2,638 crore from Coal India, Rs 1,803 crore from BEL and Rs 794 crore from MOIL share buybacks. Two other share buybacks - NCL and NHPC -- are in progress.
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Carriage Pavilion
Inaugurated on 19 April 1973 by Paul VI, the core of the collection is constituted by the magnificent Grand Gala Berlin, constructed in Rome in 1826 by Leo XII. Also worthy of note are the nine ceremonial berlins belonging to Pontiffs or Princes of the Holy Roman Church, such as that of Cardinal Luciano Luigi Bonaparte, a gift from his cousin Napoleon III, emperor of France. Aside from the “protocol” carriages, two historic travelling berlins are also displayed, one used by Piux IX for his re-entry from exile after the revolutionary movements of the Roman Republic, the other for the final journey of the “Pope King”. All these carriages, including the sedan chairs, court livery and harnesses for the horses, provide historical evidence of papal mobility. Indeed, the collection also includes various automobiles, demonstrating progress in this field.
Although the entry into the Vatican of the first automobile, with the registration plate “Corpo Diplomatico 404”, occurred shortly after the beginning of Pius XI’s pontificate, when the Association of Catholic Women of Milan donated a Bianchi Type 15 to the Pope, it was only with the signing of the Lateran Pacts (1929) that the main international automobile houses began to compete to donate their best vehicles. And so there arrived the Graham Paige 837 and the purpose-built Citroën Lictoria C6, as well as the first Mercedes, the 460 Nürburg limousine designed by Ferdinand Porsche. The Vatican Museums “fleet” of automobiles also includes the Mercedes 300 Sel, the Fiat Campagnola linked to the assassination attempt against John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square in 1981, three Popemobiles (Land Rover, Toyota and Mercedes 230 GE), the last Beetle produced by Volkswagen in Mexico in 2003, and the Renault 4 donated to Pope Francis in 2013.
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Bronski Beat founding member dies
Larry Steinbachek, a founding member of the band Bronski Beat, has died after a short battle with cancer at the age of 56. Reports say that he died in December but it was not announced publicly until now.
Jimmy Sommerville saluted his former bandmate, saying “In memory of Larry Steinbacheck whose death was announced yesterday. “We were young, brave and determined. Too OUT to stay in! Thank you for that moment Larry.” Jimmy, 12th January 2017.”
Bronski Beat was formed in 1983 by Sommerville, Steinbachek and Steve Bronski with a goal of being a more outspoken voice in the gay music community. They signed with London records the next year, releasing the song Smalltown Boy which went to number 3 in the U.K. and topped the U.S. Dance chart.
They followed in quick succession with Why? (1984 / #6 U.K.), It Ain’t Necessarily So (1984 / #16 U.K.), I Feel Love (Medley) with Marc Almond (1985 / #3 U.K.) before Sommerville left the band.
Bronski and Steinbachek brought in John Foster as the new singer and they continued their string of hits with Hit That Perfect Beat (1985 / #3 U.K. / #7 U.S. Dance) and C’Mon C’Mon (1986 / #20 U.K.) but Foster left in 1987 and the band’s popularity swiftly waned as they continued to go through singers.
Steinbachek left Bronski Beat in 1995 and moved to Amsterdam where he continued to be active in music and musical theater.
Marc Almond paid tribute on Friday, writing “Very sad to hear of the young death of Larry Steinbachek. Enjoyed working with Bronski back in the 80’s and having a big hit with them”
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Fugitive's wife: I didn't know about his past
George Wright never told her he had been convicted of murder or accused of a hijacking, she says
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George Wright is seen in a post office in Praia das Macas, Portugal in 2000. Wright was arrested Sept. 26, after more than 40 years as a fugitive.
By BARRY HATTON
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OSPREY is supporting the following research projects in the Medical Engineering Department at the University of Hull.
The role of dynamic mechanical loading on bone mineral density
This project was started by Tom Chester, who made excellent progress during the 2.5 years he was with us. Sadly, Tom passed away in January this year. Due to the remaining stipend unused by Tom and OSPREY’s kind offer to top this up to two years, the University agreed to add a further one year’s funding to enable the appointment of another PhD student to complete the study. Alex Woolgar has just started this work, and he seems an excellent student having the necessary background, being a recent graduate from the Department of Sport, Health and Exercise Science here at Hull. Further good news is that Dr Natalie Vanicek who was originally a supervisor on the project but moved to Sydney, is returning and will be able to offer valuable advice on the crucial data analysis phase.
The following recaps the aims of the project and gives an update of the progress made by Tom:
It is hypothesised that the development of osteoporosis may be accelerated by an alteration in the mechanical loading of the skeleton during locomotion in the elderly. To test this hypothesis approximately 50 osteoporotic females aged between 65 to 70 years have undergone complete gait analysis, including 3D motion capture of both level walking, stair ascent and descent, muscle strength testing and postural (balance) assessment. This data now requires analysis to see if it is possible to identify characteristic variations in movement patterns of those exhibiting different degrees of osteoporosis. Participant-specific musculoskeletal models will then be created from the 3D motion capture data using musculoskeletal simulation software AnyBody. This will provide both further gait parameters as well as muscle forces, which will also be analysed with respect to T-score.
Effects of changes in the musculoskeletal system on bone biomechanics and health
The three year period of Sandy’s PhD research has also now reached an end, and he has returned to his family house (in Scotland) to write up his thesis. The aim of his work was to develop a musculoskeletal model of the human femur with which we could investigate the effects of changes to the neuromuscular control of the musculoskeletal system. The hypothesis of this research is that changes in this control mechanism could lead to sub-optimal loading of the femur, and acceleration of bone loss in osteoporosis. Since starting the work there have been a number of new papers in the literature which provide evidence to support this theory, but as far as we know, no one else is investigating this idea. Development of the model proved more difficult than we first envisaged, but Sandy has now achieved it. He recently presented his first results at the European Society of Biomechanics [1] where it provoked some interesting discussions. Just before he left, he undertook EMG measurements in the gait lab, to provide experimental data to validate his results, and he is now analysing that data and comparing it to predictions from the model.
Sandy aims to have a first draft of his thesis by Christmas, and once that is complete we will be in a position to write a number of journal papers.
Feasibility Study examining the use of musculoskeletal models to reduce falls
This post-doctoral pilot study completed in November 2011 looked at the possibility of using gait analysis and musculoskeletal modeling to target particular muscles in individuals that could then be built up (through exercise) to improve stability and prevent falls.The results provided sufficient evidence of effectiveness of a targeted exercise regime on reducing falls to attract external funding for an extended study involving a larger cohort of participants.
The Biomechanics Lab
For further information about these and other related projects, see the Medical and Biological Engineering Research Group website: www.hull.ac.uk/mbe or contact Professor Michael J Fagan, Group Leader (m.j.fagan@hull.ac.uk).
[1] A Brown et al. 2013. Optimisation of muscle forces to minimise tensile loading of the femur. 19th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, 25-28 August, Patras, Greece.
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Adam Shifriss
Co-Director of Legislative Strategy
Adam Shifriss is a Co-Director of Legislative Strategy for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, where he guides interactions with policymakers and staff on a wide range of issues. Adam previously worked in the U.S. House of Representatives where he handled a broad variety of issues including Energy and Commerce and Appropriations Committee work. In 2007, he contributed to a Government Accountability Office review of public infrastructure reconstruction efforts by FEMA after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Adam also has experience in health advocacy, database management, and political campaigns. He studied Public Policy Analysis at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, where he received his bachelor's degree and the Hutton Honors notation. In addition to his work at the Committee, Adam is an active member of the board of the DC Chapter of the Indiana University Alumni Association. Contact him at shifriss@crfb.org.
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PUNB Poised To Hit Loan Disbursement Goal (New Straits Times-Biznews, 9 november 2007)
Perbadanan Usahawan Nasional Bhd (PUNB) is on track to meeting or exceeding its targets for the distribution of financial assistance to Bumiputera entrepreneurs, particularly small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs), under its four schemes this year.
Its chief executive officer Datuk Mohd Nasir Ahmad said that nine businesses have already been given loans, out of the targeted 12, under the SME packages.
"We have also targeted to distribute loans to 300 Bumiputera retailers this year and, to date, we have disbursed such facilities to 200 retailers.
"Under the graduate scheme, we have already given out loans to 99 graduates out of the targeted 150; and in wholesaling, we have given loans to 16 businesses, from 18 that we had targeted for this year.
"Thus, we are more or less there (meeting the targets). I think we can catch up by the end of the year," he told Business Times in an interview.
PUNB was established in 1991 with the objective of promoting Bumiputera entrepreneurs to be active in business, especially SMEs.
It started by promoting Bumiputera businessmen in the manufacturing sector. After 2000, however, its role was expanded to help Bumiputeras venture into the retail business.
The Bumiputera Entrepreneurs Retail Project Fund (Prosper) scheme was set up in 2000, followed by the Prosper for Graduates (Prosper Siswazah) and the wholesale schemes in 2005 and 2006 respectively.
Overall, Mohd Nasir said, PUNB has disbursed accumulated loans amounting to RM365 million and involving 112 businesses and companies under the SME packages.
"Considering that the package was introduced in 1991 and we started disbursing the loans a year later, the amount disbursed is not much because there is a gap which happened during the financial crisis in 1998-2001 when there were hardly any approvals. We started to reactivate the programme from 2002 onwards," he said.
Prosper was introduced in August 2000. After seven years, PUNB has disbursed close to RM170 million to 1,300 businesses.
Under the wholesale scheme, PUNB disbursed about RM30 million worth of loans in just 18 months to 31 businesses, while under Prosper Siswazah, RM7 million has been given out to 211 graduates.
PUNB expects the composition of its four schemes in the next two years to be 50 per cent retail, 30 per cent wholesale, and 20 per cent split between SME or manufacturing and graduate financial assistance.
Mohd Nasir sees the wholesale scheme outperforming the other three schemes next year, with a target of giving out loans to 25-30 businesses during the year.
"When we first started the scheme (wholesale), we were not so sure whether there were many Bumiputeras involved in the industry and whether they were capable.
"But when we introduced it, the response was better than expected. Last year, we targeted 12 businesses and managed to get 15. This year, we targeted 18 and have already gotten 16. So, by the year-end, the number should even exceed 20," he said.
For the SME or manufacturing services and wholesale schemes, PUNB provides financial assistance of up to RM5 million.
Mohd Nasir said that under the Prosper Siswazah scheme, applicable for Bumiputera graduates aged 30 and below with a minimum diploma qualification, loans of up to RM50,000 are provided.
"But we allow a partnership of two, meaning that in total one business can receive up to RM100,000 in financial assistance.
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Chicago at Detroit (4/11/09)
The Chicago Blackhawks were in Detroit to play the Wings this afternoon for the first of a home and home series that concludes tomorrow. This is the second to last game of the season. Chicago has a playoff spot locked up so this was the first game in a while where the Wings were playing a team that wasn’t fighting for their lives.
The starting goalies were Cristobal Huet for the Hawks and Ty Conklin for the Wings. Oddly enough, Chris Chelios was playing forward in this game. He was on a line with Meech and Maltby. The Red Wings were sporting their Winter Classic jerseys for this game but the Blackhawks chose not to do so.
There were a couple of news items before the game started, and what great news it was. First, Hossa does NOT have a tear in his groin. It’s just a little sore. He’s expected to miss these last two games and be ready to go for the playoffs. Second, Franzen signed an ELEVEN YEAR DEAL with the Red Wings at less than four million per year! How great is that?!?! I’m giddy! Franzen probably could have made nearly six million per year on the open market. It sure is great to see players that are more concerned with winning and team loyalty than with money. That means we have Datsyuk, Zetterberg, and now Franzen all locked up for a long time. If we can somehow get Hossa signed as well it would the most impossible dream come true. If that happens then they should make a statue of Ken Holland and put it up with the rest of the Red Wings greats.
This game got off to a bit of rocky start. Just 16 seconds into the game the Blackhawks scored on a long shot from the point by Niklas Hjalmarsson. It was a rising shot but Conklin had a good look at it and there were no deflections. He just missed it. Conklin wanted that one back for sure. It was so early in the game that I don’t think he was really ready for a shot. It must have surprised him a little. Conklin had a couple of shaky saves after that but after a few more he seemed to settle down and get into a rhythm.
With about nine minutes left in the period Detroit scored a nice power play goal to tie the game. Hudler picked up the puck near the side of the net and passed it to Filppula at the bottom of the circle on the other side. He shot it quickly and beat Huet for the goal.
The first period ended with the score tied at one. The Wings were outshot by the Hawks 13 to 6 up to that point. The first period didn’t have nearly the intensity that we’ve seen in recent games. That was probably because the outcome of the game was not really important to either team.
There wasn’t much action in the second period. It almost felt like a preseason game. Neither team wanted to play too hard since the game’s outcome didn’t matter. Nobody wants to risk injury just before the playoffs in a meaningless game.
With 1:02 left in the second period Cleary took a shot and the rebound came off Huet straight back to the high slot area were Zetterberg was moving up. He cranked one that beat Huet to give the Wings the lead one to two. This was after a long stretch during which the Wings were in the Chicago zone and the Blackhawks couldn’t get a good clear. They had finally just got it out of the zone and then mistakenly passed it right back to Cleary.
With the third period about halfway done, the Hawks scored on what was their first shot of the period. Eager got the puck in the high slot and ripped a hard wrister that beat Conklin to tie it up at two.
With 27.6 seconds left in the game and the score still tied Byfuglien was awarded a penalty shot on a terrible call. Kronwall was called for hooking when there was no hook whatsoever. He simply lifted the stick. It was a perfect defensive play by Kronwall. On the penalty shot Byfuglien shot and scored on Conklin to give the Blackhawks the lead with very little time left.
Conklin went to the bench for the extra skater but the Wings weren’t able to score. Chicago scored an empty net goal to make it two to four.
For a meaningless game this one was fairly entertaining. It’s too bad about the crazy outcome but it doesn’t really matter and we get a rematch tomorrow.
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Emma Moffett -- The Reflector
The Noxubee Hills Trail System is a great outdoor source for all
The Noxubee Hills Trail System is located in the Ackerman Unit of the Tombigbee National Forest. Included in the system is a series of biking trails, which are described as some of the best in Mississippi.
This trail system has been in the works since 2000 under the supervision of District Ranger Baswell. After 18 years, the trail system now has approximately 30 miles of volunteer-built mountain biking and hiking trails. The Noxubee Hills Trail System offers detailed maps and trail descriptions to visitors, so people using the trails can easily navigate around the system. This trail system includes at least two dozen bridges and many boardwalks around the lake.
Trail Manager Charlotte Faquay, her husband, Hugh Ector, Betty Ector and Mike Murphey, the previous owner of The Bicycle Shop in Starkville, designed a majority of these single-track trails.
Faquay said she put in tireless hours working on the trail system and wishes more people in the community and state were aware of the trail system. Faquay said she fears as it becomes harder for her to help maintain and speak about the trails, that the system will be forgotten and fall apart.
Landon Voller, president of Starkville Cycling Club, said 400 hours last year were put toward maintaining the trails through weed-eating, clearing trails and removing dead trees. While Voller said he believes the trails are getting more use than they have in the past, there is currently no method in place to determine the number of trail visitors other than by analyzing the leaves on the trails.
“That is probably one of the best mountain biking trails in the state, and it probably gets some of the least use because of a lack in publicity and awareness,” Voller said.
Voller said this unique resource attracts people from Birmingham to Jackson to come cycle, but many people are still unaware the Noxubee Hills Trail System exists.
“A lot of people who live in the area have no idea this exists,” Voller said. “College students who want to hike or bike are missing out because they don’t know what an amazing opportunity is right out their back door.”
The Noxubee Hills Trail System hosts an annual mountain biking race, currently named “Charlotte’s Revenge” in honor of Charlotte Faquay’s dedication to the trail. However, Voller said this trail system could be used for much for than one race a year.
For example, in Flint Hills, Kansas, there is a gravel biking race called “Dirty Kanza” which started with only 34 racers in 2006. Today, this race attracts around 2,200 bikers to participate, with tickets selling out quickly.
Voller said the Noxubee Hills Trail System has the same potential as the trails used for “Dirty Kanza,” and hopes as awareness grows, the trails can be the home of many races, fundraising events and biking festivals.
The City of Ackerman recently hosted a gravel biking race as a part of a race in three parts across the county. Voller said he and the Starkville Cycling Club encourage more usage of the mountain biking trails for both individual riders and racing.
“We would love to see more people come out to use the trails for hiking or biking,” Voller said. “They are meant to be multipurpose trails, even though they are laid out better for mountain bikers.”
Noxubee Hills Trail System
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The big business/big government axis of evil
Self-proclaimed "conservatives" love to tout themselves as ardent supporters of the "free enterprise" system. In the name of "capitalism," they support any and every piece of legislation or governmental decision that caters to business — especially Big Business. Favorite policies of these folks include anything and everything that calls itself "free trade." Furthermore, these same "conservatives" will support just about anything and everything that is said to advance the so-called "global economy."
Needless to say, in the name of "free trade" millions of American jobs and thousands of American manufacturing plants have been outsourced to foreign countries and interests. And leading the charge for "free trade," outsourcing, and the "global economy" is the international cabal known as Big Business. But Big Business does not play this game alone. Joining Big Business is its pernicious partner, Big Government.
Together, Big Business and Big Government form a tyrannical tandem that is squeezing the breath out of our once-great republic. In fact, people need to understand that what is passing for "capitalism" in America today is nothing more than "Corporatism."
Corporatism has little to do with genuine capitalism or free enterprise. Freedom and federalism thrive when true capitalism and free enterprise are at work. But Corporatism has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with tyranny.
Corporatism is the marriage of Big Business with Big Government. Corporatism uses the force and weight of government to create giant monopolies, which strangle competition and freedom. Rules and regulations are enacted that make it impossible for "little" guys to compete. The trade laws of nations are pitted against each other, forcing free nations to sacrifice their own peace and security to accommodate the economies of totalitarian regimes. And, of course, Big Business is the recipient of gargantuan profits in the process.
Please understand that the movers and shakers of Big Business have no national loyalty. They claim no country, salute no flag, and recognize no independence but their own. They are the travel companions of the bloodiest butchers on the planet. They have homes in every corner of the globe and are happy to share the beds of the vilest people on earth. They would gladly sell the heart and soul of America to the highest bidder, and have long ago sold their own hearts and souls to the devil.
And there is no limit to how intimately Big Business and Big Government can collaborate to steal people's liberties. A classic case in point is the burgeoning effort to control and regulate private, homegrown gardens.
In the face of a growing recession, thousands of people across America are planting and growing their own gardens. And this is not lost to Corporatism. Remember, Corporatism's great goal is to create monopolies and crush freedom, leaving the cabal controlling both Big Business and Big Government alone atop the world of prosperity and power. Therefore, it will use every tool at its disposal to protect any and all of Corporatism's favored players. And when it comes to America's food supply, Big Agriculture is that favored player.
Even as Michelle Obama plants a White House garden and encourages Americans everywhere to do the same thing, her husband is creating a brand new tool for the Big Business/Big Government powerbrokers: a new "Food Safety Administration" (FSA).
At the same time, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) has introduced H.R. 875 to "protect the public health." But it is not the public health that Ms. DeLauro wants to protect. It is the health of the demonic duo of Big Business and Big Government. Two other bills with similar machinations are S. 425, introduced by Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and H.R. 815, submitted by Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colorado).
In a nutshell, when these bills become law, every homegrown garden in the country will be regulated, inspected, controlled, and taxed by the federal government. (No, I am not making it up.) In addition, small, independent farms would most certainly be put out of business. In effect, the great Nanny State is posturing itself to completely take over the food business in America.
First, the Big Business/Big Government Axis of Evil began taking over the banking and financial institutions. Next, it was the automobile business that was in Corporatism's crosshairs. Now, it is energy, healthcare, and even the food business — down to the smallest backyard, homegrown garden — that Corporatism is plotting to plunder.
It is an ingenious system: first, Big Government regulates legitimate business to the point that it can no longer function in a free and open market. Then it paves the way for foreign investors to gain influence or even seize control of those same businesses. Then it forces the mergers of smaller entities into international monstrosities. Then it passes laws making it impossible for the remaining small, independent businesses to compete. Meanwhile, the newly created super-wealthy collaborators in Big Business are more than eager to share their bounty with their fellow miscreants inside Big Government.
The obvious result of all this chicanery is the creation of a superior ruling class and the destruction of a free and independent middle class. If all this sounds familiar, it is because Corporatism used to be known by another name: fascism! And this is exactly what is being created right in front of our very eyes, here in the good old U.S.A.
If "conservatives" were more cognizant of and diligent to protect the U.S. Constitution and principles of liberty contained in our Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence, they would be able to see through the façade of modern Corporatism that masks its totalitarian agenda under the guise of "free trade."
So, in the meantime, go ahead and grow your garden, because you are going to need it. But, at the same time, be prepared to give an account to your local FSA agent. He'll want to know how much you've grown, how much you sold or gave away, and to whom you sold or gave it. He'll want to inspect it; he'll expect you to fill out the appropriate government forms, including names, addresses, amounts, prices, etc. And this goes for all those church and social club potluck dinners as well. Oh, yes! He'll also expect you all to pay taxes on it.
Either that, or convince your State legislators and governor to do what the Thirteen Colonies did: tell King George to go to Hades! But if you don't have — and cannot get — a State legislature and governor willing to do that, you'll need to either move or start turning your entire life over to the new fascist America that Big Business and Big Government are creating, because the die has been cast, and it doesn't appear that there is any going back.
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The Nation Remembers 9/11
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Sept. 11, 2001: The Twin Towers in New York after the attack. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
The 9/11 Dilemma: Freedom vs. Security
Ten years after 9/11, the United States is still trying to balance protecting the nation from terrorist attacks with preserving civil liberties
By Patricia Smith
Pat-downs at airport security are common. Do they violate your privacy? (STAN HONDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
On Sept. 11, 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists attacked the United States, turning hijacked passenger planes into missiles and killing almost 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C., and in Pennsylvania.
The attacks shattered America’s sense of invulnerability and ushered in an ongoing battle with radical Islamic terrorists who, to this day, are bent on killing Americans. Washington responded with a host of measures—many of them controversial—to protect the nation.
As we commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the nation is still struggling with the challenge it confronted on Sept. 12, 2001: how to protect against additional attacks without trampling on the civil liberties that Americans have cherished for more than 200 years.
Striking that balance “requires constant debate, and sometimes that debate is going to get loud and angry, and that’s a good thing,” says Clifford Mays, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.
The debate has played out repeatedly in the last decade. The critical issues raised include:
Can the government listen to our phone conversations and read our e-mails without warrants?
Should suspected terrorists at the Guantánamo prison in Cuba have the right to challenge their detention in court?
How much power does the president have to search for and punish those accused of having terrorist ties?
Today, it’s not unusual to see heavily armed soldiers patrolling airports or stadiums—a sight that can be both comforting and unnerving. And Americans have become used to taking off their shoes, getting patted down by security guards, tossing their water bottles, and walking through body scanners before boarding a plane.
Many of these security measures were authorized a month after 9/11, when Democrats and Republicans in Congress united to pass the Patriot Act, which expanded the government’s powers to conduct counterterrorism surveillance and investigations.
But during and after the congressional debate, civil liberties groups said that parts of the law infringed on constitutional rights. They objected to things like the government’s new power to check library records to see what someone had been reading.
Listening In?
In 2002, President George W. Bush authorized the National Security Agency to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans and others inside the U.S. suspected of terrorist ties, without first obtaining warrants.
When the program became public in 2005, a firestorm erupted. Opponents cited the Fourth Amendment’s protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures,” which has been interpreted to mean that authorities must obtain court-issued warrants before conducting wiretapping or other types of monitoring.
Bush argued the program was a legitimate exercise of presidential power.
Security officials also cited concerns about situations in which delaying monitoring for a few hours while waiting for a warrant could result in the loss of critical intelligence that could stop an attack.
In March 2010, a federal judge ruled that warrantless wiretapping is illegal. The Justice Department told Upfront the practice has been discontinued under the Obama administration.
Soon after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. took military action against those responsible: Al Qaeda and, indirectly, the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, who had provided Al Qaeda terrorists with a base of operations. The U.S. soon found itself with a growing number of detainees captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere suspected of plotting attacks.
How the U.S. has handled these terrorism suspects at the U.S. Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been a subject of intense debate. The Bush administration labeled them “enemy combatants” and maintained they’re not entitled to constitutional protections since they’re not on American soil.
Some of the detainees at Guantánamo undoubtedly represent real threats. But others may have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s hard to know, since many have been held for years without trial—a violation, civil liberties groups say, of the Fifth Amendment guarantee of “due process.”
When President Obama took office in 2009, he promised to close Guantánamo within a year. But he’s having just as hard a time figuring out what to do with the detainees as Bush did. The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that Guantánamo detainees have the right to challenge their detention in federal courts, but many questions remain, including how, where, and if to try the detainees.
Methods for interrogating terrorism suspects have also generated controvery, raising questions about not only whether torture can be justified in efforts to prevent imminent attacks, but what the definition of torture actually is. The Bush Administration argued that harsh interrogation tactics—such as “waterboarding,” which simulates drowning—provided critical information that helped keep the nation safe and did not constitute torture.
Critics said some of those tactics did rise to the level of torture, which presumably would violate the Constitution’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” and the Geneva Conventions. When President Obama took office, he vowed these techniques would stop, but it’s impossible to know for sure.
In other ways, the Obama administration has moved to bolster the government’s power to investigate terrorist suspects. For example, the F.B.I. has expanded the powers of its agents, giving them the authority to go through household trash and conduct surveillance on anyone they find suspicious.
‘Walking a Tightrope’
The Obama administration is also considering exempting terrorism suspects from the Miranda rules: the requirement that suspects be informed of their Fifth Amendment right to an attorney and to not say anything that might incriminate them (the “right to remain silent.”) Civil liberties groups say this would further erode personal protections.
