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Recreational marijuana is officially legal in Michigan today
At 12:01 a.m. Thursday, marijuana for adult recreational use became legal in Michigan, though the product will remain hard to find.
Recreational marijuana is officially legal in Michigan today At 12:01 a.m. Thursday, marijuana for adult recreational use became legal in Michigan, though the product will remain hard to find. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/news/marijuana/2018/12/06/recreational-marijuana-legal-michigan-today/2217854002/
Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press Published 12:01 a.m. ET Dec. 6, 2018 | Updated 8:24 a.m. ET Dec. 6, 2018
The most humorous names for marijuana strains in Michigan. Mike Thompson, Detroit Free Press
Marihuana joint on fire, in the lips(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
At 12:01 a.m. Thursday, Michigan turned green and became the 10th state in the nation to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use.
But the old saying, "Smoke 'em if you got 'em," carries many, many caveats.
Matt Abel, who has been a marijuana advocate for years and is the executive director of the Michigan chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said he planned to "roll a big fattie and smoke it at midnight," when Michigan's voter-approved ballot initiative on recreational marijuana officially went into effect.
"This is the last day of prohibition," he said on Wednesday. "It's significant and a milestone for marijuana laws in Michigan. But we still have a ways to go."
Indeed, when he smokes that big marijuana joint, he'll need to be inside his house or other private residence because indulging in marijuana in public will remain illegal.
And that means no firing up a bowl on the front porch or vapes in the driveway because those are considered public places, said Royal Oak cannabis attorney Barton Morris.
Mike Thompson: Marijuana strains in Michigan have bizarre names
"Anything that’s publicly accessible to people is out of bounds," he said. "It's customary for people to come up on your front porch or walk up your driveway."
Your backyard should be okay, said Doug Mains, an attorney who represents medical marijuana clients with the Honigman law firm in Lansing
"Is your backyard a public place? Probably not, since nobody can really walk into your backyard whenever they want," he said. "That is probably even more so if your yard is fenced in or you are far away from your neighbors."
But there is still the matter of the pungent aroma of marijuana, said Morris, which may cause neighbors to lodge a nuisance complaint.
"A next door neighbor shouldn’t be able to smell it," he said. "Everyone has the ability to the quiet enjoyment of their property."
A grow operation in a residential home in Sterling Heights, for example, was shut down this summer after neighbors complained of the noxious odors coming from the house.
So the free and easy reputation of legal weed? Not so much.
Now that it's legal, here's what you need to know about marijuana:
Where can I buy marijuana?
Marijuana won't be commercially available for sale until state regulators draft rules and regulations for the recreational market. They have until December 2019 and then they can begin to accept applications for licenses, with the first commercial retail sales expected in 2020. After the medical marijuana industry was regulated in December 2016, the first licenses weren't awarded until August 2018.
In the meantime, people can grow up to 12 plants in their homes for personal use and they can give — but not sell — the product to friends and family. That may change if Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive, has his way. He has introduced a bill that would ban people from growing their own marijuana, but it will need a super-majority — a three-fourths vote — to pass, which will be a difficult to accomplish.
Where can I get the seeds or marijuana plants to begin growing?
Seeds and plants are available for sale online, but since the federal government still considers marijuana an illegal drug, it's also illegal to ship it across state lines. The registered caregiver market, in which a person can register to grow up to 72 plants for medical marijuana cardholders, will stay in place even after the recreational market gets up and running and seeds and plants could be available from them.
More: Finding seeds to grow marijuana at home in Michigan will be hard
Marijuana is legal in Canada. Can I buy it there?
No. It's still considered an illegal drug by the federal government, which has control of the border with Canada, so it can't be transported across state lines or across the Canadian border.
Is there an age requirement? Or limits on pot possession?
Yes, you have to be 21 to indulge in Michigan. And once marijuana becomes commercially available, people can buy and possess and carry 2.5 ounces of pot a day, and can keep up to 10 ounces in their home as long as it's locked up. Police will no longer be able to arrest people for use or possession of small amounts of marijuana.
What health effects will marijuana have on me or those around whom I smoke?
A 2014 study published in the medical journal Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine said that a person heavily smoking marijuana could be more susceptible to chronic bronchitis.
In Canada, which legalized marijuana for recreational use on Oct. 17, Health Canada, the nation's health ministry, launched a campaign to educate the public about the dangers of cannabis use. The message is that young people should avoid it. "We know that the brain is still undergoing significant maturation until the age of 25," said Dr. Amy Porath, director of research for the Canadian Center on Substance Use and Addiction. "To preserve brain health, it's important for young people to delay the use of cannabis as long as possible."
It is not clear whether a human being exposed to second-hand marijuana smoke would suffer the same effects as those exposed to cigarette smoke. The National Institute on Drug Abuse said in a June 2018 report that little research has been done on the subject.
Will marijuana help relieve ailments?
Few people dispute the medical benefits of marijuana on a variety of ailments, including chronic pain, seizures, cancer, glaucoma and PTSD. And the state has designated 22 conditions, including Parkinson's disease, Tourette's syndrome, epilepsy and arthritis as qualifiers for medical marijuana cards.
In states that have legalized marijuana, opioid prescription drug use declined by 2.3 million doses in 2017, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
What about smoking and driving?
It's illegal. Michigan has a zero-tolerance policy for drugged driving. So any amount of THC — the psychoactive component in marijuana — in a driver's blood is illegal and can be criminally charged, just like a drunken drunk driving offense.
It will be more difficult to test for marijuana in the system, however, and will be done either by a blood draw or possibly by oral swabs if a pilot project recently completed by Michigan State Police proves successful.
What about marijuana in the workplace?
Employers can keep and enforce zero tolerance policies for their workers. The law doesn't change a business owner's ability to perform pre-employment or random drug tests on workers and refuse to hire, or to fire or discipline workers who test positive for marijuana. Some "safety sensitive" businesses such as utilities, trucking companies, manufacturers and hospitals maintain a zero tolerance policy as well as companies that have federal contracts because the feds still consider marijuana an illegal drug.
More: Michigan employers still can fire you for smoking pot
How long will marijuana stay in your system?
Part of the problem for employers and their workers is that unlike alcohol, where tests can show the exact level in a person’s blood, there are few available tests that show the level of impairment for marijuana. Saliva swabs and urine samples only show if THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana, has been used over the last few days, said Dr. Barry Sample of Quest Diagnostics, a New Jersey company that analyzes millions of workplace drug tests every year. Swabs and samples don't show a person’s level of impairment at the time of a test. Tests of hair samples will show THC levels going back as long as 90 days.
What about marijuana businesses in cities?
At least 28 communities across the state, including Birmingham, Royal Oak, Fraser, Livonia, the village of Pinckney and Plymouth, have decided to ban recreational marijuana businesses from their communities. Each town has to determine whether it wants to allow and regulate or prohibit marijuana businesses. Approximately 108 communities, including Detroit, Warren, Hazel Park, Walled Lake, Orion Township, Harrison Township, Lenox Township, Garden City, River Rouge and Inkster, have already adopted ordinances to allow medical marijuana businesses in their communities
Does the new law affect Michigan's medical marijuana laws?
No. Caregivers still can grow up to 12 plants for each of five medical marijuana card holders. The only difference for cardholders will be that a 3 percent excise tax on medical marijuana sales at dispensaries will go away in early 2019.
What about marijuana convictions?
It will be up to the state Legislature to pass a law that would work toward expunging the records of people convicted of low-level marijuana crimes. And four bills trying to achieve that goal have been introduced in the Legislature, although none has been scheduled for a hearing.
Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer, an East Lansing Democrat who will take office on Jan. 1, also has said that she favors clearing up the records of people convicted of crimes that will no longer be offenses under the legalization of marijuana.
Kathleen Gray covers the marijuana industry for the Detroit Free Press. Contact her: 313-223-4430, kgray99@freepress.com or on Twitter @michpoligal. To read more on the marijuana industry and its potential impact in Michigan, go to freep.com/news/marijuana
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Feronia Inc. announces US$25 million private placement led by CDC, the UK government's development finance institution
0 Published: 08 Nov 2013
Posted in: CDC DRC Feronia Phatisa UK
Marketwire | 8 November 2013
Feronia's operations in the DRC.
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 11/08/13 -- Feronia Inc. ("Feronia" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:FRN) is pleased to announce that it has completed the first tranche of a $25 million financing led by CDC Group plc ("CDC"), the UK Government's Development Finance Institution ("DFI"). All amounts in this release are expressed in US dollars unless otherwise indicated.
CDC has acquired 151,496,000 common shares of the Company at a purchase price of CAD$0.10 per share for an aggregate purchase price of $14.5 million pursuant to the terms of a subscription agreement entered into with the Company. Also in connection with the financing, the African Agriculture Fund ("AAF"), which is the Company's largest shareholder, acquired 78,360,000 common shares through its subsidiary Golden Oil Holdings Limited for an aggregate purchase price of $7.5 million. The AAF is a $243m African private equity fund managed by Phatisa, which has a portfolio of investments across Africa in the agriculture and food sectors.
Concurrently with the investments from CDC and the AAF, Feronia's Executive Chairman, Mr. Ravi Sood, acquired 1,562,250 common shares for an aggregate purchase price of $150,000. A number of other qualifying investors have also subscribed for an aggregate of 29,685,000 common shares in the financing, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $2.85 million, of which approximately $1.38 million was completed in connection with the first tranche. The remaining subscriber is expected to close in the coming days. The purchase price of all shares issued in connection with the private placement will be CAD$0.10 per share. The common shares issued pursuant to the first tranche of the private placement are subject to a statutory hold period which expires on March 8, 2014.
Proceeds from the financing will be used primarily to fund the Company's existing and future oil palm replanting programme.
Following completion of the financing, CDC will directly hold approximately 27.5% of the Company's issued and outstanding common shares. The AAF will hold an aggregate of 179,188,774 common shares representing approximately 32.5% of the common shares. Completion of the investment by the remaining subscriber is subject to customary terms and conditions as set out in the subscription agreement with such investor.
CDC, which has net assets of approximately GBP 2.8bn, is wholly owned by the UK Government's Department for International Development and uses its own balance sheet to invest in the developing countries of Africa and South Asia. CDC's mission is to support the building of businesses in Africa and South Asia, creating jobs and making a lasting difference to people's lives in some of the world's poorest places.
The Company has appointed one CDC nominee, Mr. Keith Alexander, to the Company's Board of Directors. CDC also has the right to appoint a second nominee to the Board of Directors. Mr. Alexander will serve on the Procurement Committee and Chair a newly formed Environmental, Social, and Governance Committee of the Board. Mr. Alexander has been involved with businesses operating in Africa for over 25 years and most recently he was a director at Actis LLP where he was a member of the management team of the Actis Africa Agribusiness Fund. Prior to Actis, Mr. Alexander was employed by CDC where he focused on agribusiness investments in emerging markets. Mr. Alexander will replace Mr. Philip Condon who has stepped down as a director of the Company. The Company thanks Mr. Condon for his service to Feronia during his tenure as a director.
The Company and CDC have also entered into a convertible loan agreement, pursuant to which CDC will make available an unsecured non-revolving term loan (the "Facility") up to a maximum amount of $3.6 million at an interest rate of 12% for a term of five years. The funds available under the Facility are required to be used by the Company to support the implementation of an Environmental and Social Action Plan ("ESAP") developed jointly with CDC. The principal under the Facility will be convertible into common shares of the Company on the maturity date and in certain other circumstances at a rate of CAD$0.24 per common share (subject to customary adjustment provisions). Subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV"), the interest payable under the Facility will be convertible into common shares at a rate equal to the greater of CAD$0.24 and the Discounted Market Price (as defined in TSXV policy) at the time of conversion. Assuming that the maximum amount under the Facility is advanced to the Company for the full term of five years, the outstanding principal and interest would be convertible into up to approximately 26,500,000 common shares, subject to the Discounted Market Price and the exchange rate at the time of conversion. For more information regarding the Facility, please see the Company's news release dated November 8 entitled "Feronia Inc. Enters into Loan Facility With CDC to Advance 'Environmental and Social Action Plan'".
Commenting, Ravi Sood, Chairman of Feronia said: "We are very pleased to close this financing with CDC, the AAF and other participating investors, and wish to thank our shareholders for their continued support.
"We have worked closely with CDC over the past few months to conclude this investment, building on their experience and knowledge as a leading development finance institution. To have the UK's DFI as a substantial investor in Feronia is, we believe, confirmation of the potential of what we are doing and the positive impact Feronia can have on the DRC. CDC's long-term investment will allow us to build on what we have already achieved, generating and sustaining new growth, jobs and investment in the DRC."
Commenting, Dolika Banda, CDC's Regional Director for Africa, said: "This is an important investment in DRC for CDC. Feronia's plantations are at the heart of their communities and it is a highly respected company within the country. One of our key reasons for investing is the depth of experience in both the workforce and senior management team, which is a testament to its 100-year history in DRC. The company has already made significant progress in rehabilitating plantations which were in a state of distress and we believe that the business has substantial potential to be a major contributor to growth and jobs in DRC.
"We will work closely with Feronia to ensure it has access to the long-term capital and support it needs. We will also focus on building the company's value by strengthening its environmental, social and governance standards, and supporting it to move towards international standards in the palm oil industry."
About Feronia Inc.
-- Feronia Inc. is a large-scale commercial farmland and plantation
operator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ("DRC").
-- The Company uses modern agricultural practices to operate and develop
its oil palm plantations and arable farming business division.
-- Feronia believes in the immense agricultural potential of the DRC for
high-quality foodstuffs and edible oils given its ideal climate,
excellent soil and highly skilled and experienced workforce.
-- Feronia's management team is comprised of senior agriculturalists with
extensive experience in managing both plantations and large-scale
mechanized farming operations in emerging markets.
-- Feronia is committed to sustainable agriculture, environmental
protection and providing support for local communities.
-- For more information please see www.feronia.com.
CDC is the UK government-owned development finance institution that uses its own balance sheet to invest in the developing countries of South Asia and Africa. It has net assets of GBP 2.8bn. CDC's mission is to support the building of businesses in the poorest countries, creating jobs and making a lasting difference to people's lives in some of the world's poorest places. Under its recent business strategy, announced in September 2012, CDC provides debt and direct investment to businesses as well as acting as a fund-of-funds investor. CDC also now only makes new investment commitments in Africa and South Asia. www.cdcgroup.com.
About Phatisa
Phatisa is a private equity fund manager, operating across sub-Saharan Africa, operating from offices in Port Louis, Johannesburg, Lusaka, Nairobi, Accra and London. Phatisa comprises a team with a significant track record of managing private equity funds and agricultural businesses throughout the continent. The Phatisa team is located in Africa and spends a considerable amount of time developing relationships with strategic partners in all countries where funds under management are active. This ensures that funds have reliable networks and information in the countries in which they invest. Team members have a reputation built up over the last decade, which can be seen in their track records, on-the-ground network, and access to agricultural players and facilities on the continent. Phatisa provides the experience necessary to invest, manage and successfully exit what will be one of Africa's most pioneering agricultural private equity funds. www.phatisa.com.
Cautionary Notes
Except for statements of historical fact contained herein, the information in this press release constitutes "forward-looking information" within the meaning of Canadian securities law. Such forward-looking information may be identified by words such as "anticipates", "plans", "proposes", "estimates", "intends", "expects", "believes", "may", "will" and include without limitation, statements regarding the completion of subsequent tranches of the private placement and the benefits to the Company of CDC's investment. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate; actual results and future events could differ materially from such statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, among others, the inability to obtain the additional subscription funds on terms acceptable to the Company or at all, regulatory risks, risks inherent in foreign operations, commodity prices, competition, and investments having no history of operations. Most of these factors are outside the control of the Company. Investors are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking information. Except as otherwise required by applicable securities statutes or regulation, the Company expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Feronia Inc.
Ravi Sood
[email protected] :
Bill Dry
44 (0) 7887 525 046
Paul Dulieu
CDC Group plc
Edgar Buckley
Head of Marketing and Public Engagement
44 (0)20 7963 4734 or 44(0) 7775 810 499
Rhyddid Carter
+44 (0)20 7963 4741 or +44(0) 7824 552 326
Phatisa
Izelle le Roux-Owen
Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
Original source: Marketwire
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Gardner joins Credit Suisse in advisory role
Jonathan Sibun
July 4, 2006 5:00 pm GMT
Sir Roy Gardner, formerly chief executive of UK energy and telecoms group Centrica and chairman at Manchester United, has joined Credit Suisse as a senior adviser.
Gardner, who joined the bank this week, is chairman of Compass Group, the world's largest caterer.
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The U.N.'s Parade of Dictators
Claudia Rosett Contributor
I cover foreign affairs, tyrants, terrorists and democratic dissidents
Founded in 1945 to promote global peace, human dignity and freedom, the United Nations is celebrating its 70th anniversary -- with a parade of dictators. The ceremonies will peak on Monday, at U.N. headquarters in New York, when the General Assembly opens its annual debate with a lineup starring the presidents of such notorious tyrannies as China, Russia, Iran and Cuba.
For good measure, Monday’s opening of the U.N. general debate will also feature the despots who bestride such countries as Belarus, Turkmenistan, Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Ethiopia and Gabon. They will also be speaking on day one, as part of what the State Department describes as “the largest gathering of heads of state ever assembled.”
To be fair, the opening day of the debate will also feature assorted democratic leaders, including Obama, who as president of the host country gets one of the earliest speaking slots. As for dictatorships in general, they are hardly a new feature of the U.N., where one of the founding states was Stalin’s Soviet Union. Today, according to the rankings of Washington-based Freedom House, more than half the U.N.‘s 193 member states are only partly free, or not free at all. During the entire general debate, a six-day marathon of speeches, from Sept. 28 - Oct. 3, all members get a 15-minute turn (though some take more) on the main stage.
What’s historic, however, is the procession of high-profile despots planning to appear in person in Monday’s starting lineup, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and Cuba’s Raul Castro. These are rulers who usually send their ministers to the U.N.’s annual opening. This year they are coming in person. In their midst, making his third appearance at the U.N. general debate, comes Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, clutching the freshly minted Iran nuclear deal and fronting as head of state for Tehran’s terror-sponsoring tyranny run by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Against the golden backdrop of the U.N. General Assembly chamber, this gathering may count as an anniversary party, complete with memorable photo-ops. In reality, it amounts to a grim indictment of the U.N., and a warning of rising dangers in the real world. Long gone is whatever promise surrounded the U.N. in its early 1990s incarnation, immediately after the end of the Cold War. Back then, with great swathes of the world newly freed from the Soviet grip, the U.N. -- itself liberated from the vice of Soviet diplomacy -- was widely seen as a vehicle retooled for securing peace and spreading freedom.
Today, the U.N. is increasingly becoming a clubhouse for a rising new axis of dictators. In its menu of privileges for member states, the U.N. does not distinguish between democracies and dictatorships. For the dictatorships, this moral blindness comes as a boon they are delighted to exploit. Thus has Iran, even while under U.N. sanctions, won seats on the governing boards of such major agencies as UNICEF and the U.N. Development Program. Thus is Saudi Arabia not only elected by its fellow U.N. members to the Human Rights Council, but picked to chair a panel that vets the Council’s special rapporteurs.
Traditionally, the bulwark against such tyrannies has been the United States. But Obama, in his first presidential speech to the U.N. General Assembly, back in 2009, dispensed with that tradition. Exhorting all U.N. member states to collectively embrace a shared destiny, he declared old arguments and alignments to be “irrelevant,” saying “No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed. No balance of power among nations will hold.”
These were statements heard not only by Americans who believe in liberty and justice for all, but by tyrants who harbor so such respect for these rights. Instead of dropping old arguments, especially on matters pitting tyranny against freedom, they prefer to win them. The signal Obama sent to despotic regimes ensconced in capitals from Moscow to Beijing, from Tehran to Pyongyang, from Caracas to Cuba, was that for despots, these were times of opportunity. America was abdicating its leadership of the Free World.
Not that Obama gave up international leadership altogether. Instead, in the name of engagement, he led the way in appeasing and rewarding the dictatorships whose rulers will share the U.N. spotlight with him on Monday in New York.
To Russia, fresh from its predatory 2008 foray into the neighboring country of Georgia, Obama offered a 2009 “reset,” sweetened by U.S. abrogation of its commitment to a missile defense shield for Eastern Europe. In 2012, Obama was caught on a live microphone sending Putin a promise of “more flexibility” after the U.S. presidential election.
Then came Obama’s 2013 erasure of his own “red line” in Syria, in deference to Russia’s management of the Assad regime and its chemical weapons. That trajectory is now translating into renewed Russian reach into the Middle East, and a growing Russian military presence in Syria. Small wonder that in 2014 Putin judged, correctly, that he could get away with the project of carving up Ukraine, starting with the wholesale annexation of Crimea.
Toward Asia, Obama announced a “pivot,” read by many as a plan to counter a militarizing and restive China. Obama’s administration has since scaled back that pivot to a “rebalancing.” Even that, Obama has been undercutting -- de-balancing the rebalance -- by gutting the U.S. military, including the naval forces required to maintain a presence in the Far East.
China -- a dictatorship that imprisons its own Nobel Peace laureate, dissident Liu Xiaobo -- has been building up its military and bullying its neighbors. China has served as a major conduit for illicit wares for the nuclear and missile programs of Iran and North Korea. And China’s cyberespionage has become a growing concern for both American private business and the U.S. government. In this climate, Obama’s Friday night hosting of a state dinner in honor of China’s President Xi can be spun by the White House as engagement. It will almost certainly be read by Beijing as yet another sign of U.S. weakness and appeasement.
Toward Iran, Obama began in 2009 by extending his hand. When Tehran’s brutal theocracy crushed massive domestic protests that same year by beating, shooting and jailing its own people, Obama contented himself with “bearing witness.” Still seeking engagement, Obama finally bull-dozed the way to the Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, agreed this July between Iran and the U.S., France, Britain, Russia, China and Germany, and adopted less than a week later, at U.S. behest, by the U.N. Security Council.
This deal is a gift to Iran, complete with sunset clauses, sanctions relief ultimately worth hundreds of billions, secret side deals for self inspection, a green light for continued uranium enrichment, and help with modern nuclear technology, including methods for thwarting sabotage. What did the U.S. get? Mainly, this deal delivers an enhanced probability that if -- or, more likely, when -- Iran breaks out as a nuclear-armed state, Obama need not worry about a 3 A.M. phone call. That nightmare will be reserved for the next U.S. president.
Then there’s Cuba, where since 1959 the Castros -- first Fidel with his communist revolution, and now his brother Raul -- have spent the past 56 years oppressing and beggaring the general population and making common cause with fellow tyrannies, not least at the United Nations. Last December, Obama decided to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba, arguing that the longstanding U.S. embargo was a failure.
Obama’s remedy was to reward and dignify Cuba’s regime, removing Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, sending Secretary of State John Kerry to re-open the U.S. embassy in Havana (at a ceremony that excluded dissidents) and pursuing expanded ties despite protests from Congress. Meantime, the Castro regime has continued hosting high-level visits from such places as Russia and North Korea, and The Wall Street Journal reported last month that according to human rights groups, “state security arrests have sharply increased.”
Small wonder that all these eminences of the unfree world have seized on the U.N.’s 70th anniversary to come celebrate in New York. Obama, who in 2009 declared that the U.S. was out of business as world sheriff, and invited them to “embrace a new era of engagement,” is now in danger of becoming little more than the opening act, while one after another, these engaged and empowered despots strut the U.N. stage.
Ms. Rosett is journalist-in-residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and heads its Investigative Reporting Project.
I'm a journalist covering the international scene, with a special interest in tyrannies and their dissidents, and experience reporting from Asia, the former Soviet Union...
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FTC Testifies on Identity Theft
Calls To FTC Toll-Free Hotline Double Since March
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The Federal Trade Commission today said that it continues to expand it efforts to stem the growing tide of identity theft. It has established a toll-free consumer hotline (1-877-ID-THEFT), to provide real-time consumer counseling for victims; it has built the federal government's central repository of identity theft complaints, the Identity Theft Data Clearinghouse, which starting this month is available through a secure Web site to law enforcers across the country; and it is expanding efforts to educate consumers and businesses about ID Theft prevention and deterrence. Jodie Bernstein, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, delivered the agency's testimony before the Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "The fear of identity theft has gripped the public as few consumer issues have," the testimony says. "Consumers fear the potential financial loss from someone's criminal use of their identity to obtain loans or open utility accounts. They also fear the long lasting impact on their lives that results from the denial of a mortgage, employment, credit, or an apartment lease when credit reports are littered with the fraudulently incurred debts of an identity thief."
Bernstein said the number of calls to the FTC's toll-free ID Theft hotline has doubled since March, and that the agency is now taking between 800 and 850 calls a week. Phone counselors, who have handled more than 20,000 calls in the last eight months, "provide victims of identity theft with specific information about how to try to prevent additional harm to their finances and credit histories.
The phone counselors advise callers to contact each of the three consumer reporting agencies to obtain copies of their credit report and request that a fraud alert be placed on their credit report." Counselors also explain consumers rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act to have errors corrected on their credit reports; the limitation under the Fair Credit Billing Act to consumers' liability for charges they did not authorize; and the restrictions on debt collection practices consumers have under provisions of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
"The Identity Theft Data Clearinghouse . . . provides specific investigative material for law enforcement and larger, trend-based information providing insight to both private and public sector partners on ways to reduce the incidence of identity theft," the testimony says. "Currently, the Clearinghouse contains the data from consumers who contact the FTC through the toll-free number or Web site. We are pursuing ways to collect complaint data from other agencies and private sector entities to allow Clearinghouse users from law enforcement agencies to see as much complaint data on identity theft as possible. . . . To maximize use of the data, we now provide law enforcement partners with direct access to the Clearinghouse through Consumer Sentinel, our secure Web site for sharing complaints and other information with consumer protection law enforcers. . . . This access enables them to readily and easily spot identity theft problems in their own backyards, and to coordinate with other law enforcement officers where the database reveals common schemes or perpetrators. The FTC will continue to comb through the data to spot cases for referral, but has also enabled others to use the data to ferret out the bad actors for prosecution."
"Our basic complaint data show that the most common forms of identity theft reported during the first seven months of operation were:
Credit Card Fraud - Approximately 54 percent of consumers reported credit card fraud - i.e., a credit card account opened in their name or a "takeover" of their existing credit card account;
Communications Services Fraud - Approximately 26 percent reported that the identity thief opened up telephone, cellular, or other utility service in their name;
Bank Fraud - Approximately 16 percent reported that a checking or saving account had been opened in their name, and/or that fraudulent checks had been written; and
Fraudulent Loans - Approximately 11 percent reported that the identity thief obtained a loan, such as a car loan, in their name," the testimony notes.
The states with the largest populations - California, New York, Florida, Texas and Illinois - account for the largest numbers of complaints and suspects.
"The data also reveal information about the perpetrators. Almost 60 percent of the caller-complainants provided some identifying information about the identity thief, such as a name, address, or phone number. More than one-quarter of those victims reported that they personally knew the suspect," the testimony says. "We also are assessing the data on the monetary impact of this theft.
Some complainants provided estimates of the dollar amounts obtained by the thief, because they have received the resulting bills or have been notified of the resulting bad debts. The range of dollar amounts reported varies widely, with approximately 34 percent of complainants reporting theft of under $1,000; approximately 35 percent of complainants reporting theft totaling between $1,000 and $5,000, approximately 13 percent of complainants reporting theft totaling between $5,000 and $10,000, and approximately 18 percent of complainants reporting theft of over $10,000."
The testimony notes that, "The FTC's ID Theft Web Site, www.consumer.gov/idtheft gives tips on how consumers can guard against identity theft, warns consumers about the latest identity theft schemes and trends, and provides access to consumer education materials on identity theft. This Web site has received more than 108,000 page views since November 1999. The FTC has distributed more than 83,000 copies of a comprehensive consumer guide, "ID Theft: When Bad Things Happen to Your Good Name," and the Social Security Administration has printed and distributed an additional 115,000.
Bernstein said the Commission wants to work with the private sector to streamline the process consumers must follow to report incidences of ID Theft. "Currently, a victim of identity theft must notify each of the three national consumer reporting agencies separately, and then typically make additional calls to the FTC and to all creditors. The Commission looks forward to working with the three major national consumer reporting agencies to develop a complementary process to allow identity theft victims to share the details of their complaints simultaneously with the FTC and the national consumer reporting agencies."
The testimony says that the FTC will soon begin sharing certain limited information from its database ". . . with businesses whose practices are frequently associated with identity theft." In conjunction with the Department of Treasury and the other federal agencies who participated in the Identity Theft Summit, the FTC will convene a workshop for law enforcement, consumer groups, and industry on Identity Theft Victim Assistance in the fall of 2000. "Heightened awareness by consumers and businesses will . . . help reduce the occurrences of this fraud," the testimony says.
The Commission vote to approve the testimony was 5-0.
Copies of the testimony are available from the FTC's web site at http://www.ftc.gov and also from the FTC's Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580; 877-FTC-HELP (877-382-4357); TDD for the hearing impaired 1-866-653-4261. To find out the latest news as it is announced, call the FTC NewsPhone recording at 202-326-2710.
Claudia Bourne
Farrell Office of Public Affairs
Betsy Broder or Joanna Crane
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Identity Theft
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Former task force leader faces federal indictment
John Hacker
The former director of the Jasper County Drug Task Force and his wife now face new scrutiny for allegedly trying to hide money and property from a federal bankruptcy court.
Frank Lundien and Hailey Lundien, both of Joplin, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Springfield for fraudulently concealing from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court a motorcycle, a camper trailer and a joint checking account with $1,875 in it, then lying about the items to the grand jury.
Frank Lundien is a former Joplin police officer and former director of the Jasper County Drug Task Force until Feb. 15, 2007, when he resigned after a fire that destroyed the contents of the Task Force’s evidence locker.
According to the grand jury indictment handed down Thursday, Frank and Hailey Lundien concealed from federal bankruptcy court their ownership of a 1982 Harley Davidson motorcycle, a 1981 pop-up camper trailer and $1,875 in a joint checking account at the Joplin Metro Credit Union.
The indictment also says the two conspired to make a false statement on July 9, 2004, when they said no adjustments needed to be made to their bankruptcy petition.
Lundien is also being sued in Jasper County Circuit Court by Bobby R. Marrett, Webb City, for allegedly failing to return to Marrett more than $62,000 that was taken from him when he was the subject of a federal drug investigation in 2004.
Federal prosecutors said it was drug money, but the charges against Marrett were dropped Dec. 7, 2006.
When Marrett and his attorney approached Lundien, who was then working as director of the Jasper County Drug Task Force, about returning the money, Marrett said in his lawsuit that Lundien stalled several times.
The lawsuit said Lundien’s superior officers ordered him to turn the money over to then Jasper County Prosecutor’s Office on Feb. 15, 2007 but a mysterious fire in the task force’s evidence locker Feb. 14, 2007 destroyed everything in it.
Lundien resigned Feb. 15, 2007.
In his response to the lawsuit, Lundien denied all wrongdoing and said Marrett’s money was transferred to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Springfield.
Efforts to contact the FBI office in Kansas City to ask about the status of the agency’s investigation into the matter were unsuccessful Friday.
On Friday, Jasper County Sheriff Archie Dunn said from what he knows, the FBI’s investigation is ongoing.
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More underappreciated horror films for Halloween
Spooky, spooky, scary, scary!
It’s that time of year again - where pumpkins are carved up, gutted and massacred. Where kids dress up and beg for candy - from strangers! And let’s not forget - Halloween just wouldn’t be Halloween without at least one news site running a, “Watch out for razor blades in those apples” story. (Hint: You’re more likely to get mauled to death by a goat then you are to get a razor blade in your apple).
And that means there will be an inevitable flood of lists of movies to watch for Halloween! Hell, even I wrote one last year called Underappreciated Horror Films for Halloween. I took the idea that most such lists have all the usual suspects: take your pick of a franchise - Nightmare on Elm Street, Child’s Play, Paranormal Activity, Scream, Friday the 13th, Saw, Halloween, Hellraiser, [Insert Random Name] of the Dead, etc., etc. Throw in the obligatory mention of The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Shining, add another Stephen King adaptation for good measure, class it up with some vintage black and white: Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Frankenstein and toss in whatever is currently hip and popular with the cool kids these days, such as -- It Follows and Babadook.
Great! And done!
But, also, kind of boring.
And so I’m back with another list of underappreciated horror films for your Halloween viewing terror! Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of movies in the aforementioned list that I adore. But there are a lot of great horror movies that slip under the radar. If you are a true horror film aficionado there probably won't be much here you've not heard of. But for most movie folk this should be a nice list of underappreciated horror films you may dig.
The trailers were meticulously screened to avoid spoilers. No, seriously. I watched multiple trailers for all of these movies and selected ones that were cool but vague and non spoilerific!
Also, I just recognized that this year AND last year - most of my film selections were written by men, and all of them were directed by men. Hmm. I'll make sure future lists have more diversity. So, I'll work on that.
With that being said, some of my new favorite underappreciated films -- presented alphabetically:
Better Watch Out (2016): The movie's tagline says it all: On a quiet suburban street, a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from intruders, only to discover it's far from a normal home invasion. So, very true. =) Better Watch Out is a delightfully sinister Christmas horror film! The three young, unknown (to me) actors: Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Ed Oxenbould are all well cast and will probably go on to bigger and better things (a quick IMDB search tells me they have). The film was mildly loved by critics but largely ignored by audiences. I haven’t found a trailer that didn’t ruin some of the film’s surprises so I would ignore them all if I were you.
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2016): Often described as a "slow burn of a film," a phrase I typically dislike, because most folks equate that wording with, “Boring, but kind of interesting.” Instead I would describe The Blackcoat’s Daughter as a dark atmospheric exploration of loneliness. With some devil worship. The ending appears to have been largely misunderstood by critics and reviewers alike and without spoiling anything, I will say that any other interpretation other than, “holy fucking evil tragedy,” is wrong. All three of the female actors Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka and Lucy Boynton do fine work but I would say Kiernan Shipka pulls off an extraordinary take on the affected, especially since I always found her younger years as an actor on Mad Men, fairly inconsistent (she played young Sally Draper). Originally released as, “February” the film has been renamed for streaming and DVD. Official HD trailer for the Blackcoat’s Daughter.
Bone Tomahawk (2015): Kurt Russell. Sweet mutton chops. Western. Bloody vengeance. You read that right! Bearing the same badass mutton chops he flaunted in Tarantino's (kind of overrated) Hateful Eight, Russell steals the show as hard as nails Sheriff Franklin Hunt. The over all plot will certainly be familiar to anyone who’s seen a western before, but the tone of the film works well and carries the story to an effective, brutal ending. Nominated for and winner of - multiple indie / horror awards including the Independent Spirit Award, the Saturn Award and the Fangoria Chainsaw Award where Russell won for Best Actor. Official trailer #1 for Bone Tomahawk.
Compliance (2012): Based on the shocking true story, Compliance is a fairly accurate recreation of truly fucked up events that unfolded in the back of a Kentucky McDonald’s. Much like 2011's Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene the film is a non supernatural psychological thriller but, in essence - is a real horror film. There doesn’t have to be a supernatural presence, or a murder, in order for a movie to be down right chilling and horrific and Compliance is both. The premise of the film: A man, claiming to be a police officer, calls a fast-food restaurant and convinces the manager that one of her employees is a suspect and that the manager must strip search the employee. She complies. It gets worse from there. Compliance premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was … controversial to say the least. Audience members walked out because they found the movie too disturbing and then there was some kind of screaming match during the film’s Q&A all about the nature of compliance. Ann Dowd, as the manager in question, was nominated for all sorts of acting awards - winning the National Board of Review. Official trailer for Compliance.
Creep / Creep 2 (2014 / 2017): Writer / actor Mark Duplass, arguably the king of all fucking independent films in the last fifteen years (though he did not invent mumblecore films with The Puffy Chair in 2005 as many have implied, that was Andrew Bujalski with Funny Ha Ha in 2002). Anyway, Duplass pulls off another charming mumblecore-esq role as - the creep? Or is he? Also, this is one of the rare gems where the sequel might be better than the original. Both are found footage films with all the pratfalls that entails but are relatively short at 80ish minutes each and can be watched in one creepy evening. Official Trailer for Creep. And hey now, don’t go watching the Trailer for Creep 2 until you’ve finished Creep!
Hereditary (2018): Okay. I will go out on a limb and tell you that Hereditary is the greatest horror film of the last decade and might be my favorite horror film of all time. Criminally underappreciated actress Toni Collette turns in a powerhouse performance as artist Annie Graham. Her mother has just died and Annie inherits an enormous amount of emotional baggage the threatens her family and her very existential existence. Both Milly Shapiro and Alex Wolff, as her children, are equally mesmerizing. Ann Dowd, mentioned above in Compliance is as universally great as she always is. Hereditary drips with imagery & symbols and heavily explores themes of the title of the film - inheritance. A simple enough premise but executed with unbelievable skill in front of and behind the camera. I hesitate to use the word “masterpiece,” because the word is so over used, especially in film criticism. But, use it I shall because Hereditary is a domestic nightmare, horror masterpiece. Official trailer for Hereditary.
Green Room (2015): Like many movies on this list Green Room was a critic’s darling that underperformed at the box office. Staring the late, great Anton Yelchin and the crazy talented chameleon Imogen Poots. Seriously, I could not believe she was the same woman from the perfect Fright Night remake. The movie is about a punk rock band, the Aint Rights, who find themselves attacked by neo-Nazi skinheads after accidentally witnessing a murder at the skinhead’s club. And who plays the leader of the skinheads? Patrick Stewart, naturally. No, seriously, I don’t know what convinced him to play the role of a skinhead Nazi but the movie gods should be thanked that he recognized the greatness that was about the become the film Green Room! And it’s really, really great. Official trailer for Green Room.
Thoroughbreds (2017): The movie that made me ask, “Um, who the hell is that actress? Because in the next ten years she’s going to be recognized as one of the greatest actors of her generation.” The woman in question - Olivia Cooke. You fine folks might be all like, “Oh, the girl from The Bates Motel - and Ready Player One, yeah, she’s great!” Well, at the time I saw Thoroughbreds Ready Player One had not been released and I had not seen a single episode of Bates Motel - but you can be sure I binged it in the next few months. (And, it’s okay. Cooke's character is very under written and she's underused which is okay since she's not the lead, and the two leads are great in Bates Motel - but that’s another story). Anyway, Thoroughbreds is more of a super dark comedy than a traditional horror film, but they often go hand in hand. I mean, it is a film about murdering one of your parents but, like - in a hip, non trite way. #amiright? As much as I love Angela Bettis in May and Robin McLeavy in The Loved Ones, I think Olivia Cooke’s sociopathic Amanda is the new big girl on the block. Official trailer for Thoroughbreds.
And there we have it. Another list. Hopefully, you’ll see something here that interests you. If you like a lot of films on this list, perhaps check out my list from last year, linked above. More of the same - underappreciated gems.
This years tally of horror: An on screen body count of approx. twenty four but maybe as high as eighty (hard to keep track of as some of the serial killer movies are deceptive about victims). Three movies with decapitations. Two about demons. Two with bad parents. One about Christmas. One on tour. Three, perhaps four (number debatable) about serial killers. Four with female leads. Two found footage. One with Nazis. One based on a true story. And one starring Kurt Russell and those glorious mutton chops.
Better Watch Out (2016), an Australian Horror Comedy film directed by: Chris Peckover and written by Zach Kahn and Peckover.
The Blackcoat's Daughter (2016), an American Canadian supernatural psychological drama written and directed by: Oz Perkins, son of late Anthony Perkins.
Bone Tomahawk (2015), an American western horror film written and directed by S. Craig Zahler.
Compliance (2012), an american thriller drama written and directed by Craig Zobel.
Creep / Creep 2 (2014 / 2017), American independent found footage horror film directed by Patrick Brice and written by Mark Duplass and Brice.
Hereditary (2018), an American supernatural horror film (masterpiece!) written and directed by Ari Aster. His first feature film.
Green Room (2015), an American horror film written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier. Also - fuck Nazi’s.
Thoroughbreads (2017), an American black comedy thriller written and directed by Cory Finley. Starring crazy, madman genius young actor Olivia Cooke.
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Austria, Switzerland and Hungary/
1835 Hall Map of Switzerland
Switzerland-hall-1835
1835 (undated) 17 x 21 in (43.18 x 53.34 cm) 1 : 691000
This is a beautiful map of Switzerland from Sidney Hall's extremely scarce 1835 New General Atlas. The map covers the entire country and shows the division by Cantons from Vaud to Grisons. Towns, rivers, mountains, railroads, canals, marshes, forests, and various other important topographical details are noted. Elevation throughout is rendered by hachure and political and territorial boundaries are outlined in color.
When this map was made Switzerland had just undergone a rapid social and economic change known as the Regeneration Movement. Following the French July Revolution in 1830, the Swiss began assemble and call for fair representation and new Cantonal constitutions. Many of the cantons subsequently established representative governments and instituted freedom of the press and trade. A legend on the upper left quadrant notes each of the 22 independent Cantons which form a Confederated Republic along with its religion. The Protestant cantons witnessed armed marches after its rural population enforced liberal cantonal constitutions. The conservative backlash in the Catholic cantons gave rise to a civil war in 1847.
Sidney Hall's New General Atlas was published from 1830 to 1857, the first edition being the most common, with all subsequent editions appearing only rarely. Most of the maps included in the first edition of this atlas were drawn between 1827 and 1828 and are most likely steel plate engravings, making it among the first cartographic work to employ this technique. Each of the maps in this large and impressive atlas feature elegant engraving and an elaborate keyboard style border. Though this is hardly the first map to employ this type of border, it is possibly the earliest to use it on such a large scale. Both the choice to use steel plate engraving and the addition of the attractive keyboard boarder are evolutions of anti-forgery efforts. Copper plates, which were commonly used for printing bank notes in the early 19th century, proved largely unsuitable due to their overall fragility and the ease with which they could be duplicated. In 1819 the Bank of England introduced a £20,000 prize for anyone who could devise a means to print unforgeable notes. The American inventors Jacob Perkins and Asa Spencer responded to the call. Perkins discovered a process for economically softening and engraving steel plates while Spencer invented an engraving lathe capable of producing complex patters repetitively - such as this keyboard border. Though Perkins and Spenser did not win the prize, their steel plate engraving technique was quickly adopted by map publishers in England, who immediately recognized its value. Among early steel plate cartographic productions, this atlas, published in 1830 by Longman Rees, Orme, Brown & Green stands out as perhaps the finest. This map was issued by Sidney Hall and published by Longman Rees, Orme, Brown & Green of Paternoster Row, London, in the 1835 edition of the Sidney Hall New General Atlas.
Sidney Hall (1788 - 1831) was an English engraver and map publisher active in London during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His earliest imprints, dating to about 1814, suggest a partnership with Michael Thomson, another prominent English map engraver. Hall engraved for most of the prominent London map publishers of his day, including Aaron Arrowsmith, William Faden, William Harwood, and John Thomson, among others. Hall is credited as being one of the earliest adopters of steel plate engraving, a technique that allowed for finer detail and larger print runs due to the exceptional hardness of the medium. Upon his early death - he was only in his 40s - Hall's business was inherited by his wife, Selina Hall, who continued to publish under the imprint, "S. Hall", presumably for continuity. The business eventually passed to Sidney and Selina's nephew Edward Weller, who became extremely prominent in his own right.
Hall, S., A New General Atlas, with the Divisions and Boundaries, 1835.
Very good. Original platemark visible. Minor wear and verso repair near original centerfold. Some offsetting. Blank on verso.
Rumsey 4224.024 (1830 edition). Philips (Atlases) 758. Ristow, W., American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, p. 303-09.
Antique Maps of the European Continent
England, Scotland, and Ireland
Germany and the Czech Republic
Austria, Switzerland and Hungary
Greece & the Balkans
Antique Maps of Russia and Eastern Europe
Antique Maps of Scandinavia and Denmark
Holland and Belgium
Antique Maps of Spain - Portugal
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We Need to Talk about the Rohingyas at the G20
By The GLI Team at the G20 - 28 June 2019
Conflict and security
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been at the centre of the last four G20 summits. In 2015, at the Antalya Summit, world leaders committed to develop a plan of action to develop the 2030 Agenda on the SDGs made by the United Nations (UN). Since then, they have been on the agenda at all consecutive summits.