Then there’s the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born radical Muslim cleric who advocates violent jihad against the U.S. The Obama administration has authorized the targeted killing of Awlaki, even though he’s an American citizen. In fact, the U.S. military tried to kill Awlaki in May, firing a missile from a drone aircraft in Yemen, where he’s believed to be hiding.
“American citizenship doesn’t give you carte blanche to wage war against your own country,” says a counterterrorism official. “If you cast your lot with its enemies, you may well share their fate.”
But the notion that the government can, in effect, execute one of its own citizens, without judicial process and based on secret intelligence, makes some legal authorities uneasy.
“There’s no doubt that Al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us,” Obama said in May, after U.S. Navy Seals killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. “We must, and we will, remain vigilant at home and abroad.”
Even the killing of the mastermind behind 9/11 sparked debate about whether the U.S. had lived up to its ideals. Mays of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy thinks the nation needs to keep asking those kinds of questions.
“Think about walking a tightrope,” he says. “The idea of finding a balance means that you’re leaning a little to one side and then a little to the other side, and that you may fall off occasionally.”
This article originally appeared in the September 5, 2011, issue of The New York Times Upfront.
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Singapore is made up of a multi-racial demographic with many different cultures and social customs. A small island, this relatively young country has developed into a bustling hub of technology, arts and finance in the centre of Southeast Asia within decades. One can easily adapt to its diverse culture, lifestyle, customs, food and activities. All international festivals and occasions are celebrated with equal enthusiasm and excitement. International cuisines of different nationalities are also available at various food outlets.
It's natural for anyone to take some time to adapt to a new environment and culture. The following address a few points to help make the process a little easier.
Singlish
A person relocating to Singapore for better opportunities should get acquainted with our native languages for better communication. Singlish is a predominant slang here - a local form of English which also consists of words from different languages like Malay and Chinese, as well as Chinese dialects like Hokkien and Cantonese. For example, sentences here may be accented and ended with ‘lah', in similar fashion to how some Canadians may end their sentences with ‘eh'.
Most expatriates are often offered competitive salaries with additional benefits like bonuses and recreational facilities. Other examples of said benefits include an entertainment allowance, payment of school fees, housing, childcare and a transportation allowance. With these subsidies, expatriates may find housing, transportation, food and education costs relatively cheaper than in their own countries.
Taxes & Taxable Income
Taxes in Singapore are regulated by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS). All Singaporeans and expatriates employed here are required to pay income tax. The income that is taxable comprise of profits earned from profession and business, income from fulltime as well as part-time work, interest earned from annuity and pension, dividends earned from company shares, property rent and royalty.
When moving to Singapore for the first time, Expatriates usually rent a private apartment or house. With this in mind, it's not surprising to find expatriates concentrating in certain areas that have a wide variety of condominiums to choose from.
Consider the following factors when looking for a property for the first time in Singapore:
- Budget for rental
- Type and size of property you want to live in
- Distance to work and transportation links
- Proximity to international schools if you have any young children
- Restaurants and entertainment options to spend your free time in the neighbourhood
- Distance to the airport, if you or your partner plan or have to travel often
Budget and Property Prices
Rental prices fluctuate heavily depending on the supply and demand of available units. With constant development and upgrading within such a small land area, home and property prices can be rather steep, with many expatriates opting to rent instead. These prices vary greatly, depending on many different factors like location, amenities, and size of the home.
The following table gives a rough idea of the current price range you can expect:
LOCATION PROPERTY TYPE RENTAL RANGE
Central (Newton, Holland Village, River Valley, Orchard, Tanglin)
1-bedroom apartment S$3,000 - S$7,000
3-bedroom apartment S$4,500 - S$10,000
Penthouse / 4+ bedrooms S$6,000 - S$20,000
Terraced House S$6,000 - S$25,000
Bungalow S$15,000 - S$60,000
East Coast & Bukit Timah
Penthouse / 4+ bedrooms S$3,200 - S$8,000
Bungalow S$8,000 - S$20,000
For the latest prices, check our rental listings at PropertyGuru.com.sg
Property Type - House vs. Apartment
Typical condominiums in Singapore have a multitude of facilities - e.g. swimming pools, gyms, tennis courts, playgrounds, BBQ pits, etc. They are also usually within a walled compound with security guards. Do note that because plot sizes here are relatively small, only the very luxurious landed properties have pools and other facilities.
For somebody moving from a colder climate, please remember that Singapore has a tropical climate, with more small animals and insects around than what you may normally be used to. These tend to cause more problems in landed properties, especially those close to high density areas of flora. If your budget allows however, there are also some nice bungalows that will give you the luxury and privacy that a condominium would not be able to.
Various reliable housekeeping agencies here offer quality cleaning services for offices, apartments and homes. The two prominent housekeeping services companies in Singapore are the Housekeeper's Management Services and the Association of Singapore Housekeepers.
Singapore has one of the most modern and efficient public transportation systems in the world, and travelling from any point on the island to another does not take long under normal conditions.
Car ownership can be expensive here, but the roads are well maintained and somewhat less congested than in many other cities. Public transportation is also very effective, but tends to be more concentrated in areas where locals live (HDB estates). In any case, unless you live along the edge of Singapore, your commute would rarely exceed one hour.
The main options for getting around are:
Mass Rapid Transport (MRT)
Singapore's metro/underground train system currently has three lines, with the fourth partially finished. The map below shows the locations of each MRT station as well as details of the distance to the closest MRT station for each listing. Fares range from S$1 to S$2.10, depending on the distance travelled, and if you've had to switch from a bus, and vice versa. The map can be found at http://www.smrt.com.sg/trains/images/tn_networkmap_big_030811.jpg
Singapore also has an extensive bus network that covers a much larger area than the MRT. Calculated by the distance travelled, fares can range from S$0.71 to as high as S$4, depending on differing factors like distance travelled, and the type of bus service taken. More details on the bus services and the routes covered can be found at http://sbs.streetdirectory.com.sg/sbs/sbsindexsn.jsp?map=1.
Taxis here are generally plentiful and relatively cheap, compared to many other developed countries. Fares can start from S$2.80 to S$5.00, depending on the type of taxi one hails or calls. This would probably be the transport of choice for most single professionals living close to the city centre. It can sometimes be difficult to get one during peak periods, and additional charges apply for phone bookings and certain hours.
Owning a car here is more expensive, compared to many other countries, and is not really necessary here on a whole. Most save money by using a taxi; however, owning a car gives you the freedom to move around - and heading up to Malaysia every now and then for a round of golf might be a strong enough reason to get one.
Singapore is densely populated and traffic may slow down especially during peak hours. However, the infrastructure helps to smooth out some of the issues and public transportation on the whole is still considerably better than in some of the neighbouring countries. If you still intend on purchasing a car however, but be aware of additional charges that comes with owning one:
Purchase Price - Cars here are probably the most expensive in the world due to import duties and Certificate of Entitlement (COE - a permission to own a car for 10 years, after which it has to be renewed).
Road Tax - Depending on the size of the engine, you need to pay road tax annually. This can vary from a few hundred for a small car to thousands for an SUV.
Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) - A fee is charged during peak hours (from S$0.50 to a few dollars) to access certain roads and areas (mostly in the Central Business District (CBD)). ERP locations can be found at
www.lta.gov.sg/motoring_matters/motoring_erp_location_cbd.htm
Parking - Though there are parking charges in most locations in Singapore, please note that parking in the CBD can be especially expensive. Condominiums usually have parking charges included in the maintenance fee (which is paid by the landlord).
Petrol - It may come as a surprise, but petrol is probably the smallest component of your car ownership costs. It is currently around S$1.80 / litre.
You will also need to convert your driver's license into a Singaporean one within the year. This is a relatively straightforward process, but will require you to take the basic theory test. Please note that the traffic flow in Singapore is on the left side of the road (as in UK and Malaysia).
Schools & Childcare
There are a multitude of schools of great repute in Singapore, including over 370 childcare centres, offering affordable and high quality childcare services.
We also have many international schools in Singapore to cater to the needs of expatriate children. For most large groups, you have a choice of sending your children to a school which follows your national curriculum while being taught in your native tongue. We've listed the main international schools in Singapore below - please check their websites for more information.
1 Lorong Chuan, Singapore 556818
http://www.ais.com.sg/
Bhavan's Indian International School
11 Mt Sophia Blk E, Singapore 228461
http://www.biissingapore.org/
Canadian International School
5 Toh Tuck Road, Singapore 596679
http://www.cis.edu.sg/
Chatsworth International School
37 Emerald Hill Road, Singapore 229313
http://www.chatsworth-international.com/
Dover Court Preparatory School
301 Dover Road, Singapore 139644
http://www.dovercourt.edu.sg/
36 Aroozoo Avenue, Singapore 539842
http://www.dps.com.sg/
EtonHouse International School
51 Broadrick Road, Singapore 439501
http://www.etonhouse.com.sg/
German School
72 Bukit Tinggi Road, Singapore 289760
http://www.gess.sg/
Hollandse School
http://www.hollandseschool.org/
514 Kampong Bahru, Singapore 099450
http://www.ics.edu.sg/
ISS International School
21 Preston Road, Singapore 109355
http://www.iss.edu.sg/
Japanese Kindergarten
251 West Coast Road, Singapore 127390
Japanese School (Primary)
95 Clementi Road, Singapore 129782 (Clementi Campus)
11 Upper Changi Road North, Singapore 507657 (Changi Campus)
http://www.sjs.edu.sg/
Japanese School (Secondary)
KGS International Pre-School (Japanese)
16 Ramsgate Road, Singapore 437462
http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~yoko/kinder/kgs.html
Lock Road Kindergarten
10 Lock Road, Singapore 108938
Lycee Francais De Singapour
3000 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3, Singapore 569928
http://www.lyceefrancais.edu.sg/
Norwegian Supplementary School
c/o Royal Norwegian Embassy, 16 Raffles Quay #44-01 Hong Leong Bldg, S048581Tel:
Overseas Family School
25F Paterson Road, Singapore 238515
http://www.ofs.edu.sg/
Rosemount Kindergarten
25 Ettrick Terrace, Singapore 458588
http://www.rosemount.com.sg/
Rosemount International School
461 Telok Blangah Road, Singapore 109022
Sekolah Indonesia
20A Siglap Road, Singapore 455859
Singapore American School
40 Woodlands Street 41, Singapore 738547
http://www.sas.edu.sg/
Singapore Korean School
74 Lim Ah Woo Road, Singapore 438134
http://www.koreansingapore.org/
Swedish Supplementary Education School
c/o Swedish Embassy, 111 Somerset Road #05-01 Singapore Power Building,
Swiss School
38 Swiss Club Road, Singapore 288140
http://www.swiss-school.edu.sg/
Tanglin Trust School
95 Portsdown Road, Singapore 139299
http://www.tts.edu.sg/
United World College of South East Asia
1207 Dover Road, Singapore 139654
http://www.uwcsea.edu.sg/
Waseda Shibuya Senior High School
57 West Coast Road, Singapore 127366
http://www.waseda-shibuya.edu.sg/
We have provided some other useful websites for additional school matters:
Directory of Local Schools - http://app.sis.moe.gov.sg/schinfo/SIS_DirSvc.asp
Studying in Public Schools - www.croxxing.com/english/info_overview.html - in german
Fee Structure Public Schools - www.croxxing.com/english/info_fees.html - in german
Ministry of Education - www.moe.edu.sg/
Foreign Student Information - www.moe.gov.sg/esp/foreign/ and www.moe.gov.sg/csc/csc_admission.htm#Foreign
Foreign Student Admission Application Form - http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/international-students/
CQT Application Form - www.moe.gov.sg/esp/foreign/CQTForm.pdf - not working and can't find a replacement
Advice for Expatriates to Place Children in Local Schools - www.moe.gov.sg/esp/eduinfo/
School Terms and Holidays - http://www.moe.gov.sg/schools/terms-and-holidays/
Pet Relocation
There are certain restrictions imposed for the relocation of a pet brought from places other than England, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. These pets are quarantined for around thirty days. The completed license has to be submitted two weeks in advance before the import. An amount of S$50 is charged for every pet.
There is also a ban on Pit Bulls, Tosas, Akitas, Dogo Argentinos, Fila Brazilieros and Neapolitan breeds in Singapore. The Animal, Meat & Seafood Regulatory Branch in the Singapore government can be approached for obtaining detailed information on import regulations.
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Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
How hard it is to tell the truth, to bear true witness! Bearing true witness is not just saying true things. It is communicating the truth, making the truth believable. Sometimes bearing false witness is an attempt to deceive people, but other times it is a failure to understand and bear true witness. Think of the bizarre story of Elisha healing Naaman the leper. I should tell you that the pious Christians who constructed the lectionary included only the first 14 verses of this text, believing, I suppose, that Elisha’s transferring of Naaman’s leprosy to his own servant is not morally uplifting. Elisha was not a nice man, however. When some small boys called him “Baldhead,” he summoned two she-bears to maul 42 of them; I’ll bet that story was not discussed in your Sunday School class, so you should look up 2 Kings 2:23-24.
Naaman was the general for the king of Aram who was a neighbor and generally an enemy of Israel. Naaman had engineered an Aramean victory over the Israelites and our text says it was Yahweh who gave Naaman that victory. So the Israelite claim that God was on their side was a false witness in this instance. Naaman, in contrast to Elisha, must have been a nice man because one of the Israelite girls he had captured and turned into a slave in his own household urged him to go to Elisha to be cured of his leprosy. The slave gave a true witness to Elisha’s power. The King of Aram was supportive of this and gave Naaman a letter of introduction to the King of Israel, asking him to facilitate the cure; this was a true and good intent. But the King of Israel misconstrued the letter as a false witness, thinking it a trick to give the Arameans a cause to invade again. Saddam Hussein must have felt like the King of Israel when the American government talked about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. When Elisha heard of his king’s distress, he sent word for Naaman to visit him, which is what happened.
Elisha did not go out of his house to greet Naaman, however. He sent a servant, perhaps Gehazi, to tell him to wash seven times in the Jordan and he would be clean. That was a true witness, but Naaman heard it as false. Naaman was probably offended by the lack of courtesy, and he thought that bathing in the rivers of his own country would have been just as effective as the Jordan. Leaving in a rage, Naaman was turned back by his own servants’ argument that he would have been willing to do something difficult if Elisha had told him to, so why not just try this easy thing? He did and was cured, now believing Elisha’s true if discourteous witness. He returned to Elisha to pay him, but Elisha refused pay; Naaman affirmed his service to Yahweh and asked for two mule-loads of earth to take back to his own land so that he could worship Yahweh on Yahweh’s own land. He said he would worship only Yahweh, with the exception of his official duties escorting the King of Aram to worship the god of Aram. Naaman’s act of piety in thanks to Yahweh for his cure was an extraordinary true witness.
Elisha’s servant, Gehazi, however, saw an opportunity for graft and with a lie, a false witness, put the touch on Naaman for booty shortly after he had left Elisha’s house. Naaman was told the request came from Elisha and he obliged. Gehazi put the booty in his own quarters. Elisha caught him and Gehazi lied to Elisha about where he had been. But Elisha was an accomplished clairvoyant and had seen Gehazi misrepresent Elisha’s wishes for a reward; Elisha’s extrasensory perception was a remarkable true witness. So he punished Gehazi’s false witness by covering him with leprosy. Perhaps that was a bit harsh by our standards, or cruel and unusual punishment, but we have a fairly stiff alternative in mind for the crooks in big business. The moral of the story is three-fold: do not bear false witness, do bear true witness, and sometimes it is hard to know what to believe.
This colorful story was paired with the gospel in the lectionary because both deal with healing leprosy; I’m sure that Mark had in mind to compare Jesus as a prophet to Elisha’s healing power in the way he told the story. The witness in Mark’s story was the leper who came to Jesus, proclaiming Jesus’ power to heal him if he chose to do so. That was a true witness and Jesus verified it. He reached and touched the leper—not many others would have done that. Then he said he chose to heal him, and did so. After the healing Jesus gave the man a stern warning not to witness to how he was healed. Instead, the man should only go to the temple to be ritually cleaned and approved by the priest. What was that all about? Some people say Jesus did not want to become known as a miracle worker, because all the lepers would come to him. Jesus obviously did not spend his time healing everyone who came to him, and did not think of his ministry as a medical one in our sense of that term. But why would he not want the healed leper to witness to his powers? In other places his healing power is construed as testimony to his spiritual power and the truth of his message. Why not here? Was he trying to disguise his real identity this early in his ministry? We do not know.
At any rate, the leper gave true testimony about Jesus, according to the story, and spread that word effectively. As a result, Jesus could not go into populated areas, and the people sought him out in the countryside. We know the end of the story, of course. The people abandoned Jesus, and Jesus had no magical powers to cure the sickness in the religious and political leaders about whom he was concerned. Of all the gospels, Mark’s is the most ambiguous. You remember it ends with the women terrified, gazing at the empty tomb. No resurrection appearances, just terror. The last line of the Gospel is, “and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.”
Now I ask you, what is our witness about Jesus today? How can we give true witness rather than false witness? It would be false witness, I fear, to represent the gospels and other writings of the New Testament as giving literal histories of Jesus. The New Testament writers were themselves witnessing to what Jesus meant to them, and their witness is that he is messiah and savior of the world, not just of Israel but of the world. Of course, there was an historical Jesus and he did the things that got him remembered and interpreted in the New Testament way. But the biblical writings are not histories in our sense, and they fall into contradiction and implausibility if read as histories. There was an important theological movement of the 19th and 20th centuries that attempted to identify what can be known with critical certainty about the historical Jesus, and then to draw religiously significant meaning from that historical knowledge. That movement was a bust. Moreover, it bracketed out of consideration all the attempts in the New Testament to say what Jesus meant religiously, precisely because those things were interpretations, not historical reporting. So the movement obscured the Bible’s religious testimony.
The Jesus that is real to us is the remembered Jesus, the literary Jesus, the Jesus remembered in the New Testament and then in subsequent theological writings. We also have the liturgical Jesus, the Jesus remembered in our rites and music. The remembered Jesus is the one that is real to us, and effective, the Jesus we can touch. So who is this remembered Jesus to whom we witness?
First, Jesus is indeed a healer. We do not have to believe in the healing miracles of the Bible to make this point. I recommend strongly that we think of those miracles, such as the one in our gospel today, as symbols of something else, however credible they were to people in the first century who believed that magic is a common event. But I have seen the remembered Jesus heal. I have known people whose lives were so broken, so confused, so addicted to destruction, so self-destructive, that they had no hope for being decent persons. Then someone told them about Jesus, they remembered Jesus of the Bible, who loves even them. And their lives were transformed. They clung to that literary Jesus, that liturgical Jesus of some worshipping community, and were healed. Their theology might not have been sophisticated at first, but Jesus saved them and they were healed. The Jesus I remember says that anyone can come to him and have their souls made whole. I’ve seen that work, and witness to those miracles.
I’ve seen communities, families, and even church congregations, that were filled with hate, recrimination, lust for vengeance, and an infinite round of resentment. We all know about the round of hatred in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. We’ve also all known smaller communities like that up close. But have you ever seen such a wrangle of wretched hate brought up short by the memory of Jesus and his love, by the hearing of his call to love our enemies, by his proclamation that even God is merciful and forgiving, by his willingness to sacrifice his work and friends and his whole life for the sake of reconciliation? I’ve seen that happen, and the community slowly deconstructs its hate and recrimination, its lust for vengeance and resentment; it learns to forgive, and to practice love. That is Jesus healing now, and we have seen it and touched it. The master witness to this kind of healing in our time was Martin Luther King, Jr., who made aggressive pacifism a powerful instrument of justice in the name of love. We too can witness to this healing, for we have seen it.
Jesus is not only a healer, but a preacher who himself witnesses to God’s justice and mercy. Through sermons and parables recorded in the New Testament, and then through two thousand years of interpretations of Jesus, we have his word that every creature in the world is God’s creature. God is equally close to them all. Justice consists in treating every creature as beloved of God, without favoritism. Our ethical principles for relating to one another attempt to express this. The norms for international politics demand this. Our environmental concerns should be guided by this word about God as creator and lover of all. That we are personally sinners, wicked as a nation, and abusive to our environment is itself the judgment upon us, however balanced that is with some virtue, kindness, and care. We cannot bear false witness about ourselves to God: that is metaphysically impossible. More powerful than judgment, however, is God’s redeeming mercy that Jesus preached. Indeed, Jesus said, and we have seen it proved again and again, that even sinners are loved and can be healed by that love, even rogue nations can repent, make amends, and return to justice, even abused ecologies can recover. The wild fecundity of God, who with abandon sends rain and sun on the just and unjust alike, blows through the world with a cosmically vast power making things new. We have seen all this, we have touched it, and we can understand it to witness for it.
Jesus is not only a healer and a preacher, but, as I said last week, Jesus is among us as a prayer, a spiritual force who brings us to God as he himself was in love with God. We don’t witness only to Jesus teaching people to pray, or to the prayers inspired by him throughout the life of the Church, although those things are important. It is more important to witness to the mystery of God that Jesus shows us. Jesus reflects in our midst the ambiguous, uncanny, undomesticated, larger-than-life wildness of God. Jesus points to the Abyss of creation, the nothing from which we come. Jesus is the Light of God in which all things might be understood. Jesus is the Fire of the Spirit that can cleanse us and make us God’s hands. Jesus is the Deep River of our spiritual lives, the divine flood that carries us to the unimaginable God. What a blessing it is that the Bible is not a straightforward history of the man Jesus! At an important level Jesus cannot be comprehended and we must comprehend that.
When we remember this wild Jesus we are brought closer to the wild God. Jesus is remembered not only as a man but as a mysterious wonder worker, a preacher whose text came from heaven, the incarnation of the divine Word itself, the Cosmic Christ embracing the Big Bang and the Final Dissipation as Alpha and Omega, all glorious, the King of the Universe whom you can sense sitting beside you on the pew, in the poor man, the suffering woman, the starving child. Jesus is all these images remembered together who shocks us out of our ordinary sleepwalking and lets us know we are in God’s world. The remembered Jesus is here and now, incised in the carvings and windows of this church, in all the images that wake us from sleep. Jesus is the cosmic witness to God.
In our time, we are the witnesses to Jesus, just like the healed leper. Our witness is not to something in the long past but to something we have seen and touched. We have seen the remembered Jesus heal persons and communities. We need to testify to this, especially in light of all the people and groups who have not been healed. The teachings of Jesus have seared our consciences, opening our hearts to know we are under judgment, but also in the thrall of cosmic mercy. Everyone here has experienced this in one way or another. The remembered Jesus, whose images are so fantastic, so exaggerated, so profound, wakes us to the wildness of God and the reality of our situation as creatures. The moments of this awakening are bliss, heavenly vision, the ultimate witness. O Lord, we are infinitely grateful to be your witnesses, testifying to what we have seen and touched.
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Romania seen from satellite
on 05 December 2014
Update 8.12.2014: The image was featured on ESA's 'Earth from Space' podcast, the 'Romanian mosaic' edition. The podcast is available here.
The Image of the Week issued today by the European Space Agency (ESA), entitled "Romanian Mosaic", is dedicated to Romania and is the result of 15 scans made by Sentinel-1A’s radar in October and November this year.
The scans were acquired in ‘dual polarisation’ horizontal and vertical radar pulses, from which the artificial colour composite was generated.
In the satellite image provided by ESA the Carpathian Mountains are visible sweeping down from the north and across the centre of the country, and the Danube – the longest river in the European Union – which crosses the country along the border with Serbia and Bulgaria, and flows into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta, which lies within Romania and Ukraine – visible on the right side of the image.
Finally, the Romanian capital, Bucharest, is visible in the south-eastern part of the country, as a cluster of bright radar reflections expanding outward from the centre.
ESA notes that Romania has the largest area of virgin forests in Europe and an impressive natural richness. These forests are home to brown bears, wolves and other animals, many thermal and mineral springs can be found in the foothills, and the rich variety of birds, fish, animals and plants in the Danube Delta should not be forgotten.
ESA also recalls that in September 2015 Bucharest will be hosting the annual Land Training Course dedicated to the next generations of scientists in the field of Earth Observation.
About Sentinel
The family of Sentinel missions was developed by ESA in order to meet the operational needs of the Copernicus program, the second EU flagship space initiative after the Galileo positioning system. There are six Sentinel missions, and each of them is based on a constellation of two satellites, each weighing 2300 kg.
Sentinel 1 is a radar mission consisting of a constellation of two satellites, Sentinel 1-A and Sentinel 1-B, which will provide images of dry and ocean surfaces from Europe, Canada and polar regions in all weather conditions, day and night and almost in real time. Every six days the satellites will provide images of the entire Earth. The first satellite, Sentinel-1A was launched on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's spaceport on 3 April 2014.
In addition to transmitting data to ground stations worldwide for quick dissemination, Sentinel-1 is equipped with a laser terminal to transmit data through the European Data Relay System satellites located on geostationary orbits.
Data from Sentinel satellites will be provided openly and free of charge . The raw data will be analysed and processed by service providers from the public and private sectors. More details here.
The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) organised various events for Copernicus services users and providers, such as the conferences 'Copernicus Services in the Sentinel Era — Benefits for Eastern Europe’. Also, in order to prepare for the air quality monitoring mission Sentinel-5 Precursor, planned for launch in 2016, scientists from eight European institutes met in Bucharest to test different systems to be used to validate the correctness of the data provided by this new satellite. Details here.
The ESA Image of the Week in hi-res format can be downloaded from here.
30 June 2019 is Asteroid Day
30 June is the International Asteroid Day, a United Nations recognised international event, organised for raising awareness on the risks of asteroid impacts and the methods to protect the Earth. The event was established on this date in the memory of the Tunguska, Siberia impact that took place in 1908, and was the largest asteroid impact in the recent history of the Earth.