At this year’s G20 Summit, Japan is making a genuine effort to try to provide for greater sustainability. Single-use plastics are not allowed in the International Media Centre, reusable cups and bottles are given for free at the entrance, water fountains are provided (learning from the hypocrisy of the 2018 Buenos Aires Summit), and the Japanese media is obsessed with the amount of effort their country is putting on display. In Japanese, “sustainable” is translated as jizoku kanno na kaihatsu, which gives a sense of having something to project into the future. In English, we see sustainability as the ability to continue to consume with abandon over a long period of time, and this is a right to be upheld or defended. These slight subtleties allow countries to determine their central focus on sustainability in a way that works for them.
However, the SDGs do not stop here. Hailed as ‘a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity’, it is ironic that nobody is talking about widespread human rights abuses hindering the welfare of people. Rather, at the G20 the spotlight is largely on the environmental side of the SDGs. This is reflected in the agenda of this year’s summit, which is focused on women’s empowerment, digital economy, the future of Society 5.0, trade, employment, among others, with sustainability being the centrepoint of all these themes but without any mention of human rights. When asked about the refugee crisis in Venezuela and Mexico at his G20 Press Conference, Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN, replied that this will most likely not be an issue discussed by world leaders at the summit.
The UN has repeatedly been prevented from intervening in countries unable (or unwilling) to protect their populations. The implementation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has made reaching a consensus in the Security Council even more of a challenge, leaving people facing state violence without adequate protection or long-term help. The five permanent Security Council members all have different interests and the ability to veto any resolutions proposed. Russia, and China even refused to participate in talks on a British resolution on the Rohingya issue. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has tried to contain and provide solutions to human rights violations but has been unsuccessful due to the lack of an international mandate.
In past G20 summits, there was little to no mention of the European refugee crisis, Venezuela, the Rohingyas and many more such crises were also left forgotten by the media. Migration is a recurrent challenge in our societies and will be increasingly so due to intensifying economic, humanitarian and environmental upheavals. In 2017, Germany called for the G20 to go beyond being a platform for the management of the global economy and start assuming a more wide-ranging role in global peace. What G20 members seem to forget here is that the SDGs, the economy and human rights abuses are all deeply interlinked.
This can be seen clearly in the immediate outpouring of excitement among developed countries when Myanmar started an apparent transition to democracy. It shifted the public’s attention away from distressing images of Rohingyas trying to leave the country, open graveyards, and refugee camps. This dangerous situation has an impact on the Southeast Asian region as it is estimated that 723,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh since August 2017. They are left in demonstrably unsafe conditions, making their camps on land that could be easily flooded during the Monsoon season.
From an economic point of view, leaders have much to gain from stopping these abuses. Myanmar’s GDP is expected to grow at a rate of 6.8% in the next year. While still having a poor reputation due to its handling of the ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas, it has managed to attract ‘the most foreign direct investment of any of the world’s so-called “least developed countries" in 2017’ with China and Hong Kong providing a sizable amount of this investment. This shows that Myanmar is still attracting foreign investors. Investments in the country would, in the long-term, hopefully alleviate poverty and help the implementation of the SDGs at a global level. This, however, can only be achieved if there is a resolution to the Rohingya crisis.
Ahead of the 34th annual ASEAN Summit in Bangkok, the Rohingyas seemed to be a topic that members wanted to discuss without condemning Myanmar. Instead, they decided to tackle the ‘humanitarian crisis’ and purposefully omitted to talk about the structural issues concerning this issue. National determination is one of the most important principles of ASEAN yet is also the cause of tensions in this regional bloc and demonstrates its weaknesses. On top of having Thailand as Chairman of ASEAN coming to the Osaka Summit, fellow ASEAN members Vietnam and Singapore have also been invited. This is a prime opportunity for world leaders to put pressure on key ASEAN members who could potentially impact upon any decision to take action on the situation.
By including some of the most powerful and richest countries in the world, the G20 provides a platform to talk about global issues. However, with a low level of institutionalisation and no way to implement policies, the G20 does not set its aims high enough. At this year’s summit in Osaka, Japan – a country always seen as an innovator in global summitry – could try to change the usual agenda by instigating a discussion on the Rohingyas and human rights violations in the world. Focusing on the SDGs and climate change should inevitably bring about a conversation on the future of migration. Yet, despite the aim of the SDGs related to ‘prosperity and peace’, the G20 is definitely failing to grasp the other side of the story. The members have put the conversation about migration off for far too long now.
Image credit: AK Rockefeller via (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Oligarchs and Oligarchs
Israeli and Palestinian Stories. Can Mediators Reconfigure Incompatible Narratives?
Concert Diplomacy: Past, Present, Prospects
The Emerging Great Power Politics and Regionalism: Structuring Effective Regional Conflict Management
Introduction to the Special Issue
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No need to overreact to Iran's nuclear moves: Chinese delegate
People's Daily Online
(Xinhua) 14:20, July 11, 2019
VIENNA, July 10 (Xinhua) -- The international community should not overreact to Iran's recent nuclear moves because they do not incur any proliferation risks, said Fu Cong, head of the Chinese delegation at an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday.
"We do not, we should not, overreact to the actions taken by Iran, because in our view, these actions do not incur any proliferation risks, and they do not contravene Iran's obligation under the safeguard agreement," said Fu, who is director general of the Department of Arms Control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Fu made the remarks after the 35 members of IAEA board of governors gathered at the IAEA headquarters for a closed-door meeting at the request of the United States.
It was confirmed last week that Iran had exceeded the stockpile of enriched uranium permitted under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in response to the U.S. withdrawal from the deal and sanctions against the Gulf country.
"There is no credible reason for Iran to expand its nuclear program, and there is no way to read this as anything other than a crude and transparent attempt to extort payments from the international community," Jackie Wolcott, the U.S. ambassador to the international organizations in Vienna, told the three-hour meeting on Wednesday.
China expressed at the meeting its regret over Iran's exceeding some of the limits under the 2015 nuclear deal, while noting that the current situation came as a result of the U.S. unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and its imposition of unilateral sanctions against Iran.
"This whole meeting started from a very funny situation," Fu noted, "because it is called for by the U.S., a country that withdrew unilaterally from the JCPOA, and it is the U.S. that asked to convene the meeting to discuss the implementation by a member of the JCPOA, so we think it is quite paradoxical."
Kazem Gharib Abadi, the Iranian ambassador to the IAEA, blasted the United States after the meeting, condemning it practicing "economic terrorism" against other countries.
"The sadistic tendency of the United States to use illegal, unilateral sanctions as an instrument to coerce sovereign states and private entities should come to an end," he said.
Mikhail Ulyanov, permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the international organizations in Vienna, issued a statement after the meeting, pointing to the "oddity" that the United States, a country that declared the JCPOA to be a "terrible deal" and "took the path of its destruction" suddenly became aware of its importance and demanded its full implementation.
"In fact, the United States who are refusing to fulfil its own obligations under the nuclear deal lost any right to demand this from others," said the statement.
Fu urged the United States to abandon its maximum pressure policy against Iran and to resume the agreement.
"We are fully committed to the JCPOA, and we are making every effort to implement the commitment we have undertaken under the JCPOA," he said.
"We also believe that the Joint Commission is the right place to discuss issues related to the implementations of JCPOA," he added.
Fu also called on related parties to accelerate efforts and take concrete actions so that Iran could reap the economic benefit promised under the nuclear deal.
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T&E Litigation Newsletter - 9/12/14
September 2014 – Advisories
Mark Swirbalus and Marshall Senterfitt
In United States of America v. Estate of Robert Reitano, Civil Action No. 12-11944-RWZ, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 123200 (D. Mass. Sept. 4, 2014), the federal district court issued a warning shot to estate fiduciaries who fail to pay the federal tax liabilities of the estates they are administering.
The decedent Robert Reitano owned stock in two closely held corporations, each of which owned a fishing boat. His assets consisted of little else besides the shares of stock. Marci McNicol, who owned stock in one of the corporations, was appointed the executrix of the decedent’s estate. In her role as executrix, McNicol was given notice of the decedent’s “significant” federal tax liabilities. McNicol did not pay these liabilities, but instead distributed the decedent’s stock in the two corporations to herself.
After years of failed negotiations with McNicol, the IRS transferred the case to the Department of Justice, which brought suit on behalf of the Government against the estate and McNicol, individually and as executrix. Among other things, the Government sought to hold McNicol personally liable for a portion of the decedent’s tax liabilities under the Federal Priority Statute, 31 U.S.C. 3713, which provides in part as follows: “[a] claim of the United States Government shall be paid first when . . . the estate of a deceased debtor, in the custody of the executor or administrator, is not enough to pay all debts of the debtor[;]” and “[a] representative of a person or an estate . . . paying any part of a debt of the person or estate before paying a claim of the Government is liable to the extent of the payment for the unpaid claims of the Government.”
In order to make out a claim under the Federal Priority Statute, the Government must meet three elements: (1) a fiduciary of the debtor or the debtor’s estate transferred assets of the debtor or the estate; (2) the debtor or the estate was insolvent at the time of the transfer, or rendered insolvent by the transfer; and (3) before making the transfer, the fiduciary knew of the tax debt or had notice of facts that would lead a reasonably prudent person to inquire about the existence of such a debt. McNicol did not dispute that these three elements were met. Rather, she argued that family allowances and funeral and administrative expenses take priority over the Government’s claim. The Court did not address this argument, however, expressly taking no position on it, because McNicol did not use the decedent’s assets to pay family allowances or funeral and administrative expenses. She simply transferred the shares of stock to herself without paying the known tax liabilities, and in doing so violated the Federal Priority Statute. She was held personally liable.
This update was authored by Mark Swirbalus and Marshall Senterfitt, attorneys in the firm's Probate & Fiduciary Litigation group. For questions or additional information on this topic, please contact Mark at [email protected], Marshall at [email protected], or any member of the Probate & Fiduciary Litigation group.
This newsletter should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents are intended for general informational purposes only, and you are urged to consult your own lawyer concerning your situation and any specific legal questions you may have.
©2014 Goulston & Storrs PC All Rights Reserved
Marshall D. Senterfitt
Mark E. Swirbalus
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Pediatricians: Fisher-Price Rock 'n Play sleeper is 'deadly,' should be recalled
By Gary Dinges gdinges@gatehousemedia.com
Pediatricians across the nation are calling on Fisher-Price to immediately recall its Rock 'n Play sleeper, calling it "deadly."
The American Academy of Pediatrics claims 32 sleep-related infant deaths are linked to the popular sleeper, while Fisher-Price put the number of deaths at 10. The deaths reportedly occured when unrestrained infants rolled over.
Friday, Fisher-Price and the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a warning for owners of the Rock 'n Play, but doctors say that's not good enough, CBS News reports.
"This product is deadly and should be recalled immediately," Kyle Yasuda, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said in a written statement obtained by People magazine. “There is convincing evidence that the Rock 'n Play inclined sleeper puts infants’ lives at risk, and CPSC must step up and take immediate action to remove it from stores and prevent further tragedies.”
The Friday warning urged parents to stop using the sleeper when infants turn 3 months old. That's typically when infants are able to roll over on their own.
But a Consumer Reports investigation cited by CBS News found that some of the infants who died were younger than 3 months old.
"Based on the deaths and injuries associated with the Fisher-Price Rock 'n Play, the product clearly puts infants' safety at risk and should be recalled immediately," William Wallace, senior policy analyst at Consumer Reports, said. "All other inclined sleepers should be investigated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. These products conflict with American Academy of Pediatrics' safe sleep recommendations, and manufacturers should pull them off the market."
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Influences are forces - circumstances, personalities, irresistible as the tide.
- Raymond Carver
I love Raymond Carver's essay 'Fires'. He talks about writing in a very in-the-moment way, and he talks about what has influenced him as a writer. "I don't know about literary influences. But I do have some notions about other kinds of influences. The influences I know something about have pressed on me in ways that were often mysterious at first glance, sometimes stopping just short of the miraculous," he says.
I had something along those lines in mind when I went back to visit the place where I grew up a few weeks ago. As a potter, I don't know about potterly influences - it's pretty hard to pin down what specific potters might have 'influenced' me - but traveling back to the place I was born, I hoped for some insight into influence in the more mysterious and miraculous sense. I stood at the intersection of Dublin Hill Road and Angling Road and took the picture above. In the distance you see the lake - it's about four miles away, down past that line of trees. I know, you can barely see it - but, it is there. As a kid the presence of that lake, and the sense of its being there even when you couldn't see it, was influential. In the night, from my bedroom, I heard its waves.
A few years back a former colleague of my father's found my gallery in Santa Fe, bought a piece, and then introduced himself. He and my dad had taught at the same place, back where I grew up, had sat through the same faculty meetings, stood around the same coffee urn. Come visit when you're back this way sometime, he said, and I wanted to do this now - he could tell me a little about life back then, he could give me a little perspective. Before knocking on his door I visited the lake itself, parking carefully where, back then, I would have just flung my bike down. I stood for a moment on the shore. It was just the same. The smooth shale stones felt the same, and by mistake getting my shoes wet...that felt the same too. The waves made a quiet, repetitive, questioning, sound, coming up and then going back. The lake was talking to itself, just as it was before, an endless sound, when you really crouch down to listen, waves stretching twenty miles in both directions up and down the shore.
Finally I went to my dad's former colleague's house. He and his wife welcomed me in and showed me around. Here's the piece we bought from you in Santa Fe, he said. This one here is from Mackenzie Childs. And here - this one is by Toshiko Takaezu. Did you know she came up for a workshop once?
Uh...really? To the college? I imagined myself pedaling around on Main Street, while Toshiko Takaezu was up on campus a couple blocks away. I would have been about seven.
Sure. When the new art building had just gotten completed. They wanted me to bring some people in, so, I thought why not start at the top? I called her up. We all had a fantastic time!
Wow, I said. I picked up a small but tall and casually-thrown bowl that looked like it had warped a little in the firing - a little bit oval. An opaque white glaze that is now a Seventies cliche - like Rhodes 32, a glaze I love and use all the time. Wow, I said again. I wonder if my Dad dropped by to watch her workshop. I have often thought of the 'circumstances,' as Raymond Carver would call them, of my growing up - a couple hours from Alfred University where Dan Rhodes was himself on the faculty at that time, along with Robert Turner; an hour from Syracuse where, when I was a kid, Garth Clark opened the First International Ceramics Symposium. The Everson Museum, with that fantastic collection. Our kitchen was always filled with stoneware, some of it made in that new art building up on campus and perhaps scooped up by my dad on his way down from his office.
This casserole was always around when I was little. It was in constant use, either in the oven, or on the table, or pushed into the refrigerator. As a kid I thought it was big, and very fine, and heavy. The stony glaze - that could almost be Rhodes 32, with maybe a little more feldspar in the mix - was elegant, earthy, and not decorative. Even as a kid I didn't like the word 'decorate.' The casserole was, for me as a kid, a satisfying unification of formality and urbanity on the one hand - just look at that lid pull at the very top - and a kind of easy-going, corduroy, every-day-ness. Kind of what I picture my dad's classes to have been like. I asked his colleague what he'd been like as a teacher.
Carefully I packed up the casserole and brought it home with me to Santa Fe. Maybe this'll turn out to be something really valuable, I thought as the plane took off - maybe it is an early work by Robert Turner himself.
In the bright light of my own ceramics studio, though, the casserole didn't quite look so good. I was surprised. The lid is ill-fitting, the glaze doesn't quite fit either, crazing deeply. The foot is trimmed with a tentative hand. I peered at the signature. 'Klym,' it said, the letters drawn with a needle tool, sure sign of a student potter. I was disappointed. Overall the casserole had a quality I'd never noticed - provisional, a step on the way, this was a piece made by someone learning how casseroles worked, what the form was, underneath. It almost seemed like...something I might have made.
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OPINION | SOUTH AFRICA
How trade unions reacted to the Sona
22 February 2016 By Terry Bell
Much point-scoring with the one good proposal lost in the noise
Cosatu’s rival trade union federation, Fedusa, has a good proposal following the State of the Nation Address, writes Terry Bell.
22 February 2016 - By Terry Bell
We have now had time to digest the latest State of the Nation Address (Sona). Although digest seems hardly the right word, given how little substance there was in the speech: it was extremely lean in terms of content.
Not that this was the view of the Alliance faithful. They still rallied dutifully to pronounce, with a few reservations, that President Jacob Zuma was “on the right track”, albeit taking his time in the process. Cosatu, for example, welcomed the “broad thrusts” of the speech that, the federation noted, “highlighted many important steps towards lifting the nation out of its economic crisis and placing it on the correct path”.
Such steps, usually from a very low and previously undermined base, were also applauded this week by industries minister Rob Davies during the debate on the Sona. Like Cosatu, he hailed measures “to support industrialisation, manufacturing and export promotion, and to grow the textile, leather, automotive sector industries”. But there was no mention of the overall loss of jobs.
The Communist Party kindergarten, the Young Communist League, went even further. Revealing a remarkably slender grasp of reality, the YCL announced that the country was “on the right track despite a bleak picture about the state of the nation painted in public by the neo-liberal media and its apologists”.
But the “bleak picture” is made up of an officially acknowledged 25%-plus unemployment rate where widespread hunger is the norm and where the majority of families live below any designated poverty line. Much of this is not, unfortunately, very widely reported in the media.
Nailing their colours — and probably those of their parent body, the SACP — firmly to the ANC mast, the YCL went on the declare: “We are more than convinced that no other administration can fulfil the hopes and dreams of all South Africans other than the current one.”
Not unexpectedly, this position was totally opposed by the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa), once the largest — and now expelled — affiliate of Cosatu. Numsa announced that it was “appalled” by the Sona, that, according to the union, revealed a government that had “lost all grasp of the deep problems facing the overwhelming majority of South African people”.
Most of this amounted to political points scoring; of shots fired in the looming electoral battles later this year and in 2019. And the Numsa statement made this abundantly clear in noting that the union’s position was “to move with urgency to establish a new democratic workers’ party, which will stand for the complete socialist transformation of society”.
This, of course, is the same goal apparently aimed at by the leaders of Cosatu, many of whom share leadership positions in the SACP that claims to be the workers’ party. The problem here is that there seems to exist no clear definition of what is meant by socialism.
Perhaps, as one veteran trade unionist remarked: “It’s simply a battle between a hostile band of Stalinist brothers.” This in reference to the fact that the leading polemicists in the SACP, Cosatu and Numsa all share the same political pedigree and appear still to look to what existed in the former Soviet Union as “socialism”.
Lost in all this fiery rhetoric is a practical proposal from the Federation of Unions (Fedusa) that, in these economically parlous times, government should start by cutting costs at the top by radically reducing the grossly bloated cabinet. While Germany, for example, has a head of state, Angela Merkel, and 15 cabinet ministers, we have a president, deputy president, 35 ministers and 35 deputy ministers.
The total cost, in salaries alone — there are also substantial perks that include medical aid, free and subsidised housing, transport, cars and other allowances — is more than R160 million a year. Fedusa has proposed that a cabinet for South Africa should comprise just ten ministers and that there should be a 25% pay cut at that level. Such savings should be plowed into education, health and public transport.
However, all the federations and the unaffiliated unions are united in calling for “decent work for all”. But they, like the government and opposition parties, seem long on rhetoric and somewhat short on realistic plans that take cognisance of the world of the 21st Century.
Views expressed are not necessarily GroundUp’s.
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Here’s the Special Role Princess Diana’s Sisters Played in Archie’s Christening
Here’s What Serena Williams Said When Someone Asked Her If She Was Baby Sussex’s Godparent
Meghan and Harry Want Archie’s Christening to Be Private—And People Aren’t Happy About It
Best-Selling Author Emily Giffin on Why She Unabashedly Loves the Royals—And Always Will
Emily Giffin
Emily Giffin, the author of seven New York Times best-selling books (Something Borrowed, First Comes Love, and All We Ever Wanted, out on June 26th) is a professional romance aficionado. Her page-turners always include on women falling in and out of love, and often have a wedding as a plot point. So it shouldn't come as any surprise that she's long been an avid royals watcher. In fact, Giffin's obsession with matters of the heart started when Princess Diana married Prince Charles in 1981. Here, Giffin traces how the royals have inspired her fiction, and why Meghan Markle's wedding might just be the most exciting royal union of them all.
When people ask why I’m so obsessed with the royal family, I point to my mother’s most prized possession, a letter framed in her living room. Dated July 22, 1953, it begins “I write at the Queen’s command to thank you for your letter” and is signed by Elizabeth’s Lady-in-Waiting. My mother was only eight years old when she penned her congratulatory correspondence to the Queen, but she was already fascinated by the crown and enchanted by all things British, from English gardens to English literature. (My sister and I are actually named after Sara and her doll, Emily, in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Little Princess, my mother’s favorite book as a child).
Giffin's mother's letter, signed by Queen Elizabeth’s Lady-in-Waiting
So it was inevitable that Sarah and I would become her Anglophile protégées as we were literally taught to love the royals and appreciate their historical significance in much the same way other children inherit a parent’s passion for baseball or jazz music. By the time Lady Di married Prince Charles, we were fully indoctrinated and entranced. I was only nine years old on that summer morning in July of 1981 when we rose before the sun to watch the royal wedding, but every small detail is burned into my memory. I remember Diana’s endlessly long (and woefully wrinkled) train, how she mixed up Charles’s first and second names during the vows, the tentative way she waved from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Was she scared? Happy? Madly in love? We didn’t yet own a VCR, but the three of us spent that rest of the day rehashing it all while playing with Charles and Di paper dolls and deciding that Sarah and I would one day marry Charles’s younger brothers Andrew and Edward. (I still get a little jealous of Sophie—but now it’s envy over how close she is to the Queen.)
Yes, the royals are famous by virtue of birthright or marriage, and we are intrigued by the glamour and mystery of their world, but that’s not why we feel attached. Rather it’s the common, human thread that bonds us to that famed family. It’s the relatability of falling in love, getting married, having children.
As my sister and I grew, so did our appreciation of the crown and all it embodies—duty, service, love of country. At the same time, though, we watched Diana’s fairy tale morph into something darker and more complicated. With my mother, we pored over every newspaper, magazine, and photograph we could find, and had candid conversations about Charles’s infidelity, Diana’s bulimia, and everything—everything—related to those two precious boys William and Harry.
The day Diana died remains one of the saddest of my life. I had just taken the bar exam, and was beginning my adult life as a lawyer in New York City, and I just couldn’t fathom that Diana’s life was over, her two boys motherless. I remember my closest guy friend being confounded by my grief—You didn’t know her, he kept saying. You don’t weep for strangers who die in a car crash; what made Diana so special? I tried to explain that that was precisely why I—and millions of others across the globe—cared so much. Yes, the royals are famous by virtue of birthright or marriage, and we are intrigued by the glamour and mystery of their world, but that’s not why we feel attached. Rather it’s the common, human thread that bonds us to that famed family. It’s the relatability of falling in love, getting married, having children. It’s the universal pain of heartbreak and divorce and death.
Giffin's ever-growing collection of royal memorabilia
These are the same emotions and relationships that I explore in my fiction. They are what I wrote about when I moved to London in 2001 and began my first novel Something Borrowed. As I strolled through Kensington Gardens during daily writing breaks, I drew inspiration thinking about the people who had lived in the Palace over the generations. Would William ever propose to Kate? Did he and Harry blame Camilla or their father for their mother’s death? Is there such a thing as “happily ever after”?
My sister (who also lived in London for a spell and once spotted Diana while working at Harrod’s), mother, and I still wonder about such dynamics, though the questions have changed over time, and now include a beautiful, biracial, American actress by the name of Meghan Markle. On Saturday morning, the three of us, along with my ten-year-old daughter Harriet (who, in accordance with family tradition, has her own letter from the Duchess of Cambridge’s Lady-in-Waiting hanging in her bedroom), will awaken to watch another royal wedding. Once again, we will be reminded that royal or not, we are all the sum of our relationships, defined by love. Harry is a prince—and sixth in line to the throne—but he is also that little heartbroken boy trailing behind his mummy’s casket. And now he is a handsome, courageous man marrying the love of his life. What will happen to Harry and Meghan after they say “I do”? Will they have children? What will they name them? In what ways will they serve their country and the greater world? And most of all, will they live happily ever after? The question shouldn’t be why am I obsessed, but rather, how can anyone not find this hopeful union—and this family—endlessly fascinating?
Emily Giffin's latest novel, All We Ever Wanted, is due out in June.
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Rihanna Day Drinking With Seth Meyers Is the Only Thing You Need to Watch Today
Alex Rodriguez Was J.Lo’s Biggest Cheerleader After a Show Mishap in Vegas
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My Year on the Red Carpet: The Most Surreal Moments, the Most Intimidating Celeb, and the Musician Who Saved the Day
Drumroll, please: 221. That's the number of events I attended in 2013. Whew, no wonder I'm a little tired. But even with the lack of sleep, I never lose sight of the fact that I get to work for a brand I absolutely love (and celebs do too—they say all the time how much they love Glamour!). So, I thought, what better way to wrap up this year than take you guys down memory lane with the most memorable red carpets and events and share what really happened behind the scenes. Favorite Red Carpet of the Year: The Golden Globes It's the best show that combines all of our faves from TV and film—and it's the equivalent of a kid in a candy story for a pop-culture expert and entertainment buff. Even better? Hanging out late at night inside the lobby of the Beverly Hilton, which is like being on a fancy cruise ship (everyone's dressed to the nines, tipsy, and party-hopping—and oh yeah, there's celebs like Selena Gomez, Michael J. Fox, and Meryl Streep). I'm already counting down the days until the 2014 show. Most Exhilarating Day at Work: Diving With Olympic Gold Medalist Greg Louganis on the Set
Jessica Radloff
Drumroll, please: 221. That's the number of events I attended in 2013. Whew, no wonder I'm a little tired. But even with the lack of sleep, I never lose sight of the fact that I get to work for a brand I absolutely love (and celebs do too—they say all the time how much they love Glamour!). So, I thought, what better way to wrap up this year than take you guys down memory lane with the most memorable red carpets and events and share what really happened behind the scenes.
Favorite Red Carpet of the Year: The Golden Globes
It's the best show that combines all of our faves from TV and film—and it's the equivalent of a kid in a candy story for a pop-culture expert and entertainment buff. Even better? Hanging out late at night inside the lobby of the Beverly Hilton, which is like being on a fancy cruise ship (everyone's dressed to the nines, tipsy, and party-hopping—and oh yeah, there's celebs like Selena Gomez, Michael J. Fox, and Meryl Streep). I'm already counting down the days until the 2014 show.
Most Exhilarating Day at Work: Diving With Olympic Gold Medalist Greg Louganis on the Set of Splash
I've never had so much fun doing something that scared me to death (but when Greg Louganis tells you to jump from what feels like 1,000 feet up, you do it). And getting to learn from the absolute best? Incredible. (The belly flop? Not so much).
Biggest Thrill: Interviewing Steve Perry
I was too young to see the legendary Steve Perry perform with Journey in the '80s, so I've always joked, "Steve Perry is going to sing at my wedding one day. He just doesn't know it yet." And on an autumn evening in September, I finally came face-to-face with the seldom-seen Perry and had the biggest freak-out of my career. And best of all? The powerhouse singer was gracious enough to say that when the time comes for me to walk down the aisle, we'll talk about having him perform at the reception. Don't Stop Believin', folks. Don't Stop Believin'.
Me, Steve Perry, and Heart's Nancy and Ann Wilson. Major freak-out moment, indeed.
Most Anticipated Interview: The Little Couple's Dr. Jen Arnold and Bill Klein
For those interviews that I know I'll be doing ahead of time, none made me more excited than spending a couple of hours with The Little Couple's Dr. Jen Arnold and Bill Klein. Having watched their series from day one, it was such a thrill to talk to this amazing couple who have documented their successes and struggles on the TLC series. In what should be the happiest month of their life—celebrating the holidays with Will and newly adopted, Zoey— Jen is now battling a rare form of cancer and undergoing an aggressive form of treatment. Over the course of our interviews, I told Jen that I one day want to host a red carpet with her. She was beyond psyched. So, Jen, get better soon because I need my cohost. (And Bill, remember you're parking cars.)
The Celeb Who Saved the Day: Ed Sheeran
The scene: the VMAs. The atmosphere: out of control. The lineup of artists was incredible (Katie Perry, Robin Thicke, Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus, New Direction, Taylor Swift), but few were talking on the red carpet (most were just doing a wave and walk-by), except for Ed Sheeran. Ed, let it be known that being Mr. Nice Guy will get you far—and all the respect in the world when it comes to realizing that entertainment journalists have a job to do too.
Most Surreal Moment: Announcing the Royal Baby Name on The Talk and Then Seeing a Clip of It on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
There's nothing like the adrenaline rush I get every time I appear on CBS' The Talk in front of a live audience. So when the executive producers asked if would announce the name of the Duke and Duchess's new son to the studio audience, I was beside myself. Later that afternoon, I found out Jimmy Fallon was going to do a montage of clips showing various news anchors saying portions of Prince George's name. Who was chosen to say his entire name in the clip piece? Yours truly! I just about died. Watch (it's around the last 45 seconds):
Most Shocking Moment: Cory Monteith's Passing
I was at a crowded, can't-hear-yourself-think bar in L.A. for a friend's birthday around 10:15 P.M. on a Saturday night in July when I found out that Cory Monteith had died. I don't remember the last time I felt such a sense of disbelief, shock, and sadness. It was only a month prior that I interviewed Cory at the Chrysalis Ball (I later realized I was the last interview he ever did). I immediately left the bar, ran home to start putting together the piece, and phoned Anna to break the news. It was, without a doubt, one of the hardest stories I've ever had to write.
Favorite Video Moment: Playing Dress Up With the Cast of The Big Bang Theory.
Jim Parsons went crazy over my red cape, which I have to say, might have been my favorite red carpet look of the entire year (that's acceptable, right?).
New Kids on the Carpet Award: Nashville's Chis Carmack and The Talk's Sheryl Underwood
Being on the red carpet isn't as easy as it looks—and adding a cohost to the mix can make it all the more challenging. Not with Chris Carmack or Sheryl Underwood, who were totally game to cohost with me at the CMAs and TV Academy Honors red carpets, respectively; not to mention, they were both hysterical, witty, and full of great ideas. The only thing I won't be game for next time? Deciding to eat a slab of ribs with Carmack the night before fitting into a bandage BCBG dress. Next time we're going for salads!
And then there was this never-before-seen-clip with me and Sheryl:
Bring on 2014!
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Exclusive: Yorkshire's MEPs prepare for another round of European elections as speculations grows over delay to Brexit
Speculation is growing that Article 50 process enacting Brexit will have to be extended.
Liz Bates
Published: 07:08 Saturday 19 January 2019
Yorkshire’s Members of the European Parliament are preparing themselves for a fresh set of elections in just four months amid increasing speculation that the Brexit process will have to be delayed.
Prime Minister Theresa May was yesterday continuing talks over a Brexit Plan B after her deal was rejected by MPs on Tuesday in the worst government defeat in Britain’s democratic history.
Labour MEP Richard Corbett
Now, the region’s MEPs are braced for an impromptu election campaign - with the next round set to take place in late May - should she be forced to go back to Brussels and plead with EU leaders for more time.
Labour MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, Richard Corbett, said he was increasingly convinced that the Article 50 legislation enacting Brexit would have to be extended.
Bill Carmichael: Brexit has to happen for democracy’s sake
He told The Yorkshire Post: “I very much expect there will be an extension because even if the Prime Minister’s deal is accepted she has kicked the can so far down the road there isn’t enough time to get all the legislation through by March 29.
“The question is for how long and then the even bigger question is whether during that period Britain decides to change its mind about Brexit given what a mess the whole things has become.”
MEP Amjad Bashir
Asked if he was on an election footing, he replied: “Put it this way - I’m beginning to think about it.”
Ukip MEP Mike Hookem confirmed he was also expecting Brexit delays, and said: “We’ve been preparing for an election since last year and we are expecting an extension to Article 50, which I believe has always been the game plan. We have always campaigned to leave the EU. If we leave on March 29 and the country is out of the European Union - happy days, brilliant. But that is looking less and less likely.”
His fellow Ukip MEP, Jane Collins, added: “We have been looking at the possibility of fighting 2019 Euro elections for some months. The prospect does not frighten us. We’ve been preparing and as part of those preparations we’re aware that actions taken by Mrs May’s Government and supported by the Labour Party have created some problems for themselves and the UK.”
Despite the Brexit deadlock, three representatives in Brussels, who were last elected in 2014, remained unconvinced an election was on the cards.
Conservative John Procter said: “I am not preparing for it. As far as we are concerned and in terms of the operation of the European Parliament, March 29 is it and we are done.
This is the Government's official advice in response to Brexit stockpiling fears
“That said, the events in Westminster are concerning and my preference has always been to leave with a deal. That is the best approach in terms of protecting jobs and smaller businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber.”
Labour’s Linda McAvan said she was not preparing for an election, while Tory MEP Amjad Bashir added: “I would be concerned by any attempt to revoke Article 50, or even extend it for anything more than a few weeks. When I campaigned for leave I was asking for my P45 - and I expect to get it along with other UK MEPs in March 29. No other plan has been discussed.”
This week Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who refused an invitation from the Prime Minister to take part in Brexit talks, said: “Quite clearly, if no agreement has been reached within the time it could be implemented by the end of March, the issue of extending the exit date, extending Article 50, does come into play.”
According to the Government’s analysis, the total cost of the 2014 European Parliamentary elections in Yorkshire was £4,673,393. Based on the number of votes cast - a total of 1,303,569, a third of the region’s electorate - the cost per vote was £3.59.
Yorkshire’s cost per vote was actually one of the lowest in the country, with each vote in the East Midlands costing £4.82 and Scotland seeing a ratio of £6.23 per vote.
The total cost for the whole United Kingdom, taking into account returning officers’ services, polling stations, postal votes, the cost of poll cards and candidate mailings, was £68,132,739.
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The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is committed to eliminating cost as a barrier for those whose dream is to study medicine. Our Financial Aid Office works closely with students to manage the cost of education as well as to provide top-notch financial guidance. Thanks to our generous friends and alumni, we have over 150 individual scholarship and loan accounts from which we are able to award 85% of students who apply with ample financial aid packages.
Tuition at Johns Hopkins is extremely competitive with that of other private medical schools, and the average debt load for Hopkins graduates is actually lower than for students at other private institutions and even some public universities.
In determining financial aid, Hopkins has two primary aims: to keep borrowing levels relatively uniform among students, and to ensure that scholarship funds go to those from the neediest backgrounds. A detailed overview of the financial aid application process can be found on the financial aid website. Please note that because of the availability of awards through the government's Medical Scientist Training Program, the guidelines for M.D./Ph.D. students are slightly different from those for M.D. students.
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Students who are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent residents and students not in possession of immigrant visas will be obligated to satisfy the School of Medicine’s international medical student financial requirement. For the upcoming academic year, the financial requirement is $76,744 (USD) for the first year of your medical studies. This amount is non-negotiable and can be satisfied with cash, a non-negotiable irrevocable Letter of Credit (LOC) in the name of The Johns Hopkins University, a combination of cash and LOC, or a Letter of Guarantee (LOG) issued in the name of The Johns Hopkins University and authorized by an appropriate embassy or government official from your home country. This amount can also be reduced with any accepted offers of financial aid.
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The Beauty of Using Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft Office 365, as with the previous versions, you can get Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more as a locally installed suite of applications or as Office 365, a cloud-based subscription. However, choosing between Office desktop software and the new Office 365 is a dramatically different decision than in the past. Microsoft has significantly stacked the deck to favor one over the other.
There is a clear distinction between the two options. Office describes only the desktop applications. By contrast, Office 365 is a web-based platform that pairs the Office applications with cloud storage. In the past, though, the Office 365 versions of the software had limited features and capabilities compared to the full desktop versions, and if you didn’t have an internet connection you didn’t have Office.
With the new version of the productivity suite though, Office vs. Office 365 is a smoke-and-mirrors debate. Office is more expensive than Office 365, and the license is only good for one machine. If you only need the core applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote) you can get Office Home & Student. Throw in Outlook, and you get Office Home & Business. Office Pro adds Access and Publisher.
Office 365 comes in two versions: Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 Small Business Premium. Both come with the full Office Pro software for your PC, but there are key differences. Up to five people can use Office 365 Home Premium on up to five devices, with each user getting an Office experience customized to their own Microsoft ID.
Office 365 Small Business Premium also comes with five licenses, but billed per user per year. Each user can install and use Office on up to five PCs, but the licenses can’t be shared with other users. Office 365 Small Business Premium also includes a managed Microsoft Back Office environment including Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync.
Depending on how many computers and devices you want to install Office on through Office 365, and which version of Office you’re comparing to, it will take somewhere between two to twenty years for Office to become the more affordable choice.
The only scenario that truly makes sense for Office is if you only need the software in Office Home & Student, and only on a single PC. In that case, you can spend the one time fee and be done. Once you throw in a second PC, though, or if you need the additional tools like Outlook, Access, or Publisher, the math is heavily skewed in favor of the Office 365 subscription.
The beauty of Office 365 is that you get more than just Office for your money—it also comes with benefits that Office 2013 lacks. It comes with an additional 20GB of SkyDrive storage and 60 minutes per month of international Skype calls. Office 365 also has a feature called Office On Demand that enables you to stream virtual versions of the full desktop software to any Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC.
But, even for other platforms or mobile devices there are Web-based versions of the Office applications, and as long as you store your files in SkyDrive you can access them seamlessly from virtually any Web-connected device. The world doesn’t end if your laptop is stolen or destroyed, and you can still edit a crucial client presentation even if you don’t have your PC with you.
Even if you only need the applications in Office 2013 Home & Student, it would cost a lot of money to put that software on five machines, and it would take years to break even on the cost of the Office 365 subscription. By that time, there will be a new version of Office (or two, maybe three). If you buy Office Home & Student, you’ll still have it in the year 2020. But, if you subscribe to Office 365 you will always have the most current version of Office available.
Microsoft has set things up so that the decision is already made. You are free to purchase the standard versions of office, but Office 365 has very clear advantages, and it makes more sense financially in almost every scenario.
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1of2FILE - In this June 4, 2014 file photo, Beth Chapman, left, and Duane Chapman arrive at the CMT Music Awards at Bridgestone Arena, in Nashville, Tenn. Funeral services for Beth Chapman, who starred with her husband Duane in the reality TV series "Dog the Bounty Hunter" will be livestreamed Saturday, July 13, 2019, from Colorado, her home state. She died last month after battling cancer in Hawaii, where the family lived. (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP, File)Photo: Wade Payne, AP
2of2FILE - In this June 5, 2013, file photo, Duane "Dog" Chapman, right, and Beth Chapman present the award for CMT performance of the year at the CMT Music Awards at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. Funeral services for Beth Chapman, who starred with her husband Duane in the reality TV series "Dog the Bounty Hunter" will be livestreamed Saturday, July 13, 2019, from Colorado, her home state. She died last month after battling cancer in Hawaii, where the family lived. (Photo by Donn Jones/Invision/AP, File)Photo: Donn Jones, Donn Jones /Invision/AP
AURORA, Colorado (AP) — Friends and family of the late "Dog the Bounty Hunter" reality TV show co-star Beth Chapman gathered in Colorado on Saturday where they remembered her as tough and irreverent, yet full of love even for some of the fugitives she helped apprehend.
Funeral services were held in Chapman's home state after she died last month at the age of 51 in Hawaii, where she lived with her family. She had been battling cancer for about two years.
Chapman and her husband Duane "Dog" Chapman starred in the A&E show until it was canceled in 2012. The show followed the couple as they apprehended people who avoided arrest warrants.
They later starred in Country Music Television's "Dog & Beth: On the Hunt."
During Saturday's services at the Heritage Christian Center, Duane Chapman recalled how he met his future wife when he posted her bond after she'd shoplifted a lemon.
The couple married in 2006. By then, Duane Chapman — the self-proclaimed world's best bounty hunter — already had gained fame for nabbing serial rapist and Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Mexico in 2003.
"I never admitted she was going to die," he said Saturday. "She said 'How are you going to make it without me?' And I said, "I don't know ... She will never be dead to me."
Duane Chapman recalled how his wife was prone to "chew people out real good. And I'm one of them. Because she always wanted people to know what happened if they go on her dark side."
Long-time friend Mary Ellen Pollack, who runs a bail bonds business in Brighton, Colorado, said Chapman's "tough-as nails" public persona belied a softer side.
"She didn't let anybody see that, and that's simply because of the profession she was in," Pollack said.
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A 1975 Hampden-Sydney graduate, Everett A. Hellmuth III is a member of the Board of Trustees and one of the biggest supporters of Hampden-Sydney Lacrosse, also having a wing of Kirk Athletic Center featuring the lacrosse locker room named in his honor while being one of the driving forces behind the creation of the field and the addition of lights.
Upon graduating from Hampden-Sydney College in 1975, with a degree in Economics, Hellmuth worked for two large, privately held automobile groups where he worked up to General Manager by 1983. In 1991, he founded Passport Auto Group, operating in the Washington, D.C., metro area where he is President and CEO. Everett and his wife, Robin, are active in a wide range of charities world-wide.
Hellmuth has had two sons graduate from Hampden-Sydney: Cameron Hellmuth '07, a former H-SC Lacrosse student-athlete, and Zach Hellmuth '13
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Supporting the lost tribe of NHS analysts
By Paul Stroner2019-01-17T17:13:00+00:00
Paul Stroner gives an update on the work of the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts, which aims to raise the standards for those working in analytical roles
Since joining the NHS in the mid 1990s I have been involved in the provision of a vast range of analytical products and services to support decision making at local, regional, and national organisations.
I joined the NHS as a research statistician in oncology; primarily involved in the design, conduct and analysis of phase III randomised controlled trials of new and innovative drug regimens across a range of solid tumours.
As you would expect, there are very strict and stringent procedures and criteria that guide the conduct and analysis of such studies. You are required to say up front how you will deal with data quality issues and you need to set out very clearly a pre-defined analysis plan, which you then follow.
All of these procedures have been developed and adjusted over many years to make sure that you are able to detect the clinically significant differences you designed the study for in the first place.
Of course, you would want the study designed with the appropriate level of statistical power, with input from suitably qualified and experienced staff to do the job.
When you are working to extend the knowledge base in your chosen area of scientific endeavour and need to have your work published in high impact, well respected peer reviewed journals you had better do it properly.
Skills and competencies
Compare this to the world of a jobbing NHS analyst in the majority of organisations across the country. Often working to a senior manager who has little or no understanding of the work they do, information and analytics is the “significant other” of a great number of finance and IT directorates.
The unspoken message handed down to heads of analysis is often one of “don’t drop the ball and I’ll leave you alone”.
If we expect the NHS to be able to embrace all the opportunities of artificial intelligence and data science and machine learning to the benefit of patients and wider society, then we need to build on a solid foundation of an appropriately skilled, competent and professional analytical workforce
You may or may not be surprised to hear that there are no agreed professional qualifications, skills or competencies needed to be an information analyst in the NHS. Just think about that for a while.
Can you imagine for a moment that it would be acceptable in finance, or nursing, or medicine or dentistry to employ unqualified people? Of course not, yet for many years we have been happy to do exactly that for analytical appointments.
Little wonder that these jobs can be difficult, lonely, frustrating and unrewarding experiences for people, and the outputs from analytical teams are at best variable.
But it doesn’t have to be like this. It can be better. It can be a lot better.
In 2012, the Association of Healthcare Professionals was created by two frustrated heads of business intelligence in the South West. Neither of us could hand on heart say with any confidence that the skill set of our respective analytical teams was appropriate to meet the needs of the business.
The aim was to raise the profile of healthcare analysts and provide a professional support network, ultimately achieving professional registration status for its members.
Fast forward seven years and we now have an infrastructure of agreed standards and competencies to be assessed against to become a registered analytical professional.
AphA is currently working in close collaboration with the national arm’s length bodies, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Health Education England, NHS Digital and Care Quality Commission to create a set of common job descriptions for analysts that can be utilised by all organisations.
The ultimate aim being that analysts will know what skills and competencies they need to progress along the career pathway and any employer knows what they need to provide to ensure that they are getting the most out of a valuable section of the workforce.
Once this has been tested with the ALBs, the intention is to roll it out to the rest of the NHS.