Road to ESA’s Council at Ministerial Level “Space19+”
The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its next Council at Ministerial Level, which will take place on 27 – 28 November 2019, in Seville, under the name ”Space19+”. In preparation for the Council, ESA has published a blog detailing the main topics to be addressed at the meeting, as well as a questionnaire on Voyage 2050, ESA’s space programme for 2035 – 2050 time frame.
The JUICE mission will ride into space on an Ariane launch vehicle
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, JUICE, will ride into space on an Ariane launch vehicle, Arianespace and ESA confirmed at the International Paris Air Show. JUICE is the first large-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015 – 2025 programme. Its mission is devoted to complete a unique tour of the Jupiter system.
LISA Mission High-level Meeting in Bucharest — Romanian contributions to the first space-based gravitational wave observatory
On 14-15 May 2019, the Institute of Space Science (ISS) of the Măgurele Physics Platform and the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) organised a high-level meeting in Bucharest, for the representatives of the national project leaders for the LISA Mission. Space agency representatives from 11 European Space Agency (ESA) Member States as well as from NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) attended the event.
ROSA joins the International Space Exploration Coordination Group
On 1 May 2019, the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) received the official letter announcing it has unanimously been accepted by the 16 member space agencies to join the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG).
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There are few mammals more cuddly and instantly loveable than a sea otter. Not to be confused with the river otter, another member of the same family who are equally at home on land or in the water, the sea otter spends its entire life in the ocean. Unlike other sea mammals which have a layer of blubber to keep them warm, sea otters have to depend on their thick fur coat for their insulation and, at a million hairs per square inch, it's the densest in the animal kingdom.
Raft of sea otters
Of course this luxurious fur immediately caught the eye of European traders and explorers cruising the Pacific northwest coastline in the late 18th century and, within 150 years, they had hunted them to near extinction with a world population of 200,000 or more dropping to less than 2,000 individuals until an international ban on hunting them was implemented in 1911. Sadly in B.C. there were no survivors but 89 Alaskan sea otters were relocated to the west coast of Vancouver Island between 1969-1972 and there is now an estimated population of over 3,000 between Cape Scott and Barkley Sound with another colony of 300 living in the central coast. This should all be good news except when we look a little more closely into the story of Wally, the rescued sea otter now living in the Vancouver Aquarium, who first appeared on the scene in October 2013.
Wally recovering
Wally washed up on shore near Tofino with his body full of shotgun pellets that had left him blinded, broken his teeth and damaged one of his hind flippers so badly it had to be partially amputated. Working around the clock Vancouver Aquarium staff were able to care for him, ease his pain & discomfort and eventually perform the necessary surgeries that have since allowed him to function somewhat normally. He will never be able to look after himself in the wild but he now has some companionship with other rescued sea otters and is in a safe place for the rest of his life.
Wally & Tanu
Sea otters are voracious eaters, consuming 25% or more of their body weight every day to burn the calories necessary to counteract the loss of heat they have to deal with living in a cold water environment. Their diet consists of sea urchins, various bi-valves such as clams, mussels, oysters & abalone as well as crustaceans and other marine invertebrates. How they are able to collect and prepare a meal out of these creatures is what makes the sea otter a very unique mammal.
Sea otter eating a clam for breakfast
The sea otter is the only marine mammal that uses its hands rather than its teeth when foraging for food. It also has a pouch on its chest that it uses for bringing collected food up to the surface and carrying a stone to break open shellfish that it eats while floating on its back. One of the few mammals to use tools, it will go on short dives searching for prey, smashing abalone and oysters off rocks using a stone and catching fish and crabs with its hands.
Sea otter with a crab lunch
The only problem with getting the sea otter re-established in B.C. is that in their absence the shellfish aquaculture industry has been busy setting up shop. The sea otter habitat is perfectly suited for the commercialized farming of shellfish and this has now led to open conflict between the sea otters and the farmers as they compete for seafood. With the average sea otter weighing 60 lbs and eating 25% of its weight every day, that adds up to potentially 45,000 pounds of shellfish a day for the 3,000 sea otters on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Wally's tragic shooting simply illustrates what happens when the interests of these two groups collide.
Shellfish farms around Vancouver Island
However, as much as sea otters love shellfish there's another creature they find just as tasty and one that may hold the key to helping resolve this debate, and that's the sea urchin. Sea otters are often referred to as a keystone species, because of their critical importance to an ecosystem, in this case the kelp forests of the North Pacific. Kelp forests are vital to the survival of a wide variety of fish and other sea life, in addition to absorbing vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but they have a nasty predator, the sea urchin, that feed on their lower stems that anchor them to the sea floor, thus cutting them off and causing them to drift away and die.
Sea otter enjoying a sea urchin for dinner
This is where the sea otter comes to the rescue as one of the principal consumers of sea urchins, the other being the wolf eel. Without sea otters and wolf eels the kelp forests can quickly become devastated by sea urchins and the loss of habitat and nutrients provided by kelp forests can have a profound effect on the overall marine environment leaving vast areas completely barren. However, just as in Alaska, the re-introduction of sea otters to British Columbia has led to a dramatic improvement in the health of coastal ecosystems because wherever sea otters live they are able to control the sea urchin population. The more kelp forests we have the better off we all are and the key now is to nourish the development of kelp forests away from shellfish farms so the sea otters can resume their role as natural custodians of the kelp and leave the shellfish farms alone.
On Gabriola Island a group of volunteers under the direction of Michael Mehta, a professor of environmental studies at Thompson Rivers University, have started an innovative campaign to "help the kelp" by mapping and seeding new beds of kelp around the Island. In addition to helping the existing kelp beds improve their canopies, the goal is to develop cost effective and proven techniques that other communities can copy. It's all part of a greater message that says if we want to be healthy we need our marine ecosystems to be healthy, and there's no better place to start than with kelp.
While obviously Wally was a victim of ignorance, perhaps he and the other rescued sea otters at the Vancouver Aquarium will now become the new ambassadors of marine education. Cuddly is nice but even better is the important role sea otters play in the marine ecosystem. Sea otters mean bigger kelp forests and bigger kelp forests mean even more fish. There's room for both shellfish farmers and sea otters and all Wally, Katmai, and Tanu are trying to say is "I want you to want me".
Katmai, Wally, Tanu
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Posts tagged Ohio State University
What Maryland Can Do with DJ Durkin -An Employment Contract Analysis
During a preseason workout, University of Maryland redshirt freshman offensive lineman Jordan McNair collapsed after a conditioning test comprised of ten 100-yard sprints (a.k.a. "suicides," a common athletics drill). From there, he was hospitalized and died two weeks later from heatstroke complications. Exactly what happened on the field during training that day and exactly who was on the field overseeing the workouts is currently under investigation.
The reports so far contain a lot of alleged details, but we will not know more of the full story until the investigations are complete. What we do know comes from a Tuesday press conference [see full transcript], UMD President Wallace D. Loh and Athletic Director Damon Evans stated that McNair's treatment did not include cold-water immersion and that "care we provided was not consistent with best practices." Moreover, Loh went on to say that they met with McNair's family to apologize and take "legal and moral responsibility" for what happened leading up to their son's death. We also know that Maryland Head Football Coach DJ Durkin, along with three of his staff members, were placed on administrative leave and that strength and conditioning coach Rick Court, the man who was running the workout, officially received the boot.
There could be many components at play here that we, unfortunately, need to wait to truly find out: any signs of struggle earlier in the workout; whether proper protocol was followed by the coaches, including those for precautions under certain conditions and medical guidelines for attending to any resulting injuries; whether Durkin was aware of the workout conditions; whether Durkin was aware of any protocols not being followed; whether Durkin was there when it all went down (according to reports, he was there); and whether McNair had any pre-existing health conditions that people were unaware of could also come into play in determining how toxic the football culture at Maryland is under Durkin's watch.
So, what can Maryland do with DJ Durkin, from a legitimate legal perspective?
To figure this out, let's (a) go over why we are focusing on the exact terms of Durkin's contract with Maryland, (b) highlight a few sections that may be triggered in determining what will happen with Durkin's employment status, & (c) use those sections to support the three potential scenarios - firing with "cause", firing without "cause", or keeping him.
Jaime, NCAA, Contracts, CivilJaime Miettinen August 17, 2018 NCAA, Jordan McNair, DJ Durkin, University of Maryland, College Football, Employment Law, Employment Contract, Scott Court, Wallace D. Loh, Damon Evans, Cause, breach of contract, Ohio State University, best interestsComment
What OSU Can Do With Urban Meyer - An Employment Contract Analysis
Ohio State University is the latest entity trapped in the knotted-up business ethics & moral dilemma of what to do with a person of high authority who could have known about domestic violence allegations against a staffer and failed to do what he was supposed to do. Yesterday afternoon, OSU placed head football coach Urban Meyer on paid administrative leave while the university conducts an investigation into the issue at hand - whether Meyer knew about the domestic violence allegations against his former wide receiver coach, Zach Smith, by his ex-wife Courtney Smith and failed to follow the university's protocol according to the terms of his employment.
Expect a resolution very quickly. The football team starts practices in a few days, and when someone is placed on paid administrative leave, that is a pretty good sign that the parties involved are negotiating terms of separation. Here, it is uncertain at this time whether OSU interprets Meyers possible behavior as violating the terms of his employment. Furthermore, that would absolutely influence how OSU goes about any separation discussions, but at the same time, it would be understandable that both parties want to handle this and move forward in a swift, adequate fashion.
Contracts, Jaime, NCAAJaime Miettinen August 2, 2018 Urban Meyer, Ohio State University, domestic violence, Title IX, assault, Employment Law Comments
Game of Amateurs, Season 148, Episode 9: Battle of the OSUs
I know what you are thinking. "Why would I care about anything related to Ohio State?" Ok, my Wolverine ego may be slightly kidding, but in all seriousness, this trademark question is significant because the outcome can affect other universities. For example, what if in addition to the list of registered marks like the Standalone Block M, the University of Michigan attempted to file an application for "U of M" or "UM" to be a federal registered trademark (®) rather than asserting that it is merely a protected trademark that is not registered (™)?
In a world where college athletics is undeniably a business - a BIG business, at that - and where the NCAA itself has trouble justifying its own regulations, laying down the law on who can do what actions (that, FYI, all come down to making money) and where they can or cannot do those actions lawfully will have inevitable consequences. For those of you who have not heard, Ohio State filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for "OSU" to receive federal trademark protection back in February. Specifically, Ohio State wants to register its trademark to protect against unlawful uses on apparel. Each portion of the application information below is meaningful. So, take note, because we will define trademarks, draw out their metes and bounds, speculate on why Ohio State would file an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and demonstrate how the Battle of the OSUs can impact the business of college athletics.
Jaime, NCAA, TrademarksJaime Miettinen August 11, 2017 OSU, Ohio State University, Oklahoma State University, Oregon State University, USPTO, Amateurism, Trademarks Comment
Ohio State & Others React to O'Bannon Pressures by Limiting Jersey Sales
If - heaven forbid - you desire to purchase an Ohio State University football jersey this season, your options will be limited. Very limited. By "limited," I honestly mean you will only be able to buy either #1 or #15. OSU told Nike to only produce jerseys with these two numbers, and retailers can only sell jerseys with these two numbers.
Jaime, NCAAJaime Miettinen August 27, 2015 Ohio State University, University of Michigan, jerseys, Ezekiel Elliott, Braxton Miller, NCAA, Ed O'Bannon, right of publicityComment
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Researching Up: Triangulating Qualitative Research To Influence the Public Debate of �On-Time� College Graduation
by Tim McCormack, Emily Schnee & Jason VanOra - 2014
Background: The field of higher education abounds with qualitative research aimed at highlighting the needs, struggles, strengths, and motivations of academically struggling students. However, because of the small-scale nature of these studies, they rarely enter the public debate or impact institutional policy concerning access, remediation, academic standards, and student literacy. Recently, educational researchers have called for qualitative researchers to �power up� their data by conducting meta-analyses that compare, combine, and aggregate findings across individual qualitative studies.
Purpose/Objectives: This study pilots a qualitative meta-analysis of three existing, small-scale qualitative studies in education to illustrate the potential of cross-case analyses to build a more influential knowledge base. The findings of the meta-analysis contest the notion that �time-to-degree� is a valid marker of a student�s success in college. The article also offers a critique of the meta-analysis process and points to possibilities and challenges for other researchers to carry out similar cross-case studies.
Research Design: This qualitative meta-analysis of academically at-risk college students from three campuses of the City University of New York (CUNY) employs a form of cross-case research based in the constructionist approach, which generates data-based evidence in a narrative form and forges connections among different disciplines and data collected using a variety of ethnographic methodologies (interviewing, observation, textual analysis). Following a thematic analysis of each individual study, this meta-analysis follows the general tenets of grounded theory to code for the most frequent, emergent themes, or organizing principles across the studies. The researchers further focused on a single overarching theme (contesting �on time� graduation as a marker of academic success) to pilot in the cross-case analysis.
Conclusions/Recommendations: This meta-analysis study contests time-to-degree as a valid criterion for evaluating students� academic success in college. The findings emphasize the importance of evaluating the progress of academically at-risk students within a demographic, social-cultural and institutional context. Factors such as work and class status, parenting and family issues, as well as mental and social health challenges can significantly impede students� capacity to graduate within traditional two-year or four-year time frames. The pilot meta-analysis provides a model for other small-scale qualitative researchers to engage in coordinated cross-case analyses as a means of making their research more robust and generalizable. Ultimately, the authors claim that qualitative researchers within higher education can use meta-analyses to power up small-scale studies to impact institutional policies and academic practice. They conclude that researchers should find ways to �go public� with their data, so that they may have a greater impact on the policies affecting students and institutions.
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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 116 Number 4, 2014, p. -
Thinking With Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data Across Multiple Perspectives
Research on the Influences of Educational Policy on Teaching and Learning
Qualitative Research: A Reader in Philosophy, Core Concepts, and Practice
Tim McCormack
TIM MCCORMACK is an assistant professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY who teaches basic writing, first-year composition, journalism, and creative non-fiction to undergraduates, as well as graduate courses in the teaching of writing and writing for management. His most recent publication, �Boss of Me: When the Former Adjunct Runs the Writing Shop,� appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. McCormack is currently working on an ethnographic research project he calls a �literacyscape,� which will detail the pedagogical and curricular dividing line between freshman composition and basic writing classrooms and how that line impacts students� academic achievement and progress.
Emily Schnee
EMILY SCHNEE is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY where she teaches developmental English and composition. Her research interests are urban education, educational equity, and social justice. She is currently conducting a study, with Jason VanOra, on the long-term impact of learning communities on academically underprepared community college students. Schnee�s essay �Upward Mobility and Higher Education: Mining the Contradictions in a Worker Education Program� was selected for inclusion in the forthcoming collection Class and the College Classroom, edited by Robert C. Rosen (Continuum Press). She is the co-author with VanOra of �Student Incivility: An Engagement or Compliance Model?� published in MountainRise: The International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Winter 2012).
Jason VanOra
JASON VANORA is a social/personality psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Kingsborough Community College. His interests concern the impact of marginalization on personality, resiliency, and identity. Recent publications include �Student Incivility: An Engagement or Compliance Model?� (co-authored with Emily Schnee) published in MountainRise: The International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and �The Experience of Community College for Developmental Students: Challenges and Motivations� published in Community College Enterprise. His forthcoming book, being published by AMS Press is entitled �Desperate to Achieve: Understanding the Lives, Struggles, and Motivations of Community College Students Assigned to Developmental Classes.�
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Vice Squad: Episode 3
By five
Vice Squad
Thursday 15th October 9.00pm
This gripping new documentary series follows the work of the Metropolitan Police Vice Unit. This week, the unit investigates a number of illegal brothels in the capital, and two kerb crawlers are caught out when they proposition an undercover police woman.
Prostitution, extortion, paedophilia, extreme pornography and kerb crawling are everyday facts of life for the hardened men and women of CO-14 – the Metropolitan Police Vice Unit. With exclusive access guaranteed, this action-packed series tells the previously untold story of life on the front line of a darker, seedier London, where every perversion is available at a price.
The officers of this dynamic and elite unit have a simple brief – to catch the purveyors and customers of London’s sex and drugs trade. The duties of a vice squad officer vary according to the target. Their methods range from walking sleazy backstreets dressed as prostitutes to posing as children in internet chat rooms in a bid to ensnare paedophiles.
One team of officers tackles the shops that sell under-the-counter extreme pornography, while another reactive arm of the unit is on call 24 hours a day to crack down on that other vice – alcohol, and the public disorder that comes with it.
By day, these same officers may be rescuing women from the suburban brothels of Eastern European sex-slave smugglers, or helping runaways forced to work in prostitution. They also carry out checks on the welfare of sex workers in the heart of Soho.
This week, the vice squad collects intelligence on illegal brothels operating throughout London, and checks that the women inside are not being forced to work against their will. Elsewhere, the unit meets a punter who thinks there is nothing wrong with using prostitutes on a regular basis.
Also this week, the cops hear the harrowing case of a young woman who was trafficked into the UK and forced to have sex with up to 30 men a day. And two more kerb crawlers are caught redhanded when they ask an undercover police woman for sex! It seems that one of them is less than happy about it…
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Ed Davey – 2015 Speech on the Prospects for Paris
Below is the text of the speech made by Ed Davey, the then Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on 27 January 2015.
I’d like to start by expressing my gratitude to Connie for the work she did at the European Commission.
She was fundamental to putting the 2030 Energy Framework in place.
Connie knows just what a challenge it was to bring 28 member states to unanimous agreement on the Framework.
How much more difficult, then, will it be to bring 195 countries to agreement in Paris.
So I want to talk today about two things.
What are the prospects for achieving that deal?
And second – what can we do between now and then to make it happen.
And by ‘we’ I mean, all of you too.
Because success will require a great coalition of the willing from across all parts of global society.
And that includes you in the business community. You the Corporate Leaders Group.
Who, through initiatives like the Green Growth Platform to show what can be done, have already done so much to demonstrate that climate change action is not just economically useful, it is an economic requirement.
So let me turn to the prospects for a deal in Paris.
The prospects for a deal in Paris
You know at one point in Lima, when I was frustrated and the clock was ticking, I was looking around my European counterparts and I realised that I was the longest serving Energy Secretary among them.
Indeed, at over three years, I am the longest serving UK Secretary of State for Energy in over a quarter of a century. Which shows how quick the turnovers have been in the past.
And that got me thinking about how much individuals and personalities matter in these kinds of diplomatic negotiations.
Are they just about the faceless forces of history and the lucky confluence national interests?
Or are just they as much about the coming together of the right people, in the right place, at the right time.
Well, we can certainly claim necessity.
The science on climate change is clear. We’ve got to do a deal.
And the more we see the impacts of the warming world around us, the more we understand the future risks.
We are already some way off where we need to be by 2020, of the most cost effective pathway for keeping climate change to below the 2 degree rise the scientists judge is needed to avoid the most catastrophic effects.
And if we do not reach agreement in Paris the vector of action needed becomes increasingly steep with each passing year;
And the economic cost increasingly expensive.
So are these forces of enlightened self-interest strong enough in themselves to make a deal inevitable?
With regret my answer is no.
Whether we are thinking today about the 70th year since Auschwitz was liberated or the commemoration of the start of the Great War last year which claimed the lives of at least 16 million souls;
We should reflect that the historical record shows many examples of national leaders pursuing narrow interests, playing to domestic galleries, and ignoring wider imperatives and horrific costs.
The stakes are very high.
And that is why I do believe personality matters. It will matter who is sitting round the table in Paris in December.
Who will be willing to take risks? To embrace enlightened self-interest? To move beyond the narrow confines of their domestic politics? To take that leap?
Preparation and personalities
People ask me. Will Paris be another Copenhagen at which we agree to disagree?
And my firm answer is no.
For two reasons: Preparation and Personality
First, preparation.
At Copenhagen the writing was on the wall when pledges only came forward in the last few days before the Conference, with no time for any sensible debate or compromise to happen.
It seems to me that since then, momentum has really shifted.
Over the last few years we have seen national climate change legislation proliferating, carbon pricing mechanisms spreading and new policies and regulations being introduced.
Almost 500 climate laws have been passed in 66 of the world’s largest emitting countries.
Carbon markets have now been put in place in over 36 countries. Not always working as well as they might.
But the world has changed since Copenhagen.
Many of the mechanisms and concepts that implementing a global climate deal will need already exist.
But for me what is most encouraging is what is happening with the so called ‘big four’ – the EU, China, the US and India – who together are responsible for half of global emissions.
And this is where personality has mattered.
In India, the election of Prime Minister Modi has changed the mood, raising the prospect that he can duplicate the effective low carbon policies he implemented in Gujarat across the whole of India – and bring a constructive India to the negotiating table in the lead up to Paris.
In China, President Xi Jinping has been pursuing since he took over his vision of an ecological civilization that embeds climate action in its national planning process.
China is already the world’s largest non-fossil fuel energy producer.
It is one of the world’s leaders on sub-national carbon markets.
And they are preparing to launch a national scheme from 2016 which will be bigger than the EU’s ETS.
In the United States, President Obama is increasingly seeing climate change action as part of his legacy.
And although there remain political obstacles to overcome, but the commitment of the White House to achieve agreement in Paris has never been so strong, of course supported by Secretary Kerry.
Historically the EU has been one of the world’s leading advocates of climate change action.
And with the new 2030 agreement, that remains the case.
The Green Growth Group I set up to build consensus around a low-carbon, pro-growth policy position, now boasts 13 member states representing 75% of Europe’s population, 85% of Europe’s GDP and 60% of the votes in the Council of Ministers.
And we are extremely lucky to be able to draw on the support, expertise and insights of the Prince of Wales’ Corporate Leaders’ Group.
Indeed, the CLG is the backbone underpinning the Green Growth Platform, bringing together nearly 50 business from multiple sectors and from across the EU.
Let me take this opportunity to thank all of you and Sandrine and her team, for all the hard work they have put in over the last 2 years into making the Green Growth Platform viable.
So what does all this mean for Paris in December?
It means we are more prepared than ever before.
And the right people are in the right place at the right time, we hope.
There were some signs of this Lima.
Discussions were difficult, and it looked like a deal was being cooked up in Beijing and Washington, but I genuinely believe things are looking good and not one country wanted to leave Lima without an outcome that took us the next step towards the deal.
So, I judge the prospects of a comprehensive climate change deal to be the best since we first began this journey many decades ago.
But now is definitely not the time to rest
The negotiations are going to get tougher, and tensions are inevitable.
So let me turn to what needs to be done between now and December to increase the chances of success.
Making Paris a success
The timetable is tight.
By April, we expect many countries to have shared their proposed targets for the new deal – Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs in the jargon.
We’ll see what people come forward with.
By May we will have a draft text of the Paris Treaty.
In September leaders will gather in New York at the UN for high-level discussions on the post-2015 development agenda, and that will look into climate-proofed development.
And then in December, the Paris Conference.
But this will be like the proverbial duck on the water – serenely moving forward but paddling furiously underneath.
We will have to use every international opportunity to maintain ambition and keep up the momentum.
Whether it be the Major Economies Forum meetings in April and July.
The G7 meetings in June.
Or any other international gathering that allows us to raise the issue and exert pressure.
But let me focus in on those INDCs expected by April.
At Lima we agreed that INDCs would be mitigation focussed and represent a progression in ambition for what is currently on offer.
Let me deal with the EU first.
We need to get the EU’s INDC in place by the deadline.
And we should set the INDC gold standard acting as a template and benchmark against which we can judge others.
Second, it has always been the position of the UK that the EU needs to be ready to commit to increasing its GHG offer beyond 40% in the context of a global deal.
The two words ‘at least’ in the October deal were important, challenging though it might be.
So we need to set out the credible options on how we could deliver this, in order to help drive further ambition and momentum through to Paris.
But we have been the first to put some of our cards on the table. And it will be impossible to raise the EU’s level of ambition without seeing ambition from others.
Finally, we shouldn’t wait for a global deal before getting on with implementing the 2030 package in Europe.
That means, in particular, repairing the EU Emissions Trading System through a strengthened Market Stability Reserve.
It also means pushing the Commission to bring forward robust ETS and Effort Sharing legislation to implement the EU’s 40% GHG target for 2030, without delay.
But looking wider at the INDC process, the Lima decision did not set out any formal way of assessing the fairness and ambition of individual INDCs.
And it is highly likely that the aggregate of INDCs will not reflect what is needed globally.
And that is where you and others come in.
The UK can of course do its own analysis, but as a Party in the process we will need to be careful about accusations of pursuing our own interests or playing politics when it comes to pointing fingers.
So we are expecting and indeed encouraging civil society to carry out assessments on INDCs – to make judgements about who is and who is not pulling their weight.
I hope we can build on the green growth message.
But we need your help internationally in other ways too.
We need to work together to unlock breakthrough low carbon technologies particularly for heavy industry;
We need to work together on the financial instruments and integrated energy markets that can smooth the transition to a low-carbon economy;
And we need your help to take the message on green growth that you have helped deliver so effectively within Europe during the 2030 campaign, to a new international audience – explaining what the 2030 agreement means and what can be gained from a low-carbon economy.
We are looking at an intensive year of climate diplomacy and we look to you, the progressive business community, to help us in this effort.
Including the planned establishment of a new Pacific Alliance Green Growth Platform, which will bring together governments, business and experts in that region to collectively explore and pursue a new climate growth model.
One of the most encouraging things in Lima was the Pacific Alliance being built.
This is a great opportunity to export some of what we have developed together in Europe.
So in conclusion ladies and gentlemen.
Will the deal in Paris be perfect? No.
Will we need to ensure that the Treaty includes a mechanism to ratchet up ambition overtime? Yes.
But I am ever more confident that we will emerge from Paris with a comprehensive agreement that all Parties will sign.
And this achievement on its own is not to be underestimated or undervalued.
But we have to drive ambition forward.
We want an agreement that does the job.
Like many who have been looking forward to this moment for decades, I am clear, we must still keep our sights on the prize – meeting that 2 degree target.
The good news I think is that that ambition is shared across the main parties in the UK.
I don’t think you will see backsliding in May, there is consensus.
But whoever does this role next will need help from you our business community, our scientists and engineers, our academics and faith leaders, and our committed, vocal community of environmental NGOs.
But between now and Paris we will need all the efforts of all of you to push us over the line.
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Harold Wilson – 1945 Maiden Speech
Below is the text of the maiden speech made in the House of Commons by Harold Wilson on 9th October 1945.
I am not sure whether in making a maiden speech from what is, I think, an unusual part of the House one is entitled to ask for its indulgence. Probably I am not entitled to ask for it, though on this occasion I feel the need for it even more than many of my colleagues who were elected to Parliament for the first time in the recent Election. They, at least, have spoken with great authority on the subjects which they have chosen and, although I find myself speaking from a part of the House where one is expected to speak with authority — though I am told this has not always been the case — I am called on to deal with a subject which even veteran Members of this House would enter upon only with very great trepidation — the important question of the amenities and facilities provided for private Members of this House.
May I say that, speaking as one of the new young Members to whom my hon. Friend referred, I share, as we all do, their desire to see Parliament work as efficiently as it is possible for it to work. My hon. Friend raised a number of points with some of which I am not competent to deal. For instance, he raised the question of the Treasury for which I am, perhaps fortunately, not answerable. He raised also the question of postage which I know is inflicting very serious concern on a number of hon. Members, and I will undertake to see that what he said is brought to the notice of the authorities concerned. I think that all I can properly reply to is this question of the allocation of rooms for which the Ministry of Works is partly responsible, and also the subject he mentioned at the beginning, namely, the provision of accommodation in London for Members who have, so far, had difficulty in finding it.
With regard to the amenities of Members within this House, the Government and all the authorities concerned are trying to do everything possible to improve them so that Members can do their job as efficiently as possible. I know how important this is in the matter of facilities for dictating letters and interviewing the general public. Members who have had greater experience than I have told me that in the past few weeks the amount of correspondence they have received has been very much greater than they can remember in the past. Certainly, those Members who have had an opportunity, during the recent Recess, of refreshing themselves by visiting their constituencies, or living in them, can testify to the desire of the public, greater than ever before, to see their Member of Parliament and discuss with him questions of private or public importance. I believe that the confidence of the public in Parliament as an institution, and in Members as individuals; is perhaps greater now than at any time in the past.
The Government are most desirous that all possible facilities shall be given for adequate meetings, and for free and frank discussion between Members and the public. My hon. Friend referred to facilities which have been provided in other parts of the world. I, too, have seen the lavish scale on which Congressmen and Senators in the United States for instance, can entertain members of the public. As the House will know, provision is being made, when the Chamber is rebuilt, for additional amenities for Members, particularly for interviewing and the dictation of letters. In order that those who are charged with the duty of building the new Chamber shall be kept informed of what is required, I am asked by my right hon. Friend to say that it is his intention to carry out the proposal made by his predecessor to appoint a panel of private 188 Members to advise him on any questions of lay-out which may arise in the course of that work.
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2028 Could Be the Year for the Final Olympics
2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be coming soon. The government introduced major changes in infrastructure and interested citizens to join in winter sports. As everyone knows, behind prosperity, many stubborn cancers are causing games around the world to be non-healing. The Olympics now weave the carnival itself because of its destruction.
One by One Scandal and Institutional Corruption
In the story that the 2012 Olympic city candidate bought more than IOC members and IOC members accepted the bribe was revealed through the Buying the Games program broadcast on BBC Panorama on August 4, 2014. After the broadcast, IOC president Jacques Rogge promised publicly that steps – the steps needed to investigate the purchase event in the 2012 Olympic bid charged in the documentary.
Meanwhile, the medial side also revealed that the same bribery also took place at the 2002 Winter Olympics. After that, FIFA 2015 and IAAF were also involved in a bribery scandal. Issues such as fake games and doping scandals that conflict with fair competition also make sustainable Olympic developments uncertain.
Many stories around the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics aroused suspicion. For example, as planned, the alpine ski area and layered racecourse will be built in the core area of the Beijing National Songshan reserve. A large number of valuable species such as Lonicera oblata and Cypripedium shanxiense S. C. Chen are found here and many of them can not be preserved through ex situ conservation.
Many Chinese environmental biologists and environmentalists consider that if Olympic venues are developed in such areas, endangered species and integrated ecological environments will be disastrous. The Chinese government intends to get rid of the area from the sanctuary range and choose another area with some rare species as its reserves. In addition, comments on strict adherence to the laws and protection of Songshan National reserves have been widely removed or restricted in China. All these actions have been criticized by some media and biological professionals in China.
Currently, the International Olympic Committee and Beijing Olympic Committee have not provided an explanation for the criticism.
Frequent Doping and Frequency
120 metals, including 41 gold, 36 silver and 43 bronze, have been seized or changed from 1912 to 8 December 2016 (the metal shortage started in 1968). The main reason is doping, while other actions include incorrect acts in the event (2 metals) and false identity (1 medal).
In fact, doping for athletes, bribery for judges and other unfair treatment can always be found in the field all over the world, while the Olympics are the terribly miserable areas of this “accident”. At the Rio Games, nearly 100 Russian athletes are banned for doping. After that, according to documents destroyed by Russian hackers, more than 1000 American athletes took the illegal drugs, but none were punished. 2028 Could Be the Year for the Final Olympics
The former French ice-dancer Sophie Moniotte once stated publicly that, “Our sport has gangrene, in most sports doping is the problem, with figure skating, it’s a deal and a manipulation.” This is nothing new to the figure skating scandal. Almost every World Championships and Olympics have a dispute score and shady deal on the judges. However, it is always left uneasy because of the patience and dishonesty of the organization.
Input-Output is not balanced
On July 31, 2015, Beijing successfully bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Before the last vote, Kraków (Poland), Lviv (Ukraine), Stockholm (Sweden) and Oslo (Norway) quit the Winter Olympic bid one by one and the main reason was Financial Problem.
As the largest sports party in the world, the Olympics has always been a big event favored by various countries. Although the Olympics looked crowded, the value of hosting is always questionable. For example, billions of dollars for budget, enormous resource occupation and summons in a short time and a waste of resources because of the lack of future operations are the focus of attention all along. The famous Montreal Olympic Games pay their debts for 30 years. For the Japanese Winter Olympics, even the bidding financial records have been burned down, while the Rio Olympics are making the sluggish economy in Brazil worse. 2028 Could Be the Year for the Final Olympics
According to a study in the host cities from 1962 to 2012 by the University of Oxford, the actual expenditure to organize Olim
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Magna Carta, Early Constitutional Law England
Magna Carta, Early Constitutional Law England >
Magna Carta (Latin for "Great Charter", literally "Great Paper"), also called Magna Carta Libertatum, was an English charter originally issued in 1215. Magna Carta is the most significant early influence on the long historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law today. Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between the Pope, King John and his English barons about the rights of the King. Magna Carta required the king to renounce certain rights, respect certain legal procedures and accept that the will of the king could be bound by law.
There are a number of popular misconceptions about Magna Carta, such as it was the first document to limit the power of an English King by law (it was not the first, and was partly based on the Charter of Liberties); that in practice it limited the power of the king (it mostly did not in the Middle Ages); and that it is a single static document (it is a variety of documents referred to under a common name).
Magna Carta was renewed throughout the Middle Ages, and further during the Stuart period, the Tudor period, and the 17th and 18th centuries. By the early 19th century most clauses had been repealed from English law. The influence of Magna Carta outside England can be seen in the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. Indeed just about every common law country with a constitution has been influenced by Magna Carta, making it one of the most important legal documents in the history of Democracy.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
Magna Carta was renewed throughout the Middle Ages, and further during the Stuart period, the Tudor period, and the 17th and 18th centuries. By the early 19th century most clauses had been repealed from English law. The influence of Magna Carta outside England can be seen in the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. Indeed just about every common law country with a constitution has been influenced by Magna Carta, making it one of the most important legal documents in the history of Democracy. More...
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Dave & Buster's to "Play" in Alpharetta
The new Dave & Buster's logo that was introduced in 2013
New entertainment facility planned for Alpharetta
A new Dave & Buster's is being proposed in place of the former Regal Cinemas North Point Market 8 on North Point Parkway, across from North Point Mall. The theater, which originally opened as a United Artists multiplex with the shopping center in 1994, was subsequently converted to the branding of later parent company, Regal Cinemas. Regal closed the North Point theater in early November of 2014. About the same time, Regal Cinemas opened a new state-of-the-art 12 screen theater complex at Avalon, a new lifestyle center just north of the North Point area on Old Milton Parkway. The North Point area continues to be served by two AMC Theatres complexes, AMC Mansell Crossing 14 and AMC North Point 12 which opened as an anchor of North Point Mall in September 2012, replacing former anchor Parisian.
The proposed Dave & Buster's would be just under 35,000 square feet, making it the smallest for the chain in the Atlanta market.
Current Dave & Buster's locations in metro Atlanta include the original complex in Marietta (53,000 s/f) which opened in 1994, Duluth (58,000 s/f) which opened in 1999 (in a portion of the former Incredible Universe) and Lawrenceville (61,160 s/f). The Lawrenceville location opened in Discover Sugarloaf Mills in late 2009 in what had originally opened in late 2001 as Jillian's, a similar concept. (Dave & Buster's purchased and converted a number of Jillian's locations around the same time having opportunistically acquired them amidst the rival's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing.)
The Dave & Buster's website lists their specifications for freestanding or inline locations:
• 26,500 square feet (+/- 1,000 square feet) OR 40,000 square feet (+/- 1,000 square feet)
• Midway Seating: 50
• Special Events Seating: 200
• +/- 175' x 200' Footprint
• 300 to 400 Parking Spaces (can be shared)
• Two-Level Storefront Height/Facade • Clear Height = +/- 16'0"
700,000 to 1,000,000 daytime population (within 10 miles)
The property flyer for North Point Market Center indicates a 2016 daytime population within 7 miles of about 328,500. The same flyer suggests that the Dave & Buster's space has 370 parking spaces in front of the building.
A request by Dave & Buster's for a liquor license, including beer, wine & liquor - Sunday sales, is due to be heard before the Alpharetta City Council on July 14th at 2PM.
While the liquor license must still be approved, a representative from CBRE, who handles the center's leasing, indicated that a definitive lease has been signed.
The first Dave & Buster's opened in 1982 in Dallas, Texas. Today the company, which went public in 2014 (NASDAQ: PLAY), operates about 90 locations in nearly 30 states. According to the Dave & Buster's website, the average unit volume (AUV) of one of their complexes is $10.1 Million.
Dave & Buster's joins a growing roster of entertainment facilities near North Point. Fellow Dallas-based entertainment facility Main Event Entertainment opened a 65,000-square-foot complex at 10700 Davis Drive, less than two miles from the Dave & Buster's. Main Event, which opened in mid 2014, replaced a former Home Depot EXPO store. Main Event features "state-of-the-art bowling; multi-level laser tag; gravity ropes adventure course; over 100 interactive, virtual and video games; regulation size billiard tables; full-service bars; quality dining experiences and free Wi-Fi access." A second Main Event later opened on Cobb Parkway at Parkway Pointe.
Main Event's Alpharetta location
Topgolf, yet another Dallas-based enterprise opened its first Atlanta area location in Alpharetta in May of 2014. The upscale, three-level driving range, sports bar and event space opened on Westside Parkway, about three miles from Dave & Buster's. A second Topgolf has since opened on Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard on Atlanta's Westside.
Austin, Texas-based iFLY, an indoor skydiving facility, had sought to open a location in Alpharetta but after having its plans voted down by the Alpharetta City Council, is moving forward with a site near Cumberland Mall Cobb county.
In addition to the aforementioned entertainment options, North Point Mall is home to Atlanta's only American Girl Boutique & Bistro.
Do you think Dave & Buster's will do well in their planned location? Do you prefer Dave & Buster's or Main Event? What else would you like to see open around North Point? Are you surprised to see the amount of interest in the North Point market even after the opening of "mall-killer" Avalon?
Please share your thoughts below
Labels: Eateries, Special by Atlantan99
Brionna Richards said...
That's awesome! Bring on the entertainment and variety! They were once rumored to be coming to Lithonia's Stonecrest Mall, but those rumors died. Another rival, Round 1 Entertainment is instead coming to Stonecrest.
I would love for Alpharetta to have an iFly. Young adults and many teenagers would love it.
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Top Ten Best Characters from The Office
Honorable Mention: Pam Beesly-Halpert
Pam is the shy, sweet, sexy, once conflicted receptionist turns sales woman at Dunder Mifflin who has the uncanny ability of forcing every straight man to be attracted to her undeniable charm. Mother to Cece and Philip Halpert, she is married to the love of her life, Jim. After two agonizing seasons waiting for her to end her three-year engagement to Roy, and Jim to reveal his true feelings, they finally got together and eventually married. In the end, she secretly puts their house up for action so they can move to Austin and Jim can have his long awaited career.
10. Meredith Palmer
Meredith is the socially inappropriate and sexually promiscuous, Supplier Relations Representative at the Dunder Mifflin branch. We know little about Meredith’s life other than she has two kids and was married twice. She is a proud alcoholic, always seen playing solitaire, has appeared in pornography, and loves hitting on Jim. She also had rabies once, caught lice, and broke her pelvis.
9. Oscar Martinez
Oscar is known for being rational, quietly efficient, and intellectual worker in the office, and often the one who will ask pointed financial questions that his colleagues will not or that Michael avoids answering. After being outed by Michael in Season 3, he is an openly gay man, obviously despised by Angela in result. He is often bringing everyone back to reality, and is usually takes regular scrutiny from members of the office for being Mexican and also gay. In season 9, Oscar is secretly dating the Senator but they break up when he learns the Senator is using him for Latino representation for his political campaign. A year later, Oscar is running for the Senate seat which we learn Robert’s re-election bid failed after he was outed by the airing of the Office documentary.
8. Phyllis Vance
Phyllis Lapin is a sales representative at fictitious paper distributor Dunder Mifflin. She is a quiet but friendly type who loves “girl talk” and gossip. Though she has a sweet, motherly exterior, she can sometimes be very vindictive, often to Angela and Pam. She is often insulted and embarrassed by branch manager Michael, who frequently describes her as non-feminine and old, despite having been classmates with her in high school. She was also apparently very promiscuous in high school, which resulted in an unplanned pregnancy. She is married to the love of her life, Bob Vance of Vance Refrigeration, and is a proud member of the Party Planning Committee.
7. Kevin Malone
Kevin, an accountant with a huge lack of mathematical credibility, is one of the dumbest and endearing characters. He’s the drummer and singer for the band Scrantonicity. Kevin is fond of M&Ms, Cup of Noodles, hot dogs, and his favorite number is 69. Kevin gambles and will place bets on items and events ranging from the NCAA basketball tournament to how much candy he can fit in his mouth from the candy jar. We learn in the end that Kevin becomes a bartender, loves his job, and is fully respected by his co-workers.
6. Jan Levinston-Gould
A complex character, Jan Levinston-Gould (the Gould is now removed), is swooned by Michael despite her struggles to avoid it. She is the Vice President of Northeast Sales at the paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin, directly supervising Regional Manager of the Scranton branch, and Michael. She is very dominating, and a huge contrast to Michael. She is one of the few characters to understand Michael and anticipate his needs. Although they were completely toxic as a couple, she was a huge bright spot in Michael’s life and also one of the few characters who were “socially acceptable”.
5. Angela Martin
Angela is typically a rigid woman and often unnecessarily callous to her coworkers. She claims to be a good Christian woman but often contradicts herself through micromanaging and being extremely judgmental of others. She has an obsession with cats, specifically her cat Sprinkles. She was once engaged to Andy, but that ended when she was discovered by him with her on-again off-again romance with Dwight. She married a Senator, who in turn was gay and in a relationship with Oscar. Angela becomes pregnant and Dwight later learns it is his child. Angela rekindles her romance with Dwight and they end the series married.
4. Andy Bernard
Andy worked at the Dunder Mifflin Stamford branch before transferring to Scranton in the third season. He frequently notes his education at Cornell, where he sang with the acapella group “Here Comes Treble”. He overreacted to a prank by Jim by punching his first through half-inch drywall; he spent the following five weeks in anger management. He was once engaged to Angela which ended after Andy discovered she was having an affair with Dwight. Andy became the Regional Manager after Michael’s exit, but later had a mid-life crisis in Season 9. He eventually quits to pursue an acting career in which he has an embarrassing viral video hit the web from one of his auditions, which in the end he takes in stride and looks forward to his future.
3. Jim Halpert
Jim is a lovable underachiever with a passion for pranks and endless love for Pam. He rarely bothers to fulfill his full potential and insists that his job as salesman for Dunder Mifflin is just a job, and not a career, despite the years he has spent there. He has a comical rivalry with the sometimes clueless Dwight Schrute who is frequently the object of Jim’s pranks and unforgettable facial expressions. He later marries Pam and they have two children. At the end of the series, he forces his own firing to pursue a long term career to support his family.
2. Dwight Schrute
Typically an outlier in the office, Dwight is a strange guy with strange interests, morals and the target of the majority of Jim’s pranks. He is intelligent, self-sufficient, loyal and successful at Dunder Mifflin, winning top salesman on a number of occasions. He lives on his own beet farm with his cousin Mose, and is actually extremely wealthy with no need for his office position at Dunder Mifflin. Occasionally, we see Dwight “break” and view a soft side and a more human side for Dwight. He is a stickler for the rules, and a lot of times compromise his undying love for Angela. In the series finale, they are finally together, have a wedding, and live happily ever after on the Schrute beet farm.
1. Michael Scott
Michael earns his top spot on this list because he is so outlandish and lovable. Additionally, the show lost a lot of his appeal upon his departure. Michael is the regional manager of the Scranton branch of a paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin. He has no sense of social awareness, has few friends, and is actually quite lonely. He thinks of himself as an office comedian, but his attempts at humor prove to be unfunny at best and are often inappropriate and sometimes offensive or unwittingly mean. Despite all this, he always means well. He finally finds love with Holly, and they run off to begin a family. In the series finale, Michael makes a brief return, and we learn his true happiness and his growing family.
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In love with Elena Ferrante: Part three,Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante’s novels get better and better. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the third volume in what will apparently be a four volume series, continues the story of the complicated friendship between two young women, Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo who grew up in an impoverished Neapolitan neighborhood in the 1950’s. Thanks to her families (albeit reluctant) agreement to pay school fees, Elena is now a college graduate and Lina, denied those opportunities, is working in a sausage factory.
For Elena Greco, “the essential thing was to get out of Naples; she advises Lila who remains trapped in Naples to “Settle in well-organized lands, where everything is possible.” Elena is engaged to Pietro Airota, the scion of a prestigious family and sees him as means of escape from her working class background. Yet her own class insecurities are never far from the surface, and she wonders if she is fully accepted by her fiance’s family: “What am I to Airotas—a jewel in the crown of their broad mindedness”?
Ferrante has written the best account I’ve ever read of the struggle to climb the class ladder--in Elena Greco’s case, making several leaps from deep poverty to the intellectual elite of Italian society. Elena is haunted by the fear that she is an impostor. At a book signing for her first well-received, autobiographical novel, she is easily intimidated by a critical comment from a man in the audience: “I had become again the poor little girl from the poor neighborhood of Naples, the daughter of the porter with the dialect cadence of the South, amazed at having ended up in that place, playing the part of the cultured young writer.”
As hard as she tries, Elena cannot get rid of the imprint of her background. When she and her husband visit her relatives in the old neighborhood, Elena finds herself reverting to Neapolitan dialect: “I realized that my voice was taking on the tones of the dialect, out of nervousness, that words were coming to me in the Neapolitan of he neighborhood, that the neighborhood …was imposing its language on me, its mode of acting and reacting.”
Marriage to Pietro Airota provides Elena with upper middle class advantages, and helps her to increase her distance from the world of her childhood, but emotionally and sexually her marriage is a deep disappointment. Elena soon realizes she is not in love with her husband, but with the life he could give her. She describes her marriage to Pietro Airota as entering a “protective family, a sort of well-fortified castle.” After having children, she perceived her marriage not as a protected space but as a prison:"I found the isolation I ended up in unbearable...I hadn't slaved since childhood just to be imprisoned in the roles of wife and mother."
Ferrante has written a deeply moving account of the dissolution of a marriage. Reconnecting with her old love, Nino Serratore, made the marriage to Airota more unbearable and Elena experiences a maelstrom of conflicting emotions–-intense love for Nino, guilt about hurting a man who had been in his own way a good husband, deep anxiety about the impact of divorce on her young children---all this along with her doubts as go whether the relationship with Nino would be a lasting one.
Although the novel focuses primarily on Elena, her complicated relationship with Lila forms the emotional heart of the novel. This is a relationship which will endure, as the men in their lives come and go. The trajectory of their lives often moves in opposite directions. When Elena’s life is on a downswing—increasingly unhappy with her marriage, unable to advance her career--Liaa’s life is on an upswing, achieving success in the nascent computer technology industry. Elena has ambivalent feelings about Lila, deeply emotionally attached but envious of Lila’s talent—even at one point wishing that Lila would die. But when Lila is ill, Elena does everything she can to get Lila good medical care and devotes herself to "reorganizing Lila's life."
The personal struggles of these two women take place against the backdrop of the social and political upheaval of the late 1960’s and 70’s. Elena was not all that interested in politics but attracted by the drama of political activism; yet she was also threatened and saw the 1960’s left as posing a challenge to the upper middle class life she was trying to build. Elena was the observer of social movements; Lila, with a deeper understanding of economic injustice was drawn into the political struggle and became a union activist. Lila was deeply critical of the student left’s attempts to build a student/worker alliance—-the arrogance of the students, their ignorance of the factory workers they hoped to organize, their unawareness of the futility of “distributing a densely written leaflet to people who could barely read.” Ferrante, whoever she is, clearly had some experience of the student left of the late 1960’s and early 70’s. Her description is pitch perfect.
Like many women who had some involvement in the 1960’s left, both Elena and Lila experienced a feminist awakening. Elena observes that there were few women involved and they “were mostly silent, flirting with male activists.” Both Elena and Lina had a developing feminist consciousness before the emergence of an organized feminist movement, and Elena had explored feminist themes in her first novel. What many of her female readers found most compelling was the exploration of male sexual selfishness. Elena described “male annoyance, the boredom of one who has already had his orgasm and now would like to go to sleep,” a sexual honesty which resonated with her female readers.
Violence against women, the powerful feminist theme which dominated the first two novels of the series, runs throughout Those Who Leave and Those who Stay. The novel opens with a powerful image of a dead woman, a childhood friend of Lila’s and Elena’s. Elena wonders “how many of those who had been girls with us were no longer alive, had disappeared from the face of the earth because of illness, because their nervous systems had been unable to endure the sandpaper of torments, because their blood had been spilled.” Even Elena’s marriage to a mild-mannered, educated man is at one point marred by violence.
The novel ends with Elena leaving her husband and daughters for Nino Serratore, the man she has loved since childhood, leaving the reader to wonder if Elena is making a disastrous mistake. Ferrante has certainly left hints that this will not end well. We’ll have to wait until September 2015 when volume four of the Neapolitan novels is released to find out.
Ferrante’s novels work on so many levels: an exploration of the social and economic divisions in Italy; the extent to which class and gender constrain women’s lives; the difficulty of ever erasing the imprint of one’s background, the complexities of women’s’ friendships over time. This the best book about female friendship I have read since Toni Morrison’s Sula. Ferrante has placed her story of the friendship of Elena and Lila within the context of fully realized social world with language that is nuanced, powerful, language that makes you want to linger over her sentences. How much of the magical language is Ferrante’s or her translator’s? I hope to develop enough of a reading knowledge of Italian to find out.
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More info on Lower Canada Rebellion
Bibliography of the 1837-1838 insurrections in Lower Canada
Battle of Saint-Eustache
Battle of Saint-Charles
William Lyon Mackenzie
Battle of Odelltown
Battle of Saint-Denis (1837)
Patriote movement
Report on the Affairs of British North America
Lower Canada Rebellion: Wikis
Categories: Lower Canada Rebellion > Conflicts in Canada
Lower Canada Rebellions
Flag used by the Patriotes between 1832 and 1838
6 November 1837 — 10 November 1838
Lower Canada, present-day Quebec
Military suppression of Patriote rebellion and defeat of American interventions
Unification of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada.
Lower Canada Loyalists Patriotes
United States sympathizers
John Colborne,
Charles Gore,
Lewis Odell,
John Scriver,
George Augustus Wetherall Thomas Storrow Brown,
Jean-Olivier Chénier, †
Robert Nelson,
Wolfred Nelson,
Ferdinand-Alphonse Oklowski,
Louis-Joseph Papineau
1,380 regulars, rising to 10,000 by mid-1838
23,000 militia ~4,100 Patriotes
25,000 Americans[1]
32 combat dead,
47 wounded
[citation needed] 73 dead,
1,600 wounded or captured,
29 executed for treason,
58 deported to Australia
Patriotes Rebellion
Saint-Denis – Saint-Charles – Saint-Eustache – Moore's Corners – Baker's Farm – Lacolle – Odelltown - Beauharnois
The Lower Canada Rebellion (French: La rébellion du Bas-Canada), commonly referred to as the Patriots' War (French: la Guerre des patriotes) by Quebecois, is the name given to the armed conflict between the rebels of Lower Canada (now Quebec) and the British colonial power of that province. Together with the simultaneous Upper Canada Rebellion in the neighbouring colony of Upper Canada (now Ontario), it formed the Rebellions of 1837.