If we expect the NHS to be able to embrace all the opportunities of artificial intelligence and data science and machine learning to the benefit of patients and wider society, then we need to build on a solid foundation of an appropriately skilled, competent and professional analytical workforce.
AphA’s aim is to raise the profile of healthcare analysts and provide a professional support network, ultimately achieving professional registration status for its members, and to drive up the quality and applicability of robust analytics as an aid to evidence based decision making in a modern health and care system.
To find out more, please click here.
Paul StronerPaul Stroner is the deputy director of information and analytics at NHS Improvement and national programme lead for demand and capacity planning.
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PHOTOBLOG: My Journey To The End Of The World
Antarctica helped me reach the furthest corners of my own soul…
Akanksha Sharma CSR & Sustainability Expert
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself."—Alan Alda
The cry of Antarctica is loud and clear: Let it stay white and wild.
But can it?
No place on earth can be compared to the serene, vast, white wilderness of Antarctica. With its jaw-dropping pristine landscape, Antarctica is the most poorly understood continents of our planet, but it's currently in jeopardy. The white continent holds most of the world's ice but due to the increasing effects of climate change, this ice is melting rapidly, resulting in a sea-level rise.
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As Henry Miller said, "One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
Before I delve into my Antarctica sojourn, let me add a short note on how I like to travel. I have been travelling alone for many years, often without keeping track of time or place. The state of timelessness is bliss and as a traveller you realize the infinity of the moment—nothing but the moment is important, no one is. I have always believed that a traveller needs no introduction. It is the anonymity of the traveller and unknown places that make journeys beautiful. For anonymity carries no belongings and no fear of loss. Often, I do not carry any fixed plans or maps or any intent of arriving at a particular destination. The great affair is to traveI, not merely to see places and people, but to take an inward journey to explore the "self."
I choose to travel alone for it liberates. It liberates me from the known zone of comfort, from familiar sets of people and places, and takes me into the unknown, where the self is vulnerable yet free. They say that those who travel alone live in a unique state of nostalgia and dreams. They see places and people from a sepia lens. They often lose track of the date and time, but they remember the moments and carry stories. Often while travelling alone, I lose my way and wander in unknown lanes, treks; wander to reach nowhere, meet strangers with no excuse and remember lost ones for no reason. There, at unknown places, I reclaim my love for the transient, the unclaimed space that exists between being lost and belonging. Because "transience" carries hope. Hope to be lost in nowhere. Hope to belong to nowhere.
I have not always longed to go to Antarctica, but when the opportunity arose, it seemed like the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.
Nowhere is a "state of being." It just exists without any fracture of an intrusion of a planned future or a crack of the lost past. Travel makes me stay in that state of being, free from anticipation. That's all that defines it.
For those who travel every journey is the start of a new romance. And this time it was about a journey to the end of the world.
Sometimes in life a thought gets registered in your head as if it's always been there. I have not always longed to go to Antarctica, but when the opportunity arose, it seemed like the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Maybe it's possible to have a lifelong dream in remembrance.
I started my journey from Delhi with a mix of great anxiety and excitement. After a long layover in Dubai I boarded a 20-hour flight crossing many continents to reach Buenos Aires, the colourful city in Argentina known for its music, tango, street art and food.
The adventure started from the day I arrived in a Spanish-speaking country having learnt only one word—"Gracias" (thank you). But that's the glory of travel particularly in foreign lands, where no one can understand you and you cannot understand anyone. "Your whole existence," as Bill Bryson noted, "becomes a series of interesting guesses" and you learn to trust strangers for no reason.
Tango on the streets of La Boca, Buenos Aires.
From Buenos Aires, I flew to Ushuaia, the beautiful southern-most city in the world.
Ushuaia, Fen Del Mundo (End of the World).
No one owns Antarctica and hence no visa is required, but it was a heady feeling to stand at the end of the world and get an Antarctica stamp on the passport.
From Ushuaia, I boarded the ship Ocean Endeavour to the white continent of Antarctica along with 80 other exceptionally brilliant individuals from 32 nationalities.
The expedition team at Ushuaia before boarding the ship.
As we left Ushuaia and everything behind, I quietly went up to the deck, silently waving goodbye to the shore. Endings are something I perhaps cling to. And I stood there staring deep into the ocean with a million shades of blue, watching the gap between the ship and the shore grow to a huge gulf.
Setting sail from Ushuaia was filled with thrill and excitement. After checking into my cabin on the ship, I was overwhelmed that here I was—on my first ship journey.
After a smooth sail through the Beagle Channel, our ship took a sharp turn at around midnight heading south, straight towards the Drake Passage.
Unpredictable, violent and chaotic are the adjectives often used for the 1000-km-long Drake Passage. It is said to be the toughest sea passage for good reason.
For most of my life, Antarctica was an abstraction. Wild, inaccessible and cold. A land that has never seen civilization, never witnessed war. It was the fabled seventh continent. With all of the warm clothes I was wearing, I could not even pinch myself when I was almost there!
The first landing in Antarctica was an emotional moment for all of us. Stepping on the frozen continent, a place almost untouched by humans, there are no words that can do justice to describe it.
We saw seals and Chinstrap penguin colonies.
The frozen continent of Antarctica has no human habitation.
There is only vastly spread ice and unpredictable wilderness.
Nothing. There is no civilization, no history.
In the great wilderness of the white continent, solitude and emptiness envelops one. Except for the penguins of course! And then the Humpback whales!
As we set out each day, I felt like Alice in the Wonderland, venturing into mysterious lands, losing all track of time.
There's a saying that life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breaths away. And for someone like me, who always had a fear of dark water, even the idea of taking the "Polar Plunge" in the dark, deep, freezing Atlantic Ocean without even knowing how to swim was scary enough to take many breaths away. It was something I thought I'd never be able to do.
It was like claiming my love for the unknown. Maybe it is the fear that I am in perpetual love with. Nevertheless, gathering all the traces of courage left in me, I jumped into the ocean.
As I hit the water, I instantly lost my breath. I've never felt that numb. It was that strange state where one lies between the two worlds of being and not being. They say when you overcome your fears then nothing remains, but only you.
The white pristine continent unfolded in incredible ways every day. To me the sights were so surreal that words can never adequately describe my experience. I felt as if I'd stepped into the National Geographic channel.
The longest journey is not the journey from Asia to Antarctica, but it is the journey to know oneself.
One comes to measure a place, too, not just for its beauty, but for the way in which it alters one's perception. It is not so much that you want to return to a place, but that you want to not forget.
A traveller finds her own ways of finding herself. While travelling you don't find a place but find something surprising about your own self. That's the adventure. And that's life too.
Antarctica: a photographer's paradise.
When you leave, you're always wondering if this is the last time you'll see the largest stretch of white ice on earth. It leaves you with an undefined sort of emptiness. You think you will likely never return and it's a very weird feeling. You know that you'll never experience this again.
For a few hours, the white continent remained visible, growing smaller and smaller, and then it was gone. I don't know if one ever gets over this kind of loss.
I boarded the ship back to Ushuaia. For a few hours, the white continent remained visible, growing smaller and smaller, and then it was gone. I don't know if one ever gets over this kind of loss.
They say that everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.
And what remains are the memories, stories and a pursuit for more travel into the unknown.
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John Petro, Contributor
Policy Analyst on New York City and State Affairs
A Sorry State of the City
People here who are lucky enough to have a job are finding that their paychecks don't go nearly as far as they used to. Foreclosure and disinvestment are undermining the stability of neighborhoods in the outer boroughs. The city's mass transit system is set to suffer drastic service cuts to vital subway and bus lines. And while rents across the city have declined slightly for the first time in years, middle-income families pay so much of their income in rent that there is little left over at the end of the month for other necessities. That's the sorry state of the city for most New Yorkers today, and it needs to change.
In his State of the City speech today, Mayor Bloomberg defined an ambitious goal for a third term: "To make the strongest possible recovery from the most severe national recession our country has faced in the post-war era."
Bloomberg added, "With the right strategy, there is no doubt in my mind that we can help lead the national recovery, and lift our City to new heights."
That strategy needs to include concrete policies that will rebuild the middle class and ensure shared economic progress. Forget shuffling top deputies like a deck of cards; the city needs a more focused vision for rebuilding the middle class and ensuring shared economic progress in the months and years ahead.
Mayor Bloomberg needs to acknowledge that residents require more than just minimum-wage employment to survive and thrive. That's why the mayor must devote more resources, energy, and leadership to increasing the number of good jobs available to the current and aspiring middle class. The city should promote and expand high-paying manufacturing jobs in places like Midtown's Garment District and Brooklyn's Navy Yard, and craft better zoning, economic development, transit, and land use policy to support this effort. These jobs would enable residents to contribute more to our local tax base and economy.
Another cost-effective reform would be a citywide living wage to transform poverty-level jobs in retail and home health care, the city's two fastest growing sectors, into jobs that can elevate working families into the middle class. The city will add 22,000 cashier jobs and 32,000 retail salesperson jobs to the economy over the next seven years, but these jobs pay paltry wages, between $17,000 and $22,000 a year on average. Unless we permanently raise wages in these sectors, more and more families will be added to the ranks of the working poor and increase the city's tax burden through increased reliance on public assistance.
Now let's talk about housing: it's simply too expensive for all but the richest residents. So the city must address the housing needs of struggling New Yorkers. Developers who want to build and sell more luxury condominiums must also add to the city's affordable and moderately-priced housing stock. At a minimum, they should be required to set aside 15 percent of all new units for middle-income families through citywide mandatory inclusionary zoning, a cost-effective policy with a track record of success in other cities.
And then there are issues of basic workplace fairness, such as the right to stay home from work when you fall sick. A bill to guarantee all working people paid sick leave has been languishing in the City Council since last year and the support of the mayor would quickly make this bill become law. A similar law has been proven not to hurt businesses in San Francisco and is projected to deliver considerable cost-savings there over time. The message on this is simple: healthy workers and healthy businesses can coexist.
For current and aspiring middle class New Yorkers, the city is in a sorry state indeed. But unless the Bloomberg administration embraces these progressive policy reforms, this sorry state will persist for the next four years.
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03/04/2007 01:26 pm ET Updated May 25, 2011
Gingrich's Old Ideas Propel Him At CPAC
By Matt Browner Hamlin
Newt Gingrich's entrance into CPAC was planned for someone who expected to win the straw poll. Though he didn't win the poll outright, Newt effectively did win the straw poll. He tied Romney for 30% of total votes, coming in just behind Rudy Giuliani's 34%. But Gingrich was received to a louder ovation than any other candidate throughout the convention, with much of the auditorium chanting "Newt!" before he even entered the room.
Most of all, though, was Gingrich's decision to enter through the back of the room and make his way through the crowd. He shook hands and dozens of people stood on their chairs to catch a glimpse of Gingrich. Cameras flashed in Obama-like volume and the room was literally shaking. When Gingrich got up to speak, he was given a standing ovation that lasted over 30 seconds. Once he started talking, the room lit up with flash bulb strobes like the start of the World Series.
If my description sounds dramatic, trust me it was. The receptions most candidates received were excited, but not overwhelming. While Giuliani received a resounding ovation on his entrance and Romney won big applause at the end of his speech, neither crowd reaction conveyed a sense of celebrity reception. Gingrich, on the other hand, did.
Gingrich began his speech with high-minded language about conservatives elevating the level of debate in American politics to win back the voting public. " We need to go out to the American people and have an idea-oriented, positive dialogue."* Gingrich repeatedly stressed that conservatives have better solutions and proposals than Democrats, solutions and proposals that Gingrich claimed were smarter and mature than what Democrats would put out there.
Gingrich, who said that he would not make any decisions about his presidential candidacy before September 30, 2007, proposed that the eventual Democratic and Republican nominees pledge to have weekly ninety minute dialogues with no moderator and only a time keeper. Gingrich wants candidates to pledge now to hold these debates over the last nine weeks of the 2008 campaign. The goal is to have a more honest, mature conversation about the course of our country. "If we insist on an adult conversation, our country will reunify itself with remarkable speed."
Yet despite his praise for solutions and proposals, Gingrich did not go far to elucidate what big ideas conservatives could put forward to make America better and win back the voting public. He specifically mentioned making English the official language for government, passing legislation to keep "one nation under God" in the pledge of allegiance, and creating a system of rating health care providers by quality and price to enable better consumer choice. The first two "proposals" Gingrich put out would not do a whit for anything that is substantively wrong with this country. The third is a marginal improvement that wouldn't guarantee that even one person who cannot currently afford to have health care now would be able to get it after Gingrich's rating system is implemented. Bill Scher's response is spot-on:
But these are your big solutions?...While most secular voters will say it's fine to have "God" in the Pledge or on money, keeping what's already there sure isn't a "solution" to anything, and it won't lure secular voters into the conservative camp.
Gingrich called for adult conversations and then proceeded to insult a long list of prominent Democrats and the played-out Republican punching bag, our oldest ally France. He went so far as to suggest that Democrats hate freedom when talking about purchasing health care.
But the point where Gingrich went completely over the line and his rhetoric about raising the level of dialogue in America was smacked in the face by the ingrained traditions of racism and bigotry in the Republican Party was when he addressed Hurricane Katrina. Gingrich first talked about the hurricane as a failure of government - municipal, state, and federal government to adequately respond to Katrina. But beyond the failures of governments, Gingrich saw a failure of the people of New Orleans [Audio courtesy of Bill Scher].
How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane.
Gingrich blamed the victims of Katrina for their victimhood. He clearly implied that it was because they were "uneducated" they couldn't get out of the way of something as conspicuous as a hurricane. It was their own failure because they were bad citizens, according to Gingrich.
There you have it, folks. Raising the level of debate in politics, as described by Newt Gingrich, involves blaming victims for their victimhood, defaming your political opponents, and putting forth ideological legislation that doesn't help anyone other than conservatives who don't like the fact that there are Spanish-speakers with US passports. Gingrich's overwhelming appeal to CPAC voters is notable for his ability to mask some of his party's most reactionary ideas in the language of his ideological father Ronald Reagan. Just because he doesn't use Ann Coulter's diction doesn't mean that he appeals to a less offensive, hate-filled segment of the Republican base. Gingrich showed a truly shocking ability to speak out of both sides of his mouth with regards to aspirational campaign rhetoric. He wants new, innovative discourse, but only proposes tired, divisive Republican proposals that don't make this country any better than it is today for anyone who doesn't subscribe to his regressive Republican ideology.
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Lucius Lowe, Contributor
When I Heard About the Plight of Raju the Elephant, I Was Moved to Write This Song
For centuries, music has been used to reach out to people, to inspire hope and to urge people onward. It is one of the true universal languages and as musicians we are able to connect with people in a very direct way, sometimes on a very emotional level.
When I heard the story of Raju the elephant and his rescue, I was very moved. Who wouldn't be? Here was one of Nature's most noble and majestic creatures displaying something long considered an almost exclusively human trait -- an emotional response in the form of crying tears! Scientific implications aside, this seemingly simple display of something we take for granted touched me in a far more spiritual way. As I read on, I realized Raju had been chained up and abused, debased and ridiculed longer than I'd been breathing, merely for the entertainment of others -- a concept I still struggle to visualize. As my line of work shows, entertainment need not involve the persecution and suffering of others, much less those unable to speak or stand up for themselves.
Not long after Raju's plight came to my attention, I was contacted by my promoter with a view to releasing a charity record in support of Raju and Wildlife SOS. I'm a man of few words - music is my voice, so when I was approached to produce the record and co-manage the project, naturally I couldn't and wouldn't refuse. I try my hardest to live a life without prejudice or malice and the record provided me with a way to hopefully make a difference in some small way -- our record aims to not only raise funds for Wildlife SOS, but also to raise awareness of the despicable way in which some lesser mortals treat that which they deem unworthy of love and respect.
Cruelty and injustice are two of Mankind's darkest traits; if our record encourages just one person to mend their ways then maybe there is hope for all creatures suffering in the world.
When composing the song itself, I tried to tell Raju's story. But cramming such a moving tale into a short song was a task in itself, so I concentrated on the main points -- the lyrics cover Raju being removed from his herd and placed in his life of servitude, the world hearing the story via mainstream media, the pain of the rescue itself and Raju's emotion upon realizing he was actually freed from his former "owner."
On several occasions I was moved to tears as I tried to convey first the horror then the sense of relief and hope, in a lyrical presentation. I tried to keep the music uplifting, to give a sense of hope to the record and in a pop/dance style to aid its commercial appeal, while a lot of the remixes present a darker mood to remind us of the underlying gravity of Raju's plight and the reason for the project.
The ten remixers involved in the project pulled out all the stops, putting personal projects aside to bring the project to completion in just under a month, delivering a truly diverse collection spanning several genres and hopefully maximizing the record's potential appeal. They are shining stars for the dedication they have all shown to this project, giving their time freely and without any consideration for themselves -- they all did Raju proud and if it were up to me they would all receive medals of the highest commendation!
The record has been well received to date, with chart placing on iTunes' 100 newest releases in several countries, including India itself... maybe Raju heard of our attempts and bought it himself! This further illustrates the power of music to embrace a sentiment and swell it until it has the power to reach out and touch people who would otherwise be unaware.
On reflection however, we made a record -- big deal, so what? It's what we do. The REAL hard work is being done out there in the wild -- the fight goes on every day and, unlike musical projects, does not stop so one can move on to the next project. In light of this, Raju (Stand tall) is dedicated to all who work tirelessly to relieve the suffering caused by greed and ignorance throughout the world. I am proud to have been a part of this project and able to put my talent to good use.
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'Through Our Eyes' exhibit opening at Narrows
FALL RIVER — A collaborative photography exhibit, “Through Our Eyes, will open at the Narrows Center for the Arts on Saturday, March 23. The over 30 contributing photographers are all adult English-language learners at SER-Jobs for Progress, Inc. who have made their home in Fall River.
Over the past year, the students have been exploring the world around them through the lens of a camera and taking photographs of whatever struck them as important, interesting, or beautiful. Every week in their beginning and intermediate ESOL classes, they shared their photographs with one another and in what often became quite animated discussions, explained the meanings, cultural traditions, and artistic visions behind their depictions. They each created work-in-progress journals that included all the photographs they had taken over the course of the semester, selected a set of favorite images, and then worked hard to create accompanying captions that expressed their thoughts and feelings. This exhibit is the culmination of the students’ efforts to use photography to tell stories about themselves and their communities and to share those stories with wider audiences.
The exhibit opening is also the kick-off to the 40th anniversary celebrations of Southeastern Massachusetts SER-Jobs for Progress, Inc. This non-profit organization has been a leader in adult education, training, and employment since 1979. Originally founded to improve the educational and employment outcomes of Portuguese immigrant families in Fall River, SER-Jobs currently serves residents of the greater Fall River area and other communities in Southeastern Massachusetts who come from diverse cultural backgrounds by offering a wide range of programs and services. The programs they offer include classes for English to Students of Other Languages, high school equivalency preparation classes for adults and out of school youth, and career exploration activities, training in computer literacy and technology, and job and career planning, counseling, and placement.
The themes of the "Through Our Eyes" exhibit reflect the students’ diverse interests and points of view. Some of the photographs focus primarily on connections with family and friends. Others depict traditions such as the making and sharing of food and celebration of special events. Still others depict the beauty of nature, neighborhoods throughout the city, or new ways to see details of daily life. A goal shared by all of the contributing photographers was to convey the important role the supportive educational space at SER-Jobs plays in their lives. Their captions and autobiographical accounts reveal hopes and dreams and what it has been like to leave a homeland in order to make a new life for themselves and their children in the U.S
This project was made possible by a grant from MassHumanities, as well as contributions from SER-Jobs for Progress, Inc., and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. The second phase of this project, which will entail public art installations of photographs throughout Fall River, from the Through Our Eyes collection, is supported by a Creative Commonwealth Grant from the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts. All the photographs are also accessible to the public via the Fall River Portraits website (fallriverportraits.org) which was made possible by a Creative Economies Grant from the University of Massachusetts President’s Office.
The exhibit opening and kick-off anniversary celebration will be held at the Narrows Center for the Arts on Saturday, March 23, from 1 to 3 p.m. and is open and free to the public. Families are especially welcome! The exhibit will run through Saturday, April 27. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. For more information, contact the Narrows at 508-324-1926, Andrea Klimt at aklimt@umassd.edu, or SER-Jobs for Progress at 508-676-1916.
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Madhubala and the eternity of style and beauty
From Mahal to Mughal-e-Azam, Madhubala was the epitome of beauty, style and grace and she represented the modern Indian woman like no other.
fashion and trends Updated: Feb 14, 2019 15:54 IST
Srishti Jha
Hindustan Times, Delhi
Madhubala and the eternity of style and beauty.
Beauty and style are the sides of the same coin. Serene and slow, tender and perennial. What you become and protect as your personality, as your identity. When I saw Madhubala for the first time on screen, I shaped this definition and it has stayed with me till date. A persona that is different, a form of beauty that affects you. A beauty that is complete in itself. Born as Mumtaz Begum on February 14, 1933, in Delhi to a poor Pashtun family, she later on moved with her family to Bombay near the Bombay Talkies film studio. The young Mumtaz caught actress Devika Rani’s attention who was also the co-founder of the studio. She gave her the name Madhubala and rest is history. She became a star in her own right with her first release, Mahal (1949) which went on to be a hugely successful film. The natural beauty that she was, of course, garnered interest around her but what was more fascinating was her liberal sense of being. That’s how she lived. An inhibited sense of freedom that also reflected in her personal style.
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Madhubala was a big believer of true love. She represented the modern Indian woman in newly independent India, maintaining a balance between personal freedom and traditional norms. That innocent, untouched beauty, the childish charm on her face, her natural curls and the powerful sense of dressing made her one of the iconic actresses not only in India but she was celebrated across the world as the epitome of beauty, style and a woman holding her ground. She literally pulled off anything she wore. The classic pant shirt or the mid-length dresses she donned with effortless style was a unique representation of an Indian woman who can be what she wants to be back when the country was beginning to understand and claim the idea of freedom. Then, of course, her playful way of wearing the light sarees with big floral prints and light texture and how she tucked the corner of her pallu around her waist.
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Hindi Movie Actress Madhubala in her Room- Photographed by James Burke for Life Magazine 1951 (4)
That sculpted face needed no make-up but the crimson lip colour she wore seen in some famously shot photographs was more than just make-up. There was a woman who was celebrating her sense of being and how she wanted to be seen and understood. Her tragic love life never took away the sense of joy that she brought on and off the screen. The voluminous soft shoulder-length curled hair added to the playfulness to her classic beauty. Her on-screen roles were as dramatic and complex as her off-screen personality, with many layers and many stories. When she starred in the1960 Indian epic historical drama film Mughal-e-Azam, the way she looked, each and everything became a rage, especially the beautiful ornate Anarkalis, vaguely inspired by the Angarakha patterns in the 50s. The patterns, the silhouettes, the texture and the drape continue to inspire designers in India and across the world. It was not only about the garment, but also about how she wore it. How the sculpted beauty wore the apparel and how she carried it and made it a part of herself. The character of Anarkali was a mixed bag. A woman who is fearless in love, yet her silence and loneliness go hand-in-hand. Madhubala’s style was similar to many sides to it - versatile, individualistic and secure.
Many young starlets try to recreate the magic of Madhubala but it is difficult to ape the world within her. She lived a short but a remarkable life and even though many compare her and her life to Marilyn Monroe’s, Madhubala accepted the haunting beauty of life and lived like the wind. The cinematic kaleidoscope of Bombay, now Mumbai still houses the charm, the pristine beauty that turned a young Mumtaz to an eternal Madhubala.
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Three Football Players Earn All-NCAC Honors
CLEVELAND, OHIO — Three members of the Hiram College football team have been selected to the 2011 All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams for their individual efforts this season. Senior offensive lineman Vincent Grandillo (Tiffin/Calvert) and senior linebackers Oliver Dickerhoof (Alliance/Central Catholic) and Jon Hull (Buford, Ga./Mill Creek) were tabbed honorable mention. [2011 All-NCAC Teams]
Grandillo helped lead the offensive line that allowed the Terriers total 2,707 yards of offense, including 1,244 yards on the ground and 1,463 yards passing. Hiram rushed for over 100 yards in six games this season, including a season-best 252 yards in a 16-13 win against Kenyon College. The Terriers also posted their single-game best offensive output in that game with 427 total yards (252 rushing and 175 passing). In addition, the Hiram offense recorded one single-season record in 2011 with the fewest sacks allowed with nine.
For his career, Grandillo played his first two seasons on the defensive line before moving to offensive line as a junior. In his first season on the “O-Line,” Grandillo helped the Terriers record 2,932 yards of total offense (690 rushing and 2,242 passing) and post single-season records in passing first downs (108), pass attempts (418) and completions (255).
Dickerhoof earns All-Conference honors for the second time in his career with back-to-back honorable mention accolades. As a senior, Dickerhoof led the team in tackles with 111 and was tied for second in the NCAC. He currently ranks in a tie for 18th in NCAA Division III in tackles and recorded eight games this season with 10 or more tackles. He also had 5.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 quarteback sacks. Dickerhoof led the team, and the conference, in fumble recoveries with four and had two forced fumbles. His four fumble recoveries ranked in a tie for second most in the nation.
For his career, Dickerhoof made 279 tackles (146 solo and 133 assists) in 38 games, including 16 games of 10 or more tackles. He also had 14.5 tackles for loss with six sacks. In addition, Dickerhoof tallied four forced fumbles in his career to go along with seven fumble recoveries and one blocked kick.
Hull ends his four-year career as a three-time All-NCAC pick. This season, Hull finished second on the team, and fifth in the conference, in tackles with 101 (38 solo and 63 assists). His 101 total tackles ranked in a tie for 48th overall in NCAA Division III. He posted five games of 10 or more tackles, including a career-high 20 stops against Carnegie (Pa.) Mellon University on Oct. 1. Hull was also third on the team in tackles for loss (6.5) and second in sacks (four). He was tied for the team-lead in forced fumbles with three to go along with two fumble recoveries.
In 37 career games, Hull made an impressive 329 tackles (116 solo and 213 assists) and averaged 8.9 tackles per game. He also had 17 tackles for loss with six sacks. Hull posted 17 career games with 10 or more tackles as well as six forced fumbles and had seven fumble recoveries. In addition, he had one career interception and scored one touchdown as a junior on a fumble return.
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5 tips for historical research: from uncovering local history to plotting your family tree
Whether you’re tracing your family tree, writing a historical novel or book, or taking on a personal research project to uncover an unfamiliar historical idea or period, you will need to conduct some research to further your knowledge and understanding. Here, Dean Blackburn, a lecturer in modern history at the University of Nottingham, offers some useful tips for amateur historians to help to make the research process as efficient and rewarding as possible
Establish some research questions
Conducting historical research will be much easier if it is directed towards some clear and realistic objectives. One way to define these objectives is to establish some questions that your research will help answer. These questions can take different forms, but they should narrow your field of vision and provide you with a clear purpose. Good examples will:
direct your attention towards certain problems
be achievable with the resources you have available
encourage an original contribution to the field of study
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Consider a researcher who is interested in the history of a political party. They could be interested in many aspects of the organisation, but they cannot hope to investigate them all. So, some questions that draw attention to particular chronological periods and problems will be useful. These questions could, for instance, explore a particularly important moment in the party’s history:
Why did the British Labour party win the 1945 general election?
Did the Second World War change political attitudes?
What were the political consequences of the 1945 election?
All of the above questions are closely related and will narrow the researcher’s focus.
If a researcher is interested in the history of a political party, such as the Labour party, suggests Dean Blackburn, they might ask questions such as why the party won Britain’s 1945 general election under Clement Atlee. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
Read your sources critically
A historian is not a mere chronicler of events who organises facts into a chronological order; they also evaluate the phenomena they study and arrive at judgements about their relative significance. This process often begins by approaching historical sources – the ‘raw materials’ of the past – in a particular way. Rather than reading these materials for their immediate ‘messages’, the historian will seek to uncover the meanings that might be hidden within them. This might involve asking certain questions of the evidence. Take, for example, this map that was produced by a cartographer in the 18th century. If we want to use this map to better understand the moment it was produced, we might ask these kinds of questions:
What are the choices that the cartographer has made?
How does the map represent certain territories? And do these representations have a political implication?
What are the underlying assumptions that have informed the cartographer’s approach?
What does the map mean? And what might it have meant to contemporary readers?
We can use a map produced by a cartographer in the 18th century to better understand the moment it was produced, but we might ask certain kinds of questions, suggests Dean Blackburn. (Photo by Guildhall Library and Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Think about what you cannot see
When we are evaluating historical sources our attention is often drawn towards details that we can observe. But we might also need to consider what isnotvisible, for these absences and silences might expose some of the meanings contained within a source.
Consider a document that describes a particular sequence of events. Has the author of a document failed to note some information that we might have expected them to provide? And have they omitted an individual from their story? By answering these questions, we might expose some of the strategies that the author has employed to construct a particular argument about the significance of the episode.
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Be wary of anachronism – a value, meaning or idea that belongs to a different time
When we conduct historical research, we encounter terms and concepts that are familiar to us in the present. Yet we should not assume that these concepts possessed the same meaning in the past as they do now.
Consider, for instance, the term ‘freedom’. In the present, we tend to use this term to describe the absence of constraint. Yet this meaning is a modern invention. Prior to the 18th century, it was common for it to refer to the status of individuals who were not slaves. If we see the term appear in a source from the pre-modern moment, we need to avoid imposing a more recent meaning upon it.
One way to avoid anachronism is to place evidence in a wider context by looking at the environment in which it was produced. You might do this by making reference to other sources that were produced at the same time, or by thinking about the social or economic conditions that might have determined the way that contemporaries thought and behaved.
When we conduct historical research, we encounter terms and concepts that are familiar to us in the present. Yet we should not assume that these concepts possessed the same meaning in the past as they do now, says Dean Blackburn. (Image by Shawshots / Alamy Stock Photo)
Make use of online resources
Over the past 25 years, libraries, archives and museums around the world have been digitising collections and building websites around these new resources. These collections can be especially useful when you are in the early stages of planning your research. Pay particular attention to websites that bring together resources from across their collections. This can save time looking at lots of different organisations and give you an idea of where collections relevant to your interests exist. Europeana Collections, for instance, provides access to more than 50 million digitised items (books, music, sound, photographs, artworks and more) drawn from the collections of thousands of libraries, museums and archives across Europe.
Many organisations also compile thematic collections of digitised material that can provide useful starting points for further research. See, for instance, the British Library’s Discovering Literature website, which provides articles, biographies and digitised examples relating to UK 20th-century literature and drama, Gothic literature, Shakespeare and medieval literature.
If you are interested in beginning a research project, you may want to join Learning from the Past: A Guide for the Curious Researcher,a free online course that will be running from 3 September 2018. This course has been produced by the University of Nottingham, the University of Birmingham and the British Library, and by exploring the relationship between the past and the present, it will help learners to gain the skills they need to conduct an original research project.
Dean Blackburn is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Nottingham and Lead Educator on the free online FutureLearn course Learning from the Past: A Guide for the Curious Researcher. FutureLearn is a social learning platform wholly owned by The Open University. For more information, visit futurelearn.com.
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The 8 bloodiest Roman emperors in history
Ruthless and violent, Roman emperors are famous for their tyrannical reigns of terror. But who were the worst Roman emperors? Here, historian Sean Lang examines eight of the bloodiest…
We all know about the Roman Emperors, don’t we? Mad, bad and decidedly dangerous to know. Who can forget Peter Ustinov’s Nero in the 1951 epic Quo Vadis?, or John Hurt’s tortured and murderous Caligula in the BBC’s I, Claudius?
In fact, as historians point out (to anyone who will listen), many of the emperors on the list below were competent – even gifted – administrators, and the sources for some of the more lurid stories about them are not always above suspicion of exaggeration or invention. And some of the crimes that most shocked their contemporaries, like a penchant for performing in public, would not necessarily offend us so much today.
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Some emperors, like Nero or Domitian, have passed into history as models of erratic, paranoid tyrants; others, like Diocletian, were able administrators, providing good government (unless you happened to be a Christian, in which case you were in great peril). Even under the worst emperors Rome continued to function, but involvement in public life could become a decidedly dangerous business.
Tiberius (ruled AD 14–37)
Tiberius was the successor to Augustus, though Augustus did not particularly want Tiberius to succeed him, and it was only the untimely death of the emperor’s grandsons Gaius and Lucius, and Augustus’s decision to exile their younger brother, Agrippa Postumus, that put Tiberius in line for the imperial throne.
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Tiberius was a gifted military commander and respected the authority of the senate. However, he had a gloomy and increasingly suspicious outlook that won him few friends and led him into a bitter dispute with Agrippina, the widow of his war hero nephew Germanicus. Fatally, Tiberius relied heavily on the ambitious and ruthless Aelius Sejanus, who instituted a reign of terror until Tiberius, learning that Sejanus planned to seize power himself, had him arrested and executed.
Tiberius sank into morbid suspicion of everyone around him: he retreated to the island of Capri and revived the ancient accusation of maiestas (treason) and used it to sentence to death anyone he suspected. Roman historians Suetonius and Tacitus give us a picture of Tiberius living on Capri as a depraved sexual predator, which may owe more to colourful imagination than to fact, though he certainly made use of a sheer drop into the sea to dispose of anyone he took issue with. Tiberius was not a monster in the mould of some of his successors, but he certainly set the tone for what was to come.
Bust of the Roman emperor Tiberius. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)
Gaius (Caligula) (ruled AD 37–41)
Gaius (‘Caligula, or ‘little bootee’ – a childhood nickname given him by his father’s troops) is best known for a series of eccentric actions, such as declaring war on the sea and proclaiming himself a god.
His reign actually began quite promisingly, but after a serious bout of illness he developed paranoia that led him into alarmingly erratic behaviour, possibly including incest with his sister, Julia Drusilla, whom he named as his heir.
Gaius took particular delight in humiliating the senate, claiming that he could make anyone consul, even his horse (though, contrary to the popular story, he didn’t actually go through with this). As the son of Germanicus [a prominent general], Gaius was keen to establish his military credentials, though his campaign in Germany achieved little and his abortive invasion of Britain had to be turned into a battle with the sea god Neptune: he is said to have told his troops to attack the waves with their swords and gather seashells as booty.
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Gaius declared himself a god and used his divine status to establish what was, in effect, an absolutist monarchy in Rome. He followed Tiberius’s example of using treason trials to eliminate enemies, real or imagined. In the end it was his rather childish taunting of Cassius Chaerea, a member of the Praetorian guard, which brought Gaius down. Chaerea arranged for his assassination at the Palatine Games. He is supposed to have protested that he couldn’t be killed because he was an immortal god, but he turned out to be rather less immortal than he thought.
Nero (ruled AD 54–68)
Nero is the Roman Emperor we all love to hate, and not without reason. He was actually a competent administrator, and he was aided by some very able men, including his tutor – the writer Seneca. However, he was also unquestionably a murderer, starting with his step-brother Britannicus, with whom he had been supposed to share power, and progressing through his wife Octavia, whom he deserted for his lover, Poppeaea, and then had executed on a trumped-up charge of adultery.
Probably on Poppaea’s prompting he had his own mother murdered, though the initial attempt, using a collapsible boat, went wrong, and she had to be beaten to death instead. He then kicked Poppaea to death in a fit of anger while she was pregnant with his child.
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Contrary to the myth, Nero did not start the great fire of Rome, nor did he ‘fiddle’ (nor even play the lyre), while the city burned – in fact, he organised relief work for its victims and planned the rebuilding. But Nero’s fondness for his own music and poetry, which made him force senators to sit through his own interminable and talentless recitals, meant people could easily believe it of him.
Nero was much hated for building his huge, tasteless ‘golden house’ complex [aka the Domus Aurea, a large landscaped portico villa] in the ruins of what had been the public area of central Rome. He undoubtedly persecuted Christians in large numbers, and his childish insistence on winning the laurels at the Olympic Games in Greece – whether or not he actually won, or indeed finished the race – brought the whole empire into disrepute.
Nero was toppled by an army revolt that sunk into a destructive three-way civil war.
Roman emperor Nero. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
Domitian (ruled AD 81–96)
Domitian was the younger son of Vespasian, the general who had emerged from the chaos after Nero’s fall and restored a certain element of stability and normality to Roman public life.
Domitian inherited none of his father’s charm and, like others on this list, he suffered from deep suspicion of those around him, amounting to paranoia, possibly a result of his narrow escape from being killed during the civil war. He was particularly suspicious of the senate and had a number of leading citizens executed for conspiracy against him, including 12 ex-consuls and two of his own cousins.
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Domitian’s rule became steadily more autocratic, and he demanded to be treated like a god. He turned against philosophers, sending many of them into exile, and he arranged the judicial murder of the chief vestal virgin, having her buried alive in a specially constructed tomb.
Domitian was eventually brought down by a conspiracy arranged by his wife, Domitia, and was somewhat inexpertly stabbed by a palace servant. Some historians think Domitian’s tyranny has been overstated; others have compared him to Saddam Hussein at his most vengeful.
Commodus (ruled AD 180–192)
Commodus was the emperor immortalised by Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000). Commodus was indeed a passionate follower of gladiatorial combat, and himself fought in the arena, sometimes dressed as Hercules, for which he awarded himself divine honours, declaring that he was a Roman Hercules.
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Commodus was the son of the philosopher emperor Marcus Aurelius and, although the film’s scene in which Commodus kills his own father is invention, it is true that Commodus was the very opposite of all that his father had stood for. Vain and pleasure-seeking, Commodus virtually bankrupted the Roman treasury and he sought to fill it up again by having wealthy citizens executed for treason so he could confiscate their property.
Soon, people began plotting against him for real, including his own sister. The plots were foiled, however, and Commodus set about executing still more people, either because they were conspiring against him or because he thought they might do so in the future. Eventually the Praetorian prefect and the emperor’s own court chamberlain hired a professional athlete to strangle Commodus in the bath.
Bust of the emperor Commodus. (Photo by Anderson/Alinari via Getty Images)
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus I (Caracalla) (ruled AD 211–217)
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the son of the highly able and effective emperor Septimius Severus. ‘Caracalla’ was a nickname, derived from a hooded coat from Gaul that he introduced into Rome.
Severus named his younger son, Geta, as co-heir with Caracalla, but the two quickly fell out and civil war seemed imminent until Caracalla averted this scenario by having Geta murdered.
Caracalla dealt brutally with opponents: he set about exterminating Geta’s supporters, and similarly wiped out those caught up in one of the city of Alexandria’s regular local risings against Roman rule.
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Caracalla is remembered for the magnificent bath complex named after him in Rome, and for extending Roman citizenship to all free men within the empire ¬– though he was probably simply trying to raise the money he needed for his own lavish spending. He certainly turned the surplus he inherited from his father into a heavy deficit.
Caracalla was a successful, if ruthless, military commander but he was assassinated by a group of ambitious army officers, including the Praetorian prefect Opellius Macrinus, who promptly proclaimed himself emperor.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus II (Elagabalus) (ruled AD 218–222)
Elagabalus was a relative of Septimius Severus’s wife, put forward to challenge Macrinus for the throne after the murder of Caracalla. Elagabalus overthrew Macrinus and promptly embarked on an increasingly eccentric reign. His nickname came from his role as priest of the cult of the Syrian god Elah-Gabal, which he tried to introduce into Rome to universal consternation, even having himself circumcised to show his devotion to the cult.
Elagabalus deliberately offended Roman moral and religious principles, setting up a conical black stone fetish – a symbol of the sun god Sol Invictus Elagabalus – on the Palatine Hill and marrying the chief vestal, for which, under normal circumstances, she should have been put to death.
Romans were particularly offended by Elagabalus’s sexual behaviour – as well as a string of marriages he also openly took male lovers, and he seems to have been what would nowadays be recognised as transgender.
Few historians have much good to say about Elagablus, and eventually the Romans’ patience gave out: Elagabalus was murdered in a conspiracy organised by his own grandmother.
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Diocletian (AD 284–305)
It may seem unfair to include Diocletian in this group, since he is best known for the risky but sensible decision to divide the government of the Roman empire in two, taking Marcus Aurelius Maximianus as his co-emperor, each with a subordinate known as a Caesar, in a four-way division of power called the tetrarchy.
Diocletian was a good administrator, and managed to hold his divided command structure together at a time when the Roman empire was coming under increasing pressure from its enemies outside its boundaries. What gets Diocletian included here, however, is his utterly ruthless persecution of Christians.
Christians had long been regarded by most Romans with a mixture of distaste and a rather amused tolerance, but Diocletian set about the total eradication of the religion. Churches were to be destroyed, scriptures publicly burnt, and Christian priests imprisoned and forced to conduct sacrifices to the emperor on pain of death. Christians who refused to give up their faith were tortured and executed.
It was an unusually vicious persecution, given that the Romans were usually accepting of other religions, and it reflects Diocletian’s fear that, at a time when unity of purpose was essential for the empire’s survival, Christianity represented a rejection of Roman religious values that he could not afford to allow.
Sean Lang is a senior lecturer in history at Anglia Ruskin University, and the author of publications including British History for Dummies (2004), European History for Dummies (2011) and First World War for Dummies (2014). You can follow Sean on Twitter @sf_lang.
This article was first published by History Extra in 2015
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Queen Elizabeth’s Husband Prince Philip Surrenders Driving Licence After Accident Injuring Two Women
Prince Philip, the 97-year-old husband of British Queen Elizabeth II, has voluntarily surrendered his driving licence, weeks after the duke miraculously escaped unhurt in a terrifying accident that injured two women in another car.
Published: February 10, 2019 10:45 AM IST
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London: Prince Philip, the 97-year-old husband of British Queen Elizabeth II, has voluntarily surrendered his driving licence, weeks after the duke miraculously escaped unhurt in a terrifying accident that injured two women in another car.
“After careful consideration the Duke of Edinburgh has taken the decision to voluntarily surrender his driving licence,” Buckingham Palace said in a brief statement.
He surrendered his licence on Saturday, the palace said The Prince’s decision to hand over his driving licence was entirely his own and he will be driven from now on, it added.
Norfolk Police confirmed that the duke had surrendered his licence to officers and it would now be returned to the DVLA, the BBC reported.
Prince Philip’s decision to surrender his licence comes weeks after he caused a car crash near the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, in which his Land Rover Freelander landed on its side after a collision with a Kia.
Though Philip was unhurt, the accident on January 17 stirred up a debate in the UK about old age and driving and raised questions over the duke still driving himself on public roads.
Two days after the accident, the duke was pictured back behind the wheel of the new Land Rover without a seatbelt, which is illegal in Britain.
Later, Norfolk Police gave him “suitable words of advice”.
Philip, who formally retired from public life in 2017, has been seen behind the wheels on numerous occasions over the decade.
The investigation file for the collision has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service, which said it would take the latest development into account.
In the letter to victim of the crash, the duke acknowledged the “very distressing experience”.
“I would like you to know how very sorry I am for my part in the accident,” he wrote.
“The sun was shining low over the main road. In normal conditions I would have no difficulty in seeing traffic coming… but I can only imagine that I failed to see the car coming, and I am very contrite about the consequences.” At present, there is no upper age limit for driving in the UK. However, a person’s driving licence expires once he or she reaches the age of 70.
If the licence expires and they fail to renew it, then they legally are not allowed to drive. But if they apply for a renewal they may continue.
Published Date: February 10, 2019 10:45 AM IST
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Are you ready to commit six weeks to working alongside international development professionals?
International Service is working in partnership with York St John university to offer students from any university a six-week volunteering opportunity.
You can be a part of it.
We are offering placements with our local partners in Ghana, Malawi and Burkina Faso. Check out the specific projects that you could be part of below.
With one of the faster growing economies in the world, Ghana is often seen as a development success story. But development has been uneven: poverty in the Northern Region in Ghana is two to three times higher than in the South.
And with poverty comes a lack of resources, education and understanding. With less money to invest in health, people with health problems often get left to one side.
Read more about our work in Ghana.
Arts and Minds: mental wellbeing through creativity
Mental ill-health is a widespread and significant issue in Ghana. Under-resourced, misunderstood by many and linked with negative traditional beliefs, people suffering with mental ill-health are among the most marginalised in society.
Arts and Minds uses visual arts, including traditional Ghanaian art, to tackle mental ill-health in some of the poorest communities in the Upper East region of Ghana.