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The rebellion of Lower Canada continued in 1838 and is often called Les rébellions de 1837–38 in Quebec. The actions of the rebels resulted in the declaration of martial law and a first armed conflict occurred in 1837 when the 26 members of the Patriote movement who had been charged with illegal activities chose to resist their arrest by the authorities under the direction of John Colborne. In 1838, two major armed conflicts occurred when groups of Lower Canadian Patriotes led by Robert Nelson crossed the American border in an attempt to invade Lower Canada and Upper Canada, drive the British army out and establish independent republics.
These events are often misreported[citation needed], which moves the attention away from three decades of political battles between the Parti patriote of James Stuart and Louis-Joseph Papineau, who were seeking accountability from the elected government and governor of the colony. However the unelected body was dominated by a small group of mainly businessmen known as the Château Clique, the equivalent of the Family Compact in Upper Canada.
The movement for reform took shape in a period of economic disfranchisement of the French-speaking majority and working-class English-speaking citizens. But, the rebellion focused on the unfairness of colonial governing as such, as many of the leaders and participants were English-speaking citizens of Lower Canada. In banking, the timber trade, and transportation, Anglophones were seen as disproportionately represented. However, the Roman Catholic church discouraged French-Canadians from commercial activities, asserting it was God's will that they remain an agrarian society.[citation needed] (Out of 775 identified rebels from Lower Canada, 388 were farmers.) At the same time, some among the Anglophone business elite were advocating for a union of Upper and Lower Canada to ensure competitiveness on a national scale with the increasingly large and powerful economy of the United States (who, in part, inspired the rebels by their own successful war of independence.) The unification of the colony was a plan favoured by the British-appointed governor, George Ramsey, Earl of Dalhousie. The reaction was a growing sense of nationalism among English and the French-speaking citizens, which solidified into the Parti canadien. (After 1826 called the Parti patriote.)
In 1811, James Stuart became leader of the Parti Canadien in the assembly and in 1815, reformer Louis-Joseph Papineau was elected Assembly speaker. The Assembly, while elected, had little power; its decisions could be vetoed by a legislative council and the governor appointed by the British government. Dalhousie and Papineau were soon at odds over the issue of uniting the Canadas. Dalhousie forced an election in 1827 rather than accept Papineau as speaker. Sympathizers to the reform movement in England had Dalhousie forced from his position and reappointed to India. Still, the legislative council and the assembly were not able to reach a compromise. By 1834, the assembly had passed the Ninety-Two Resolutions, outlining its grievances against the legislative council. At that point, the Patriote movement was supported by an overwhelming majority of the population of all origins.
Later in 1834, the Parti Patriote swept the election with more than three-quarters of the popular vote. However, the reformers in Lower Canada were divided over several issues. A moderate reformer named John Neilson had quit the party in 1830 and joined the Constitutional Association 4 years later. Papineau's anti-clerical position alienated reformers in the Catholic Church, and his support for secular rather than religious schools made him a powerful enemy in Bishop Jean-Jacques Lartigue. Lartigue called on all Catholics to reject the reform movement and support the authorities, forcing many to choose between their religion and their political convictions.
However, Papineau continued to push for reform. He petitioned the British government to bring about reform, but in March 1837 the government of Lord Melbourne rejected all of Papineau's requests. Papineau then organized protests and assemblies, and eventually approved the paramilitary Société des Fils de la Liberté during the Assemblée des six-comtés.
Papineau escaped to the United States, but the rebels set themselves up in the countryside. Led by Wolfred Nelson defeated a British force at Saint-Denis on November 23. However, the British troops soon beat back the rebels, defeating them at Saint-Charles on November 25 and at Saint-Eustache on December 14. Saint-Eustache was then pillaged and ransacked. On December 5, martial law was declared in Montréal.
When news of the arrest of the Patriote leaders reached Upper Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie launched an armed rebellion in December 1837. In the meantime, filibusters from the United States, the Hunter Patriots, formed a small militia and attacked Windsor, Ontario to further support the Canadian Patriots. These revolts were quickly put down. The following year, leaders who had escaped across the border into the United States raided Lower Canada in February 1838. A second revolt began at Battle of Beauharnois in November of the same year. This too was crushed by the British.
Britain dispatched Lord Durham to investigate the cause of the rebellion. His report recommended that the Canadas be united into one colony (the Province of Canada) so as to assimilate the French-speaking Canadiens into anglophone British culture. However, he recommended acceding to the rebels' grievances by granting responsible government to the new colony.
Following the military defeat of the Patriotes, Lower Canada was merged with Upper Canada under the Union Act. The Canadiens barely remained a majority in the new political entity, and with continued immigration to the English-speaking part of Canada, this dominance was short lived. Eight years after the Union, a responsible government was set up in the united Province of Canada. The great instability of this new regime (see Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada) led to the formation of the Great coalition, and another major constitutional change, the Canadian Confederation of 1867.
The rebellion of the Patriotes Canadiens of Lower Canada is often seen as the example of what might have happened to the United States of America if the American Revolutionary War had failed. In Quebec, the rebellion (as well as the parliamentary and popular struggle) is now commemorated as the Journée nationale des Patriotes (National Patriotes Day) by the use of the Canadian Statutory Holiday, Victoria Day. It has become a symbol for the contemporary Quebec independence movement (and to a lesser extent a symbol of Canada's small republican movement).
Thomas Storrow Brown (1803–1888)
Jean-Olivier Chénier (1806–1837)
François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier (1803–1839)
Amury Girod (1800–1837)
Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1797–1880)
Wolfred Nelson (1791–1863)
Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786–1871)
Timeline of Quebec history
Quebec politics
Canada Bay: some French Canadians who took part in the rebellions were expelled to this region of Australia.
National Patriotes Day
Kahnawake Iroquois and the Rebellions of 1837-38
Félix Poutré
^ Andrew Bonthius | The Patriot War of 1837–1838: Locofocoism With a Gun? | Labour/Le Travail, 52 | The History Cooperative
For more details on this topic, see Bibliography of the 1837-1838 insurrections in Lower Canada.
Greenwood, Frank Murray. and Barry Wright, ed. (2002). Canadian State Trials. Volume 2: Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837–1839, Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 512 p. (ISBN 0802037488) (preview)
Boissery, Beverly (1995). A Deep Sense of Wrong: The Treason Trials, and Transportation to New South Wales of Lower Canadian Rebels after the 1838 Rebellion, Toronto: Dundurn Press, 367 p. (ISBN 1550022423)
Greer, Allan (1993). The Patriots and the People: The Rebellion of 1837 in Rural Lower Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 385 p. (ISBN 0802069304) (preview)
Senior, Elionor Kyte (1985). Redcoats and Patriotes: The Rebellions in Lower Canada, 1837–38, Ontario: Canada's Wings, Inc., 218 p. (ISBN 0920002285)
Mann, Michael (1986). A Particular Duty: The Canadian Rebellions 1837–1839, Salisbury (Wiltshire): Michael Russel Publishing, 211 p.
Buckner, Philip Alfred (1985). The Transition to Responsible Government: British Policy in British , North America, 1815–1850, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 358 p.
Tiffany, Orrin Edward (1980). The Relations of the United States to the Canadian Rebellion of 1837–1838, Toronto: Coles Pub., 147 p.
Burroughs, Peter (1972). The Canadian Crisis and the British Colonial Policy, 1828–1849, Toronto: MacMillan, 118 p.
Schull, Joseph (1971). Rebellion: the Rising in French Canada 1837, Toronto: Macmillan, 226 p.
Ryerson, Stanley Brehaut (1968). Unequal Union: Confederation and the Roots of Conflict in the Canadas, 1815–1873, Toronto : Progress Books, 477 p.
Manning, Helen Taft (1962). The Revolt of French Canada, 1800–1835. A Chapter in the History of the British Commonwealth, Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 426 p.
Kinchen, Oscar Arvle (1956). The Rise and Fall of the Patriot Hunters, Toronto: Burns and Maceachern, 150 p.
Morison, John Lyle (1919). British Supremacy and Canadian Self-Government, 1839–1854, Toronto: S. B.Gundy, 369 p.
Decelles, Afred Duclos (1916). The "Patriotes" of '37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canadian Rebellion, Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co., 140 p. [translated by Stewart Wallace]
Bradshaw, Frederick (1903). Self-Government in Canada, and How it was Achieved: the Story of Lord Durham’s Report, Londres: P.S.King, 414 p.
Scott, Stuart D. (2004). To the Outskirts of Habitable Creation: Americans and Canadians Transported To Tasmania In The 1840s, Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 514 p. [Illustrated by Seth Colby].
The Patriotes Rebellion Quebec 1837–1839, selection of French documents translated into English for the Marxists Internet Archive
Les Patriotes de 1837@38 (French) Web site edited by historian Gilles Laporte since 1995 (news, analysis, bibliography, time line, biographies, atlas, debates, diaporama, games etc.)
Les rébellions des Patriotes de 1837–38 (French)
Histoire Québec, Rebelles et Patriotes, volume 5, numéro 2, Décembre 1999 (French)
Categories: Lower Canada Rebellion | Conflicts in Canada
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Les Patriotes de 1837-38
Histoire Québec, Rebelles et Patriotes, volume 5, numéro 2, Décembre 1999 - Vol. 5 No 2
Les rébellions des Patriotes de 1837-38 - Les Rébellions des Patriotes de 1837-1838
The Patriotes Rebellion Quebec 1837-1839 - The Patriotes Rebellion. Quebec 1837-1839
Andrew Bonthius | The Patriot War of 1837–1838: Locofocoism With a Gun? | Labour/Le Travail, 52 | The History Cooperative
''Les événements de 1837-38 : esquisse historique de l'insurrection du Bas-Canada''
''Les Patriotes de 1837-1838''
on line - Scientific Commons: The Kahnawake Iroquois and the Lower-Canadian Rebellions, 1837-1838 (1999), 1999 [Sossoyan, Matthieu]
History of the Insurrection in Canada in refutation of the report of Lord Durham - History of the Insurrection in Canada in refutation of the report of Lord Durham - Independence of Québec - Resource Centre for the English-Speaking World
"The Execution in Canada"
"The Canada Question"
"History of the Recent Insurrection in the Canadas - Part Second"
"History of the Recent Insurrection in the Canadas - Part First"
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Norman Garwood
Norman Garwood (born 1947) is an English production designer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.[1]
Selected filmography
Garwood has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:
Hook (1991)
^ "IMDb.com: Norman Garwood - Awards". IMDb.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308841/awards. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
Norman Garwood at the Internet Movie Database
Norman Garwood at Allmovie
NAME Garwood, Norman
SHORT DESCRIPTION Production designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
Categories: 1947 births | Living people | Production designers | People from Birmingham, West Midlands | United Kingdom film biography stubs
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Before founding Switzer | Oney, Mrs. Switzer devoted 14 years of her 16 year career as a Prosecutor. In 2005 Mrs. Switzer was appointed by Governor Rick Perry as the first woman District Attorney of the 31st Judicial District where she served continuously until deciding to return to private practice in 2012.
Prior to moving into public service as an Assistant District Attorney, Mrs. Switzer had a private law practice. Her areas of practice included Family, Real Estate, Probate, Contracts, Bankruptcy, Immigration, Civil Litigation, Criminal Defense and Juvenile law.
Mrs. Switzer’s time both as a private attorney and as a Prosecutor has given her extensive experience in the courtroom. To date she has tried over 90 cases, including Capital Murder-Death Penalty, Aggravated Sexual Assaults, Child Pornography, Burglary, Possession of Controlled Substances and DWIs. Mrs. Switzer has also handled civil asset forfeiture cases.
Mrs. Switzer devoted a significant amount of her time as District Attorney to educating others about the criminal justice system. She has been a frequent speaker at High Schools and civic organizations. She has also been a twice invited speaker for the Shaken Baby Alliance training conference. Mrs. Switzer has provided training to Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners on Prosecution of Sexual Assault cases. Mrs. Switzer has also provided training to seven different law enforcement agencies in her jurisdiction on a variety of topics. She has also taught at the Texas District and County Attorneys Association, training fellow prosecutors and key personnel. In 2001-2002, Mrs. Switzer was an adjunct professor at Howard College in San Angelo teaching Contract Law. Mrs. Switzer has also been published in the Texas District and County Attorney’s Association journal, The Texas Prosecutor.
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As I talk to hundreds of job seekers through a job networking group I help lead and through my career as a "Headhunter", every now and then I find someone that got a new job in a matter of a couple weeks of starting their search.
Some, certainly just got lucky. They happened to apply for the right job at the right time and virtually stumbled into their new career. Some have had experience in a particularly "hot" skill or technology and got snatched up as soon as they let people know they were available. However, for most of the others, it was the result of doing things differently than most people do.
So what did they do? Invariably, these "Sprinters" have behaviors and activities in common…
They don't fish at the same hole as everyone else. Most job seekers start by going online to job boards, company websites to see relevant job postings, run Google searches for jobs in their field, or look at newspaper want-ads or other traditional sources. And why not? That's where the jobs are! Right? Well, yes, but since it's where most job seekers go, you're automatically "one of the many"… tough to get noticed!
"Sprinters" go where most people don't. They make personal contact with everyone they can, whether they think the contact knows of jobs or not. They network and follow referrals and leads far beyond what others are generally willing to do. Primarily, they chase people, not jobs.
They are exceptionally professional! Professional is not defined by appearance, or dress, or vocabulary (although each of those factors contribute to it). It's also defined by attitude, tenacity, appropriateness, and a sense of "being on the ball". They present themselves at their best in each of their contacts and exhibit polished enthusiasm in a way that sets them apart. Read: Are You "Professional"?
They don't just work '9 to 5'! It's a well worn cliché to say that "Looking for a job is a full-time job in itself". The truth is though, that the vast majority of job seekers don't even put in part-time hours. Some studies suggest that, on average, job seekers spend less than 2 hours per day of concentrated effort into their job search.
"Sprinters" tend to be very focused and have a great sense of urgency. They manage their time so that they are on the phone and contacting people as much as possible during "prime time" business hours, and doing all the digging, prep work, and planning in their evenings and weekends. Typically, they are putting in at least 40 hours per week of concentrated effort, and usually much more.
For Example… I recently got to know someone who was laid-off from his job of the last 6 years. The day after his lay-off, he signed-up for my 8-week job search class (he was done before the 2nd week). He didn't once look at job boards online, or surf company websites for job postings.
Instead, that first evening, he gathered together his personal phone book and made lists of every friend, family member, business contact, other parents of his kids sports teams, church acquaintances and anyone else he could think of. He created scripts for the conversations he would have with people. Scripts for direct conversations, and scripts for the inevitable voicemails. He also found his college alumni directory online, targeted people locally, and created scripts for those conversations as well. Over the next 3 days he sat at his phone from 8:00 in the mornings into the evenings getting in touch with as many of those people he could.
His scripts were relatively simple. All he did was let his contacts know he was looking for a new position, and that his "job" during the job search was to expand his network as much as he could. He gave them a very simple and brief description of what he was looking for, and asked if they knew of anyone else that would be worthwhile for him to talk to. He was intentionally up-beat, prepared, and exuded competence, enthusiasm and professionalism! Who wouldn't want to refer someone like that to their best business contacts?!?
His list kept growing, and he ended up literally making hundreds of calls. He got leads, and meetings set up. But didn't quit making calls when he got them. He kept calling through the whole list to get as many leads and meetings as he could before he followed up on them. He set up several meetings over the next few days, which led to 7 interviews at 5 companies, and accepted a great job offer by the end of the 2nd week.
He didn't have a stellar career history, or "hot" skill set, and in fact determined (and succeeded) in making a career change into a new field… a particularly difficult feat in this job market.
He is not alone! There are others I know that essentially did the same thing as well!
The keys were: Determination. Making hundreds of calls. Being upbeat, enthusiastic, and professional on every call (easier to do on the first 10 than on the 200th)! Being prepared (created scripts, and after he finished his calls he stayed up most of a night preparing his resume). He went "all out", working long hours. Presenting himself as positively and professionally as he could in each meeting and interview. Not getting slowed down by the "No's"… and there were a LOT of them!
Unfortunately, the reality for most job seekers is that they are not willing to put in that kind of effort or work at presenting themselves in the best possible light. Are you?
Certainly it's possible to do all this, and not end up with a new position quickly. However, with enough determination and effort, you will certainly land a new job much more quickly than the average job hunter.
Resolve to be a "Sprinter"!
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studio8 said...
Refreshing good advise, as it is so easy to be down or stuck. Networking is more relevant than the resume.
Many thanks great read.
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Valerie Hardy
Painting: interiors and still-life
Valerie Hardy Artist's Statement
Valerie Hardy has lived and worked as an artist in Virginia since 1981. She and her husband, the artist Martin Johnson, moved to the Church Hill area of Richmond in 2008. Their studios are at 107 E. Cary Street. She was in Paris March and April 2018 for a residency at the Cite des Arts Internationale.
Hardy completed a one-month residency in March 2019 at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, one of the leading artists communities in the world with locations in Amherst, Virginia, and Auvillar, France. The VCCA hosts over 400 fellow-artists at Mt. San Angelo in central Virginia and 40 fellow-artists at the Moulin à Nef in France. The artists who come to VCCA are selected by a peer review jury on the basis of the important or innovative work they are doing in their respective fields.
Over her entire artistic career, Hardy has focussed on the interplay of the objects, the spaces, the light, the people, that catch her eye. Her challenge is to reveal the relationships among and between them, in a way that says something visually interesting while representing these things as identifiably themselves.
Hardy's work may be seen by appointment in her studio in Richmond, Virginia. valeriehardy1@gmail.com.
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WANDERINGS ON THE WARNER BROS. LOT
Warner Bros. Studios is about fifteen minutes from my home in the San Fernando Valley. That area in Burbank is filled with entertainment industry icons: Disney Animation, and NBC where the Tonight Show is filmed. Adjacent to the various studios is Forest Lawn Hollywood cemetery and the huge Griffith Park. If you’re hungry for a hamburger, there’s the famous Bob’s Big Boy, open in Burbank since 1949. Over the years, for a variety of reasons, I’ve made several visits to Warner Bros. Studios. I would venture to guess that a large percentage of Southern Californians know someone who is in, as they call it here, The Industry. Be it an Accountant on a film set, a Grip, a Best Boy, a First Assistant Director, or a Second Assistant Director, a Unit Production Manager, or even one of the actors in television or movies.
During the years of “Designing Women” on TV, I became friends with Carolisa, one of the assistant producers. I had written a screenplay about English pirate hero Sir Francis Drake (It was titled El Dragon at that time, after Drake’s Spanish nickname). Carolisa gave the script to Meshack Taylor, one of the stars of the popular series, because there was a possible part for him. I attended one of the show’s tapings at Warner Bros. and got to meet Meshack in person. He told me he loved my script and commented enthusiastically: “It is beautiful.” Who knows, some day that script may find its way to the screen.
Another friend, Max, worked on many films on that lot, like Barbara Streisand’s “Nuts,” which, apparently, drove many of the cast and crew nuts. During one of my low cash flow times, she tried to get me a secretarial type job on one of the many projects there, and I remember working at a typewriter for a day. One of the advantages of being on the lot was observing all the permanent sets, the office of Clint Eastwood, some of the filming action and meeting a few people. She introduced me to producer Paul Monash (“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”) in the parking garage and William Shatner during a break in his TV series at the time, “T.J. Hooker.” (I’ve written about that episode previously). Leading me around the streets and back lots, Max and I sneaked into the very private set of Steven Speilberg’s “Goonies”—the pirate ship in a cove!
A few years later I went to Warner Bros. to do an interview with TV and stage actor Lane Davies (soaps such as “Santa Barbara,” “Days of Our Lives” and various series). He asked me to come to the lot so I could watch him play Tempus, a psychopathic time-traveler, on the Superman series “Lois & Clark.” While they were filming a scene, I sat watching it with star Dean Cain’s stunt double. He was a friendly fellow and curious who I was. He asked if I had been in Arnold Swarzenegger’s “Terminator” films! Since I was not a Terminator fan and hadn’t seen them, I couldn’t even think of a plausible lie!
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Day: March 17th, 2008
Getting our Irish on (and up)
Monday, March 17th, 2008 | All Things, Friends
Erin Go Bragh! Despite the Catholic Church’s decision last summer to reschedule the March 17 holiday for March 15 so as not to coincide with the second day of Holy Week, New York City held its annual St. Patrick’s Day parade this morning. The Church has a history of involvement in these celebrations: in 2000 and 2006, when the holiday fell on a Friday in Lent, during which Catholics are to abstain from eating meat, the Archdiocese of New York issued a special dispensation allowing its 2.5 million Catholics residing in Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island and several upstate counties to eat meat on March 17. Catholics in Brooklyn and Queens received no such pass from their Archdiocese, and were instructed to perform another act of penance if compelled to indulge in corned beef on that day.
Unlike last year, the city’s official St. Patrick’s Day festivities fell during normal work hours, so I missed out on the parade fun along Fifth Avenue. Guinness is behind Proposition 3-17 — a campaign to make St. Patrick’s Day an official holiday in the United States. No matter, I was able to catch the all inclusive parade in Western Queens earlier this month.
At Irish bars throughout Manhattan, the drinking had begun in earnest well before noon, but my plans for the evening involved a trip on the 7 into Sunnyside, which along with neighboring Woodside, is one of the city’s historic Irish enclaves. Since the 1990s, while other ethnic communities have moved into these neighborhoods, the Irish population has dwindled as longtime residents move out of the city or back to Ireland, spurred by the country’s renewed economy and the end of the Troubles of Northern Ireland.
The Empire State Building aglow in green, of course:
At RM’s home in the Gardens, we caught up with friends recently seen and not so over cold beer and treats from El Shater. The night was marked by valiant attempts at Irish dancing and a rousing, lyrically mangled rendition of “Danny Boy,” (which sounded rather like this one)… by all accounts a fine, fun gathering marred only by a brief, but mortifying episode which included the most appalling party exchange since… well, in a long, long time.
Tags: parade, parties, St. Patrick's Day, Sunnyside
Nice is the new New
Monday, March 17th, 2008 | All Things, Eats
How to keep track of these ever-morphing Chinatown restaurant names? New York Noodletown on Bowery begat Great N.Y. Noodletown, Big Wong on Mott begat New Big Wong which begat Big Wong King… all while management and menus seemed to remain staunchly constant. And now…
On Bayard Street, I noticed a new sign being tacked up over this restaurant, which for years has been dishing up delicious dumplings (both soup and fried varieties) under the name “New Green Bo“:
Curious indeed.
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Episode 176 (8-26-13): "Sycamore Rapids," by Timothy Seaman
Click to listen to episode (2:49).
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is Virginia Water Radio for the week of August 26, 2013.
This week, we feature a music selection inspired in part by one of Virginia’s largest and most distinctive riverside plants. Have a listen for about 40 seconds.
You’ve been listening to part of “Sycamore Rapids,” by Timothy Seaman, on his 2002 CD of the same name, from Pine Wind Music. The tune’s progressions are meant to signify changes a paddler might experience from small riffles to larger rapids to smooth water. At any of those water features, throughout the eastern United States, part of a paddler’s scenery is often the American Sycamore tree. Of the three sycamore species native to North America, the American Sycamore is the most familiar and by far the most widespread, ranging from New England to eastern Texas, including all of Virginia. This tree is common in flat, floodplain areas beside small streams as well as big rivers. Some of its distinctive features are large, often hollow trunks; peeling, patterned bark; crooked limbs; large root masses visible along stream banks; and spherical fruits persisting on leafless twigs long into winter. Whether seen from a boat or from far upshore, few trees mark a waterway any better than a sycamore. Thanks to Timothy Seaman for permission to use this week’s music and for information on its origin.
Hollow trunk of American Sycamore beside the New River in Radford, Va., October 4, 2009.
Sycamore roots along the James River near Wingina, Va., along the Nelson-Buckingham county line, July 12, 2009.
Sycamore along the Loudoun County, Va., side of the Potomac River, near White’s Ferry, March 23, 2008.
Acknowledgments: “Sycamore Rapids” is copyright 2002 by Timothy Seaman and Pine Wind Music, used with permission. Mr. Seaman’s Web site is http://www.timothyseaman.com/.
Sources: Information on the American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) was taken from the following sources: Common Native Trees of Virginia, Virginia Department of Forestry (Charlottesville, 2007); Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees-Eastern Region, by E.L. Little (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980); and “vTree Factsheets,” Virginia Tech Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, online at http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/factsheets.cfm.
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Episode 175 (8-19-13): Osprey Rescue Reinforces Role of Fishing-line Recycling
This week, we feature another series of mystery sounds. Have a listen for about 20 seconds, and see if you can guess how the first two sounds add up to the third. And here’s a hint: misplaced line makes for a tangled angler.
If you guessed, an Osprey running afoul of some fishing line, you’re right! Along with the call of an Osprey—or “Fish Hawk”—and the sound of fishing line, you heard part of a rescue of an Osprey chick stuck in fishing line. The latter sound was taken from the “Osprey Cam,” the Chesapeake Conservancy’s real-time video transmission from an Osprey nest on Kent Island, Maryland. On July 29, the camera showed that one of this year’s three chicks had gotten its legs caught in fishing line. Some viewers of the bird’s predicament went to the site, waded out to the nest with a ladder, and climbed up and disentangled the chick. Unwittingly, this lucky Osprey chick had starred in a documentary about the value of fishing-line recycling stations. Birds, sea turtles, and other animals can get stuck in, or eat, improperly discarded fishing line, nets, and other plastic items. Such material can also get caught in boat propellers or intakes. Recycling programs for fishing line are one way to help reduce these threats. Virginia began a statewide fishing-line recycling program in February 2009, and as of August 2013, the program had over 110 locations. So please look for the distinctive plastic tubes with a curved top, and help put plastic back to use, instead of on a beak or fin. Thanks to Lang Elliot, Timothy Seaman, and the Chesapeake Conservancy, respectively, for permission to use this week’s sounds of an Osprey, fishing line, and the Osprey rescue.
Osprey chicks on nest in Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia, 2012. Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), made available for public use by the USFWS’ National Digital Library, online at http://digitalmedia.fws.gov, accessed 8-12-13.
Fishing-line recycling container at South Holston Lake, Washington County, Virginia, April 15, 2013.
The call of an Osprey was taken from the Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs-Eastern Region CD set, by Lang Elliott with Donald and Lillian Stokes (Time Warner Audio Books, copyright 1997), used with permission of Lang Elliott, whose work is available online at http://www.langelliott.com/ and the “Music of Nature” Web site, http://www.musicofnature.org/.
The fishing line sound was taken from “Bass Fisherman’s Reel” on the 2004 CD “Virginia Wildlife,” copyright Timothy Seaman and Pine Wind Music, used with permission. More information about Timothy Seaman is available online at http://timothyseaman.com/.
The sounds of the rescue of an Osprey chick caught in fishing line were taken from a video recorded by the Chesapeake Conservancy’s “Osprey Cam,” available online at http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/Osprey-Cam, used with permission. For more information about the camera or the Conservancy, contact the Conservancy at 716 Giddings Avenue, Suite 42, Annapolis, Maryland 21401; phone (443) 321-3610; e-mail: info@chesapeakeconservancy.org.
Information on the July 29, 2013, rescue of the Osprey chick caught in fishing line was taken from Osprey cam chick Ozzie is rescued, [Easton, Md.] Star Democrat, 8/7/13; and from the Chesapeake Conservancy’s “Osprey Cam,” online at http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/Osprey-Cam.
Florida was one of the first states to start a fishing-line program; information on the Florida program, including advice on starting such a program, is available online at http://fishinglinerecycling.org. A three-minute video on building a fishing-line recycling container is available from the Boat Owners Association of the United States, online at http://www.boatus.com/foundation/monofilament/.
Information about Osprey in Virginia is available from the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries “Fish and Wildlife Information Service” Web page at http://vafwis.org/fwis/?Title=VaFWIS+Species+Information+By+Name&vUT=Visitor; Cornell University Lab of Ornithology’s “All About Birds” Web site at http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/search, and the “Birds of North America Online” Web site from the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology and American Ornithologists’ Union, online at http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna (subscription required for the latter Web site).
Episode 174 (8-12-13): Rain Crow
This week, we feature another mystery sound. Have a listen for about 10 seconds, and see if you can guess what’s making the repeated cooing sounds, and what that they might have to do with water. And here’s a hint: predicting the weather is rarely just like clockwork.
If you guessed a cuckoo, you’re right! That was the call of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo, recorded around sunrise on August 9 in Blacksburg. Virginia is the summer home of two cuckoo species, the Yellow-billed and the Black-billed. Both species are found in woods, thickets, and orchards; both are secretive and are heard more than seen; and both feed primarily on insects in summer, especially on caterpillars. They’re also in the same family as the Roadrunner, and in fact cuckoos also sometimes run or hop along the ground to capture prey. Now all of that may be interesting, but what do cuckoos have to do with water, particularly? For that, we turn to folklore, which has nicknamed both species as “rain crow” from the belief that they tend to call more frequently before rain. Cuckoos are only one of the many kinds of animals considered in folklore to predict rain or other weather. For example, a 1946 Duke University publication on popular beliefs and superstitions includes 25 pages of comments from many states about weather prediction by animals, from mammals and birds to spiders and crawfish. How much truth lies behind that folklore? I certainly don’t know, but, for what it’s worth, it did rain the day I recorded the Yellow-billed Cuckoo!
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 2008. Photo by J.A. Spendelow, made available for public use by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Digital Library, online at http://digitalmedia.fws.gov, accessed 8-12-13.
Acknowledgements: Thanks to David Brady, Tom Brobson, Eric Day, and Stephen Schoenholtz for information about Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos.
Sources and more information:
Information on the Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Black-billed Cuckoo was taken from the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries “Fish and Wildlife Information Service” Web page at http://vafwis.org/fwis/?Title=VaFWIS+Species+Information+By+Name&vUT=Visitor; from the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology’s “All About Birds” Web site at http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/search, and the “Birds of North America Online” Web site from the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology and American Ornithologists’ Union, online at http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna (subscription required for the latter Web site); A Guide to Field Identification of Birds of North America, by Chandler S. Robbins et al. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001); and A Field Guide to the Birds East of the Rockies, by Roger Tory Peterson, (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1980).
Information on folklore about animals as weather predictors as taken from pages 305-330 of Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, Vol. 7: Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1946), available online at http://archive.org/stream/frankcbrowncolle07fran#page/n9/mode/2up). Here are few examples of comments about animals and weather prediction:
“When you hear the cuckoo calling, it is the sign of rain”;
“If a snake dies on its back, it is a sure sign of rain”;
“When turtles crawl to high land, rain is expected”; and
“Tree frogs cry just before a shower.”
For news, events, and resources relevant to Virginia's water resources, grouped into categories, please visit the Virginia Water Central News Grouper, available online at http://vawatercentralnewsgrouper.wordpress.com/
Episode 173 (8-5-13): River Bluffs, featuring "James and York Bluffs" by Timothy Seaman
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is Virginia Water Radio for the week of August 5, 2013.
This week, we feature an instrumental selection composed by a Williamsburg, Virginia, musician and inspired by the high points near some of Virginia’s lowest terrain. Have a listen for about 45 seconds.
You’ve been listening to part of “James and York Bluffs,” by Timothy Seaman on his 1998 CD “Celebration of Centuries.” This tune honors York River State Park, located a few miles north of Williamsburg in James City County, and having—according to the CD’s liner notes—“a paradise of bluffs.” River bluffs—also called cliffs, heights, palisades, and other terms—are high, steep, broad banks overlooking a river. They’re found along the James, York, and many other Virginia waterways—from Cedar Bluff on the Clinch River in Tazewell County to Bluff Point on the Potomac River in Westmoreland County. Wherever they’re found, bluffs are history treasures. They reveal geologic history in layers of ancient sediments; they’ve been prominent in the human history of many Virginia settlements; and they offer dramatic views of the natural history and heritage of the Commonwealth’s rivers. Thanks to Timothy Seaman for permission to use this week’s music.
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View of a bluff at York River State Park, March 29, 2011. Photo courtesy of Timothy Seaman.
View from a bluff at York River State Park, November 19, 2010. Photo courtesy of Timothy Seaman.
Acknowledgments: “James and York Bluffs” and “Celebration of Centuries” are copyright 2005 by Timothy Seaman and Pine Wind Music, used with permission. Mr. Seaman’s Web site is http://www.timothyseaman.com/.
“Glossary of Landform and Geologic Terms,” U.S. Department of Agriculture/Natural Resource Conservation Service, online at http://soils.usda.gov/technical/handbook/contents/part629.html, defines “bluff” as “[a] high bank or bold headland, with a broad, precipitous, sometimes rounded cliff face overlooking a plain or body of water, especially on the outside of a stream meander.”
Information on bluffs along the James River and other rivers in Virginia was taken from the following:
“The Geology of Virginia/Rivers and Watersheds,” William and Mary College Department of Geology, online at http://web.wm.edu/geology/virginia/rivers/rivers.html; and from “James River Water Trail—Lower Section” [map], James River Association, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, and National Park Service (year not indicated).
Synonyms for “bluff” were found in the Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus-American Edition, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Information on York River State Park is available online at http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state_parks/yor.shtml (Virginia State Parks Web site) and http://www.virginiaoutdoors.com/parks/details/york-river-state-park (Explore Virginia Outdoors Web site).
Here are some Virginia locations based on and named for river bluffs:
Balls Bluff (Potomac River, Loudoun County);
Bluff City (New River, Giles County);
Bluff Point (part of Colonial Beach, Potomac River, Westmoreland County);
Bremo Bluff (James River, Fluvanna County);
Cedar Bluff (Clinch River, Tazewell County);
Colonial Heights (Appomattox River, Chesterfield County);
Drewry’s Bluff (James River, Chesterfield County, Civil War battle);
Madison Heights (James River, Amherst County);
Sylvania Heights (Rappahannock River, Spotsylvania County).
Application to Virginia State Standards of Learning (SOLs):
This episode may be useful to support Science SOLs 4.9, 6.7, ES.7, ES.9; and Social Studies SOLs VS.2 and USI.9.
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Shardlow
Shardlow RD
Age Structure, in 5-year bands, from 1911 to 1951: In 1911, only 5.36 per cent of the population were aged 65 and over, but by 1951 8.8 per cent were.
Infant Mortality Rate 1911 to 1958: The highest rate recorded was 100.53 infant deaths per thousand live births in 1911, and the lowest was 12.87 in 1957.
Shardlow RD, Derbyshire
This unit was associated with the following other units:
Nature of association
had administrative responsibility for CIVIL PARISHES OF KINGSTON UPON SOAR AND RATCLIFFE UPON SOAR RD Local Government District 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
DERBYSHIRE Administrative County 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 659.
01 Apr 1934 was enlarged by the abolition of ALVASTON AND BOULTON UD Area: 1321 acres. Population in 1931: 3280. 1931 Census of England and Wales, Table B, 'Areas altered between 26th April, 1931 and 30th June, 1934, showing constitution as at the latter date, in terms of constitution as at the former date, together with particulars of acreage and population'.; M. of H. Order No. 77674. The Derbyshire Review Order, 1934
01 Apr 1934 was enlarged by gaining part of BELPER RD Morley CP and part of Smalley CP Area: 1930 acres. Population in 1931: 809. 1931 Census of England and Wales, Table B, 'Areas altered between 26th April, 1931 and 30th June, 1934, showing constitution as at the latter date, in terms of constitution as at the former date, together with particulars of acreage and population'.; M. of H. Order No. 77674. The Derbyshire Review Order, 1934
01 Apr 1934 was reduced to enlarge DERBY MB/CB parts of Chaddesden and Spondon CPs Area: 160 acres. Population in 1931: 13. 1931 Census of England and Wales, Table B, 'Areas altered between 26th April, 1931 and 30th June, 1934, showing constitution as at the latter date, in terms of constitution as at the former date, together with particulars of acreage and population'.; M. of H. Order No. 77674. The Derbyshire Review Order, 1934
01 Apr 1934 was reduced to enlarge ILKESTON MB part of Kirk Hallam CP Area: 409 acres. Population in 1931: 89. 1931 Census of England and Wales, Table B, 'Areas altered between 26th April, 1931 and 30th June, 1934, showing constitution as at the latter date, in terms of constitution as at the former date, together with particulars of acreage and population'.; M. of H. Order No. 77674. The Derbyshire Review Order, 1934
01 Apr 1934 was reduced to enlarge LONG EATON UD part of Sawley and Wilsthorpe CP Area: 236 acres. Population in 1931: 976. 1931 Census of England and Wales, Table B, 'Areas altered between 26th April, 1931 and 30th June, 1934, showing constitution as at the latter date, in terms of constitution as at the former date, together with particulars of acreage and population'.; M. of H. Order No. 77674. The Derbyshire Review Order, 1934
01 Jan 1959 was abolished to create SOUTH EAST DERBYSHIRE RD 1961 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Intercensal Changes of Boundary (between 8th April, 1951 and 23rd April, 1961)', for 'LAA, CP'.; Section 147 of the LGA, 1933.
ALVASTON AND BOULTON CP Parish-level Unit 1934 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 66.
ASTON UPON TRENT AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 66.
BARROW UPON TRENT AP/Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 67.
BREADSALL AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 69.
BREASTON Ch/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 69.
CHADDESDEN CP/Ch Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 70.
CHELLASTON AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 70.
DALE ABBEY CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 72.
DERBY HILLS ExP/ParLib/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 73.
DRAYCOTT AND CHURCH WILNE ParLib/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 74.
ELVASTON CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 75.
HOPWELL CP/Hmlt Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 77.
KIRK HALLAM CP/AP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1934 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 76.
LITTLE EATON CP/Ch Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 74.
LITTLEOVER Ch/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 78.
MELBOURNE CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 80.
MORLEY CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1934 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 80.
NORMANTON Ch/CP Parish-level Unit 1928 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 81.
OCKBROOK CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 82.
OSMASTON CP/Ch Parish-level Unit F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 82.
RISLEY CP/Ch Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 83.
SANDIACRE AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 83.
SAWLEY AND WILSTHORPE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1866 1934 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 83.
SHARDLOW AND GREAT WILNE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 84.
SINFIN AND ARLESTON ParLib/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 84.
SINFIN MOOR ParLib/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 84.
SPONDON CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 84.
STANLEY CP/Ch Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 85.
STANTON BY BRIDGE CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 85.
STANTON BY DALE AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 85.
SWARKESTONE AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 86.
WEST HALLAM AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 76.
WESTON UPON TRENT CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1894 1959 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 87.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Shardlow RD through time | Census tables with data for the Local Government District, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Kim Thomas Interview
by Dwayne Butcher - June 03, 2012
Dwayne Butcher: Can you talk a little about your recent MFA thesis exhibition at the Memphis College of Art?
Kim Thomas: My thesis work was based on using recycled plastic bags as, not only the material for my work, but also to convey my personal fears and anxieties about climate change and environmental disaster. For the thesis exhibition, I knew I wanted to show work that was different from crocheting the bags, I had shown that work before in Memphis. I wanted to branch out; and get more specific about what I wanted the work to say.
There were technically only three of my works in the show; but one of the pieces, Modern Sisyphean Struggle, has three forms, object, performance and documentation. It Weighs Heavy On My Mind consisted on three huge, chunky chains of plastic bags stuffed with bags, which were strung together on wire. These three lumpy, caterpillar-like chains were suspended from the ceiling, a sort of weird cousin of an oak tree or something. I included two video works; the first was Black Mamba, a reference to Elle Driver’s dialog in Kill Bill Vol. 2 about the deadly attributes of the black mamba. After listening to this dialog a few times, I began to make correlations between the dialog and dangerous effects plastics have on the environment. My metaphorical black mamba, a seemingly endless strand of black plastic bags, snakes along the edge of the Mississippi River, connecting our human actions with the environment those actions threat. The other video was a recording of the first movement of Modern Sisyphean Struggle; the video is the documentation of not only where the struggle between man and nature takes place (‘natural’ spaces, urban spaces), but just as in the Greek myth, Sisyphus was punished by having to roll a boulder up a hill, just to have it roll back down. Our generation and the generations that follow are burdened with the amount of waste we produce. The video also documents the installation of the physical art object, a giant ball of bag approximately 5 feet in diameter. At one point I had to stop working on the piece because I needed to work out the logistics of getting out of my studio and into the gallery space; I actually finished the piece using a friend’s carport in East Memphis. And because the title ties the work to the myth of Sisyphus, I felt physical illustration of the pushing, or rolling, of the ball was an important element in conveying the sense of burden; so I pushed the ball down South Main St. during the show’s opening.
Modern Sisyphean Struggle
Click here to see a video performance of Modern Sisyphean Struggle.
DB. How did you get into using the plastic bags as a material? And what is the end goal of raising awareness of the negative impact these plastic bags have on the environment.
KT: All the bags used are recycled, either from individuals or from bag recycling drop-offs at large stores like Kroger or Walmart. When I first started using the plastic bags, I was mostly just looking for a cheap, abundant material. I was raised to recycle, so the message of environmental impact was there; but it became much more import as the work developed. On a really basic level, I want people to see my work, say, “Wow, that’s a lot of bags!,” and hopefully remember the work next time they shop, and hopefully eliminate or reduce their own use of recycled bags.
I’m the kind of person that reads the news and thinks, “Now there’s no doubt climate change is happening. We’re all f*cked.” Or at least the next few generations are. From the people I’ve told to and the research I’ve done, most people are just too caught up in everyday life to stop and question things like why something that they use for a few minutes is made out of a material that’s basically made to last forever. People are just beginning to question the safety of plastics that were once thought to be inert, like toxic phthalates used in polyvinyl IV bags. I’m not saying plastic shopping bags cause cancer, but plastic bags, and all plastic film, eventually tear apart. They don’t biodegrade. Instead, they become tinier and tinier bits of the same toxic material, which leaches into the soil, ground water and waterways.
It Weighs Heavy On My Mind
DB: How difficult/easy is it to work with the plastic bags? How do you manipulate them into the shape/objects you create?
KT: I use the bags like fabric. But working with the plastic bags has been about experimentation. When I first started using them in my graduate work, I used crochet to create abstract, organic figures; this involved a great deal of prep time, cutting the bags into strips, attached the strips together to form “plarn”(yarn made of plastic bags). Then I began to use an iron to fuse the bags together. As I experimented with the iron more, I learned how to manipulate the texture of the bags, and how I could use the heat to fuse the bags together to create works. The giant ball for Modern Sisyphean Struggle was created mostly from attaching bags together into long strips with the iron, then rolling those strips onto the ball form. It’s basically an enlarged version of the balls of plarn I used to create crocheted work. I enjoy using nontraditional art materials. It allows me to escape all the preconceived baggage (excuse the pun) of traditional materials; for example if I work with paint, there’s a long history of painting that I have to contend with in making my work. Nontraditional materials often appropriate everyday objects presented in a new way, making viewers rethink the purpose of that material; I’m really interested in that dynamic.
DB: How does performance play a role into your practice?
KT: Performance is beginning to play a bigger role in the work. Performance via ballet and other dance forms was really my only exposure to self expression as a kid. With my current work, I set out on activity that is seemingly insignificant or even ridiculous. But in documenting that action and presenting it as art, the action is given meaning. I’m very inspired by the work of Kate Gilmore and Francis Alys. My work with the plastic bags is starting to approach protest art; and I see performance being a part of that.
DB: What was the first performance you did? What other performances do you have in mind and how are they related to your overall theme as an artist?
KT: Well, I got some on-lookers when my friends and I worked on adding strips of bags to the ball; we’d roll the ball down the street to wrap more bags around it. Neighbors and people driving by would take pictures of that. And I did the Black Mamba video this past winter and early spring. But the performance during the opening of the thesis show was the first official performance I’d done. I’d love to either take the ball to other cities, or construct a ball out of bags from that city, and conduct the performance there. Right now, it’s a matter of logistics and funds; because I drive a car, I have to find a friend with a truck, or a trailer hitch & rent a trailer, to transport the ball, so that’s a challenge
DB: You worked as a graphic designer before coming to grad school. How did you shift from design work to fine art?
KT: That was actually a really long, emotional journey. I was never very encouraged to make art; I had to promise my mom I won’t tell my dad I was taking drawing as an elective my last semester of college. My father wanted me to be successful more than anything; but unfortunately he was very pragmatic about my degree being anything but English, pre-law or anything art-related. So I sort of randomly picked communications as a major. I got my first job at a weekly newspaper; and of course, was drawn to the creative side. The job taught me some graphic design; and I taught myself enough to land a graphic design position. Eventually, I had the need to make my own work. And after a couple of years working part time, taking art courses, and most importantly, making work, I got up the nerve to apply to grad school. Once I got in, I just pretended I was on Work of Art. Well, not quite... Getting an MFA is actually harder, and it puts you in the red, instead of the black, financially. But getting my degree has been the most rewarding, satisfying thing I’ve done so far; so I’m trying to work with that momentum and see where I can go from here.
DB: You are from South Carolina. How did you choose MCA for grad school and what do you think of your experiences there?
KT: I just got home from a post-grad visit back to the SC coast; so right now, I’m a bit home sick. A lot of it has to do which the beach though; jumping in the ocean is how I know how to deal with the summer heat! I can’t even find a spot to swim here in Memphis; if you know of a pool, lake, creek or whatever that safe to swim in, let me know please! But the majority of the time, I LOVE MEMPHIS! Back home in Charleston, there tends to be “groups” of arts, either your a commercial artist or a graffiti/urban artist or a fine artist. I don’t feel that here. Initially, I applied to MCA for two reasons: 1. I hadn’t missed the deadline to apply and 2. I liked that the graduate program is in studio art, instead of a specific medium. I don’t know it I could have had the freedom to explore as many avenues had I gone somewhere else. Also, I’ve meet so many amazing artists here; it’s really a great community.
DB: What are your immediate and long terms plans, now that you have graduated and are all full smart?
KT: My immediate goals are try to eat, feed my cat, make rent and make art on a daily basis. I have plans to help my former neighbor and buddy, Alex Harrison with a God mural at a church. I’ve applied for many full time positions teaching art at a college level; but that’s a very competitive and often just a matter of luck, ‘if they’re hiring in your area’ kind of deal. I’d love to even teach part time, but I’ll have to start dumpster-diving to eat. That will mean I’ll have to invest in or make my own fire escape ladder, because I’m way too short for that sh*t. I’m also thinking of declaring myself as a charity or at least a non-profit. That way, my parents can deduct my rent; or I could except monies from individuals or businesses. If corporations are people, surely this is OK... Currently I have work in the Consumer Culture exhibition taking place at the Women Made Gallery in Chicago. I have plans to ‘donate’ the art object portion of Modern Sisyphean Struggle to a worthy corporation, or ideally, to Crystal Bridges, the new museum built by heiress Alice Walton; you know, give back a little to those who have given us so much...plastic bags. On the same note, but not in a sarcastic way, I am seriously considering teaching public school. I come from a long linage of public school teachers; and in general kids these days are getting a raw deal. Unfortunately, the system is set up so that enthusiastic, passionate teachers get burned out because of bad, even bullying, behavior by students, lack of parent involvement, and administration that just wants a quick fix. I’d like to think I’m revolutionary enough to take on those challenges...
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Shelley and Lee Grossbard wrote on April 28, 2018 at 7:33 pm:
Lots of happiness in your retirement.. Thank you for all you did for our family,. Dana's Bat Mitzvah in 1996 and all our granddaughters baby namings here in Florida. You made our Simchas so special. I still remember almost 7 years ago that you called e from Iceland when I found out I had thyroid cancer..You are so special to our family. Mazel Tov in your retirement. Shelley and Lee Grossbard
Yvette and Rodolfo Eichberg wrote on April 28, 2018 at 7:30 pm:
Thank you for a great three decades plus. Hope you enjoy retirement as much as we do. Kol Ha Kavod!
Shoshana Newman wrote on April 28, 2018 at 7:26 pm:
Dear Rabbi Birnholz, Thank you for being such an amazing Rabbi! Ever since I started coming to Schaarai Zedek 11 years ago I have always felt like this place is my home away from home and both you and Donna are a big reason why. Thank you for making my bat mitzvah and confirmation so special! I am going to miss you being on the bima. ~Shoshana
Brad & Meredith Semmel wrote on April 28, 2018 at 7:21 pm:
Best wishes and may your retirement be long, healthy and happy! You will be missed here.
Wendi & Gary Dolgin and Family wrote on April 28, 2018 at 7:18 pm:
Rabbi and Donna, Thank you for everything you have done for our family and our community. We wish you well as you enter the next chapter of your lives!
luiza and Marc Holtzberg wrote on April 28, 2018 at 7:12 pm:
We wish you all the best in your retirement. We are grateful for everything you have done for us as a family.
Francine and Dick Dobkin wrote on April 28, 2018 at 7:10 pm:
We arrived in Tampa shortly after you. It has been a pleasure having you as our Rabbi this entire period. You are a special person. We wish you and Donna all the best for good health and joy in the future.
Andi & Ron Parker wrote on April 28, 2018 at 7:03 pm:
You're the best! See ya around town!
Karen Haubenstock and Artie Jacobowitz wrote on April 28, 2018 at 7:01 pm:
We are very happy you were involved with Karen's Bat Miztvah and including Artie in the ceremony. We both treasure your insights and sense of humor. Best of luck to you and Donna in your future endeavors.
Michelle, Mitch, Sabrina, and Emily Feldman wrote on April 28, 2018 at 7:00 pm:
We have really enjoyed having you as our rabbi! You will be missed! Thank you for being such a wonderful and caring leader of our temple. Enjoy your time with your family! Lots of love, The Feldmans
Audrey Haubenstock wrote on April 28, 2018 at 6:56 pm:
Thank you for all of your kindness and support to our family for all these years.
Jill Germain wrote on April 28, 2018 at 5:09 pm:
Rabbi, you are the reason I joined the temple and both you and Donna always made me feel very welcomed and loved. I wish you a very relaxing and enjoying retirement, (even though I know you will always stay very busy.)
Janice and Gary Smiles wrote on April 28, 2018 at 3:05 pm:
You are a very special couple and have provided strength, happiness, and peace of mind to many. Thank you for all the years you’ve been there for everyone. We wish you lots of fun free time and health and happiness. Love, Janice and Gar Smiles (Emma, too)
Linda Rich wrote on April 28, 2018 at 1:05 pm:
One of the most memorable days of my life, October 22, 2001, is highlighted by grateful memories to the two of you. Donna, you performed a great mitzvah from our afternoon phone call after which you left work to pick up ten-year old Julia from after-school care up in Keystone, through my being able to come late that night for both her and the wonderful piece of moist, healthy seasoned chicken you gave fed me on arrival. My being able to be with Don that night was so appreciated. Rabbi, having you there when the doctor was explaining things to me was invaluable. You had offered to leave me and the doc alone, but I declined, knowing your memory and experiences with that kind of stuff would be stronger to help me understand. We've been through a lot together, but that one day stands out above all. Thank you again.