The programme focuses on the use of community arts as a tool for change – both for individuals with mental health issues, and to influence public perceptions and understanding.
If you volunteered on the Arts and Minds programme, you would be involved in:
Using Arts sessions as a platform to start conversations around mental ill-health in a safe communal space.
Providing basic mental health patient care support training to community leaders, community workers, care-givers and families making use of arts sessions.
Raising awareness about mental ill-health in the wider community through radio discussions, school sensitisation events and a community art exhibition.
Making sure that mental ill health information resources are available for community members at accessible centres.
The Malawian government has recently begun to focus on investing more money in women and girls. This is a positive step but there are still significant challenges facing people living in poverty.
Children and young people still struggle to access an education, as poverty forces many families to send their children out to work, rather than go to school. And despite being made illegal, child marriage still persists, meaning that many girls are pulled out of school. Meanwhile, discrimination and a lack of appropriate support means that many children with disabilities don’t go to school at all.
Read more about our work in Malawi.
We’ve found that inclusion happens most quickly when inclusion is first demonstrated. Fair Play uses inclusive sports to tackle deep-rooted social stigma and discrimination against people with disabilities. Working alongside local disabled people’s organisations and sports committees, our volunteers teach communities the rules and tactics of sports that enable people with disabilities to play alongside able-bodied people on an equal playing field. And by engaging the same number of volunteers with as without disabilities to facilitate the project, Fair Play challenges restrictive and discriminatory attitudes and behaviours without confrontation, breaking down the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from fully engaging in education, work and society.
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Despite significant development progress across the country, Burkina Faso remains in the bottom 10 countries in the world in the UN Human Development Index, with nearly 45% of the population still living below the poverty line. Added to this, violence against women is normalised and accepted, particularly in rural communities. Cultural norms and patriarchal attitudes to marriage mean that the majority of community members do not perceive violent behaviour, such as wife beating or non-consensual marital sex, to be violence.
The situation for the majority of women in the communities where we are seeking to run this project is that they are largely unaware of their rights, or unable to enforce them, and many women experience pressure from families and communities not to press charges against a violent partner. But with an issue such as gender-based violence, those experiencing violence are not the problem.
Read more about Burkina Faso here.
He Respects
He Respects is a gender equality project using locally-rooted men’s groups to inform men about what constitutes violence against women, encourage them to rethink their behaviours and attitudes towards their wives and female relatives, and enable them to become leaders of change in their communities. The project trains local men in rural communities to establish and facilitate interactive discussion groups about women’s rights, respect, consent, positive masculinity and shared parenting. The aim of the groups is to foster an environment in which men can reflect on their toxic and damaging behaviours, develop respectful attitudes and change the way in which they conduct themselves at home.
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Correspondence on The Revised British Standard Sections by W. Basil Scott
Sir,-On reading through Mr. W. Basil Scott's interesting and instructive article on "The Revised British Standard Sections" in the August issue of "The Structural Engineer," it struck me that he used too freely the expression "have been discarded."
Great Engineers 9: - Sir John Woolfe Barry
THE principal enterprise associated with the name of Sir John Wolfe Barry was the Tower Bridge. This is a highly important work both of architecture and of engineering. The fact that it has been severely criticised does nothing to lessen our interest in it. Perhaps we shall even find thathis much-abused structure has a significance transcending that of some more perfect examples of the art of bridge-building. It raises problems of design which are still the subject of acute controversy, and in so doing it arrests and challenges our attention. And whatever the critics may say, the Tower Bridge is popular, it is beloved of Londoners. The reason for this is probably to be found in the fact that although spectacular (in the best sense of this word) it yet has a certain homeliness which pleases the average man. That is why Waterloo Bridge, in spite of its more exalted qualities and the indubitable genius of its design is now in danger of being pulled down, while the twin towers of the East End, with their opening span that in such lively manner adapts itself to the arrival and departure of tall ships, make such an elementary appeal that any proposal to abolish them would be greeted with howls of execration. A. Trystan Edwards
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Mr. Everyman Visits "Home Providers" - A Vision of the Future
PRESENT-DAY tendencies and the speculative nature of this month’s Editorial Comment leads one to make public the following vision, with apologies to Mr. B. D - A - E. Mr. Everyman needs no introduction. Mr. Steelcrete is the Managing Director of “Home Providers.”
Some Reminiscences - III
I applied myself diligently in the workshops, as my father told me if I became a good workman I might rise some day to be a foreman. If he had said it was only a preliminary to professional practice I might have shirked, as the premium pupiis did, but fortunately I stuck to the work. It was intensely interesting, and I was keen on labour-saving dodges, so that I appeared to have a good deal of leisure. I remember that at one time I was in a piece-work gang where the money was pooled and divided out in proportion to our fixed rates of pay. I was then working at a lathe and by means of special devices was able to make it to some extent automatic, and am afraid that in consequence I spent more time “larking about” than was desirable; at any rate, the foreman of the gang said they were “keeping me” and complained to the office. The consequence was that a full investigation was made, when it was found that I had earned more than anyone else in the gang, including the foreman, and I was honourably acquitted. While in the shops I thought out a new form of locomotive blast pipe, which should eject the steam through an annulus instead of as a solid jet, and thereby provide a greater frictional surface, inside and outside, for creating a draught through the tubes. I could not persuade my uncle to adopt it, as he thought it was only a juvenile idea, but twenty years afterwards when I had the opportunity to apply it for myself and prove its value, he was glad to join with me in taking out patents for it all over the world. He would not agree to form a small company of locomotive engineers to work the patents, so we soon had a dozen other patents taken out by them in opposition to us and we missed a fortune. The London and South Western Railway Company, to whom my uncle was then locomotive engineer, allowed it to be tried on several of their engines for a start, and the official return showed by its use a total saving of £60,000 in seven years. It was adopted on some other railways, but not to any great extent by reason of the subsequent patents. It was called the “ Vortex ” blast pipe, as the outlet from the cylinders carried up to the annulus formed a great scoopshaped opening opposite the tube ends in the smoke-box and thus caused a rush of hot gases to the inside of the annulus while the outside acted as an ordinary blast pipe. The economy consisted in making the lower tubes equally efficient with the upper ones, steaming easier and with a reduced back pressure in the cylinders. Professor Henry Adams
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In this paper it is the author’s desire to discuss, as far as time permits, some methods of stress computation for various types of structures used, in steel-framed buildings, and the design of the steel framework to withstand the stresses. V.H. Lawton
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All Stories, Features, Player Features
Gianluigi Buffon. A man whose story is now as much myth and legend as it is fact. As if it was written in the stars. Another chapter seems to be in need of writing for Santo Gigi, with The Old Lady having called him home. If you were to ask me, I’d say it’s an excellent piece of business on Juve’s part.
Allow me to explain…
It’s no secret to even the most casual fan of the game: Buffon’s legacy will live on in more than just the history books.
With over twenty years at the highest level, a throng of trophies, and countless records, you need not recite his CV; it speaks for itself.
The question still remains: Why bring back a 41 year old goalkeeper we released a year ago?
Buffon brings you something money can’t buy. Ironically, in this instance, we got him on a free. Something of a specialty for Juventus in recent years. Nevertheless, he returns, humbly. Refusing his old number, and the captain’s armband.
“I didn’t come back to take something from someone or take it back…I just want to do my bit for the team. It’s only right that the starting goalkeeper, Szczęsny, has the number 1 jersey. And for the captaincy we have a great player like Giorgio Chiellini.” – Gianluigi Buffon
Buffon has a history at Juventus that is nearly unmatched. He knows the club inside and out after nearly twenty years in the famous black and white stripes. Calling Buffon a Juve legend is merely scratching the surface of his tenure here. He is unanimously respected within the hierarchy of the club, among his peers, and revered as one of the greatest to ever play his position. Couple that with his wealth of knowledge about the game itself, his leadership, and the class with which he carries himself: Buffon is an asset to any side. We should be welcoming him back with open arms. Which I believe most of us are.
Gigi will return as the number two goalkeeper, and earn €1.5 million for his one year contract. A substantial decrease in salary, and a step back in the pecking order. This should take absolutely nothing away from Woj. He is more than deserving of his current role as the number one. It is clear though that Buffon wasn’t brought back to simply make saves this time around. He is here for a different purpose. Potentially being groomed for a management role? Possible. To beat Paolo Maldini’s Serie A appearance record? Sure.
Perhaps though, he is being brought back in to be an aid in keeping the ship steady.
I’ll elaborate.
With Sarri arriving, so does a new playing ethos. Sarri-ball, as it has been coined. It will take patience for his ideas, and playing style to be fully realized. Now add the Ronaldo factor in. There will be a lot of moving parts. A lot of big personalities. Buffon could very well be tasked with being a solid foundation for this team on and off the pitch. To be a cool head, a calming presence within the side. Sarri would do well to make an ally of Buffon quickly. Gigi would certainly be a role model for the younger lads on the squad as well. A player like Moise Kean could benefit tremendously from being around Buffon on a day to day basis.
I can’t speak for all, but Buffon returning gives me a certain serenity about the changes we are currently going through. It gives an extra glimmer of hope for the season to come, and a certain tranquility about the solidity of the dressing room in the upcoming year.
The prodigal sons return is confirmed. Let’s just hope the feast at the celebration is the trophy we’ve so long been without.
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The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the past in Europe and other world areas, I think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions.
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I think traditions change and modify with each generation. With new members joining the family, their customs and traditions have to be respected and combined with the exiting traditions. And the children that follow are part of that new evolving tradition and, as they grow, will have input that will, in turn, continue to evolve that tradition.
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Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it. ... Because women are on the ground floor, and we know the traditions so well, we can bring a different voice to the table.
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No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.
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Nhat Hanh Quotes
The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changing conditions and growing imagination constantly add. And the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct. He loves, not as his savage forbears loved, but as his group loves.
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Jack London Quotes
It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions.
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John Stuart Mill Quotes
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The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down... The traditions which have been handed down should be regarded as apostolic laws.
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St. Jerome Quotes
Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.
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Paul Feyerabend Quotes
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Malala Yousafzai Quotes
Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because of this, liberals don't pay much attention to why traditions developed or wonder about possible ramifications of their social engineering.
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John Hawkins Quotes
Many of the traditional approaches to interfaith dialogue have assumed that it can be successful only if agreements are reached about amorphous concepts and themes that various traditions may have in common. These approaches have also assumed that participants have to "weaken" or "compromise" elements of their own faith... this is not necessarily constructive for engaging in interfaith understanding and dialogue. It is only when participants have a deep understanding of their own religious traditions and are willing to learn and recognize the richness of other religious traditions that constructive cooperation can take place between groups from different faiths. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 57-58)
David R. Smock
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David R. Smock Quotes
I love studying different religions. For me, learning and drawing from the different religious traditions is essential to being a good public servant. And the connections between our various religious traditions become our public ethic; they tie us together.
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Tim Ryan Quotes
Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From this vantage point, religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.
Larry Graham
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Larry Graham Quotes
The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Feisal Abdul Rauf Quotes
The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.
Chinweizu Ibekwe
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Chinweizu Ibekwe Quotes
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.
Thomas Berry
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Thomas Berry Quotes
Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives. With different words, they all proclaim the same core message: "Be not afraid." Though the traditions vary widely in the ways they propose to take us beyond fear, all hold out the same hope: we can escape fear's paralysis and enter a state of grace where encounters with otherness will not threaten us but will enrich our work and our lives.
Parker J. Palmer
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Parker J. Palmer Quotes
Religion is important for humanity, but it should evolve with humanity. The first priority is to establish and develop the principle of pluralism in all religious traditions. If we, the religious leaders, cultivate a sincere pluralistic attitude, then everything will be more simple. It is good that most religious leaders are at least beginning to recognize other traditions, even though they may not approve of them. The next step is to accept that the idea of propagating religion is outdated. It no longer suits the times.
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Dalai Lama Quotes
In this postcolonial context, my contention is that interreligious engagement is enhanced by renewed attention to the particularity of religious traditions. From a European (Anglican) standpoint, a revised particularist theology of religions is proposed as an appropriate Christian theology for our time that respects the integrity of Christianity and of other religious traditions. This particularist approach concerns Christian terms of engagement with other religious traditions, as these may be understood in Christian theological terms. Having regard to questions raised in the opening paragraph above, centred in trinitarian thinking, as capable of hospitality to the liberative and interreligious concerns of post-colonial, Asian and feminist theologies; respectful interreligious engagement and the pursuit of gender justice amid increasing global diversity need not require repudiation of orthodox trinitarian thought and its liturgical expressions.
Jenny Daggers
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Jenny Daggers Quotes
The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.
Brian Swimme
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Brian Swimme Quotes
Religion, which was obviously created to give meaning and purpose to people, has become part of the oppression. This is true in both Eastern and Western religious traditions. The Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad were all revolutionaries who critiqued and attempted to dismantle the corrupt societal traditions of their time. Yet their teachings, like most things in human society, have been distorted and co-opted by the confused and power-hungry patriarchal tradition. What were wonce the creation myths of ancient cultures, have become doctrines of oppression. More blood has been spilled and more people oppressed in the name of religion than for any other reason in history.
Noah Levine
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Noah Levine Quotes
Many native cultures believe that the heart is the bridge between Father Sky and Mother Earth. For these traditions, the 'four-chambered heart,' the source for sustaining emotional and spiritual health, is described as being full, open, clear, and strong. These traditions feel that it is important to check the condition of the four-chambered heart daily, asking: 'Am I full-hearted, open-hearted, clear-hearted, and strong-hearted?'
Angeles Arrien
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Angeles Arrien Quotes
Dialogue with Catholics and other nonevangelical Christians offered some correction to the Church Growth movement's fixation on cultural accommodation and baptism rates. However - save for those few who converted - evangelicals attracted to other Christian traditions have made those traditions their own. They assemble do-it-yourself liturgies from a hodgepodge of monastic prayers and mystics' visions. They lionize medieval dissenters - Celtic monks, or renegade Franciscans - but don't understand their broader Catholic context. Without quite realizing what they have done, evangelicals often use these ancient teachings and practices to confirm, rather than challenge, their own assumptions. History becomes a sidekick to one's twenty-first-century journey with Jesus.
Molly Worthen
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Molly Worthen Quotes
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Theodore Bikel Quotes
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Lars Svendsen Quotes
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N.T. Wright Quotes
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Morena Baccarin Quotes
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Kate Mara Quotes
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Eleanora Duse Quotes
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William James Quotes
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Paul Tsongas Quotes
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Fernando Flores Quotes
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Tom Piazza Quotes
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Lorna Luft Quotes
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Max McKeown Quotes
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Robert Ardrey Quotes
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Fennel Hudson Quotes
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Tasneem Hameed Quotes
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James Stockdale Quotes
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George Santayana Quotes
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Mark Twain Quotes
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Winston Churchill Quotes
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Vincent Massey Quotes
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Megan Collins Quotes
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Amita Trasi Quotes
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Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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Karl Marx Quotes
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Rose B. Mashal Quotes
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Chaske Spencer Quotes
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Kesha Rogers Quotes
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Amit Goswami Quotes
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Jesse Helms Quotes
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Karen Armstrong Quotes
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Georgina Chapman Quotes
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Miller Williams Quotes
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes
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C.P. Snow Quotes
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N. T. Wright Quotes
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Josh McDowell Quotes
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Ravi Ravindra Quotes
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Hanoi Hannah Quotes
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Ted Sarandos Quotes
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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
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Dana Goodyear Quotes
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
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Helena Blavatsky Quotes
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Joseph Heller Quotes
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Maya Lin Quotes
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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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David Christian Quotes
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Anne Carson Quotes
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Frithjof Schuon Quotes
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Vikas Khanna Quotes
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Galatians 1:14 Quotes
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Stephen Vollmer Quotes
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Walter Becker Quotes
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Diane Greene Quotes
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James Russell Lowell Quotes
There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community.
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Ralph Nader Quotes
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2 Thessalonians 2:15 Quotes
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Robert Crumb Quotes
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Mary Fallin Quotes
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First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.
Geddy Lee
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Geddy Lee Quotes
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Harri Holkeri Quotes
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Jak Zoudi Quotes
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Monica Johnson Quotes
When all you have to face all life issues is the attitude forced on to you by society traditions, you will then regret not being the mad you used to be but will never be again.
Sameh Elsayed
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Sameh Elsayed Quotes
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Kathy Freston Quotes
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Street Racing in San Antonio, Houston, Dallas
By Jim Adler March 28, 2017
photo by Toa55 (iStock by Getty Images)
Illegal street racing is menacing innocent citizens across Texas, from rural expanses to congested urban areas such as San Antonio, Houston and Dallas. Jim Adler & Associates urges law officers to crack down on those who endanger innocent persons for thrills. We also caution drivers to be wary of street racers, to avoid them if possible and to alert police about their locations.
Texas Street Racing Laws
As for street racers, they can keep this in mind: Under the Texas Penal Code, illegal street racing is a Class B misdemeanor. Racers who break the law can face jail time of up to 180 days, a fine of up to $2,000, or both. Street racers also can have their driver’s license suspended for up to one year, and they must complete 10 hours of community service before it is restored. Repeat offenders can have the so-called book thrown at them. They can be charged with a second-degree felony and have their license suspended. They also can face a fine of up to $10,000, jail time of 2 to 20 years, or both. A third felony offense even could lead to life in prison. Texas’ street racing laws were upgraded to these levels in 2003. Prior to that, street racing was a simple traffic violation. Of course, street racers also can face another thing: a car wreck injury lawsuit filed by Jim Adler on behalf of innocent victims if their racing harms anyone.
San Antonio Street Racing
This month, San Antonio TV station KENS Chan nel 5 reported that street racing is growing in the Alamo City. The station quoted San Antonio Police Officer Douglas Greene as saying, “People have been seriously injured, or killed. When you’re racing, you’re putting other people’s lives in danger.” The Texas Department of Public Safety shows speeding as a growing contributor to the city’s thousands of auto accidents. In 2012, Bexar County had 1,453 speeding crashes. Last year, the county had 1,776 speeding crashes, including 30 fatalities. One was Jessie Zerwas, 31, who apparently was drag racing when his Corvette crashed and burned.
Houston Street Racing
Street racers also are menacing the Houston area. Earlier this month, police say two racing cars caused a three-vehicle collision on Almeda Road near Beltway 8 when they struck a center median and went out of control. A pickup truck also was hit, but the innocent couple inside somehow escaped injury. Officials with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said the two cars were traveling at an extremely high rate of speed and appear to have been racing. Last year, a Baptist minister and his wife were killed when a truck involved in street racing ran a red light and hit their car at the feeder of West Sam Houston Beltway and Bammel North Houston. Killed were Jesse Estrada Sabillon and Maria Sabillon, who’d been married for 30 years. YouTube videos also have been posted of underground street racing in Houston. But keep in mind there’s a big difference between illegal street racing and sanctioned drag racing, a sport that is regulated and organized with emphases on safety.
Dallas Street Racing
In Dallas this month, police staged a crackdown on street racing at a traditional racing spot on Forney Road near Seldon Way, in the Pleasant Grove area. Dallas Police arrested 14 persons — two for racing on a highway, and 10 for criminal trespass. Police also impounded five vehicles, recovered a stolen firearm and seized drug paraphernalia from among the many spectators who had gathered at the scene. Last year in Southeast Dallas, a bystander was killed in a street racing crash on Lake June Road. One speeding vehicle went out of control and struck several parked cars. The victim, a pedestrian, was hit in a crosswalk around 100 yards away, and his body was severed. Two persons were arrested for racing which resulted in serious bodily injury or death. Enough is enough. Jim Adler & Associates encourages Texas law officers to continue cracking down on selfish, reckless and dangerous street racing which endangers innocent persons. Mere thrills are not worth the terrible price of serious injuries or deaths in street racing accidents.
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Worsening drought increases fire danger
The July 3 map of Colorado from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows 79.54 percent of the state in drought conditions, with 52.31 percent classified as severe to exceptional drought.
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With more than half of Colorado in a state of severe to exceptional drought — its driest conditions since 2002 — fire has found opportune conditions to scorch a path this year across more than 200,000 acres in the state, torching dozens of buildings and prompting hundreds of people to evacuate.
“Given the (weak) snowpack conditions we’ve seen and the heat we’ve seen, we’ve put together the perfect ingredients for these kinds of fires,” Peter Goble, drought specialist with the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University, said this week.
Snowpack levels in the southwest corner of the state, where the 416 fire has burned more than 54,000 acres north of Durango since June 1, were that area’s second-worst ever, Goble said. And the mid-May melt-out from higher elevations in the San Juan Mountains happened earlier than ever, he said.
Earlier this year, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center in Nebraska called the expected drought conditions for the Western United States in 2018 “alarming,” as measured snow depths in southwestern Colorado clocked in at 22 percent of normal in January.
“(The year) 2018 is right up there with 2002,” Goble said, drawing a comparison to the year that spawned Colorado’s largest wildfire — the 137,760-acre Hayman fire.
But he said there is reason to hope that the worst is over, as expected July rains should start to provide relief, especially to the southern half of the state, hardest hit by the arid conditions.
“I am expecting that the fire danger of the past week is at or near the peak we’ll see this season,” he said.
But even if the pace of new wildfires begins to slow for the rest of this summer, some climatologists worry that seasons of 200,000-plus acres burned in Colorado are becoming more commonplace. The state has crossed that threshold three times, the first time in 2002, but hadn’t even reached half that amount in any year during the three decades prior, according to data from the Colorado State Forest Service and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group.
Jennifer Balch, assistant professor of geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said there is an undeniable link between both a warming climate and increased aridity with wildfires that are mounting in scope and frequency across the American West.
“In the Western U.S., regional temperatures have increased by almost 2 degrees since the 1970s, snowmelt is occurring a month earlier in some places and fire season length has increased by almost three months,” she said. “As a consequence, the number of large fires has increased fivefold since the 1970s. Where there were 20 large fires a year then, since 2010 well over 100 large fires each year are burning.”
And with more people moving into Colorado and building new homes where once there was quiet forest land or empty prairie, Balch said, the fire danger goes up.
“Unlike other natural disasters, people do play a role in determining where and when fires start,” she said. “Over the last two decades in the continental United States, people started 84 percent of our wildfires.”
Michael Kodas, deputy director for the Center for Environmental Journalism at CU-Boulder, said the urban-wildland interface — where homes meet wilderness — is becoming more commonplace in Colorado. That fact, coupled with worsening drought conditions projected under a continued global warming scenario, only raises the danger that a fire will get sparked and that that fire will cause more damage once it gets going.
“When we develop into an area, we add fuel because we’re building homes and putting in propane tanks, and we’re opening up forest that used to be sheltered from the wind,” said Kodas, who wrote the 2017 book “Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame.” “And we have a large increase in the number of fire starters.”
A man from Denmark who is in the United States illegally was arrested last week in connection with starting the largest current blaze in the state — the 100,000-plus-acre Spring Creek fire in Costilla and Huerfano counties. Phil Daniels, deputy chief of the wildfire section of the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control, has been working the Spring Creek fire since it broke out June 27.
The more than 250 homes that have been either destroyed or damaged by the fire illustrate the role Colorado’s natural beauty plays in drawing people to live in areas off the beaten path but also the risk they take in locating so close to plentiful sources of fire fuel, especially when drought takes hold, he said.
“We like things that are green and pretty, so we put our houses in the middle of the green and pretty,” Daniels said.
CU’s Balch said removing fuels and creating defensible space around homes will only be so effective when nearby conditions reach ever-worsening levels of drought. Real improvement in the situation is dependent on people slowing or reversing the climate change trends of the last several decades.
“We can’t thin our way out of the problem — thinning all the forests is not possible, and even if it were, it won’t stop fires in the extreme weather that is happening more frequently and will in the future,” she said. “However, we can incentivize building in places with less risk of severe fire that can be defended and we can educate the public about the increasing likelihood of more big fires in the years ahead so that people can be ready.”
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Furor over Danube remains search deepens
The Mazsihisz federation of the Neolog community issued a statement last week stating its opposition to the search, said that the project was “superfluous” and “contrary to Jewish law.”
By Jeremy Sharon
A World War Two memorial of mass killings on the banks of the Danube River is seen in Budapest, February 11, 2014. A main Jewish group in Hungary has recently voted to boycott official Holocaust commemorations this year unless they more clearly show the role of local citizens in the Nazi deportation. (photo credit: REUTERS/BERNADETT SZABO)
ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav has strongly criticized the Hungarian non-Orthodox, Neolog community over its opposition to ZAKA’s search for the remains of Holocaust victims in the waters of the Danube River in the capital Budapest.
Some 80,000 Jews were executed on the banks of the Danube in Budapest in 1944 by Hungarian Iron Cross forces, so that their bodies fell into the river below.
ZAKA initiated the search for remains of these Holocaust victims last week after several years of work organizing the project, but it has met with opposition from the large Hungarian Neolog community, somewhat akin to Conservative Judaism, which has questioned the utility and necessity of the search.
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, Meshi-Zahav alleged that the Neolog community was opposing the search due to its political concerns with the right-wing, nationalist Hungarian government, and said it was “disgraceful” to oppose the search whose goal is to do the final honor for Holocaust martyrs and have them buried in accordance with Jewish law and custom
“As someone who has been operating in dozens of countries around the world in similar operations, I have never encountered such disgraceful conduct by Jewish community leaders who, in their struggle against the local government, have turned Holocaust victims into a political bargaining chip,” said Meshi-Zahav.
“We were taught that when it comes to the Holocaust, there are no interests and no politics, so I strongly condemn this conduct.”
Meshi-Zahav also insisted that everything ZAKA does, including the search for remains in the Danube, “is carried out in accordance with Jewish law and the rulings of the greatest Rabbis in the Jewish world including the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.”
He added “Moreover, we consider this operation to be of great importance since it is the last act of kindness that we can perform for hundreds of our brethren murdered on the banks of the Danube.”
The Mazsihisz federation of the Neolog community issued a statement last week stating its opposition to the search, arguing that it would not be possible to determine if any remains recovered are from Jews or non-Jews, and said that the project was “superfluous” and “contrary to Jewish law.”
Robert Simcha Yisrael Frohlich, chief rabbi of the Great Synagogue in Budapest and a member of the Neolog community, made similar comments to the Post on Tuesday.
Meshi-Zahav pointed out that according to Jewish law burial in water is not considered to be burial, and that there is therefore a religious obligation to find Jewish remains in bodies of water, if possible, and bring them to proper Jewish burial.
He also noted burial in the ground, even in mass graves, is considered to be commensurate with Jewish law and that there is therefore no need to search all over Europe for Jewish remains in Holocaust-era mass burial sites.
Meshi-Zahav said the search did not harm the Neolog community, and that this was the cause of his anger.
“Why do they care that we are doing this? Why do they care? Why are they bothered that we are brining these victims for Jewish burial?”
He also dismissed concerns that it would be impossible to determine Jewish from non-Jewish remains, saying that there are many instances when Jews are buried together with non-Jews, such as terrorist attacks in Israel when remains of the terrorists themselves often end up alongside their Jewish victims in Jewish cemeteries.
Speaking to the Post, Frohlich said however that his opposition to the search was because he feared it could prompt negative feelings amongst the general Hungarian population towards the Jewish community.
Noting that ZAKA’s search has yet to find any remains, the rabbi said that he had already seen a far-right website arguing that this failure proved that Jews had not been massacred on the banks of the Danube.
Frohlich also noted comments on Facebook of Hungarians demanding to know whether or not non-Jewish remains found in the river would merely be thrown back in.
The rabbi acknowledged that Meshi-Zahav was right to say that burial in water is not considered burial according to Jewish law, but said that other factors should be taken into consideration, principally the position of the Jewish population in the country.
Hungary’s current right-wing, nationalist government. led by the Fidesz Party, has been criticized in recent years for undermining democratic institutions and norms, and was sanctioned by the EU in September over such concerns.
These issues, as well as concerns over antisemitism, have unsettled parts of the Jewish community in the country.
“I very much admire Meshi-Zahav and ZAKA for the holy work they do, but I ask him very respectfully to try a little bit to think with our hats and not just his own,” said Frohlich.
“We are not living in a Jewish country. We are living in a multi-faith country and we are a minority here, and always will be. Pirkei Avot says do not judge your friend until you are in his place, and he must not judge us until he is in our shoes. Our position is not that of people in Israel.”
The rabbi also rejected the idea that he was opposed to the search due to internal Hungarian politics, saying that only Meshi-Zahav had mentioned the issue, not him or the Mazsihisz federation.
“My opinion is not political at all. I talked about moral philosophy and ethics, and respect for the dead, I didn’t discuss politics at all, and this is not a political issue.
“I respect Meshi-Zahav and I don’t want to fight with him, because I admire what he and his organization does, he just doesn’t understand the situation here, and I don’t want to fight with him and have sinat hinam, baseless hatred.”
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UN Atomic chief: Iran nuclear deal is still fragile
"Small technical mistakes, small failures in implementation can become big political issues that could have a large negative influence on the agreement."
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano addresses a news conference after a board of governors meeting at IAEA headquarters in Vienna, which dealt with the Iran nuclear deal, November 26. (photo credit: REUTERS)
VIENNA - The implementation of a landmark nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers is still fragile, the head of the UN agency that polices Iran's side of the deal has said, warning that small mistakes could have grave consequences.
Iran and six major powers, including the United States, struck the agreement last year. It restricts Tehran's nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
"The implementation of the agreement is still fragile," International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said in an interview with the German news agency DPA published on Friday before a trip to Germany.
"Small technical mistakes, small failures in implementation can become big political issues that could have a large negative influence on the agreement," he added.
Iran deal in a nutshell
Amano's agency has reported that Iran so far has stayed within the terms of the agreement. Those include limits on its stockpile of enriched uranium and the number of its centrifuges, machines that enrich uranium, it has installed.
Iran has also complained that the United States is not keeping its side of the deal. It wants Washington to do more to encourage banks to do business with Iran. Many are wary that doing so would run afoul of US sanctions still in place .
Earlier this week, the speaker of the Iranian parliament canceled talks with German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel intended to improve Germany's trade ties with Iran. The speaker, Ali Larijani, gave no reason, but the cancellation came after Gabriel urged Iran to pursue reforms and work for a cease fire in Syria, where Tehran supports President Bashar al-Assad .
The Republican candidate for US president, Donald Trump, has strongly criticized the deal, though he has also conceded that it would be hard to tear it up as he had previously said he would.
The United States says it has done everything required by the agreement, which was also signed by Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany.
"There is little trust," Amano said, referring to the United States and Iran.
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What Are the Top Businesses in Los Angeles?
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Los Angeles, California has a culturally diverse population of approximately 10 million people. People here have diverse interests and tastes in various industries, such as hospitality, entertainment, aerospace and food. There are tons to do here, and businesses are sprouting and growing anywhere you go.
Even sign companies operating in Los Angeles can attest to the booming business climate in the region. More and more clients are engaging their services for upcoming business openings.
If you are going to start a business, choose Los Angeles. Here are the most lucrative niches.
Hospitality and Tourism Business
One of the leading business industries in LA is hospitality and tourism. It hosts over a hundred million visitors each year, and visitors have spent over $20 billion in tourism this year alone. In addition, this particular business is able to serve over 10 million and a growing number of local residents.
LA is home to Hollywood, a leading tourist destination that houses many shopping sites, restaurants, hotels, amusement parks, travel services and other various entertainments. This industry is able to generate some 680,000 jobs in LA and a total economic income that reaches a whopping $9 billion annually.
Beverly Hills, for one, is a top destination because of its exclusive vibe and glamorous reputation. It is home to some of the most expensive brands in the world, and guests want nothing but to post selfies of shopping at Rodeo Drive on their social media accounts.
Digital Media and Entertainment Business
Los Angeles is the center for many music recording studios and other traditional entertainment firms. The boom in gaming, digital media and virtual reality, including the massive success of YouTube studios, has revolutionized and reinvented the region’s digital and entertainment business.
We can now see more and more digital studios joining in from the likes of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Studios, Dreamworks Animation, Sony, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney and more. With videos and gaming becoming the future of entertainment, LA is the main hub for countless digital media and entertainment outfits in America.
Aerospace and Travel Business
LA is headquarters to top firms and bigwigs in the aerospace industry. The aerospace segment offers the region a foundation for the advancement and proliferation of scientific discoveries and advancement, as well as intellectual property. Major firms in aerospace business have main offices in LA, including Boeing, Lockheed, SpaceX, Aerojet, Rocketdyne and Virgin Galactic.
With the influx of tourists here, it is no wonder that the food business has also skyrocketed to success. LA has a very strong consumer market and an expert culinary workforce. Its local industry benefits a lot from suppliers, local agriculture, distributors, and even the local food diners and restaurants around the region. There is an abundant supply and great access to a wide variety of local produce.
LA Country has a flourishing economy. The energy availability here is abundant with renewable sources and a strong labor force. Every possible business idea conceived can grow and thrive in Los Angeles.
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It turns out that when superhero MMO City of Heroes was shut down at the end of 2012, it was only mostly dead. For six years, it was kept alive by fans on a secret private server. In the wake of that server’s discovery last week, the City of Heroes community has been thrown into chaos.
City of Heroes was an MMO in which everybody played as their own custom-made superhero – or villain, after the City of Villains expansion. When it was released in 2002, there was nothing else like it. Surrounded by an elven forest of self-serious fantasy MMOs, it brought some much-needed color to the scene with a burst of high-flying comic-book action. Though its popularity dwindled over time, diehard fans stuck around through countless ups and downs. In 2012, publisher NCSoft closed City of Heroes developer Paragon Studios as part of a “realignment of company focus.” Paragon fought to keep the game alive until the bitter end, but to no avail. In this era of “Avengers,” “Endgames,” and “Robert Downey Jrs,” fans are all the more saddened that their favourite game didn’t survive to see superheroes turn pop culture into their personal playground.
Word of the secret City of Heroes server – run by a group calling themselves the Secret Cabal of Reverse Engineers, or SCORE for short – first got out last week thanks to a now-deleted video by a player named Destroyer Stroyer. For six years, the video said, a few thousand die-hard City of Heroes fanatics had been able to keep playing the beloved game despite its official shutdown, thanks to the server. Blowback was immediate and fierce. The City of Heroes subreddit exploded with threads from players who felt like they’d been “lied to,” who felt that they should have been informed so they could have suited up once again as their bitterly mourned superhero alter egos and gotten back into the game.
Following the release of the video, the City of Heroes private server team decided to release their server code to the public so that other people could also reverse-engineer their own servers. However, the code isn’t exactly straightforward, and community programmers are still working to turn it into something anybody can run. To bridge the gap, SCORE programmer Leandro Pardini collaborated with members of the community on a public server, which went live at the tail end of last week.
It would have been a tidy ending to a messy situation, but it was not to be: Yesterday, the public server’s moderators shut it down due to legal concerns. Operating a server entails replicating NCSoft’s copyrighted game code without permission, which flew under the radar when the server was secret and private, but would have caught the eye of lawyers if it were open to the public. (NCSoft has not responded to Kotaku’s request for comment.)
“We are on a direct course for legal action,” a moderator who goes by the handle Voodoo Girl said in the City of Heroes Discord. “As such, steps must be taken in order to protect the people involved in this project, their families, and their futures. As with all of you, we are heartbroken. We wanted to see our City return, but to do so at the destruction of the lives of those involved is too great a risk to take.”
The public server’s project lead, named “Innocuous,” said in a Discord announcement that, despite the apparent need for a server shutdown, they were willing to fight back against impending “fuckery” even if it caused them “major legal turmoil.”
Leandro Pardini, the SCORE programmer, was taken by surprise. “I just got home and I am not fully aware of anything that’s been going on,” he said on Twitter at the time. “While it’s true that there has been some form of contact with NCSoft, I am not willing to leave the community without a public facing server for however long they take to resolve this.”
A few hours later, however, the team did a 180 and came to the conclusion that there was no imminent legal action coming after all. Innocuous chalked it up to “some fuckups that lead to mass server panic,” which partly stemmed from their own “inexperience.” The team then claimed to be working on getting another public server up. 24 hours later, they’ve yet to make any more announcements.
But the fallout from the revelation of the private server continued. On Monday afternoon, there was a mass exodus from the City of Heroes Discord. Hundreds of former members joined a new “/r/CityofHeroes Official Server,” saying that they were leaving the original one because Innocuous and company hadn’t been transparent during the initial hours of the public server shutdown. They also raised concerns about the moderation of the Discord channel, saying that Innocuous had once turned down a person for a position in the Discord on the basis that they were openly trans. As part of their Discord announcement, the /r/CityofHeroes Official Server moderators provided screenshots that seemed to back up both of these assertions. Innocuous did not respond to Kotaku’s queries about this or other subjects, but did respond in a Discord DM to say that “we have a very good announcement coming soon.”
This splinter Discord group is also working on its own City of Heroes public server, but said they are “having issues with getting something compiled that will run in the current codebase” and don’t currently have a timeframe for when their server will be up.
All of this precariousness has served as additional motivation for people working to turn City of Heroes server code into something that’s more accessible and easily distributed. It’s entirely possible that NCSoft may attempt to take legal action against these fan-run servers, but if anybody can make a server, the game will never truly die. It’ll be preserved in some form, which is sadly better than most defunct MMOs get in this day and age.
The Titan Network, a long-running group of City Of Heroes fan sites, claims to be “in talks” with NCSoft about a community-run server. “Things are looking positive, so stay strong,” said ParagonWiki head Tony V on Twitter. “We don’t have a timeline right now, but we’ll provide more updates as soon as we can.”
At this point, nobody’s really sure what’s going to happen, but many fans are hoping the drama will pass so they can just play. Others are thankful they got to revisit their old virtual home, even if it was only for a weekend.
“I want to thank everyone that took these risks to make this weekend possible, and hopefully we can work our way towards being able to play on private servers in peace in the future,” said a player named GnawerOfTheMoon on Reddit. “For a little while, at least, I got to play my old Storm Defender again and fly around zapping bad guys, and it was excellent. See y’all in some other Atlas Park soon, I hope.”
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KRMF’s Philadelphia Prison Overcrowding Lawsuit Reinstated
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Due to steady increases in the population of inmates in the Philadelphia Prison System, KRMF lawyers and their co-counsel have asked a federal court to reinstate a 2008 class action lawsuit concerning serious overcrowding conditions in the System. On December 3, 2012, Judge R. Barclay Surrick of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia granted that request allowing the case to proceed.
After the case was first filed in 2008, the inmate population was substantially reduced and, in 2011, the parties to the suit reached a settlement agreement, approved by the Court and allowing for lawyers representing inmates in the system to monitor conditions of confinement. Since that time, however, as reported in multiple press accounts, the inmate population has increased over and above the levels which prompted the filing of the suit in 2008. Because these extreme population levels result in dangerous conditions for inmates and correctional officers alike, the lawyers on the case will now proceed with the litigation in an effort to prove to the Court that the conditions of confinement in the Philadelphia Prison System violate the Constitution.
KRMF partners David Rudovsky and Jonathan Feinberg are handling the case along with co-counsel from Pepper Hamilton LLP, the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project and the Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania.
The case is Dwight Williams et al. v. City of Philadelphia et al., U.S.D.C. E.D. Pa. No. 08-cv-1979.
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January Proclaimed Mentoring Month In Kansas
KSCB News - December 23, 2013 10:04 am
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a proclamation touting the work of adults who serve as mentors to children in need of support.
The Republican governor signed the document on Friday, designating January as Kansas Mentoring Month. He was joined by volunteers from youth organizations during the Statehouse event, including members of the Jayhawk Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Kansas has more than 175 mentoring programs that work to improve the social and economic well-being of children.
Brownback has also supported a program in state prisons that match mentors with inmates as they prepare to return to society. He says the program has more than 4,000 mentors but is aiming for 6,000.
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Fox Movie Review: “Once Upon a Deadpool”
by Alex Reif | Dec 11, 2018 11:21 PM Pacific Time
Tags: 20th Century Fox, Deadpool, Marvel, Once Upon a Deadpool
A PG-13 version of Deadpool 2 is still crass, violent, and gory, but just a little less so. It slightly reduces the number of “S” words and calls out the fact that there will only be two “F” words right up front, bleeping out many of them (and bleeping out other words that start with an “F” for comedic effect). The point I’m getting at is that Once Upon a Deadpool, a re-edited and somewhat censored version of Deadpool 2, is still wildly inappropriate for most young viewers, but perhaps makes less cautious parents feel slightly more comfortable about letting their kids watch it. After all, they already play with the Hasbro toys.
Aside from the removal of most sexual jokes and some tweaked dialogue, the biggest difference between Deadpool 2 and Once Upon a Deadpool is the narrative device. Deadpool is still narrating the story, but rather than speaking directly to you the viewer, he is telling the story to Fred Savage held hostage in reconstructed bedroom set from The Princess Bride. The Celine Dion opening of the original film has been replaced with a short credit sequence that even matches the font of the classic comedy film.
The plot is frequently interrupted by these hilarious bedroom moments, which will likely confuse viewers who aren’t familiar with the film they parody, (i.e: the target audience of minors). An “As you wish” is thrown in for good measure and the new banter even pokes fun at the fact that this film is not part of the MCU, also referencing the Disney acquisition of Fox.
Speaking of Disney, all of the best Disney jokes from Deadpool 2 are still present, while others were cut out for no apparent reason (the reference to Basic Instinct has been omitted, despite the fact that the toddler legs still cross over and Cable still reacts to them). There were several times where I forgot that I was watching a censored version and got caught up in the story, only to be taken out of it by a dialogue or tonal change that felt foreign.
In terms of pacing, this edit speeds things up quite a bit, condensing dialogue moments in order to accommodate the new narrative. A scene where Deadpool is talking to Colossus even appears to have sped up dialogue if I’m remembering Deadpool 2 correctly. And the most gory shot of the first film is slightly zoomed in to keep the most grotesque elements out of frame.
For all the censorship, parents should still recognize that films receive a PG-13 rating for a variety of reasons and this one is so close to the border of still being rated R. A Pirates of the Caribbean film maintains the same rating simply by virtue of its action elements, despite being absent of swear words or sexual references (although innuendos are present). Once Upon a Deadpool, on the other hand, uses the maximum number of allowed swear words, has a child giving the middle finger, sexual references, and violence that includes guns and excessive blood, including the titular character literally being ripped in half. This is still a Deadpool movie.
If you’re a fan of the Deadpool films without age-appropriate kids, should you still see Once Upon a Deadpool? I actually say yes, because the new footage is really funny and this film has several new mid and post-credit scenes, including a heartfelt tribute to Stan Lee. But if you thought this PG-13 edit would make the film accessible for younger viewers, you may want to exercise a little more caution. This is surely confusing for parents since the MPAA gave the exact same rating to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
I give Once Upon a Deadpool 4 out of 5 secret Alan Tudyk cameos.
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TEA Project Named Finalist for World Justice Challenge Award
The World Justice Project has selected the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law’s Transnational Environmental Accountability (TEA) Project as a finalist for the World Justice Challenge 2019 Access to Justice Award. One of 30 finalists selected from among hundreds of nominees, the TEA Project’s goal is to develop strategies for holding multinational companies accountable for the environmental harm they cause in developing countries. Maryland students and faculty working on the TEA Project will participate in the World Justice Forum VI at The Hague from April 29-May 2 where five winners will be announced.
The TEA Project is staffed with students from the Environmental Law Clinic and the Global Environmental Law Seminar. It is directed by Lecturer in Law Zhang Jingjing, an award winning public interest environmental lawyer from China who has been monitoring the environmental performance of Chinese companies operating in Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia.
At present many multinational companies operating in the developing world do not understand or simply disregard local environmental laws and regulations. The project seeks to ensure that the Chinese government’s Belt and Road Initiative, which has greatly expanded Chinese investment in developing countries, will be a green Belt and Road.
Robert Percival, Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Law Program at Maryland Carey Law, has worked extensively in China and notes that the TEA Project is uniquely capable of helping to ensure that China’s efforts to clean up its domestic environment do not simply transfer pollution to developing countries.
"Zhang Jingjing, who has been called 'the Erin Brockovich of China,' is that country’s most experienced public interest environmental litigator," Percival notes, "and now that she has moved to the US and joined the Maryland faculty as a Lecturer of Law, she is uniquely qualified to direct the TEA Project."
In June 2019 faculty and students from the project will travel to Guinea to assist community groups in redressing environmental harm caused by a large bauxite mine operated by a Chinese company. Sisi Liu, one of the law students traveling to Guinea, praises the TEA Project for providing her with a "unique opportunity" to apply concepts she has learned in the classroom to real world environmental problems. Seema Kakade, Director of the Environmental Law Clinic emphasizes that the project allows students to gain "international experience," that is highly valued by employers in a world where environmental issues increasingly "are cross-jurisdictional in scope."
Another student, Emily Schenning, describes working on the TEA project as "one of the most rewarding experiences" of her law school career. "Not only do we get the chance to learn more about global environmental issues, but our work also has a direct impact on those adversely affected by transnational companies." She continues, "This is precisely the kind of work I had hoped to be a part of when I decided to attend law school and it is a privilege to be able to work on such an exciting project while still in school."
The World Justice Project (WJP) is an independent, multidisciplinary organization founded in 2006 as a presidential initiative of the American Bar Association (ABA) to advance the rule of law worldwide. The World Justice Challenge 2019 is an open competition designed to identify, recognize, and promote good practices and successful solutions that advance the rule of law.
In addition to presenting the TEA Project to a global audience, Maryland faculty and students will participate in a joint working session at the World Justice Forum on "Legal Tools for Advancing Environmental Justice and Public Health." The TEA Project is co-leading the working session with the ABA’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, and the United Nations Environment Programme.
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Inception of Artificial Intelligence into legal field will mark the end of lawyers or the beginning?
In this article Vidisha Indalkar, a student from D.E.S’s Shri Navalmal Firodia Law College, Pune discusses on whether the Inception of Artificial Intelligence into legal field will mark the end of lawyers or the beginning?
“Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence—in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement – wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.” —Eliezer Yudkowsky
The 20th century saw the brink of a technological revolution that changed the most intricate patterns of human functioning in revolutionary ways. Everything from international personal communication to international business trading is attainable at one’s fingertips. Now we are in the midst of the next chapter of technology and innovation as the machines become smarter, almost smarter than humans perhaps. This new technology is called Artificial intelligence. In fact, artificial intelligence imitates the working of a human brain in data processing data and creating patterns for use in decision making. It also has a function called machine learning which is a self-adaptive algorithm that gets better and better analysis and patterns with experience or with newly added data.[1] This enables the software to correct itself and increase the accuracy rate every time new information is fed into the system. In simple words, it works similarly to a newborn, by learning how to identify and use things and adapt according to new experiences. Indeed like evolution in human beings!
Artificial Intelligence has entered to aid not only the science and technology sector but also commercial, health, business sector and so on. All traditional lawyers are disinclined to believe that artificial intelligence can take up the legal profession too; it has successfully entered especially in the western countries. But Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, one of India’s topmost firms stated in its recent press release about the adoption of KIRA[2] an AI software, marking the beginning of AI’s adoption in India’s legal society. Gradually the competitors will adopt AI to increase the work efficiency and to be at par with each other leading to the revolution in the legal industry. The question now arises how is it going to affect the core profession; the lawyer? What the AI primarily offer is an easier way to research. It is built on a database containing millions of cases, contracts, judgements that are processed in minutes to find the most relevant result. However, India is on an initial stage of this technology but the question remains does it pose a considerable threat to the profession of a lawyer?
Meaning of Artificial Intelligence
“The ability of machines to perceive, to reason, to plant, to act and more and more the ability of machine to learn.”[3] John McCarthy first coined the term artificial intelligence in 1956 when he invited a group of researchers from a variety of disciplines including language simulation, neuron nets, complexity theory and more to a summer workshop called the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence to discuss what would ultimately become the field of AI. At that time, the researchers came together to clarify and develop the concepts around “thinking machines” which up to this point had been quite divergent. McCarthy is said to have picked the name artificial intelligence for its neutrality; to avoid highlighting one of the tracks being pursued at the time for the field of “thinking machines” that included cybernetics, automata theory and complex information processing. The proposal for the conference said, “The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”[4] In simple words AI is the technology that performs tasks that normally a human is capable of doing.
Artificial Intelligence Tools
In a lawyer’s day at work, in a particular case, the lawyer has to spend an immense amount of time in drudge work of just skimming through hundreds of books, judgements and cases. AI aims at automating this process.
Any law firm or individual attorney wastes a lot of their work time in reviewing their contracts. Especially in big law firms, they are multiple steps and levels of lawyers that go through the contract. In-house legal departments can spend 50% of their time reviewing contracts even as basic as a Non-Disclosure Agreement, creating unnecessary bottlenecks and slowing down business and deals[5]. It takes days to get just the contract finalized and another few weeks for negotiating and finalizing the terms and deals. Similarly, AI engines help out in following services:
Contract due diligence
Expertise automation
Legal analytics
Prediction technology
Legal AI Landscape – LawGeex
Its ill-effects to Legal sector
Since the beginning of time, technology has been aiding humans to automize time-consuming labour that has been restricting time efficiency in various ways. Artificial Intelligence in law is also doing the same; relieving lawyers of the drudge work and saving their time and unnecessary effort. When a young lawyer joins a firm or starts practising he has to go through his juniorship or some lawyers intern first and then start the work as a fully functioning lawyer. So in these initial stages, lawyers are handed with the more manual kind of work like researching, due- diligence and contract review. With the emergence of AI the baseline workers of the law pyramid-like these or for example the legal clerks, paralegals, assistants are at high risk of getting replaced by technology. Another problem that could arise is, the senior or experienced lawyers in the country now have been shaped by those early years of research and hence their brain traits have been trained to respond to cases and legal issues with a specific in a pattern. These lawyers will find it hard to cope with the new technology and if the firms try to incorporate these software into their legal strategy as a result of the competitive market and cost-effective results from firms with these technologies. They will be rigid with assuming their reallocation of roles and hence create problems in the firm and its working. Soon it may turn into a rookie-tech-savvy-lawyers against the senior advocates with experience war.
As enthralling as the idea of AI sounds almost all the lawyers have barely a faint idea of how all of it works. So the control will lie in the hands of the techies providing these services. In the event of any IT problems occurring in the programs, they will be found helpless and this may amount to a considerable loss to not only the goodwill of the firm but also cause an irreparable damage to the lives of their clients. But regardless the major problem still lies in the privacy of the cases of the lawyers’ clients. The attorney-client privilege can be at high risk with the rising AI privacy issues. Anybody who can hack into the systems or dishonesty by the service providers is something that could result in major problems.
Advantages to Legal sector
The question is not “Will Artificial intelligence mark the end or beginning of law profession? The question is “how are we going to use Artifical Intelligence to make ourselves more productive at work?”
Rather than concentrating on the obvious advantages and numbers as discussed in the application of AI to law, there are much wider uses of its involvement in this sector that need to be considered. When it comes to contracts, we have to deal with them in almost all cases from boarding a bus to signing an employee contract. For these small issues approaching lawyers is too much of an expensive adventure and when it comes to doing it on our own there is high risk involved. Due to various Artificial Intelligence software available in the market people will make better choices in day to day functions and will be saved from being prone to risks of lawsuits or injustice.
In India, thousands of people cannot afford legal services while some of them have access to poor quality state-funded clinics and hence they are victim to injustice and is contributing the national loss of confidence in the justice system. Darwin, a town in California, has an office where once a lawyer may have sat behind a desk at the law firm but now is a user-friendly system called Ailira, which is short for Artificially Intelligent Legal Information Resource Assistant. It can help clients with consumer legal advice from wills to business structuring and asset protection, as well as tax professionals for tax law research. With a few clicks of a button, a client can enter their details and will then be asked a few simple questions by Ailira, before the robot generates a fully certified will. Similarly in the small towns in India or the socially backward all over the country can benefit on a large scale by AI. This would reduce the injustice rate and also the due to the fear of faster prosecution now due to the entry of these technologies the crime and tort rate will subsidise too.
Law is one of the oldest profession in the world and when it comes to law in India it has been dolled up with cobwebs of outdated and traditional methods that need to be changed. The emergence of faster research, due diligence, etc technology can hence reduce menial work to almost nothing giving the advocated opportunity to concentrate on other skills like strategy and arguments. This will not just remove defects in the lawyers’ work and help in more effective and improved manifestation of his legal skill and knowledge.
As legal and health sectors are services only available by highly educated professional it is impossible to question their service or look for other alternatives. People who have no other alternative and are in serious trouble usually come to these professionals as a last resort and are willing to put all their faith into them. They have no way of assuring the quality of services rendered. Especially in the legal field, there is a high amount of opaqueness in the procedures and judgements with respect to clients’ perception. With AI in prediction analysis and automated techniques, clients can keep tabs on the advancement in their case and will give them mental peace in such hard times.
Underperformance is another trait that traditional lawyers contain. Due to loads of dull work and long working hours they are drained of energy and ability to deal with situations. Lawyers need to be on point with thinking on their feet but with all these limitations the resulting success rate is considerably lesser. With the contract review software or other like that the future risks and loopholes in the suit are predicted beforehand. Hence AI solves this major problem faced by lawyers.
After the descriptive analysis of what Artificial Intelligence is and how it is going to influence the life of a lawyer the question still remains will it mark the end of the profession? The answer lies in this book title ‘Fight with the machine, not against the machine’. After the launch of Artificial Intelligence market in one of India’s best firms, it will be like an onset of dominos and AI will spread like wildfire into all firms as a result of competitive spirit and desire to indulge within vogue cost and time effective solutions to render the best and fair priced legal services. This change is happening regardless of whether we accept that a tech-storm coming or not. So the question remains how to overcome this challenge?
Given below is the para-professional model, the classic model of law. People call it as the broad base triangle. The junior lawyers at the bottom while the deep experts at the top. Conventional wisdom has it that what will happen with AI is that the machines will take up tasks from the bottom up.
Para-professional model
But with the artificial intelligence giant, IBM Watson they see it as a different model like given on the right. Imagine in health, for example, a diagnostic Watson system outstrips the human expert but you still want someone offering human empathy so the apex that is the diagnosis power comes from machines and the interpersonal service will be delivered by nurses. So a nurse with Watson will outperform a human empathetic counterpart and also the knowledge and experience rich professional[6].
Similarly, in law, the internal personal tasks appearing in court and arguing against the opponent along with client counselling will be the tasks still assumed by lawyers. when it comes to young lawyers and law secretaries going out of job, it is all the more reason to make the most out of it because senior law firms can become cost-effective by letting these people go. They can keep just the top professionals and senior lawyers and make the best use of their time and money whereas the beginner lawyers and use this technology to attain the greatest heights as all the expertise and confidence offered by experienced lawyers can be attained through this technology. So there are revolutionary methods waiting to be put in use as Artificial Intelligence is going to bring in new start-ups of law firms by young tech-savvy lawyers and it is going to raise the bar of competition with its new ways. As AI sweeps up the old unnecessary jobs they will also bring in new jobs with them. The inauguration of AI will revolutionize the way of thinking and challenge the legal minds to improve our old system of law and finally help the judicial society attain new levels of success. So really if lawyers try to incorporate AI into their profession they will make an unbeatable pair which will take us into the new law era. “Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we’ll augment our intelligence.”[7]
[1] Definition of deep learning
[2] Kian Ganz, Cyril Amarchand ‘first’ to sign up for machine learning contracts software, but is AI the death or future of lawyers?, Tuesday, 31 January 2017
[3] I refer to the video by United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 12 Sep 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48Yiu92B_U&t=1221s
[4]Bernard Marr, The Key Definitions Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) That Explain Its Importance
[5] I refer to the article for statistics a multiple times in various subtopics Jonathan Marciano, AUTOMATING THE LAW: A LANDSCAPE OF LEGAL AI SOLUTIONS
[6] I refer to a video by Richard Susskind, Artificial Intelligence and the Law Conference at Vanderbilt Law School
[7] Ginni Rometty, Forbes.
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An artist with a rich gift for invention, a spontaneous musician, a protean author of novels, short stories, and translations, as well as newspaper columns, songs, librettos, and shows for the theater and musical reviews, Boris Vian (1920-1959) left his stamp on his age and the heirs to his fanciful, iconoclastic, untrammeled genius.
Although Vian trained as an engineer, his talents steered him to writing and music, both of which were cultivated during a childhood steeped in the arts. Starting in 1933, his first “jazz impression” when he discovered Duke Ellington opened up a new world for the youth to explore regularly and to be intensely experienced throughout his short life, from concerts to the albums he collected in thrall to a passion he shared with his brothers, and from his first surprise parties at his family home to the wild nights in Paris’s hottest venues for swing music. The appropriately named “Prince of Saint-Germain-des-Prés” did not just play the trumpet and the eighteen-turn Hinkle horn, he was an important spokesman and teacher for jazz culture. A man with an excellent ear for spotting new talent and an inexhaustible critic, both erudite and insolent, Vian was a contributor to a range of reviews, including the famous Jazz Hot. And as publisher, artistic director, and impresario, he promoted a number of jazz greats like Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bix Beiderbecke, and thrust the avant-garde of Bebop to center stage in France.
This music proved essential to Vian and imprinted its tempo and influences even on his literary works. Following L’écume des jours (in English translation, Froth on a Daydream), when publishing failures arrived with cruel regularity, he wrote songs by the hundreds. Some were performed by their creator, accompanied on the piano by Alain Goraguer, but most were given voice by great performers like Magali Noël, Marcel Mouloudji, Henri Salvador, Juliette Gréco, and Michel Legrand, in Vian’s lifetime, and Serge Reggiani, Jacques Higelin, Renaud, Maurane, Arthur H, Olivia Ruiz, M, and others since his death.
Through numerous archival documents, photographs, recordings, manuscripts, and original editions, Boris Vian: En avant la musique ! (Boris Vian: Hit It!) offers a visual and aural journey that takes in all the facets of Boris Vian the musician, beyond the man of letters, the virtuoso jazz writer and prodigious poet of language and musical licks.
Curator: Nicole Bertolt, representative of the artist’s work and director of the Boris Vian legacy
Document collection: Cohérie Boris Vian
General Opening
Friday 15 June 2018 at 6:30 pm with Alain Goraguer Trio and Jelly Bump !
Dates from 16 June to 2 September 2018
Opening hours Tuesday to Friday, 2 – 6 pm ǀ Saturday and Sunday, 9 am – 6 pm
Admission CHF 5.- (full price) ǀ CHF 3.- (students, groups, retirees, unemployed, disabled persons) ǀ free for children under 18 and residents of Montricher
Guided tours of the show
Sunday 17 June at 3 pm
Saturday 23 June at 3 pm
Saturday 14 July at 3 pm
Sunday 12 August at 3 pm
Free with your admission ticket | No reservations required
http://www.fondation-janmichalski.com/en/exposition/exposition-boris-vian-et-la-musique/
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Walter Jaras Babiniec
Unexpectedly, yet peacefully, Walter Babiniec passed away at the age of 91 years, on Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 at his residence (Amber Meadow Retirement Home).
Walter is survived by his wife of 21 years, Helen Manilla-Babiniec (Holy Family Home); her son Philip and his family; and her daughter Leslie Fingler and her family.
Walter will sadly be missed and lovingly remembered by his son David and daughter-in-law, Louise; his sister, Helen Rouse; sister-in-law Bea Babino; as well as many other relatives and friends and his little cuddle buddy, Brutus.
Walter was predeceased by his first wife, Julia (Sirkis) in 1995; his parents, David and Barbara; four brothers, and one sister.
Walter was born and raised in the North End. He attended Central School in Transcona while working with his brothers and sister on the family vegetable farm. He served in the Canadian Army during WWII, stationed in Wainright, Alberta. He was a long-term member (over 25 years) of Henderson Highway Legion Branch 215, participating in community activities. Walter worked with CNR for 41 years, retiring in 1985, as a Work Study Analyst. While at CN, Walter served as Chairman of the Canadian Union of Railway Workers. Walter was active in civic politics, as well as a founding delegate of the New Democratic Party, of which he was very proud.
Walter was a parishioner of Holy Eucharist Parish, Winnipeg, active in both the Knights of Columbus and later serving as President of the Ukrainian Catholic Brotherhood of Canada, local branch.
Dad had varied interests, from building cabins in the Whiteshell, to cooking classes in foreign foods. He loved to curl, bowl in his 5-pin bowling league, play golf, and enjoyed a good game of cribbage. Being an avid reader, books and magazines surrounded the Babiniec house. He enjoyed travelling by car and rail to Eastern and Western Canada as well as vacationing in Florida.
Walter lived for his family and friends and was loved and respected by all who had the pleasure of meeting him. Special thanks to the Amber Meadow team for their care and compassion during Walter’s two year stay.
We also thank the Winnipeg Police Service and Paramedics for their professionalism on the morning of July 25th.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 11:30 am on Wednesday, August 1st 2018 at Korban Funeral Chapel, 907 Main Street, Winnipeg, with Fr. Michael Kwiatkowski officiating. Reception to follow. Interment following the reception will be at Holy Family Cemetery, 4355 Main Street, West St. Paul, MB.
Pallbearers will be Dennis Nikkel, Kevin Nikkel, Mercedes Mueller, Josh Mueller, Gord Kostyniuk, and Jerry Kulbaba.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Holy Family Home Building Foundation, c/o Lubov SSMI Foundation, 1085 Main St., Winnipeg MB, R2W 1T9.
VICHAYA PAMYAT
KORBAN FUNERAL CHAPEL
www.korbanchapel.com
Lubov SSMI Foundation
1085 Main St., Winnipeg MB R2W 3S1
Email: info@lubovfoundation.ca
Web: http://www.lubovfoundation.ca/index.cfm
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Redefining social justice
By Valerie Bryson and Pamela Fisher
By Valerie Bryson
The editors and contributors to Redefining social justice gathered at the University of Huddersfield last week to launch their brand new book.
The launch was part of a seminar series organised by the Centre for Research in the Social Sciences at the University of Huddersfield. The audience was drawn from staff and postgraduate students, and they joined in a very lively round-table discussion.
The event enabled us to engage in inter-disciplinary conversation and up-date our findings – so after I had outlined the book’s key findings and themes, we discussed in particular changes in Labour’s electoral strategy (Tim Heppell), its policies on disability (Chris Gifford), and changes in NHS (Ruth Deery) and legal aid (Pete Sanderson) since the election. I found particularly interesting (as it was unfamiliar to me) the ongoing research by Lesley Jeffries into political language – she is involved in an ongoing research project documenting how this is changing – and has found that ‘choice’ was a word that increasingly appeared in political manifestos during the 1990s and early 2000s – but had practically disappeared by 2010.
Conversation continued informally over lunch.
More information about Redefining social justice can be found on our website.
From left to right: Chris Gifford, Lesley Jeffries, Peter Sanderson, me, Tim Heppell and Ruth Deery. Unfortunately Pamela Fisher was unable to attend due to illness.
By Manchester University Press
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DA Vance Announces $15 Million in Funding to Enhance Reentry Services in New York City
District Attorney’s Office Also Funding Contract to Create Blueprint for New Manhattan Criminal Court Resource Center
New Requests for Proposals Available at CJII.org
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced two significant investments aimed at creating innovative programming and supporting existing services for New Yorkers reentering communities after periods of incarceration. The District Attorney’s Office is also funding the creation of a blueprint for a new Manhattan Criminal Court Resource Center to better enable low-level offenders to navigate and utilize programs and services that comprise non-jail sentences, ranging from community service to mental health programs. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is funding these initiatives through the Criminal Justice Investment Initiative (“CJII”), which was created using criminal forfeiture funds obtained through settlements with international banks for violating U.S. sanctions.
“Any effort to reduce crime must address the needs of those returning to our communities after being incarcerated,” said District Attorney Vance. “Unless we provide these individuals with access to the resources they need – from employment to supportive housing to mental health services – the cycle of recidivism is bound to continue. Similarly, as we work to reduce unnecessary incarceration, we know we must not only expand sentencing options for low-level offenders that do not include jail, but provide better access to these programs and services for the thousands of defendants that come through our courts each year. I look forward to investing in programs that have been proven to be successful in reducing recidivism, and to learning more about the new and innovative work happening in this field, with an eye toward funding more projects in the future.”
City University of New York Institute for State and Local Governance (CUNY ISLG) Executive Director Michael P. Jacobson said: “These investments will make great strides toward increasing public safety and preventing future crime. Investing in reentry is investing in prevention. When people are leaving jail or prison, we have a chance to help address the needs and circumstances that may have led to their incarceration to prevent future recidivism. Enhancing current services—and seeking out thoughtful, new innovations—will go a long way towards helping people succeed when they are back in their communities. And at Manhattan Criminal Court, developing an engaging Resource Center capitalizes on the huge opportunity to connect the thousands of people passing through the Court to a variety of resources to help them with employment needs, mental health needs, and much more.”
NYC Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice Director Elizabeth Glazer said: “The new investments announced today by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office will be important additions to effective reentry in New York City. The Mayor’s office looks forward to partnering on these efforts.”
In a separate, related announcement Mayor de Blasio today announced a new re-entry system that will begin with expanded risk and need assessment on the first day that someone enters jail, offer five hours every day of programming that addresses an individual’s unique needs, and continue with support – including new employment and educational programs – after someone leaves jail and returns to the community.
Reentry Services Support and Innovation – $15 million
Each year, approximately 75,000 people return to New York City following a period of incarceration in jail or prison.1 Individuals often enter jail or prison with complex needs in areas including employment, education, housing, and behavioral health. The experience of incarceration itself can create new needs and exacerbate existing needs, contributing to a cycle of re-incarceration. In fact, a recent study found that 42 percent of people released from New York State prisons returned within three years. To address these challenges, the District Attorney’s Office is 1) supporting programming with a proven record of success, and 2) offering funds for new ideas through an innovation challenge.
To support and strengthen the work of current service providers, the District Attorney’s Office is seeking proposals to enhance, expand and increase coordination among existing reentry services and supports in New York City to address the multiple and wide-ranging needs of individuals returning from jail and prison, and in doing so, improve outcomes for reentering individuals, reduce recidivism, and increase public safety in New York City. In particular, the District Attorney’s Office is seeking proposals to:
Create new programmatic elements tailored toward specific populations;
Increase the number of individuals served by an existing organization; or,
Promote coordination among providers to enhance wraparound services by creating or enhancing networks of existing organizations.
The District Attorney’s Office is also launching a Reentry Innovation Challenge to elicit, support, and test innovative strategies to fill key gaps in New York City’s reentry landscape. The District Attorney’s Office is especially interested in identifying programs that effectively support people who are leaving City jail. The needs of this population remain largely unaddressed due to unique challenges, such as providing much-needed services and programming for what are often relatively short periods of incarceration. During the first phase of the Reentry Innovation Challenge, the Office is eliciting letters of interest that describe innovative, high-impact, and scalable programs to be planned and piloted in New York City. Select applicants will be invited to submit full proposals for funding during the Challenge’s second phase.
Manhattan Criminal Court Resource Center – $150,000
Each year, Manhattan Criminal Court handles approximately 60,000 low-level cases, many of which are resolved with a non-jail disposition. Frequently, case dispositions require a defendant to complete mandated programming – ranging from community service to mental health programs – as a part of his or her sentence. Currently, sentencing options are particularly limited for individuals who, though they may not present a risk to public safety, have a history of misdemeanor convictions. Typically, these defendants face hurdles such as unemployment, lack of education or housing, and physical, behavioral, or mental health challenges that contribute to their recidivism.
The District Attorney’s Office is requesting proposals to create a blueprint for an accessible, welcoming, and engaging Resource Center to reimagine Manhattan Criminal Court as a locus for resources that increases access to service providers, while providing prosecutors, judges, and defense attorneys with better non-jail alternatives tailored to a defendant’s needs. A well-planned Resource Center should:
Expand upon current non-jail sentencing options, including for those with criminal histories;
Serve a more diverse range of defendants’ needs; and
Provide comprehensive and coordinated access to voluntary services for defendants passing through Criminal Court.
The District Attorney’s Office will fund up to $150,000 for a 6-month award to plan a Resource Center in Manhattan. The District Attorney’s Office may award implementation and capital funding for the Resource Center at a future date.
CJII Research and Consultation Process
The CJII plan and investments are the result of an extensive process incorporating research, data analysis, and outreach to community leaders and stakeholders conducted by CUNY ISLG. As the technical assistance provider, ISLG analyzed research in areas affecting public safety in New York City, including systemic factors at the neighborhood level that have an impact on crime, and data from a number of agencies involved in the criminal justice system. In addition, ISLG conducted extensive interviews with more than 250 experts in the criminal justice community and related fields, including clinical practitioners; leaders from philanthropic, non-profit, and grassroots organizations; representatives of local, state, and federal government agencies; academics; and elected officials. Following this process, ISLG worked with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to develop a comprehensive set of investments that, together, will have a significant, lasting impact on public safety and justice reform in New York City. ISLG provides technical assistance to the Manhattan DA’s Office for CJII and will provide program oversight and monitor the performance of grantees selected under CJII.
Previously Announced Investments
In February, District Attorney Vance announced the investment of $45.9 million to create and construct five “Youth Opportunity Hubs,” a first-of-its kind effort to knit together community-based providers and build new physical spaces for young people in target Manhattan neighborhoods. District Attorney Vance also announced an additional $12 million investment to help organizations specializing in family and youth development expand their capacity and develop innovative new services.
In October 2016, District Attorney Vance announced funding to develop an abusive partner intervention program ($1.4 million). In September 2016, District Attorney Vance announced funding to: divert individuals arrested on low-level offenses from the justice system ($6.5 million), develop social enterprises to employ formerly incarcerated and at-risk New Yorkers ($7.3 million), and support youth aging out of the foster care system ($5.3 million). In June 2016, District Attorney Vance announced funding to: expand the Project Reset diversion program to serve additional qualifying teenagers ($600,000); increase access to services for victims of crime ($11.4 million); and develop community navigators to connect individuals to the resources and services they need to prevent future crime and re-victimization ($1.6 million).
These funding opportunities follow other recent, transformative investments by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, including: $7.5 million to pay for college programming at New York State prisons; $90 million to equip the NYPD with tablets, handheld devices, and mobile databases for every police officer and patrol car; $101 million for critical NYCHA security upgrades, including cameras, lighting and keyless access; $38 million to help end the national backlog of untested rape kits; $40 million towards the City’s comprehensive mental health initiatives, including $14 million for supervised release for eligible defendants pre-trial; $25 million to form the cross-border, cross-sector, not-for-profit Global Cyber Alliance; and $7.5 million to expand Saturday Night Lights, the District Attorney’s Office’s signature youth violence prevention initiative operating in 14 locations across Manhattan.
Additional funding opportunities that support efforts to prevent crime, improve approaches to working with victims of crime, and increase and enhance diversion and reentry options for people involved in the criminal justice system, will be announced in the coming months.
[1] New York City Department of Corrections (NYC DOC). Releases in 2015. Provided by DOC to ISLG on January 25, 2016.
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ISIS Militants Are Suspected of Another Attack in Turkey
By Jon Levine
Just days after an attack in Paris by ISIS terrorists that left 129 dead, a bombing by suspected ISIS militants in southeastern Turkey has injured five police officers, the Associated Press reported.
The attack took place in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, after police raided an apartment being used by suspected militants. Rather than be taken alive, a terrorist inside detonated explosives attached to his body, blowing himself up. Earlier that day, Turkish soldiers killed four ISIS militants during a shootout near Gaziantep.
The officers conducted the raid in connection to an October bombing in the Turkish capital of Ankara that left roughly 100 dead. The explosion in Gaziantep caused no deaths, but one of the officers was reported to be in serious condition.
Turkey is currently hosting the 2015 G20 summit in the city of Antalya, more than 500 miles away. Leaders from around the world, including U.S. President Barack Obama, are currently in attendance. The attacks in Paris and elsewhere are expected to dominate the agenda.
World leaders at the G20 in TurkeySource: Susan Walsh/AP
If ISIS is ultimately found responsible for the Gaziantep bombing, it would be the latest strike from the group which has shown an increasing willingness to attack more ambitious targets around the world. In addition to the attacks in Paris and Ankara, the group was likely responsible for bombings and skirmishes in Egypt's Sinai as well as the downing of a Russian airplane near the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. The day before the Paris attack, ISIS bombers killed 43 at an open-air market in Beirut.
In addition to expanding its territory through military force to now include large, oil-rich, swaths of Iraq and Syria, the group has been unusually successful at recruiting over social media, successfully convincing thousands from the western world to convert to Islam and join their ranks or, more ominous still, potentially building sleeper cells in countries like France and elsewhere around the world.
With the threat of ISIS clearly no longer a regional one, how to address the terrorist organization will likely become a focal point for governments around the world in the coming weeks and months.
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Array BioPharma's stock rockets after $11.4 billion buyout deal with Pfizer
Shares of Array BioPharma Inc. ARRY, +0.50% rocketed 56% toward a record high in premarket trading Monday, after biopharmaceutical company developing cancer treatments agreed to be acquired by Pfizer Inc. PFE, +0.75% in a deal valued at $11.4 billion. Under terms of the deal, Pfizer will pay $48 in cash for each Array shares outstanding, which is 62% above Friday's closing price of $29.59, and represents a market capitalization of $10.64 billion. Pfizer expects to fund the deal, which is expected to close in the second half of the year, mostly with debt and the balance with cash. The deal is expected to reduce Pfizer's adjusted earnings per share by 4 cents to 5 cents this yea and in 2020, be neutral in 2021 and add to EPS in 2022. "The proposed acquisition of Array strengthens our innovative biopharmaceutical business, is expected to enhance its long-term growth trajectory, and sets the stage to create a potentially industry-leading franchise for colorectal cancer alongside Pfizer's existing expertise in breast and prostate cancers," said Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla. Array's stock has more than doubled (up 108%) year to date through Friday, while Pfizer shares have slipped 2.0% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.01% has gained 12%.
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Array BioPharma Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq: ARRY
Pfizer Inc. U.S.: NYSE: PFE
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David Ortiz was shot in case of mistaken identity, Dominican officials say
Former Red Sox great was mistaken for the intended target at same table, police believe
David Ortiz remains hospitalized in Boston.
AssociatedPress
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was shot in the back by a gunman who mistook him for the real target, another man who was seated at the same table at an outdoor cafe, Dominican officials said Wednesday.
The Dominican Republic’s attorney general and national police director told reporters that the attempted murder was ordered from the United States by Victor Hugo Gomez, an associate of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. They said Gomez had hired a gang of killers to eliminate his cousin, whom Gomez suspected of turning him in to Dominican drug investigators in 2011.
The cousin, Sixto David Fernández, was seated with the former baseball star on the night of June 9, when a gunman approached and fired a single shot at Ortiz, the officials said. Fernández owned an auto-repair shop and was friends with Ortiz, according to Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez and Maj. Gen. Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte, director of the Dominican Republic’s national police.
Ortiz remains hospitalized in Boston, where doctors have upgraded his condition from guarded to good.
At least 11 people have been arrested in the case so far, ranging from the alleged gunman to a series of drivers and relatively minor accomplices. Rodríguez and Bautista said the case of mistaken identity began when one of the accomplices shot a blurry photo of Fernández seated at the Dial Bar and Lounge in an upscale section of Santo Domingo. In the photo, a white freezer obscures Fernández’s lower body, making it look like he was wearing white pants when, in fact, he was wearing black pants, officials said.
“It was a badly lit photo taken minutes before the attack,” the chief prosecutor said.
Ortiz was wearing white pants on the night of the shooting and law-enforcement officials said that the gunman, Rolfy Ferreyra, mistook him for the target and fired.
Nonetheless, many Dominicans were skeptical that their country’s most famous person, a 6-foot-3-inch man weighing around 250 pounds, could be mistaken for Fernández, who appeared to be far smaller with a lighter complexion in a photo provided by authorities.
“He is big. He likes to attract attention,” said Daniel Pou, an independent consultant on public security. “He wears a lot of jewelry. He’s flashy all around.”
The alleged shooter is a skinny, tattooed 25-year-old whom U.S. prosecutors said is wanted on armed robbery and gun charges in New Jersey. His driver was captured immediately after the shooting when he fell off the motorcycle he was trying to use to escape.
Ferreyra and the other suspects were captured over the next few days. Ferreyra told reporters from the window of a jail cell this week that he did not mean to shoot Ortiz, but fired at him in confusion over his clothing.
Gomez, the alleged mastermind, is believed to be in the United States and is being sought by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bautista said, pointing to a news report in which federal authorities identified Gómez as one of several suspects in a March 2019 drug trafficking sting in Houston, Texas.
The weapon used in the shooting, a Browning Hi Power semiautomatic pistol, was buried in the garden of one of the suspect’s home and was later turned over to police by his mother, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Also accused is Gabriel Alexander Pérez Vizcaíno, aka Bone, whom they say was hired by someone who is in prison on unrelated charges to be the liaison between the hit men and the person who paid them. Authorities say Pérez shared the picture of the target as he met the other suspects at a nearby gas station just minutes before the shooting.
They said Pérez then sold the cellphone used to plan the attack and to distribute a picture of the target to a woman for $180 so he could get rid of the evidence a day after the shooting.
Police are still looking for at least three other suspects: a woman known as The Venezuelan or Red; Luis Alfredo Rivas Clase, aka The Surgeon, who is wanted for a 2018 shooting in Reading, Pennsylvania, and was believed to be driving a car used to stalk Fernández; and Alberto Miguel Rodríguez Mota, whom authorities believe paid the hit men. Authorities have said coordinator of attack was offered 400,000 Dominican pesos, or about $7,800.
A video from the scene of the shooting shows everyone fleeing or crouching except for Rodríguez, who stands calmly amid the chaos.
“He grabbed his beer to make sure it was safe,” Bautista said.
Authorities also are investigating Fernández, the supposed target, Bautista added.
Ortiz is recovering at Massachusetts General Hospital. Doctors in the Dominican Republic removed his gallbladder and part of his intestine before he was wheeled into an air ambulance sent by the Red Sox and flown to Boston.
He led the Red Sox to three World Series championships, was a 10-time All Star and hit 541 home runs. The Red Sox retired his number, 34, in 2017, and he has a bridge and a stretch of road outside Fenway Park named after him. He has a home in Weston, on the outskirts of Boston, that he shared with his wife and three children before putting it up for sale.
Although he lives in Boston, the 43-year-old Ortiz visits the Dominican Republic several times a year. His father and sister live in Santo Domingo.
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Giving thanks for what matters most in the long-term care profession
Marty Stempniak, Staff Writer
It’s easy to sympathize with long-term care providers who feel stuck in that glass-half-empty mindset. Legislators treat you like a political punching bag to your face, while taking $1 billion out of your collective back pocket and touting it as a victory. And you’re facing hurricanes and wildfires that leave your facilities decimated, with politicians highlighting the failures and saying even further regulation may be needed.
Even half of that is enough to make the brightest optimist turn gray, but come on, it’s the holidays! You’ll hopefully be taking a few days off soon, to be greeted with a house full of relatives and a belly full of turkey. Plus, there has been plenty of long-term care victories to celebrate.
Cynthia Morton, the executive VP of the National Association for the Support of Long Term Care, for one, is thankful that Congress “finally repealed the therapy cap,” which she says was “not patient-centered in any way,” and prevented important PT for “patients who needed it the most.” She’s also thankful, as is the case for many years past, for her mother’s pecan pie. “Her recipe is the only one!” she told me.
Another LTC policy wonk, David Grabowski, a professor in healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School, said besides his upcoming sabbatical, he’s thankful to see that the field is “(slowly!) getting some much-needed attention from policymakers.” As one example, he noted recent federal moves to increase care integration for those who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
As I’m sure has been the case for a very long time in this profession, many are grateful for the certified nurse aides and other frontline caregivers who make this profession tick.
“I’m thankful for every CNA,” Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of the American Health Care Association, told me. “They are under appreciated, underpaid, and yet selflessly perform work that few want to do. I’m in awe of them and what they do.” When he’s not at work, however, he’s also thankful for his two doxies, the election finally fading into the rearview, and that “Patrick Mahomes is a Kansas City Chief,” added the former Kansas governor.
Similarly, Brian Jurutka, the chief of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, is thankful for “the many caregivers and people who give so much of their time, energy and effort caring for others.” Same for Tracy Moorhead, CEO of the AAPACN, noting the many nurses and LTC professionals who “tirelessly care for residents day in and day out.”
“The passion that our members have is so evident in how they seek to do their job,” said the head of the American Association of Post-Acute Care Nurses. “Our members have suffered West Coast fires, East Coast hurricanes and Midwest floods. We are so thankful for their dedication to care for their residents in times of need.”
Along with being “awestruck” by her employees, Janet Snipes is most thankful for her residents. It’s evident in the fact that she’s been with the Holly Heights Nursing Center in Denver for more than 40 years.
“I am thankful for the residents I serve at Holly Heights,” said Executive Director Snipes, whose facility won a Gold Excellence in Quality Award from the AHCA earlier this year. “They built our great nation and I am honored to hear their stories and inspired to provide a nurturing home for them to live in.”
Daniel Reingold — another long-time nursing home leader, who we profiled in July — had many thanks to tally in 2018. Those included getting permission to build New York City’s first Life Plan community, earning LeadingAge’s Award of Honor, and that his mentor, Larry Minnix, just published his memoirs “so we can all learn from him.” Oh, and he’s also “grateful that my wife won’t let me in the kitchen this Thanksgiving and has put me in charge of the fireplace and football,” adds the president and CEO of RiverSpring Health.
Katie Smith Sloan, the current CEO of LeadingAge who succeeded Minnix, said she’s thankful for, and uplifted by, the interconnectedness of the field. She cited member organization Immanuel of Omaha, NE, which earlier this year raised $250,000 to help the employees of 21 nursing homes that went into receivership. Staff at those homes continued to work, without pay, and Immanuel donated gift cards to those employees and designated $250,00 to help them purchase food and supplies for the needs of the residents.
“I constantly see examples of caring. I’m grateful for being a part of a community with deep belief in the common good,” Smith Sloan says.
As for me, I’m just thankful to be covering an industry that has so much intrigue on a daily basis, readers who seem to genuinely care about what this publication puts out, and an editor who puts up with my writing foibles while making me better in the process. Pumpkin pie and the fact that Khalil Mack is a Chicago Bear help a little bit too.
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Xian Zhang by Christopher Morley
Xian Zhang was relaxing during an early-summer break in the Pennsylvania mountains with her husband, their two young boys and an au pair when I caught up with her; in fact I could hear one of the lads bouncing around as we chatted during our transatlantic conversation.
The Chinese conductor comes to Symphony Hall on October 13, when she directs the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the opening concert of the new season at THSH, with a programme including songs by Richard Strauss (Egyptian soprano Fatma Said the soloist) and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, written at a time when the composer was fighting not only for his artistic life, but also against the risk of "disappearance".
I have talked to various conductors based in Communist countries who have been careful to surmise that Shostakovich's works are in fact non-political, but Xian Zhang has no qualms in declaring that "he had to be political. His true intention was not to be political, as he was retiring in his private life, and he wanted to preserve his private life".
How does someone born into an entirely different culture come to assimilate one from another part of the world, I ask Xian? She tells me how she came to be immersed in western music.
"I was fortunate enough to have access to a piano when I was three! I played simple Bach pieces, such as the Anna Magdalena Notebook, and the piano really grew to be part of me. And then the western psyche became very natural."
And then the desire to become a conductor took over. "From my piano-playing I fell in love with the music of Debussy and Rachmaninov, for example, and this decided my preferences to explore the orchestral music of the Russian and French repertoire. But then there's the German repertoire too, all the way back to Bach and all the way up to Mahler!".
I ask the question I have always been reluctant to put forward, the one about what was until recently the glass ceiling for women conductors. Readers will know that I never refer to the fact, for example, that Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, is a woman, just as much in the same way that I would never need to mention that Andris Nelsons, her predecessor at the CBSO, is a man. But given the cultural collision of two worlds, here I blurt it out, and Xian Zhang's answer is illuminating.
"Two of my five teachers in China were in fact women! The picture is changing quite quickly, and in the next ten years it will change even more.
"You have to conduct so often, that eventually you are able to prove that you are good at it. And the more often this question is asked, the time will come when we won't have to ask it! But at the moment it's still an issue."
We conclude by discussing Xian Zhang's role-models as conductors.
"When I was very young I was a big fan of Carlos Kleiber," she declares. "To me he was God!
"But then there's also Riccardo Muti, and Lorin Maazel, with whom I worked at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
"But I learn even from kids, every day. You never stop learning!".
*Xian Zhang conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Strauss and Shostakovich at Symphony Hall on October 13 (7.30pm).
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Locked up in April - 28 of the most high profile criminals jailed in Sussex last month
A predator who attacked drunk women, a boy drug dealer who stabbed a man to death and a masked armed robber are just some of criminals jailed in Sussex last month.
Wednesday 01 May 2019 11:19
Michael Drummond
Here is a roundup of some of the most serious sentencings in Sussex in April. All sentencing details accurate at time of convictions.
1. Harry Leigh, 19, of Mountbatten Close, Hastings
Harry Leigh convicted of raping a girl in Hastings and pleaded guilty to five counts of inciting four girls to engage in sexual activity, eight counts of causing seven girls to watch a sexual act and three counts of making indecent images of children. He was jailed for 14 years, eight of which will be spent in custody.
Picture: Sussex Police
2. Kai Gasson, 17, of Atkinson Road, Crawley
Boy drug dealer Kai Gasson was convicted of murdering Arnold Potter in Crawley following a lengthy trial. Gasson whose anonymity was lifted by a judge was given a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.
Pictures: Sussex Police
3. Bryony Treloar, 39, of Dorset Road, Bognor Regis
As care home manager for Summerley Care Home, Treloar was supposed to look after 70 vulnerable people. Instead she stole a staggering 4,138.94 from two residents. She has been jailed for a year.
Picture: Freelance Photographer
4. Lance Stride, 45, of Brunswick Square, Hove
Stride was jailed for 21 years for raping a young girl and sexually assaulting another. He will also be a registered sex offender for life as a result of these historic sex offences.
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El Chavo #751 (El Chavo del Ocho) POP! TV
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El Chavo del Ocho was a Mexican television comedy that centered around the adventures of a poor orphan in a vecindad. The highly popular series ran for eight seasons and 290 episodes between 1971 and 1980. The star of the program, El Chavo, is now availab Read more
This is the El Chavo #751 (El Chavo del Ocho) POP! TV Vinyl figure by Funko
El Chavo del Ocho was a Mexican television comedy that centered around the adventures of a poor orphan in a vecindad. The highly popular series ran for eight seasons and 290 episodes between 1971 and 1980. The star of the program, El Chavo, is now available in Pop! form with his trademark barrel.
Pop! figures bring your favorite characters to life with a unique stylized design, each figure stands 3.75 inches tall and is made of vinyl. Pop! figures are packed in a window box that makes them great for display.
The El Chavo #751 (El Chavo del Ocho) POP! TV vinyl figures by Funko are produced for an undisclosed amount but are still very limited editions!
Artist El Chavo del Ocho
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Ocrelizumab
Minister for Health Simon Harris has agreed to meet with MS Ireland regarding ocrelizumab
MS Ireland welcomed the news this morning (Wednesday, 28th March 2018) that a spokesperson from the office of Simon Harris has agreed that the Minister will meet with representatives from the organisation “in the near future” to discuss a possible pilot scheme to make new medication ocrelizumab available to people with primary progressive MS as soon as possible.
MS Ireland wrote to the Minister in December, outlining concerns that this medication – the first ever to be indicated for primary progressive MS – would be delayed in the system. Ocrelizumab is currently being assessed by the National Centre for Pharmaco-economics (NCPE) to determine if a recommendation will be made that the HSE should reimburse it. MS Ireland requested that the Minister consider a pilot reimbursement system whereby ocrelizumab is made available to people with primary progressive MS while negotiations on price are ongoing, similar to the system that currently exists in Germany. Ocrelizumab has been available to people with MS in Germany since receiving a license from the European Medicines Agency in January.
MS Ireland does not have a date for a meeting with the Minister yet and will be in touch with his office to try and secure a date as soon as possible.
Read our letter to the Minister
Irish Independent News Health article (28/03/2018)
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If you lived in Paraguay instead of United States, you would:
In United States, 36.2% of adults are obese. In Paraguay, that number is 20.3% of people.
In United States, the average life expectancy is 80 years (78 years for men, 82 years for women). In Paraguay, that number is 77 years (75 years for men, 80 years for women).