Sara Primeau wrote on April 28, 2018 at 11:49 am:
Rabbi Birnholtz, It has been such a blessing to have worked for you the past 20 years. You have provided guidance, love and support for me throughout my years here. I can't imagine being here without you but I know that you and Donna will have an amazing time. I hope to visit you in your new office. Love and affection, Sara
Martha Loewenthal wrote on April 27, 2018 at 11:52 pm:
Dear Rabbi and Donna, you both have brought so much love to all of us . Thank you for all. G-d bless you both and now have a ball!!!❤️❤️❤️
Steve Kenny wrote on April 27, 2018 at 11:37 pm:
Rabbi, even though I have moved to Northern Virginia I often think of you and my time living in Tampa and as a member at Schaarai Zedek. In 2001-2002, I was lucky to have been in your Jew By Choice Conversion class. I remember that weeks prior to the final test I had lost my job working as an Operations Coordinator at a Wireless Tower Company based out of South Tampa. I was studying up for the test prior to being laid off and I spoke with you after one of our last classes and said," I am not sure if I am going to pass the test/convert since I will be busy in my job search". I wasn't sure if I could focus on studying with my job search as a distraction. What I remember you said to me was, "sometimes through hard times like these will act as a motivation or inspiration for you to keep studying and pass this class". My quote might be a little off but you might remember the point you were trying to make to me. You know you were right and I really want to thank you for challenging me on that. I was excited after I passed the test and I love Judaism. I knew after that experience that I had made the right decision and you helped me get thru what many would have considered quitting. A year and a half ago, I spoke with you and had visited CSZ over the Labor Day weekend. I had just moved to the DC Area and had asked you if you knew of any good Temples to check out in the Northern Virginia Area. I am very glad I had that conversation and I had told you that I was looking at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, VA. You said to me that you try to model your style and services after Rabbi Amy Schwartzman. I went back to Virginia and attended services at TRS and wow fell in love with the Temple and eventually got to know Rabbi Schwartzman. I was blessed with your recommendation to have found another temple similar to Congregation Schaarai Zedek. BTW... That is not an easy task. Thank you for your help and suggestions, because you helped me grow as a man and Judaically. For that I am blessed that you played a part in my life. Thank you. Steve
John & Lynn Dingfelder wrote on April 27, 2018 at 10:44 pm:
Dear Rabbi, I grew up here and as a child and young man knew Rabbi Z. and Rabbi Frank... but as far as I am concerned, you are MY Rabbi !! You married us, educated Sadie and Saul, were always kind and generous to Christopher, Bat Mitzvahed Sadie and Lynn and buried Sam. You gave us amazing advice when Saul opted out of his Bar Mitzvah. You gave me advice when I was on City Council You have always been there for me and our family and we love you dearly! Best of luck as emeritus and in all of your future endeavors! xoxoxo John Dingfelder ............................ Hi Rabbi... this is Lynn. 🙂 I just want to tell you that you hold a very special place in my heart. We are so very grateful for you & want to say a HUGE THANK YOU for all you are & all you do. And special love & respect to Donna... as I understand what its like to be Married to someone special... who others love, need and want a part of. Please thank Donna for us... for all her Many sacrifices and most of all...for sharing you with us. We love you both. Wishing you everything good, always. xoxo (And thank you for marrying us!! hee hee You did great! xoxo)
Barbara and Joseph Kerstein wrote on April 27, 2018 at 9:46 pm:
May your retirement days give you happiness, may you continue to make great memories with family and friends. We thank-you for touching our lives with your warmth, wisdom and kindness. Mazol Tov, Shalom!!!!
David and Darlene Goodman wrote on April 27, 2018 at 9:27 pm:
Our lives have been enriched by you and Donna. We are forever grateful and are so blessed to have had you in our lives! Mazel Tov on your un-installation! All of our best!
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A new Pet Shop Boys album in April
Posted by Walter Mason on Friday, 22 January 2016
Labels: 80s, Dusty Springfield, new albums, Pet Shop Boys
Was thrilled to discover over at Boyculture that there is going to be a new Pet Shop Boys album in April.
The Pet Shop Boys are one of the great 80s acts and they have consistently put out good music over the decades. I buy every one of their releases, and I don't really think there's ever been a dud.
They first came to my notice in 1985 when Opportunities was first released. The distinct and unusual whiny vocals of Neil Tennant made it instantly noticeable, and I loved the dorky high-techness of their sound - it reminded me of Soft Cell, a band I'd been devoted to since I was 12. Later on at high school the song Suburbia became something of an anthem for me, and I still love its sophistication.
When I left home and went away to university, all of my suspicions about the Pet Shop Boys were confirmed. They were on the very edge of being open about their homosexuality, which was still a rare and brave thing in the late 80s, and so the clique of gay guys I hung out with held them in extremely high esteem, just a notch or two below Erasure and Kylie Minogue.
When I went back to my country town for the school holidays the newly-opened cinema was paying the Pet Shop Boys movie, a camp extravaganza which attracted appalling reviews but which I loved. I went to see it several times, and my little sister, just a child, adored it instantly. It is still an amazing piece of surrealism which I recommend you hunt down.
Then there was the much-anticipated release of the Domino Dancing video clip, an outrageous piece of overt homo-eroticism which was a really important moment in Queer culture. We were all raving about it. At this stage (1989) the Pet Shop Boys were more or less openly gay. Their music was a feature of our infamous house parties, and well I remember dancing the night away to Heart. A close friend sent a love letter to Chris Lowe.
Chris Lowe
The albums that followed were spectacular - odd, literary and frequently challenging. They did a Dusty Springfield album and a Liza Minnelli album - both still on high rotation at my house 25 or so years later. The dance party era was always peppered for me with Pet Shop Boys highlights - everybody in a frenzy at Go West at the Mardi Gras party, the dance floor at the Exchange writhing with people dancing to their cover of Can't Take My Eyes off You.
Dusty Springfield, Pet Shop Boys era
The Pet Shop Boys-produced album
I even managed to see them live a couple of years ago, at a sparsely attended New Year's Eve party on Sydney Harbour with Culture Club and Jamiroquai.
So now I look forward to April 1, when they release their new album called Super. And we can just be sure it is going to be super.
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Revisited the Swat Operation
Maulana Fazlullah, new Pakistani Taliban leader. The Pakistani Taliban vowed to set up a wave of revenge attacks against the government after naming hardliner Mullah Fazlullah as their new leader. The rise of Fazlullah, whose men shot and badly injured schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai last year, follows the death of previous chief Hakimullah Mehsud.
The Swat Operation which started on May 16, 2009 still remains in the mind of every patriot Pakistani. The area occupied by the terrorists was successfully cleared by Pakistan’s Armed Forces.
In this regard, Swat peace accord was signed on February 15, 2009 between the government and the militants led by Sufi Muhammad, head of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). It was agreed to establish Nizam-e-Adl in Malakand Division and Kohistan District of Hazara in return for Maulvi Fazlullah (Sufi’s son-in-law) led militants, surrendering arms and refraining from all sorts of violent acts. Meanwhile, National Assembly had passed the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation.
But, by transgressing the peace pack, Taliban re-initiated their previous practice of beheadings, kidnappings, attacks on the check posts of the security forces etc. In Swat, their anti-social, anti-Islam and inhuman tactics such as attacks on government buildings, girls’ school, video shops and police stations, using car suicide bombers had also been destabilizing Pakistan. In some regions, particularly in Swat, Taliban leaders had created states within the state, and had been involved in a number of crimes such as drug-smuggling, forced marriages, hostage-takings for ransom and car-snatching. Moreover, by setting aside the terms of the peace agreement, the Taliban equipped with heavy weapons started making checkpoints, strengthening their position in Swat and Dir. They refused to renounce arms, and even entered Buner.
In these adverse circumstances, the military operations were re-conducted to restore peace in these affected areas, and to get rid the innocent people of the brutalities of the Taliban. Overwhelming public, belonging to every province of Pakistan and all the segments of society supported the Swat and Malakand military operations, as majority of the people are against the Taliban style of Sharia. An all-parties conference (APC) vowed to unite the nation against insurgency in these regions, pledging to end terror.
In this respect, in May 16, 2009, Pakistan’s Armed Forces started military operation in Swat. And, within less than three months, Pakistan’s forces successfully ejected the well-trained and well-armed Taliban militants out of Buner, Dir, Swat and other adjoining areas. By sacrificing their lives, our forces killed and captured thousands of the militants—breaking their backbone by eliminating their control and command structure. Reports suggested that tens thousands of the Taliban had fled Afghanistan.
It is mentionable that during the Swat Operation, the TTP militants had been supported by some foreign secret agencies, especially Indian RAW. Through their well-established networks in Afghanistan, they were sending arms and weapons to the Swat-based terrorists with a view to weakening Pakistan which is the only nuclear country in the Islamic World.
In fact, the different war between Pakistan’s Armed Forces and the TTP insurgents in Swat was simply a ‘clash of wills’ between two entities. Military thinkers agree that although the physical force will determine the type and scale of war, yet it is the ‘will to fight’ or ‘moral force’ that determines the outcome of war. Clausewitz puts it this way, “One might say that the physical force seems little more than the wooden hilt, while moral factors are the precious metal, the real weapon.”
In his book, “Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945”, Creveld identifies the elements of ‘moral force’, whom he calls “fighting power, the willingness to fight and the readiness, if necessary, to die.” The greater these elements, the less vulnerable an armed force will be to demoralization. ‘Moral force’, then, is the crucial factor in determining the combat power of any belligerent.
During the successful military operation, retreat of the Taliban from Swat has proved that such elements like ‘will to fight’ and ‘moral force’ have been more noted in Pakistan’s Armed Forces who have exerted psychological impact of causing fear and shock, resulting into demoralization among the Taliban militants.
Nevertheless, there are various causes which demoralized the insurgents of Swat. Firstly, high ‘moral force’ and ‘will to fight’ coupled with strong determination and cohesiveness as noted in Pakistan’s Armed Forces played a key role in expelling Taliban out of Swat. In this regard, airstrikes by Pakistan Air Force targeted their strongholds. And during street to street fighting, without bothering for their lives, and by air-dropping commandos at the risky places, our forces made a great headway in disrupting the Taliban supply routes. They besieged them at various hotspots, rendering them unable to send reinforcements to their fighters. Secondly, morale of Pak Army was very high. Thirdly, local people started denying the Taliban sanctuaries, and disrupted their links with each other. Fourthly, general masses of Swat opposed the brutal acts of these terrorists which compelled them to leave their houses. They came to know that under the cover of Islamic laws—terror, not Sharia was militants’ real agenda. Hence, they were misusing Jihad which does not allow suicide attacks in killing their own Muslim brethren.
Although terrorists have again started subversive activities, yet these are on small scale, as compared to the past, because the main networks of various militant outfits have been broken by the ongoing military operations Zarb-e-Azb and Radd-ul-Fasaad.
As a matter of fact, Pakistan’s Armed Forces have successfully broken the backbone and organized capability of terrorists to launch well thought-out attacks against the government assets. Terrorism will finally be totally eliminated from Pakistan. It appears, as if the militants have lost major grounds, and in severe frustration, they are trying to create some kind of so-called pressure on the government and the Armed Forces which have castigated them to put up strong resistance.
It is notable that when the heavy-armed Taliban entered Swat, Dir and Buner, on April 23, 2009, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had stated that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists. But, when Pakistan’s Armed Forces ejected the Taliban insurgents out of the affected areas, then American high officials including Ms. Clinton had admired the capabilities of Pak Army.
We can conclude that it was because the ‘moral force’ of Pakistan’s Armed Forces, which defeated the insurgents of Swat.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email: sajjad_logic@yahoo.com
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Sam Cooney
Sam Cooney runs publishing organisation The Lifted Brow, which makes a quarterly literary magazine, a commentary website, produces events, awards writing prizes, and now publishes books. He is publisher-in-residence at RMIT University, and teaches sessionally at RMIT and University of Melbourne. He has commissioned and edited work for a variety of other publishing houses and publications, and his own writing has been published in many magazines, journals, and newspapers. He sits on non-profit arts boards, recently undertook a residency with McSweeney’s Publishing in San Francisco, and helps kids make literary magazines at 100 Story Building. He has hosted events and chaired panels at writers’ festivals here and overseas, and has been a judge of the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript and also the Non-Fiction Prize awards, and the Lord Mayor’s Narrative Non-Fiction Prize.
Sat 4 Feb 7.00pm–9.30pm +
2017-02-04 2017-02-04 Australia/Melbourne MRelay Part 4: Narrate MPAVILION
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No survivors expected after Indonesia Lion Air flight crashes with 189 aboard
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A Lion Air plane crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia's capital on Monday, likely killing all 189 people on board, in a blow to the country's aviation safety record after the lifting of bans on its airlines by the European Union and U.S.
The national search and rescue agency said human remains have been recovered from the crash area. Its director of operations, Bambang Suryo Aji, told a news conference the search effort is focusing on finding bodies, and survivors are not expected.
More than 300 people including soldiers, police and local fishermen were involved in the search that has also recovered ID cards, personal belongings and aircraft debris. At least a dozen ambulances were parked at a nearby beach.
Indonesia's disaster agency posted photos online of a crushed smartphone, books, bags and parts of the aircraft fuselage that had been collected by search and rescue vessels.
President Joko Widodo ordered the transport safety commission to investigate and urged Indonesians to "keep on praying" as rescuers search for victims.
An air transport official, Novie Riyanto, said the flight was cleared to return to Jakarta after the pilot made a "return to base" request two to three minutes after taking off. It plunged into the sea about 10 minutes later. Weather conditions were normal but the brand new aircraft had experienced a technical issue on its previous flight.
Lion Air said the jet, on a 1 hour and 10 minute flight to Pangkal Pinang on an island chain off Sumatra, was carrying 181 passengers, including one child and two babies, and eight crew members.
It said there were two foreigners on board the plane: its pilot, originally from New Delhi, and an Italian citizen.
Distraught friends and relatives prayed and hugged each other as they waited at Pangkal Pinang's airport and at a crisis center set up at Jakarta's airport. Indonesian TV broadcast pictures of a fuel slick and debris field in the ocean.
At the search agency's headquarters in Jakarta, family members arrived, hoping desperately for news.
Feni, who uses a single name, said her soon to be married sister was on the flight, planning to meet relatives in Pangkal Pinang.
"We are here to find any information about my younger sister, her fiance, her in-law to be and a friend of them," said Feni.
"We don't have any information," she said, as her father wiped tears from reddened eyes. "No one provided us with any information that we need. We're confused. We hope that our family is still alive."
Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani also arrived at the agency and met with its chief, seeking information about 20 ministry staff who were on the flight after attending a ministry event in Jakarta. Photos circulating online showed the distraught minister trying to comfort stunned colleagues.
The search and rescue agency said the flight ended in waters off West Java that are 30 to 35 meters (98 to 115 feet) deep.
The agency's chief, Muhammad Syaugi, told a news conference that divers are trying to locate the wreckage.
Weather conditions for the flight were safe, according to the Indonesian meteorology agency. It said the type of clouds associated with turbulence was not present and winds were weak.
The Boeing 737 Max 8 was delivered to Lion Air in mid-August and put in use within days, according to aviation website Flightradar24. Malindo Air, a Malaysian subsidiary of Jakarta-based Lion Air, was the first airline to being using the 737 Max 8 last year. The Max 8 replaced the similar 800 in the Chicago-based plane maker's product line.
Lion Air president-director Edward Sirait said the plane had a "technical problem" on its previous flight from Bali to Jakarta but it had been fully remedied. He didn't know specifics of the problem when asked in a TV interview. The pilot of Flight 610 had more than 6,000 flying hours while the co-pilot had more than 5,000 hours, according to the airline.
"Indeed there were reports about a technical problem, and the technical problem has been resolved in accordance with the procedures released by the plane manufacturer," he said. "I did not know exactly but let it be investigated by the authorities."
Boeing Co. said it was "deeply saddened" by the crash and was prepared to provide technical assistance to Indonesia's crash probe.
In a statement, the Chicago-based manufacturer expressed its concern for the 189 people onboard and offered "heartfelt sympathies to their families and loved ones."
The Transport Ministry said the plane took off from Jakarta at about 6:20 a.m. and crashed just 13 minutes later. Data from FlightAware showed it had reached an altitude of only 5,200 feet (1,580 meters).
The crash is the worst airline disaster in Indonesia since an AirAsia flight from Surabaya to Singapore plunged into the sea in December 2014, killing all 162 on board.
Indonesian airlines were barred in 2007 from flying to Europe because of safety concerns, though several were allowed to resume services in the following decade. The ban was completely lifted in June this year. The U.S. lifted a decadelong ban in 2016.
Lion Air, a discount carrier, is one of Indonesia's youngest and biggest airlines, flying to dozens of domestic and international destinations.
In 2013, one of its Boeing 737-800 jets missed the runway while landing on Bali, crashing into the sea without causing any fatalities among the 108 people on board.
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Kristof teaches at the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Melbourne
By Kristof Konrad|2017-12-05T12:56:09-07:00September 10th, 2012|Workshops|
HFAS-Australia students in Animal Study class
with Kristof Konrad
As the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Melbourne begins its second year of operation, it also basks in the remarkable achievement of being one of Australia’s top acting institutions. Two years ago while visiting the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Hollywood, Patrick Constantinou, a young Australian actor and entrepreneur became impressed with the cohesiveness of the acting program and the high quality of the teaching and the faculty. He invited the faculty to create a second studio in Melbourne, where the work could then become more broadly available to actors in Australia.
The faculty teaches in an intensive manner on a rotating system, with teaching periods that last from three to nine weeks. The faculty includes Howard Fine, David Coury, Laura Gardner, Jean-Louis Rodrigue, Kristof Konrad, Marilyn McIntyre, and Ted Brunetti. Howard Fine was first introduced to his mentor Uta Hagen’s work while in high school drama class. Hagen’s work inspires the foundation of training at HFAS and the Alexander Technique is a vital part of this program.
Kristof Konrad in Australia
Kristof Konrad just returned from teaching for three weeks in Melbourne, where both he and Jean-Louis Rodrigue have now taught intensive workshops for the full-time course, the scene study classes, and the master classes. He picked up where Jean-Louis left off, and continued to teach the principles of the Alexander Technique as applied to acting, animal studies, and creating the character. He also presented a state of the art “Acting in Film and the Alexander Technique” workshop. This is one of the most successful workshops that Jean-Louis and Kristof have taught in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Berlin, and now, Melbourne.
Kristof Konrad with HFAS-Australia students at the Melbourne Zoo
Alexander Techworks conducts first workshop in Mexico City
Jean-Louis Rodrigue teaches workshop for actors and directors in Madrid
International actors meet at Berlinale Talents to study with Jean-Louis & Kristof
Alexander Technique: Jean-Louis & Kristof attract European talents
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Episode 1: The Ballad of Zeke & Tall Guy
Episode 2: Let’s Go Camping
Episode 3: What Happened to Grandma?
Episode 4: Click! You’re a Giraffe!
Episode 5: Before Tall Guy
Episode 6: What’s For Dinner?
Episode 7: Zeke in Wonderland
Episode 8: The Fight
Author: Aye
February 6, 2017 June 11, 2018 ~ Aye ~ 2 Comments
“All this happened, more or less.” – Kurt Vonnegut
I had just finished walking the dog when my phone rang. It was my wife.
“The kids and I are at the SPCA. You should come over.”
“We’re not getting another dog”, I said.
We already had a dog. She was a year-and-a-half old Border Collie/Blue Heeler mix, and her name was Spotty Dog because she had spots and was a dog. We also had a cat named Dexter Butterknife. I wasn’t interested in more vet bills, I wasn’t interested in spending more money on pet food, and I especially wasn’t interested in picking up twice as much dog poop. Besides, Spotty Dog was a good friend. She was more than capable of providing all the dogness I needed.
“There’s a yellow Lab here. You should see him…”
Jane knew that I’d always wanted a yellow Lab. I’d talked about getting one every now and then, most recently right before we’d adopted Spotty. I’d plead my case that although $800 was a lot of money for a dog, a yellow Lab would certainly be worth it. Labs are beautiful, intelligent, and gentle dogs, perfect for a family with young children. Some people have a dream house or a dream car. I had a dream dog.
My brain repeated “We’re not getting another dog”, but my mouth said, “I’ll be right over”.
I loaded Spotty Dog into the car and left right away. The SPCA was close to our house, so in 15 minutes I was standing in the cacophony of the dog orphanage. There must have been 60 or 70 dogs, and all of them were barking their displeasure with their situation. It sounded like they were saying, “LET. ME. OUT! LEMMEOUT!”
I followed Jane and the kids to the back corner, where there was a concrete enclosure with a chain link fence for a front wall. Inside was a defeated-looking dog. He had a cut on the top of his nose where he’d been poking it out under the chain link, apparently thinking he could force his way back to freedom if he could just push a little harder. He was so skinny that you could see his spine and ribs and hips. He looked at me like he had something important to tell me, but he wanted to say it in private, not here in front of all the other dogs. He glanced at the door and tilted his head a little, like a friend does at a party when he wants to get you alone outside for a minute to tell you something important about the girl you’re chatting up.
“We’re not getting another dog”, I repeated, “but since I drove all the way over here, we might as well see if he wants to go for a walk or something.”
There was a big open yard out back where the dogs could be taken for some exercise. The lady at the front desk had a name tag that identified her as “Alice”. I asked her if it would be OK if we took the dog in stall number 17 for a little bit of play time.
Alice said “Of course. He’s only been here since yesterday. You’re the third family to take him out. If you’re interested in adopting him, I wouldn’t wait. He’s popular. Labs always are. Especially yellow Labs.”
“We’re not getting another dog.”
When we got outside, the dog immediately perked up and romped with the kids. Our daughter, Eliza, was 11 years old and fully in love with all animals, as girls of that age often are. Our son, David, was 7. He was mostly interested in seeing if the dog could beat him in a race.
I kept thinking to myself, “He’s perfect. He’s the perfect friend…but I can’t let Jane do this. I can’t let her manipulate me…but look at him…”
Jane told me later that was the moment when she knew for sure that the yellow Lab would be coming home with us. The kids adored him, and she could see a look of deep affection on my face that I wasn’t aware I had.
“I bet Spotty Dog needs to go for a pee. We’ll go get her”, she said. And with that she rounded up Eliza and David and herded them – complaining all the way – out of the yard, leaving me alone with the yellow Lab.
As soon as they were out of earshot, the dog ambled over to me and sat down.
“You’re tall”, he said.
“Yeah”, I said. “I know. You’re yellow.”
“I’m grey”. After a brief pause, the dog said “I like those short peoples. They’re nice. I like running with them.”
“They’re good kids.”
“I will make them happy. I’m a good listener and I have a soft head for them to pat.”
“Maybe”, I said. “Do you have a name?”
“At the place where I used to live, they yelled a lot of things at me. I think some of the words were a name, but I’m not sure. I was scared mostly. It was hard for me to think.”
I looked at him. He was staring at a bird in a nearby tree. I was enamoured of the dog’s innate trust in me, and his honesty.
“We have a dog in our family already.”
“I know. I can smell her. You need two dogs, though.”
“I’ve never had two dogs before.”
“I’ve never lived with a tall guy.”
We both paused for a moment.
“Do you have squeaky toys at your house? I like squeakies.”
“We don’t. Spotty Dog keeps chewing the squeakers out of them. It’s kind of irritating, but it’s funny to listen to her go poop.”
“Oh…would you make some squeakies for me?”
“I don’t know how to make them, but I’d BUY some for you.”
“Make…buy…if the result is the same, then the words are the same. What I want to know is if I come live with you, will squeakies be provided?”
“Yes…no…we’re not getting another dog.”
At that moment, Jane and the kids appeared. They had Spotty Dog with them. The yellow lab sprinted off to greet her, the negotiation over squeaky toys instantly forgotten.
I excused myself and went to the front desk to ask Alice where the men’s room was, then asked, “How much does it cost to adopt a dog…if I were to be interested in taking that yellow Lab home…which I’m not, because we’re not getting another dog.”
“$200, and that includes neutering, a full check up, and an ear tattoo.”
I thanked Alice and headed towards the men’s room, with a quick detour to the car to grab my money.
On my way back to the yard, I stopped at the front desk again.
“If I were to give you $200 for that yellow Lab right now, would I be able to get my money back later after I talk my wife and kids out of bringing him home?”
Alice said, “I could give you a couple of days to think about it”
I paused for only a second, then started counting out the money; seven $20’s, four $10’s, three $5’s, and $5 worth of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. I’d been saving every spare cent to buy myself a new guitar, and that was all the money I had. I’d been keeping it in an old cookie tin which I’d grabbed on the way out of the house to go look at a dog I wasn’t going to buy.
When I returned to the yard, the dogs were laying in the shade under the big spruce trees, panting. Eliza and David were squatting beside them, stroking their heads and scratching their ears. They’d been sitting on the grass only seconds earlier until Jane had said, “I wonder how many dogs have peed there?”
I stood beside Jane in silence for a few seconds and then said, “I used my guitar money to buy the dog.”
“I know”, said Jane.
“I think the kids would be really disappointed if we didn’t adopt him. I mean…look at them. Spotty seems to like him too.”
“Uh huh,” said Jane.
I could have stuck to my guns and continued to say, “we’re not getting another dog.” Jane hadn’t forced me to come to the SPCA, and she hadn’t suggested that I bring my tin of guitar money along. Truth be told, Jane had simply and skillfully helped me to fulfil a life goal.
We called the kids over to let them know that the yellow Lab would be coming home with us. They reacted with squeals and Kermit flails, which Spotty Dog and the yellow Lab happily participated in. Jane just smiled. She loved it when a plan came together. Especially a plan that made her family happy.
We had to leave the yellow dog at the SPCA for a few days while his neutering was undertaken, but we were back bright and early on Saturday morning to pick him up. When the staff brought him out, he was wearing a cone on his head to prevent him from licking the incision on his scrotum. I noticed him whisper to Spotty, “I know we just met, but I have a favour to ask…”. She appeared ready to oblige, so I casually placed myself in between the two dogs. They both looked up at me, mildly irritated. I could tell they were thinking, “Humans are so strange about so many things.”
The conversation in the car for the entire ride home was about what the new dog’s name would be. David and Jane favoured more traditional pet names like Buddy or Duke.