United States has a GDP per capita of $59,500, while in Paraguay, the GDP per capita is $9,800.
be 47.7% more likely to be unemployed
In United States, 4.4% of adults are unemployed. In Paraguay, that number is 6.5%.
be 47.0% more likely to be live below the poverty line
In United States, 15.1% live below the poverty line. In Paraguay, however, that number is 22.2%.
In United States, there are approximately 12.5 babies per 1,000 people. In Paraguay, there are 16.6 babies per 1,000 people.
In United States, approximately 14.0 women per 1,000 births die during labor. In Paraguay, 132.0 women do.
In United States, approximately 5.8 children die before they reach the age of one. In Paraguay, on the other hand, 18.7 children do.
In United States, approximately 76.2% of the population has internet access. In Paraguay, about 51.3% do.
United States spends 17.1% of its total GDP on healthcare. In Paraguay, that number is 9.8% of GDP.
Paraguay: At a glance
Paraguay is a sovereign country in South America, with a total land area of approximately 397,302 sq km. Paraguay achieved its independence from Spain in 1811. In the disastrous War of the Triple Alliance (1865-70) - between Paraguay and Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay - Paraguay lost two-thirds of its adult males and much of its territory. The country stagnated economically for the next half century. Following the Chaco War of 1932-35 with Bolivia, Paraguay gained a large part of the Chaco lowland region. The 35-year military dictatorship of Alfredo STROESSNER ended in 1989, and, despite a marked increase in political infighting in recent years, Paraguay has held relatively free and regular presidential elections since the country's return to democracy.
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Join the Elsewhere community and ask a question about Paraguay. It's a free, question-and-answer based forum to discuss what life is like in countries and cities around the world.
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Love Is All You Need, And I Love Sandals Resorts!
In 1999, while the world was worrying about Y2K and Prince was collecting residuals from his classic hit, my husband Robert was a thirteen year old boy packing his bags for his first family vacation out of the country. His parents had heard about a new family resort in Jamaica called Beaches and there was something about that resort that drew them in. So they called their local travel agent and booked their family of four to spend a week at Beaches Negril.
Robert, his sister Samantha and his mother on the plane ride down to Jamaica
Robert and Samantha in front of the Beaches sign
Robert enjoying the water sports
Robert and his family on the beach in Negril
Three years later, Robert was sixteen years old and a junior in high school, when he met me, a fourteen year old freshman. It didn't take long for him to officially ask me to be his girlfriend, and before I knew it we were talking about our future. While most kids our age were planning what they'd wear to prom, I was thinking about what my wedding dress would look like, and was happily picturing Robert waiting for me at the end of the isle to take my hand. We picked names for our kids, talked about where we'd live, what careers we'd have, and filled in all the plans in between.
First photo together in 2002
There was one thing we talked about often that I loved discussing the most. Vacation. Robert told me all about his trip to Jamaica and how everything was "free" (included). He told me that if he wanted to eat, he just walked into a restaurant and ate. If he wanted a drink he could SWIM up to a bar and ask for one. He told me he snorkeled, jumped off cliffs into the ocean, rode bikes on the water, and so much more. I thought he maybe it was all a dream he had, because surely a place that sounds this amazing couldn't be real. He promised that once I graduated high school, he would take me and show me it was real.
Two years later he was off to college in New York City, and another two years later I graduated high school and joined him in New York City for college. We found an apartment and full time jobs and began taking night classes. We even adopted a dog. Life was busy and bills were piling up, but Robert didn't forget his promise to take me to Jamaica, and neither did I. We did the research and found it would cost us around $5,000 to go to Sandals Negril, the couples-only sister property of Beaches Negril. We wanted an oceanfront room because they looked so amazing on the website, and we wanted concierge service for the extra perks. So, even though our families thought we were completely insane, we saved up every penny we could for our vacation fund. It took us a year and a half but finally Robert walked into the local travel agent's office and booked it. We were set to go in May of 2007, for my 20th birthday, and I could hardly contain my excitement.
Months later, the day arrived. We left our dog with my parents and boarded the nonstop flight from New York to Jamaica, the same flight Robert had taken just eight years prior. I couldn't believe it was finally happening.
The experience we had at Sandals was something I couldn't recreate even if I tried. Being it was our first trip together and my first time outside of the US, it was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience of firsts for us.
Enjoying breakfast
Enjoying a drink at the swim up to the bar (it did exist!)
On our way to dinner
Enjoying the crystal clear water
View from our balcony
Snorkling in the caves off shore
Sad to leave the resort :(
When we returned home to New York all we could do was talk about our experience. We missed Sandals and Jamaica and knew that it would hold a special place in our hearts forever. Our plan was to return to Jamaica as soon as we possibly could. But of course, working full time and going to school full time didn't allow for very much vacation time, or money to fund it. In the mean time I was telling everyone to visit Sandals Negril. From my parents, to my coworkers, to strangers on the subway. I just wanted to go back to Sandals. It was as if something was calling me home.
It was around the same time that I was promoted to a managerial position in the office I worked in. I was sifting through resumes for a person to replace me for my previous position and noticed that most of them had college degrees but were begging for a position as a receptionist in a medical office. I couldn't understand why people who had made it through college were looking for jobs that had nothing to do with their degree field. But the reality of the situation was that jobs were scarce and some college degrees were becoming useless.
It didn't take very long for the wheels in my head to begin spinning. I sat down and made a list of all the things I loved and all the things I was good at and decided to take the top few and make a career out of it.
In the summer of 2008, at the age of twenty-one, I officially dropped out of college and my family was furious when I told them I was using my Fall tuition to open a business. A travel business. Even Robert thought I was nuts when I told him that some day I was going to sell travel full time and work from home.
I attended seminars, read books, scoured the internet for answers, and joined organizations for travel professionals in order to learn how to make a living selling travel. I connected with an already established agency, and they acted as my host agency while I learned the ropes of the business.
At the end of 2008, Robert asked me to marry him, and on top of growing a new business, I was planning a wedding. It didn't take us long to realize we wanted a beach wedding in Jamaica. I jumped at the idea of having my entire family there with us in Negril. It sounded like the perfect wedding.
The rest of 2009, I spent planning our wedding and building my business. I started booking clients and receiving commission. It was this year that I made my first Sandals and Beaches bookings, took the Sandals class and became a specialist certified to sell Sandals & Beaches, and visited Beaches Turks & Caicos and Sandals Royal Bahamian on a travel agent familiarization trip. It was the best year I had in a long time, especially being able to go back and stay at a Sandals resort. It made me even more excited to get my family down to Beaches Negril.
In early 2010, my wedding plans came crashing down when my grandfather told me he was too sick to travel. I knew I couldn't get married in Jamaica if he couldn't travel. He was like a second father to me. He helped raise me. He had to be at our wedding.
It took some work but we decided to have a wedding at home and then renew our vows in Jamaica with family and friends, essentially taking them with us on our honeymoon. I began booking family and friends to join us at Beaches Negril for our vow renewal celebration. But a few months after booking I called to check on deposits and found that our bookings had been canceled. The agency I was working under as my host agency failed to forward on the deposit reminders to me and we missed the payment date. We lost our bookings at Beaches and there were no more rooms available for our late June dates.
I was beside myself. I couldn't imagine taking my family anywhere but Beaches Negril. But I worked hard and found us a resort that did have availability, the Grand Palladium in Lucia outside of Montego Bay. It would have to do, because we weren't going to give up our dream of a Jamaica wedding that easily, even if it wasn't our first or even second choice resort.
On June 26th 2010, we married in New Jersey surrounded by family. We had a lovely reception and then the next day we flew to Jamaica with 14 of our closest family and friends to celebrate in Jamaica. The trip to Jamaica was a first for many of our family members and it was exciting and special to share that with them, but something was off. Something was missing. It was the Sandals and Beaches experience. It was the feeling of being home.
When we returned home we almost immediately packed our apartment up and moved down to Florida. We had discussed moving while we still could, before we had children and had to commit to a location. Florida had always been a place I wanted to live, and so Robert agreed he'd be happy there too, and we moved to Clearwater in the Fall of 2010, as husband and wife.
It took me about six months from the time we moved down here to really build my business. I was focusing on my business full-time, which really made the difference. I also had connected with my local Sandals business development manager, Julie, who was excellent and so enthusiastic about helping me build my business that it gave me excitement and hope. She set goals for me, and I quickly surpassed them and would come to her asking for a new goal. We worked as a great team.
With Julie, my Sandals Business Development Manager.
I decided to focus all of my attention on selling Sandals and Beaches. It was what I knew and loved, and in truth I knew that I could sell Sandals with my eyes closed because I trusted the product that much.
It barely took a year for me to rebrand my company to completely selling Sandals and Beaches. I had my car wrapped with the Sandals & Beaches design and my company information (a program Sandals offers agents for free). I even began bringing on other agents into my company so they could sell the resorts I wasn't working with.
My company was growing and by the end of 2011. I had earned the Sandals Preferred Agency status. I was twenty-four years old and named by Travel Agent Magazine as one of the top 35 Travel Agents Under 30 in the USA. I had also been invited to the Sandals Travel Agency Recognition (S.T.A.R.) awards, which was a huge honor for me. I had surpassed all the goals Julie had set for me.
With "Butch" Stewart, the Chairman and Founder of Sandals & Beaches Resorts.
With Adam Stewart, CEO of Sandals Resorts International
With David Roper, VP of Industry Relations for Sandals Resorts International
The next year, Julie set my goals extra high. She wanted me to earn a spot in the Chairman's Royal Club, a spot that was reserved for only the top selling Sandals agents. It was a group created by the Chairman of Sandals himself, Mr. Gordon "Butch" Stewart. It meant more than doubling my bookings for the next year. But I was determined to do it.
By the end of 2012, I was officially welcomed as a Chairman's Royal Club Member for 2013.
Me at a Chairman's Royal Club event with other CRC agents
(Mr. Stewart is center and I am standing behind him on the right)
In December of 2012, I was sitting in the ballroom during Sandals Travel Agency Recognition Awards at Sandals Royal Bahamian. I was watching the other successful Sandals travel agents winning awards for their extraordinary sales, when Julie gave me my next goal. She wanted me to be up there on that stage next year, winning the Best of the Best award.
But what happened next was more than either of us had dreamed. In 2013, my first year winning at STAR awards, I took home three awards! For "Outstanding Sales Achievement", "Best of the Best Agency", and their first-ever "Social Media Award". I was floored! And the following year, when I took home four awards-- "Sandals Spirit", "Best of the Best" again, the "Social Media Award" again, and the "CEO's Award of Excellence"-- I told Adam and Butch Stewart that "my cup runneth over"!
For me this isn't a job. It's a passion. I sell Sandals & Beaches because I love and believe in the brand. These resorts are part of my life story. They feel like home to me and my husband. Every time we pull up to a property and are greeted by the staff with a cold towel, a glass of champagne, and a "Welcome back Mr. and Mrs. Solomon" it's as if we are returning home after a long trip away.
The people who work at the resorts and in the main offices feel like extended family to us. Many of them we love just as much as we love our own close friends and family.
I look forward to continuing my love affair with Sandals, and someday, hopefully not too far from now, my husband and I will sit hand-in-hand on that beach in Negril again. This time we'll be watching our Beaches babies playing in the surf with the biggest smiles on their faces, feeling our "cups runneth over" all over again.
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AIG Plans to Pay Retention Bonuses to Executives
How can you give cash compensation to an executive, yet claim it is not a salary or bonus? You call it a “retention bonus,” No, I am not making this up.
Note that AIG chose to make this disclosure the day before Thanksgiving, clearly choosing a time when it would attract the least notice. Not that it really matters. The talk about restricting executive compensation to bailout recipients has been just that, talk.
From the Financial Times:
One day after announcing strict limits on salaries and bonuses for its top tier of executives, AIG revealed that some of those executives will receive millions in “retention bonuses” next year…
The retention bonuses for 130 key executives were disclosed by AIG in September, after the US government rescued the firm from bankruptcy by purchasing 79.9 per cent of the company for $85bn. After the government takeover, Edward Liddy, the former Allstate chairman, was named chief executive and AIG offered retention bonuses to Mr Wintrob, head of AIG’s retirement services division, among others….
The company announced on Tuesday that Mr Liddy would be paid a salary of $1 for 2008 and 2009, and that Paula Rosput Reynolds, who joined AIG as chief restructuring officer in October, would receive no salary or bonus for 2008.
The company said the other five members of AIG’s seven-member leadership group would not receive annual bonuses for 2008 or salary increases through 2009.
AIG also said that the company’s senior partners, about 60 executives, would not earn long-term performance awards in 2008, not earn salary increases in 2009, and that the group’s annual bonuses would be limited.
An AIG spokesman said on Wednesday that retention bonuses were different from the annual bonuses included in Tuesday’s statement. In September, Mr Liddy pledged to sell off significant portions of AIG’s international operations in order to pay back the government loan. The company said at the time that retention bonuses would be necessary to maintain continuity and value at various AIG units.
“Retention bonuses are a better alternative for the repricing of option awards so long as they are reasonable, fully disclosed and truly needed to retain talent,” said Richard Ferlauto, director of corporate governance and pension investment at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union.
“But in this market we don’t see much clamour for executives who made big bets, cannot make risk and were paid more than they are worth,” he added.
Do you really believe, with massive deleveraging and all sorts of big financial firms, including insurers, teetering, that AIG executives have great employment prospects these days? But the bigger issue, as far as I am concerned, is the misrepresentation, trying to claim that AIG was forgoing significant senior level comp, only to learn that they define terms a bit differently than the rest of the world does.
This entry was posted in CEO compensation, Corporate governance, Credit markets, Regulations and regulators on November 27, 2008 by Yves Smith.
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Uncle Billy, ConfuseAcat LTD November 27, 2008 at 3:42 am
Have a great thanksgiving Yves.
Thoroughly disgusting, Yves. I take it you’ve washed your hands. Thanks for the great site. First thing I’ve checked every a.m. since early Summer. Even though I have no right, nothing, please keep up the outstanding work. I’ve become dependent, eesh. Now back to brining that bird…
cactus November 27, 2008 at 3:51 am
This bail-out was a bad idea from the get-go.
These are the same institutions that created new instruments just to get around SEC regulations.
Of course they are going to play word games.
Well catcus if the government had given me the over 3 trillion they’ve paid out so far I could have used that to build a space elevator to the moon…and a few launch loops too for redundancy.
how’s that for jobs and infrastructure?
Instead we give it to people who have no business handling billions of dollars because they’ve shown they can turn money and effort into nothingness through their stupidity and greed.
This is such bull&@#$!!!!! Treat those executives like everyone else and tell them if they don't like it, they can go find a new job! I'm really tired of these financial firms mollycoddling these stupid "higher ups" who were the ones who created this disaster in the first place!
If they can't hire a reduced salary with no bonus, then they should be given their walking papers.
Frankly, I would be thrilled to call them into a meeting, tell them they were being let go, and then explain to them how they could file for unemployment.
I’d enjoy doing it so much I’d be willing to do it for free.
AIG is one company that should have been allowed to fail, no matter how painful it would have been. It’s even more painful watching them take advantage of the situation every time you turn around.
Glen November 27, 2008 at 5:32 am
Dining on the fruits of the earth or snouts in the trough; one of the same thing really.
eh November 27, 2008 at 6:14 am
Fox, henhouse.
Jojo November 27, 2008 at 7:41 am
One might say this is akin to defining what the meaning of “is” is, sigh.
ruetheday November 27, 2008 at 8:02 am
It’s time to cut the cord on AIG.
An orderley sell off of the individual insurance business units (which by all accounts are perfectly viable businesses) with the proceeds going to pay off first, the government loan, second, any secured creditors, and then whatever is left going to unwind the CDS they wrote. If there’s not enough, then too f-ing bad. Word is that Goldman is on the other end of many of their CDS trades, and a blowup due to counterparty risk couldn’t happen to nicer people.
I know, I know, systemic risk and look what happened when Lehman was allowed to fail, and blah blah blah. Well guess what – the US government is systemically important and cannot be allowed to fail either, and quite frankly, it does NOT have the resources to bail out the entire financial system.
Tell Cassandra to make space for them in Gitmo. Is there any doubt that she was right?
It’s systemically important that these failures, fail. Otherwise we all lose hope and confidence in the system and realize clearly that we are just slaves. What could be systemically more important than that?
The “confidence” that leaders want us to have is more like what the military calls “morale”.
That is, a healthy enough fear of your own officers that pushes you forward into the enemy’s bayonets.
What is needed here is a mutiny.
Can someone find a way to publicize the photos of these people? And, be sure to photoshop the images to include a $ on their foreheads.
baychev November 27, 2008 at 9:15 am
business divestiture money for management retention. one has to wonder whether the business or the executives are worth more for a corporation.
Stuart November 27, 2008 at 10:37 am
They either don’t “get it” or they simply don’t care. One is the height of disconnect and the other is the epitome of King Charles’s attitude of servitude rightfully fits us peasants. 1776 all over again it seems it’s going to take. I say off with their heads.
tiger November 27, 2008 at 10:42 am
Somebody has to do something. There needs to be a revolution that will restore something that we had about a hundred years ago. Where government intervention means things like anti-trust laws. There needs to be a revolution. I don’t think that Americans get how bad it is. Even those who wrote letters when the TARP debates were going on. I fear for the future of America.
Yves,
You seem ideally suited to being a small town banker in a Norman Rockwell painting.
How did you ever come to stay in this disreputable business of NYC investment banking? Who was the seducer who first misled you off the path of virtue?
Bush Messiah November 27, 2008 at 11:57 am
GITMO for these people sounds better and better. Let’s call it a “detention bonus”.
This is exactly what Lucent did in 2001/2002.
“The “retention payment plans” approved by Lucent’s board were designed to keep the executives on through the company’s difficult restructuring period. They were detailed by Schacht in letters dated December 3, 2001. According to the terms of those letters, Holder and O’Shea will now receive retention payments equal to two-times base salary and annual target bonus — $4,500,000 and $3,080,000, respectively. The executives, who each hold more than 2,500,000 shares of Lucent stock, also were given the opportunity to exercise all their stock options on the award date — April 22, 2002, or the employment of a new CEO, whichever came first.
Four months isn’t a long time to wait before quitting, but that period was dramatically compressed when, on January 7, Russo arrived.”
I remember that Ben Verwaayen, despite the retention bonus, announced in December 2001 he would leave Lucent to become CEO at British Telecom. Since on January 7 he was formally still employed at Lucent, he still got his retention bonus.
Lucent shows us what kind of people we are dealing with. But that case was the business of the Lucent shareholders.
This is the business of all US citizens.
Yves Smith November 27, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Anon of 12:34 PM,
Great tidbit. And Lucent went from over $80 a share in late 2000 to under $5 2002.
victorberry November 27, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Does AIG mean to tell us that their exalted executives have no competent underlings who would take job promotions in a heartbeat?
When will the American taxpayers storm the AIG castle and make organ donors out of each and every one of the AIG executives?
dennis black November 27, 2008 at 3:25 pm
why would you want to keep these stupid bastards? besides, in this climate, where would they go?
locust November 27, 2008 at 4:11 pm
It’s truly amazing how many people appear to have slept through the French Revolution when it was taught during world history.
That’s what remedial education is for.
bondinvestor November 27, 2008 at 6:49 pm
since the opinion is so unanimous on this site, i can't resist taking the other side.
if society thinks that corporate executives are making too much money, the way to address the issue is through the tax code, not by trying to micro-manage compensation levels at individual companies (or within entire industries).
this entire sorry episode is making or country look like a freaking banana republic. banning short selling? buying 'troubled assets'? giving favored financial institutions preferred stock at below market rates? allowing barney frank and andrew cuomo to try to regulate executive compensation down to the $200,000 level? "forcing" banks to lend in the early innings of a steep economic downturn?
most of the steps that have been taken in response to the crisis are ridiculous. as bad as the problem in the financial system has been, it could have quickly & easily been dealt with via the bankruptcy process. instead, we're making things worse through these ill conceived attempts to deny the rebasing of asset prices.
i'm not sure who's worse: the bankers who created this mess; the regulators (greenspan, et al) who allowed it to happen; the regulators who are trying to clean it up (bernanke & paulson); or the politicians who are trying to take advantage of it to push their populist agenda (frank, cuomo, obama).
I’ve heard the rank-and-file at AIG have already gotten such “retention bonuses” / “retention increases”, amounting to some 20%. Anyone have more details on this?
With the current complicity of our elected officials in actively funding such socialized costs as “retention bonuses” for AIG execs through burgeoning taxpayer giveaways to US elites, its time to change our national bird to the Turkey.
Happy T-day Yves.
Anyone who thinks the bailouts will do more than feed more money to the rich deserves to being called turkeys.
Francois November 28, 2008 at 1:43 am
Bondinvestor is right. Nationalization of AIG was the way to go.
But is a society that has accepted and embedded into the political apparatus, the concept of financialization as THE way to grow the economy, is it surprising that the rebasing of assets is considered an heresy?
Apparently not.
As for using the tax code to address "excessive" compensation, this went through the window since the Buckley decision by the SC. "Money is free speech, so if I got plenty of it, I can talk and convince/bribe the politicos of fantasies like the trickle down the losses and trickle up the profits. Tough titties for those who don't have the dough.
After re-reading Wealth and Democracy by Kevin Philips, I can't be surprised that theses bailouts have been such a mega-clusterf*&k.
Tell Me; Where is the incentive to *not* pillage the place on the way out?
All the AIG executives have to do is to ask the FED for some more funding and it will be given!
They belong to our new overlords of The Entitled People.
But wasn’t I the same bastard, who stood in awe when these same mothers came in their limo’s and their swivel chairs asking them for a job in their businesses?
Executive pay is the bubble in all of this. How say you about the burst and when?
When is this unending looting of shareholders going to stop?
I’ll answer that –when every public corporation in the world left standing is trading at below 5PE for the fraud that has been made of this market.
Remember, the PPT was established in the aftermath of 9/11 in an opportunistic act abolishing free market principles for criminal manipulation of the stock market.
Don’t forget the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations (corporate executives) have the human right to contribute unlimited amounts of money to political issues and to elect candidates.
Don’t forget that the Supreme Court ruled that human rights includes the right to bear arms -setting no limits on which arms.
Don’t forget the end of habeas corpus and posse comitatus with the right to declare martial law for “anything” judged to be an emergency by the TPTB has coincided with the human right of corporate executives to the unending persistent looting shareholders.
Don’t forget Verizon’s Freedom Plan signaling the end of any meaningful use of the word.
How could 3 guys arrive at a Congressional beggar’s banquet on 3 individual private jets? They own the government -why shouldn’t they?
I’m still a little confused…
These guys deserve all this money because they are the “smartest guys in the room”. Yet they couldn’t see this credit train wreck coming at them. Must be a very small room.
this is ridiculous retention bonus b—s–t if they want to leave let them leave there has to be enough talent in this country to replace anyone who would leave
How about you learn what your talking about. The economy relies on AIG more than most could ever imagine. Just get over yourselves, its people like you that pull your money out of the stock market and force it to crash if you’d just let shit ride out we’d all be alot better off.
That sounds like extortion. And we are all supposed to be chumps when the fundamentals of the economy goes to hell and keep our money in stocks while the savvy operators pull out. Markets exist to server investors, not vice versa.
Mr. 10;07 thinks the rest of us exist to serve him and by extension AIG. AIG has been badly mismanaged and is now a ward of the state, and you all really ought to be on government pay scales. Get over yourselves, or if you are really as brilliant as you clearly think you are, why don’t you try getting another job and see what your market value really is.
10:07, we also depend on sanitation workers more than we imagine.
and i assume your worth is as much? all i’m saying is know the company your talking about its a trillion dollar umbrella with over 200 companies under the AIG title. Obviously some of the companies failed miserably and are not worth a penny (and were driven by greed), however there are plenty of others filled with hard working executives who are innocent bystanders and are worthy of their job.
and if it services investors, why would play the game in the first place?
i find a lot of what you people are saying to be very troubling….my dad happens to be one of the 60 senior partners at AIG, and simply based on this fact is lumped into this group of disgusting criminals who have run AIG into the ground because of greed. AIG’s trouble is largely based on the investment decisions of one AIG company located in London. My dad’s line of business has absolutely no link to that and he has stood by helplessly as a large portion of his net worth has eroded before his eyes. He has worked 12 hour days at AIG for 23 years, and he doesn’t deserve a bonus??? To this day he still leaves the house before seven and is back after seven…do you have any idea how hard it is to do business with AIG’s credit rating being downgraded? Oh yea, and my dad did have other job offers, but he turned them down and opted to stay at AIG because as the president of a wholly owned subsidiary of AIG, he felt obligated to stay and protect the jobs of the people who work under him. i think that before people start going off about the bad people at AIG they should learn about exactly why AIG is in such a bad spot and also recognize that it is a company of more than 100,000 people so not everyone is a greedy asshole.
This is sick. Why in the world are we helping these companies that keep sending millions to people who do not know how to run a company? Furthermore, I fear this is just the tip of the iceberg. Look what Enterprise rent-a-car did to get bailout funds:
http://www.butasforme.com/2009/02/25/alert-enterprise-rent-a-car-may-have-fired-employees-as-fake-evidence-when-lobbing-for-bailout-money/?
http://www.butasforme.com/2009/02/25/alert-enterprise-rent-a-car-may-have-fired-employees-as-fake-evidence-when-lobbing-for-bailout-money/
NickiDrea March 15, 2009 at 10:55 am
@ Anonymous: I respect your opinion, but your dad is not working any harder than THOUSANDS of other people do every day. I’m a public defender and I routinely work 10-14 hour days. I leave at 7, I’m at work until 7, and I come home and prep for court until 10 pm- EVERY DAY. I do this for A LOT less than your dad- I make less than $50,000 (with over $100,000 in student loans to pay) a year and actually had to take a PAY CUT this year because our organization has no money. And I stay at my job because I care about our clients, the same is true of my co-workers. And although we are the ONLY public defenders in Philadelphia and our organization is in debt, we’re not getting any bailouts or bonuses!
With all due respect, there are thousands of people who work as hard- and much harder- than your dad does, for a lot less money. At least your dad actually HAS a net worth, that’s a foreign concept to a lot of people.
chris March 15, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I’m pissed off at AIG too http://tinyurl.com/d3n38o
Maerissa March 17, 2009 at 5:48 pm
This is sickening. I Million dollaw bonuses? Wow …just wow!
I have health problem…I’am a mother of 4 children’ low income’and in need of help, i work but not enough…and ive never even held $10,000 in my life. How sad and greedy they are.
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"Modern Family": The Old Normal
By Jere Hester
Published Sep 25, 2012 at 4:43 PM | Updated at 4:45 PM EDT on Sep 25, 2012
"Modern Family" returns Wednesday.
The latest installment of "Modern Family" aired in May, but as with any vibrant domestic unit, life proves eventful even when the cameras aren’t rolling: The cast got embroiled in a bitter post-season pay dispute with the producers. The ABC sitcom emerged as the favorite program of both the Obama and Romney families, briefly becoming a political football in the national gay marriage debate. On Sunday, the show won four Emmys – including its third consecutive Outstanding Comedy Series award, one for each season.
“Modern Family” returns Wednesday to an increasingly crowded landscape of quirky domestic comedies it helped create, with newcomers that include Fox’ “Ben and Kate” (a flakey brother helps his sister raise her daughter), ABC’s “The Neighbors” (a family unwittingly moves to a suburban community filled with aliens) and NBC’s "The New Normal" (a gay couple hires a surrogate mother, embracing her “Little Miss Sunshine”-like daughter and battling her homophobic grandmother).
"Modern Family," which arrived just three years ago as a breath of fresh air by providing laughs than made it hard to breathe, is suddenly the old normal.
Photos: 2012 Primetime Emmy Winners
Not that there’s any immediate serious challenge to the show’s status as TV’s top family comedy. "Modern Family" scored its best ratings last season following a strong run that suffered only in comparison to its great initial two outings. Some of last season’s episodes came off as gimmicky at times – the trip to Disneyland, in particular, felt forced and perhaps a tad tainted by corporate synergy. Still, the season brimmed with moments of relatable sweetness (the search for Lily's lost stuffed rabbit) and hilarity (Lily’s newfound predilection for cursing).
Like any family, interactions are driven by rivalries and differences, insecurities and challenges that alternately nudge them apart and pull them together – especially for Christmas, even when it’s not Christmas, as we saw last season. Thanks largely to strong writing led by producers Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, we’ve become addicted to the frequent laughs – and emotionally involved in the characters’ defeats (Claire’s quixotic race for city council) and what passes for victories (Haley’s spot on a college wait list). That we know the various Dunphys and Prichetts on a first-name basis makes them – and us – feel like part of the family.
“Modern Family” is at its best when focused on the kids – and on adults acting like kids. Last season ended with Gloria learning she's pregnant. Sometimes the arrival of a new child on a show can be a signal that the shark is awaiting a flyover (see: Stephanie on “All in the Family” and Cousin Oliver on “The Brady Bunch”). But in this case, the additionally jumbled family dynamics (Claire and Mitchell, close in age to their stepmother, will have a half-sibling about four decades their junior) seem like a natural for a show in which the only normal is the mix of love, exasperation and humor than defines any moderately functional family.
Check out a preview of Wednesday’s season premiere:
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Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.
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Boeing's woes are the latest hiccup in China trade talks
Beijing is expected to buy almost 8,000 planes over the next two decades, for a combined value of $1.2 trillion.
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida on April 7, 2017.Jim Watson / AFP - Getty Images file
March 19, 2019, 2:01 PM UTC
By Martha C. White
With expectations for a deal high on both sides, U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators are working under a tight time frame. Experts express concern that an agreement cobbled together beneath a ticking clock might disappoint corporate America and Wall Street.
Reported plans for a meeting between President Donald Trump and his counterpart, Xi Jinping, appear to have been postponed to an as-yet-undetermined date, possibly in April. Although the two countries have made public statements touting the progress made so far, leaders of U.S.-based trade groups say they have been relegated to reading the tea leaves from the sidelines, some three weeks after the White House’s self-imposed deadline of March 1.
“A week ago, it seemed like we were close to an agreement,” said Craig Allen, president of the U.S.-China Business Council. “I think that delay could be a cause for concern that we’re not as close to an agreement as we could be,” he said.
“The business community hasn’t been kept fully apprised by the administration of what’s going on in the negotiations,” said Rufus Yerxa, president of the National Foreign Trade Council.
The Trump administration has touted pledges from Beijing to buy more soybeans and liquid natural gas from the U.S. as evidence of its progress in negotiations. While this would help the agriculture and energy sectors — and likely score the president political points in regions he will have to defend in the 2020 election — it doesn’t address the biggest problems U.S. multinationals face in China.
“My feeling is that the Chinese have to offer meaningful changes in the way they treat foreign companies and foreign investment,” Yerxa said. “We really don’t know how significant the differences are between the two sides,” he said, on key issues like protection of intellectual property and Beijing’s state support for its domestic businesses that compete with American firms.
An agreement by China to buy more U.S. goods also would raise the trade deficit on that export category, which has risen to a record $891 billion under Trump. The president previously has railed against the size of the trade deficit, saying on Twitter last year, “The U.S. has been ripped off by other countries for years on Trade.”
Boeing’s current woes further complicate the situation regarding the trade deficit: The plane manufacturer said last year that Chinese airlines would buy 7,690 planes over roughly the next two decades, for a combined value of $1.2 trillion. Now, according to Bloomberg, China is said to be considering striking Boeing’s troubled 737 Max jet from the list of goods it planned to purchase from the U.S., following two high-profile crashes within six months that investigators say bear similarities. Three-quarters of those Chinese purchases would be single-aisle aircraft, Boeing had said — a forecast that is now in jeopardy since the Max is the new version of Boeing’s single-aisle best-seller, the 737. The Max is currently grounded by air transport agencies worldwide.
Even if the U.S. trade delegation can navigate the added complication of its biggest export driver being taken out of the equation, analysts say any deal that fails to address the structural reforms sought by the U.S. on practices like joint-partnership requirements and forced technology transfers could make the losses incurred by some American companies for naught.
“Some revenue will come back quickly — soft boycotts, tariff-related price increases, etcetera — but they might have to rework their supply chains, which will be a long-lasting and costly issue,” said Sameer Samana, senior global market strategist at the Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
“Some companies may never recover from the damage the tariffs have caused, especially the smaller, overly leveraged firms,” said George Kiraly, founder and CIO of the LodeStar Advisory Group.
Forecasts of future economic loss paint a similarly disheartening picture. A report published by the Rhodium Group, a consulting firm, in conjunction with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that the trade war’s collective impact on the country’s GDP could reach $1 trillion over a 10-year period “across all tariff escalation scenarios.”
The tech sector, a key driver of the current market rally, would be especially hard hit. “Import tariffs can shield domestic production from competition. That can encourage inefficiencies. One thing is clear we see a pretty strong negative impact on productivity … and resource allocation,” said Lauren Gloudeman, a senior analyst at the Rhodium Group.
Of more immediate concern, a failure by U.S. negotiators to win key concessions could have ramifications on the stock market: If the scope of any deal is less comprehensive than Wall Street expected, investors may face a reckoning.
“Markets might rally a bit further, but a lot of optimism is now priced in on the announcement of a trade deal,” Samana said. “We still think a deal is the most likely outcome, but it’s hard to tell what the quality of the deal will be, in terms of how [and] whether it deals with the tougher issues,” he said.
“Any trade deal announced between the U.S. and China is likely to disappoint,” Kiraly cautioned. “It will likely be a case of ‘buy the rumor, sell the news’ for the markets. It’s pretty much priced in, as stocks have rallied strongly in anticipation of a deal,” he said.
Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, suggested that members of Trump’s trade team might be starting to realize the intractability of their predicament, from a diplomatic as well as an economic perspective. “Underneath all of this, you increasingly have the realization in the administration, I think, that you’re not going to get these fundamental changes in the Chinese economic model,” he said, pointing out that state support and protectionism are key tenets of its economic model.
“It’s clear that Xi Jinping believes these enterprises are very important for China’s future,” Kirkegaard said. “He’s not going to change his economic philosophy and master plan for China to get this deal.”
Even with the biggest economy in the world, the U.S. has few effective mechanisms for oversight and enforcement in forging a bilateral trade deal without the international backing of groups like the World Trade Organization.
“A bilateral agreement is very difficult to enforce,” said Allen, of the U.S.-China Business Council. “These are ideological and emotional, as well as practical and nationalistic, issues on both sides. That does not lend itself to stability and predictability.”
Trade negotiators for the U.S. could insist that Beijing demonstrate its willingness to address American concerns before it rolls back trade sanctions — but keeping tariffs in place is likely to be a nonstarter for the Chinese delegation, creating a stalemate with no obvious path forward unless one side or the other yields.
A hastily forged trade pact that centers around China’s willingness to purchase more American goods might let Trump claim a victory in the run-up to an election year. Analysts warned, though, that any deal that leaves the threat of tariffs on the table is likely to exacerbate stock market volatility — which in turn could magnify the impact of an ongoing economic slowdown.
“Going forward, low global growth risks will remain,” Kiraly said. “What’s ailing the global economy is unlikely to be resolved by a trade deal,” he said, but a poor or nonexistent deal could be one headwind too many.
Martha C. White
Martha C. White is an NBC News contributor who writes about business, finance, and the economy.
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Senate Democrats to introduce constitutional amendment to abolish Electoral College
The proposed amendment to change the way presidents are elected won't become law anytime soon, but it will keep the issue in the 2020 conversation.
Pennsylvania electors cast their ballots for President-elect Donald Trump at the State Capitol in Harrisburg on Dec. 19, 2016.Jonathan Ernst / Reuters file
By Alex Seitz-Wald
WASHINGTON — Leading Democratic senators are expected to introduce a constitutional amendment Tuesday to abolish the Electoral College, adding momentum to a long-shot idea that has been gaining steam among 2020 presidential candidates.
Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii plans to introduce the measure along with Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2-ranking Democrat in the Senate, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to Schatz's spokesperson.
Also signed on to the legislation is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, one of a growing number of presidential candidates who have called for electing presidents by popular vote, even though changing the Constitution is seen as virtually impossible today.
A constitutional amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds supermajority in both the House (about 290 votes) and Senate (67 votes) and requires ratification by 38 states.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Kamala Harris of California, Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas, Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro are among the presidential candidates who have expressed openness to abolishing the Electoral College.
“We should abolish the Electoral College,” Castro said at a 2020 Democratic candidate forum in Washington on Monday. “It doesn't reflect the will of the people of the country.”
Two of the last three presidents have lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College, leading critics to charge that the system is undemocratic and threatens the legitimacy of the American political system.
Those calls have been led primarily by Democrats, since they lost out in both 2000, when George W. Bush beat popular vote winner Al Gore, and 2016, when Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton even though she had almost 3 million more votes.
The current system assigns electoral votes on a state-by-state basis according to the size of their congressional delegations, which gives an advantage to smaller states and a disadvantage to bigger states since all states have the same number of senators.
Defenders of the Electoral College say it protects the interests of smaller and more rural states, and warn that presidential candidates would only campaign in major population centers such as New York City and Los Angeles if the popular vote alone mattered.
Alex Seitz-Wald
Alex Seitz-Wald is a political reporter for NBC News.
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NECC Computer Science Major Gets Internship Through Hack.Diversity Program
Submitted by andrea on May 18, 2017 6:22 pm
NECC computer science major Anthony Mirely received an internship at Boston company Vertex Pharmaceuticals through the selective Hack.Diversity program.
Northern Essex Community College computer science major Anthony Mirely was recently accepted into an internship through The New England Venture Capital Association’s Hack.Diversity program. The program aims to address the underrepresentation of blacks and Latinos in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields at Boston’s fastest-growing, most innovative companies. For his internship, the 30-year-old Lawrence resident will be working alongside the lead scientific analyst at a company called Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Though Hack.Diversity’s overall goal is to create a increase in minorities working for these companies, the process is very selective. Mirely is one of just 18 students selected for the organization’s 2017 cohort, which requires students to demonstrate both academic proficiency and boundless enthusiasm for their chosen field. That’s no problem for him, though: he’s been in love with the world of computers since long before he decided to pursue a career in it.
“I’ve always been very passionate about computers in general,” he says. “I knew this field was something I loved, but I actually decided to go to medical school back in the Dominican Republic. Once I came to the U.S., I decided to finally follow my passion.”
The very concept of the internship often languishes under old cliches about getting coffee for one’s superiors, but Hack.Diversity is committed to placing students in a setting where they can really make a difference. For his part, Mirely says he will be working with Vertex Pharmaceuticals on the analysis and release of medication used to treat cystic fibrosis — an interesting combination of his current career interest in computers and his past as a med student.
Mirely credits his professor and mentor, Ethel Schuster, for getting him started with the program — and says both her instruction, as well as his experience at NECC as a whole, was invaluable for learning how to solve the sort of problems required at a company like Vertex.
“The computer science program at NECC has been very on-point in teaching me real-world problem solving abilities,” he says. “It’s prepared me very well for just about any job in this field.”
Interested parties can check out Mirely’s profile as part of Hack.Diversity’s 2017 cohort on the program’s website at hackdiversity.com/anthony-mirely/.
Northern Essex offers associate degrees in computer and information sciences, with concentrations in applications, computer science transfer and information technology. Students can also pursue certificates in computer networking, computer security, help desk and web design.
With campuses in Haverhill and Lawrence, Northern Essex Community College offers over 70 associate degree and certificate programs as well as hundreds of noncredit courses designed for personal enrichment and career growth. Each year, 8,500 students are enrolled in credit associate degree and certificate programs on the Haverhill and Lawrence campuses; and another 2,600 take noncredit workforce development and community education classes on campus, and at businesses and community sites across the Merrimack Valley. Northern Essex is the only state college located in the lower Merrimack Valley Region of Massachusetts. For more information, visit the website at www.necc.mass.edu.
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Negativland presents “Thigmotactic”
“Thigmotactic” takes another path in Negativland’s many twists and turns throughout the musical wilderness, by going deep into song making territory with a project created mostly by one member of the group.
Moving in a very different direction than other recent Negativland releases, and with a decidedly surreal bent, “Thigmotactic” is the first entirely song-based project to emerge from the minds of Negativland. These eccentric toe-tapping electronic folk-pop noise songs are strung together to form a continuous and cohesive listening experience, with themes emerging around meat, feet, pants, milk, cows, trucks, Herb Alpert, Richard Nixon, and even love.
“Thigmotactic” continues in Negativland’s decades long collage and cut-up tradition, but while the trademark sound of found audio elements is heard through-out, the cutting up and collage is also in the lyrics, created by combining dream journals, bits of advertisements, found poems, automatic writings, stream of consciousness, old National Geographic articles, and more.
The fifteen songs and two instrumentals were written, composed and performed by Negativland’s Mark Hosler, with contributions from the rest of the group, and with well-known San Francisco noisemaker Thomas Dimuzio contributing lots of rather unexpectedly normal sounding instruments, arrangements and production.
The found ethic continues with the artwork that accompanies each track, created from found materials to illustrate each song. Many of these have been shown as part of Negativland’s traveling art show “Negativlandland”, and, in a creative experiment in financing this release, each one-of-a-kind work is for sale via this website. Look under VISUAL ART to find them (art prices coming soon!).
Negativland has always existed as an umbrella under which the group releases collaborative work in many mediums – music, noise, collage, film, design, animation, fine art, books, lectures, essays, sculpture, performance, radio, web sites, etc. – with the term “Negativland Presents” sometimes being used as a way to release work that might be mostly the product of one member’s brain, or uses members outside of the immediate collective. To learn more about Negativland’s unusual history, read their bio.
“Norris bangs one yucca stump after another to rout out an elusive night lizard, and gives me a running resume of the genus: its smallness, its lack of eyelids, how it sheds its skin as a snake does, that it is so incredibly sedentary that one may stay under the same bush or Joshua tree for much of its entire life and, being strongly thigmotactic – needing to keep in contact with world around it – will always try to keep its back against a solid protective roof…”
-Ann Zwinger, The Mysterious Lands
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Travelling Overseas
Status: Approved by the Council on 11 April 2002
That the Council adopts the following procedures and policy for approving the participation of elected members in delegations travelling overseas:
The Mayor and Chief Executive will determine whether or not the purpose for which the delegation is to travel is relevant and that participation by elected members would be beneficial to the Council or its community;
Details of the proposed delegation will be circulated to elected members with a request for them to register their interest in participating;
The Mayor and Chief Executive will determine who is appropriate to participate in the delegation and will take into consideration the elected members’ interests and experience in the subject and relevance to the committees/sub-committees that the elected member has been appointed to, and where appropriate tangata whenua involvement and participation;
The Mayor and Chief Executive, when deciding on who should participate in the delegation, will endeavour to ensure that there is an even spread of the workload among elected members;
Elected members participating in an overseas delegation at the Council’s expense are to report on the activities of the delegation to the next appropriate standing committee or Council meeting;
The Mayor and Chief Executive will determine whether it is appropriate and beneficial to invite representatives of other businesses or organisation to join the delegation at those organisations’ own cost, and will, on a case-by-case basis, take into account factors such as those organisations’ interest and experience in the subject, and the appropriate number that the delegation should comprise;
The Mayor and Chief Executive, in deciding whether other businesses and organisations should be invited to join the delegation will consider on a case-by-case basis, what is the most appropriate process for inviting other participants (e.g. personal invitation, public advertising etc);
Where appropriate, the Mayor and Chief Executive will consult with the chair and/or members of the International Relations Sub-committee;
That once the delegation is determined the names and other appropriate information is reported back to the Monitoring Committee for information;
That the travel and accommodation expenses of the spouse of the Mayor be reimbursed where his/her travel is deemed appropriate.
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At annual community update, Springfield Superintendent says SPS is in 'a great place'
At annual community meeting, Superintendent John Jungmann talked about change, criticism and the challenges ahead.
At annual community update, Springfield Superintendent says SPS is in 'a great place' At annual community meeting, Superintendent John Jungmann talked about change, criticism and the challenges ahead. Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/2aUng0t
Claudette Riley, CRILEY@NEWS-LEADER.COM Published 5:21 p.m. CT Aug. 4, 2016
Superintendent John Jungmann delivers the state of Springfield Public Schools address at Kickapoo High School on Thursday, August 4, 2016.(Photo: Andrew Jansen/News-Leader)Buy Photo
Arriving at the podium behind the wheel of a miniature school bus, Superintendent John Jungmann was determined to have fun early Thursday while giving his annual update on the status of Springfield Public Schools.
Jungmann, who is starting his third year as the leader of Missouri's largest district, showed playful videos, employed a smartphone-based game to interact with the packed crowd of nearly 300 and gently poked fun at community leaders, presidential nominees and the news media during a presentation at Kickapoo High School.
But, his overall message was serious: The district, in a time of transition and change, is strong and getting better.
"We're in a great place. Springfield Public Schools is a district that I think is on the move. We started in a good place and we are working to effect change, positively, for kids."
At Jungmann's third State of SPS address to the Good Morning, Springfield crowd, the southwest Missouri native praised teachers, innovative programs and community partners for bringing additional resources into the schools.
"Our community is highly engaged and that is proven out through all the programs. It's a very important quality in our success, and we've got great people every day coming and serving our kids," he said.
"If you have a quality staff and a quality community you can do great things in schools, and we've got both."
Superintendent John Jungmann pulls up to the podium at Kickapoo High School before delivering the state of Springfield Public Schools address on Thursday, August 4, 2016. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/News-Leader)
The first two years of Jungmann's tenure have been marked by near constant change. Among other things, he championed innovative programs and ways of teaching and learning, overhauled and expanded the summer program, and launched a three-year initiative to put a laptop or tablet in the hands of every student, grades 3-12.
He revamped the entire leadership structure, consolidated administrative and support offices and set up programs that reward teachers for taking risks and trying new approaches in their classrooms.
Jungmann also helped lay the groundwork for the Greater Ozarks Centers for Advanced Professional Studies, which allows juniors and seniors from area high schools to explore careers and participate in "real world" projects in hospitals, manufacturing plants and businesses.
After showing a video filled with the faces of Springfield students, Jungmann said it's a reminder of why he and others are actively involved in public education.
"They remind us why we do this. We are all in this together," he said. "At Springfield Public Schools, we're changing and change is hard. It comes with critics, criticism and pain. It comes with wins and losses, advances and setbacks. It represents the world we live in, and we must prepare our kids for it."
He added that the district will "not be deterred by destructive criticism."
Alina Lehnert, center, and other members of the school board and crowd get out their smart phones to take a pop quiz during Superintendent John Jungmann's state of Springfield Public Schools address at Kickapoo High School on Thursday, August 4, 2016. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/News-Leader)
"We simply cannot afford to spend time focusing on anything or anyone who is not earnest in their attempts to help us move forward," he said. "To those of you who have taken on the challenge of changing education for our children, thank you — teachers, leadership, staff at every level and you, our community — you are making a difference in the lives of our children."
Matt Morrow, president and CEO of the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce — which organizes the annual event — praised Jungmann's forward-thinking leadership.
"Thank you for the work that is happening, not just here at Kickapoo, but throughout Springfield Public Schools," he said in closing remarks. "Change is hard. We are in a rapidly changing world, and I can tell you as a parent of Springfield Public Schools students how grateful I am ... that we live in a community that is serious about embracing the changes that face our world."
During the interactive 20-minute presentation, Jungmann threw out questions, in the form of numbers, and then provided a few possible answers — some of which were silly or serious. Here are some of the numbers he highlighted and what they mean:
Answer: Projected student enrollment for the 2016-17 school year.
"That's how many are coming to us very soon," he said. "We are lucky to live in a community that feels a collective responsibility to meet the needs of those students both in and out of the classroom."
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Answer: Number of teachers and principals who went back to school, as students, for a few days.
"They carried backpacks, participated in class, ate the school lunch and rushed to beat the tardy bell," he said. "One lesson our adult learners learned is that the level of engaged learning from class to class varied significantly and was often pretty passive."
He said the result was to work with teachers, who work with students every day, to revamp the way they teach and better engage students in their own learning.
Answer: The amount needed to meet payroll for the district.
"Investments in our team of more than 3,500 employees is and always will be our No. 1 investment," he said.
This year, the district approved an average 3.5 percent pay increase for its 1,800 teachers.
"The expectations of our teachers are high, and it is with those expectations that we will reach our most challenged students and we will challenge our most advanced students," he said.
Answer: Number of district buildings recently evaluated as part of the development of a new facility master plan.
"Over the past nine months, we've engaged our community to solicit input about our needs and partnered with experts to conduct a facility assessment of each of our buildings to evaluate site condition, building condition, educational suitability and technology readiness," he said. "Later this month, we will learn more about the results of the assessment and soon hear recommendations ... about steps necessary to ensure we're providing equitable learning experiences for every learner."
An update is expected at the Tuesday board meeting.
Answer: Number of students who attended Explore, the district's expanded summer program in June and July. It wrapped up Friday.
"While students attended some of those classes in school, in many cases their classes were out in the community — at the zoo, in the creeks and parks, at our local hospitals and even in a chocolate factory," he said. "Many of these students came from under-resourced homes, and it's our belief these new opportunities will stop the summer learning loss."
He said the district provided more than 340,000 meals during the summer program. He thanked businesses and other community partners that played a role in the program.
"I challenged our team to dream big and gave them permission to act and the results are simply remarkable," he said. "Was Explore perfect? No. But without the willingness to take a risk, we'll never know."
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French GP aims for no traffic chaos in 2019 – Boullier
Jun.13 (GMM) Ticket sales for next weekend’s French GP are reportedly 50 per cent down on last year.
It could be because of the traffic chaos of 2018, when Paul Ricard returned to the F1 calendar.
But Eric Boullier, the former McLaren boss who is now involved in the organisation of the French GP, said they have done “everything we can” to improve the situation for 2019.
“The feedback from the fans was very useful,” he told the Dutch publication Formule 1.
“We work closely with local authorities, we have a partnership for live traffic information, the parking spaces have been redesigned. In short, a lot has been done,” said the Frenchman.
However, Boullier admitted the traffic and queuing chaos of 2018 will have put some fans off.
“That will undoubtedly play a role to some extent,” he said. “But others will choose to go in the second year because it is better organised.”
Boullier said the FIA and Liberty Media and even the teams are supportive of the race.
“Everyone in the Formula 1 community was very happy with the return after an absence (of the French GP) of ten years,” he insisted. “We received many compliments from the teams.”
Not enough support for tyre change – Marko
Karting now physically harder than F1 – Grosjean
25/02/2019 Boullier to help run French GP Feb.25 (GMM) Eric Boullier is back in formula one. The Frenchman was ousted as McLaren team boss in July of last year. But France's L'Equipe reports that he is now returning with a role […]
23/06/2018 Baptism of fire for France GP venue Paul Ricard Jun.23 (GMM) Paul Ricard is having a baptism of fire as the first French grand prix venue in a decade. A big crowd descended on the Slavica Ecclestone-owned circuit on Friday, but many […]
31/01/2018 French GP would welcome 2018 race time shift Jan.31 (GMM) Paul Ricard has suggested it would welcome a proposal to tweak the start time of its French grand prix this year. We reported this week that, to avoid a clash with a world […]
30/05/2019 Still no Mistral straight for French GP May 30 (GMM) Using the full Mistral straight has once again been ruled out by organisers of the French GP. Last year, F1 returned to Paul Ricard, but a chicane in the middle of the epic […]
28/05/2019 Boullier confirms F1 return ‘rumours’ May 28 (GMM) Eric Boullier says he could return to Formula 1. The Frenchman was ousted as McLaren boss last year, as the once-great British team failed to return to strength even after […]
02/12/2016 France set for 2018 F1 calendar return – media Dec.2 (GMM) After a decade's absence, France will return to the F1 calendar in 2018. That is the claim of several authoritative French-language media sources, including the L'Equipe […]
27/06/2018 Paul Ricard unsure over Mistral chicane axe Jun.27 (GMM) Paul Ricard boss Stephane Clair sounds unsure about whether the French grand prix venue should axe its controversial 'Mistral chicane'. Many drivers called on the FIA and […]
18/02/2019 ‘Everyone’ saying F1 is for sale – Hembery Feb.18 (GMM) Paul Hembery, the former F1 boss at Pirelli, says he has heard rumours that Liberty Media is trying to sell the sport's commercial rights. Liberty, headed in F1 by Chase […]
15/09/2016 Ecclestone to attend Singapore GP with Chase Carey Sep.15 (GMM) Bernie Ecclestone has had a change of heart regarding his attendance at this weekend's Singapore grand prix. Earlier, amid the high-profile sale of the sport to Liberty […]
19/10/2017 French authorities investigate Liberty takeover Oct.19 (GMM) French anti-corruption authorities are investigating the FIA over Liberty Media's acquisition of formula one. The New York Times reports that the body called Parquet […]
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The Talk of the Town
By Susan Orlean
The New Yorker, July 11, 1994 P. 30
TALK story written in dialogue form about two teenagers who are from the Chicago ghetto, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, who with help from radio producer David Isay, created a hit radio show called 'Ghetto Life 101.' They were in New York to get an award from the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. LeAlan Jones is fifteen and in the ninth grade at King High School in Chicago. Lloyd Newman lives in the Ida B. Wells housing development with his sisters, and LeAlan lives nearby. They were in Dave's apartment in the East Village, listening to the Wu-Tang Clan CD. Dave Isay is a radio producer and he found LeAlan and Lloyd and taught them how to do the radio show, 'Ghetto Life 101.' They interviewed people they knew and talked about what their life was like, and the show was played on NPR. They flew here from Chicago and went to the hotel, where security was called, because the hotel staff thought they were imposters. Lloyd came with his sister Precious, who has raised him since his parents' death, and LeAlan brought his mother, Tootchie. They went to the awards lunch and gave a speech. LeAlan said he didn't want to be no statistic about young black males; he didn't like "this title of the lost generation, because I'm not a lost person." Dave took them to Coney Island after the ceremony. They went to a restaurant called Veselka where Lloyd wanted to order two eggs and French toast, and pancakes and juice, and he wanted a blintz for an appetizer. LeAlan wanted pancakes and eggs. He had questions about challah and borscht. Lloyd said the blintzes were nasty. He said it was made out of cow eyeballs. Dave then took them over to the Statue of Liberty where LeAlan wanted to buy some souvenirs and get his ears pierced. Dave said he picked Lloyd and LeAlan because they were funny, and he liked them.
This article appears in the print edition of the July 11, 1994, issue.
Susan Orlean began contributing to The New Yorker in 1987 and became a staff writer in 1992.
America’s finger-pointing, mean-mugging uncle: three letters.
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California Votes Its Future
The tectonic shifts taking place in the American electorate are nowhere more vivid than in California. Latinos now account for nearly forty per cent of the state’s population and will soon be the largest ethnic group in the country’s most populous (by far) state. California’s Latinos are still voting below their strength—an estimated sixteen per cent of this week’s turnout—but those numbers will only rise, and the effect of the Latino vote is already profound. Consider the passage on Tuesday of Proposition 30: Californians actually voted to raise taxes to support public schools, colleges, and universities.
Every news story seemed to call the vote “historic,” and a bit of history is in order. California’s ballot initiative process, introduced a century ago as a Progressive Era reform meant to counter corporate power, has become an expensive fiasco, helping paralyze the state legislature and, in recent years, being dominated, ironically, by big business sponsoring favors for itself. A few progressive initiatives still make it onto the ballot (e.g., Prop 30), but the most significant initiative ever passed was, arguably, Proposition 13, which capped property taxes in 1978. Prop 13 was a tax revolt. Its negative impact on California’s infrastructure, particularly its schools, was enormous and has not ended. The state’s per-pupil spending slid from among the nation’s highest to, at last count, forty-seventh. Essentially, older white property owners had decided that they would not pay for the education of an increasingly brown school population. More broadly, as Peter Schrag wrote in “Paradise Lost: California’s Experience, America’s Future,” Prop 13 “changed the center of social gravity—from the young to the old, from mobility to security.”
It is not as though Proposition 13 has been repealed. But it was young voters and Latinos who, according to reports, provided the margin for the great pushback this week. Proposition 30 is really quite modest. Authorizing a small temporary increase in the state sales tax and a temporary tax hike on high incomes, it will mainly plug a six-billion-dollar hole in this year’s state budget and stave off catastrophic education cuts. It will not restore the glory of California’s public schools, colleges, and universities. It is, however, a start. Tuition hikes are already being postponed and even refunded. School districts that have had to shorten their school years will not be forced to cut an additional three weeks.
Governor Jerry Brown, the political Lazarus who also happened to be governor in the turning-point year of 1978, and who campaigned hard, against deep-pocketed opposition, for Proposition 30, said this week, “I think this is the only place in America where a state actually said, ‘Let’s raise our taxes for our kids, for our schools, for our California dream.’” That may actually be true for recent times—for this shrunken-budget era. But times are changing. In California, registered Republicans now comprise less than thirty per cent of the electorate, and eighty-two per cent of them are white. Meanwhile, Latino students outnumber whites in California’s public schools two-to-one. Something’s got to give. The center of social gravity, in Schrag’s formulation, may be finally shifting back to the young.
Photograph by Kevork Djansezian/Getty.
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Bezanilla-McGraw Funeral Home
Rose S. Bezanilla, 93, West Carthage
WEST CARTHAGE, NY — Rose S. Bezanilla, 93, of 46 N. Main St., West Carthage, died Monday evening, July 30, 2018, at the Carthage Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing where she was a resident for two years.
Rose was born April 25, 1925, in Ocala, FL, the daughter of the late Abner and Anita (Dionne) Stewart.
She married George E. Bezanilla on Oct. 5, 1941, in Carthage. George, owner of the former Bezanilla Dairy, died on January 15, 1980.
Following her husband’s death, Rose was employed as a cook and domestic for the Augustinian priests that resided at the Rectory of St. James Church in Carthage for over 15 years.
She was a member of the Carthage Area Hospital Auxiliary and volunteered countless hours in the gift shop. She had her daily ritual of coffee at the Superior Restaurant, even at the age of 90.
She is survived by her two daughters, Mrs. Diane (Harry) Ames of West Carthage and Deborah Siler of Raleigh, NC, two sons and their spouses, Bruce and Rhonda Bezanilla of Cape Vincent and David Bezanilla and Larry Campbell of San Francisco, CA; a sister, Anita McManus of Ashville, OH; two brothers, William Stewart of Bowie, MD and Thomas Stewart of West Carthage; and nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by a son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Ruth Bezanilla, a granddaughter Kathryn Bezanilla, two brothers, Walter and Timothy Stewart and two sisters, Barbara Wagoner and Mary Lou Oliger.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 3, at St. James Catholic Church with Rev. Donald A. Robinson officiating. Burial will be in St. James Cemetery. Calling hours will be 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2, at Bezanilla-McGraw Funeral Home.
Memorial donations may be made to the Carthage Area Hospital Auxiliary or to the St. James Church.
To leave an online condolence, go to www.bezanillafh.com.
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Seáinin McCann Crew Commander Blue Watch, Springfield Fire Station Read this article
‘Your Choice’ -New Virtual Reality Road Safety Programme
Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) has launched a new virtual reality road safety education programme, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, to help reduce death and serious injuries.
Entitled ‘Your Choice’, the programme targets young drivers and passengers aged 16 – 24 using virtual reality technology to place the young person into a hard hitting road safety scenario via specially designed goggles. As a front seat passenger in the virtual world, the young person will be part of a crash scene and will experience the dramatic sights and sounds of emergency services arriving on the scene and the resulting rescue and removal of the casualties.
The programme, developed by NIFRS, is delivered by members of the emergency services and was launched at the South Eastern Regional College in Lisburn (SERC). Young people in the College had the opportunity to try out the new technology highlighting the dangers on our roads and the consequences of poor decision making and choices.
Alan Walmsley, Assistant Chief Fire & Rescue Officer & Director of Community Protection explains:
“This technology allows every user wearing a headset to experience the stark reality of being trapped in a vehicle and to observe up close the work of the emergency services at the scene of road traffic collision.
“It’s uncompromisingly direct and honest. We are reminding young people that they have a choice to decide what kind of road user they and their passengers will be. Those decisions are vital to their safety and the safety of other road users.
“Sadly 16 – 24 year olds, and in particular young men, continue to be over represented in the statistics for those killed or seriously injured * on our roads. We will be targeting and prioritising the ‘Your Choice’ programme towards young people in geographical areas which continue to have high levels of road traffic collisions.
“The ‘Your Choice’ programme is one element of our new Road Safety Strategy which outlines how we, as a key road safety partner in Northern Ireland, will continue to work in partnership with others to reduce death and injury on our roads.
“We have adapted a targeted, evidence-based approach in the delivery of our road safety interventions through this strategy to build upon the significant progress with all our road safety activities in recent years.
“In the last year alone Firefighters attended 790 road traffic collisions rescuing 536 people trapped in vehicles. We attend approximately 60% of all road traffic collisions that occur in Northern Ireland each year. Unfortunately, Firefighters and other members of the emergency services witness all too often the carnage on our roads and the lives completely destroyed, in particular among the 16 – 24 year old age groups, as a consequence of irresponsible road user behaviour.
“Through ‘Your Choice’ and our new road safety strategy we are embracing new technology and new ways of delivering our education programmes, in partnership with others, to help keep people safer on our roads and reduce the number of road traffic collisions attended by the emergency services. If you work with young people and think they would benefit from, the new ‘Your Choice’ programme please email YourChoice@nifrs.org
“We must do all we can to share the road to zero – one life lost is one too many.”
SERC Principal and Chief Executive Ken Webb said:
“The virtual demonstrations were extremely hard-hitting, and we hope it will hit home with our young people the consequences of poor decision making and highlight the dangers on our roads.
“The elements of the event will help to engage our students in considering the role that they have in preventing deaths and serious injuries on the roads. It’s important to raise awareness of road safety issues and it’s hoped that events such as this will encourage our young motorists to become advocates for safer driving practices. The event really hit a nerve with our students and made them think – which is what the event was all about.”
1 – *Department of Infrastructure Report – killed or seriously injured (KSI) causalities in Northern Ireland in 2016.
2 – NIFRS Road Safety Statistics
Performance Measurement 2015-16
2017-18 % change from 2016-17 & 2017-18
Road Traffic Collisions Attended 730 741 790 +6.6%
Road Traffic Collision Fatalities (only at RTCs NIFRS attended) 50 40 40 0%
Road Traffic Collision Rescues 561 534 536 +0.4%
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Nigerian president denies rumours of his death
04 Dec 2018, 02:38 GMT+10
Nigeria's president took the extraordinary step of denying rumours that he died and was replaced by a body double, telling the country that he is alive and well.
"It is the real me I assure you," President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday to a group of Nigerians during a visit to Poland, where he is attending the United Nations Climate Conference.
"A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health," Buhari said. "I am still going strong."
The 76-year-old, who was elected in 2015 and will run for his second term in February, has been in ill health throughout his presidency. But in the video of his remarks posted to Twitter by his personal assistant, he joked as he dismissed the rumours, to laughter and head-shaking applause by some government officials after a Nigerian posed a question about his identity.
The government has been tight-lipped about Buhari's health throughout his presidency.
Rumors of his death started in 2017, when Buhari spent seven weeks in London for medical treatment. They abated when he returned to Nigeria, but returned in full force last month, stoked by prominent opposition leaders and separatists.
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra, said that a Sudanese lookalike, named Jubril, had taken Buhari's place as a body double. His claims were shared widely online, often accompanied by videos that appeared to portray a dead Buhari lying in a London hospital.
This is not the first time that Nigerians have speculated about a president's mortality. State secrecy around former President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's ill health fostered similar rumors before Yar'Adua died in office in 2010.
As Nigeria prepares for the upcoming elections, the opposition said the president's health renders him unfit to continue his tenure. Some have questioned his ability to contain insurgent groups and Islamic extremists, which the president recently said had started using drones.
In the 2015 elections, Buhari made the defeat Boko Haram a major goal for his presidency. But extremists continue to carry out deadly suicide bombings and abductions in the northeast and wider Lake Chad region.
Deadly attacks against the Nigerian military are on the rise. In November alone, 39 Nigerian soldiers were killed and another 43 were wounded, according to the presidency.
In late November, Buhari pivoted from repeated claims from his government that Boko Haram had been "crushed," instead urging the military to "rise to the challenge."
The Islamic State also claimed it is "full control" of Arege, a town near Lake Chad, after Nigerian soldiers fled their barracks.
The group also posted a statement Monday on the main IS website claiming that, after two days of attacks against the barracks, many soldiers were also killed and wounded.
The Nigerian military has not responded to the claims.
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Ontario cuts red tape for boat, snowmobile and off-road vehicle industries
PARRY SOUND, ON: Ontario’s Minister of Transportation Jeff Yurek announced changes that will make it easier for businesses to transport boats, snowmobiles and off-road vehicles (ATVs) to customers and recreational shows by expanding the use of service plates for trailers.
“We hear loud and clear from small to large business owners across Ontario and have fixed this problem,” said Yurek. “This is a great example of how we are cutting red tape to make government work better, simpler and faster for small business and consumers.”
Until now dealers were expected to buy a new trailer plate for each trailer they moved with a boat, snowmobile or ATV. Now one service plate will be able to be used for multiple deliveries.
“This is great news for the many businesses in Parry Sound-Muskoka that sell or service boats, snowmobiles or ATVs,” said MPP Norman Miller. “This will reduce costs and paperwork for small business owners, allowing them to focus on building their businesses and creating jobs.”
Miller heard of this issue through his business survey last fall and brought it to the Minister of Transportation.
“I want to thank Norm Miller and Minister Yurek for listening. This simple change will make it much easier for us to do business in Ontario,” said Andy Blenkarn, owner of Desmasdon’s Boat Works in Pointe au Baril, who brought this issue to Miller’s attention. “Norm was critical to the process. He listened to our concern and acted. I love the ‘can do attitude’ of Norm and the government. It is so refreshing to have a government that listens.”
The boating industry is a $4 billion business that accounts for 30,000 jobs in Ontario.
“The expansion of how service plates can be used removes an unnecessary burden on snowmobiling businesses. This is a measurable move that will open up new customer service opportunities, improve the ability to showcase and exhibit products, and will definitively help grow the $1.7B snowmobile industry in Ontario,” said Ryan Eickmeier, Executive Director of the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs.
Ontario’s government is committed to cutting red tape and reducing burdens to help lower the costs of doing business and support economic growth throughout Ontario. Ontario’s Open for Business Action Plan has set a target to reduce regulatory red tape by 25 per cent by 2020 to help business keep, grow and create good jobs.
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Construction company fined again for violating St. John's bylaw
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Updated: Apr 05 at 7:40 a.m.
Weir's Construction Ltd. has been ordered to pay $4,200 in fines for violating a City of St. John's bylaw at its Conception Bay South Bypass Road location. - Google Street View
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. —
Weir's Construction Ltd. has been ordered to pay $4,200 in fines for violating a City of St. John's bylaw.
The company's conviction in provincial court Thursday came two years after it was hit with fines for breaching the same bylaw.
Weir's Construction pleaded guilty to three counts of breaching the City of St. John's Act by failing to have occupancy certificates for an extension of its batch plant and a new storage building at its Conception Bay South Bypass Road location, as well as by failing to have appropriate fire separation in the batch plant. A charge of failing to have a permit to construct washrooms in the storage building was withdrawn by the Crown.
The issues were identified by a senior building inspector with the city during an inspection on Sept. 13, 2017. Despite having been given a month to have the issues addressed, the company failed to do so.
Weir's was fined $1,200 each for the lack of occupancy certificates, and $1,800 for the fire separation issue, which is also a violation of the National Building Code of Canada. The company has 60 days to pay the fines.
Two months before that inspection, Weir's had pleaded guilty in provincial court to four different violations of municipal legislation, involving steps and landings not being up to code, missing fire extinguishers and a concrete tank that had been built without a permit. It was fined $3,750 as a result.
At that time, lawyer Kyle Rees, representing Weir's, told the court communication matters had played a role in the situation getting out of hand, and the company was working to resolve them.
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U.S. Judge sparks outrage for no jail time in rape sentence
A former school bus driver is sentenced to probation in the rape of a 14-year-old
An upstate New York judge who stoked social media outrage for sentencing a former school bus driver to probation in the rape of a 14-year-old is getting “numerous vitriolic” phone calls, court officials said Tuesday.
Jefferson County Supreme Court Judge James McClusky last week sentenced Shane Piche to 10 years of probation, sparking an online wave of condemnation from people arguing that the punishment was too lenient. The 26-year-old was accused of raping the teenager at his residence in Watertown, New York, last summer. Piche, who was a bus driver in the victim’s school district, pleaded guilty to third-degree rape in February.
Piche also was required to register as a Level 1 sex offender, the lowest of three categories based on the risk of another offence. Three orders of protection were issued and Piche was ordered not to be left alone with anyone under the age of 17.
The sentencing drew national media attention and harsh criticism. Twitter users posted the phone number and address of McClusky’s chambers in Watertown.
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“The Judge’s chambers have received numerous vitriolic calls regarding the case, the vast majority from out of State, by individuals who know nothing about the facts and circumstances of the case, thanks to social media,” state court spokesman Lucian Chalfen wrote in an email.
Chalfen said the judge was “well within” the sentencing range for this type of negotiated plea conviction. The maximum state prison time he could have received would have been from 1 1/3 to 4 years, he said.
Jefferson County chief assistant district attorney Patricia Dziuba said all parties acted within the parameters set by law and that the prosecutor handling the case sought up to six months of jail time along with probation, supervision and treatment. She declined to criticize the judge’s sentence.
Piche didn’t make a statement during his sentencing.
Calls seeking comment were left Tuesday with McCluskey and Piche’s attorney, Eric Swartz.
“He’ll be a felon for the rest of his life. He’s on the sex offender registry for a long time,” Swartz told television station WWNY of Watertown.
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The station said a victim impact statement given to them by the victim’s mother read, “I wish Shane Piche would have received time in jail for the harm he caused to my child. He took something from my daughter she will never get back and has caused her to struggle with depression and anxiety.”
Chelsea Miller, of the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, said based on the mother’s statement, it’s possible that the judge and court officials didn’t understand the harm the survivor experienced.
“Unfortunately, this can discourage survivors who see jail or prison time as a form of accountability,” Miller said.
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Attendance statistical release
On 23 March 2017, the Department for Education published their statistical first release of pupil absence in schools in England 2015/2016. The report highlights that overall absence, across state-funded primary schools, secondary and special schools, has remained the same at 4.6% and has stayed at this level since 2013/14.
By Education Welfare and Safeguarding Team on 21 Apr 2017
DFE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE STATISTICAL RELEASE
On 23 March 2017, the Department for Education published their statistical first release of pupil absence in schools in England 2015/2016.
The report highlights that overall absence, across state-funded primary schools, secondary and special schools, has remained the same at 4.6% and has stayed at this level since 2013/14, (see Table 1). Prior to 2013/14, overall absence rates had been reducing year on year since 2006/07, when it was 6.5%.
In 2015/16, total absence remained the lowest in state-funded primary schools (4%) with 5.2% in secondary schools and 9.1% in special schools. (Pupil absence in schools in England: 2015/16, DfE).
REASONS FOR SCHOOL ABSENCE
Illness remains the most common reason for absence, heavily influencing overall absence rates. Overall absence due to illness dropped slightly to 2.6% in 2015/16 compared with 2.8% in 2014/15 and accounted for 80.8% of all absence.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, overall absence due to family holidays in 2015/16 was up on the previous year (authorised and unauthorised) accounting for 8.2% of all absences compared to 7.5% the year before. 14.7% of pupil enrolments in 2015/16 had missed at least one session for family holidays which is an increase from 13.8% in 2014/15.
There has been a remarkable amount of press coverage this academic year around absence due to holidays following the high profile case of John Platt. He won a landmark case after being prosecuted for taking his daughter out of school to go to Disneyland in 2015, only to have the ruling overturned in the Supreme Court this April (2017). It will be interesting to see the impact of this on the 2016/17 absence data.
Another impact on absence in 2015/16 is that Eid fell in term-time. As a result, authorised absence increased due to religious observance of pupils in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools during 2015/16 peaking at 9.1% of overall absence, compared to 4.9% in 2014/15.
SCHOOL ABSENCE BY PUPIL CHARACTERISTICS
Pupils with a statement of special educational needs and those with an education health care plan had an overall absence rate of 7.7% compared to 4.2% absence of those with no identified SEND.
21.6% of pupil enrolments known to be eligible for claiming free school meals, were persistently absent compared to 8.2% of pupil enrolments who were not eligible for free school meals.
Among ethnic groups, the highest overall absence rates were seen for Traveller of Irish Heritage at 17.9% and Gypsy/Roma at 12.7%. However, the DfE advises caution when comparing absence data for Travellers of Irish Heritage, because this cohort is much smaller than any other ethnic group.
Enrolments of Chinese and Black African ethnicity had the lowest overall absence at 2.4% and 3% respectively. Pakistani pupil enrolments had the largest increase in overall absence rates from 4.9% in 2014/15 to 5.4% in 2015/16. (Pupil absence in schools in England: 2015/16, DfE).
The persistent absence rates for pupil enrolments living in the most deprived areas was three times higher than the rate for those living in the least deprived areas, (Pupil absence in schools in England: 2015/16, DfE).
PUPIL REFERRAL UNIT ABSENCE
The overall absence rate in 2015/16 for pupil referral units was 32.6%, an increase from 31.5% in 2014/15. Persistent absentees within this category increased to 72.5% in 2015/16 compared with 70.6% in 2014/15.
PERSISTENT ABSENTEES
Persistent absence accounted for 36.6% of overall absence in 2015/16 compared with 37.4% in 2014/15. Again this follows a downward trend from 40.5% in 2012/13 when data first started to be collected over six half terms as opposed to over five.
Overall absence for persistent absentees was 17.6%, which the DfE reports is nearly four times higher than for all pupils. Persistent absentees account for almost a third of all authorised absence and more than half of all unauthorised absence. (Pupil absence in schools in England: 2015/16, DfE).
WORKING WITH PERSISTENT ABSENTEES
It goes without saying that persistent absence can have a major impact on overall attendance figures in schools. When dealing with long-term persistent absentees for non-medical reasons, school should undertake high impact and intensive casework with the families, children and young people concerned. As referred to in Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) from the DfE, Early Help should be offered where any additional needs are identified which can be met by universal services. If the relationship between school and the child young/person and their family has broken down, consider utilising external agencies to mediate.
Where there are safeguarding concerns or a persistent lack of engagement, a referral should be made to social care under the category of educational neglect.
When making a referral, always attach any previous referrals to strengthen the case. Include evidence of any attempts to work with and support the family and explain how a lack of education is impacting on the child’s development, using evidence from observations and interactions.
Practitioners should refer to the assessment framework from Working Together to Safeguard Children 2015 and make clear:
How is poor attendance impacting on the child’s education and emotional and behavioural development? What evidence do you have to support this?
How does the child behave when in school? Are there any concerns? What risk assessments have been put in place?
Where is the child or young person when they are absent from school? Is there anything that is impacting on the child attending school, for example changes in family circumstances etc? What have you done to support the family, child or young person?
How is poor attendance putting the child at risk? E.g. risk of child sexual exploitation, gangs, drugs/alcohol misuse, online exploitation, neglect, emotional abuse etc.
How does the parent interact with the child? Are there any concerns? If so, what evidence do you have?
What are your observations of the child or young person? Do you have any other safeguarding concerns? What are they?
Include anything else that concerns you.
Always consider whether the evidence you are providing is in fact hearsay, and whether it may be more appropriate to submit a joint referral to support the case.
If a social worker is already allocated to the family, ensure you provide them with regular updates, particularly if there is little or no improvement. Never assume they will already know.
Where all other interventions fail and there are no safeguarding concerns, consider referring the case for consideration of prosecution if it meets your local authority’s criteria.
For further advice and support about school attendance and safeguarding contact the team on 0844 967 1111.
Our specialist safeguarding team work with schools and academies to help ensure their safeguarding arrangements are nothing less than outstanding.
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Keith Weed
Chief Marketing & Communication Officer, Unilever
Keith Weed is the Chief Marketing & Communication Officer at Unilever. Keith joined Unilever in 1983, working first in the Elida Gibbs UK business before moving on to senior positions in France and the USA and global roles. He has worked for Unilever in the UK, France and the United States, as well as in a variety of global and regional management and marketing roles.
Keith is currently responsible for the marketing and communication functions, a role that also includes leading Unilever’s sustainability work, its drinking water business (Pureit) and the Unilever brand.
He holds a first-class degree in engineering from the University of Liverpool.
Outside Unilever he is a Fellow of The Marketing Society and, as an engineering graduate, a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He is also a non-Executive Director of Sun Products Corporation.
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Kurds rally in Cyprus demanding jailed rebel leader Ocalan's release
About 500 Kurdish protesters marched through the Cypriot capital Thursday demanding the release of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan on the eve of the fourth anniversary of his capture by Turkey. The demonstrators carried posters with Ocalan’s picture and the red and yellow flags of the rebel PKK or Kurdish Workers Party, which is banned in Turkey and is on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations. They also carried huge banners declaring “Free Ocalan — Peace in Kurdistan.” The demonstration marked Saturday’s fourth anniversary of Ocalan’s capture, but was held two days early as Saturday is the eve of Cyprus’ presidential election when all public demonstrations are banned. Ocalan, who was captured in Kenya in 1999, is the sole inmate of a Turkish prison island where he is serving a life sentence for leading a 15-year war against the Turkish army that left 37,000 people dead. The Nicosia rally was planned before Kurdish rebels in Turkey warned Ankara on Wednesday they would stop observing a 4-year-old unilateral cease-fire implemented following Ocalan’s capture if Turkey made no conciliatory steps. Full Story
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A Business Case for Using LinkedIn as a Lead-Generation Tool for B2C and B2B Social Media Marketing
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by Adam Bullas | Jul 9, 2018 | Social Media | 0 comments
Is LinkedIn an effective marketing tool for business in 2018? How can social marketers use LinkedIn to benefit their business? What are some of the ROIs of LinkedIn for businesses using the social media channel in 2018? If you’ve considered investing both time and money into a marketing campaign involving LinkedIn, the questions above are just some of the many you may be asking. We’ve answered these, and much more, in this handy guide.
About LinkedIn
Beginning with the basics, LinkedIn is a social networking site catered specifically for the business community. Business and employment orientated, the social media channel allows users to connect with other professionals worldwide.
A member has their own unique profile page, whereby an emphasis is placed on their skills and attributes, employment history, education, training, and a personal photo. The connection feature, which is arguably the predominant feature of LinkedIn, is used to allow users to connect with one another and is meant to portray professional relationships in the real world.
LinkedIn has long been known as a very effective B2B marketing tool
LinkedIn – the story so far
The company was founded in December 2002 by Reid Hoffman and launched in May 2003. By April of 2007, the site reached 10 million users, and just under a year later in February of 2008, LinkedIn launched its mobile app. From 2008, the company began to invest more into its growth, and numbers rose exponentially to 140 million in 2011. Currently owned by Microsoft after it was bought for the huge sum of $26.2 billion in 2016, LinkedIn is now the largest professional networking site, boasting more than half a billion users.
However, reports show that only 25% actively visit the channel on a monthly basis, implying that acquisition rates are rather low for the social media channel. Microsoft plans to drive member acquisition in the near future, with what began as major redesigns to the social network in the first few months of 2017. Growth was rather steady in 2017, with no notable change in the pace of member growth, but this may perhaps change with Microsoft’s recent plans regarding the social networking site.
A LinkedIn business profile could reap rich new dividends in business
A business case for using LinkedIn
Coined as the world’s largest professional networking site, LinkedIn certainly argues a convincing business case in 2018. LinkedIn is unlike any other social networking site in the sense that it is mainly for professionals. Furthermore, the fact that it has over 500 million users means it is a beneficial marketing tool for businesses wishing to operate in this niche market.
However, a profile often requires a large initial investment of time, and the fact users are not as active on LinkedIn as they are on other channels such as Facebook or Twitter means business doesn’t happen in real time. Below we explore some of the various positives and negatives of LinkedIn for business in 2018.
Using LinkedIn for business and lead generation
Firstly, LinkedIn is supposedly the best social media platform for lead generation, with 2.74% of visitors being converted to leads. This is both higher than Facebook and Twitter, whose conversion rates are approximately 0.77% and 0.69%, respectively.
Furthermore, LinkedIn’s wide array of options for targeted advertising means marketers using the social media channel can deliver their content to a very specific group of people within a population. Targeted advertising in its most basic form allows for businesses to target a specific demographic, based on a number of different factors.
This includes location, company name and industry, followers, job function and seniority, degrees, fields of study, skills, gender and age, to name a few! The large number of possible factors to choose from in 2018 means marketers are able to target a specific demographic, in the hope of increasing user engagement, increasing traffic, lead generation and potentially creating sales leads for businesses.
LinkedIn has taken the targeted advertising feature one step further, by introducing Matched Audiences. Launched in 2017, Matched Audiences introduce a new set of targeting capabilities for business, enabling the targeting of a more specific demographic through Website Retargeting, Account Targeting and Contact Targeting.
Website Retargeting allows for businesses to create a target audience based on that company’s recent website visitors. Account Targeting and Contact Targeting are similar in the fact that they enable marketers to target large lists of companies or email contacts. This allows for businesses to be able to market a campaign to their key audiences or accounts – coupling this with the demographic targeting options explained above to refine an extremely specific target audience. Both LinkedIn’s demographic targeting and Matched Audiences feature are explained in further detail here, on the LinkedIn website.
Thanks to LinkedIn’s Answers program, users in 2018 are able to offer their niche expertise to potential clients, all the while helping to boost their credibility on the social network. Users also have the ability to answer specific questions other users may have asked, which will undoubtedly increase views on their page if users find the answer helpful. Furthermore, businesses have the ability to invite people to view their LinkedIn page and visit their site by providing a link through the LinkedIn Answers program.
Finally, in 2018, a user can benefit from the basic features of LinkedIn for free – that is, creating a complete profile, connecting within the professional network and asking for recommendations. The social media channel is therefore good for businesses who are working on a budget.
LinkedIn case studies
Coca Cola – This B2C company is using LinkedIn by publishing links directing users to content which has been posted throughout their 131-year history. By directing people to their website in order to read this original content, they’re increasing conversion rates and user engagement. Furthermore, these posts do well to market the product while also staying rather light-hearted.
Microsoft – With nearly four million followers, the presence of this B2B company on LinkedIn is a perfect example of how other B2B companies should market themselves on the social media platform. Through interesting and compelling stories about innovation, technology and how Microsoft’s services and tools help millions in various industries, its followers can really engage with and understand the services Microsoft offer. This is often through posting a diversity of content, tips, insights into the industry, as well as sneak peaks into life within the Microsoft HQ!
Microsoft have grown their brand brilliantly using the LinkedIn platform
Drawbacks of LinkedIn
Firstly, business does not always happen in real time. Although LinkedIn has over 500 million users as of 2017, only 25% of this figure actively visits the channel monthly. It can, therefore, take a long while for business plans to happen, or for someone to reply to a message – it is a social media channel that requires patience in 2018. It also requires a large initial investment of time to create a profile and begin to make connections and interact with users.
It has been previously explained that to use LinkedIn in its simplest form is free. However, it must be stressed that this is rather basic, and for businesses wishing to expand their professional market in 2018, they must ultimately pay for premium accounts if they are to reap the benefits that LinkedIn offers.
There are a number of different paid accounts available to a user, which differ slightly in terms of reach, visibility and search functionality. However, in short, paying for a premium account in 2018 allows for users to send messages via Inmail, LinkedIn’s private messaging system. Premium account members can also benefit from conducting any number of searches they please, while also allowing for any other user to view their profile in full.
Furthermore, it must also be noted that LinkedIn advertising for business is not free! CPC rates tend to start at around $2 and can reach anything as high as $4 or $5. This is comparatively higher than other social media channels in 2018, such as Facebook, whereby an advert only costs a business between $0.16 and around $1. Of course, the actual CPC is dependent on a business’s targeting criteria and competition within an industry. This can be difficult for businesses who are working on a budget, especially if they are already paying for some sort of premium account on LinkedIn.
B2B and B2C marketing via LinkedIn
With over 500 million users, LinkedIn is the most widely used professional network in the world in 2018. Therefore, B2B companies should certainly be including this social networking site into their marketing strategy! LinkedIn is extremely suited for B2B companies as it facilitates the building of relationships and for businesses to expand their professional network. It comes as no surprise that 44% of users established better face-to-face relationships through first interacting on the social media platform.
The fact that LinkedIn is a professional networking site means that companies are able to deliver relevant, informative, unique and educational content – and this is exactly what users on the site will want and expect to see in 2018! This is vastly different from B2C marketing, which is typically more creative and therefore appeals to the more quirky and user-friendly social media channels such as Instagram and Facebook.
Despite the hefty CPC price tag, as previously explained in the ‘Drawbacks of LinkedIn for Business in 2018’ section, LinkedIn advertising is unmatched in the advantages it brings to B2B marketers. No other social media channel has such an extensive professional network and facilitates B2B marketing and advertising as well as LinkedIn in 2018.
It, therefore, comes as no surprise to learn that, in a joint survey conducted by The Marketing Journal and Javed Martin and Associates, 73% of B2B companies found that LinkedIn was successful in helping them achieve their aims. For B2B marketers, how social media channels were impacting on lead generation was particularly important. This is vastly different for those B2C companies active on the channel, as just 32% of those surveyed found it to be an effective marketing tool for business in 2018.
When specifically relating to the impact of paid advertising, LinkedIn fared the best channel for B2B companies. A reported 63% of those surveyed stated they use paid advertising on LinkedIn, compared to just 13% of B2C companies. While figures show LinkedIn is more suited for B2B companies, there have been success stories by B2C companies through the social media channel, which you can find in the previous section ‘Success Stories on LinkedIn’.
Social media channel integration with LinkedIn
For businesses who are wishing to diversify their fan-base in 2018, being active on various social media channels is a must. Below we discuss the various ways in which to integrate LinkedIn with YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Doing so is extremely easy and can be a huge ROI for business in 2018!
Want to maximise your LinkedIn reach? Consider utilising it with some of the above social media channels
Integrating LinkedIn with Facebook
Integrating the professionalism of LinkedIn with the more social and light-hearted aspects of Facebook in 2018 can be fruitful for business through exposing your product or service to a wider, different fan-base to that which is present on LinkedIn. Integrating these two social media channels is done through Facebook – the user must click on the LinkedIn app through the apps section to the left of the news feed.
Clicking on “Go To App” will direct the user to the LinkedIn site, and the two accounts can be integrated from here. This handy article by Beth Barlett can help to run you through the step-by-step process, which you can find here.
Integrating LinkedIn with Twitter
From a survey conducted in 2016, it was found that Twitter and LinkedIn were the two social media platforms that B2B marketers were investing the most amount of money into, primarily for paid advertising. Both these platforms are primarily for B2B companies but also accommodate for B2C companies, and so integrating these two channels into a business’s marketing strategy is well worth it in 2018.
This is done by logging into LinkedIn and clicking on the link to add Twitter on a user’s profile page. Clicking on “Add a Twitter Account” opens a pop-up from Twitter, prompting the user to enter a username and password. Once this is done, a user’s Twitter account can be accessed through LinkedIn, and LinkedIn updates can also be shared on Twitter.
Integrating LinkedIn with Instagram
These two social media channels are vastly different in the fact that Instagram is a quirky, photo-sharing app, while LinkedIn is more formal and is primarily for professional networking. However, the integration of these two channels can be useful for businesses wishing to diversify their target audience in 2018. Properly integrating a LinkedIn and Instagram account can be done through third-party websites, such as Zapier, which work by automatically sharing Instagram posts to a user’s LinkedIn profile.
Integrating LinkedIn with YouTube
Connecting a YouTube account with a LinkedIn account can be useful for business in 2018, as YouTube videos can be added and played externally through LinkedIn. This process is extremely easy and is done through YouTube. Clicking on the share button underneath a video will display a number of different social media channels, one of which is LinkedIn. By clicking on the LinkedIn icon, a pop-up window will appear, allowing the user to share this video onto a LinkedIn profile – it is as easy as that!
LinkedIn ROI potential
In short, the ROI of social media are the benefits a business reaps for the time, effort and money placed into a concerted campaign via one, or multiple, social media channels. However, the potential ROI of social media is often very hard to measure in terms of sales leads, customer acquisition, and user engagement. Although difficult to measure, LinkedIn does certainly have a high ROI and can, therefore, be good for business in 2018. Below we discuss some of these ROIs for business.