Eliza and I preferred something less traditional. I didn’t see any reason to name him something that you wouldn’t name a person, so I suggested Brad or Murray or Richard. Eliza liked something a little more esoteric; Bonkers, Gym Socks, and Pickle Train were a few of her ideas. The last one made me laugh out loud, and I lobbied alongside Eliza for the new dog to be named Pickle Train. Jane vetoed the idea for the same reason I loved it; because of how it would sound when it was yelled at the dog park…”PICKLE TRAIN! C’MERE BOY! C’MON PICKLE TRAIN!”
The naming debate went on for the rest of the morning and into the early afternoon until somebody – nobody could remember who – came up with “Zeke”. It had been mentioned, put on the “maybe” list, and left to simmer for a while until Jane came back to it later. She was bored with the name game and wanted it to be over.
“Who suggested Zeke?” she asked.
“I’m not sure”, David said, “but as soon as you said that, he looked at you. Dad, try it out. See if he looks at you when you say it.”
“Hey Zeke!” I said, and sure enough, the dog looked right at me without hesitation.
“I guess his name is Zeke.”
Eliza was still pushing for something more unique and said “He’s the colour of pancakes when mum makes them. How about Zeke Pancakes?”
“If he was a black Lab, he’d look like pancakes when dad makes them,” said David. I let that slide by without comment because it was true and it was funny.
“It doesn’t flow”, I said, “It needs to be more musical. It needs more beats. Maybe Zeke Pancakes Jr., or Senator Zeke Pancakes.”
“What’s grandpa’s name?” asked Eliza.
“Andrew”, I said.
“Zeke Andrew Pancakes”, she said.
Everyone knew immediately that that was the yellow dog’s name. It felt right. I didn’t think he’d been listening, but he nodded his approval to me.
And so the skinny yellow Lab with the scabby nose and the cone on his head was now Zeke Andrew Pancakes. Everyone just called him Zeke though, unless he was in trouble. Then we used his full name like your mother did when you broke the lamp; “Zeke Andrew Pancakes! Who ate all the Kit Kat bars that were on the kitchen counter?”
It took almost no time for him to blend into our family. I expected a few days of transition during which he’d have a few accidents inside the house or perhaps some complaints about the food and lodgings, but no; he just fit right in, right from day one. It was meant to be.
He wasn’t very happy about there being a cat in the house.
“Cats are creepy. Like spiders and that vet who stuck his finger in my bum,” he said.
Other than that he seemed very happy. He was a very literal and straightforward dog. Almost immediately he started calling me “Tall Guy”. David became “Small Tall Guy”, Eliza became “The Girl”, Jane “The Mommy”.
Everybody thinks they have the best dog in the world, and everybody is right…but Zeke Andrew Pancakes was the best dog in the world. He was one of the family dogs, but he was my dog and I was his human. He taught me things about myself that nobody else could have. He was kind of weird, but so am I. We were a team.
I’m glad we got another dog.
That’s how our story begins, and I suppose it’s how a lot of family dog stories begin. With the simple act of adopting an animal that’s down on its luck and looking for some people to love, and who will love him back.
There’s a lot more to come. Nearly 15 years worth of stories and adventures, told a little at a time.
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Alice Cooper Predicts Next U.S. President Will Be ‘Worse Than Trump’
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Alice Cooper predicted the next U.S. President would be “worse” than current incumbent Donald Trump, while arguing that musicians talking politics to their fans was an “abuse of power.”
The shock-rock icon drew a distinction between making political statements with the intention of encouraging people to support a particular viewpoint, and using a platform to assist with humanitarian work.
“I don’t like to mix politics and rock ’n’ roll,” Cooper told the Guardian in a new interview. However, he continued: “I don’t look at Bono, Sting and Bruce Springsteen as political. I look at them as being humanitarian, helping people who can’t help themselves. But when musicians are telling people who to vote for, I think that’s an abuse of power. You’re telling your fans not to think for themselves, just to think like you. Rock ’n’ roll is about freedom – and that’s not freedom.”
He added: “I want my shows to take you as far away as possible from politics. It’s supposed to be an escape from the world we’re living in. And you know the next president is going to be worse than Trump, right?”
In the same interview, Cooper hailed his parents for having offered him all the support they could in pursuing his musical ambitions. “My family had no problem with rock ’n’ roll. My parents were actually champion jitter-buggers in their day,” he said. “It was the lifestyle they were concerned about: The drugs, the sleeping around – and they had a point. It was only when I got sober and had seen all my friends die that I realized they had a point. I’m making the best records I’ve ever made and my health is fantastic. I didn’t need that other stuff.”
He described his mother as a “tiger,” explaining: “She’s 95 and is my biggest fan. If you say anything bad about Alice Cooper, she’ll be on top of you. I was lucky to get the parents I did.”
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Source: Alice Cooper Predicts Next U.S. President Will Be ‘Worse Than Trump’
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Newly Discovered Java Flaw Seen Exploited in Wild
By Chris Paoli
Information on a Java flaw that has been seen in targeted attacks in the wild, and has been tested to work on most major Web browsers for both Mac and PC, was reported on Monday by security firm FireEye.
According to researchers, all versions of Java (including the Java 7 Update 6) are susceptible to attack, and can lead to the installation of malware on a system.
The hole is due to an issue in how the "setSecurityManager()" function in Java is called. Attackers can exploit this issue and set its own privileges on a targeted system, allowing the downloading and execution of malicious software.
"A successful exploit attempt can result in a dropper (Dropper.MsPMs) getting installed on infected systems," said FireEye in a blog post. "The dropper executable is located on the same server."
Security experts have found that a variant of the Poison Ivy Trojan has been used in the targeted attacks. The exploit is said to have come from an IP address of a Chinese Web site, with the malware currently connected to a Singapore command and control server.
While the handful of attacks seen in the wild have come from this Chinese IP address, researchers are warning that due to the relative ease of exploiting this hole, along with a proof-of-concept exploitbeing published online last night, be on the lookout for similar attacks in the near future.
"The number of these attacks has been relatively low, but it is likely to increase due to the fact that this is a fast and reliable exploit that can be used in drive-by attacks and all kinds of links in emails," wrote security researchers Andre' M. DiMino and Mila Parkour in a blog post.
While Oracle has not released a statement on when an update will be available, security experts are suggesting that users temporarily disable the Java plugin.
"IT administrators only defense at the moment is to limit the use to Java," said Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of security firm Qualys, Inc. "This can be implemenetd by uninstalling Java where not needed or by using the Zone mechanism in Internet Explorer, forbidding Java use in the Internet Zone (setting Registry Key 1C00 to 0 in Zone 3) and allowing it only on whitelisted websites in the Trusted Zone."
For those who must use Java, an unofficial patch can be found here.
Chris Paoli is the site producer for Redmondmag.com and MCPmag.com.
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The Handwriting is On the Wall: It’s a Clinton-Obama Ticket in ‘08
It’s all decided beforehand in the Bilderberg meetings folks, just another Hegelian swing to push the NWO agenda through. They select our puppet leaders and we follow them like sheep to slaughter, after we’re thoroughly fleeced that is.
A year before the November 2008 presidential election, Democratic front runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are runaway winners in the contest that really matters, the wealth primary, the competition for campaign donations from our nation’s moneyed elite. From military contractors and Wall Street to agribusiness and insurance, Clinton and Obama are raking in far more cash than any Republican, and receiving the lion’s share of coverage in corporate media. An historic shift is underway as corporate America lines up behind the Democratic wing of its permanent ruling party. For voters forced to choose between Republicans who won’t apologize for the war, and Democrats pledged to continue it, next year’s choices may be anticlimactic.
Black Agenda Report | Oct 31, 2007
by Bruce Dixon
With a full year to go before the 2008 presidential election the handwriting is already on the wall. The Democratic nominees and probable winners in 2008 will be Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
In US presidential politics, elections are often anticlimactic. For Democratic and Republican wings of America’s permanent ruling party, the all-important selection which precedes the election isn’t about poll numbers, votes or the citizens that cast them. It’s about winning the favor of military contractors, the banking and financial sectors and Big Oil. It’s about reassuring insurance and pharmaceutical companies, cozying up to agribusiness, the cable and telecom monopolies, allaying the fears of chambers of commerce, and wooing Hollywood.
Only those who jump through these hoops merit favorable coverage in the corporate media as so-called serious candidates. For example, at a recent Democratic presidential forum, when directly asked whether they, if elected, would have US troops out of Iraq by the end of their fist term in 2013, Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Dodd and Biden all admitted their intent to continue the war at least that long.
Thus certified, these serious candidate, are deemed worthy of individual and bundled campaign donations from corporate board members, wealthy investors, CEOs, their family members, lobbyists, lawyers, employees, PACs, trade groups and so on. The worthiest are those that collect the most money from these sources, and are in turn celebrated in the corporate media as hardheaded, pragmatic and realistic presidential contenders, and rise in the opinion polls.
Failure on a candidate’s part to stick to the script is severly punished. Any lack of will to reassure the military contractors, Big Oil, Big Insurance, Big Pharma and Big Money in general results in a candidate being labeled “unelectable”, in boycotts by the big money donors and the imposition of kiss-of-death news blackouts on their campaigns. Four years ago ABC News exec Ted Koppel demanded Kucinich, Sharpton and Moseley-Braun withdraw from the race and pulled ABC’s coverage from their campaigns the next day, as did NBC, CNN, and the other networks. This season’s antiwar and pro health care Democrats Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich are routinely disinvited to forums, excised from coverage omitted from public opinion polls and surveys, and their images deleted from news photos of presidential forums.
“Just as in 2004, antiwar voters will be forced to choose between Republicans who will not apologize for the war, and Democrats who will not end it”
When a boycott of big campaign contributors and media censorship alone is insufficient to kill a presidential campaign whose message is threatening to those in power, the media have been known to step in more directly. For a time in 2004, presidential candidate Howard Dean’s antiwar stance enabled him to raise buckets of cash in small donations from millions of Americans opposed to the war and lead the Democratic field in the public opinion polls. Corporate media launched a torrent of baseless ridicule over an arguably doctored “scream” that cut his popular support by half in the space of two weeks.
By contrast this year’s Democratic front runners Clinton and Obama, having properly and repeatedly kissed the rings of military contractors, big insurance, Big Oil, agribusiness and the rest, are basking in a tide of favorable media coverage. Journalism.org’s October 29 The Invisible Primary contains a wealth of detail contrasting the relative extent and favorability of media coverage garnered by both Republican and Democratic contenders. It indicates that Barack Obama alone receives as much favorable coverage as the entire Republican field, and that the volume of positive stories about Hillary Clinton is not far behind his, and closing fast.
The race among presidential candidates for corporate campaign contributions, aptly called “the wealth primary” shows the same results. Thomas Edsall in the October 17 Huffington Post detailed how the CEOs, lawyers, lobbyists and bundlers who represent military contractors have abandoned their long-held alliance with Republicans, and placing their bets with Hillary Clinton. According to Edsall,
“…The strong support for Clinton indicates that a majority of defense industry executives currently believe Clinton is a favorite to win the Democratic nomination and, in November, 2008, the general election….”
The same picture is visible across a wider swath of America’s moneyed elite at opensecrets.org, a web site devoted to tracking influence of big money in politics.
Lobbyists of all kinds have donated nearly as much to the Clinton campaign alone as to any two Republicans combined.
Obama and Clinton, both proponents of supposed “universal” health care plans lead all Republicans in donations from the pharmaceutical and health care industries.
Clinton and Obama together lead the pack in donations from the securities and investment industries, their combined total of $9.1 million well ahead of the $7.9 million garnered by the top two Republican contenders.
Obama leads all contenders in donations from the computer and internet industries, closely followed by Clinton, with either of them leading Republican contenders in donations from this sector by a wide margin.
Commercial banks too, are bestowing their largesse upon Clinton and Obama far more generously than they do on any Republican candidate.
Whether the measure is favorable coverage in the corporate media, or bundles of checks from wealthy donors, the gap between Clinton-Obama and the rest of the Democratic field is breathtaking and decisive. Before a single primary vote has been cast, the handwriting of America’s elite is truly on the wall. Clinton and Obama are the favored choices of our corporate media and ruling circles, and thus will be the Democratic ticket in 2008. And the defection of big chunks of the elite consensus from the Republican camp, the havoc and disarray sown among Republicans by eight years of Bush-Cheney, and widespread popular disgust with the Bush regime make prospects of a 2008 Republican victory remote.
“Barack Obama is an invaluable asset to a Democratic ticket, much to valuable to wait in line for 2012 or 2016.”
Make no mistake, Hillary Clinton will be at the top of this ticket. The talk in circles close to Senator Obama as far back as 1993 has been of a career trajectory toward the office of vice president. But the way one campaigns for that office nowadays is to run for the top spot, lose and graciously accept the invitation of the winner to serve. That is the scenario we expect to see in the coming months.
Barack Obama is an invaluable asset to a Democratic ticket, much to valuable to wait in line for 2012 or 2016. He enables Democrats to take advantage of the historic black tendency to uncritically close ranks around any prominent member of the club no matter how undeserving, a relic of the Jim Crow era. Though he famously declared that “there is no Black America” at the last Democratic convention, Obama’s mere presence on the ticket locks up the African American vote, which as usual will feel it has nowhere else to go.
Just as in 2004, antiwar voters will be forced to choose between Republicans who will not apologize for the war, and Democrats who will not end it. Bush and Cheney’s generation-long “war on terror” as the prism through which to view American foreign and domestic policy is fully accepted by the Democratic contenders. Single payer health care on the French and Canadian model remain off the table. The Bush Supreme Court, and a thoroughly right wing federal judiciary stacked with lifetime appointees remain firmly in place, as do laws immunizing torturers, indemnifying telecoms who spy on Americans, and much more. Millions of homeowners are losing their homes to foreclosure, and the wealthy players who bought those securitized loans will be demanding a bailout from the next administration.
The handwriting is on the wall. It says a new day is indeed coming. But not all that new. Get ready for it.
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Posted in 2008 Election, Crime & Corruption, Perpetual War
Canadian officials call for surveillance cameras to be placed in terror suspect’s home
Never before has any Canadian prisoner on bail been known to have had to countenance cameras inside their house.
Jaballah, who already lives under extremely strict house arrest, has never been charged with a criminal offense but spent nearly all of 1997 to 2007 in a Canadian jail.
Associated Press | Oct 30, 2007
TORONTO: Canadian officials took the unprecedented step of asking a judge to install closed-circuit video cameras inside a terrorism suspect’s home.
Government lawyer Donald MacIntosh said Monday that he hopes the Federal Court will approve the heightened surveillance for Mahmoud Jaballah, an Egyptian asylum-seeker who Canadian officials have accused of being a “communications link” in al-Qaeda’s 1998 African embassy bombings.
MacIntosh said he knows of no jurisdiction that has tried installing closed-circuit cameras in a suspect’s home, but he intends to submit a formal argument before a hearing next month.
Jaballah, who already lives under extremely strict house arrest, has never been charged with a criminal offense but spent nearly all of 1997 to 2007 in a Canadian jail. Attempts to deport him to Egypt, a country known to torture fundamentalists, failed on humanitarian grounds.
He is being held under Canada’s controversial “security certificate” system, which allows the government to detain and deport foreign-born terrorist suspects with charging them or providing them with evidence of their allegations. Aspects of the certificate system were ruled unconstitutional by Canada’s Supreme Court in February.
Jaballah recently agreed to live under extraordinary surveillance, in return for being let out of jail in April.
Past measures have included having suspects submit to being followed by federal agents during their few weekly excursions, having their calls monitored, staying away from computers and having video cameras installed outside the home. Never before has any Canadian prisoner on bail been known to have had to countenance cameras inside their house.
Prosecutors in the Jaballah case argued last week in court that surveillance in his home is critical for reasons of national security.
Lawyers acting for Jaballah are resisting added surveillance and fighting for increased liberties.
The Federal Court is currently weighing a motion for Jaballah, a former principal at a Toronto Islamic school, to be let out of his Toronto home to teach school lessons to Muslim children. He currently lives at home with his wife and five children.
Posted in Big Brother Surveillance Society
Weapons Industry Dumps Republicans, Backs Hillary
Don’t worry Obama supporters, according to the big political insiders like Gingrich, it will be a Clinton-Obama ticket as a foregone conclusion. So if you want to see a full blown global WMD exchange, a North American Union and an end to all freedoms, be sure to vote Clinton-Obama!
Independent | Oct 31, 2007
By Leonard Doyle
The U.S. arms industry has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party and is putting their money on Hillary Clinton.
The U.S. arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street’s favourite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in unprecedented numbers for the New York senator over the past three months and, in the process, dumped their earlier favourite, Barack Obama.
Mrs. Clinton’s wooing of the defence industry is all the more remarkable given the frosty relations between Bill Clinton and the military during his presidency. An analysis of campaign contributions shows senior defence industry employees are pouring money into her war chest in the belief that their generosity will be repaid many times over with future defence contracts.
Employees of the top five U.S. arms manufacturers — Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon — gave Democratic presidential candidates $103,900, with only $86,800 going to the Republicans. “The contributions clearly suggest the arms industry has reached the conclusion that Democratic prospects for 2008 are very good indeed,” said Thomas Edsall, an academic at Columbia University in New York.
Republican administrations are by tradition much stronger supporters of U.S. armaments programmes and Pentagon spending plans than Democratic governments. Relations between the arms industry and Bill Clinton soured when he slimmed down the military after the end of the Cold War. His wife, however, has been careful not to make the same mistake.
After her election to the Senate, she became the first New York senator on the armed services committee, where she revealed her hawkish tendencies by supporting the invasion of Iraq. Although she now favours a withdrawal of U.S. troops, her position on Iran is among the most warlike of all the candidates — Democrat or Republican.
This week, she said that, if elected president, she would not rule out military strikes to destroy Tehran’s nuclear weapons facilities. While on the armed services committee, Mrs. Clinton has befriended key generals and has won the endorsement of General Wesley Clarke, who ran Nato’s war in Kosovo. A former presidential candidate himself, he is spoken of as a potential vice-presidential running mate.
Mrs. Clinton has been a regular visitor to Iraq and Afghanistan and is careful to focus her criticisms of the Iraq war on President Bush, rather than the military. The arms industry has duly taken note.
So far, Mrs. Clinton has received $52,600 in contributions from individual arms industry employees. That is more than half the sum given to all Democrats and 60 percent of the total going to Republican candidates. Election fundraising laws ban individuals from donating more than $4,600 but contributions are often “bundled” to obtain influence over a candidate.
The arms industry has even deserted the biggest supporter of the Iraq war, Senator John McCain, who is also a member of the armed services committee and a decorated Vietnam War veteran. He has been only $19,200. Weapons-makers are equally unimpressed by the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Despite a campaign built largely around the need for an aggressive U.S. military and a determination to stay the course in Iraq, he is behind Mrs Clinton in the affections of arms executives. Mr. Giuliani may be suffering because of his strong association with the failed policies of President Bush and the fact he is he is known as a social liberal.
Mrs. Clinton’s closest competitor in raising cash from the arms industry is the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who raised just $32,000.
“Arms industry profits are so heavily dependent on government contracts that companies in this field want to be sure they do not have hostile relations with the White House,” added Mr Edsall.
The industry’s strong support for Mrs. Clinton indicates that she is their firm favourite to win the Democratic nomination in the spring and the presidential election in November 2008. In the last presidential race, George Bush raised more than $800,000 — twice the sum collected by his Democratic rival John Kerry.
Mr. Edsall’s analysis of the figures reveals that, over the past 10 years, the defence industry has favoured Republicans over Democrats by a 3-2 margin, making Mrs. Clinton’s position even more remarkable.
Posted in 2008 Election, Crime & Corruption, Hegelian Dialectic, Perpetual War
Burmese army ‘abducts thousands of children’
‘Those who attempt to escape are beaten, forcibly re-recruited or imprisoned,’ the report claims
Telegraph | Oct 31, 2007
By Thomas Bell
The Burmese army has been accused of kidnapping thousands of children as young as 10 years old to meet a recruitment shortfall.
Human Rights Watch has claimed that children are picked up at train and bus stations and markets and told they will be arrested if they refuse to join the army. Some children are beaten until they agree to “volunteer”.
The Burmese army continues to expand even as it faces high rates of desertion. Analysts believe recruitment may become even harder since troops were ordered to fire on revered Buddhist monks in September.
“The brutality of Burma’s military government goes beyond its violent crackdown on peaceful protesters,” said Jo Becker of Human Rights Watch.
“Military recruiters are literally buying and selling children to fill the ranks of the Burmese armed forces.”
The army is constantly engaged in campaigns against up to 30 ethnic rebel armies. According to a recent study, over half a million people are currently displaced after troops burnt villages and terrorised civilians.
Often the army establishes businesses such as gold mines or hydroelectric dams in the depopulated areas.
Aung Zaw, a former child soldier, said: “I can’t remember how old I was the first time fighting. About 13. We walked into an ambush, and four of our soldiers died.
“I was afraid because I was very young so I tried to run back, but the captain shouted, ‘Don’t run back! If you run back I’ll shoot you myself’.”
According to the report, “child soldiers are sometimes forced to participate in human rights abuses, such as burning villages and using civilians for forced labour. Those who attempt to escape are beaten, forcibly re-recruited or imprisoned”.
Fascinating video about “God’s Army”, a faction of child soldiers of the Karen resistance who surrendered in 2001
Burma: Army of the Child God (Windows Media download)
Johnny and Luther Htoo
Posted in Child Takeover, Perpetual War, Police State Dictatorship
Report: Britain overtaxing the young
Taxpayers ages 18 to 34 are handing over almost half their incomes
UPI | Oct 30, 2007
LONDON, Oct. 30 (UPI) — A report by a conservative organization blames high taxes in Britain for stifling initiative among young people.
The group Reform said taxpayers ages 18 to 34 are handing over almost half their incomes to pay for benefits for the older generation, The Daily Telegraph reported.
”The Ipod generation has been reduced to galley slaves in the public spending empire of the baby boomers,” said Nick Bosanquet, an expert on health policy at Imperial College, London, and a consultant to Reform. “The government is in the process of mortgaging the future of a generation.”
The group said government spending has risen from 41.6 percent of gross domestic product to 45.1 percent since Labor gained control of Parliament in 1997. During the same period, the percentage fell from 48.3 percent to 44.3 percent in Germany.
Reform also blamed Conservatives in Parliament, saying they have pledged to match Labor spending on health and education.
Posted in Economic Takedown, Slavery, Social Engineering, Socialism, Taxation
Ron Paul on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Ron Paul on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno 10-31-2007
Posted in 2008 Election
Business Leaders Warn Of Congressional Power Grab Over Water Control
Salem News | Oct 25, 2007
The legislation is known as the “Clean Water Restoration Act.”
(GOLDEN, Co.) – Legislation quietly moving forward in the U.S. Congress would expand the federal government’s control over U.S. waters to such an extent that even periodically wet ground would come under federal hegemony, a group of business leaders is warning.
“This bill represents one of the most expansive power grabs by the federal government over state and local control in memory,” said Jim Sims, President and CEO of the Western Business Roundtable. “The extent to which this bill puts states and their water resources under the thumb of the federal government is simply astounding.”
“This bill would give federal agencies domain over virtually every wet area in the nation. It will fundamentally erode the ability of citizens, and state governments in particular, to manage our own water resources. It would cause an avalanche of new un-funded mandates to envelop state and local governments.”
Sims added: “It will make it more costly to grow crops, provide water to cities, operate and maintain water storage and delivery facilities, produce energy (including renewable power), build and maintain public transportation systems, deliver affordable goods and services to consumers and carry out virtually any activity that occurs on the land without federal agencies constantly threatening to interfere.”
The legislation, known as the “Clean Water Restoration Act,” is sponsored by Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.) in the House (H.R. 2421) and Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.) in the Senate (S. 1870).
The bill’s sponsors contend U.S. waters are threatened due to Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006 that clarified which waters fall under federal jurisdiction. But by changing the Clean Water Act’s jurisdictional sweep from regulation of “navigable waters” to “waters of the United States,” the bill would have “a devastating impact on Western state sovereignty and virtually every citizen in our region,” Sims said.
“There is virtually no business or job-creating activity in the nation that would not be adversely affected by this bill,” he added.
The Roundtable sent a letter to Congress earlier this week outlining its concerns about bill. It pointed out that the bill:
* Would expand the regulatory reach of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers to include essentially all arguably wet areas (or areas wet at some time) in the U.S., giving the federal government jurisdiction over groundwater, ditches, pipes, streets, gutters and desert features.
* Would expand the legal basis for the Clean Water Act, moving it beyond the current jurisdiction under the “commerce clause” in the U.S. Constitution, which limits congressional authority over water to the ability to regulate commerce. The new legislation would make congressional authority over any U.S. water virtually unlimited.
* Would essentially grant EPA and the Corps a veto over local land-use policies. Any activity involving water could be affected, including commercial and residential real estate development, agriculture, electric transmission, transportation, mining and energy development – even recreational activities.
* Would eliminate existing regulatory limitations that allow common sense uses such as prior converted cropland and waste treatment systems. Currently, the CWA’s rules acknowledge limitations covering those elements.
* Would implement an expanded definition of waters that would burden state and local governments both administratively and financially. A broad expansion of the CWA’s jurisdiction would put un-funded mandates on those entities, including requirements to adopt water quality standards (including monitoring and reporting).
* Would also impact land-use plans, floodplain regulations, building and other codes, watershed and storm water plans, and likely delay development of new projects and maintenance of existing infrastructure.
* Would cause water providers, landowners and water-use entities’ liability risk to grow.
Sims added that, under an expanded CWA, citizen suit liability and exposure for attorneys fees awards would increase for all landowners with water features on or near their properties. Similar concerns and risks would be faced by all water delivery and water-use entities.
The Roundtable said it has launched a region wide effort to build opposition to the bill.
Posted in Crime & Corruption, Environment, Feudalism & Neofeudalism, Land Grabbing
Prodigy Says Jay-Z Sides With The 'Evil Illuminati'
Britain's Prince Andrew associated with elite pedophile ring catering to royalty, politicians and businessmen
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