The fact that LinkedIn is primarily for professionals means being active on this social media channel in 2018 gives a business access to this unique audience. This is evidenced by the fact that LinkedIn is the only major social media platform whereby user rates for the 30-49 age bracket are higher than user rates for the 18-29 age bracket.
LinkedIn’s demographic targeting features allows businesses to deliver their content to a specific demographic within the wider network of people using the social media channel. As previously explained in the ‘Benefits of LinkedIn for Business in 2018’ section, social marketers are able to target those within a population using specific parameters such as age, gender and education. This, coupled with Matched Audiences, which has introduced a new set of targeting capabilities for businesses, can help in increasing traffic and lead generation, and therefore highlights one of the huge ROIs of LinkedIn for business.
As with all social media channels, referral traffic is a huge ROI of LinkedIn for business. The ability to link an external website in your company page, or provide a link to your site through the Answers program, will help to introduce your company page to a wider audience. This can potentially create sales leads and drive customer acquisition in the process.
Opace – our client’s experiences with LinkedIn
Here at Opace, we’ve taken the time to compare traffic generation from various social media channels for a number of our clientele. As expected, our B2B clients fared far better on LinkedIn, as this social media channel appeared in the top three for traffic generation from all our B2B clients, together with Twitter.
In one instance, 56% of traffic generation from social media came from LinkedIn, which was 52% higher than Facebook! Another B2B client found that 44% of the traffic to their website came from LinkedIn; which was just 1% higher than the traffic from Facebook, showing its versatility to be used by both B2B and B2C marketers.
Unsurprisingly, our B2C clientele was unable to share the same success with their traffic generation from LinkedIn. LinkedIn was almost always in the lower half of social media channels for traffic generation – one of our B2C clients found LinkedIn generated just 0.09% of traffic to their website, while another found it generated just 0.27% of traffic.
SEO – optimising for LinkedIn
Optimising SEO is crucial for businesses wishing to market themselves in 2018, and there are various ways in which to optimise the SEO of your LinkedIn page.
Below are some of the various SEO techniques for businesses to use on LinkedIn.
Fully complete your profile – Entering relevant, descriptive information into every available field present on your profile will make your page more relevant in searches in 2018. This means writing accurate information about your company and using keywords throughout, without going overboard. People may still find your page, but it will be harder for them to engage with it if it appears to be spammy.
Be sure to network – The LinkedIn search results are dependent on how extensive a user’s network is, so be sure to network as much as possible, whether this is with friends or business contacts.
Join and engage in relevant groups – Search engines index and display LinkedIn group discussions, and so be sure to join relevant groups, and participate in them! Participating is a great way to help others out, driving engagement among users and making these group discussions more relevant in search engine results.
Is LinkedIn a useful marketing tool for business in 2018?
In 2018, LinkedIn is the only major social network that is primarily for professionals looking to network and is an extremely useful marketing tool among B2B companies. The social media channel facilitates this networking for B2B companies through demographic targeting and matched audiences, a lack of a home feed algorithm meaning all posts show, and the fact that it is, in its most basic form, free. However, there are various drawbacks for businesses using this social media channel in 2018, which include the rather high cost of paid advertising, and the fact that the site is used less regularly by its members, meaning business does not always happen in real time.
Unsurprisingly, B2B companies were more pleased with their presence on LinkedIn than B2C companies. This is because they are able to deliver educational and informative content through the channel, while B2C companies generally rely on quirkier content that its customers can engage with. As a result, Facebook and Instagram are better for B2C companies wishing to market themselves in 2018. However, B2C companies should not shy away from LinkedIn as it can be good for business, evidenced by one of our B2C clients, who found that LinkedIn was more successful than other social media channels in generating traffic to their external website.
Get in touch with Opace
All-in-all, LinkedIn is an excellent social media channel with a huge professional network, and should, therefore, be integrated into your company’s marketing strategy in 2018. Do not hesitate to call Opace to discuss your future projects, our contact details are here.
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Full cost of London Garden Bridge fiasco revealed
Transport for London has revealed that £53.5m was the total sum spent on the Garden Bridge project before it was scrapped....
Contracts awarded for Stornoway castle grounds restoration
Building and civil works contracts worth more than £3.6m have been awarded as part of a £5m project to restore the grounds of Lews Castle in Stornoway in the Outer...
McLaughlin & Harvey seeks subbies for Abertay project
McLaughlin & Harvey is hosting an event for subcontractors to discuss opportunities on a project it is carrying out at Abertay University....
Midlothian agrees plan for new primary school
Councillors in Midlothian have approved a project to build a new primary school in Easthouses to support the development of more 1,200 new homes....
Scottish civil contractors see no light at the end of the tunnel
Workloads for Scottish civil engineering contractors are now at their lowest in nine years, according to a new survey....
Scaffold collapsed onto school playground
A scaffolding contractor has been fined after scaffolding it had erected collapsed onto a neighbouring primary school....
Galliford Try’s construction losses widen
Galliford Try has written off further exceptional costs of £26m from completion delays to the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR)....
Mismeasurement makes 15% of EPC ratings wrong
An estimated 15% of energy performance certificate (EPC) ratings of residential properties are wrong, according to new research....
High-rise housing planned for Redbridge Tesco site
A planning application is being prepared for the construction of up to 1,400 new homes on the site of a Tesco supermarket in northeast London....
Association formed to promote sustainable drainage
A new association to support the delivery of sustainable drainage is launched this month....
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists (1)
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Lisa M. Binder
(b Anyako, Ghana, June 13, 1944).
Ghanaian sculptor, active in Nigeria. He earned a bachelor’s degree in sculpture (1968) and a postgraduate diploma in art education from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (1969). After graduation he taught at the Specialist Training College (now University of Winneba), Ghana, in a position vacated by the eminent sculptor Vincent Kofi. From 1975 he was Professor of Sculpture at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Anatsui’s practice often makes use of found objects including bottle caps, milk-tins and cassava graters. However, he is not concerned with recycling or salvaging; instead he seeks meaning in the ways materials can be transformed to make statements about history, culture and memory.
His early work consists of ceramic sculptures manipulated to reconfigure pieces of memory. In 1978 he began his Broken Pots series, which was exhibited the following year at the British Council in Enugu, Nigeria. Several of the ceramic works were made of sherds that were fused together by a grog-like cement of broken pieces. Making art historical references to ...
Gamsaragan, Daria
Egyptian, 20th century, female.
Active from 1925 in France.
Born 24 April 1907, in Alexandria; died 1 March 1986.
Sculptor, medallist.
Daria Gamsaragan went to France to study sculpture, settling there in 1925. She entered the academy of La Grande Chaumière and became a pupil of Bourdelle. She also worked with Csaky and Constant. From ...
Sgarlata, Filippo T.
Stephen K. Scher
(b Tunisia, Nov 24, 1901; d Lisbon, Sept 15, 1979).
Italian medallist and sculptor. He was trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Palermo (1918–19), and in Rome, at the Accademia di Belle Arti (1920–25) and at the Scuola d’Arte della Medaglia (1920–23). He taught sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Palermo from 1938 and was often honoured for his accomplishments. For a long period he worked in the USA, where he had individual exhibitions in New York, Boston, Baltimore and Chicago. His work was always included in any important exhibition of medals both in Italy and abroad and is to be found in Italian museums and private collections. The designs of his medals were often based on V-shaped compositions. The modelling is broad, the relief fairly high, and the surfaces range from highly finished to rough. It is evident that Sgarlata often drew inspiration from his Quattrocento predecessors, although his pieces are generally of a very large size, sometimes exceeding 200 mm: for example a medal depicting a man attacking a boar (...
William J. Dewey
Bantu-speaking people numbering c. 9 million, living mainly in Zimbabwe with a smaller population living in Mozambique. Historically, the people known as Shona identified themselves by either dialect or political names: the five main dialect clusters, Korekore, Zezuru, Manyika, Ndau and Karanga are all mutually intelligible; it was not until the late 19th century that they became known as the Shona. Their neighbours to the north and north-east are the Tonga (Tonka), Chikunda, Sena and Barwe. To the south-east are the Hlengwe and Tsonga (Shangane), and to the south are the Venda. The Ndebele to the west incorporated most of another Shona dialect cluster, the Kalanga, into their kingdom when they moved into western Zimbabwe in the 1830s. The ancestors of the Shona are the builders of Great Zimbabwe and hundreds of other stone walled sites in present-day Zimbabwe. In the second half of the 20th century a new tradition of figurative stone-carving developed (...
Andrew Cross
revised by Mary Chou
(b London Aug 9, 1962).
British sculptor, painter and installation artist. Born to Nigerian parents, he grew up in Nigeria before returning to England to study Fine Art in London at Byam Shaw School of Art and Goldsmiths’ College where he completed his MFA. Shonibare’s West African heritage has been at the heart of his work since he started exhibiting in 1988, when he began using ‘Dutch-wax’ dyed fabrics, commonly found in Western Africa, both for wall-mounted works (as pseudo paintings) and for sculpted figures. Generally perceived as ‘authentic’African cloth, the tradition of Batik originated in Indonesia, and was appropriated by the Dutch who colonized the country. Manufactured in Holland and Britain, the cloth was then shipped to West Africa where it became the dress of the working class in nations such as Nigeria. Shonibare used the material as a way of deconstructing the more complex histories that determine these and other images of ethnicity. As such, he has been described as a ‘post-cultural hybrid’ or the ‘quintessential postcolonial artist’ by critics as well as the artist himself....
Spolia in medieval art and architecture
Dale Kinney
In its most general sense, spolia (pl., from Lat. spolium: ‘plunder’) denotes all artifacts re-employed in secondary contexts, from building blocks reused in a wall to pagan gems mounted on a Christian reliquary. It is a matter of debate whether this broad application of the term is justified, or whether it should be restricted to the relatively small subset of reused objects that were taken or ‘stripped’ (like spoils) from their original context, rather than found, purchased, inherited or otherwise acquired by non-violent means. It is likewise debated when the use of spolia should be considered meaningful, if at all. Arnold Esch defined five possible motives for using spolia: convenience, profanation, Christianization, political legitimation and aesthetic attraction. Michael Greenhalgh has argued for reducing the motives to three (at least with regard to marble): pragmatism, aesthetics and ideology; while Finbarr Barry Flood cautioned against reductive interpretations generated by any taxonomy, insisting that reused objects are mutable in meaning and capable of multiple interpretations during their life cycle....
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Fake Uber Driver Accused Of Killing Student Linked To Another Kidnapping
Nathaniel Rowland was charged with obtaining goods under false pretenses mere months ago.
By Gina Tron
The man accused of kidnapping and killing a South Carolina University student after she got into his car, mistaking it for an Uber, has been linked to a previous kidnapping.
Nathaniel David Rowland, 24 is accused of killing 21-year-old-Samantha Josephson who, earlier this month, was heading home after a night out with friends in Columbia, South Carolina when she got into a car she thought was her Uber ride.
Hunters discovered her body in a rural area less than a day later.
Rowland has since been charged with murder and kidnapping in relation to her death.
But the tragic death of Josephson isn’t the first kidnapping that Rowland has been linked to. Just months before her death, he allegedly tried to sell items stolen from a woman during a separate kidnapping, according to WLTX in Columbia.
Back in October, a woman told police in Columbia that two men carjacked her while she was at a traffic light. The men allegedly forced her to drive to a nearby ATM to get them money before having her drive to her own home. Items from her home, including a Playstation 4, were reportedly stolen during the incident. The men also allegedly assaulted that victim.
Hours after the violent incident, Rowland was allegedly caught selling some of the stolen items from the house to a pawn shop. He was charged with obtaining goods under false pretenses. He was not charged with the carjacking or any kidnapping and it's not clear if officials believe that he was one of the men initially involved or not.
Rowland is due in court on April 22. It will be his first appearance in connection with Josephson’s case.
Rowland’s family members have claimed he is innocent.
“If he did it, I’ll be the first one to put him behind bars, lock him up, throw away the key, but he didn’t do it, ain’t no way,” Henry Rowland said of his son during an interview with WACH.
Josephson was just months away from graduating from the University of South Carolina. She had plans to attend law school afterward.
Samantha Josephson
Student's Cause Of Death Revealed In Mistaken Uber Case
Murder Suspect's Parents Insist He's Innocent
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First Listen: Neko Case, 'The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight...' Case's gift for disarming commentary carries over to the quotable, thoughtful, frequently lovely songs on The Worse Things Get: She can be bracingly acerbic, boldly inspiring, or achingly tender while conveying equal, virtually boundless charisma.
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First Listen: Neko Case, 'The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight...'
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Neko Case's new album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, comes out Sept. 3. Emily Shur/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Neko Case's new album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, comes out Sept. 3.
"Reveal myself when I'm ready / I'll reveal myself invincible soon," Neko Case sings in "Ragtime," the mid-tempo ballad which closes her new record, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You. But she's hardly concealed her identity or evaded examination in the album's first 11 songs: This is arguably the most unguarded and revealing of Case's six records.
A brilliantly funny and outspoken character, Case has spent the past few years peeling the varnish off her persona. Now based on a 100-acre farm in Vermont, she tweets often about music, pet ownership, self-repair, politics, and the pursuit of love in tiny missives that can be candid, strange, profane, melancholy, hilarious, or some combination thereof.
Case's gift for disarming commentary carries over to the quotable, thoughtful, frequently lovely songs on The Worse Things Get: She can be bracingly acerbic (as in the aggressive power-pop gender-bender "Man"), boldly inspiring ("Ragtime" again: "I am one and the same / I am useful and strange"), or achingly tender (as in her Nico cover "Afraid," with its gasp-inducing delivery of the words, "You are beautiful and you are alone") while conveying equal, virtually boundless charisma.
Recorded with an assortment of her favorite collaborators — including producer Tucker Martine, longtime backup singer Kelly Hogan, M. Ward, her New Pornographers colleague A.C. Newman, Visqueen's Rachel Flotard, and many more — The Worse Things Get (out Sept. 3) tucks thrills into its margins and doles them out in time-release doses. As her subtle touches suddenly cohere and register as surprises six or eight listens later (wait, are those submarine noises?), it's clear that Case remains essentially peerless: No one sounds like her, so every little revelation feels altogether new.
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As Jon and Kate Gosselin head in different directions, they must remember to focus on their children
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Shortly after filing for divorce, Jon and Kate Gosselin reunited to spend July 4 with their kids. (Donnelly/Adao/INFphoto)
It's Kate Gosselin Plus Eight who are now holed up at home in Wernersville, Pa., while estranged husband Jon's a man on the move: He's got a new bachelor pad in Manhattan, he's vacationed in St. Tropez with a new 22-year-old gal pal, and he's befriending the media.
But in the short month since the Gosselins announced their split, the public tide seems to be turning in favor of Kate.
A new PopEater poll shows 58% of the readers siding with Kate and 42% with Jon. Last month, the same poll had 62% on Team Jon and 38% on Team Kate.
On their popular TLC series, "Jon & Kate Plus 8," Kate was often portrayed as the bad guy, castigating Jon for very small stuff, such as breathing too loudly.
Now, Kate seems to be settling into a role as a 24/7 single mom, while Jon's morphed into an eligible bachelor.
According to People magazine, the 32-year-old father's new upper West Side apartment only has two bedrooms, so it's doubtful he'll be hosting family sleepovers there. That ought to leave plenty of time for him to enjoy the building's gym, pool and hot tub described on the building's Web site.
Jon did manage to fit in some face time with his eight kids after his trip to France with party animal Hailey Glassman, according to the magazine.
Kate, meanwhile, got a taste of what it's like to travel with eight children, sans Jon.
Kate, 34, and company arrived in Manhattan earlier this month reportedly to attend a TLC photo shoot in a midtown hotel. She wasn't alone on kid duty, though: She traveled with two baby-sitters and security, according to People.
While Jon has remained prominent in the public limelight, Kate has kept a low-profile and often stays close to her suburban home.
It's not unheard of for a dad to physically put some distance between himself and his family as the split becomes formal, says family law attorney Belinda Rachman.
"Generally, it is the man who leaves, and 5% to 10% of fathers drift away and get caught up with their girlfriend's family," she says.
And, she says, nesting (where the kids stay in the family home and the parents take turns moving in and out) is a good living arrangement for kids during a divorce. The Gosselins have indicated that this is what they plan to do.
Jerome Wisselman, partner of Wisselman, Harounian & Associates, PC, says Jon's celebrity status makes it difficult for him to get out of the public eye.
"Everything he does is magnified," he says. "But if he is looking for joint custody, one would expect that he would be organizing his life in a way that would accommodate the needs of the children."
Both Kate and Jon should put the kids first, experts say, by merging Team Kate and Team Jon.
Randy Heller, a licensed mental health counselor who works with children of divorce at Collaborative Family Lawyers, says it can only benefit the Gosselin kids if the parents work as a team.
"Jon and Kate will be parents forever, for as long as they live, and they need to parent together," she says. "The key issue is to work together to communicate. Even if they can't live together, they have to work together."
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Asia Pacific|Tibetan Self-Immolations Rise as China Tightens Grip
Tibetan Self-Immolations Rise as China Tightens Grip
By ANDREW JACOBS MARCH 22, 2012
Monks at the Labrang Monastery in Gansu Province, where China has tightened security. Credit Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
MAQU, China — Like many children of Tibetan nomads, Tsering Kyi started school relatively late, at age 10, but by all accounts she made up for lost time by studying with zeal.
“Even when she was out at pasture with her parents’ flock, there was always a book in her hand,” a cousin said.
That passion for learning apparently turned to despair this month when the Maqu County Tibetan Middle School, in Gansu Province near Tibet, switched to Chinese from Tibetan as the language of instruction. The policy shift has incited protests across the high-altitude steppe that is home to five million Tibetans and a far greater number of ethnic Han Chinese.
On March 3, a few days before the start of the spring semester, Tsering Kyi, 20, emerged from a public toilet at the town’s produce market, her wispy frame bound in gasoline-soaked blankets that had been encircled with wire, relatives and local residents said.
Credit The New York Times
In a flash she was a heap of flames, her fist raised defiantly, before falling to the ground, residents said. She died at the scene.
Over the past year 29 Tibetans, seven of them in the last three weeks, have chosen a similarly agonizing, self-annihilating protest against Chinese policies. Of those, 22 have died.
Beijing, alarmed about the threat to stability in a region seething with discontent over religious and cultural controls, has responded with an assortment of heavy-handed measures. Officials have described the self-immolators as outcasts and terrorists, blamed the pernicious influence of Tibetan exiles and flooded the region with checkpoints and paramilitary police officers in flak jackets.
Communist Party leaders have also introduced a “monastic management” plan to more directly control religious life. As part of the plan, 21,000 party officials have been sent to Tibetan communities with the goal of “befriending” monks — and creating dossiers on each of them. Compliant clergy members are rewarded with health care benefits, pensions and television sets; the recalcitrant are sometimes expelled from their monasteries.
At some temples, monks and nuns have been forced to publicly denounce the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader whose name is often invoked by self-immolators. The freedom of movement that allowed monks to study at distant monasteries across Tibet and four adjacent provinces has been curtailed.
Monks at the Labrang Monastery described a raid in which the police inflicted damage. In Maqu, a woman immolated herself in protest after a local school switched to Chinese from Tibetan as the language of instruction. Credit Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
“They claim we are free to practice our religion but in fact they keep pulling the reins tighter and tighter so we can hardly breathe,” said a 22-year-old monk from Qinghai Province, who like many Tibetans keeps banned pictures of the Dalai Lama in his room and on his cellphone.
Senior officials have trumpeted the new approach, which includes the distribution of one million national flags and portraits of Mao Zedong and other party leaders — with a requirement that they be displayed at homes and monasteries. “Temples have undergone a delightful change since the new management methods were put into place,” Xinza Danzengquzha, a top Tibetan official, said this month in Beijing.
Such measures, however, may be having the opposite intended effect. Robert Barnett, director of the Modern Tibet Studies Program at Columbia University, said that the government’s more intrusive approach to monasteries, the heart of Tibetan society, is a reversal of self-management policies put in place in the 1980s. “History suggests it is unlikely to work,” he said.
The antipathy, never far beneath the surface, is erupting into plain view with greater frequency. In the past week, several protests have broken out, including two in Qinghai Province that were led by students angry over the introduction of Chinese-language textbooks for subjects like chemistry, math and geography. In January, exile groups say 31 people were shot, at least one fatally, when police officers opened fire on demonstrators in Drango County, in Sichuan Province. In Diru County, in the Tibet Autonomous Region, 20 of the 22 monasteries have been closed, according to the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy.
Spasms of unrest have coursed through modern Tibetan history with some regularity since 1959, when the Dalai Lama fled to India after a failed uprising. Between 1987 and 1989, the region was rocked by protests that were brutally crushed. The most recent crackdown began in March 2008, when rioting in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, led to the death of at least 19 people, most of them Han Chinese. In the weeks and months that followed, exile groups say a far greater number of Tibetans died.
A security camera at a monastery in Qinghai Province. Credit Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
But Tibetan scholars and exiles say the current resistance campaign is unlike anything seen before. The tactic — public, fiery suicides that do not harm bystanders or property — has profoundly moved ordinary Tibetans and bedeviled Chinese officials. Just as significant, they note, is that the protesters are mostly young — all but nine of them under 30.
Tsering Kyi was one of them. According to family members, she was a thoughtful student whose hard work earned her a place on the school’s honor roll. But in 2010, she joined classmates who took to the streets of this dusty county seat to protest the new Chinese-language textbooks and the decision to limit Tibetan to a single class. In the clampdown that followed, several teachers suspected of encouraging the protest were fired and the headmaster, a popular Tibetan writer, was sent to work on a dam project, according to local residents.
Tsering Kyi’s death has been widely publicized by Tibetan activist groups eager to draw attention to the self-immolations. The Chinese state news media, which has ignored most of the cases, reported that she was mentally unstable after hitting her head on a radiator. Her grades started to sag, the official Xinhua news agency said, “which put a lot of pressure on her and made her lose courage for life and study.”
In interviews, several Tibetan residents and relatives of Tsering Kyi’s contemptuously waved away such assertions. Instead, they were eager to discuss her devotion to her Tibetan heritage and the final moments of her life. When she emerged from the public toilets in flames, they said, the market’s Han Chinese vegetable sellers locked the front gate to prevent her from taking her protest to the street. No one, they claim, tried to douse the fire.
When the police arrived, they forced witnesses to remain inside the market and returned Tsering Kyi’s body to the bathroom. Then, after collecting everyone’s cellphones, they methodically went through the devices and deleted any photographs of the incident.
Images of the Dalai Lama, banned by China, at a Qinghai monastery. Credit Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
In interviews last week with two dozen monks and ordinary Tibetans in Qinghai and Gansu Provinces, many said that they expected the fiery suicides and protests to continue to spread beyond Aba, the county in Sichuan Province where the majority of the self-immolations have taken place. “From the outside, everything looks so pretty here, but on the inside, everyone is boiling.” said one lama at a monastery in Rebkong, a major tourist draw in Qinghai famous for its intricate thangka paintings.
The lama, who asked for anonymity because speaking to foreign reporters can lead to severe punishment, said monks were expected to attend “patriotic education” sessions that consist of pro-government propaganda. “I don’t want trouble with the authorities, but I can’t control their rage any longer,” he said of the monks.
In Gansu Province, security at the sprawling Labrang Monastery was visibly tighter, and emotions more raw. Monks there said the accumulation of indignities, years in the making, was followed by two days of street protests in 2008 that led to a wave of detentions and beatings.
Many Tibetan monks are unable to get passports and the Han, they said, often treat them with contempt. “We can’t even speak our minds on the phone because the police are listening in,” said one 39-year-old who ducked into a reporter’s hotel room to share details about life for Labrang’s 1,400 monks.
He described how the police had raided the white-walled monastery complex one night as everyone slept, kicking in doors, smashing computers and tearing up photographs of the Dalai Lama. At least 180 monks were detained that night. “They ran out of handcuffs, so they started tying our wrists with rope they found in the monastery,” he said.
The monks were eventually released but Labrang, one of the most important religious sites in Tibetan Buddhism, is a changed place. Video surveillance cameras hang from the eaves of hallowed temples and plainclothes police officers mingle with the faithful. “They never fool us because they hold their prayer beads with their right hand, and every Tibetan knows to hold them in their left hand,” one monk said.
Shi Da contributed research.
A version of this article appears in print on March 23, 2012, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Tibetan Self-Immolations as China Tightens Grip. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Politics|Whitaker’s Appointment as Acting Attorney General Faces Court Challenge
Whitaker’s Appointment as Acting Attorney General Faces Court Challenge
President Trump named Matthew G. Whitaker acting attorney general after forcing out Attorney General Jeff Sessions.CreditCreditAndrew Harnik/Associated Press
By Charlie Savage
WASHINGTON — In the days since President Trump ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and declared that he was installing Matthew G. Whitaker as the acting attorney general, many critics have challenged Mr. Whitaker’s fitness for the job. Some have gone further, calling his very appointment illegal.
Now, Mr. Whitaker’s appointment is facing a court challenge. The State of Maryland asked a federal judge on Tuesday for an injunction declaring that Mr. Whitaker is not the legitimate acting attorney general as a matter of law, and that the position — and all its powers — instead rightfully belongs to the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein.
Mr. Trump may not “bypass the constitutional and statutory requirements for appointing someone to that office,” the state said in a court filing.
[Read Maryland’s court filings.]
The legal action escalates the uproar surrounding Mr. Trump’s installation of Mr. Whitaker as the nation’s top law-enforcement officer, from criticism of his basic credentials and his views on the Russia investigation to challenges to the legality of his appointment. Last week, Chuck Schumer of New York, the Senate’s top Democrat, sent a letter demanding to know why Mr. Trump chose an “unconfirmed political appointee” as acting attorney general, rather than follow the Justice Department’s statutory line of succession.
Maryland is asking a judge — Ellen L. Hollander of the Federal District Court for the District of Maryland, a 2010 Obama appointee — to rule on who is the real acting attorney general as part of a lawsuit in which it sued Mr. Sessions in his official capacity. Because Mr. Sessions is no longer the attorney general, the judge must substitute his successor as a defendant in the litigation, so she has to decide who that successor legally is.
The stakes are extraordinary. The acting attorney general is the most powerful law enforcement official in the United States and wields tremendous influence, from overseeing criminal and national-security investigations to deciding how to enforce immigration, environmental and civil rights laws.
The head of the Justice Department also supervises Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating whether Mr. Trump’s associates conspired with Russia in its election interference and whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct that inquiry. A Trump loyalist, Mr. Whitaker has been an outspoken critic of the Russia investigation, and interviewed last year for the job of the White House’s top lawyer charged with countering it.
Maryland filed the underlying litigation in response to a separate lawsuit by Texas and several other Republican-controlled states challenging the Affordable Care Act. They argue that the law’s so-called individual mandate to obtain health insurance, which the Supreme Court upheld in 2012, became unconstitutional after Congress last year reduced its tax penalty to nothing.
In June, the Justice Department under Mr. Sessions agreed with Texas and said key parts of the law — including the provision that protects people with pre-existing conditions — must be struck down. In response, Maryland filed its own lawsuit in September. It asked Judge Hollander to declare that the contested parts of the insurance law are constitutional and to direct the government, and Mr. Sessions in particular, to enforce it as written.
The state’s attorney general, Brian E. Frosh, working with the law firm of Goldstein & Russell, brought the litigation.
Neither the judge in the Texas lawsuit nor Judge Hollander has ruled on the Affordable Care Act issues. But because the government’s enforcement of the act is set to change on Jan. 1, Maryland said it needed an injunction now to prevent Mr. Whitaker from illegitimately controlling the Justice Department’s policy and legal positions.
Among other things, the lawsuit cited Mr. Whitaker’s declaration, in a 2014 Q. and A., that the 2012 Supreme Court ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act was one of the worst rulings in the court’s history.
In defending Mr. Whitaker’s appointment as lawful, the Trump administration has pointed to the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, a 1998 statute. It says that a president may temporarily fill a vacancy for a position that normally requires Senate confirmation with any senior official who has been in the department for at least 90 days. As Mr. Sessions’s former chief of staff, Mr. Whitaker meets that criteria.
But Maryland’s court filing argues that the law applies to routine positions, not to the attorney general. For one thing, it noted, another statute specifically says the deputy attorney general is next in line at the Justice Department. A more specific law, the lawsuit argues, takes precedence when in a conflict with a more general law.
There were good reasons for lawmakers to create an exception that gives the president less flexibility when it comes to replacing the attorney general, the Maryland filing argues. Among them, without that check, a president under investigation could install a “carefully selected senior employee who he was confident would terminate or otherwise severely limit” the inquiry.
The Maryland filing also cites a part of the Constitution, known as the appointments clause, which requires “principal” officers — very powerful and senior officials, like the attorney general — to have been confirmed by the Senate.
In a phone call last week, Mr. Whitaker told Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, that a 2003 Office of Legal Counsel opinion held that the president could temporarily appoint him to be acting attorney general even though the Senate had not confirmed him, Mr. Grassley has said.
The 2003 opinion relied on an 1898 Supreme Court case about a man who was appointed the acting American consul in modern-day Thailand when the Senate-confirmed consul became sick, and no Senate-confirmed deputy consul was available.
But the Maryland court filing argues that the circumstances of the 1898 case were too different from today’s situation for it to apply. Among other things, it notes that the office of attorney general did not become vacant through an unexpected emergency, and that several Senate-confirmed Justice Department officials, like Mr. Rosenstein, are available.
The sweeping power of the attorney general “calls for the highest levels of integrity and personal judgment, prerequisites safeguarded by the Constitution’s command that principal officers be subject to the oversight and check provided by Senate confirmation,” the filing said.
Follow Charlie Savage on Twitter: @charlie_savage.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 17 of the New York edition with the headline: President’s Appointee for Acting Attorney General Faces Court Challenge. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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The Best of OZY: Football Lion Caraun Reid
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By Emily Cadei
The Daily Dose SEPT 15 2015
OZY first profiled Caraun Reid during his Princeton days, when he was in line to be a top draft pick. The Detroit Lions drafted Reid in the fifth round in 2014 and this preseason, Reid returned to camp and turned heads early on. Though a high ankle sprain sidelined him this past weekend, he’s expected to play a large role on the Lions’ (11-5 last season) defensive line.
Caraun Reid may be a man of God, but that doesn’t mean he opposes violence — at least not on the football field.
Playing at home last October, Reid’s Princeton Tigers gave up 20 points to Lafayette in the first half, and their fifth-year senior captain was not happy about it. Despite a sore throat, the 6-foot-2-inch, 305-pound defensive lineman launched into a hoarse, emotional speech at halftime, berating his teammates for playing “cute football” and exhorting them to make Lafayette bleed.
“It wasn’t the nicest thing I’ve ever said about an opponent,” this pastor’s son chuckles, a little bashfully, as he recalls the moment. But it was effective — Princeton’s fourth-year coach Bob Surace says the team went on to play one of their best halves of the season, running away with a 42 to 26 victory. It was a moment, says Surace, when Reid, articulate but reserved, seemed to realize how much his teammates respected and looked up to him. Apparently, it took losing his voice to find it.
Reid isn’t just a lineman with heaps of natural ability, but also a man who’s determined to set an example, on and off the field.
Now this 22-year-old Bronx native and two-time, third-team All-American is looking to take his inspired brand of leadership to the NFL, where he has a chance to be the kind of sleeper pick that teams slap themselves over later for passing on. Reid is forecast to go in the mid- to late rounds of the May 8–10 draft (which is seven rounds in all), but he’s been tapped by the sports site Bleacher Report as one of “a few small-school players who have a chance to surprise some people and be good NFL players.”
Not what most people probably expect when they hear “Princeton football product.” Though the Ivies typically send a couple players to the NFL each year — and had a bumper crop of five last year — the nonscholarship, intensively academic college conference is not for those looking for the easy track to gridiron glory. While the football-mad Southeastern Conference (home of powerhouses like Alabama and Auburn) averaged attendance of more than 75,000 fans at their games last fall, for example, Princeton football is lucky if it gets 7,000 in the stands.
But then, there’s nothing about Reid’s path to the doorstep of pro football that has been typical. New York City, for one thing, is hardly a hotbed for young football talent. There’s just not enough open space for kids to play the game the same way they can play, say, pickup hoops. Reid says he played some football informally as a kid, on the pavement outside his elementary school. But it wasn’t until high school that he took up the sport in any organized way — a late start compared to the South, where kids start playing in Pop Warner leagues at the age of 6 or 7.
Former Princeton defensive lineman Caraun Reid takes part in the vertical jump during the 2014 NFL Combine.
Source Joe Robbins/Getty Images
Inspired by one of his two older brothers, who was also on the high school team, Reid says he was no natural, but “just loved the game, from the moment I started playing.” That passion — what he describes as a “calling” to play football — plus the 40 pounds of muscle he put on in the weight room during his sophomore year — helped Reid emerge as a serious talent. By his junior year, recruiters from big-time college programs like Penn State, Syracuse and Boston College started calling. But so did Princeton. And while Reid was not familiar with the school or the Ivy League, his parents — immigrants from Jamaica who came to New York to pursue their own academic degrees — saw an opportunity.
Bishop Courton Reid says it was “a tough decision,” but he told his youngest son that at a school like Princeton, he could “have the best of two worlds” — academics and athletics. Giving up the chance at scholarship money “was a sacrifice” financially, the elder Reid acknowledges. But “if, God forbid, football doesn’t work, you’re left with a good degree,” he told Caraun. As for a future football career, “if you do well anywhere you are, they’ll come calling.”
And they have. “You can count on one hand the full-pad practices we haven’t had a [pro] scout at,” says coach Surace, who himself was an assistant offensive line coach for the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals before coming to Princeton. Ivy League players get looked at and evaluated too, he says: Hardly anyone is “hidden under a rock anymore.” The biggest issue stemming from being in a less competitive conference, he says, is that players like Reid don’t get challenged every day in practice like a player at, say, Oregon or USC, where the team is stacked with future pros. So for all his athleticism and intensity, the NFL’s scouting report faults some of Reid’s technique, including his stance at the line of scrimmage and his ability to locate the ball, a key task for a defensive lineman who is looking to manhandle the opposing team’s ball handler.
But Surace says the lack of top-tier competition also means players coming out of the Ivy League “have so much more ‘upside’” when they enter the pros. And Reid’s smarts and work ethic only multiply that growth potential. The NFL’s analysis describes Reid as a “developmental talent with raw traits to mold,” and that will be the task for whichever team takes Reid next month. In exchange, they’ll be getting not just a lineman with heaps of natural ability, but also a man who’s determined to set an example, on and off the field.
Reid says he wants to follow in the footsteps of legendary Green Bay Packers player and fellow defensive lineman Reggie White, whose own devout Christianity and ordination as an evangelical minister earned him the nickname “Minister of Defense.” Like White, Reid aims to be the kind of player who “influences everyone he plays around and makes them better, not only as a football player, but as a man.”
That’s something any number of NFL squads could surely benefit from.
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SCORED BY SIDNEY CROSBY on may 19, 2017 at ottawa. the goal was crosby's sixth of the 2017 playoffs and 55th career playoff goal.
Sidney Crosby won the Maurice Richard Trophy as the National Hockey League's leading goal-scorer in 2016-17 with 44 goals. He added 45 assists for 89 points in 75 games to finish second in the league scoring race behind Connor McDavid's 100 points in 82 games. In the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Crosby racked up 27 points including a league-leading 19 assists. He had eight multi-point games including two in the Stanley Cup Final en route to winning his second consecutive Conn Smythe Trophy as the player judged to be most valuable to his team during the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
On May 19, 2017, the Penguins faced the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa. With the Penguins leading 1-0 and Jean-Gabriel Pageau in the penalty box for slashing, the Penguins power-play went to work. Midway through the power-play, Phil Kessel circled with the puck at the left point and fired a pass to Jake Guentzel inside the left faceoff circle. Guentzel turned and attacked the net luring defenseman Dion Phaneuf to his side. That left Sidney Crosby open on the right post next to Senators' goalie Craig Anderson. Crosby fanned on the pass, but the puck deflected off of his left leg and he took another swipe at it just before Ottawa winger Viktor Stalberg got to the puck. By the time Anderson reacted to the deflection, his skate was off the post and the puck slid past him into the net. The goal gave the Penguins a 2-0 lead.
This puck was scored by Sidney Crosby at 7:41 of the second period of the May 19, 2017 game as the Pittsburgh Penguins faced the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre. The goal was Crosby's sixth of the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs and 55th career Playoff goal. The power-play goal was assisted by Jake Guentzel and Phil Kessel. The Penguins won the game 3-2 and evened the series at 2-2.
Sidney Crosby #87 of the Pittsburgh Penguins takes a shot on Craig Anderson #41 of the Ottawa Senators during the second period in Game Four of the Eastern Conference Final during the 2017 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Canadian Tire Centre on May 19, 2017 in Ottawa, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
The puck was acquired by PenguinsChronicles.com from the Ottawa Senators on May 23, 2017. The puck was part of the Ottawa Senators Game Used Puck Program and was purchased from The Sens Store. An Ottawa Senators / The Sens Store certificate of authenticity was included with the puck along with an affixed AUTHENTIC hologram with #2403597. The facsimile signature of John Forget, Head Equipment Manager Ottawa Senators Hockey Club, is also on the certificate.
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Is Courtland Sutton is primed for a big Year 2 in Denver?
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When the Denver Broncos selected Courtland Sutton with their second pick of the 2018 NFL Draft, it foreshadowed the inevitable for a proven, yet aging wide receiver corps.
Now, the Broncos are in desperate need of playmakers on an offense that graded in the bottom half of the league as a whole last season, and Sutton is poised to take up that mantle. Like any rookie season, there were plenty of areas for growth with Sutton, but given his skill set and flashes of production, there’s a good reason to believe he could have a breakout season in 2019.
Sutton’s rookie season did not lack playing time, especially once long-time Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas was traded to the Houston Texans. He assumed a starting role from there on out, paving his way to becoming the team’s leading receiver down the stretch. Overall, Sutton put up decent first-year numbers and finished with 42 receptions, 704 receiving yards, four touchdowns and a 62.5 receiving grade.
The apex of his season came in a Week 13 bout with the Cincinnati Bengals when he finished with a season-high receiving grade of 86.7. Sutton caused problems for the entire Bengals secondary that day, as he registered four catches against four different defensive backs, and that resulted in 85 yards, one touchdown and a 139.9 passer rating when targeted. Although he lacked consistency his rookie season, Sutton still managed to have six games with a passer rating above 100.0 when targeted.
Taken in the second round in the 2018 draft, Sutton had to show he was worth the price tag. He held his own amongst rookies, finishing with the third-most receiving yards in his class on just 42 receptions. This led to an extremely healthy 16.8 yards per reception which ranked 11th overall in the NFL at his position. Sutton also proved to be a reliable deep threat and finished first among the rookie receiving class in both deep targets (25) and deep receptions (9).
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Insignia Systems, Inc. Takes Legal Action Against Competitor
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About Insignia Systems, Inc.
Insignia Systems, Inc. sells product solutions ranging from in-store to digital advertising. Consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and retailers across the country rely on our deep expertise in the dynamic retail environment to provide a full suite of shopper engagement solutions.
Insignia is represented in the suit by Bill Carmody, Arun Subramanian, and Alejandra Salinas, from Susman Godfrey LLP, Hunter Shkolnik from Napoli Shkolnik PLLC and Dan Gustafson from Gustafson Gluek PLLC.
For additional information, contact (800) 874-4648, or visit the Insignia website at www.insigniasystems.com.
Investor inquiries can be submitted to investorrelations@insigniasystems.com.
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I Love My Job
Comedian Chip Chantry on Bob Saget, South Philly and Hecklers
It turns out that a heckler is not the worst person in an audience.
By Victor Fiorillo· 3/12/2019, 9:08 a.m.
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Philly comedian Chip Chantry yuks it up.
Best of Philly-winning Philly comedian Chip Chantry has a brand new comedy album out. (Yes, people are still releasing comedy albums, apparently, and you can download his here). We caught up with the 41-year-old Italian Market resident to find out why on earth he decided to become a comedian.
My real name is… Paul Chantry III. When I was a week old, an aunt of mine said I was a chip off the old block, and they decided it would be a great name for me, and I’ve never been able to shake it.
When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be… a comedian, actually. I used to watch MTV’s Half-Hour Comedy Hour when I was like eight years old, and I’d record episodes with the old VCR and watch them over and over again.
I love my job, because… you get instant feedback. If you do the job right, you get laughter and find out right away. And if you don’t do it right, well, you find that out right away, too.
Making a living as a comedian is… terrifying and rare. I love it, but you’re always looking for that next job.
People who say that the comedy world is not inclusive are… probably right most of the time, but I hope and it seems like things are moving in the right direction.
Finding the line in comedy between what you can and cannot joke about… can be tricky. But for me, it’s pretty easy. The line I try not to cross is punching up versus punching down. I can make fun of people in power, but if there is somebody less fortunate than me or suffering in a way that I am not, I am not going to punch down on them.
A standard opening slot at a Philly comedy club for me pays… anywhere from nothing to a couple hundred dollars.
My favorite local comedian is… Mary Radzinski. Her writing is so sharp. Her word economy is perfect. She can be so dark, and with just a little wink, every joke is a perfect execution.
The secret to being a good comedian is… just doing it. You just get up on stage and then you get up on stage and then you get up on stage and you keep doing it until you get better. It just takes practice. You’ve got to break the fear.
My first real comedy gig was at… Fergie’s Pub, upstairs. I opened for my brother’s band. They booked me without telling me. I was always saying that I would do comedy someday. And they told me a week or two before the gig. I couldn’t back out. I literally saw my name on a poster in town.
I have opened for people like… Dave Chappelle, Dana Gould, and Bob Saget. I’ve opened for Saget a bunch of times. There’s such a shock value from when we picture him on Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos and then we see what he does on stage. I actually had to buy him underwear one night in Bethlehem. It had been a long stretch on the road and he was running out of clean underwear. He was going on stage soon, and he didn’t want to walk through the casino to buy underwear, because everybody knows him. So I did it for him.
On my days off, you will usually find me… walking around Philly with my dog, Stanley. He’s like a baby Ewok, and he even has his own Instagram account called @Concerned_Stanley, because he always looks concerned.
Chip, his wife Kim, and concerned Stanley strike a pose.
South Philly is… awesome. I love it. I live literally a stone’s throw from Villa di Roma, which is my little hangout. I was in L.A. recently for a couple of months writing for a TV show, and I was out there for about a month when Rocky came on the TV. I literally got misty-eyed when I saw Philly. The stoops.
My worst subject in high school was… chemistry. You never have to worry about me making meth.
When my parents heard I wanted to be a comedian… they were cautiously supportive. The biggest change came a couple of years ago when I was opening for Bob Saget at the Borgata. The Beach Boys were playing the night before. Well, Bob knew I like the Beach Boys and that my parents really like the Beach Boys, so he got us backstage passes. I think that was the moment when they were really OK with me doing comedy: Your stupid jokes led to us meeting the Beach Boys.
The worst set I ever had was probably… every single Monday at Finn McCool’s. Johnny Goodtimes and I used to host an open mic each Monday. The owner was way, way too kind and let us do this for three years, and it was just terrible. The guys were drunk and wanted to watch Monday Night Football, and here we were trying to be funny. We got beat down for three years, but it taught me to have thick skin.
One comedian I am not a fan of is… Gallagher. Why would you do an hour of comedy and then smash a watermelon everywhere, all over the audience? It’s like me doing an awesome set and then throwing buckets of chocolate syrup all over the room. Why would I do that? And who has to clean it up?
If you’re looking for a great open mic in Philly, check out… Helium on Tuesdays. They have an actual crowd and a nice mix of comics.
If somebody tells me they want to be a comedian, I will tell them… run for the hills. But if I couldn’t talk them out of it, I would say, just do it.
Hecklers are… usually sad, drunk and in need of attention they don’t get in their daily lives. But they are not nearly as bad as people who talk during the show. People who come to a comedy show and then just decide, Oh, let’s have a conversation. I don’t mind hecklers nearly as much as people who just sit there and talk to each other. At least a heckler is engaged with what is going on.
See Chip Chantry headline at Valley Forge Casino on May 10th. Tickets here.
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